Spring 2014 Book List

This semester Interim Director, Dr. Kevin Scott, selected new books for the policy seminar class.

Like years past we'll be reading,

• Bardach, Eugene. 2011. A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Sovling, 4th Edition.  Thousand Oaks: CQ Press.
• Mann, Thomas, and Norman Ornstein. 2013. It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism. New York: Basic Books.

The new content includes,

• Acemoglu, Daron, and James Robinson. 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Publishers.
• Coyle, Marcia. 2013. The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution. New York: Simon & Shuster.
• Irwin, Neil. 2014. The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire. New York: Penguin Press. 
• Sanger, David. 2012. Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power. New York: Crown Publishers.