Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
J. Richard Aronson and Eli Schwartz (eds.), Management Policies in Local Government Finance
H. Clyde Reeves (ed.), The Role of the State in Property Taxation
C. Lowell Harriss (ed.), The Property Tax and Local Finance
Government Finance Research Center, Indicators of Urban Condition     

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     

A New ‘New Liberalism’? – Directions in Government and Public Policy in Britain

Books reviewed in this article:
David Marquand and Anthony Seldon (eds.), The Ideas that Shaped Post-War Britain
Geoff Mulgan (ed.), Life After Politics – New Thinking for the Twenty-first Century     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
ALF RATTIGAN, Industry Assistance: the inside story
B. HEAD(ed.), The Politics of Development in Australia
A. PATIENCE (ed.), The Bjelke-Petersen Premiership 1968–1983: Issues in Public Policy
DONALD C. ROWAT, The Ombudsman Plan: The Worldwide Spread of an Idea
P. R. HAY, J. HALLIGAN, J. WAR-HURST and B. COSTAR (eds), Essays on Victorian Politics
BEDE NAIRN, The 'Big Fella': Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891–1949
JIM HAGAN, Australian Trade Unionism in Documents
ALEXANDER KOUZMIN, J. R. NETHER-COTE, ROGER WETTENHALL (eds), Australian Commonwealth Administration 1983: Essays in Review
J. R. NETHERCOTE, ALEXANDER KOUZMIN, ROGER WETTENHALL (eds), Australian Commonwealth Administration 1984: Essays in Review     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Richard J. Arneson (ed.), Liberalism
Jyrki Käkönen (ed.), Perspectives on Environmental Conflict and International Politics
Ian H. Rowlands and Malory Greene (eds), Global Environmental Change and International Relations
W. W. Bartley III and Stephen Kresge (eds), The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume III. The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History
James DeFronzo, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
Jack A. Goldstone, Ted Robert Gurr and Farrokh Moshiri (eds), Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century
Guy Sorman, The Unborn Revolution
David Fischer, Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons: the Past and the Prospects
Carlo Schaerf and David Carlton (eds), Reducing Nuclear Arsenals
Robin Jeffrey, Politics, Women and Well-Being: How Kerala Became 'A Model'
Richard W. Franke and Barbara H. Chasin, Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State
Bill Jones and Lynton Robins (eds), Two Decades in British Politics: Essays to Mark Twenty-one Years of the Politics Association
Terry Nardin and David R. Mapel (eds), Traditions of International Ethics     

COMPARATIVE

Books Reviewed
Tsebelis George, VETO PLAYERS: how political institutions work , (FRANK VIBERT), 440
Biezen Ingrid van, POLITICAL PARTIES IN NEW DEMOCRACIES: party organization in Southern and East-Central Europe , (SERGEY KHRYCHIKOV), 441
Layton-Henry Zig and Wilpert Czarina (eds), CHALLENGING RACISM IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY , (ALESSANDRA BUONFINO), 442
Wilensky Harold L., RICH DEMOCRACIES: political economy, public policy, and performance , (LORI THORLAKSON), 442
Glodstone Jack A. (ed.), STATES, PARTIES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS , (JEFFREY ROBERTS), 443
Ibarra Pedro (ed.), SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND DEMOCRACY , (SUJAY GHOSH), 444
Stasavage David, PUBLIC DEBT AND THE BIRTH OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE: FRANCE & GREAT BRITAIN, 1688–1789 , (AGUSTÍN JOSÉ MENÉNDEZ), 445
Walker Robert and Wiseman Michael (eds), THE WELFARE WE WANT? The British challenge for American reform , (EDWIN GRIGGS), 446
Merkl Peter H. and Weinberg Leonard (eds), RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY , (KARIN A. BOTTOM), 446
Dobrowolsky Alexandra and Hart Vivien (eds), WOMEN MAKING CONSTITUTIONS: new politics and comparative perspectives , (JOHANNA KANTOLA), 447
Puri Jyoti, ENCOUNTERING NATIONALISM , (JORGEN KUHL), 448
Mahoney James and Rueschemeyer Dietrich (eds), COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES , (HANS PETER OLSEN), 449
Thompson Mark R., DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS: Asia and Eastern Europe , (SEÁN HANLEY), 449
Pickerill Jenny, CYBERPROTEST: environmental activism online , (LEE SALTER), 450
Schweickart David, AFTER CAPITALISM , (BOB JESSOP), 451
Coates David (ed.), MODELS OF CAPITALISM: debating strengths and weaknesses , (BOB JESSOP), 452
Minow Martha (ed.), BREAKING THE CYCLES OF HATRED: memory, law, and repair , (STEPHEN WINTER), 454     

Book Reviews

Book Reivew in this Article
Philip Pettit, The Common Mind: an Essay on Psychology, Society and Politics
David A. Lake (ed.), The International Political Economy of Trade. Volumes I & II
Mark W. Zacher (ed.), The International Political Economy of Natural Resources, Volumes I & II
Alec Cairncross, The British Economy since 1945: Economic Policy and Performance
Frances Cairncross and Alec Cairncross (eds), The Legacy of the Golden Age: the 1960s and their Economic Consequences
David Albright, Frans Berkhout and William Walker, World Inventory of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1992
Edward J. Laurance, Siemon T. Wezeman and Herbert Wulf, Arms Watch: SIPRI Report on the First Year of the UN Register of Conventional Arms
SIPRI Yearbook 1993, World Armaments and Disarmament
Herbert Wulf (ed.), Arms Industry Limited
Andrew Geddes, Britain in the European Community
Ole Nφrgaard, Thomas Pedersen and Nikolaj Peterson (eds), The European Community in World Politics
Neill Nugent (ed.), The European Community 1992: Annual Review of Activities
Lincoln Allison (ed.), The Changing Politics of Sport
Giovanni Giorgini, La città e il tiranno. Il concetto di tirannide nella Grecia del VH-IV secolo a.C
Antonella Besussi, La società migliore: principi e politiche del New Deal     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Vernon Bogdanor (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Institutions .
David Held, Models of Democracy .
David Held and Christopher Pollitt (eds), New Forms of Democracy .
David Miller, Janet Coleman, William Connolly and Alan Ryan (eds), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought .
A. J. M. Milne, Human Rights and Human Diversity .
R. J. Vincent, Human Rights and International Relations .
Stephen Padgett and Tony Burkett, Political Parties and Elections in West Germany: The Search for a New Stability .
Marshall Shulman (ed.), East-West Tensions in the Third World .
Caroline Thomas, In Search of Security: the Third World in International Relations .     

Book Reviews

Books review in this article:
Gianfranco Pasquino and Patrick McCarthy (eds), The End of Post-War Politics in Italy: the Landmark 1992 Elections
Canan Balkir and Allan W. Williams (eds), Turkey and Europe
Michael A. Genovese (ed.), Women as National Leaders
Richard Swedberg, Joseph A. Schumpeter: his Life and Work
David Selbourne, The Spirit of the Age     

BOOKS

Books reviewed in this article:
John Lovell, British Trade Unions, 1875-1933
Asa Briggs and John Saville (eds.), Essays in Labour History 1918-1939, Vol. 3
David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald
Nevil Johnson, In Search of the Constitution: Reflections on State and Society in Britain
Martin Minogue (ed.), Documents on Contemporary British Government, Vol. I: British Government and Constitutional Change , xii + 413 pp., Vol. 2: Local Government in Britain
William A. Robson, Welfare State and Welfare Society, Illusion and Reality
Wyn Grant and David Marsh, The CBI
Gabriele Ganz, Government and Industry . Professional Books, Abingdon, 1977, xii + 112 pp., £5.80.
Keith Barnard and Kenneth Lee (eds.), Conflicts in the National Health Service
The Citizen and the Public Agencies: a Report by Justice
Sir Leslie Scarman, English Law and Social Policy: A Symposium based on Sir Leslie Scarman's 1974 Hamlyn Lectures
Muriel Brown, An Introduction to Social Administration
David M. Clark, Battle for the Counties: Guide to the County Council Elections 1977
F. W. S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results
P. H. J. H. Gosden, Education in the Second World War: A Study in Policy and Administration
Chris Harlow, Innovation and Productivity under Nationalisation: The First Thirty Years
S. Jacobs, The Right to a Decent House
Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Diplomats: The Foreign Office Today
Ian Sellers, Nineteenth-Century Nonconformity
S. A. Walkland & Michael Ryle (eds.), The Commons in the Seventies
C. W. Cassinelli, Total Revolution     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Brown, Alice, McCrone, David and Paterson, Lindsay, Politics and Society in Scotland
Brown, Alice, McCrone, David, Paterson, Lindsay and Surridge, Paul, The Scottish Electorate: The 1997 General Election and Beyond
Clark, Ian and Berridge, John, Scotland Votes: The General Election 1997 in Scotland
Elcock, Howard and Keating, Michael (ed.), Remaking the Union: Devolution and British Politics in the 1990s
Harvie, Christopher, Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present
Paterson, Lindsay (ed.), A Diverse Assembly: The Debate on a Scottish Parliament
MacDonald, Catriona M. M. (ed.), Unionist Scotland 1800–1997
Cesarani, David, Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind
O'Brien, Conor Cruise, Memoir: My Life and Themes
Heffer, Simon, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell
Bentley, Tom, Learning Beyond the Classroom
Hahn, Carole, Becoming Political: Comparative Perspectives on Citizenship Education
Barnett, Anthony and Scruton, Roger (eds), Town and Country
Tindall, Frank, Memoirs and Confessions of a County Planning Officer
Campbell, Alan, Fishman, Nina and Howell, David (eds), Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–47     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
CAMERON HAZLEHURST and J. R. NETHERCOTE (eds.), Reforming Australian Government: The Coombs Report and Beyond
R. F. I. SMITH and PATRICK WELLER (eds.), Public Service Inquiries in Australia
R. L. MATHEWS (ed.), State and Local Taxation
J. S. HUNTER, Federalism and Fiscal Balance: A Comparative Study
V. SUBRAMANIAM, Transplanted Indo-British Administration
NORMAN LEWIS and BERNARD GATESHILL, The Commission for Local Administration: a preliminary appraisal
MALCOLM BAINS, Management Reform in English Local Government
M. A. JONES, Organisational and Social Planning in Australian Local Government
J. J. MACKEN, C. MOLONEY and G. J. McCARRY, The Common Law of Employment
PATRICK KEATINGE, A Place Among The Nations: Issues of Irish Foreign Policy
JOHN D. ROCHE, Planning in the ESB
C. V. BROWN and P. M. JACKSON, Public Sector Economics     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Sydney D. Bailey (ed.), Human Rights and Responsibilities in Britain and Ireland: A Christian Perspective .
Istvan Pogany, The Arab League and Peacekeeping in the Lebanon .
Avner Yaniv, Dilemmas of Security: Politics, Strategy and the Israeli Experience in Lebanon .
Halim Barakat (ed.), Toward a Viable Lebanon .
Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell (eds), Feminism as Critique .
R. W. Connell, Gender and Power: Society, The Person and Sexual Politics .
Anne Phillips (ed.), Feminism and Equality .
Terrell Carver, Marx and Engels: The Intellectual Relationship .
Paul Q. Hirst, Marxism and Historical Writing .
Derek Sayer, The Violence of Abstraction: The Analytical Foundations of Historical Materialism .
Alan Clarke, The Rise and Fall of the Socialist Republic: A History of The South Yorkshire County Council .
Martin Loney (ed.), The State or the Market: Politics and Welfare in Contemporary Britain .
David Blunkett and Keith Jackson, Democracy in Crisis: The Town Halls Respond .     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Robert Brenner, The Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy
Anthony Forster, Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics: Opposition to Europe in the British Conservative and Labour Parties since 1945
Martin Holmes (ed.), The Eurosceptic Reader
Dick Leonard and Mark Leonard (eds.), The Pro–European Reader
Ben Pimlott and Nirmala Rao, Governing London
Jean L. Cohen, Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm
Michael Newman, Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left
Kate Berridge, Vigor Mortis: The End of the Death Taboo
Peter Clarke, The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps
Tom Bentley and Daniel Stedman Jones (eds.), The Moral Universe
Richard Lindley, Panorama: Fifty Years of Pride and Paranoia
Gøsta Esping–Andersen with Duncan Gallie, Anton Hemerijck and John Myles, Why We Need a New Welfare State
Reinhard Heinisch, Populism, Proporz, Pariah: Austria Turns to the Right. Austrian Political Change, its Causes and Repercussions     

BOOK NOTES

JANEK RATNATUNGA, Financial Controls in Marketing, Monograph No. 6, 1983
NORMAN FISHER (ed.), Change and Public Sector Industrial Relations, Proceedings of the ACT Group, AIPA, Autumn Seminar 1981
DAVID SHAND (ed.), Making Government Budgets Work: Canberra and the States, Proceedings of the ACT Group, AIPA, Autumn Seminar 1982
ANN HODGKINSON (ed.), Towards Territorial Government, Proceedings of the Seminar on Self-Government for the ACT conducted by the Australian Institute of Urban Studies, July 1982
JOHN DIXON AND D. L. JAYASURIYA (eds), Social Policy in the 1980s, Papers presented at the 1982 conference of the Australasian Social Policy and Administration Association, 1983
MERYL STANTON (ed.), Employment of Disabled People, Seminar Proceedings No. 5, 1981
M. WATERS, Strikes in Australia: a Sociological Analysis of Industrial Conflict
Commonwealth Secretariat, Training of Trainers: A Select Annotated Bibliography, (compiled by A. P. Saxana, Asian and Pacific Development Centre, Kuala Lumpur)     

North America

Books Reviewed
Green John C., Rozell Mark J. and Wilcox Clyde (eds), THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IN AMERICAN POLITICS: marching to the millennium , (JOHN DAVID RAUSCH, JR), 227
Salamon Lester M. (ed.), THE TOOLS OF GOVERNMENT: a guide to the new governance , (Michael J. Steffens), 228
Swain Carol M. and Nieli Russ (eds), CONTEMPORARY VOICES OF WHITE NATIONALISM IN AMERICA , (MARTIN DURHAM), 228
Shafer Byron E., THE TWO MAJORITIES AND THE PUZZLE OF MODERN AMERICAN POLITICS , (ALAN SIAROFF), 229
Hannigan Robert E., THE NEW WORLD POWER: American foreign policy, 1898–1917 , (RALUCA STIREANU), 230
Singh Robert (ed.), AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY TODAY , (TREVOR B. McCRISKEN), 230
Oberlander Jonathan, THE POLITICAL LIFE OF MEDICARE , (ROBIN GAULD), 231
English, Ross, THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS , (SUSAN WEBB HAMMOND), 232     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
David Mckay, Designing Europe: Comparative Lessons from the Federal Experience
Adrienne Héritier et al., Differential Europe: The European Union Impact on National Policymaking,
Montserrat Guibernau (ed.), Governing European Diversity
Alec Stone Sweet, Wayne Sandholtz and Neil Fligstein (eds.), The Institutionalization of Europe
David Calleo, Rethinking Europe's Future
by Simon Walters, Tory Wars: Conservatives in Crisis
Boris Johnson, Friends, Voters, Countrymen: Jottings on the Stump
Edward Vaizey, Nicholas Bore and Michael Gove (eds.), A Blue Tomorrow: New Visions for Modern Conservatives
Victor Davis Hanson, Why the West Has Won: Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam
Michael Howard, The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order
Ulrich Beck, The Brave New World of Work
Ian Gough, Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies: Selected Essays 1994–99
Roland Axtmann (ed.), Balancing Democracy
Richard Vernon, Political Morality: A Theory of Liberal Democracy
Paul Ward, The Red Flag and the Union Jack: Englishness, Patriotism and the British Left, 1881–1924
Peter Hennessy, The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War
James Ellison, Threatening Europe: Britain and the Creation of the European Economic Community 1955–58
Murray Edelman, The Politics of Misinformation
Nicholas Jones, Campaign 2001
James Stanyer, The Creation of Political News: Television and British Party Political Conferences     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
John Agnew, Place and Politics: The Geographical Mediation of State and Society .
Don Foster with Dennis Davis and Diane Sandler, Detention and Torture in South Africa .
Kenneth W. Grundy, The Militarization of South African Politics .
Harold Wolpe, Race, Class and the Apartheid State .
Fred Halliday and Hamza Alavi (eds), State and Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan .
Joseph LaPalombara, Democracy Italian Style .
Howard Penniman (ed.), Italy at the Polls, 1983: A Study of the National Elections .
Harald Müller (ed.), A European Non-Proliferation Policy: Prospects and Problems .
Ronald E. Powaski, March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present .
John Simpson (ed.), Nuclear Non-Proliferation: An Agenda for the 1990s .
Patrick Seyd, The Rise and Fall of the Labour Left .
Hilary Wainwright, Labour—A Tale of Two Parties .     

God, Mammon and the Rise of Nationalism

Books reviewed in this article:
David A. Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
Liah Greenfeld, The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth
Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
Maurizio Ferrera and Martin Rhodes (eds.), Recasting European Welfare States
Evelyn Huber and John Stephens, Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets
Paul Pierson (ed.), The New Politics of the Welfare State
Duane Swank, Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States
John Ramsden (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics
Nicholas J. Wheeler, Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society
Giles Radice, Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey
Michael McManus, Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire     

Book Reviews

David J. Smith and Gerald Chambers, Inequality in Northern Ireland (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991)
Wolfgang Rüdig (ed.), Green Politics One: 1990 (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1990)
Edward M. Spiers, Chemical Weaponry: a Continuing Challenge (Basingstoke, Macmillan 1989)
Thomas Stock and Ronald Sutherland (eds), National Implementation of the Future Chemical Weapons Convention (Oxford, Oxford University Press/SIPRI, 1990)
Susan Wright (ed.), Preventing a Biological Arms Race (Cambridge, MA and London, The MIT Press, 1990)
Hubert M. Blalock, Jr, Power and Conflict: Toward a General Theory (London, Sage, 1989)
Kenneth E. Boulding, Three Faces of Power (London, Sage, 1989)
Agnes Heller and Ferenc Feher, The Postmodern Political Condition (Oxford, Polity Press, 1988)
Andrew Milner, Philip Thompson and Chris Worth (eds), Postmodern Conditions (New York, Oxford and Munich, Berg, 1990)
Jonathan Boston and Martin Holland (eds), The Fourth Labour Government: Radical Politics in New Zealand (Auckland, Oxford University Press, 1987)
Martin Myant, The Czechoslovak Economy 1948-1988: the Battle for Economic Reform (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989)
Ivan T. Berend, The Hungarian Economic Reforms 1953-1988 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990) x + 347 pp., |SL40.00 ISBN 0 521 38037 5.