MAKING PUBLIC POLICY

MAKING PUBLIC POLICY
Mark Considine
Polity Press, 2005, 262 pp., £15.99 (pb) ISBN: 0745627544     

THE NEW POLITICS OF MEDICINE

THE NEW POLITICS OF MEDICINE
Brian Salter
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 236 pp., £17.99 (pb) ISBN: 0333801121     

COMPARATIVE HEALTH POLICY

COMPARATIVE HEALTH POLICY
Robert H. Blank and Viola Burau
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 260 pp., £17.99 (pb) ISBN: 0333985990     

AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE – POLICY TRANSFER AND LESSON‐DRAWING

AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE – POLICY TRANSFER AND LESSON‐DRAWING
Learning From Comparative Public Policy: a Practical Guide
Richard Rose
Routledge 2004, 147 pp., £16.99 (pb) ISBN: 0415317428     

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     

AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN EUROPE

AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN EUROPE
Alan Greer
Manchester University Press, 2005, 238 pp., £55 (hb) ISBN: 071906029X     

COMPARING LOCAL GOVERNANCE: TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS

COMPARING LOCAL GOVERNANCE: TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS
Bas Denters and Lawrence E. Rose (eds)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, xiv + 293 pp., £18.99 (pb) ISBN: 0333995562     

RETHINKING URBAN COMPETITIVENESS,COHESION AND GOVERNANCE

RETHINKING URBAN COMPETITIVENESS, COHESION AND GOVERNANCE
Nick Buck, Ian Gordon, Alan Harding and Ivan Turok (eds)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 317 pp., £19.99 (pb) ISBN: 1403906807     

LAW,LEGITIMACY, AND EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE. FUNCTIONAL PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL REGULATION

LAW, LEGITIMACY, AND EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE. FUNCTIONAL PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL REGULATION
Stijn Smismans
Oxford University Press, 2004, 519 pp., £60 (hb) ISBN: 0199270309     

IMPLEMENTING CHANGE IN HEALTH SYSTEMS: MARKET REFORMS IN HEALTH SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,SWEDEN AND THE NETHERLANDS

IMPLEMENTING CHANGE IN HEALTH SYSTEMS: MARKET REFORMS IN HEALTH SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, SWEDEN AND THE NETHERLANDS
Michael I. Harrison
Sage, 2004, 256 pp., £21.99 (pb) ISBN: 0761961763     

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     

Reducing our dependence on the car

Public Participation in Britain: A Classified Bibliography, Anthony Barker, Bedford Square Press, in association with the Royal Town Planning Institute, 1979, pp. 192, £6.95.

A Dilemma of Local Government, Discrimination in the Provision of Public Services, Paul R. Dimond, Constance Chanberlain, Wayne Hillyard, Lexington Books, 1979, pp. 319, £13.00.

The Political Economy of Health, Lesley Doyal with Imogen Pennell, Pluto Press, 1979, pp. 360, £4.95 (paperback) £10.00 (hardback).

Crisis and Legitimacy, The Administrative Process and American Government, James O. Freedman, Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. 324, £11.50.

Technostructures and Interorganisa‐tional Relations, David F. Gillespie, Dennis S. Mileti, Lexington Books, 1979, pp. 151, £11.00.

The Political Economy of the Welfare State, Ian Gough, Macmillan, 1979, pp. 196, £4.95 (paperback) £10.00 (hardback).

The Department of Education and Science, Sir William Pile, George Allen and Unwin, 1979, pp. 247, £10.00.

Administrative Secrecy in Developed Countries, edited by Donald C. Rowat, Macmillan, 1979, pp. 364, £10.00.

Small Towns and Small Towners: A Framework for Survival and Growth, B. E. Swanson, R. A. Cohen, and E. P. Swanson, foreword by Harold S. Williams, Sage Publications, 1979, pp. 278, £4.25 (paperback) £8.50 (hardback).     

Old wine in new bottles: Re‐publishing African writers

Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe, 1986.150pp. £3.50pb

Arrow of God. Chinua Achebe, 1986. 230pp. £3.50pb

A Grain of Wheat. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1986. 247pp. £3.95pb

Petals of Blood. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1986. 250pp. £3.95pb

God's Bits of Wood. Sembene Ousmane, 1986. 245pp. £3.50pb

Estrangement. Elechi Amadi, 1986. 244pp. £3.95pb

London: Heinemann Educational Books (African Writers Series)

The Beggar's Strike. Aminata Sow Fall, London: Longman (African Classics). 1987.112pp. £2.95pb

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta. Mario Vargas Llosa (Translated by Alfred MacAdam) New York: Vintage books. 1986. 309pp. $6.95pb

The Penguin Book of Modern Urdu Poetry. Edited by Mahmood Jamal, Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1986. 165pp. £3.95pb     

Literary feature reviews

Taking stock of dead people: Argentina's reflections on the ‘Dirty War’ years

A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina's Nightmare. Andrew Graham‐Yooll, London: Eland. 1986. 180pp. £9.95hb/£4.95pb

Requiem for a Woman's Soul. Omar Rivabella, London: Penguin. 1986. 116pp. £2.95pb

The Duke: Memories and Antimemories of a Participant in the Repression. Enrique Medina, London: Zed. 1985. 120pp. £8.95hb/£3.95pb

The Shadow by the Door. Gerardo Di Masso, London: Zed. 1986. 96pp. £8.95hb/£3.95pb

The Long Night of Frncisco Sanctis. Humberto Costantini, London: Fontana. 1985. 184pp. £3.50pb

Caribbean contrasts

Frangipani House. Beryl Gilroy, 1986. 111pp. £3.50pb

Apata: The Story of a Reluctant Criminal. Harold A Bascom, 1986. 279pp. £3.95pb

Beka Lamb. Zee Edgell, 1986. 171pp. £3.50pb

The Wine of Astonishment. Earl Lovelace, 1986. 146pp. £3.50pb

The Lights on the Hill. Garth St Omer, 1986. 119pp. £3.50pb

London: Heinemann Educational Books (Caribbean Writers Series)     

Book reviews

Foreign Policy Making in Developing States: a comparative approach. Edited by Christopher Clapham, Farnborough (UK): Saxon House. 1978. 148 pp. £8.50.

Tariff Protection and Growth in Developing Countries. Mona Fouad Attia, Rotterdam: Rotterdam University Press. 1976. 251 pp.

Exports of Manufactures from Developing Countries. A H M Mahfuzur Rahman, Rotterdam: Centre for Development Planning, Rotterdam University Press. 1973. 140 pp.

Policy Reform in Developing Countries. Bela Balassa, Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1977. 176 pp. £9.00. £5.95 pb.

Nuclear Proliferation and the Near‐Nuclear Countries. Edited by Onkar Marwah & Ann Schultz, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger. 1975. 350 pp £11.60. (Distributed in UK by John Wiley)

Sociology and Development. Edited by E de Kadt and G Williams, London: Tavistock Publications Ltd. 1974. (Reprinted 1976). 374 pp. £4.25.

An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development. Norman Long, London: Methuen &Co Ltd. 1977. 221 pp. £3.25 pb.

Growing out of Poverty. Elizabeth Stamp, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1977. 165 pp. £4.25.

The United Nations System: coordinating its economic and social work. Martin Hill, Cambridge University Press. 1978. 252 pp. £13.50.

The United Nations in Bangladesh. Thomas W Oliver, Princeton University Press. 1978. 231 pp. US$20.

International Money: issues and analysis. Andrew Crockett, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1978. 250 pp. £3.95 pb.

The Failure of World Monetary Reform 1971–74. John Williamson, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1977. 221 pp. £3.25.

The International Monetary Tangle: myths and realities. Guillaume Guindey, Oxford: Blackwells. 1977. 121 pp. £7.85.

Research and Development Abroad by US Multinationals. Robert Ronstadt, New York: Praeger. 1977. 150 pp. £11.25.

International Migration and Dependence. Stephen Adler, Farnborough (UK): Saxon House. 1977. 235 pp. £8.50.

The Seventh Enemy: the human factor in the global crisis. Ronald Higgins, London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1978. 303 pp. £5.95.

The Disintegrating West. Mary Kaldor, London: Allen Lane‐Penguin Books Ltd. 1978. 219 pp. £5.50.

The Changing Face of the Third World: regional and national studies. Edited by Josef Nyilas, Budapest: Department of World Economy, Karl Marx University of Economic. Sciences. 1978. 431 pp.

Interdependent Development. Harold Brookfield, London: Methuen. 1977. 233 pp. £3.30.

Oil Companies in the International System. Louis Turner, London: George Allen &Unwin. 1978. 222 pp. £8.50.

Venezuela's Oil. Romullo Betancourt, London: George Allen & Unwin. 1978. 275 pp. £3.95.

Namibia Old and New. Gerhard Tötemeyer, London: C Hurst & Company Ltd. 1978. 257 pp. £9.50.

Buying Time in South Africa. CIS Anti‐Report No. 21, London: Counter Information Services. 1978. 56 pp. £0.95 pb.

Revolutionary Pressures in Africa. Claude Ake, London: Zed Press Ltd. 1978. 109 pp. £6.50.

The Guerilla Reader: a historical anthology. Edited by Walter Laqueur, London: Wildwood House. 1978. 246 pp. £5.95.

Negotiating Third World Mineral Agreements: promises as prologue. David N Smith and Louis T Wells Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company. 1975. 266 pp. £10.80. (Distributed in the UK by John Wiley)

Economic Growth and Distribution in China. Nicholas R Lardy, Cambridge University Press. 1978. 244 pp. £12.

The Peasant and the Raj: studies in agrarian society and peasant rebellion in colonial India. Eric Stokes, Cambridge University Press. 1978. 308 pp. £12.50.

Women of the World: illusion and reality. Urmila Phadnis and Indira Malani, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House. 1978. 283 pp.

Message from the Village. Perdita Huston, New York: Epoch B Foundation. 1978. 120 pp. US $3.95.

Living Black. Kevin Gilbert, London: Allen Lane ‐ the Penguin Press. 1977. 305 pp. £7.00.

The Economics of the Arab World. Yusif A Sayigh, London: Croom Helm. 1978. 726 pp. £35.

The Determinants of Arab Economic Development. Yusif A Sayigh, London: Croom Helm. 1978. 181 pp. £12.95.

The Arabs’ New Frontier. Robert Stephens, London: Temple Smith (second revised edition). 1976. 279 pp. £5.50.

Emergency in Perspective; reprieve and challenge. Sachchidanand Sinha, London: Books from India Ltd. 1977. 122 pp. £3.75.

Inside India Today. Dilip Hiro, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1976. (reprinted 1978) 293 pp. £3.95 pb.

The Essential JP: the philosophy and prison diary of Jayaprakash Narayan. Edited by Satish Kumar, Dorchester (UK): Prism Press. 1978. 153 pp. £4.95.

Women of Vietnam. Arlene Eisen Bergman, San Francisco: People's Press. 1975 (revised edition). 255 pp. £2.95.. (Distributed in the UK by Zed Press)

Land and Labour in Latin America. Edited by Kenneth Duncan and Ian Rutledge with the collaboration of Colin Harding Cambridge Latin American Studies, Cambridge University Press. 1977. 535 pp. £17.50.

Secession: the legitimacy of self‐determination. Lee C Buchheit, New Haven: Yale University Press. 1978. 260 pp. £12.60.     

Choosing to inhabit the real world

The Shadow Lines. Amitav Ghosh, London: Bloomsbury. 1988. 246pp. £12.95hb

Saré Maré. S K Walker, London: Pandora Press. 1987. 173pp. £3.95pb

The Tiger's Daughter. Bharati Mukherjee, London/New York: Penguin. 1987. 210pp. £3.95/$6.95pb

Amritvela. Leena Dhingra, London: The Women's Press. 1988. 176pp. £3.95pb

That Long Silence. Shashi Deshpande, London: Virago Press. 1988. 196pp. £4.50pb

The Middleman and other stories. Bharati Mukherjee, New York: Grove Press. 1988. 197pp. $15.95hb

Yatra (The Journey). Nina Sibal, London: The Women's Press. 1987. 324pp. £10.95hb/£5.95pb     

Reference reviews

Third World Resource Directory 1994–1995. by Thomas P. Fenton and Mary J. Heffron, Oakland, California: Third World Resources, 1994, pp 800

Third World Atlas (Second edition). by Alan Thomas et al., Milton Keynes, England: Open University Press, 1994, pp 80, £37.50 hb, £12.99 pb

Atlas of World Development. by Tim Unwin, Chichester, England: John Wiley, 1994, pp 368, £49.95 hb

The Third World Handbook (Second edition). Guy Arnold, London: Cassell, pp 213, £35 hb, £16.99 pb

World Science Report 1993. UNESCO, Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 1994, pp 278, 220 FF

World Disasters Report 1994. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1994, pp 176, £33.25 pb

SIPRI Yearbook 1994. SIPRI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp 870, £50.00

The Jerusalem Question. by Ruth Lapidoth and Moshe Hirsch, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1994, pp 576, £110.00 hb

Who's Who in Latin America: Government, Politics, Banking and Industry. by Bettina Corke, New York: Norman Ross Publishing, 1993 (Third Edition), pp 391, $99 hb

The Commonwealth Yearbook 1993–1994. London: Commonwealth Secretariat/HMSO, 1994, pp 550, £25 pb

Directory of Chinese Agricultural and Related Organisations. by Zhang Qiaoqiao, Wallingford, England: CAB International, 1994, pp 368, £49.50/US$85.00 hb

World Resources 1994–95. World Resources Institute, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp 400

Green Globe Yearbook. by Helge O. Bergesen and Georg Parmann, Lysaker, Norway: Fridtjof Nansen Institute, pp 345, £30/US$45.00 hb

Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Second edition). by Chris Prouty and Eugene Rosenfeld, Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1994, pp 642, US$69.50 hb

Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara (Second edition). by Chris Prouty and Eugene Rosenfeld, Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1994, pp 641, US$69.50 hb     

Dealing with debt in the 1980s

Dynamics of World Development. Political Economy of the World System Annuals, Volume 4. Edited by Richard Rubison, London: SAGE. 1981. 264pp. £6.50.

Studies of the Modern World‐System. Edited by Albert Bergesen, London: Academic Press. 1980. 277pp. np.

World System Structure: continuity and change. Edited by W Ladd Hollist and James N Rosenau, London: SAGE. 1981. 320pp. £15.50. £6.50pb.

Muslim Society. Ernest Gellner, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1981. 264pp. £18.20.

African Businessmen and Development in Zambia. Andrew A Beveridge and Anthony R Oberschall Princeton University Press. 1980. 382pp. £13.40

Population and Technology. Ester Boserup, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1981. 255pp. £9.95.

Energy Systems and Development: constraints, demands and supply of energy for developing countries. Jyoti K Parikh, Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1980. 152pp. £7.75.

Energy for Development: an international challenge. North‐South Round Table, New York: Praeger. 1981. 257pp. np. pb.

Stitches in Time: the Commonwealth in world politics. Arnold Smith with Clyde Sanger, London: André Deutsch. 1981. 322pp. £9.95

From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: the politics of transition. Henry Wiseman and Alastair M Taylor, Oxford: Pergamon (for the International Peace Academy). 1981. 192pp. £10.00

Southern Rhodesia Elections, February, 1980 The Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group on elections leading to independent Zimbabwe. Commonwealth Secretariat, London: Commonwealth Secretariat. 1980. 351pp. £6.00

Toward a Cultural Theory of Education and Schooling. Edited by Frederick Gearing and Lucinda Sangree London: Global Book Resources. 1980. 259pp. £18.12

The Law of International Trade. Mark S W Hoyle, London: Laureate Press. 1981. 414pp. £9.95

Cases and Materials on the Law of International Trade. Mark S W Hoyle, London: Laureate Press. 1980. 282pp. £12.50pb

School and Community in the Third World. M E Sinclair with Kevin Lillis, London: Croom Helm (with the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex). 1979. 188pp. £10.95

Regionalism and the New International Economic Order. Edited by Davidson Nicol, Luis Echeverria and Aurelio Pecci, Oxford: Pergamon 387pp. £22.50 £8.50pb

New Economic Order and International Development Law. Oswaldo de Rivero B. Oxford: Pergamon. 1980.141pp. £8.00

Weak States in the International System. Michael Handel, London: Frank Cass. 1981. 318pp. £15.00

Developing Countries in the International Economy. Sanjaya Lall, London: Macmillan: 1981. 263pp. £20.00

The Non‐Aligned in Havana. Documents of the Sixth Summit Conference and an Analysis of their significance for the Global Political System. Peter Willetts, London: Frances Pinter. 1981.283pp. £16.95

The Transition to Egalitarian Development. K Griffin and J James, London: Macmillan. 1981.128pp. £15.00

Can Equity be Organised?. B. Schaffer and G Lamb London: Gower (for UNESCO). 1981. 166pp. £8.75

Universal Primary Education in Nigeria: a study of Kano State. Mark Bray, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1981. 212pp. £5.50 pb

The Arab Predicament: Arab political thought and practice since 1967. Fouad Ajami, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1981. 220pp. £12.50

Moroccan Islam: tradition and society in a pilgrimage centre. Dale F Eickelman, London: University of Texas Press. 1981. (Modern Middle East Series No. 1) 303pp. £5.85 pb

Jassim: a study in the psychosocial development of a young man in Qatar. Levon H Melikian, London: Longman. 1981. 112pp. £11.95

African Socialism in Two Countries. Ahmed Mohiddin, London: Croom Helm. 1981.231pp. £12.50.

Uganda: a modern history. Jan Jelmert Jørgensen, London: Croom Helm. 1981.381pp. £13.95.

Economic and Political Development of Kenya. Edited by Priya Mutalik‐Desai, Bombay: Himalaya Publishing House. 1979. 200pp. £5.00.

The Role of Finance in the Transition to Socialism. Stephany Griffith‐Jones, London: Frances Pinter. 1981. 194pp. £12.50.

The USSR and Africa: foreign policy under Khrushchev. Dan C Heldman, New York: Praeger. 1981. pp. £20.00.

Dependent Capitalism in Crisis: the Sri Lankan economy 1948–1980. Satchi Ponnambalam, London: Zed Press. 1980. 232pp. £14.95.

The Future of Oil, A Simulation Study of the Inter‐relationships of Resources, Reserves and Use, 1980–2080. Peter R Odell and Kenneth E Rosing, London: Kegan Paul. 1980. 265pp. £20.00.

The Supply of Petroleum Reserves in South‐East Asia: Economic Implications of Evolving Property Rights Arrangements. Corazón Morales Siddayao (for the Institute of South East Asian Studies, Singapore and The East‐West Centre, USA) Kuala Lumpur Oxford University Press. 1980. 240pp. £12.50.

The Off‐Shore Petroleum Resources of South‐East Asia: Potential Conflict Situations and Related Economic Considerations. Corazón Morales Siddayao (for the Institute of South East Asian Studies, Singapore) Kuala Lumpur Oxford University Press. 1980. 205pp. £8.00.

Family, Labour and Trade in Western Kenya. Per Kongstad and Mette Monsted. 186pp.

Economic and Social Transformation in Rural Kenya. John Carlsen. 230pp.

Marketing Co‐operatives and Peasants in Kenya. Torben Bager. 116pp. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. 1980. Skv 25 each.

State, Society and Economy in Saudi Arabia. Edited by Tim Niblock, London: Croom Helm (for Centre for the Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter). 1982. 250pp. £14.95.

Brazil in the International System: the rise of a middle power. Edited by Wayne E Selcher, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1981. 251pp. £18.50.

Inequality and economic development in Malaysia. Donald R Snodgrass, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. 1980. 326pp. £14.50.

Local Government in Peninsular Malaysia. M W Morris, London: Gower. 1980. 121pp. £9.50.

China's Development Experience in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Robert F Dernberger, London: Harvard University Press. 1981. 347pp. £18.00.

The Agrarian Structure of Bangladesh: an impediment to development. F Tomasson Januzzi and James T Peach Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1981. 150pp. £13.00

Revolution and Economic Development in Cuba. Arthur MacEwan, London: Macmillan. 1981. 265pp. £20.00     

Pakistan's elusive quest for identity: Is it too late?

Pakistan Under Bhutto. Shahid Javed Burki, London: Macmillan. 1980. 245pp. £15.00

Politics in Pakistan: the nature and direction of change. Khalid B Sayeed New York: Praeger. 1980. 194pp. £14.25

Bhutto: trial and execution. Victoria Schofield, London: Cassell. 1980. 250pp. £7.95

Bhutto: a political biography. Salmaan Taseer, London: Ithaca. 1979. 208pp. £9.50. £3.50 pb

Pakistan in Search of Democracy, 1947–77. Hamid Yusuf Lahore: Afrasia. 1980. 189pp. $15.00 (Rs 100)

Pakistan: the enigma of political development. Lawrence Ziring Boulder, Colorado: Dawson Westview. 1980. 294pp. £12.00     

Literary feature reviews

Intentions and realisation in the narratives of Nawal El‐Saadawi

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor Nawal El‐Saadawi Translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham London: Saqi Books. 1988. 101pp. £9.95hb/£3.50pb

The Fall of the Imam Nawal El‐Saadawi Translated from the Arabic by Sherif Hetata London: Methuen. 1988. 175pp. £10.95hb

Woman Against Her Sex: a critique of Nawal El‐Saadawi Georges Tarabishi (with a reply by Nawal El‐Saadawi) Translated from the Arabic by Basil Hatim and Elisabeth Orsini London: Saqi Books. 1988. 232pp. £20.00hb/£8.95pb

Es'kia Mphahlele: A divided self?

Renewal Time Es'kia Mphahlele London: Readers International. 1988. 215pp. £9.95hb/£4.95pb