为什么瑞士和日本的山林公地能维持几个世纪的经济增长和生态稳定，而土耳其的近海渔场却屡屡因过度捕捞而发生冲突？为什么菲律宾桑赫拉的农民能建立起长期有效的公共灌溉系统，而美国加州政府却迟迟无法解决地下水的过度使用问题？面对哈丁的“公地悲剧”，一些人建议由“国家”对绝大多数自然资源实行控制，以防止它们的毁灭；另一些入则建议把这些自然资源私有化就能解决问题。但我们在现实世界中看到的是：无论国家还是市场，都未能成功地解决“公地悲剧”；反而是许多地方和社群中的人们，借助既不同于国家也不同于市场的制度安排，对某些资源系统成功地实行了适度治理。那么，对于一个地方和社群中互相依赖的公民而言，如何才能实现真正有效的自我组织和治理，从而在所有人都面对搭便车、规避责任或其他机会主义行为诱惑的情况下，取得持久的共同收益？对此，《公共事物的治理之道：集体行动制度的演进》通过对各种成败案例的实证考察，首次系统地总结了人们用以分析公共事物解决之道的理论模型，并从博奔的角度探索了政府与市场之外的自主治理公共资源的可能。2009年诺贝尔经济学奖得主代表作20世纪美国政治学界引用率最高的当代经典那些在一个实际场景中找到具有公地困境结构的分析人员，常常要求由一个局外人来强加一种解决方案：实行X是解决某种公地困境的“唯一方法”。这种主张是基于这样一种信念：X对解决各种特定的公地困境都是必要且充分的。但是，X的内容却极少变化。一种主张假定，中央政府应该持续地为一种特定资源的统一决策承担责任。另一种主张则认为中央政府应该放弃对资源的所有权，允许个人在一组界定明确的财产权范围内，去追求他们自己的利益。无论是中央集权的倡导者还是私有化的倡导者，都把制度变迁必须来自外部并强加给受它影响的个人作为中心的信条。但是，尽管他们对“国家”在为提高效率而变更制度方面所具有的必要性和有效性上的看法是一致的，他们建议的制度变迁方法仍有很大差别。如果一种主张是正确的，另一种就不可能也是正确的。矛盾的立场不可能两者同时都正确。我对这两种主张中的任何一种都不赞同。我认为他们提出的意见都过于表浅。与只存在一个单一问题和一种单一解决方案的看法不同，我认为存在着许多不同的问题和许多不同的解决方案。与能够容易地设计出最优制度安排、并能由一个外部权威以很低的成本去强行实施的看法不同，我认为“把制度搞正确”是一个困难的，耗时的和引发矛盾的过程。这个过程既需要有一整套能在文化上被认同的规则，又需要有关于时间变量和空间变量的可靠信息。新的制度安排在现实中不会如在抽象模型中那样运行，除非这些模型建构完整、有实际依据，以及现实场景中的当事人理解如何发挥新规则的作用。对于共同拥有公共池塘资源的人们将不可避免地跌人陷阱并不能自拔的假设，我并不认同。我认为，个人使他们自己从各种不同困境中解脱出来的能力因环境的不同而不同。本书讨论的案例具体描述了为解脱悲剧性结局所作的成功的和不成功的努力。……导言第一章公地治理之反思三种有影响的模型模型的隐喻性用法当前的政策方案挑战第二章研究公共池塘资源情境中自主组织和自主治理的制度方法公共池塘资源的情境相互依存、独立行动和集体行动三个难题：供给、承诺和监督调查框架现实场景的制度研

In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People’s Republic of China was how much they did not know. The government of one of the world’s largest nations was committed to fundamentally reengineering its society and economy via socialist planning while having almost no reliable statistical data about their own country. Making It Count is the history of efforts to resolve this “crisis in counting.” Drawing on a wealth of sources culled from China, India, and the United States, Arunabh Ghosh explores the choices made by political leaders, statisticians, academics, statistical workers, and even literary figures in attempts to know the nation through numbers.
Ghosh shows that early reliance on Soviet-inspired methods of exhaustive enumeration became increasingly untenable in China by the mid-1950s. Unprecedented and unexpected exchanges with Indian statisticians followed, as the Chinese sought to learn about the then-exciting new technology of random sampling. These developments were overtaken by the tumult of the Great Leap Forward (1958–61), when probabilistic and exhaustive methods were rejected and statistics was refashioned into an ethnographic enterprise. By acknowledging Soviet and Indian influences, Ghosh not only revises existing models of Cold War science but also globalizes wider developments in the history of statistics and data.
Anchored in debates about statistics and its relationship to state building, Making It Count offers fresh perspectives on China’s transition to socialism.

《组织理论:理性、自然与开放系统的视角》被公认为介绍组织研究领域文献最为详尽和最具权威的著作之一。作者充分运用社会学和管理学的组织研究成果，广泛吸收其他社会科学对组织理论做出的贡献，不仅从研究者的角度，而且从组织管理者以及各种参与者乃至普通大众的视角来阐释组织理论问题，对我国组织研究学者和管理实践人员具有重要的借鉴意义。
《组织理论:理性、自然与开放系统的视角》共分14章，第1章为导论，引入了三种不同的组织定义和三个组织研究的视角：理性、自然和开放系统观。第2～4章分别以三个视角为主线，梳理了组织研究的历史，包括对各个主要学派及其代表人物的简介和评论。第5章讨论了三个视角的融合与渗透，指出它们曾经以不同的组合方式出现，分别适用于不同层面的分析，提出了整合三种视角的分层模型。第6～12章从组织结构、组织内部机制与过程、组织与环境的关系以及组织的绩效等方面，介绍了近20年来组织管理实践的创新和组织研究的成果，进一步深入探讨了组织与组织活动的规律，以及对于组织现象的各种理论解释及其实践意义。第13章重回历史，对工业革命以来工商企业的发展，特别是19世纪以来现代法人公司的形成与发展对社会经济的贡献和所带来的问题进行了系统的回顾与分析。最后，在第14章，对未来的实践与研究方向进行展望，提出从一元论到多重范式、从单一文化到多重文化、从共时研究到纵观分析及历史分析、从结构到过程和分析层面、从微观到宏观的转变。

本书将布坎南研究工作的重要部分——成本与选择——做了较清晰的论述。每个人在面对选择时，都会面对成本或者说机会成本，于是人很容易进入选择的困境，在这种情况下，人如何选择。作者运用相关的经济学理论，对此进行了论述。全书分6个部分。第一部分讲“成本的经济学理论”，第二部分讲“伦敦传统的起源和发展”，第三部分讲“成本和选择”，第四部分讲“公共物品的成本”，第五部分讲“私人成本和社会成本”，第六部分讲“没有市场的成本”。本书为《奥地利学派译丛》之一。

《政治与行政》成于1900年，为行政学开山之作之一，论点明确、论述充分、论据权威、文献丰富、观点新颖（在20世纪初）、文字流畅、结论具有说服力并且有政策操作性。
对政治与行政关系的系统阐述是古德诺的重大学术贡献之一，他不仅指出了政治与行政之间必须进行一定程度的分立以实现国家的两种基本功能，而且强调了政治对行政进行必要的控制是二者和谐的基础，并给出了实现和谐的具体途径。政治与行政之间的分立与和谐是其整个思想的核心，片面强调任何一个方面都可能导致对其思想的误读。这对于今天我们正确认识政治与行政的关系仍有重要的启示作用。
本书适合政治学、行政学、法学、公共管理学的广大师生、学者收藏、阅读。

When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights from political theory with his own ethnographic fieldwork as a receptionist in an urban antipoverty agency, Bernardo Zacka shows us firsthand the predicament in which these public servants are entangled.
Public policy consists of rules and regulations, but its implementation depends on how street-level bureaucrats interpret them and exercise discretionary judgment. These workers are expected to act as sensible moral agents in a working environment that is notoriously challenging and that conspires against them. Confronted by the pressures of everyday work, they often and unknowingly settle for one of several reductive conceptions of their responsibilities, each by itself pathological in the face of a complex, messy reality. Zacka examines the factors that contribute to this erosion of moral sensibility and what it takes to remain a balanced moral agent in such difficult conditions.
Zacka’s revisionary portrait reveals bureaucratic life as more fluid and ethically fraught than most citizens realize. It invites us to approach the political theory of the democratic state from the bottom-up, thinking not just about what policies the state should adopt but also about how it ought to interact with citizens when implementing these policies.

《揭开行政之恶》内容简介：在《揭开行政之恶》一书中，艾赅博与百里枫论述道，正如去人性化行为与种族灭绝行为中所显示的，行政之恶的趋势已经深入到公共行政的身份认同当中。行政之恶的普遍特征是，从事普通职业的人们被卷入邪恶的行径，而本身并不自知其过错。在道德错位的情形下，人们甚至可能将自己的邪恶行为视为好事。
在一个流行“抨击官僚”的时代，《揭开行政之恶》企图为一种更符合伦理标准的、也更为民主的公共生活奠定一个基础，这样的公共生活意识到邪恶有可能发生，从而努力避免自己不自觉地走上这样一条道路：路的尽头就是国家支持下的去人性化行为及毁灭行为。
与初版相比，《揭开行政之恶》新版增加了新鲜的视角与材料。初版（1998）曾作为最杰出公共行政著作获颁美国公共行政科学院著名的年度奖“布朗洛奖”，美国管理科学院中有两个学部（公共与非营利部及管理社会问题部）也颁给《揭开行政之恶》“年度最佳著作”奖。

社会网络分析在社会和行为科学巾应用甚广，如经济学、市场营销以及工业工程。社会网络的视角主要关注于社会实体之间的关系。具体的例子有团队成员之间的交流，公司间的经济事务，以及国家间的贸易或条约。标准社会和行为研究主要关心社会单元的属性，而将焦点放在对关系的研究上，是对标准社会和行为研究的一种重要补充。 《社会网络分析--方法与应用》(作者斯坦利·沃瑟曼、凯瑟琳·福斯特)综述并讨论了分析社会网络的方法，通过打量例子，重点关注这些方法的具体应用。本书主要分为六个部分。第一部分的章节从社会网络的视角进行概述，描述了不同类型的社会网络数据。第二部分讨论了社会网络的形式表示，包括符号、图论以及矩阵操作。第三部分涵盖了社会网络的结构和位置的性质，包括中心性、声望、优势、结构平衡、可聚类性、凝聚子群以及从属网络。第四部分考查了社会网络关于角色和地位的方法，包括对结构等价、块模型以及关系代数的讨论。第五部分探讨了二元关系和三元关系的特性。第六部分讨论了社会网络的统计方法。 《社会网络分析--方法与应用》是一本参考书，适用于那些想对网络分析方法有一个全面了解的读者，也适用于收集了网络数据，并想找到恰当方法对数据进行分析的研究者。它也是一本教科科书，较全面地涵盖了社会网络分析领域的方法论和应用。

在这部分析官员行为动机与官僚组织运行机制的经典之作中，作者用简明的语言为我们展现了一部美国版的《官场现形记》，让我们洞悉官员的心理与行为，把握官僚组织的决策机制，从而加深对官员和官僚组织的理解。
本书是剖析官员与官僚组织行为、透视官僚制内幕的经典力作。本书构建了一种有用的决策理论，该理论通过对官员动机、行为模式等方面的分析来帮助人们认识官僚组织的行为，从而提高决策质量。作者将官员分为权力攀登者、保守者、狂热者、倡导者、政治家等五种类型，在此基础上，分析官员的动机、目标和行为对官僚组织决策的影响，探讨官僚组织所承担的社会职能及其所处的环境对其结构、行为和决策的影响。

由美国学者A.科林·卡梅伦和普拉温·K.特里维迪共同撰写的《用Stata学微观计量经济学》一书，是一本优秀的介绍微观计量经济学的专著，它同时也介绍了如何使用Stata来进行微观计量经济学研究。本书包括了微观计量经济学教材中省略的许多主题，同时也省略了对Stata基本使用知识的介绍。两位学者对Stata现有的微观计量经济学的方法进行了全面的和最新的总结。

1986年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者詹姆斯·布坎南在公共选择理论发展中所作出的开拓性贡献，已经得到国际上的公认。在他的著作中，诺贝尔奖评选委员会特别列举出的就是《民主财政论》一书，该书于1967年第一次出版。正像美国管理和预算局局长詹姆斯·C．米勒第三在他的前言中所说明的那样，“这本书也许是布坎南的公共选择理论最为简明的表述”。
在《民主财政论》最初出版时，财政研究通常分析财政制度对个人和公司市场选择行为的影响。然而，在本书中，布坎南开拓了新的领域，他研究了当个人参加民主决策过程时财政制度对个人政治选择行为的影响。
詹姆斯·M．布坎南是乔治梅森大学经济学教授，也是他所建立的公共选择研究中心主任。他写过许多著作，包括《赞成的计算》（同戈登·塔洛克合著）。

《公共外交:"舆论时代"的外交战略》所谓公共外交，是指为在国际社会提高本国的国际地位和影响力，提升本国形象，加深外界对本国的理解，以对象国国民为对象所开展的外交活动。

作为日本厚生省官员，作者曾亲身参与和经历了日本20世纪五六十年代启动的环境治理过程，本书以个人回忆的方式，记录了日本战后原子弹爆炸受害者的医治、公共卫生保健制度的建立与普及、高速经济发展带来的环境污染，以及因公害产生的一系列尖锐的政治、社会和经济等问题。本书揭示了当时日本为解决经济发展与环境的矛盾，在环境治理立法、执法等过程中，政府各行政部门之间的斗争和协调，政府、产业界与民间各自的立场和诸多事件的解决方案。对于当前中国经济发展与环境的现状有相当的借鉴意义。

Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food aid that increases starvation.
How do these unintended consequences come about and how can we avoid them? By applying conventional thinking to complex social problems, we often perpetuate the very problems we try so hard to solve, but it is possible to think differently, and get different results.
Systems Thinking for Social Change enables readers to contribute more effectively to society by helping them understand what systems thinking is and why it is so important in their work. It also gives concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning without becoming a technical expert.
Systems thinking leader David Stroh walks readers through techniques he has used to help people improve their efforts to end homelessness, improve public health, strengthen education, design a system for early childhood development, protect child welfare, develop rural economies, facilitate the reentry of formerly incarcerated people into society, resolve identity-based conflicts, and more.
The result is a highly readable, effective guide to understanding systems and using that knowledge to get the results you want.
Review
“I don't know of another book in this field that presents the ideas of systems thinking in such a clear and practical way, with so many real-world examples."--Janice Molloy, managing editor, Reflections: The SoL NorthAmerica Journal on Knowledge, Learning, and Change
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"This dense volume will be of genuine use to many in the nonprofit world ... Stroh has a valuable insight to impart: Becoming a more effective systems thinker is not just an analytical task 'but also an emotional, physical, and ultimately spiritual one.' For those dedicated enough to stay with Stroh's message, this book will be a useful beginning.”
“Stroh has offered an important gem in his new book, Systems Thinking for Social Change. Both illuminating and immediately useful, the book shares the key dynamics and success factors gleaned from his long career of working with organizations struggling with society’s most persistent issues. A must read for anyone whose aim is to make a difference on the ground.”--Kristina Wile, co-president, Leverage Networks, and managing partner, Systems Thinking Collaborative
“If there is only one book you read on systems thinking, it should be Systems Thinking for Social Change. If you’re new to systems thinking, I consider this a must read. If you’ve been involved in systems thinking for some time and want a renewed and extended perspective, I highly recommend it. Stroh’s new work covers all the relevant areas appropriate for a solid introduction to systems thinking, though it doesn’t stop there. It makes a serious contribution by detailing a number of real-world situations that have been investigated and improved using the approach presented in the book. And it does very well something that I’ve not seen done before: it not only shows how to map the current system, but also shows how to then create a revised map of how the system is intended to work in the future. This approach ends up identifying where measurements should be made on an ongoing basis to ascertain whether the system is undergoing the intended transformation.”--Gene Bellinger, director, Systems Thinking World, Inc.
“The philanthropic sector has shifted from a ‘charity’ mindset to a focus on changing systems to create sustainable change. Systems Thinking for Social Change offers practical tools for those serious about improving communities and organizations. It doesn’t minimize the complexity, but rather empowers social-change agents with tools to understand the complexity and identify the leverage points.”--Teresa Behrens, director, Institute for Foundation and Donor Learning
“Over fifteen years ago, David Stroh was instrumental in introducing systems thinking to the peace-building field, using tools that have proven to be powerful for improving the effectiveness of our work. This book is a valuable resource for our field ― a must read for all practitioners who have been seeking practical and easy-to-understand guidance on using systems thinking for conflict analysis and strategic planning for better impacts.”--Diana Chigas, professor of practice, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and co-director of collaborative learning, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
“This is a must read for public leaders and citizens who are interested in the learning disciplines required for a sustainable, proactive approach to preserving our shared resources.”--Georgianna Bishop, president, The Public Sector Consortium
“For those who have worked for many years in the social-service sector, and who have grown cynical or disillusioned as to whether it is even possible to effect major social change, David Peter Stroh’s book, Systems Thinking for Social Change, is a must read―a clear, thoughtful, and practical guide for those desiring to create lasting social change. But reader beware! Systems thinking is more than a new way of thinking. As Stroh puts it, it is a new way of being. It requires the ability to look at things in a new way, to interact with others differently, to have a clear vision of where you want to go, a willingness to see things the way they are and, finally, the courage to take responsibility for why the system as is isn’t working. If you want to help create long-lasting, effective social change, if you want to say ‘we’re doing it―we’re actually making progress,’ then read this book.”--Anne Miskey, executive director, Funders Together to End Homelessness
“David Stroh, in his invaluable new book, shows that good intentions are not enough for those who aspire to make lasting progress on fundamental social issues―and also how the language and tools of systems theory can provide a deeper understanding of the root causes and help identify the leverage points for productive and sustainable change.”--Russell Eisenstat, executive director, Center for Higher Ambition Leadership
“Societal problems are a swirl of causes, effects, interactions, and contributing relationships. Yet, too often, simplistic answers are applied by the well-intended that only touch on one strand of what is (in reality) a complex and interconnected web. Stroh’s work provides an actionable guide on how to model these relationships―and more importantly how to have a meaningful and lasting impact on them.”--Jason E. Glass, superintendent and chief learner, Eagle County Schools