Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Richard Goode, Government Finance in Developing Countries
A. Premchand, Government Budgeting and Expenditure Tools
A. Premchand and Jesse Burkhead, (eds.) Comparative International Budgeting and Finance
Robert W. Burchell, James H. Carr, Richard L. Florida, James Nemeth with Michael Pawlick and Felix R. Barreto, The New Reality of Municipal Finance
James Chan, (ed.) Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, Volume 1     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed in this article:
James Chan, Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
George W. Downs and Patrick D. Larkey, The Search for Government Efficiency, From Hubris to Helplessness
Carolyn Webber and Aaron Wildavsky, A History of Taxation and Expenditure in the Western World     

Challenges and Opportunities Facing Nonprofit Organizations

Books reviewed in this article:
Lester M. Salamon (ed.), The State of Nonprofit America
Peter Frumkin, On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer
Paul C. Light, Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
Carson, Claybourne and Halloran, Peter (eds). A Knock at Midnight: The Great Sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posner, Gerald (edited by Claybourne Carson). Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Carson, Claybourne (ed.) The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lebovics, Herman. Mona Lisa's Escort: Andre´ Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture
Berliner, Joseph. The Economics of the Good Society
Edwards, Ruth Dudley. The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions
Hood, Christopher; Scott, Colin; James, Oliver; Jones, George and Travers, Tony. Regulation Inside Government: Waste-Watchers, Quality Police and Sleaze-Busters
Jarvie, Ian and Pralong, Sandra (eds) Popper's Open Society after Fifty Years: The Continuing Relevance of Karl Popper
Amsterdamski, Stefan (ed.) The Significance of Popper's Thought
Fulbrook, Mary. German National Identity after the Holocaust
Dorey, Peter (ed.) The Major Premiership: Politics and Policies under John Major
Longworth, Norman. Making Lifelong Learning Work: Learning Cities for a Learning Century
Williamson, Bill. Lifeworlds and Learning: Essays in the Theory, Philosophy and Practice of Lifelong Learning     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: The Ethical Organisation: Ethical Theory and Corporate Behaviour ALAN KITSON and ROBERT CAMPBELL Management Ethics: Theory, Cases and Practice GORDON L CLARK and ELIZABETH PRIOR JONSON (eds) Making Groups Work: Rethinking Practice J FENJAMIN, J BESSANT and R WATTS The Capable Executive PAUL H DAINTY and MOREEN ANDERSON Managing Performance and Goal Achievement IAN LEES Productive Diversity: A New Australian Model for Work and Management BILL COPE and MARY KALANTZIS Markets, the State and the Environment: Towards Integration ROBYN ECKERSLEY (ed.) Commercial Implications of Native Title BRYAN HORRIGAN and SIMON YOUNG (eds) Shooting the Banker: Essays on ATSIC and Self-Determination. PATRICK SULLIVAN (Ed.) The End of Politics? Explorations into Modern Antipolitics ANDREAS SCHEDLER (ed.) Socialism in Contemporary Australia TIM BATTIN and GRAHAM MADDOX (eds) Labor Essays 1997: Renewing and Revitalising Labor GARY JUNGWIRTH (ed.) The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia Since 1945 BARBARA SULLIVAN South Australia, Federalism and Public Policy ANDREW PARKIN (ed.) Korean Public Administration: Managing the Uneven Development BUN WOONG KIM and PAN SUK KIM State-Owned Enterprise Reform in Vietnam: Lessons from Asia NG CHEE YUEN, NICK FREEMAN and FRANK H HUYNH (eds)     

Book note

James William Morley (ed.) The Final Confrontation: Japan's Negotiations with the United States, 1941 New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. 437 pp. ISBN 0–231–08024–7.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Richard P. Nathan, Fred C. Doolittle and Associates, Reagan and the States Volume III, John M. Quigley, (ed.) Perspectives on Local Public Finance and Public Policy: A Research Annual George E. Peterson, Randall R. Bovbjerg, Barbara A. Davis, Walter G. Davis, Eugene C. Durman, Theresa A. Gullo, The Changing Domestic Priorities Series, John L. Palmer and Isabel V. Sawhill, (ed.) The Reagan Block Grants: What Have We Learned?     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Fragile Bastion: Judicial Independence in the Nineties and Beyond H CUNNINGHAM (ed.)
Policy and Change: The Howard Mandate SCOTT PRASSER and GRAEME STARR (eds)
Genesis, Termination and Succession in the Life Cycle of Organizations: The Case of the Maritime Resource Management Service M PAUL BROWN (Monographs on Canadian Public Administration — No. 19)
Managerialism: The Great Debate M CONSIDINE and M PAINTER (eds)
The Chance of Politics PAUL HASLUCK (ed.)
Health Policy in Australia H. GARDNER (ed.)     

Book Reviews

Book Review in this Article
Arthur S. Link (ed.), The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volumes
Jonathan Osmond, German Reunification: a Reference Guide and Commentary
K. B. Lall, H. S. Chopra and Thomas Meyer, EC92, United Germany, and the Changing World Order
Heinz D. Kurz (ed.), United Germany and the New Europe
A. James McAdams, Germany Divided: from Wall to Reunification
Kosaku Yoshino, Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
Stephen S. Large, Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: a Political Biography
Nazli Choucri, Robert C. North and Susumu Yamakage, The Challenge of Japan before World War II and After: a Study of National Growth and Expansion
Herbert Hill and James E. Jones Jr (eds), Race in America: the Struggle for Equality
Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, Chain Reaction: the Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
Philip Norton, Does Parliament Matter?     

Exposure Draft, February 1981

Editor's Note: In February 1981 the Governmental Accounting Standards Board Organization Committee (GASBOC) recommended the establishment of a governmental accounting standards board. Its exposure draft will be the subject of intense examination in the coming months. Shortly after the draft was issued, the Financial Accounting Foundation, which is involved in accounting standards for private organizations, called for a single group to set standards for both public and private entities. Much more is involved than the jurisdictional issue of whether a single or a dual structure should be established for accounting standards. Once in operation, these standards will shape governmental accounting and reporting practices, much in the way that standards now dictate the accounting procedures of private firms. Many state and local governments will have to revamp their accounting structures in order to satisfy the new standards. At issue also is the question of whether standards should primarily satisfy the needs and interests of external users or those of the governmental unit. Should governments be accountable principally through the political process or through externally enforced rules? This question goes to the heart of American democracy. The way it is answered will not only influence financial management, but also the conduct and quality of government. In order to encourage informed debate, excerpts from berth the GASBOC exposure draft and the FAF statement are published here. In addition, a selected bibliography by James Chan should help readers work their way through the maze of accounting standards.     

Managing in the Nonprofit Sector

Books reviewed in this article:
Paul C. Light, Making Nonprofits Work
Steven J. Ott (ed.), Understanding Nonprofit Organizations
William B. Werther, Jr. and Evan M. Berman, Third Sector Management     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: A National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report, Harvey S. Rosen, (ed.) Studies in State and Local Public Finance Steven D. Gold, (ed.) Reforming State Tax Systems Daniel Bell and Lester Thurow, The Deficits: How Big? How Long? How Dangerous?     

Terrorism

Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne, War Without End: The Terrorists ‐ an Intelligence Dossier (London: Harrap, 1986). Pp.279. £9.95.

James Adams, The Financing of Terror (London: New English Library, 1986). Pp.293. £12.95.

Benjamin Netanyahu (ed.) Terrorism: How the West Can Win (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986). Pp.254. $18.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
P articipation and D emocratic T heory . By C arole P ateman .
T he D emocratic C itizen : S ocial S cience and D emocratic T heory in the T wentieth C entury . By D ennis F. T hompson .
T he L eft B ook C lub : A n H istorical R ecord . By J ohn L ewis .
T he M anaged E conomy . (Essays.) Edited by S ir A lec C airncross .
P lanning and E conomic M anagement . (Papers.) By E ly D evons .
G overnment E nterprise : A C omparative S tudy . Edited by W. F ried-mann and J. F. G arner . British Institute Studies in International and Comparative Law No. 5.
T he G overnment and P olitics of B ritain . By J ohn P. M ackintosh .
O n V iolence . By H annah A rendt .
V iolence . By J acques E llul .
W hy M en R ebel . By T ed R obert G urr .     

Book notes

Susan Bambrick (ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 384pp. £40. ISBN 0–521–365112.

Paul M. Evans (ed.) Studying Asia Pacific Security: The Future of Research, Training and Dialogue Activities Ontario: University of Toronto‐York University Joint Centre for Asia‐Pacific Studies/Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia, 1994. 388pp. ISBN 1–895296–15–3.     

BOOK NOTES

An Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis. An Introduction to Program Budgeting. F. J. Burrows . Minimum Development Rating. Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances in Australia. Industrialization and the Individual. James Jupp , Australian Party Politics, 2nd ed. J. T. Sutcliffe , A History of Trade Unionism in Australia. S. H. H. Hildersley and Raymond Nottage , Sources of Local Revenue. Management of Local Government. The Maud Committee Report. R. M. and C. H. Berndt . The First Australians. Peter France . The Charter of the Land. Allan Flanders . Trade Unions. John Hirst . A Proposal for an Integrated School Library System for the Public Schools of New South Wales. R. Preston (ed.). Contemporary Australia: Studies in History, Politics, and Economics.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: John D. Montgomery , and William J. Sippin (eds.). Approaches to Development: Politics, Administration and Change. Sanford A. Lakoff (ed.). Knowledge and Power: Essays on Science and Government. James Jupp . Arrivals and Departures. J. E. Isaac arid G. W. Ford (eds.). Australian Labour Relations: Readings and Australian Labour Economics: Readings. E. L. French (ed.). Melbourne Studies in Education, 1965. N.S.W. Parliamentary Library. Payment of Members in New South Wales, Pros and Cons from 1912.     

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     

Reviews and notes

Visions of Emancipation: The Italian Workers’ Movement since 1945, by Joanne Barkan. New York: Praeger, 1984.

Socialism in History: Political Essays of Henry Pachter, edited by Stephen Eric Bronner (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984).

The Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline. Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan. (N.Y.: Methuen, 1982. Pp. viii + 258.)

Shutdown at Youngstown: Public Policy for Mass Unemployment. Terry F. Buss and F. Stevens Redburn. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. Pp. xv + 219.)

The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill Closing. Staughton Lynd. (San Pedro: Singlejack Books, 1982. Pp. xx + 244.)

Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy. Frank Fischer and Carmen Sirianni, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.

The Politics of Terrorism. Michael Stohl, ed. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. New York and Basel: Marcel Dekker, 1983. 473 pp.

The State as Terrorist: The Dynamics of Governmental Violence and Repression. Michael Stohl and George Lopez, eds. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984. 202 pp.     

The politics of minority statistics

Harold Orlans, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, was formerly on the staff of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. His books include The Nonprofit Research Institute, Contracting for Knowledge, Private Accreditation and Public Eligibility,and Nonprofit Organizations.Philip Lyons helped to gather the information in this article.