BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this article: Arguments for Democracy . By Tony Benn . Edited by Chris Mullin . Breaking the Mould ? By Ian Bradley . The Future of Socialism . By Anthony Crosland . The Socialist Agenda . Edited by David Lipsey and Dick Leonard . Face the Future . By David Owen . Politics is For People . By Shirley Williams . The Strategy of Equality : Redistribution and the Social Services . By Julian Le Grand . The Question of Separatism . By Jane Jacobs . Financing Devolution Within the United Kingdom : A Study of the Lessons from Failure . By David Heald . Anthony Eden . By David Carlton . Knowing Right from Wrong : The Insanity Defense of Daniel Mc Naughtan . By Richard Moran . Retreat from Power : Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century . Volume One : 1906–1939. Volume Two: After 1939. Edited by David Dilks . Sadat . By David Hirst and Irene Beeson . Poverty and Famines : An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation . By Amartya Sen . An Evolutionary View of Economic Growth . By Ashok S. Guha . The European Transition from Oil : Societal Impacts and Constraints on Energy Policy . Edited by Gordon T. Goodman , Lars A. Kristoferson and Jack M. Hollander . The Global Politics of Arms Sales . By Andrew J. Pierre . From Dessalines to Duvalier . Race , Colour , and National Independence in Haiti . By David Nicholls . Mussolini . By Denis Mack Smith . Contemporary Terror : Studies in Sub-state Violence . Edited by David Carlton and Carlo Schaerf . Revolt from the Center . By Niels Meyer , Helveg Petersen and Villy Sorensen .     

The 1981 Netherlands election

The Left in France. By Neill Nugent and David Lowe. London: Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xi + 275. £15.000.

Contemporary French Political Parties. Edited by David S. Bell. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. 199, £13.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Poverty IN THE United Kingdom . By Peter Townsend . Social Mobility AND Class Struc -JRE IN Modern Britain . By John H. Goldthorpe in collaboration with Catriona Llewellyn and Clive Payne . Labour AND Equality . Edited by Nick Bosanquet and Peter Townsend . Power AND Responsibility IN Health Care : THE N.H.S. AS A Political Institution . By W. J. M. Mackenzie . THE House OF Commons IN THE Twentieth Century : Essays BY Members OF THE Study OF Parliament Group . Edited by S. A. Walkland . THE Transfer OF Power , 1942–47. VOL. Viii : THE Interim Government , 3 July -1 November 1946. Edited by Nrcholas Mansergh and Penderel Moon . Socialist Thought IN Imaginative Literature . By Stephen Ingle . Socialist Propaganda IN THE Twentieth -Century Novel . By David Smith . G. D. H. Cole AND Socralist Democracy . By A. W. Wright . Consensus AND Disunity : THE Lloyd George Coalition Government 1918–1922. By Kenneth O. Morgan . Tariff Reform IN British Politics , 1903–1913. By Alan Sykes . Labour AND Scottish Nationalism . By Michael Keating and David Bleiman . THE State IN Northern Ireland 1921–72. By Paul BEW, Peter Gibbon and Henry Patterson . Inflation AND Stabilisation IN Latin America . Edited by R. Thorp and L. Whitehead . Wave-Power: “Insurance”, Smokescreen or Politically Significant Technology? Wave Energy : Energy Paper NO. 42, Prepared for Department of Energy by Energy Technical Support Unit . Proceedings OF THE Wave Energy Conference , London , Heathrow , 22–23 November 1978. Edited by Peter Quarrel . Energy From THE Waves . By David Ross .     

SHORTER NOTICES

The German Dilemma : The Throes of Political Emancipation . By Karl Dietrich Bracher . The Pluralist State . By David Nicholls . The Failure of the State : On The Distribution of Political and Economic Power in Europe . Edited by James Cornford . British Members of Parliament : A Self -Portrait . By Anthony King . The Communist Parties of Western Europe . By Neil Mcinnes . The Foreign Policy of France From 1914 TO 1945. By J. Néaré . Teaching Politics : Problems and Perspectives . Edited by Tom Brennan and Jonathan F. Brown . Who Killed The British Empire ? An Inquest . By George Woodcock . Passages From Antiquity to Feudalism . By Perry Anderson . [New Left Books. 304 pp. £5.] Lineages of The Absolutist State . By Perry Anderson . The Union of Post Office Workers . By Michael Moran .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article Karl Marx : His Life and Thought . By David MClellan . Karl Marx : Grundrisse . Karl Marx : The Revolutions Of 1848. Karl Marx : Surveys From Exile . Elite Accommodation in Canadian Politics . By Robert Presthus . Complaints Against Doctors . By Rudolf Klein . Herbert Morrison : Portrait Of a Politician . By Bernard Donoughue and G. W. Jones . Marx and the Marxists . By David Childs . Marx's Socialism . Edited by Shlomo Avineri . The Western Marxists . By Neil Mcnnes . Karl Marx : Man and Fighter . By Nicolaievsky and Maenchen -Helfen . Czechoslovakia before Munich . The German Minority Problem and British Appeasement Policy . By J. W. Bruegel . Germany and the Approach of War 1914: Delusion or Design ? Edited by JOHN Röhl .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this Article: THE Alternative in Eastern Europe . By Rudolf Bahro . The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays . By E. P. Thompson . Lenin's Political Thought . Volume I. Theory and Practice in the Democratic Revolution . By Neil Harding . Marxism and the Party . By John Molyneux . ON Human Nature . By Edward O. Wilson . The American as Anarchist . Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism . By David de Leon . Re -Inventing Anarchy . What are Anarchists Thinking These Days ? Edited by Howard J. Ehrlich , David DE Leon and Glenda Morris . Conservative Essays . Edited by Maurice Cowling . Can Government Go Bankrupt ? By Richard Rose and Guy Peters . Parliament and Public Spending : The Expenditure Committee of the House OF Commons 1970-76. By Ann Robinson . The Irish Department of Finasce 1922-58. By Ronan Fanning . Administrative Secrecy in Developed Countries . Edited by Donald C. Rowat . Privacy . Edited by John B. Young . Les Nucleocrates . By Philippe Simonnot . Exportations Nucleaires et Non -Proliferation . By Simone Courteix .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Keeping the Peace: Police Accountability and Oversight. Edited by David Moore and Roger Wettenhall What's Right? Free Enterprise versus Government Control: Getting the Balance Right By George Mc Farlane The Australian Public Sector: Pathways to Change. Edited by James Guthrie Can Governments Learn? Comparative Perspectives on Evaluation and Organizational Learning. Edited by Frans L Leeuw , Ray C Rist and Richard C Sonnichsen     

From autocracy to party government: Interpreting regime changes in Spain and Portugal

The Transition to Democracy in Spain. By José Maravall. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp.213. £14.95.

Democratic Politics in Spain. Edited by David S. Bell London: Frances Pinter, 1983. Pp.xiii + 203. £15.00.

Spain, Conditional Democracy. Editedby Christopher Abel and Nissa Torrents. London: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. 198. £14.95.

Portugal, A Twentieth‐century Interpretation. By TOM Gallagher. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983. Pp.xii + 278. £18.50.

Portugal Since the Revolution: Economic and Political Perspectives. Edited by Jorge Braga de Macedo and Simon Serfaty. Colorado: Westview Press, 1981. Pp.xiv + 217. £13.25.

In Search of Modern Portugal. The Revolution and its Consequences. Edited by Lawrence S. Graham and Douglas L. Wheeler. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1983. Pp.xv + 380. $30.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: Internationalising the Seabed By Roderick Ogley . Seeing Green : The Politics of Ecology Explained . By Jonathon Porritt . Green Politics : The Global Promise . By Fritjof Capra and Charlene Spretnak . The Green Movement in West Germany . By Elim Papadakis . Greening the Tories : New Policies for the Environment . By Andrew Sullivan . Conservation and Change : Policy for the Environment . What Kind of Growth : People or Profits . By Duncan Smith . Labour's Charter for the Environment . Capitalism since World War II: the making and breakup of the great boom . By Philip Armstrong , Andrew Glyn and John Harrison A Socialist Anatomy of Britain . Edited by David Coates , Gordon Johnston and Ray Bush . Local Socialism ? Labour Councils and New Left Alternatives . Edited by Martin Boddy and Colin Fudge . The Politics of Socialism : an essay in political theory . By John Dunn . Against Socialist Illusion: a radical argument . By David Selbourne . Public Life and Late Capitalism: toward a socialist theory of democracy . By John Keane . Capitalism and Social Democracy . By Adam Przeworski . Policy , Power and Order: the persistence of economic problems in capitalist states . By Kerry Schott . Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism . Edited by John Goldthorpe . The Politics of Local Socialism . By John Gyford . The Aims and Outcomes of Social Policy Research . By Patricia Thomas . How Democracies Perish . By Jean -François Revel . The Crawford Papers . Edited by John Vincent . The British Empire in the Middle East 1945-1951: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism . By Wm . Roger Louis . Packaging the Presidency: a history and criticism of presidential campaign advertising . By Kathleen Hall Jamieson .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Politics of Community : a Feminist Critique of the Liberal -Communitarian Debate . By Elizabeth Frazer and Nicola Lacey . Gender and Party Politics . Edited by Joni Lovenduski and Pippa Norris . Democracy and Difference . By Anine Phillips . Engendering Democracy . By Anne Phillips . Government by the Market ?the Politics of Publichoice . By Peter Self . Fred 0. Muller JR., & Jeffrey Paul . Liberalism and the Economic Order . Edited by Ellen Frankel Paul . Public Policy and the Nature of the New Right . Edited by Grant Jordan & Nigel Ashford . Common Sense : a New Constitution for Britain . By Tony Benn and Andrew Hood . The History of the City of Sheffield : vol. 1 Politics , vol. 2 Society , vol.3 Images . Ed. by Clyde Binfield , David Martin , Richard Childs , Roger Harper , David Hey and Geoffrey Tweedale . Understanding the New European Community . By William Nicoll and Trevor C. Salmon . Europe the Strange Superpower . By David Buchan . The Frontier of National Sovereignty . By Milward , Lynch , Romero and Sorensen Citizenship and the European Community . By Elizabeth Meehan . The United States of Europe . By Ernest Wistricht . The European Imperative ; Economic and Social Cohesion in the 1990s. By Stuart Holland . Powek on the Back Benches ?: The Growth of Select Committee Influence . By Derek Hawes . Law , Process and Custody . By Genevra Richardson . Justice and the Genesis of War . By David A. Welch . a History of Warfare . By John Keegan . Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century . Ed. by D. George Boyce , Robert Eccleshall and VIncent Geog -Hegan . Northern Ireland : the Choice . By Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden . De Valera : Long Fellow , Long Shadow . By Tim Pat Coogan . Straight Left : An Autobiography . By Paddy Devlin . Heresy : the Battle of Ideas in Modern Ireland . By Desmond F. Foster . Ireland Today ; Anatomy of a Changing State . By Gemma Hussey . In Search of a State ; Catholics in Northern Ireland . By Fionnuala 0. Connor . Northern Ireland ; Sharing Authority . By Brendan O'Leary , Tom Lyne , Jim Marshall and Bob Rowthorn .     

BOOK REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article: The Enterprise Years : A Businessman in the Cabinet . BY David Young . Upwardly Mobile. by Norman tebbit . Ministers Decide : A Memoir of the Thatcher Years . By Norman Fowler . My Style of Government . By Nicholas Ridley . Right at the Centre . By Cecil Parkinson . Staying power . By Peter Walker . A Sparrow's flight . By Lord Hailsham . Kill the Messenger . By Bernard ingham . The View From No. II: Memoirs of a Tory Radical . By Nigel Lawson . Britons : Forging the Nation 1701–1837. By Linda Colley . Myths of the English . Edited by Roy Porter . Beaverbrook: a life . By Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie . Murdoch . By William Shawcross . Vers Une Nouvelle Europe ? Towards a New Europe ? Edited by Mario Telo .     

SHORTER NOTICES

THE British General Election OF 1979. By David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh . THE Bili , ION Pounds : Whitehall 'S Takeover THE Town Halls . By Tyrrel Buyrcess AND Tony Travers Paying BY Degrees . By Michael A. Crew and Alistair Young . Specialist Committees IN THE House OF Commons —Have They Failed ? By John P. Mackintosh . Democracy IN Plural Societies . By Arend Liji Hart . THE Politics AND Economics OF THE Transition Period . By Nikolai Bukharin . Edited by Kenneth J. Tarbuck . A Documentary Study OF Hendrik DE MAN, Socialist Critic OF Marxism . Edited by Peter Dodge .     

The German question: Anglo‐American,French and west German perspectives

Geteiltes Land ‐ halbes Land? Essays über Deutschland, eingeleitet von Richard Löwenthal. By David P. Calleo, Roger Morgan, Raymond Poidevin and Michael Voslensky. Frankfurt/Berlin: Ullstein, 1986. Pp.240. DM 38.00.

Die deutsche Frage aus der heutigen Sicht des Auslandes. Edited by Han‐nelore Horn and Siegfried Mampel. Berlin: Duncker &; Humblot, 1987. Pp.135. DM 28.00.

Germany between East and West. Edited by Edwina Moreton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.185. DM 22.50.

Deutsche Frage und Westbindung. Edited by Klaus Weigelt. Melle: Knoth Verlag, 1986. Pp.151. DM 14.80.

Die offene deutsche Frage. Gesprdche mit unseren Nachbarn. Edited by Jean‐Paul Picaper and Günter Oeltze von Lobenthal. Berlin: Colloquium, 1987. Pp.199. DM22.00.

Le vertige allemand. By Brigitte Sauzay. Paris: Editions Olivier Orban, 1986. Pp.280.

Welches Deutschland soll es sein? Frankreich und die deutsche Einheit seit 1945. By Ernst Weisenfeld. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1986. Pp.203. DM 29.80.

Confronting the German Question. Germans on the East‐West Divide. By Renata Fritsch‐Bournatzel. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1988. Pp.150. £16.50.

Das ganze Deutschland. Perspektiven der Wiedervereinigung. By Wolfgang Seiffert. Munich: Piper, 1986. Pp.377. DM 19.80.

Einheit statt Raketen. Thesen zur Wiedervereinigung als Sicherheitskonzept. By Bernhard Friedmann. Herford: Busse/Seewald, 1987. Pp.180. DM 38.00

Deutsche Fragen oder die Suche nach der Staatsräson. Historisch‐politische Kolumnen. By Micheal Stürmer. Munich: Piper, 1988. Pp.211. DM16.80.     

STUDYING THE STATES

The Bannon Decade: The Politics of Restraint in South Australia. Edited by Andrew Parkin & Allan Patience Trials in Power: Cain, Kirner and Victoria 1982–1992. Edited by Mark Considine & Brian Costar Keeping them Honest: Democratic Reform in Queensland. Edited by Andrew Hede , Scott Prasser & Mark Neylan The Tasmanian Parliamentary Accord & Public Policy: Accommodating the new politics? Edited by Marcus Haward & Peter Larmour Affairs of State: Politics in the Australian States and Territories. By Scott Bennett     

Moving to an embodied materialism

Edited by U.K. Green Party members David Kemball‐Cook, Mallen Baker, and Chris Haltingly and endorsed for publication by the Green Party Council, The Green Budget: An Emergency Programme for the United Kingdom was published by Green Print, London, in 1991. Joseph Schumpeter once wrote that the public budget is the “skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading ideologies.”.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Ministers And Mandarins . By William Plowden . Transforming Central Government . By Patricia Greer . Policy And Change . Edited by Randall Smith And Jane Raistick Arguments For a New Left . By Hilary Wainwright . Modern European Socialism . By Lawrence Wilde . Social Democracy in a Post -Communist Europe . Edited by Michael Waller , Bruno Coppieters and Kris Deschouwer . Townscape with Figures : Parnham —Portrait of an English Town . By Richard Hoggart . A. J. P. Taylor : The Traitor within the Gates . By Robert Cole . A. J. P. Taylor . By Adam Sysman . The Return to Incomes Policy . Edited by Ronald Dore , Robert Boyer and Zoe Mars . Making the Peace : Public Order and Public Security in Modern Britain . By Charles Townshend . The Ecology of Commerce : How Business Can Save the Planet . By Paul Hawken . Responding to Global Warming : the Technology , Economics and Politics of Sustainable Energy . By Peter Read . The Politics of Dispossession : The Struggle for Palestinian Self -Determination 1969–1994. Law , Process and Custody : Prisoners and Patients . By Genevra Richardson . The Politics of Decentralisation : Revitalising Local Democracy . By Danny Burns , Robin Hambleton and Paul Hoggett . Citizens and Cities : Urban Policy in the 1990s. By Dilys M. Hill . Whose Utility? The Social Impact of Public Utility Privatization and Regulation in Britain . By John Ernst . Humour and History . Edited by Keith Cameron .     

Book reviews

Christian Democracy in Western Germany. By Geoffrey Pridham. London: Croom Helm, 1977. Pp. 371. £9.95.

The Power of the Purse: The Role of European Parliaments in Budgetary Decisions. By David Coombes et al. PEP, Allen &; Unwin, 1976. Pp. 393. £12.00.

Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg. By Bradley F. Smith. London: Andre Deutsch, 1977. Pp. xviii+349. Illus., Index, Biblio. £6.50.

Nemesis at Potsdam: The Anglo‐Americans and the Expulsion of the Germans. Background, Execution, Consequences. By Alfred de Zayas. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. Pp. xxvii+268. £5.95.

Innen‐ und Aussenpolitik unter nationalsozialistischer Bedrohung: Deter‐minanten internationaler Beziehungen in historischen Fallstudien. Edited by Erhard Forndran, Frank Golczewski and Dieter Riesenberger. Opladen: West Deutscher Verlag, 1977. Pp. 361, DM 49.

The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe, 1918–1933. By Sally Marks. London: Macmillan, 1976. Pp. 184; £5.95, £2.95 paper.

French Society 1789–1970. By Georges Dupeux. London: Methuen &; Co, 1976. Pp. ix+294. £7.50, Paperback £3.90.

Strategic de la grève. By Bertrand Badie. Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1977. Pp. xi+263. Fr. 78.

A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962. By Alistair Horne. Mac‐millan 1977. Pp. 604. £8.95.

Les Politiques Extérieures Européenes dans la Crise. Edited by Alfred Grosser. Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1976. Pp. 198. Fr. 85.

L'Avenir est Notre Affaire. By Denis de Rougemont. Paris: Editions Stock, 1977. Pp. 375.

Les Sommets de l'Etat: Essai sur l'élite du pouvoir en France. By Pierre Birnbaum. Paris: Editions due Seuil, 1977. Pp. 188.

Planning and Politics: The British Experience 1970–76. By Michael Shanks. PEP, George Allen and Unwin, 1977. Pp. 142. £6.50 hardback, £2.95 paperback.

Politische Planungssyteme. Edited by Frieder Naschold and Werner Vath. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1973. Pp. 478. DM. 19,80.

Einführung in das politische System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. By Frank Pilz. Munich: Beck'sche Elementarbücher, Verlag C.H. Beck, 1977. Pp. 366. DM. 28,—.

Soziologie und Sozialpolitik. Edited by Christian von Ferber and Franz Xaver Kaufmann. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1977. Pp. 649. DM. 64,—

The British Cabinet. By John P. Mackintosh. Stevens, 1977 (Third Edition). Pp. xv+656. £5.75.

The History of Political Thought: A Short Introduction. By R. N. Berki. London: J. M. Dent and Son, 1977. Bibliography and Index. Pp. vi+216. £2.95.

France Today: Introductory Studies. Edited by J. E. Flower. London: Methuen, 1977 (Third edition rev.). Pp. vi+190. £2.75 paperback.

Det utrolige dognet (The incredible day). By Bjorn Bjornsen. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1977. Pp. 304.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Using Theory to Improve Program and Policy Evaluations. Edited by Huey-Tsyh Chen and Peter H. Rossi. A Flock of Shepherds: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops. By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Leadership and the Bush Presidency: Prudence or Drift in an Era of Change? Edited by Ryan J. Barilleaux and Mary E. Stuckey. The Poverty Debate: Politics and the Poor in America. By C. Emory Burton. Economic Rationalism in Canberra — A Nation Building State Changes Its Mind. By Michael Pusey.     

The 1994 election in Italy: Normalisation or continuing exceptionalism?

Acid Politics: Environmental and Energy Policies in Britain and Germany. By Sonja Boehmer‐Christiansen and Jim Skea. London and New York: Belhaven Press, 1991. Pp.xiii + 296. £39.50 (hardback). ISBN 1–85293–116–7.

Integrated Pollution Control in Europe and North America. Edited by Frances Irwin and Nigel Haigh. Washington DC: The Conservation Foundation, 1990. Pp.xiv + 241. $20 (paperback). ISBN 0–89164–117–3.

Wassergefährdung durch die Landwirtschaft. Edited by Jobst Conrad. Berlin: Edition Sigma, 1988. Pp.253. DM29.80 (paperback). ISBN 3–924859–39–6.

Umweltpolitik zwischen Reparatur und Vorbeugung. By Bernhard Glaeser. Opladen: WestdeutscherVerlag, 1989. Pp. 153. DM 16.80 (paperback). ISBN 3–531–11846‐X.

Air Pollution Control Strategies and Policies in the Federal Republic of Germany. By Helmut Weidner. Berlin: Edition Sigma, 1986. Pp. 139. DM22.80 (paperback). ISBN 3–924859–17–5.

Innenwelt der Umweltpolitik. By Edda Müller. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1986. Pp.xiii + 600 (paperback). ISBN 3–531–11832–3.

National Environmental Policy Plan. Second Chamber of the States General (The Netherlands). ‘s‐Gravenhage: SDU uitgeverij, 1989. Pp.258 (paperback).

National Environmental Policy Plan Plus. ’s‐Gravenhage: Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment, 1990. Pp. 107 (paperback). ISBN 90–1206–258–6.

Our Common Inheritance: Britain's Environmental Strategy. London: HMSO, 1990. Pp.291. £24.50 (paperback). ISBN 010–112–0028.

Signs of Hope. By Linda Starke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 192. £4.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–54912X.

Sustaining Earth. Edited by David J. R. Angell, Justyn D. Comer and Matthew L.N. Wilkinson. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1990. Pp.xvii + 226. £35 (hardback); £7.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–52492–6.

The Making of the New Environmental Consciousness. By Andrew Jamison, Ron Eyerman, Jacqueline Cramer, with Jeppe Laess?e. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. Pp.xiii + 216. £27.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–7486–0180–5.

Green Politics One, 1990. Edited by Wolfgang Rüdig. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. Pp.231. £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–7486–0185–6.