Bibliographies

Two bibliographies of Edward C. Banfield’s publications exist, one form 1975 (before Banfield’s writing career ended) and another produced in 2002 that is lengthier.

• Anthony G. White, Edward C. Banfield: Bibliography of a Conservative Urbanologist (Monticello, Ill.: Council of Planning Librarians, 1975).
• “Bibliography” in Charles R. Kesler, ed., Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation (Claremont, CA: Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World, 2002), pp. 123-136.

Banfield Books

• Edward C. Banfield, Government Project: An Account of Big Government in Action (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1951; AEI Press 2024).
• Edward C. Banfield (with Martin Meyerson), Politics, Planning, and the Public Interest (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1955). A PDF copy may be freely viewed here.
• Edward C. Banfield (with Laura Fasano Banfield), The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1958). A PDF copy may be  freely viewed here.
• Edward C. Banfield (with Morton M. Grodzins), Government and Housing in Metropolitan Areas (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958). A PDF may be freely viewed here.
• Edward C. Banfield and Martha Derthick, eds., A Report on the Politics of Boston (Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, 1960). A PDF copy may be freely viewed here.
• Edward C. Banfield, Political Influence: A New Theory of Urban Politics (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1961/1982). A reprint with a new introduction by James Q. Wilson was published in 2003. A PDF copy may be freely viewed here.
• Edward C. Banfield, ed., Urban Government: A Reader in Politics and Administration (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1961). A revised edition was published in 1969, and a PDF copy of the portions of the book authored or coauthored by Banfield may be freely viewed here.
• Edward C. Banfield (with James Q. Wilson), City Politics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963). A PDF copy may be  freely viewed here.
• Edward C. Banfield, American Foreign Aid Doctrines (Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, January 1963). A PDF copy may be freely viewed here.
• Edward C. Banfield, 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). A PDF copy may be freely viewed here.
• Martin Meyerson and Edward C. Banfield, Boston: The Job Ahead (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966). A PDF copy may be  freely viewed here.
• Edward C. Banfield, The Unheavenly City (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1970).
• Edward C. Banfield, The Unheavenly City Revisited: A Revision of the Unheavenly City (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1974). A PDF copy may be  freely viewed here.
• Edward C. Banfield, Lectures on the Uses and Limitations of Social Science in Public Policy (1978).
• Edward C. Banfield, The Democratic Muse: Visual Arts and the Public Interest (New York: Basic Books, 1984).
• Edward C. Banfield, Here the People Rule: Selected Essays, 2^nd ed. (New York: Plenum Press, 1985). A second edition was published by the American Enterprise Institute in 1991. A PDF copy may be freely viewed here.
• Edward C. Banfield, ed., Civility and Citizenship in Liberal Democratic Societies (New York: Paragon House, 1992).