- 1974: The Planner’s Image: The Impact of Expertise On Development Planning and Policymaking (PhD Dissertation)
- 1976: Blaming the Planner: An Alternative Explanation of Development Program Failure
- 1977/1978: Comparing Policy Alternatives
- 1978: Three Approaches to Health Care
- 1979: Problems in U.S. Standard-Setting: The Implications of the Shift to Control Functions
- 1979: The Why and How of Policy Analysis
- 1981: [Review of] Promise and Performance: Choosing and Implementing Environmental Policy
- 1981: Government Regulation: Advice and Analysis
- 1981: Nationalizing State Policies
- 1982: Decentralization of Agriculture
- 1982: Regulatory Policy Analysis: Working in a Quagmire
- 1985: Industrial policy and the states
- 1987: Accountability in the public sector: lessons from the Challenger tragedy
- 1998: Clarifying Accountability: An Ethical Theory Framework
- 2005: Accountability and the Promise of Performance: In Search of the Mechanisms
- 2006: Accountability and the Evil of Administrative Ethics
- 2018: Demons, Spirits, and Elephants
- 2020: Dissecting the Semantics of Accountability and Its Misuse
- 2021: A Tribute to H. George Frederickson