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Robert J. Waste
Department of Public Policy and Administration
Professor and Chair

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Books
1998 Waste, Robert J., Independent Cities: Rethinking U.S. Urban Policy (Oxford University Press, 1998).
1989 Waste, Robert J., The Ecology of City Policymaking (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
1987a Waste, Robert J., Power and Pluralism in American Cities: Researching the Urban Laboratory (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1987).
1986a Waste, Robert J. (ed.), Community Power: Directions for Future Research (Newbury Park, CA.: Sage Publications, 1986).

Monographs

1977 Marshall, Dale Rogers and Robert J. Waste, Large City Responses to the Community Development Act (Davis, CA: Institute of Governmental Affairs, University of California, Davis – California Studies in Community Policy and Change Series).
Articles
1996 Waste, Robert J. "Wanted: Urban Theory – Dead or Alive," Book Review Essay, Urban Affairs Review (Vol. 31, July, 1996).
1995 Waste, Robert J., "Concentrated Poverty & the City as Reservation," Journal of Urban Affairs (Vol. 17, Winter 1995).
1993 Waste, Robert J., "City Limits, Pluralism and Urban Political Economy," Journal of Urban Affairs (Vol. 15, Winter 1993).
1991 Waste, Robert J., and Charles Price, "Reforming a Reform," California Journal (February, 1991).
1989b Waste, Robert J., "Deja Vu and Disaster: Federal-Urban Policy in the 1990's," Urban Resources (Spring): 21-24, and p. 33.
1986b Waste, Robert J., "Public Administration in China: Impressions of Some of the Changes Since the Cultural Revolution," Administration and Society (March).
1985 Waste, Robert J., and Glen W. Sparrow, "Democracy Through the Mail: A Call for Municipal Mail Ballots," Social Policy (Fall): 58-59.
1983 Waste, Robert J., "The Early Years in the Life Cycle of a City Council: A Downsian Analysis," Urban Studies 20: 73-81.

Book Chapters
1994a Waste, Robert J., "Welfare Reform: The California Experience," in Don Norris and Lyke Thompson (eds.), The Politics of Welfare Reform, (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications).
1994b Waste, Robert J., "Urban Policy," in Roger W. Caves (ed.), Readings in the Urban Arena: An Introduction (Newbury Park, CA.: Sage Publications).
1991 Waste, Robert J., and Clive S. Thomas, "Understanding Intergovernmental Relations in the West," in Clive S. Thomas (ed.), Politics and Public Policy in the Contemporary American West, (Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1992).
1987 Waste, Robert J., "The Politics of Local Planning," in Robert S. Ross (ed.), Perspectives on Local Government in California (Belmont, CA.: Star Publishing Co., 1987)

Edited Issues of Journals
1996 Waste, Robert J., and Judith Garber (co-editors), Special 1995 Conference Issue, Journal of Urban Affairs (Spring, 1996)

Survey Research & Program/Policy Evaluation Reports Key Surveys & Evaluations
Conducted Within the Past Six Years Include
1998a County of Sacramento – Consultant on County-wide Assessment of CalWorks/TANF Welfare Reform Community Relations Plan.
1998b County of Sacramento – Advisor to Homeless Task Force, Departmentof Human Assistance, pursuant to HUD grant application & CHAS/Comprehensive Housing Affordability Survey Report to HUD, and with a survey of area homeless.
1998c City of Sacramento – Advisor to City on Neighborhhood Safety Clearinghouse/Community Policing Project.
1997c City of Chico - Citizen Attitudes on Taxation, Development & the City General Plan (density, rate of development, and developer fees – with Jon Ebeling Regional and Economic Sciences consulting firm).
1995a City of Cleveland (citywide survey on crime issues & community policing).
1995b City of Cleveland/County of Cuyahoga, Ohio (Estimate of the size & needs of the homeless population pursuant to successful HUD grant application. & CHAS/Comprehensive Housing Affordability Survey Report to HUD).
1995c City of Chico & County of Butte, California (Estimate of the size & needs of the homeless population pursuant to HUD grant application & CHAS/Comprehensive Housing Affordability Survey Report to HUD).
1995d City of San Diego, lead consultant (survey on city service levels and citizen satisfaction). 1994a City of Inglewood (public safety, annexation and marketing issues).
1994b State of California: Senate Office of Research, lead consultant for statewide public opinion survey on public policy & taxation issues. 1993 City of Chico (police department issues survey; cultural arts survey).
1992 City of Yuba City (annexation and redevelopment issues).
1991 State of California: Senate Office of Research, lead consultant for statewide public opinion survey on public policy & taxation issues.

 

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