Douglas Yates, The politics of management: [exploring the inner working of public and private organizations], 1^e éd., Jossey-Bass, 1985, The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series, 269 p. 

Douglas Yates, Bureaucratic democracy: the search for democracy and efficiency in American government, Harvard University, 1982, 224 p. 

Douglas Yates, The ungovernable city: the politics of urban problems and policy making, 1^e éd., MIT Press, 1977, MIT studies in American politics and public policy, 219 p. 

Douglas Yates, Robert K. Yin, Street-level governments: assessing decentralization and urban services, Lexington Books, 1975, 276 p. 

Douglas Yates, Neighborhood democracy: the politics and impacts of decentralization, Lexington Books, 1973, 202 p. 

Douglas Yates, Franz Grillparzer: a critical biography, B. Blackwell, 1964 

Douglas Yates, Goethe's (and Grillparzer's) cryptic 'S', Univ. Press, 1933, English Goethe Society: Publications, 118 p. 

Douglas Yates, Der Kontrast zwischen Kunst und Leben bei Grillparzer, E. Ebering, 1929, Germanische studien, 96 p.