MAKING PUBLIC POLICY

MAKING PUBLIC POLICY
Mark Considine
Polity Press, 2005, 262 pp., £15.99 (pb) ISBN: 0745627544     

THE NEW POLITICS OF MEDICINE

THE NEW POLITICS OF MEDICINE
Brian Salter
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 236 pp., £17.99 (pb) ISBN: 0333801121     

COMPARATIVE HEALTH POLICY

COMPARATIVE HEALTH POLICY
Robert H. Blank and Viola Burau
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 260 pp., £17.99 (pb) ISBN: 0333985990     

AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE – POLICY TRANSFER AND LESSON‐DRAWING

AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE – POLICY TRANSFER AND LESSON‐DRAWING
Learning From Comparative Public Policy: a Practical Guide
Richard Rose
Routledge 2004, 147 pp., £16.99 (pb) ISBN: 0415317428     

THE POLITICS OF MARKETING THE LABOUR PARTY

THE POLITICS OF MARKETING THE LABOUR PARTY
Dominic Wring
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 262 pp., £16.99 (pb) ISBN: 0333689534     

AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN EUROPE

AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN EUROPE
Alan Greer
Manchester University Press, 2005, 238 pp., £55 (hb) ISBN: 071906029X     

COMPARING LOCAL GOVERNANCE: TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS

COMPARING LOCAL GOVERNANCE: TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS
Bas Denters and Lawrence E. Rose (eds)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, xiv + 293 pp., £18.99 (pb) ISBN: 0333995562     

RETHINKING URBAN COMPETITIVENESS,COHESION AND GOVERNANCE

RETHINKING URBAN COMPETITIVENESS, COHESION AND GOVERNANCE
Nick Buck, Ian Gordon, Alan Harding and Ivan Turok (eds)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 317 pp., £19.99 (pb) ISBN: 1403906807     

LAW,LEGITIMACY, AND EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE. FUNCTIONAL PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL REGULATION

LAW, LEGITIMACY, AND EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE. FUNCTIONAL PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL REGULATION
Stijn Smismans
Oxford University Press, 2004, 519 pp., £60 (hb) ISBN: 0199270309     

IMPLEMENTING CHANGE IN HEALTH SYSTEMS: MARKET REFORMS IN HEALTH SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,SWEDEN AND THE NETHERLANDS

IMPLEMENTING CHANGE IN HEALTH SYSTEMS: MARKET REFORMS IN HEALTH SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, SWEDEN AND THE NETHERLANDS
Michael I. Harrison
Sage, 2004, 256 pp., £21.99 (pb) ISBN: 0761961763     

THE POLITICS OF DECLINE: AN INTERPRETATION OF BRITISH POLITICS FROM THE 1940s TO THE 1970s

THE POLITICS OF DECLINE: AN INTERPRETATION OF BRITISH POLITICS FROM THE 1940s TO THE 1970s
Geoffrey K. Fry
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 307 pp., £55 (hb) ISBN: 0333726227     

Reducing our dependence on the car

Public Participation in Britain: A Classified Bibliography, Anthony Barker, Bedford Square Press, in association with the Royal Town Planning Institute, 1979, pp. 192, £6.95.

A Dilemma of Local Government, Discrimination in the Provision of Public Services, Paul R. Dimond, Constance Chanberlain, Wayne Hillyard, Lexington Books, 1979, pp. 319, £13.00.

The Political Economy of Health, Lesley Doyal with Imogen Pennell, Pluto Press, 1979, pp. 360, £4.95 (paperback) £10.00 (hardback).

Crisis and Legitimacy, The Administrative Process and American Government, James O. Freedman, Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. 324, £11.50.

Technostructures and Interorganisa‐tional Relations, David F. Gillespie, Dennis S. Mileti, Lexington Books, 1979, pp. 151, £11.00.

The Political Economy of the Welfare State, Ian Gough, Macmillan, 1979, pp. 196, £4.95 (paperback) £10.00 (hardback).

The Department of Education and Science, Sir William Pile, George Allen and Unwin, 1979, pp. 247, £10.00.

Administrative Secrecy in Developed Countries, edited by Donald C. Rowat, Macmillan, 1979, pp. 364, £10.00.

Small Towns and Small Towners: A Framework for Survival and Growth, B. E. Swanson, R. A. Cohen, and E. P. Swanson, foreword by Harold S. Williams, Sage Publications, 1979, pp. 278, £4.25 (paperback) £8.50 (hardback).     

Old wine in new bottles: Re‐publishing African writers

Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe, 1986.150pp. £3.50pb

Arrow of God. Chinua Achebe, 1986. 230pp. £3.50pb

A Grain of Wheat. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1986. 247pp. £3.95pb

Petals of Blood. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1986. 250pp. £3.95pb

God's Bits of Wood. Sembene Ousmane, 1986. 245pp. £3.50pb

Estrangement. Elechi Amadi, 1986. 244pp. £3.95pb

London: Heinemann Educational Books (African Writers Series)

The Beggar's Strike. Aminata Sow Fall, London: Longman (African Classics). 1987.112pp. £2.95pb

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta. Mario Vargas Llosa (Translated by Alfred MacAdam) New York: Vintage books. 1986. 309pp. $6.95pb

The Penguin Book of Modern Urdu Poetry. Edited by Mahmood Jamal, Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1986. 165pp. £3.95pb     

Literary feature reviews

Taking stock of dead people: Argentina's reflections on the ‘Dirty War’ years

A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina's Nightmare. Andrew Graham‐Yooll, London: Eland. 1986. 180pp. £9.95hb/£4.95pb

Requiem for a Woman's Soul. Omar Rivabella, London: Penguin. 1986. 116pp. £2.95pb

The Duke: Memories and Antimemories of a Participant in the Repression. Enrique Medina, London: Zed. 1985. 120pp. £8.95hb/£3.95pb

The Shadow by the Door. Gerardo Di Masso, London: Zed. 1986. 96pp. £8.95hb/£3.95pb

The Long Night of Frncisco Sanctis. Humberto Costantini, London: Fontana. 1985. 184pp. £3.50pb

Caribbean contrasts

Frangipani House. Beryl Gilroy, 1986. 111pp. £3.50pb

Apata: The Story of a Reluctant Criminal. Harold A Bascom, 1986. 279pp. £3.95pb

Beka Lamb. Zee Edgell, 1986. 171pp. £3.50pb

The Wine of Astonishment. Earl Lovelace, 1986. 146pp. £3.50pb

The Lights on the Hill. Garth St Omer, 1986. 119pp. £3.50pb

London: Heinemann Educational Books (Caribbean Writers Series)     

Book reviews

Foreign Policy Making in Developing States: a comparative approach. Edited by Christopher Clapham, Farnborough (UK): Saxon House. 1978. 148 pp. £8.50.

Tariff Protection and Growth in Developing Countries. Mona Fouad Attia, Rotterdam: Rotterdam University Press. 1976. 251 pp.

Exports of Manufactures from Developing Countries. A H M Mahfuzur Rahman, Rotterdam: Centre for Development Planning, Rotterdam University Press. 1973. 140 pp.

Policy Reform in Developing Countries. Bela Balassa, Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1977. 176 pp. £9.00. £5.95 pb.

Nuclear Proliferation and the Near‐Nuclear Countries. Edited by Onkar Marwah & Ann Schultz, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger. 1975. 350 pp £11.60. (Distributed in UK by John Wiley)

Sociology and Development. Edited by E de Kadt and G Williams, London: Tavistock Publications Ltd. 1974. (Reprinted 1976). 374 pp. £4.25.

An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development. Norman Long, London: Methuen &Co Ltd. 1977. 221 pp. £3.25 pb.

Growing out of Poverty. Elizabeth Stamp, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1977. 165 pp. £4.25.

The United Nations System: coordinating its economic and social work. Martin Hill, Cambridge University Press. 1978. 252 pp. £13.50.

The United Nations in Bangladesh. Thomas W Oliver, Princeton University Press. 1978. 231 pp. US$20.

International Money: issues and analysis. Andrew Crockett, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1978. 250 pp. £3.95 pb.

The Failure of World Monetary Reform 1971–74. John Williamson, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1977. 221 pp. £3.25.

The International Monetary Tangle: myths and realities. Guillaume Guindey, Oxford: Blackwells. 1977. 121 pp. £7.85.

Research and Development Abroad by US Multinationals. Robert Ronstadt, New York: Praeger. 1977. 150 pp. £11.25.

International Migration and Dependence. Stephen Adler, Farnborough (UK): Saxon House. 1977. 235 pp. £8.50.

The Seventh Enemy: the human factor in the global crisis. Ronald Higgins, London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1978. 303 pp. £5.95.

The Disintegrating West. Mary Kaldor, London: Allen Lane‐Penguin Books Ltd. 1978. 219 pp. £5.50.

The Changing Face of the Third World: regional and national studies. Edited by Josef Nyilas, Budapest: Department of World Economy, Karl Marx University of Economic. Sciences. 1978. 431 pp.

Interdependent Development. Harold Brookfield, London: Methuen. 1977. 233 pp. £3.30.

Oil Companies in the International System. Louis Turner, London: George Allen &Unwin. 1978. 222 pp. £8.50.

Venezuela's Oil. Romullo Betancourt, London: George Allen & Unwin. 1978. 275 pp. £3.95.

Namibia Old and New. Gerhard Tötemeyer, London: C Hurst & Company Ltd. 1978. 257 pp. £9.50.

Buying Time in South Africa. CIS Anti‐Report No. 21, London: Counter Information Services. 1978. 56 pp. £0.95 pb.

Revolutionary Pressures in Africa. Claude Ake, London: Zed Press Ltd. 1978. 109 pp. £6.50.

The Guerilla Reader: a historical anthology. Edited by Walter Laqueur, London: Wildwood House. 1978. 246 pp. £5.95.

Negotiating Third World Mineral Agreements: promises as prologue. David N Smith and Louis T Wells Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company. 1975. 266 pp. £10.80. (Distributed in the UK by John Wiley)

Economic Growth and Distribution in China. Nicholas R Lardy, Cambridge University Press. 1978. 244 pp. £12.

The Peasant and the Raj: studies in agrarian society and peasant rebellion in colonial India. Eric Stokes, Cambridge University Press. 1978. 308 pp. £12.50.

Women of the World: illusion and reality. Urmila Phadnis and Indira Malani, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House. 1978. 283 pp.

Message from the Village. Perdita Huston, New York: Epoch B Foundation. 1978. 120 pp. US $3.95.

Living Black. Kevin Gilbert, London: Allen Lane ‐ the Penguin Press. 1977. 305 pp. £7.00.

The Economics of the Arab World. Yusif A Sayigh, London: Croom Helm. 1978. 726 pp. £35.

The Determinants of Arab Economic Development. Yusif A Sayigh, London: Croom Helm. 1978. 181 pp. £12.95.

The Arabs’ New Frontier. Robert Stephens, London: Temple Smith (second revised edition). 1976. 279 pp. £5.50.

Emergency in Perspective; reprieve and challenge. Sachchidanand Sinha, London: Books from India Ltd. 1977. 122 pp. £3.75.

Inside India Today. Dilip Hiro, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1976. (reprinted 1978) 293 pp. £3.95 pb.

The Essential JP: the philosophy and prison diary of Jayaprakash Narayan. Edited by Satish Kumar, Dorchester (UK): Prism Press. 1978. 153 pp. £4.95.

Women of Vietnam. Arlene Eisen Bergman, San Francisco: People's Press. 1975 (revised edition). 255 pp. £2.95.. (Distributed in the UK by Zed Press)

Land and Labour in Latin America. Edited by Kenneth Duncan and Ian Rutledge with the collaboration of Colin Harding Cambridge Latin American Studies, Cambridge University Press. 1977. 535 pp. £17.50.

Secession: the legitimacy of self‐determination. Lee C Buchheit, New Haven: Yale University Press. 1978. 260 pp. £12.60.     

Reference reviews

Third World Resource Directory 1994–1995. by Thomas P. Fenton and Mary J. Heffron, Oakland, California: Third World Resources, 1994, pp 800

Third World Atlas (Second edition). by Alan Thomas et al., Milton Keynes, England: Open University Press, 1994, pp 80, £37.50 hb, £12.99 pb

Atlas of World Development. by Tim Unwin, Chichester, England: John Wiley, 1994, pp 368, £49.95 hb

The Third World Handbook (Second edition). Guy Arnold, London: Cassell, pp 213, £35 hb, £16.99 pb

World Science Report 1993. UNESCO, Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 1994, pp 278, 220 FF

World Disasters Report 1994. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1994, pp 176, £33.25 pb

SIPRI Yearbook 1994. SIPRI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp 870, £50.00

The Jerusalem Question. by Ruth Lapidoth and Moshe Hirsch, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1994, pp 576, £110.00 hb

Who's Who in Latin America: Government, Politics, Banking and Industry. by Bettina Corke, New York: Norman Ross Publishing, 1993 (Third Edition), pp 391, $99 hb

The Commonwealth Yearbook 1993–1994. London: Commonwealth Secretariat/HMSO, 1994, pp 550, £25 pb

Directory of Chinese Agricultural and Related Organisations. by Zhang Qiaoqiao, Wallingford, England: CAB International, 1994, pp 368, £49.50/US$85.00 hb

World Resources 1994–95. World Resources Institute, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp 400

Green Globe Yearbook. by Helge O. Bergesen and Georg Parmann, Lysaker, Norway: Fridtjof Nansen Institute, pp 345, £30/US$45.00 hb

Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Second edition). by Chris Prouty and Eugene Rosenfeld, Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1994, pp 642, US$69.50 hb

Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara (Second edition). by Chris Prouty and Eugene Rosenfeld, Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1994, pp 641, US$69.50 hb     

Literary feature reviews

Intentions and realisation in the narratives of Nawal El‐Saadawi

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor Nawal El‐Saadawi Translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham London: Saqi Books. 1988. 101pp. £9.95hb/£3.50pb

The Fall of the Imam Nawal El‐Saadawi Translated from the Arabic by Sherif Hetata London: Methuen. 1988. 175pp. £10.95hb

Woman Against Her Sex: a critique of Nawal El‐Saadawi Georges Tarabishi (with a reply by Nawal El‐Saadawi) Translated from the Arabic by Basil Hatim and Elisabeth Orsini London: Saqi Books. 1988. 232pp. £20.00hb/£8.95pb

Es'kia Mphahlele: A divided self?

Renewal Time Es'kia Mphahlele London: Readers International. 1988. 215pp. £9.95hb/£4.95pb     

New jobs in urban areas—an evaluation of advance factory building

TEACHING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Richard A. Chapman, Joint University Council for Social and Public Administration: RIPA, 1973, pp. 95, £1.00.

THE EVOLUTION OF BRITISH TOWN PLANNING, Gordon G. Cherry, Leonard Hill, 1974, pp. 275, £6.00.

CITY POLITICS AND THE PRESS—JOURNALISTS AND THE GOVERNING OF MERSEYSIDE, Harvey Cox and David Morgan, Combridge University Press, 1973. (reprinted with corrections 1974), pp. 159, £2.80.

DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, Dilys M. Hill, Allen &; Unwin, 1974, pp. 243, £5.00 (£2.75 paperback).

GUERRILLAS IN THE BUREAUCRACY: THE COMMUNITY PLANNING EXPERIMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, Martin L. Needleman and Carolyn Emerson Needleman, John Wiley, 1974, pp. 386, £6.90.

THE MANAGEMENT OF URBAN CHANGE IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY, Richard Rose (ed.), Sage Publications, 1974, pp. 267, £5.00.

BIRMINGHAM 1939–1970, Anthony Sutcliffe and Roger Smith, Oxford University Press, 1974, pp. 514, £12.00.

MAKING INSTITUTIONS WORK, Geoffrey Vickers, Associated Business Programmes, 1973, pp. 187, £4.00.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT TRENDS 1973, CIPFA, 1974, pp. 301, £2.50.     

Book notes

Habitat : Human Settlements in an Urban Age, Angus McGunn, Pergamon Press, 1978, pp. 272, price unknown.

Decision Making for Energy Futures, David Pearce, Lynne Edwards and Geoff Beuret, Macmillan, 1979, pp. 296, £10.00.

Party Politics in Local Government: Officers and Members, Royal Institute of Public Administration, Policy Studies Institute, 1980, pp. 50, £2.50.

District Trends 1980, City of Bradford Metropolitan Council, 1980, pp. 45, free.

Housing the Disabled, John Hunt and Lesley Hayes, Torfaen Borough Council (with the support of Cwmbran Development Corporation), 1980, pp.204, £3.95 (paperback).

The West Riding County Council, 1889–1974 Historical Studies, B. J. Barber and M. W. Beresford, West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, 1979, pp. 262, price unknown.

Public Administration: The Political Environment, Roger Stacey and John Oliver, MacDonald and Evans (BEC Books), 1980, pp. 296, £4.95 (paperback).

How to Run Committees and Meetings, Michael Locke, Papermac (Macmillan Press), 1980, pp. 190, £2.95 (paperback), £10.00 (hardback).

The Politics of Positive Discrimination: An Evaluation of the Urban Programme, 1967–77, John Edwards and Richard Batley, Tavistock Publications Ltd., 1978, pp. 287, £4.25 (paperback).

Urban Deprivation and the Inner City, Colin Jones (Editor), Croom Helm, 1979, pp. 218, £9.95 (hardback).

Urban Harvest: Urban Renewal in Retrospect and Prospect, Stanley Mill‐ward (Editor), Geographical Publications Ltd., 1977, pp. 266, £8.25 (hardback).     

Choosing to inhabit the real world

The Shadow Lines. Amitav Ghosh, London: Bloomsbury. 1988. 246pp. £12.95hb

Saré Maré. S K Walker, London: Pandora Press. 1987. 173pp. £3.95pb

The Tiger's Daughter. Bharati Mukherjee, London/New York: Penguin. 1987. 210pp. £3.95/$6.95pb

Amritvela. Leena Dhingra, London: The Women's Press. 1988. 176pp. £3.95pb

That Long Silence. Shashi Deshpande, London: Virago Press. 1988. 196pp. £4.50pb

The Middleman and other stories. Bharati Mukherjee, New York: Grove Press. 1988. 197pp. $15.95hb

Yatra (The Journey). Nina Sibal, London: The Women's Press. 1987. 324pp. £10.95hb/£5.95pb