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OPEN GOVERNMENT: A STUDY OF THE PROSPECTS OF OPEN GOVERNMENT WITHIN THE LIMITATIONS OF THE BRITISH POLITICAL SYSTEM Richard A. Chapman and Michael Hunt (eds.)
RE-THINKING POLICY PLANNING Robin Hambleton School for Advanced Urban Studies
NEW PRIORITIES IN PUBLIC SPENDING M. S. Levitt (ed.) Gower, 1987. Joint Studies in Public Policy 13. 129pp. £17.50.
RE-MAKING URBAN SCOTLAND: STRATEGIES FOR LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Michael Keating and Robin Boyle
A THEORY OF PLANNING John Since
LOCAL PLANNING IN PRACTICE Michael Bruton and David Nicholson
DEREGULATING TELECOMS: COMPETITION AND CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES. JAPAN AND BRITAIN Jill Hills Frances Pinter
THE ECONOMIC APPROACH TO SOCIAL POLICY S. T. Charles and A. L. Webb Wheatsheaf Books
PARLIAMENT – AND TERRITORIALITY J. Barry Jones and R. A. Wilford
PATTERNS OF PARLIAMENTARY LEGISLATION Denis van Mechelen and Richard Rose Gower     

New jobs in urban areas—an evaluation of advance factory building

TEACHING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Richard A. Chapman, Joint University Council for Social and Public Administration: RIPA, 1973, pp. 95, £1.00.

THE EVOLUTION OF BRITISH TOWN PLANNING, Gordon G. Cherry, Leonard Hill, 1974, pp. 275, £6.00.

CITY POLITICS AND THE PRESS—JOURNALISTS AND THE GOVERNING OF MERSEYSIDE, Harvey Cox and David Morgan, Combridge University Press, 1973. (reprinted with corrections 1974), pp. 159, £2.80.

DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, Dilys M. Hill, Allen &; Unwin, 1974, pp. 243, £5.00 (£2.75 paperback).

GUERRILLAS IN THE BUREAUCRACY: THE COMMUNITY PLANNING EXPERIMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, Martin L. Needleman and Carolyn Emerson Needleman, John Wiley, 1974, pp. 386, £6.90.

THE MANAGEMENT OF URBAN CHANGE IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY, Richard Rose (ed.), Sage Publications, 1974, pp. 267, £5.00.

BIRMINGHAM 1939–1970, Anthony Sutcliffe and Roger Smith, Oxford University Press, 1974, pp. 514, £12.00.

MAKING INSTITUTIONS WORK, Geoffrey Vickers, Associated Business Programmes, 1973, pp. 187, £4.00.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT TRENDS 1973, CIPFA, 1974, pp. 301, £2.50.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
GETTING AND SPENDING: PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, EMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION Leo Pliatzky
THE ENGLISH ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM 1780–1870 Sir Norman Chester
POLICY AND ACTION: ESSAYS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC POLICY S. Barrett and C. Fudge (eds.)
THE POLITICS OF MASS HOUSING IN BRITAIN 1945–1975: A STUDY OF CORPORATE POWER AND PROFESSIONAL INFLUENCE IN THE WELFARE STATE Patrick Dunleavy
POLICY AND PRACTICE IN THE MULTI-RACIAL CITY Ken Young and Naomi Connelly
THE POLITICS OF POVERTY David Donnison
POVERTY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-POVERTY POLICY IN THE UK Richard Berthoud, Joan C. Brown and Steven Cooper
THE POLITICS OF POVERTY Susanne MacGregor
THE ROLE OF THE LEGISLATURE IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES Norman J. Ornstein (ed.)
OMBUDSMAN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY P. Cook
THE FUTURE OF COUNCIL HOUSING John English (ed.)
THE WASHINGTON REPORTERS Stephen Hess
NUCLEAR POWER HAZARD CONTROL POLICY John C. Chicken     

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Book reviewed in this article: REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND Brian W. Hogwood and Michael Keating (eds.) LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN SINCE REORGANISATION Alan Alexander LOCAL GOVERNMENT: POLITICIANS, PROFESSIONALS AND THE PUBLIC IN LOCAL AUTHORITIES Howard Elcock (with a chapter by Michael Wheaton) THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY Wyn Grant ACCOUNTING FOR BRITISH STEEL: A FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF THE FAILURE OF THE BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION 1967–80, AND WHO WAS TO BLAME R.A. Bryer, T.J. Brignall and A.R. Maunders NATIONAL OIL COMPANIES L. E. Grayson THE OTHER PRICE OF BRITAIN'S OIL: SAFETY AND CONTROL IN THE NORTH SEA W. G. Carson METROPOLITAN LONDON: POLITICS AND URBAN CHANGE 1837–1981 Ken Young and Patricia L. Garside PUBLIC SECRETS: A STUDY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT SECRECY K. C. Robertson QUANGOS IN BRITAIN: GOVERNMENT AND THE NETWORKS OF PUBLIC POLICY-MAKING Anthony Barker (ed.) RUNNING IN THE RED: THE POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF URBAN FISCAL STRESS Irene S. Rubin WHO'S MASTER, WHO'S SERVANT?: REFORMING BUREAUCRACY Geoffrey Hawker THE USES OF SOCIAL RESEARCH: SOCIAL INVESTIGATION IN PUBLIC POLICY-MAKING Martin Bulmer     

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THE TOOLS OF GOVERNMENT Christopher C. Hood
GOVERNMENTS UNDER STRESS: POLITICAL EXECUTIVES AND KEY BUREAUCRATS IN WASHINGTON, LONDON AND OTTAWA Colin Campbell.
NATIONAL PARTIES AND LOCAL POLITICS John Gyford and Mari James.
NATIONAL INTERESTS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Ken Young (ed.)
PARLIAMENT AND THE EXECUTIVE Royal Institute of Public Administration.
PARLIAMENT AND BUREAUCRACY. PARLIAMENTARY SCRUTINY OF ADMINISTRATION PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS IN THE 1980s. J. R. Nethercote (ed.).
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS IN POLITICS Philip Lowe and Jane Goyder.
THE NATION'S OIL: A STORY OF CONTROL Gerry Corti and Frank Frazer.
PARTICIPATION Anne Richardson.
INDUSTRIAL CRISIS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE STATE AND INDUSTRY Kenneth Dyson and Stephen Wilks (eds.).
STATE AND GOVERNMENT IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY: THE EXECUTIVE AT WORK Ned Johnson.
BOTH ENDS OF THE AVENUE: THE PRESIDENCY, THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND CONGRESS IN THE 1980s Anthony King (ed.).
LE NOUVEL ORDRE ÉCONOMIQUE INTERNATIONAL ET L'ADMIMSTRATION PUBLIQUE Gérard Timsit (ed.).
COMMUNITY AGAINST GOVERNMENT: THE BRITISH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 1968–78 Martin Loney.
THE CASE FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT G. Jones and J. Stewart.     

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Book reviews in this article: THE POLICY PROCESS IN THE MODERN CAPITALIST STATE Christopher Ham and Michael Hill. LAW AND ADMINISTRATION Carol Harlow and Richard Rawlings. DOES POLITICS MATTER? THE DETERMINANTS OF PUBLIC POLICY L. J. Sharpe K. Newton. GOING FOR BROKE GAMBLING WITH TAXPAYERS MONEY John Redwood. ENVIRONMENT AND ENFORCEMENT: REGULATION AND THE SOCIAL DEFINITION OF POLLUTION Keith Hawkins. EEC ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND BRITAIN: AN ESSAY AND A HANDBOOK Nigel Haigh. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN BRITAIN John Greenwood and David Wilson. PUBLIC SERVICE PROVISION AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Andrew Kirby, Paul Know Steven Pinch (eds.). INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY Jill Hills. POLITICAL INNOVATION IN AMERICA: THE POLITICS OF POLICY INITIATION Nelson W. Polsby. ETHNIC PLURALISM AND PUBLIC POLICY Nathan Glazer Ken Young (eds.). THE CRISIS OF THE UNIVERSITY Peter Scott. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON RELATIONS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1960–82 Stephen Young     

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Book reviews in this article: POLICY STYLES IN WESTERN EUROPE Jeremy Richardson (ed.). POLITICS, POLICY AND THE EUROPEAN RECESSION Andrew Cox (ed.). BRITISH DOGMATISM AND FRENCH PRAGMATISM: CENTRAL-LOCAL POLICYMAKING IN THE WELFARE STATE Douglas E. Ashford. CENTRAL GRANTS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT R. J. Bennett. HOW MUCH ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS WORTH? John Gretton and Anthony Harrison (eds.) EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF HEALTH PROGRAMS: A PRIMER Michael E. Borus, C. Gregory Bunk and William R. Trash. HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: ITS ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT N. W. Chaplin (ed.). HEALTH POLICY IN BRITAIN: THE POLITICS AND ORGANISATION OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Christopher Ham. POLICY-MAKING AND PLANNING IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Kenneth Lee and Anne Mills. CONSUMING SECRETS: HOW OFFICIAL SECRECY AFFECTS EVERYDAY LIFE IN BRITAIN Rosemary Delbridge and Martin Smith (eds.). THE POLITICS OF SECRECY: CONFIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW James Michael. WAR AND THE STATE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT, 1914–1919 Kathleen Burk (ed.). THE POLITICS OF THE ARTS COUNCIL ROBERT HUTCHISON. THE PROMOTION OF INNOVATION IN HEALTH CARE: THE CASE FOR DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES IN THE NHS Chris Ham and Laurie McMahon CRITICAL READINGS IN PLANNING THEORY Chris Paris (ed.). MANAGEMENT REFORM IN SCOTTISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT Arthur Midwinter.     

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Book reviews in this article:
LOCAL GOVERNMENT: THE CONDITIONS OF LOCAL CHOICE John Stewart.
CHOOSING THE RIGHT POLICY INSTRUMENTS Barrie Needham.
URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: NEW ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPS Ken Young and Charlie Mason (eds.).
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN AMERICAN CITIES: SEVEN CASE STUDIES R. Scott Fosler and Renee A. Berger (eds.).
THE GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND Michael Keating and Arthur Midwinter.
WORKING WITH PEOPLE Robert J. Maxwell and Victor Morrison (eds).
APPROACHES TO WELFARE Phili Bean and Stewart Magherson (eds.).     

REVIEWS

THE BRITISH POLITICAL TRADITION VOLUME 3: A MUCH GOVERNED NATION – PARTS 1 AND 2 W. H. Greenleaf Methuen
MINISTERS AND MINISTRIES: A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS Richard Rose
RULING PERFORMANCE: BRITISH GOVERNMENTS FROM ATTLEE TO THATCHER Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon (eds.)
RESHAPING CENTRAL GOVERNMENT: RESHAPING OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR. VOL 1 John Gretton and Anthony Harrison (eds.)
DON AND MANDARIN: MEMOIRS OF AN ECONOMIST Donald MacDougall John Murray
MANAGING PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS: LESSONS FROM CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE Jan Kooiman and Kjell A. Eliassen (eds.)
PUBLIC POLICY-MAKING FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT J. A. Chandler
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE COMMUNITY Colin Mellors and Nigel Copperthwaite
LEARNING FROM LOCAL AUTHORITY BUDGETING Howard Elcock and Grant Jordan (eds.)
THE GROWTH AND EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC SPENDING M. S. Levitt and M. A. S. Joyce
DEVELOPING LOCAL ECONOMIC STRATEGIES Allan Cochrane (ed.)
POLITICAL ETHICS AND PUBLIC OFFICE Dennis F. Thompson
BUREAUCRATIC DISCRETION: LAW AND POLICY IN FEDERAL REGULATORY AGENCIES Gary C. Bryner
THE WELFARE STATE IN TRANSITION: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WELFARE PLURALISM Norman Johnson
PROPERTY BEFORE PEOPLE: THE MANAGEMENT OF TWENTIETH CENTURY COUNCIL HOUSING Anne Power
ROOSEVELT TO REAGAN: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN PRESIDENCY M. Shaw (ed.)
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE Howard E. McCurdy     

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PRIME MINISTER, CABINET AND CORE EXECUTIVE R.A.W. Rhodes and Patrick Dunleavy THE BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE Robert Pyper QUALITY IN PUBLIC SERVICES Lucy Gaster QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN EUROPEAN PUBLIC SERVICES: CONCEPTS, CASES AND COMMENTARY Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert (eds.) LEADERSHIP OF PUBLIC BUREAUCRACIES Larry D. Terry THEORY AND METHODS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE David Marsh'and Gerry Stoker JUDICIAL REVIEW: LAW AND PROCEDURE Richard Gordon THEORIES OF URBAN POLITICS D. Judge, G. Stoker and H. Wolman (eds.) UNDERSTANDING POLICY FIASCOS Mark Bovens and Paul‘tHart BRITISH SOCIAL POLICY SINCE 1945 Howard Glennerster DISMANTLING THE WELFARE STATE? REAGAN, THATCHER, AND THE POLITICS OF RETRENCHMENT Paul Pierson THE FOUNDATION OF MERIT: PUBLIC SERVICE IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY Patricia Wallace Ingraham THE REGIONAL IMPERATIVE: REGIONAL PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN BRITAIN, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES Urlan A. Wannop PERPETUATING THE PORK BARREL: POLICY SUBSYSTEMS AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY Robert M. Stein and Kenneth N. Bickers FROM ARM'S LENGTH TO HANDS-ON: THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF ONTARIO'S PUBLIC SERVICE 1867–1940 J. E. Hodgetts THE ROAD TO BETTER PUBLIC SERVICES: PROGRESS AND CONSTRAINTS IN FIVE CANADIAN FEDERAL AGENCIES G. Bruce Doern LES RÉSEAUX DE POLITIQUE PUBLIQUE: DÉBAT AUTOUR DES POLICY NETWORKS Patrick Le Galès and Mark Thatcher (eds.) THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF SPAIN Paul Heywood ADENAUER TO KOHL: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN CHANCELLORSHIP Stephen Padgett POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES Robert Elgie     

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AN INDUSTRIALIST IN THE TREASURY – THE POST-WAR YEARS Edwin Plowden
1688–1988: TIME FOR A NEW CONSTITUTION R. Holme and M. Elliott
DEVELOPING POLICY RESEARCH Tim Booth
THE DYNAMICS OF STRATEGIC CHANGE C. R. Hinings and Royston Greenwood
ORGANIZING GOVERNANCE, GOVERNING ORGANIZATIONS Colin Campbell, S. J. and B. Guy Peter (eds.)
THE RETREAT OF THE STATE: DEREGULATION AND PRIVATISATION IN THE UK AND US Dennis Swann
TROUBLED WATER: RIVERS, POLITICS AND POLLUTION David Kinnersley
SIZEWELL 'B': AN ANATOMY OF THE INQUIRY Timothy O'Riordan, Ray Kemp and Michael Purdue
DEFENCE POLICY MAKING: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS G. M. Dillon (ed.)
POST-INDUSTRIAL CITIES: POLITICS AND PLANNING IN NEW YORK, PARIS AND LONDON H. V. Savitch
THE POSTMODERN PRESIDENT: THE WHITE HOUSE MEETS THE WORLD Richard Rose
HAWKE'S SECOND GOVERNMENT: AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH ADMINISTRATION 1984–1987 Roger Wettenhall and J. R. Nethercote
MARKETING IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT Kieron Walsh
THE CHANGING POLITICS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT J. Gyford, S. Leach, and C. Game
SOCIAL WORK AND LOCAL POLITICS Paul Daniel and John Wheeler
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR A. P. Kakabadse, P. R. Brovetto, Rainer Holzer (eds.)     

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JUDICIAL POLITICS SINCE 1920 John Griffith BUSÍNESS AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN Wýn Grant INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT Richard Pettinger PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT: THEORY, CRITIQUE AND PRACTICE David McKevitt and Alan Lawton (eds.) MARKETS AND MANAGERS: NEW ISSUES IN THE DELIVERY OF WELFARE Peter Taylor-Gooby and Robyn Lawson (eds). THE WELFARE STATE IN BRITAIN: A POLITICAL HISTORY SINCE 1945 Michael Hill SOCIAL SECURITY POLICY IN BRITAIN Michael Hill THE POLITICS OF WELFARE: CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE Nicholas Deakin SOCIAL CARE IN A MIXED ECONOMY G. Wistow, M. Knapp, B. Hardy and C. Allen CONTROLLING HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: THE FUTURE OF WORK AND ORGANIZATION IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt A FUTURE FOR THE NHS? HEALTH CARE IN THE 1990s Wendy Ranadé THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE: THINK TANKS AND THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION, 1931–1983 Richard Cockett OMBUDSMEN IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR Mary Seneviratne THE DIARY OF SIR EDWARD WALTER HAMILTON 1885-1906 Dudley W.R. Bahlman (ed.) CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN. AN ANNUAL REVIEW 1993 Peter Catterall (ed.) CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN. AN ANNUAL REVIEW 1994 Peter Catterall (ed.) CITIES IN THE 1990s G. Stoker and S. Young URBAN POLICY IN BRITAIN. THE CITY, THE STATE AND THE MARKET R. Atkinson and G. Moon THE ROLE OF THE PRIME MINISTER IN FRANCE, 1981–1991 Robert Elgie MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS IN URBAN POLICY: LESSONS FROM FRANCE P. Le Galès and J. Mawson SUCCESSFUL TAX REFORM: LESSONS FROM AN ANALYSIS OF TAX REFORM IN SIX COUNTRIES Cedric Sandford BLUEPRINT 3: MEASURING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT David Pearce et al. THE RISE OF MESO GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE L.J. Sharpe (ed.)     

REVIEWS

GETTING CLOSER TO THE PUBLIC Local Government Training Board
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: THE TOWN HALLS RESPOND David Blunkett and Keith Jackson
LEGALITY AND LOCAL POLITICS L. Bridges, C. Game, O. Lomas, J. McBride and S. Ranson
JUNIOR MINISTERS IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT Kevin Theakston
IMPROVING PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Les Metcalfe and Sue Richards
SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: EXPERIENCE OF A PILOT MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
POLICY MAKING UNDER ADVERSITY Yehezkel Dror
BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC CHOICE Jan-Eric Lane (ed.)
ADMINISTRATION AS SERVICE – THE PUBLIC AS CLIENT Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PROCESS: LEARNING BY DOING David Heald and Richard Rose (eds.)
REGULATION AND PUBLIC LAW Robert Baldwin and Christopher McCrudden Weidenfeld and Nicolson
STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Tom Rathwell
HEALTH MANPOWER: PLANNING, PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT Andrew F. Long and Geoffrey Mercer
HMI Denis Lawton and Peter Gordon Routledge and Kegan Paul
SCRUTINY OF PROCEDURES FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND A report by Angus Mitchell to the Secretary of State for Education and Science
BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN Wyn Grant with Jane Sargent Macmillan
CHANGING TRAINS: MESSAGES FOR MANAGEMENT FROM THE SCOTRAIL CHALLENGE Valerie Stewart and Vivian Chadwick David & Charles
CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WEST EUROPEAN UNITARY STATES Edward C. Page and Michael J. Goldsmith (eds.)
THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAPITOL HILL: THE POLITICS OF PRESIDENTIAL PERSUASION Nigel Bowles     

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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Institute for Public Policy Research. PUBLIC LAW AND DEMOCRACY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA P. P. Craig. THE PUBLIC SECTOR: CHALLENGE FOR CO-ORDINATION AND LEARNING Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (ed.) WHAT NEXT?: AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS AND THE CIVIL SERVICE Anne Davies and John Willman. BRITISH GOVERNMENT: THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE TERRITORY Peter Madgwick. LEARNING FROM PRECEDENT IN WHITEHALL Peter Nailor. A HARD POUNDING: POLITICS AND ECONOMIC CRISIS 1974–76 Edmund Dell. PARLIAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Charles Carstairs and Richard Ware (eds.) CITIZENS, CONSUMERS AND COUNCILS: LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PUBLIC John Gyford. COUNCILLORS IN CRISIS THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORLDS OF LOCAL COUNCILLORS Jacqueline Barron, Gerald Crawley and Tony Wood. LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND NATIONAL POWER Samuel Humes IV. LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN John Kingdom. PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS P. B. Beaumont. IN THE WAY OF WOMEN: MEN'S RESISTANCE TO SEX EQUALITY IN ORGANIZATIONS C. Cockburn. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENTS FOR WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: AN ANGLO-GERMAN PERSPECTIVE Margery Povall and Monika Langkau-Herrmann (eds.) DEMOCRATIZING FRANCE: THE POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF DECENTRALISATION Vim A. Schmidt. LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND INNOVATION: EVENTS AND CHANGES: THE FIRST STEPS OF LOCAL TTANSITION IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE G. Peteri (ed.) THE CHANNEL TUNNEL: PUBLIC POLICY, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Ian Holliday, Gerard Marcou and Roger Vickerman. RESHAPING THE STATE: NEW ZEALAND'S BUREAUCRATIC REVOLUTION J. Boston, J. Martin, J. Pallot and P. Walsh (eds.) REINVENTING RATIONALiTY: THE ROLE OF REGULATORY ANALYSIS IN THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY Thomas O. McGarity.     

THE POLITICS OF DECLINE: AN INTERPRETATION OF BRITISH POLITICS FROM THE 1940s TO THE 1970s

THE POLITICS OF DECLINE: AN INTERPRETATION OF BRITISH POLITICS FROM THE 1940s TO THE 1970s
Geoffrey K. Fry
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 307 pp., £55 (hb) ISBN: 0333726227     

Book reviews

Larry Hirschhorn, REWORKING AUTHORITY: LEADING AND FOLLOWING IN THE POST-MODERN ORGANIZATZON Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 1997. $25.00 cloth Pp. 129, iv.

Larry S. Lutton, THE POLITICS OF GARBAGE: A COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE ON SOLID WASTE POLICY MAKING Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Cloth. Pp. 307, xii.     

REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article:
GOING CORPORATE IN LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITIES Robert E. Jennings.
TESTING THE SAFETY NET: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE REFORMED SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFIT SCHEME Geoffrey Beltram.
THE CHANGING CIVIL SERVICE Geoffrey K. Fry.
SCARMAN AND AFTER ESSAYS REFLECTING ON LORD SCARMAN'S REPORT, THE RIOTS AND THEIR AFTERMATH John Benyon (ed.).
CONTROLLING THE CONSTABLE: POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES Tony Jefferson and Roger Grimshaw.
HUGH DALTON Ben Pimlott.
WITH RESPECT, AMBASSADOR AN INQUIRY INTO THE FOREIGN OFFICE Simon Jenkins and Anne Sloman.
PRIVATIZATION AND THE WELFARE STATE J. Le Grand and R. Robinson (eds.).
WHITEHALL AND THE LABOUR PROBLEM IN LATE VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN BRITAIN: A STUDY IN OFFICIAL STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONTROL Roger Davidson.
INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND THE MOTOR INDUSTRY Stephen Wilks.
LORD DENNING: THE JUDGE AND THE LAW J. L. Jowell and J. P. W. B. McAudan (eds.).
AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH ADMINISTRATION 1983: ESSAYS IN REVIEW Alexander Kouzmin, J. R. Nethercote and Roger Wettenhall (eds.).
THE MAKING OF BRITISH COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY 1914–1940 Stephen Constantine.     

The layfield report: Financial and administrative implications

REPORT OF THE (LAYFIELD) COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY INTO LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE, £5.75, pp. 494, HMSO, 1976.     

THE POLITICS OF MARKETING THE LABOUR PARTY

THE POLITICS OF MARKETING THE LABOUR PARTY
Dominic Wring
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 262 pp., £16.99 (pb) ISBN: 0333689534     

Book review

Lynn, Naomi B. Wildavsky, Aaron. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE, Editors, Chatham House Publishers, Chatham, N.J., 1990, 540 pp., $24.95.