BOOK REVIEWS

The Transfer of Power , 1942–47. Vol. VI: The post-war phase: new moves by the Labour Government, August 1, 1945-March 22, 1946. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh. Sartre and Marxism. By Pietro Chiodi. (Translated by Kate Soper .) Existential Marxism in Postwar France from Sartre to Althusser. By Mark Poster. Essays on John Maynard Keynes. Edited by Milo Keynes. The Power Game. By Jock Bruce -Gardyne and Nigel Lawson. Policy Making in British Government. By Brian Smith. Strikes and the Government 1893–1974. By Eric Wigham. Local Politics in Britain. By John Gyford. Why Marxism ? By Robert G. Wesson. Considerations on Western Marxism. By Perry Anderson.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Private Pay for Public Work: Performance-Related Pay for Public Sector Managers. By R obert W ood and M aria M aguire
Reforming the Public Service: Lessons from Recent Experiences. Edited by P atrick W eller , J ohn F orster and G lyn D avis
Program Evaluation and Performance Monitoring: An Australian Perspective. Edited by C iaron O'F aircheallaigh and B ill R yan
Beyond the Protective State: The Political Economy of Australia's Industry Policy. By A nn C apling and B rian G alligan
Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy. Edited by B rian G alligan , O wen H ughes and C liff W alsh
In Reserve: Central Banking in Australia, 1945-75. By B oris S chedvin
Comparative Political Studies: Australia and Canada. Edited by M alcolm A lexander and B rian G alligan
Public Administration in Small and Island States. Edited by R andall B aker
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives. By A lan B ullock
Natural Hazards and Reinsurance. Edited by J ohn O liver and N eil R. B ritton
Natural and Technological Hazards: Implications for the Insurance Industry. Edited by N eil R. B ritton and J ohn O liver
Catastrophe Insurance for Tomorrow: Planning for Future Adversities. Edited by N eil R. B ritton and J ohn O liver     

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

Book reviewed in this article: Nalgo Reconstruction Committee : Interim Report on the Reform of Local Government Structure. The Future of Local Government . The Government of Wales . By Alderman Edgar L. Chappell . The Spanish Labyrintyh . By Gerald Brenan . Education for a World Adrift . By Sir Richard Livingstone The New Bellef in the Common Man . By Carl J. Friedrich . The British Empire , Its Structure and Spirit . By Eric A. Walker . The Black Man's Burden . By John Burger . The Labour Party's Post -War Policy for the Areican and Pacific Colonies . Report on the Constitutinal Problem in Iinda . By R. Coupland . Labour on the Land . By W. H. Pedley . The Great Hatred . By Mcaurice Samuel .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Backbench Opinion in the House of Commons 1945–55. By Hugh Berrington . Britain and India : The Interaction of Two Peoples . By M. E. Chamberlain . Lord Esher , A Political Biography . By Peter Fraser . Modern Australia in Documents 1901–1970. Edited by F. K. Crowley . Georges Clemenceau —A Political Biography . By David Robin Watson . Italy —Republic without Government ? By P. A. Allum . Politics and Society in Post-war Naples . By P. A. Allum . Political Responsibility and Industry . By Edmund Dell . British Nationalisation , 1945–1973. By R. Kelf -Cohen . The Origins of Franco's Spain . The Right , The Republic and the Revolution , 1931–1936. By Richard A. H. Robinson . A Guerrilla Diary of the Spanish Civil War . By Francisco Pérez López . The Political Economy of Modern Spain . By Charles W. Anderson . De Gaulle : Vol . I, The Warrior ; Vol . II, The Statesman . By Brian Crozier .     

BOOK REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article:
M unicipal E ntertainment and the A rts in G reater L ondon . By S. K. R uck .
R uin and R esurgence 1939–1965. By R. C. M owat .
B ritish P olitics 1918–64. By L. J. M acfarlane .
S ince 1945: A spects of W orld H istory . Edited by J. L. H enderson .
P olitics in W est A frica . By W. A rthur L ewis .
H alifax : T he L ife of L ord H alifax . By T he E arl of B irkenhead .
T he B ritish C ommunist P arty . I ts O rigins and D evelopment U ntil 1929. By L. J. M acfarlane .
P ower and the S oviet é lite —"T he L etter of an O ld B olshevik " and other essays. By Boris Nicolaevsky. U npersoned : T he F all of N ikita S. K hrushchev . By Martin Page and David Burg.
M arxism in the M odern world . Edited by milorad M. drachovitch.
T he P olitics of B ureaucracy . By G ordon T ullock .
T hailand and the S truggle for S outheast A sia . By D onald E. N euchterlein .
S outh E ast A sia in T urmoil . By B rian C rozier .     

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 .     

Britain and the Korean war after 50 years: The slow emergence of an intelligence dimension

Anthony Farrar‐Hockley, The British Part in the Korean War. Volume I: A Distant Obligation (London: HMSO, 1990). Pp.xxii + 512, illus., bibliog., index. ISBN 0–11–630953–9.

Volume II: An Honourable Discharge (London: HMSO, 1995). Pp.xx + 534, illus., bibliog., index. £90. ISBN 0–11–630–958‐X.

Sergei N. Goncharov, John W. Lewis and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1993; distributed in UK by Cambridge University Press, 1995). Pp.xvi + 393. £15.95, bibliog., index. ISBN 0–8047–2521–7.

Peter Lowe, Containing the Cold War in Asia: British policies towards Japan, China and Korea, 1945–1953 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997). Pp.xii + 288, bibliog., index. £45. ISBN 0–7190–2508–7.

H. J. Yasamee and K. A. Hamilton (ed.), Documents on British Policy Overseas. Series II Volume IV: The Korean War, June 1950–June 1951 (London: HMSO, 1991). Pp.liv + 460, index. £47. ISBN 0–11–591695–4.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this article: Hugh Dalton . By Ben Pimloit The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton , 1940–45, and The Political Diary of Hugh Dalton , 1918–40, 1945–60. Edited By Ben Pimloit Prime Minister : The Conduct of Policy Under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan 1974–1979. By Bernard Donoughue . RAB: The Life of R. A. Butler . By Anthony Howard . Where There's A Will . By Michael Heseltine . Star Warriors . By William J. Broad . Weapons in Space . Edited By Franklin Long , Donald Hafner and Jeffrey Boutwell . The Strategic Defense Debate : Can “Star Wars ” Make Us Safe ? Edited By Craig Snyder . Space Weapons and International Security . Edited By Bhupendra Jasani . Star Wars in a Nuclear World . By Lord Zuckerman . World of Secrets : The Uses and Limits of Intelligence . BY Walter Laqueur . The Agency : The Rise and Decline of The CIA. By John Ranelagh . The Central Intelligence Agency : History and Documents . Edited By William M. Leary . The Ties That Bind : Intelligence Cooperation Between The UKUSA Countries The United Kingdom , The United States of America , Canada , Australia and New Zealand . By Jeffrey T. Richelson and Desmond Ball . Political Parties in The American Mold . By Leon Epstein . The Decline of Popular Politics . By Michael Mcgerr . The Breakdown of Democratic Party Organization , 1940–80. By Alan Ware . The Decline of American Political Parties , 1952–1984. By Martin P. Waitenburg . The Special Relationship : Anglo -American Relations Since 1945. Edited By Wm . Roger Louis and Hedley Bull . The Audit of War : The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation . By Corelli Barneit .     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
The New Gender Agenda , edited by Anna Coote
Money, Markets and the State: Social Democratic Policies since 1918 , by Ton Notermans
It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States , by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks
Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations , by John S. Dryzek
The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945 , by Peter Hennessy
Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh , by Toby Harnden
The IRA 1968–2000: Analysis of a Secret Army , by J. Bowyer Bell
In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethics and Politics , by Norberto Bobbio, translated by Teresa Chataway
Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach , by Martha C. Nussbaum
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering , by Norman G. Finkelstein
The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics , by John Dunn
Trouble-maker: The Life and History of A. J. P. Taylor , by Kathleen Burk     

Japan and its impact on South‐east Asia

J.E. Dreifort, Myopic Grandeur: The Ambivalence of French Foreign Policy in the Far East, 1919–45 (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1992). Pp.xiv + 334. £31.50. ISBN 0–87338–441–5.

R.J. Aldrich, The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand during the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929–42 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1993). Pp.xxiii + 416. £25.00. ISBN 0–19–588612–7.

A. Gilchrist, Malaya, 1941: The Fall of a Fighting Empire (London: Robert Hale, 1992). Pp.185. Price unstated. ISBN 0–7090–4684–7.

P. Elphick and M. Smith, Odd Man Out: The Story of the Singapore Traitor (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993). Pp.xv + 265. £17.99. ISBN 0–340–58762–8.

P. Bates, Japan and the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, 1946–52 (London: Brassey's, 1993). Pp.xviii + 270. £29.95. ISBN 1–85753–000–4.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bruce Mccallum , The Public Service Manager: An Introduction to Personnel Management in the Australian Public Service R. J. K. Chapman and Michael Wood , Australian Local Government Kosmas Tsokhas , A Class Apart? Businessmen and Australian Politics 1960–1980 Andrew Kakabadse and Suresh Mukhi (eds), The Future of Management Education Jonathan Boston , Incomes Policy in New Zealand: 1968–1984, Wellington, Victorian University Press for the Institute of Policy Studies David Dery , Problem Definition in Policy Analysis     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
T he Q uest for P eace . T he D ag H ammarskjöld M emorial L ectures . Edited by A ndrew W. C ordier and W ilder F oote .
S ocial P olicy . By T. H. M arshall .
B ritain L ooks to G ermany : A S tudy of B ritish O pinion and P olicy towards G ermany since 1945. By D. C. W att .
B efore T he S ocialists . By R oyden H arrison .
P ublic A dministration in F rance . By F. R idley and J. B londel .
T he R ise of the S oviet E mpire : A S tudy of S oviet F oreign P olicy . By J an L ibrach .
M andate M emories , 1918–1948. By N orman and H elen B entwich .
A C asebook of A dministrative L aw . By J. A. G. G riffith and H. S treet .
T he C ommons and T heir S peakers in E nglish P arliaments (1376-1523). By J. S. R oskell .     

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 REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article: English History : 1914–1945. By A. J. P. Taylor . The Liddell Hart Memoirs . The Clydesiders . A Left Wing Struggle for Parliamentary Power . By Robert Keith Middlemas . Government and the Railways in Nineteenth -Century Britain . By Henry Parris . The Railways and the Nation . By A. J. Pearson . Dark Ghetto : Dilemmas of Social Power . By Kenneth B. Clark How Colour Prejudiced is Britain? By Clifford S. Hill . Crisis in the West . By Drew Middleton . NATO in Transition . By Timothy W. Stanley . NATO in Quest of Cohesion . edited by K. H. Cerny and H. W. Briefs . Detente : Cold War Strategies in Transition . Edited by Eleanor Lansing Dulles and Robert Dickson Crane . de Gaulle . By Alexander Werth . John F. Kennedy . Portrait of a President . By Hugh Sidey . Three Faces of Fascism . By Ernst Nolte . Translated by L. Vennewitz . Politics in the Congo : Decolonization and Independence . By Crawford Young . Castroism : Theory and Practice . By Theodore Draper . Obstacles to Change in Latin America . Edited by Claudio Veliz . French Electoral Systems and Elections Since 1789. By Peter Campbell . Viscount Bolingbroke . By Jeffrey Hart . The Works of Joseph de Maistre . By Jack Lively . Writers and Politics . By Conor Cruise O'Brien .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: Engllishness : Politics and Culture , 1880–1920. Edited by Robert Colls and Philip Dodd . The Scottish Trades Union Congress . The First Eighty Years : 1897–1977. By Angela Tuckett . Scotland : The Case for Optimism . By Jim Sillars . Atrocity and Amnesia : The Political Novel Since 1945. By Robert Boyers . Thinkers of the New Left . By Roger Scruton . Bringing the State Back In . Edited by Peter Evans , Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol . The Nation -State and Violence . By Anthony Giddens . The Political Economy of Corporatism . Edited by Wyn Grant . A World in Crisis ? Geographical Perspectives . Edited by R. J. Johnston and P. J. Taylor . The Artful Albanian : The Memoirs of Enver Hoxha . Edited by Jon Halliday . Margaret Cole 1893–1980: A Political Biography . By Betty D. Vernon Duff Cooper : The Authorized Biography . By John Charmley .     

BOOK REVIEWS

O il , P ower AND P olitics . C onflict I n A rabia , T he R ed S ea A nd T he G ulf . By M ordechai A bir .
A rab S tates O f T he L ower G ulf . P eople , P olitics , P etroleum . By J ohn D uke A nthony .
T he N ew O il S takes . By J ean -M arie C hevalier .
O il A nd P olitics . By H enry M adelin . Translated from the French by M argaret T otman .
A P lain M an's G uide T o O i . By P hilip W indsor .
T he S even S isters . T he G reat O il C ompanies A nd T he W orld T hey M ade . By A nthony S ampson .
T he C ritical P hase I n T anzania 1945–1968. N yerere A nd T he H eagence O f A S ocialist S trategy . By C ranford P ratt .
I ndustrial R elations I n F leet S treet . By K eith S isson .
T he F oreign P olicy P rocess in B ritaik . By W illiam W allace .
L loyd G eorge . By P eter R owland .
T he P olitics of R eappraisal 1918–1939. Edited by G illian P eele and C hris C ook .
B ritish G overnment 1966–1975: Y ears of R eform . By F raxk S tacey .
L essons of U lster . By T. E. U tley .
T he O rigim of U lster U nionism . By P eter G ibbon .
T he E dwardiass : T he R emakixg OF B ritish S ociety . By P agl T hompson .
N onconformity in M odern B ritish P olitics . By S tephen K oss .
B ritish P ublic O pinion and the A byssinian W ar 1935–36. By D aniel W aley .
P ower A nd P arty B ureaucracy in B ritain . By D avid J. W ilsox .
T he C ommonwealth . By P eter B. H arris .
T he O ffice of P rime M inister . By R obert B lake .
T he T iger : T he L ife of G eorces C leyenceau 1841–1929. By E dgar H olt .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article Political Communications : The General Election Campaign of 1983. Ed. by Ivor Crewe and Martin Harrop . Money and Votes : Constituency Campaign Spending and Election Results . By R. J . Johnson The Funding of Political Parties in Britain . By Keith Ewing Teledemocracy . By F. Christopher Arterton . Thatcherism at Work . By John Mac Innes . Thatcherism and British Politics , The End of Consensus ? By Dennis Kavanagh . Reshaping Local Government . Ed. by Michael Parkinson . Reshaping Central Government . Ed. by Anthony Harrison and John Gretton Mrs Thatcher's Case-book . By Terry Garrison . The Business of Medicine : Private Health Care in Britain . By Joan Higgins . Making Trouble : Autobiographical Explorations and Socialism .BY James D. Young . Revolutionary Rehearsals . Ed. by Colin Barker . The Fire Last Time : 1968 and After . By Chris Harman .     

BOOKS TO BE REVIEWED

Book reviewed in this article: ANDERSON et al. Issues of Political Development BROGDEN. Australia's Two-Airline Policy BURROUGHS. Britain and Australia 1831–1855 BURTON. International Relations CHAMBERLAIN. Loyalty and Legislative Action CORDEN. Australian Economic Policy Discussion: A Survey COUNTRYMAN. Un-American Activity in the State of Washington (Ed.) CRICK. Essays on Reform, 1967 DULY. British Land Policy at the Cape, 1795–1844 FOUGERE. Civil Service Systems. International Institute of Administrative Sciences, 1967 HAIG and MCBURNEY. The Interpretation of National Income Estimates HUGHES. Political Stability and Political Behaviour (Ed.) HUGHES. Readings in Australian Government JORDAN. The Nato lnternational Staff Secretariat 1952–1957 (Ed.) LA NAUZE. Federated Australia LASKI. A Grammar of Politics (Ed.) LEACH. Contemporary Canada MEO. Japan's Radio War on Australia 1941–1945 N.S.W. Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Rating, Valuation and Local Government Finance PYE. Southeast Asia's Political Systems R.I.P.A. Management of Local Government, 1968 SAWER. Australian Federalism in the Courts SAWER. Ombudsmen (Ed.) SELLECK. Melbourne Studies in Education, 1967 The Indian Journal of Public Administration, “Administration of Food Production”, Special Issue, vol. XIII, No. 3, July–September. 1967 WILLIAMS. The French Parliament