public choice theorists, many of whose writings reflect a sensitivity to the concerns expressed here. 14. Vincent Ostrom, The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration (University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1973). 15. much more comprehensive discussion of methodological individualism appears in three issues of Dialogue: The Public Administration Theory Network Newsletter. See Ostrom, to Guy B. Adams' 'Comments of Golembiewski vs. Ostrom,' Dialogue (September-October 1979), pp. 2-4; Catron and Harmon, in Response to Ostrom on Methodological Individualism, Dialogue (NovemberDecember 1979), pp. 8-11; Ostrom, Reflections on Methodological Individualism in Light of Comments by Vickers, Catron and Harmon, and Thayer, Dialogue (January-February 1980), pp. 14-19. For additional critical analyses of methodological individualism in the context of public choice theory, see Keith G. Baker, Public-Choice Theory: Some Important Assumptions and Public Policy Implications, in Robert T. Golembiewski, et al., Public Administration: Readings in Institutions, Processes, Behavior, Policy, 3rd ed. (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1976), pp. 41-60; and Golembiewski, A Critique of 'Democratic Administration' and Its Supporting Ideation, American Political Science Review, 71 (December 1977), pp. 1488-1507.