Knowledge, Policy-Oriented Learning, and Policy Change

Understanding Attitudes and Predicting Social Behavior

1980 • 25,812 citations

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

1957 • 21,402 citations

A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice

1955 • 14,167 citations

Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies

1985 • 10,962 citations

Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

1983 • 4,358 citations

Inside Bureaucracy

1967 • 1,855 citations

Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Implementation Research: a Critical Analysis and Suggested Synthesis

1986 • 1,676 citations

The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry

1961 • 1,617 citations

Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff

1980 • 1,532 citations

Ideology and Discontent.

1966 • 1,298 citations

Backward Mapping: Implementation Research and Policy Decisions

1979 • 1,185 citations

The Comparative Study Of Political Elites

1976 • 1,117 citations

Innovation in the States: A Diffusion Study

1973 • 1,116 citations

Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics.

1971 • 979 citations

Using Social Research in Public Policy Making.

1979 • 940 citations

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

2005 • 843 citations

Beliefs Attitudes and Human Affairs

1970 • 806 citations

Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science

2012 • 712 citations

The Utilization Process: A Conceptual Framework and Synthesis of Empirical Findings

1982 • 691 citations

Perspectives on Cognitive Dissonance

2013 • 662 citations

Self-Generated Attitude Change

1978 • 653 citations

Political Organizations

1974 • 647 citations

The Cybernetic Theory of Decision

1974 • 627 citations

Implementation Structures: A New Unit of Administrative Analysis

1981 • 623 citations

Regulating Business by Independent Commission

1955 • 602 citations

Science and trans-science

1972 • 571 citations

Strategies of political inquiry

1982 • 543 citations

The Foundations of Policy Analysis

1983 • 504 citations

Handbook of political psychology.

1973 • 498 citations

The "Operational Code": A Neglected Approach to the Study of Political Leaders and Decision-Making

1969 • 497 citations

Effective policy implementation

1981 • 461 citations

Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions.

1993 • 437 citations

The Public Use of Private Interest

1978 • 395 citations

Interorganizational policy making : limits to coordination and central control

1978 • 381 citations

How People Organize the Political World: A Schematic Model

1984 • 375 citations

The Politics of Deregulation

1986 • 362 citations

A Hierarchical Model of Attitude Constraint

1985 • 328 citations

Truth Tests and Utility Tests: Decision-Makers' Frames of Reference for Social Science Research

1980 • 313 citations

The New American Political System

1979 • 295 citations

A Systems Analysis of Political Life

1967 • 295 citations

Implementation Research as Empirical Constitutionalism

1982 • 263 citations

Group-Induced Polarization of Attitudes and Behavior

1978 • 244 citations

Congress and the administrative state

1979 • 240 citations

Organizational Learning

2021 • 236 citations

The use of social science knowledge in policy decisions at the national level

1975 • 231 citations

Environmental Policy in the 1990s

1991 • 224 citations

Twenty years of cognitive dissonance: Case study of the evolution of a theory.

1978 • 223 citations

Social movements and regulatory agencies: Toward a more adequate?and less pessimistic?Theory of ?clientele capture?

1975 • 206 citations

Readings in evaluation research

1971 • 206 citations

The politics of broadcast regulation

1978 • 202 citations

The Acquisition and Utilization of Technical Information by Administrative Agencies

1978 • 178 citations

The politics of mass housing in Britain

1981 • 169 citations

The Two-Communities Metaphor and Models of Knowledge Use

1980 • 168 citations

The dynamics of technical controversy

2013 • 167 citations

The policy sciences emerge: To nurture and structure a discipline

1974 • 166 citations

GOVERNMENT COALITIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE*

1973 • 163 citations

The Politics of Environmental Concern

1978 • 161 citations

Industry Influence in Federal Regulatory Agencies

1981 • 152 citations

The Durability of Coalition Governments in Parliamentary Democracies

1979 • 139 citations

Policy implementation through bargaining: the case of federal grants-in-aid.

1977 • 138 citations

Selective Exposure

1965 • 134 citations

Government Coalitions in Western Democracies

1982 • 131 citations

Attitudes: Themes and advances

1983 • 116 citations

The Concept of Interest in Pluralist and Marxian Analysis

1971 • 115 citations

The Limits of Organizational Change

2017 • 111 citations

The dynamics of policy change: Policy succession

1982 • 109 citations

Contemporary political economy

1982 • 108 citations

A Multivariate Model of Public Policy-Making

1980 • 100 citations

The politics of consumer protection

1971 • 83 citations

Can Regulation Work?: The Implementation of the 1972 California Coastal Initiative

1983 • 82 citations

American political parties;: Social change and political response

1970 • 80 citations

Implementation

1980 • 79 citations

Culture and the Evolutionary Process

1987 • 78 citations

Social Research and Royal Commissions.

1981 • 76 citations

Policies as theories

1980 • 73 citations

Incorporating Multiple Actors and Guidance Instruments into Models of Regulatory Policymaking

1987 • 72 citations

Strategic behavior in business and government

1980 • 68 citations

Attitudes and Persuasion

2017 • 66 citations

Patterns of Influence among Committees, Agencies, and Interest Groups

1983 • 63 citations

Administered Politics

1980 • 54 citations

Reassessing the Importance of Size and Ideology for the Formation of Governing Coalitions in Parliamentary Democracies

1984 • 52 citations

Political Attitudes and Public Opinion.

1976 • 50 citations

Can organizations change

1979 • 49 citations

Patterns of Discovery

1959 • 47 citations

Fire and Water

1962 • 46 citations

Regulatory Structures: Enforcement as Implementation

1982 • 44 citations

The Political Economy of Inflation and Unemployment in Western Europe: An Outline

1981 • 44 citations

POLICY COMMUNITIES: THE BRITISH AND EUROPEAN POLICY STYLE

1983 • 43 citations

Governmental Commissions in Sweden

1983 • 43 citations

Policy and politics in Britain

1981 • 40 citations

The Implementation Perspective

2023 • 37 citations

Problems of theory in policy analysis

1976 • 36 citations

Apples and horned toads: On the framework-determined nature of the energy debate

1982 • 34 citations

The Theory of Political Coalitions.

1965 • 33 citations

Selective Exposure as a Function of Dogmatism and Incentive

1978 • 28 citations

Congress: Its Contemporary Role

1956 • 26 citations

The Government and Politics of France

1972 • 25 citations

Patterns of Research Use in Private and Public Sectors

1983 • 22 citations

The Belief-Systems Perspective: An Assessment of a Framework

1973 • 21 citations

Coalition Formation in the Italian Regions: Some Preliminary Findings and Their Significance for Coalition Theory

1984 • 19 citations

A ction and Enlightenment Functions of Research

1981 • 19 citations

Water Quality Management

2022 • 18 citations

Public Policy Diffusion Research

1983 • 17 citations

Obstacles to the Utilization of Systematic Policy Analysis

1983 • 17 citations

Social Science and Public Policy:

1995 • 16 citations

Cognitive Consistency and the Perception of Others' Opinions

1968 • 16 citations

Science, Scientists, and Public Policy.

1972 • 16 citations

Clean Coal/Dirty Air

1982 • 14 citations

The Handbook of Political Behavior

1981 • 14 citations

Policymaking for Social Security

1981 • 14 citations

SUBGOVERNMENT CONFLICT IN PUBLIC POLICY

1984 • 14 citations

The Political Economy of Fiscal Limits

1982 • 13 citations

Public Policy Formation and Implementation

2018 • 9 citations

Attitudinal Change and Elite Circulation: French Socialist Candidates in 1967 and 1978

1984 • 8 citations

The Politics Of Medicare

2017 • 8 citations

Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy

1987 • 3 citations