Squaring Circles? Funding the Provision of Public Services

Reports reviewed in this article:
Institute for Public Policy Research, Building Better Partnerships: Final Report of the Commission on Public—Private Partnerships
Fabian Society, Paying for Progress: A New Politic of Tax for Public Spending     

Reviews

Public Administration Under Scrutiny: Essays in Honour of Roger Wettenhall JOHN HALLIGAN.
Learning from Others: Administrative Innovations among Canadian Governments JAMES IAIN GOW.
National Parks: Private Sector's Role T. CHARTERS, M. GABRIEL and S. PRASSER.     

Reviews

From the Suburbs: Building a Nation From Our Neighbourhoods
Reflections on the Australian Constitution
Globalisation and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia Pacific Region
Prisoners as Citizens: Human Rights in Australian Prisons
The Private Sector in Development: Entrepreneurship, Regulation, and Comparative Disciplines.
Paths to Justice: What People Do and Think About Going to Law
The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia
Fiscal Policies in Federal States     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy. By A. Claire Cutler.
Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after Total War, Totalitarianism and the Holocaust . By Ira Katznelson.
Responsibility and Judgment . By Hannah Arendt.     

Abortion policy and medical practice

He is author of Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicineand editor of The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings of Philip Rieff.He is presently at work on a study of the idea of vocation in three professions: ministering, doctoring, and teaching.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
All Organizations are Public: Bridging Public and Private Organization Theories . By BARRY BOZEMAN
Accountability and the Business State: The Structure of Federal Corporations . By FRANCIS J. LEAZES, Jr.
The American Political Economy: Macroeconomics and Electoral Politics . By DOUGLAS A. HIBBS, Jr.
The Strategic Presidency: Hitting the Ground Running . By JAMES P. PFIFFNER
The Catholic Church in World Politics . By ERIC O. HANSON
Local Government in the German Federal System . By ARTHUR B. GUNLICKS     

GOVERNMENTS IN BUSINESS

Books reviewed in this article
Neil W. Hamilton and Peter R. Hamilton. Governance of Public Enterprise: A Case Study of Urban Mass Transit
R. Joseph Monsen and Kenneth D. Walters. Nationalized Companies: A Threat to American Business
Lloyd Musolf. Uncle Sam's Private, Profitseeking Corporations
W.T. Stanbury and Fred Thompson (Eds.). Managing Public Enterprises     

Maintaining neutrality in the Minister's office

How do non-partisan advisors in Ministers’ offices maintain political neutrality while immersed in a highly politicised environment? Private Secretaries are ubiquitous non-partisan public service representatives in the political environment of Ministers’ offices. There has been significant research undertaken the role of political advisors in Ministers’ offices, yet the contribution of these non-partisan advisors has not yet been described in academic literature. The risk of Private Secretaries being overly responsive to politicians and undertaking political tasks rather than maintaining neutrality is ever present. Further, they must actively manage the risk of free and frank advice being obstructed by political advisors. This article presents views about political neutrality gleaned from interviews with Private Secretaries who have worked in Ministers’ offices in New Zealand during the period of 1997–2018. It presents new insights into the tensions within a key setting of the core executive.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000 . By Geoff Eley. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) .
Foucault, Subjectivity, and Identity . By Robert Strozier. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002) .
Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action . By Albert O. Hirschman. Twentieth-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Robert H. Frank. (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2002) .     

Book Reviews: Corporate Welfare, Taxpayer Subsidies, and Home Field Advantages

Books reviewed:
Joanna Cagan and Neil deMause, Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit
Jerold J. Duquette, Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust .
James Quirk and Rodney Fort, Hard Ball: The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports .
Wilbur C. Rich, editor, The Economics and Politics of Sports Facilities .
Mark S. Rosentraub, Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying for It.
Jay Weiner, Stadium Games: Fifty Years of Big League Greed and Bush League Boondoggles .     

B. BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this articles: Vinovskis, Maris A. 1988. An “Epidemic” of Adolescent Pregnancy? Steven Rathgeb Smith and Susan Freinkel. 1988. Adjusting the Balance: Federal Policy and Victim Services William P. Browne. 1988. Private interests, public policy, and American agriculture Philip B. Heymaim. 1987. The Politics of Public Management     

BOOK NOTES

DENNIS KAVANAGH, Political Science and Political Behaviour
CHRISTOPHER CUNNEEN, Kings' Men. Australia's Governors-General from Hopetoun to Isaacs
ROBERT BANKS (ed.), Private Values and Public Policy: The Ethics of Decision-Making in Government Administration
GARRY WOTHERSPOON (ed.), Sydney's Transport. Studies in Urban History
GREGORY P. JONES, The Federal Government 1983 A Chronology of Events and Decisions with References
MARGARET BOWMAN and WILLIAM HAMPTON (eds), Local Democracies. A Study in Comparative Local Government
JAMES JUPP (ed.), Ethnic Politics in Australia     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Michael J. Boskin and Aaron Wildavsky, The Federal Budget: Economics and Politics
Joan K. Martin, Urban Financial Stress: Why Cities Go Broke
James T. Bennett and Manuel H. Johnson, Better Government at Half the Price: Private Production of Public Services
E.S. Savas, Privatizing the Public Sector
H. Edward Wesemann, Contracting for City Services
Public Securities Association, Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds
Morris Beck, Government Spending: Trends and Issues
Roger A. Freeman, The Wayward Welfare State
James Mingle and Associates, Challenges of Retrenchment: Strategies for Consolidating Programs, Cutting Costs and Allocation Resources
William Spangar Peirce, Bureaucratic Failure and Public Expenditure
G. Bruce Doern, How Ottawa Spends Your Tax Dollars: National Policy and Economic Development—1982     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Whitehall. By PETER HENNESSY.
Organizing the Presidency. By STEPHEN HESS.
Inside the Think Tank: Advising the Cabinet, 1971–1983 . By TESSA BLACKSTONE and WILLIAM PLOWDEN.
The Postmodern President: The White House Meets the World. By RICHARD ROSE.
Private Power and Centralization in France: The Notaires and the State. By EZRA N. SULEIMAN.
The Changing Politics of Local Government. By JOHN GYFORD, STEVE LEACH and CHRIS GAME.
Constitutional Dialogues: Interpretation as Political Process. By LOUIS FISHER.
Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power. By HARVEY C. MANSFIELD, JR.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
H ugh H eclo and A aron W ildavsky . The Private Government of Public Money
E.N. G ladden . A History of Public Administration. Vol. I From Earliest Times to the Eleventh Century. Vol. II From the Eleventh Century to the Present Day.
R obert H yslop . Australian Naval Administration, 1900–1939.
I. F. N icolson and C. H. S tokes (eds). Mass Media in the Seventies: Their Impact on Public Administration.
V ictor A. T hompson . Without Sympathy or Enthusiasm: The Problem of Administrative Compassion.     

Arthur O. Lovejoy andThe Revolt against Dualism

He is the author of Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine(1986) and editor of The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings of Philip Rieff(1990). He also edited (with Alan Woolfolk) a volume of Thomas G. Masaryk’s major writings entitled Constructive Sociological Theory(1994), published by Transaction. He is the current editor of The American Sociologist.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
At the Margins: Presidential Leadership of Congress , By GEORGE C. EDWARDS III.
The President as Prisoner: A Structural Critique of the Carter and Reagan Years. By WILLIAM F. GROVER.
Regulatory Interventionism in the Utility Industry . By BARBARA R. BARKOVICH.
Private Gain and Public Service: The Association of First Division Civil Servants. By BARRY O'TOOLE.
Ulster: Conflict and Consent. By TOM WILSON.
Guide to the Presidency. Edited by MICHAEL NELSON.
Prime Minister & Premiers: Political Leadership and Public Policy in Canada. Edited by LESLIE A. PAL AND DAVID TARAS.
The Future Of Local Government , Edited by JOHN STEWART and GERRY STOKER.     

Politics and television

Texts reviewed:

Jay Blumler, Michael Gurevitch and Julian Ives (1978) The Challenge of Election Broadcasting, Leeds University Press.

Tom Burns (1977) The BBC: Public Institution and Private World, Macmillan Press.

Grace Wyndham Goldie (1977) Facing the Nation: Television and Politics 1936–76, Bodley Head.

Philip Schlesinger (1978) Putting ‘reality’ together: BBC News, Constable.

Michael Tracey (1977) Producing Political Television, Routledge Direct Edition.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Robert Presthus . Behavioral Approaches to Public Administration. A. F. Davies . Private Politics: A Study of Five Political Outlooks. Gordon Reid . The Politics of Financial Control: The Role of the House of Commons. David Coombes . The Member of Parliament and the Administration: The Case of the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries. R. N. Aggarwala . Finance Committees of the Indian Parliament. C. D. Rowley . The New Guinea Villager. J. P. Mackintosh and others. Nigerian Government and Politics.     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Chrystia Freeland, Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution
Federico Varese, The Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy
Alexander Lukin, Political Culture of Russian 'Democrats'
David Hooper, Reputations under Fire
Alan Milne, Politics, Wellbeing and the Market
Sir Con O'Neill, Britain's Entry into the European Community: Report on the Negotiations of 1970–1972
Gennady Chufrin, The Security of the Caspian Sea Region
Andrew Glyn, Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times: The Left and Economic Policy since 1980
Ton Notermans, Social Democracy and Monetary Union
Gerassimos Moschonas, In the Name of Social Democracy: The Great Transformation, 1945 to the Present
David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention
Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter–Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
Peter Catterall, Colin Seymour–Ure and Adrian Smith, Northcliffe's Legacy: Aspects of the British Popular Press, 1896–1996