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Book reviewed in this article: The Rise and Fall of Communism . By Richard H. Hudelson . The End of the Communist Power Monopoly . By Michael Waller . The Politics of Transition . By Stephen White , Graeme Gill and Darrell Slider . The Sovietransition : From Gorbachev to Yeltsin . Edited by Stephen White , Rita Di Leo and Ottorino Cappelli . Politics in Eastern Europe . By George Schopflin . Eastern Europe in the Postwar World . By Thomas W. Simons , JR. 2nd. Ed. Developments in East European Politics . Edited by Stephen White , Judy Batt and Paul G. Lewis . Transition to Democracy in Poland . Edited by Richard F. Starr . Leo Walesa Democrat or Dictator ? By Jaroslaw Kurski . Translated by Peter Obst . Broken Bonds . The Disintegration of Yugoslavia . By Lenard J. Cohen . Contrasting us and German Attitudes to Soviet Trade , 1917–91: Politics by Economic Means . By Hilbne Seppain . Erconciling the Solitudes : Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism . By Charles Taylor . The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation : Case Studies of Protracted Ethnic Conflicts . Edited by John Mcgarry and Brendan O'Leary . Ethnic Conflict and International Security . Edited by Michael E. Brown. The Scar of Race . By Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza . Race , Riots and Policing : Lore and Disorder in a Multi -Racist Society . By Michael Keith . Race and Racism in Britain . 2nd ed. By John Solomos . Not Easy Being British : Colour , Culture and Citizenship . By Tariq Modood . Paying the Piper : Culture , Music and Money . By Alan Peacock . Wilson . By Philip Ziegler . Markets and Democracy ; Participation , Accountability and Feficiency . Edited by Samuel Bowles , Herbert Gintis and Bo Gustafs -Son Beyond Unemployment . By Robery Skidelsky and Liam Halligan . Trends in British Public Policy : Do Governments Make Any Difference ? By Brian W. Ohgwood .     

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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 .     

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Pressure Power and Policy: State Autonomy and Policy Networks in Britain and the United States . By Martin J. Smith.
Bureaucracy in Crisis: Three Mile Island, the Shuttle Challenger, and Risk Assessment . By Maureen Hogan Casamayou.
Ethics in Public Service . Edited by Richard A. Chapman.
Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability . By Paul C.
Media Polls in American Politics . Edited by Thomas E. Mann and Gary R. Orren.
Politics and Policy Implementation: Project Renewal in Israel . By Frederick A. Lazin.
Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation . By Stephen Breyer.
The Moral Dimensions of Public Policy Choice: Beyond the Market Paradigm . Edited by John Martin Gillroy and Maurice Wade.     

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Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma . By Mary R. English.
Making War: The 200-Year-Old Battle Between the President and Conwess Over How Ameriia Goes to War . By John Lehman.
The Muses, The Masses and the Massey Commission . By Paul Litt.
Toxic Politics, Responding to Chemical Disasters . By Michael R. Reich.
The Speaker and the Budget, Leadership in the Post-Reform House of Representatives . By Daniel J. Palazzolo.
Health Insurance and Public Policy: Risk, Allocation, and Equity . Edited by Miriam K. Mills and Robert H. Blank.
Regulating Privacy Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States . By Colin J. Bennett.     

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A Future For All . By Malcolm Wicks . In Defence of the Welfare State . Edited by Paul Wilding . Nationalizing Social Security in Europe and America . Edited by Douglas E. Ashford and E. W. Kelley . The Welfare State East and West . Edited by Richard Rose and Rei Shiratori . Income Packaging in the Welfare State . By Lee Rainwater , Martin Rein and Joseph Schwartz . Welfare in Transition . Edited by Robert Erikson and Rune Aberg . The Possibility of Politics . By Stein Ringen . Freedom , Equality and the Market . By Barry Hindess . Protecting the Vulnerable . By Robert E. Goodin . Does Aid Work ? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force . By Robert Cassen and Associates . Foreign Aid Reconsidered . By Roger C. Riddell . State , Finance and Industry . By A. Cox . Governing the Economy . By Peter A. Hall . The State and the Market Economy . By J. E. S. Hayward . Political Control of the Macro Economy . By Paul Whiteley . Political Theories of Modern Government . By Peter Self . A Lament for the Law Commission . By R. T. Oerton . Corporatism and Political Theory . By Alan Cawson . Varieties of Corporatism : Theory and Practice . By Peter J. Williamson . The White House and Capital Hill : The Politics of Presidential Persuasion . By Nigel Bowles . Karl Kautsky . By Dick Geary . J. Ramsay Mac Donald . By Austen Morgan . James Maxton . By William Knox . Labour People : Leaders and Lieutenants , Hardie to Kinnock . By Kenneth 0.Morgan . The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism . By Colin Campbell . The Politics of the Police . By Robert Reiner . What is to be done about Law and Order ? By John Lea and Jock Young . The governance of the Police . By Laurence Lustgarten . The Policing of Industrial Disputes 1893–1984. By Roger Geary .     

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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 .     

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European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment, by Guiliano Bonoli, Vic George and Peter Taylor‐Gooby The New Politics of the Welfare State, edited by Paul Pierson The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, by Jacob S. Hacker The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model, by Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen Market‐Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest, by Colin Leys The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty‐First Century, by Robert Cooper Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters or Technicians? By Tevi Troy Nehru: A Political Life, by Judith M. Brown The Labour Market under New Labour: The State of Working Britain 2003, edited by Richard Dickens, Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth European Integration, 1950–2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? by John Gillingham Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore     

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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 .     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Administrative Vocation. By RS Parker State, Economy and Public Policy in Australia. Edited by Stephen Bell and Brian Head Work for All: Full Employment in the Nineties. By John Langmore and John Quiggin Australian Mandarins: Perceptions of the Role of Departmental Secretaries. By Robert Hyslop Westminster Inc.: A Survey of Three States in the 1980s. Edited by Allan Peachment Environmental Impact Assessment: Cutting Edge for the 21st Century. By Alan Gilpin Inside Bureaucratic Power: The Wilenski Review of NSW Government. By Richard Alaba Australian Political Ideas. Edited by Geoff Stokes Chasing the Future: Recession, Recovery and The New Politics in Australia. By Laura Tingle Justice and Identity: Antipodean Practices. Edited by Margaret Wilson and Anna Yeatman Parties and Federalism in Australia and Canada. Edited by Campbell Sharman Welfare and Inequality: National and International Perspectives on the Australian Welfare State. By Peter Saunders Social Security in Australia. By Terry Carney and Peter Hanks Research in Public Administration, Vol. 1 (1991) and Vol. 2 (1993). Edited by James L Perry New Agendas in the Study of the Policy Process. Edited by Michael Hill The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning. Edited by Frank Fischer and John Forester Drought, Policy and Politics in India: The Need for a Long-term Perspective. By Kuldeep Mathur and Niraja G Jayal     

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Who Should Know What ? By J. A. Barnes . State and Economy in International Capitalism . Edited by Colin Crouch . Urban Policy and Politics in a Bureaucratic Age . By Clarence Stone , Robert Whelan and William Murin . Respectable Rebels . Middle Class Campaigns in Britain in The 1970S. Edited by Roger King and Neill Nugent .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Ethical Standards and Values in the Australian Public Service A JOINT PUBLICATION OF THE MANAGEMENT ADVISORY BOARD AND ITS MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE Whose Utility? The Social Impact of Public Utility Privatisation and Regulation in Britain JOHN ERNST Public Management: The New Zealand Model JONATHAN BOSTON, JOHN MARTIN, JUNE PALLOT and PAT WALSH People, Places and Policies: Aspects of Queensland Government 1859–1920 KAY COHEN and KENNETH WILTSHIRE Environmental Politics and Policy Making in Australia TIMOTHY DOYLE and AYNSLEY KELLOW Police Leadership in Australasia BARBARA ETTER and MICK PALMER Transforming Power: The Politics of Electricity Planning AYNSLEY KELLOW     

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The President as World Leader. By BARBARA KELLERMAN and RYAN J. BARILLEAUX.
Keeping a Watchful Eye. By JOEL D. ABERBACH.
Economic Decline and Political Change: Canada, Great Britain, the United States. Edited by HAROLD D. CLARKE, MARIANNE C. STEWART, and GARY ZUK.
Business, Ethics, and the Environment: The Public Policy Debate. Edited by W. MICHAEL HOFFMAN, ROBERT FREDERICK, and EDWARD S. PETRY.
Europe 1992: An American Perspective. Edited by GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER.
The Nixon Presidency: Power and Politics in Turbulent Times. By MICHAEL A. GENOVESE.
Criticism and Public Rationality: Professional Rigidity and the Search for Caring Government. By HARRY SMART.
Wisdom: Its Nature, Origins, and Development. Edited by ROBERT J. STERNBERG.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Public Administration and Sustainable Development. Edited by Mohammad Ja 'Far Ekram Ja 'Fari , Raul P De Guzman and Mila A Reforma Political Leadership in an Age of Constraint: Bureaucratic Politics Under Hawke and Keating. By Colin Campbell SJ and John Halligan Transforming Australian Local Government. By Michael Jones Public Sector Reform Under the First Goss Government: A Documentary Sourcebook. Edited by Glyn Davis Towards National Administration: Studies in Australian Administrative History. Edited by JJ Eddy and JR Nethercote Documenting a Nation: Australian Archives—The First Fifty Years. By Hilary Golder Ethics for the Public Sector: Education & Training. Edited by Noel Preston Corruption Character & Conduct: Essays on Canadian Government Ethics. Edited by John W Langford and Allan Tupper The Politics of Australia. By Dean Jaensch The Australian Form of Government: Models in Dispute. By Richard Lucy A National Survey of Indigenous Australians: Options and Implications. Edited by J.C. Altman Regional Change in the Economic Status of Indigenous Australians, 1986–1991. By J. Taylor     

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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 .     

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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 .     

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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 .     

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The State, Business, and Industrial Change in Canada. By MICHAEL ATKINSON and WILLIAM D. COLEMAN.
Ethics in the British Civil Service. By RICHARD A. CHAPMAN.
Head of the Civil Service: A Study of Sir Warren Fisher. By EUNAN O'HALPIN.
The Ethics of Public Service: Resolving Moral Dilemmas in Public Organizations. By KATHRYN G. DENHARDT.
White House Ethics: The History of the Politics of Conflict of Interest Regulation. By ROBERT N. ROBERTS.
Maori, Pakeha and Democracy. By RICHARD MULGAN.
The Gatekeepers: Comparative Immigration Policy. Edited by MICHAEL C. LEMAY.
Perestroika Annual: Volume 2. Edited by ABEL G. AGANBEGYAN.     

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Book reviewed in this article: International . Disputes : The Political Aspects . By Professor F. S. Northedge and M. D. Donelan . The Evolving United Nations : A Prospect for Peace ? Edited by K. J. Twitciiett . Foreword by Lord Garadon . The Intellectual Origins of the Prague Spring . By Vladimir V. Kusin . The Secret Vyso?y Congress . Edited and with an introduction by Ji?ia Pelikán . Geneva 1954: The Settlement of the Indo -Chinfse War . By Robert P. Randle . Britain and West Germany : Changing Societies and the Future of Foreign Policy . Edited by Karl Kaiser and Roger Morgan . Economic Analysis and Public Enterprises . By Ralph Turvey . The Price of Amenity : Five Studies in Conservation and Government . By Roy Gregory . Memoirs of Hope : Renewal 1958–1962. Endeavour 1962. By Charles de Gaulle . Translated by Terence Kilmartin . Kencontres Avec …de Gaulle . By Jules Mocii .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Gramsci . By James Joll . “Eurocommunism ” AND THE State . By Santiago Carrillo . The Italian Road TO Socialism . An interview by Eric Hhobsbawm with Giorgio Napolitano . Red Bologna . By Max Jéuggi , Roger Müller and Sil Schmid . Gollancz : The Story OF A Publishing House , 1928–1978. By Sheila Hodges . Politics AND Markets . The World's Political -Economic Systems . By Charles E. Lindblom . Conflict OR CO-Operation ?THE Growth OF Industrial Democracy . By John Elliott . With a preface by Lord Bullock . THE Great Rights OF Mankind . By Bernard Schwartz . Freedom AND THE Court . By Henry J. Abraham . A Prime Minister ON Prime Ministers . By Harold Wilson . Joseph Chamberlain . By Enoch Powell . People AND Parliament . Edited by John P. Mackintosh , M.P. Your Disobedient Servant . By Leslie Chapman . British Rearmament IN THE Thirties . By Robert Paul Shay , JR. Brazil : A Political Analysis . By Peter Flynn . THE Brazilian Corporative State AND Working Class Politics . BY (plus Bibliog. and Index)     

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Localism and Centralism in Europe: The Political and Legal Bases of Local Self-Government . By Edward C. Page.
Liberty and Community: Canadian Federalism and the Failure of the Constitution . By Robert C. Vipond.
Reluctant Partners: Implementing Federal Policy . By Robert P. Stoker.
Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics . By Bron Raymond Taylor.
Repealing the War Powers Resolution: Restoring the Rule of Law in US Foreign Policy . By Robert F. Turner.
Agenda For Excellence: Public Service in America . By Patricia W. Ingraham and Donald F. Kettl, eds.
The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat: Appraisals and Evidence . By Andre Blais and Stephane Dion, eds.
Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking and Investigations, 1946–1990 . By David R. Mayhew.