Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), 312 pages. Hardcover: 2022. E-book: 2022. Audiobook (Tantor Media): 2022.

Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 279 pages. Hardcover: 2004. Paperback: 2006. E-book: 2013. Choice Book Award, Outstanding Academic Title, 2005.

Issues in Privatizing Social Security: Report of an Expert Panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance With Peter Diamond and fifteen coauthors (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999), 168 pages.

Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics, and Economics R. Douglas Arnold, Michael Graetz, and Alicia H. Munnell, editors (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 1998), 450 pages.

The Logic of Congressional Action (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 282 pages. Hardcover: 1990. Paperback: 1992. Chinese Edition: 2010. Winner of the Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize, American Political Science Association, 1991.

Congress and the Bureaucracy: A Theory of Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), 235 pages. Hardcover: 1979. Paperback: 1980.