The case study anthology

Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi


SECTION I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND CASE SELECTION 1

1. The Epidemic That Never Was: Policy-Making and the Swine Flu Scare 3
Richard E. Neustadt and Harvey V. Fineberg

2. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis 13
Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow

3. Middletown: A Study of Modern American Culture 25
Robert 5. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd

4. Yankee City: The Social Life of a Modern Community 33
W Lloyd Warner and Paul 5. Lunt

5. Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland 47
Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky


SECTION II: THE STRENGTH OF MULTIPLE CASES 55

6. Korea: Winning With Microwaves 57
Ira Magaziner and Mark Patinkin

7. The Rise of the Pentagon and U.S. State Building: The Defense Program as Industrial Policy 69
Gregory Hooks

8. New Towns-in-Town: The Limits of Centralization 85
Martha Derthick


SECTION III: QUANTITATIVE EVIDENCE AND "EMBEDDED" UNITS OF ANALYSIS 97

9. Implementing an Education Innovation 99
Neal Cross, joseph B. Ciacquinta, and Marilyn Bernstein

10. Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union 113
Seymour Martin Upset, Martin A. Trow, and James S. Coleman

11. Testing the B.asic Logic of the Chicago School Reform Act 125
Anthony S. Bryk, Penny Bender Bebring, 
David Kerbow, Sharon Rollow, and John Q. Easton


SECTION IV: MORE ILLUSTRATIONS OF CASE STUDY EVIDENCE 139

12. Winning at the Game: Intel and Silicon Valley Fever 141
Everett M. Rogers and judith K. Larsen

13. Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating 155
Ronald N. jacobs

14. Working: Growth of High-Technology Culture 179
Everett M. Rogers and judith K. Larsen

15. Head Start: The Inside Story of America's Most Successful Educational Experiment 193
Edward Zigler and Susan Muenchow


SECTION V: ANALYSES AND CONCLUSIONS 203

16. The Organization of a Methadone Program 205
Dorothy Nelkin

17. Transformation in the New York City Police Department 219
George L Kelling and Catherine M. Coles

18. Communities Not Fazed: Why Military Base Closures May Not Be Catastrophic 233
Ted K. Bradshaw

19. Lessons From Houston: Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools 251
Donald R. McAdams

Index 263
About the Editor 271