MAKING ENDS MEET: CITIES, FISCAL STRESS, AND EQUILIBRIUM

Books reviewed in this article
Terry Nichols Clark and Lorna Crowley Ferguson, City Money: Political Processes, Fiscal Strain, and Retrenchment
Richard Rose and Edward Page (Eds.), Fiscal Stress in Cities
Irene S. Rubin, Running in the Red: The Political Dynamics of Urban Fiscal Stress     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Charles Mills, The Racial Contract
Melissa Williams, Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation
Santiago Castro-Gómez and Eduardo Mendieta (eds), Teorías sin Disciplina: Latinoamericanismo, Postcolonialidad y Globalización en Debate
William McBride, Philosophical Reflections on Changes in Eastern Europe     

Book Notes

R oy F orward (ed.). Public Policy in Australia
T homas B. S mith . The New Zealand Bureaucrat.
R. and V. R outley . The Fight for the Forests.
W.K. H ancock . The Battle of Black Mountain: An Episode of Canberra's Environmental History.
J.D. T ucker . Aspects of the Brisbane City Council's Administrative Organization.
H enry P arris . Staff Relations in the Civil Service: Fifty Years of Whitleyism.
G.S. H arman . The Politics of Education: A Bibliographical Guide.
J.E. R ichardson . Patterns of Australian Federalism.
J.S.H. H unter . Revenue Sharing in the Federal Republic of Germany.
B.S. G rewal . Fiscal Federalism in India.
R.L. M athews (ed.). Fiscal Equalisation in a Federal System.
R.L. M athews and W.R.C. J ay . Measures of Fiscal Effort and Fiscal Capacity in Relation to Australian State Road Finance.
R.S. G ilbert . The Future of the Australian Loan Council.
R.L. M athews (ed.). Fiscal Federalism: Retrospect and Prospect.
D onal D e B uitleir . Problems of Irish Local Finance.
E ugene F. B righam (ed.). Readings in Managerial Finance.
O scar K raines . The World and Ideas of Ernst Freund.
Administrative Change.
The Journal of Educational Administration.
Newsletter of the R.I.P.A. (A.C.T. Group).
R.I.P.A. Bulletin (South Australian Group).
Public Policy and Administration in Australia: A Reader     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Note from the book review editor .
Charles S. Heatherly and Burton Yale Pines (eds.), Mandate for Leadership III .
Marcus Raskin and Chester Hartman (eds.), Winning America: Ideas and Leadership for the 1990s .
Mark Green and Mark Pinsky (eds.), America's Transition: Blueprints for the 1990s .
American Agenda, Report to the Forty-First President of the United States .
James Pfiffner and R. Gordon Hoxie (eds.), The Presidency in Transition .
John H. Trattner, The Center for Excellence in Government, The Prune Book: The 100 Toughest Management and Policy-Making Jobs in Washington
National Academy of Public Administration, The Executive Presidency: Federal Management for the 1990s .
US General Accounting Office, Transition Series, 26 Reports .     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed in this article:
Thomas D. Lynch, Exercises in Public Budgeting
Richard Wagner, Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility and the Constitution
Edward M. Gramlich, Benefit-Cost Analysis of Government Programs
Richard E. Brown, Meredith C. Williams and Thomas P. Gallagher, Auditing Performance in Government, Concepts and Cases
John L. Mikesell, Fiscal Administration: Analysis and Applications for the Public Sector
Frederick O.R. Hayes, David A. Grossman, Gerry E. Mechling, John S. Thomas, Steven J. Rosenbloom, Linkages: Improving Financial Management in Local Government     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
George E. Peterson and Carol W. Lewis, (eds.) Reagan an the Cities
Dennis Zimmerman, The Private Use of Tax-Exempt Bonds: Controlling Public Subsidy of Private Activity
Katherine Huang Hsiao, The Government Budget and Fiscal Policy in Mainland China     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
R. S. Gilbert. The Australian Loan Council in Federal Fiscal Adjustments:
Kenneth W. Wiltshire: Portuguese Navy: the establishment of the Queensland Department of Industrial Development.
M. R. Palmer (ed.). Policy in Transport in New Zealand.     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Alvin Rabushka and Pauline Ryan, The Tax Revolt
John J. Kirlin, The Political Economy of Fiscal Limits
David O. Sears, Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Terry Nichols Clark and Lorna Crowley Ferguson, City Money: Political Processes, Fiscal Strain and Retrenchment
Ronald Braswell, Karen Fortin, and Jerome S. Osteryoung, Financial Management for Not-for-Profit Organizations     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Robert D. Lee. Jr. and Ronald W. Johnson, Public Budgeting Systems
John L. Mikesell, Fiscal Administration: Analysis and Application for the Public Sector
S. Rosen, Public Finance     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Howard A Frank, Budgetary Forecasting in Local Government: New Tools and Techniques John E. Anderson, (ed.) Fiscal Equalization for State and Local Government Finance National Commission on the State and Local Public Service, Frustrated Federalism: RX for State and Local Health Care Reform     

BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Books Reviewed
Jonathan Tonge, THE NEW NORTHERN IRISH POLITICS? , (AARON EDWARDS), 404
Charles Pattie, Patrick Seyd and Paul Whiteley CITIZENSHIP IN BRITAIN: values, participation and democracy , (LAWRENCE BLACK), 405
Tariq Modood MULTICULTURAL POLITICS: racism, ethnicity and Muslims in Britain , (SIMON THOMPSON), 405
Ian Ward , THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION: myths and realities , (MATTHEW FLINDERS), 406
Steve Moxon, THE GREAT IMMIGRATION SCANDAL , (NEIL LUNT), 407
Scott L. Greer, TERRITORIAL POLITICS AND HEALTH POLICY: UK health policy in comparative prospective , (NEIL FOSTER), 408
Thomas Quinn, MODERNISING THE LABOUR PARTY: organisation change since 1983 , (AARON EDWARDS), 409
Alastair Smith, ELECTION TIMING , (NICHOLAS HILLMAN), 410
Philip H. J. Davies, MI6 AND THE MACHINERY OF SPYING, STRUCTURE AND PROCESS IN BRITAIN's SECRET INTELLIGENCE , (CHRISTIE DAVIES), 410
Ranald Michie and Philip Williamson (eds) THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND THE CITY OF LONDON IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY , (MICHAEL KEANEY), 411
Andrew Russell and Edward Fieldhouse, NEITHER LEFT NOR RIGHT? The Liberal democrats and the electorate , (ED RANDALL), 412
Allan McConnell, SCOTTISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT , (SCOTT L. GREER), 413
Keith Sutherland, THE PARTY's OVER: blueprint for a very English revolution , (MARK GARNETT), 413     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Therese McGuire and Dana Wolfe Naimark, (eds.) State and Local Finance for the 1990s: A Case Study of Arizona Roy Bahl and William Duncombe Economic Growth & Fiscal Planning: New York in the 190s Timothy J. Bartik, Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies     

Reviews

From the Suburbs: Building a Nation From Our Neighbourhoods
Reflections on the Australian Constitution
Globalisation and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia Pacific Region
Prisoners as Citizens: Human Rights in Australian Prisons
The Private Sector in Development: Entrepreneurship, Regulation, and Comparative Disciplines.
Paths to Justice: What People Do and Think About Going to Law
The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia
Fiscal Policies in Federal States     

EUROPE

Books Reviewed
Alec Stone Sweet, THE JUDICIAL CONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE , (AGUSTÍN JOSÉ MENÉNDEZ), 429
Lynn Dobson and Andreas Follesdal (eds), POLITICAL THEORY AND THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION , (FERNANDO LOSADA FRAGA), 430
Ben Tonra and Thomas Christiansen, RETHINKING EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY , (DAVID J. GALBREATH), 430
Wade Jacoby, THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND NATO: ordering from the menu in Central Europe , (MICHAEL J. STEFFENS), 431
Charles B. Blankart, A CONSTITUTION FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION , (AGUSTÍN JOSÉ MENÉNDEZ), 432
Peter Taylor-Gooby, MAKING A EUROPEAN WELFARE STATE? convergences and conflicts over European social policy , (BASAK KOYUNCU KING), 433
George Christou, THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ENLARGEMENT: the case of Cyprus , (OLGA DEMETRIOU), 433
Andrew Martin and George Ross (eds), EUROS AND EUROPEANS: monetary integration and the European model of society , (MICHAEL J. STEFFENS), 434
Joseph Jupille, PROCEDURAL POLITICS , (FERNANDO LOSADA FRAGA), 435
Oliver J. Daddow, BRITAIN AND EUROPE SINCE 1945: historiographical perspectives on integration , (LEE MCGOWAN), 436
Hugh Compston (ed.), HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC POLICY IN EUROPE: Britain, France and Germany , (VANDNA BHATIA), 436
Judith G. Kelley, ETHNIC POLITICS IN EUROPE: the power of norms and incentives , (HASAN ENGIN SENER), 437
James G. Kellas, NATIONALIST POLITICS IN EUROPE , (MATTHEW J. GOODWIN), 438     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Lawrence H. Summers, (ed.) Tax Policy and the Economy
U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Fiscal Discipline in the Federal System: National Reform and the Experience of the States
Volume 3,1987, Part A, James L. Chan, (ed.) Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
Volume 3,1987, Part B, James L. Chan, (ed.) Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
Leon E. Hay and John H. Engstrom, Essentials of Accounting for Governmental and Not-For-Profit Organizations     

The limits of social research

His research interests concern international housing and urban planning. His published work includes a number of edited books, most recently: Housing Markets and Policies under Fiscal Austerity; Women, Housing, and Community; The International Handbook of Housing Policies and Practices;and, forthcoming, The Deregulation of Housing.     

PUBLIC BUDGETING: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS

Robert W. Burchell, James H. Carr, Richard L. Florida and Jarnes Nemeth. The New Reality of Municipal Finance: The Rise and Fall of the Intergovernmental City .
Government Finance Officers Association. Capital Budgeting: Blueprints for Change .
Edward A. Lehan. Budgetmaking: A Workbook of Public Budgeting Theory and Practice .
Thomas D. Lynch. Public Budgeting in America , 2nd Edition.
John L. Mikesell. Fiscal Administration: Analysis and Applications for the Public Sector , 2nd Edition.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
J.K. F riend , J.M. P ower , & C.J. Y ewlett , Public Planning: The Inter-Corporate Dimension
D.M. P urdie , Local Government in Australia: Reformation or Regression
J ohn P ower and H elen N elson (eds), The Regional Administrator in the Riverina
B ernard P. H erber , Fiscal Federalism in the United Slates of America
M.H. S proule -J ones , Public Choice and Federalism in Australia and Canada
J ames A. M axwell , Specific Purpose Grants in the United States: Recent Developments
B ruce Y uill and D an S teinhoff , Developing Managers in Organisations.
V. J agannadham (ed.), Family Planning in India: Policy and Administration     

Fiscal institutions of Brazilian municipal borrowing

In an effort to understand subnational borrowing, this article explores how three Brazilian institutions—the 1988 Constitution which mandates revenue and expenditure assignments among the levels of the federation; the national Law of Fiscal Responsibility, which imposes expenditure and debt limitations on all levels and branches of government; and various borrowing arrangements—affect the municipal borrowing environment. These institutions are examined in light of de Mello's (2001) policy recommendations for strengthening efficiency and fiscal discipline in subnational borrowing. The institutions of Brazilian borrowing were found to have some of de Mello's recommendations, with the new Constitution and the Law of Fiscal Responsibility making progress towards increased fiscal responsibility, but the current borrowing arrangements serving to maintain a controlled system that is not conducive to responsible municipal borrowing. Several recommendations are made to improve the borrowing environment and foster fiscal discipline and efficiency Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.