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Books

Government Project

– Banfield, Edward C. Government Project. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1951.
This is an account of an attempt by one of the biggest, most efficient, and most democratic of governments — that of the United States — to remake the lives of a few of its… More

Politics, Planning, and the Public Interest

– With Martin Meyerson, Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1955.
“This book suggests a number of generalizations about public housing in this country. The moral of the story it tells is that planning of public housing is a meaningless intellectual… More

Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas

– Banfield, Edward C. Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas. With Morton M. Grodzins. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
Turning to Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas, I found the steadying hand of good, sound economics…. Banfield and Grodzins point out that the two-headed aspect of the… More

Ends and Means in Planning

– Banfield, Edward C. “Ends and Means in Planning.” International Social Science Journal 11, no. 3 (1959): 361–368. Reprinted in Here the People Rule: Selected Essays, by Edward C. Banfield, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1991.
Abstract: The word planning is given a bewildering variety of meanings. To some it means socialism. To others, the layout and design of cities. To still others, regional development schemes… More

Big City Politics: A Comparative Guide to the Political Systems of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Seattle

– Banfield, Edward C. Big City Politics: A Comparative Guide to the Political Systems of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Seattle. New York: Random House, 1965.
“Edward Banfield’s introductory essay crisply summarizes this book’s purpose, content and probable audience. It is designed to be a compact and informative description of… More

Here the People Rule: Selected Essays

– New York: Plenum Press, 1985. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1991.
This book of essays includes Edward C. Banfield’s most important insights into the American political system. “What Banfield has done…has been to challenge the central… More

The Man Who Knew Too Much

– James Q. Wilson, The Weekly Standard, October 18, 1999.
Excerpt: IN THE INCREASINGLY DULL, narrow, methodologically obscure world of the social sciences, it is hard to find a mind that speaks not only to its students but to its nation. Most… More

Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation (Salvatori Center Colloquium)

– Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation. Salvatori Center Colloquium. Henry Salvatori Center Monograph, New Series, no. 3. Claremont, CA: Henry Salvatori Center, Claremont McKenna College, April 2002.
Excerpt: The work that follows is devoted to Edward C. Banfield, in more ways than one. To begin with, it contains the proceedings of a Henry Salvatori Center colloquium that discussed… More

Moral Sense and Society

– John J. DiIulio Jr., Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2012.
Excerpt: A one-time New Deal government employee and enthusiast, Banfield became a self-described “vintage Burkean conservative.” His early career had him immersed in the social… More

Essays

Government Project

– Banfield, Edward C. Government Project. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1951.
This is an account of an attempt by one of the biggest, most efficient, and most democratic of governments — that of the United States — to remake the lives of a few of its… More

Politics, Planning, and the Public Interest

– With Martin Meyerson, Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1955.
“This book suggests a number of generalizations about public housing in this country. The moral of the story it tells is that planning of public housing is a meaningless intellectual… More

Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas

– Banfield, Edward C. Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas. With Morton M. Grodzins. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
Turning to Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas, I found the steadying hand of good, sound economics…. Banfield and Grodzins point out that the two-headed aspect of the… More

Ends and Means in Planning

– Banfield, Edward C. “Ends and Means in Planning.” International Social Science Journal 11, no. 3 (1959): 361–368. Reprinted in Here the People Rule: Selected Essays, by Edward C. Banfield, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1991.
Abstract: The word planning is given a bewildering variety of meanings. To some it means socialism. To others, the layout and design of cities. To still others, regional development schemes… More

Big City Politics: A Comparative Guide to the Political Systems of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Seattle

– Banfield, Edward C. Big City Politics: A Comparative Guide to the Political Systems of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Seattle. New York: Random House, 1965.
“Edward Banfield’s introductory essay crisply summarizes this book’s purpose, content and probable audience. It is designed to be a compact and informative description of… More

Here the People Rule: Selected Essays

– New York: Plenum Press, 1985. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1991.
This book of essays includes Edward C. Banfield’s most important insights into the American political system. “What Banfield has done…has been to challenge the central… More

The Man Who Knew Too Much

– James Q. Wilson, The Weekly Standard, October 18, 1999.
Excerpt: IN THE INCREASINGLY DULL, narrow, methodologically obscure world of the social sciences, it is hard to find a mind that speaks not only to its students but to its nation. Most… More

Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation (Salvatori Center Colloquium)

– Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation. Salvatori Center Colloquium. Henry Salvatori Center Monograph, New Series, no. 3. Claremont, CA: Henry Salvatori Center, Claremont McKenna College, April 2002.
Excerpt: The work that follows is devoted to Edward C. Banfield, in more ways than one. To begin with, it contains the proceedings of a Henry Salvatori Center colloquium that discussed… More

Moral Sense and Society

– John J. DiIulio Jr., Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2012.
Excerpt: A one-time New Deal government employee and enthusiast, Banfield became a self-described “vintage Burkean conservative.” His early career had him immersed in the social… More

Commentary

Government Project

– Banfield, Edward C. Government Project. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1951.
This is an account of an attempt by one of the biggest, most efficient, and most democratic of governments — that of the United States — to remake the lives of a few of its… More

Politics, Planning, and the Public Interest

– With Martin Meyerson, Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1955.
“This book suggests a number of generalizations about public housing in this country. The moral of the story it tells is that planning of public housing is a meaningless intellectual… More

Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas

– Banfield, Edward C. Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas. With Morton M. Grodzins. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
Turning to Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas, I found the steadying hand of good, sound economics…. Banfield and Grodzins point out that the two-headed aspect of the… More

Ends and Means in Planning

– Banfield, Edward C. “Ends and Means in Planning.” International Social Science Journal 11, no. 3 (1959): 361–368. Reprinted in Here the People Rule: Selected Essays, by Edward C. Banfield, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1991.
Abstract: The word planning is given a bewildering variety of meanings. To some it means socialism. To others, the layout and design of cities. To still others, regional development schemes… More

Big City Politics: A Comparative Guide to the Political Systems of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Seattle

– Banfield, Edward C. Big City Politics: A Comparative Guide to the Political Systems of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Seattle. New York: Random House, 1965.
“Edward Banfield’s introductory essay crisply summarizes this book’s purpose, content and probable audience. It is designed to be a compact and informative description of… More

Here the People Rule: Selected Essays

– New York: Plenum Press, 1985. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1991.
This book of essays includes Edward C. Banfield’s most important insights into the American political system. “What Banfield has done…has been to challenge the central… More

The Man Who Knew Too Much

– James Q. Wilson, The Weekly Standard, October 18, 1999.
Excerpt: IN THE INCREASINGLY DULL, narrow, methodologically obscure world of the social sciences, it is hard to find a mind that speaks not only to its students but to its nation. Most… More

Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation (Salvatori Center Colloquium)

– Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation. Salvatori Center Colloquium. Henry Salvatori Center Monograph, New Series, no. 3. Claremont, CA: Henry Salvatori Center, Claremont McKenna College, April 2002.
Excerpt: The work that follows is devoted to Edward C. Banfield, in more ways than one. To begin with, it contains the proceedings of a Henry Salvatori Center colloquium that discussed… More

Moral Sense and Society

– John J. DiIulio Jr., Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2012.
Excerpt: A one-time New Deal government employee and enthusiast, Banfield became a self-described “vintage Burkean conservative.” His early career had him immersed in the social… More

Multimedia

Government Project

– Banfield, Edward C. Government Project. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1951.
This is an account of an attempt by one of the biggest, most efficient, and most democratic of governments — that of the United States — to remake the lives of a few of its… More

Politics, Planning, and the Public Interest

– With Martin Meyerson, Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1955.
“This book suggests a number of generalizations about public housing in this country. The moral of the story it tells is that planning of public housing is a meaningless intellectual… More

Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas

– Banfield, Edward C. Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas. With Morton M. Grodzins. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
Turning to Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas, I found the steadying hand of good, sound economics…. Banfield and Grodzins point out that the two-headed aspect of the… More

Ends and Means in Planning

– Banfield, Edward C. “Ends and Means in Planning.” International Social Science Journal 11, no. 3 (1959): 361–368. Reprinted in Here the People Rule: Selected Essays, by Edward C. Banfield, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1991.
Abstract: The word planning is given a bewildering variety of meanings. To some it means socialism. To others, the layout and design of cities. To still others, regional development schemes… More

Big City Politics: A Comparative Guide to the Political Systems of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Seattle

– Banfield, Edward C. Big City Politics: A Comparative Guide to the Political Systems of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Seattle. New York: Random House, 1965.
“Edward Banfield’s introductory essay crisply summarizes this book’s purpose, content and probable audience. It is designed to be a compact and informative description of… More

Here the People Rule: Selected Essays

– New York: Plenum Press, 1985. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1991.
This book of essays includes Edward C. Banfield’s most important insights into the American political system. “What Banfield has done…has been to challenge the central… More

The Man Who Knew Too Much

– James Q. Wilson, The Weekly Standard, October 18, 1999.
Excerpt: IN THE INCREASINGLY DULL, narrow, methodologically obscure world of the social sciences, it is hard to find a mind that speaks not only to its students but to its nation. Most… More

Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation (Salvatori Center Colloquium)

– Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation. Salvatori Center Colloquium. Henry Salvatori Center Monograph, New Series, no. 3. Claremont, CA: Henry Salvatori Center, Claremont McKenna College, April 2002.
Excerpt: The work that follows is devoted to Edward C. Banfield, in more ways than one. To begin with, it contains the proceedings of a Henry Salvatori Center colloquium that discussed… More

Moral Sense and Society

– John J. DiIulio Jr., Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2012.
Excerpt: A one-time New Deal government employee and enthusiast, Banfield became a self-described “vintage Burkean conservative.” His early career had him immersed in the social… More

Teaching

Government Project

– Banfield, Edward C. Government Project. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1951.
This is an account of an attempt by one of the biggest, most efficient, and most democratic of governments — that of the United States — to remake the lives of a few of its… More

Politics, Planning, and the Public Interest

– With Martin Meyerson, Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1955.
“This book suggests a number of generalizations about public housing in this country. The moral of the story it tells is that planning of public housing is a meaningless intellectual… More

Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas

– Banfield, Edward C. Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas. With Morton M. Grodzins. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
Turning to Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas, I found the steadying hand of good, sound economics…. Banfield and Grodzins point out that the two-headed aspect of the… More

Ends and Means in Planning

– Banfield, Edward C. “Ends and Means in Planning.” International Social Science Journal 11, no. 3 (1959): 361–368. Reprinted in Here the People Rule: Selected Essays, by Edward C. Banfield, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1991.
Abstract: The word planning is given a bewildering variety of meanings. To some it means socialism. To others, the layout and design of cities. To still others, regional development schemes… More

Big City Politics: A Comparative Guide to the Political Systems of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Seattle

– Banfield, Edward C. Big City Politics: A Comparative Guide to the Political Systems of Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, El Paso, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Seattle. New York: Random House, 1965.
“Edward Banfield’s introductory essay crisply summarizes this book’s purpose, content and probable audience. It is designed to be a compact and informative description of… More

Here the People Rule: Selected Essays

– New York: Plenum Press, 1985. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1991.
This book of essays includes Edward C. Banfield’s most important insights into the American political system. “What Banfield has done…has been to challenge the central… More

The Man Who Knew Too Much

– James Q. Wilson, The Weekly Standard, October 18, 1999.
Excerpt: IN THE INCREASINGLY DULL, narrow, methodologically obscure world of the social sciences, it is hard to find a mind that speaks not only to its students but to its nation. Most… More

Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation (Salvatori Center Colloquium)

– Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation. Salvatori Center Colloquium. Henry Salvatori Center Monograph, New Series, no. 3. Claremont, CA: Henry Salvatori Center, Claremont McKenna College, April 2002.
Excerpt: The work that follows is devoted to Edward C. Banfield, in more ways than one. To begin with, it contains the proceedings of a Henry Salvatori Center colloquium that discussed… More

Moral Sense and Society

– John J. DiIulio Jr., Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2012.
Excerpt: A one-time New Deal government employee and enthusiast, Banfield became a self-described “vintage Burkean conservative.” His early career had him immersed in the social… More