| 1998 |
Waste, Robert J., Independent Cities: Rethinking U.S. Urban Policy (Oxford University Press). |
| 1989 |
Waste, Robert J., The Ecology of City Policymaking (Oxford University Press). |
| 1987 |
Waste, Robert J., Power and Pluralism in American Cities: Researching the Urban Laboratory
(Greenwood Press). |
| 1986 |
Waste, Robert J. (ed.), Community Power: Directions for Future Research (Sage Publications). |
| 1998 |
Waste, Robert J., and Gregory D. Russell, "The limits of Reinventing Government," American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 28, No. 4 (December 1998): 325-346. |
| 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). |