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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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Critical tears in Immigration: Canada and Australia Compared. By FREDA HAWKINS (Montreal
Utah and Queensland Coal: A Study in the Micro Political Economy of Modern Capitalism and the State. By BRIAN GALLIGAN
"That Community Government Mob": Local Government in Small Northern Territory Communities. By JACKIE WOLFE
Health Care and Public Policy: An Australian Analysis. By GEORGE PALMER and STEPHANIE SHORT
From Colony to Coloniser: Studies in Australian Administrative History. Edited by J.J. EDDY AND J.R. NETHERCOTE
A Policy Framework for Improving the Performance of Government Trading Enterprises. By the STEERING COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT TRADING ENTERPRISES
Engagement of External Consultants by Commonwealth Departments: Report 302. By JOINT COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS     

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RICHARD A. CHAPMAN and MICHAEL HUNT eds., Open Government: A Study of the Prospects of Open Government Within the Limitations of the British Political System
PETER A. HALL, Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France.
DONALD F. KETTL, Government By Proxy .
JOHN A. ROHR, To Run a Constitution: the Legitimacy of the Administrative State .
FOREST CHISMAN and ALAN PIFER, Government for the People: The Federal Social Role. What It Is. What It Should Be .
JOHN HART The Presidential Branch .     

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Citizen Participation in Government. Edited by MARGARET MUNRO-CLARK
The Business of Government: Western Australia: 1983–1990. Edited by ALLAN PEACHMENT (Leichhardt
Exemplary Public Administrators: Character and Leadership in Government. Edited by TERRY COOPER and N. DALE WRIGHT
Ethics in Public Service. Edited by RICHARD A. CHAPMAN
Public Sector Management in Australia. By JOHN WANNA, CIARAN O'FAIRCHEALLAIGH & PATRICK WELLER
Service Delivery and Public Sector Marketing. Edited by CIARAN O'FAIRCHEALLAIGH, PETER GRAHAM & JENI WARBURTON
The Contracting State. By IAN HARDEN     

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Book reviewed in this article: Nalgo Reconstruction Committee : Interim Report on the Reform of Local Government Structure. The Future of Local Government . The Government of Wales . By Alderman Edgar L. Chappell . The Spanish Labyrintyh . By Gerald Brenan . Education for a World Adrift . By Sir Richard Livingstone The New Bellef in the Common Man . By Carl J. Friedrich . The British Empire , Its Structure and Spirit . By Eric A. Walker . The Black Man's Burden . By John Burger . The Labour Party's Post -War Policy for the Areican and Pacific Colonies . Report on the Constitutinal Problem in Iinda . By R. Coupland . Labour on the Land . By W. H. Pedley . The Great Hatred . By Mcaurice Samuel .     

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Australia's Commonwealth Parliament 1901–1988: Ten Perspectives. By G. S. REID and MARTYN FORREST
Inside the Think Tank: Advising the Cabinet 1971–1983. By TESSA BLACKSTONE and WILLIAM PLOWDEN
Traditions of Liberalism: Essays on John Locke, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. Edited by KNUD HAAKONSSEN
A Guide to Commonwealth Government Information Sources. By JOHN COOK, NANCY LANE and MICHAEL PIGGOTT
The Federal Government 1983. By GREGORY P. JONES
The Federal Government 1984. By GREGORY P. JONES
The Federal Government 1985, 2 vols. By GREGORY P. JONES
The Federal Government 1986. By GREGORY P. JONES
The Federal Government 1987. By GREGORY P. JONES     

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The Transfer of Power , 1942–47. Vol. VI: The post-war phase: new moves by the Labour Government, August 1, 1945-March 22, 1946. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh. Sartre and Marxism. By Pietro Chiodi. (Translated by Kate Soper .) Existential Marxism in Postwar France from Sartre to Althusser. By Mark Poster. Essays on John Maynard Keynes. Edited by Milo Keynes. The Power Game. By Jock Bruce -Gardyne and Nigel Lawson. Policy Making in British Government. By Brian Smith. Strikes and the Government 1893–1974. By Eric Wigham. Local Politics in Britain. By John Gyford. Why Marxism ? By Robert G. Wesson. Considerations on Western Marxism. By Perry Anderson.     

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The Patron State: Government and the Arts in Europe, North America and Japan . By MILTON C. CUMMINGS JR. and RICHARD S. KATZ (eds.)
Advising The Rulers . By WILLIAM PLOWDEN (ed.)
The State and Public Bureaucracies: A Comparative Perspective . By METIN HEPER (ed.)
Steering the Modern State: Changes in Central Coordination in Three Australian State Governments . By MARTIN PAINTER.
Japan's Civil Service System: Its Structure, Personnel, and Politics . By PAUL S. KIM
Reaganomics: An Insider's Account of the Policies and the People . By WILLIAM A. NISKANEN     

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Authority and Change: The Sources of Economic Growth. By JUDITH MARQUAND.
The Centralization-Decentralization Conundrum: Organization and Management in the Canadian Government. By PETER AUCOIN and HERMAN BAKVIS.
Between Profit and State: Intermediate Organization in Britain and the United States. By ALAN WARE.
In Pursuit of National Interests: Australian Foreign Policy in the 1990s. Edited by F. A. MEDIANSKY AND A. C. PALFREEMAN.
Comparative Policy Research — Learning from Experience . Edited by MEINOLF DIERKES, HANS N. WEILER AND ARIANE BERTHOIN ANTAL.
Political Economy of Economic Policy. By WILFRED L. DAVID.
Innovation Through Technical and Scientific Information: Government and Industry Cooperation. By STEVEN BALLARD, THOMAS E. JAMES, JR., TIMOTHY I. ADAMS, MICHAEL D. DEVINE, LANI L. MALYSA, AND MARK MEO.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Competition and The Corporate Society . British Conservatives , The State and Industry 1945–1964. Industry and Government In Britain . The Federation Of British Industries In Politics , 1945–65. Private Enterprise and Public Intervention . The Courtaulds Experience . Stalin as Revolutionary , 1879–1929: A Study in History and Personality . By Robert C. Tucker . Joseph Stalin : Man and Legend . By Ronald Hingley . Stalin : The Man and His Era . By Adam B. Ulam . British General Election Manifestoes 1918–1966. Edited and compiled by F. W. S. Craig . The Emergence of the Palestinian -Arab National Movement 1918–1929. By Y. Porath . Whatever Happened to the Quiet Revolution ? By J. Bruce -Gardyne . Campaigning for the Environment . By Richard Kimber and J. J. Richardson . English Local Government Reformed . By Lord Redcliffe -Maud and Bruce Wood .     

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The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s. By JOSEPH WHITE AND AARON WILDAVSKY.
The Deregulation of the World Financial Markets: Myths, Realities and Impacts. By SARKIS J. KHOURY.
Government by Moonlight: The Hybrid Parts of the State. By PATRICK BIRKIN-SHAW, IAN HARDEN, NORMAN LEWIS.
Strategies for Managing Intergovernmental Policies and Networks. Edited by ROBERT W. GAGE and MYRNA P. MANDELL.
Strategies for Managing Intergovernmental Policies and Networks. Edited by ROBERT W. GAGE and MYRNA P. MANDELL.
The Silence of Constitutions: Gaps, "Abeyances" and Political Temperament in the Maintenance of Government. By MICHAEL FOLEY.
Demographic Change and the American Future. By R. SCOTT FOSLER, WILLIAM ALONSO, JACK A. MEYER, and ROSEMARY KERN.
The State and Policy Outcomes in Latin America. By LAWRENCE S. GRAHAM.     

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All Organizations are Public: Bridging Public and Private Organization Theories . By BARRY BOZEMAN
Accountability and the Business State: The Structure of Federal Corporations . By FRANCIS J. LEAZES, Jr.
The American Political Economy: Macroeconomics and Electoral Politics . By DOUGLAS A. HIBBS, Jr.
The Strategic Presidency: Hitting the Ground Running . By JAMES P. PFIFFNER
The Catholic Church in World Politics . By ERIC O. HANSON
Local Government in the German Federal System . By ARTHUR B. GUNLICKS     

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Politics, Economics and Welfare Reform . By LESLIE LENKOWSKY
Le Moloch en Europe: Etatisation et Corporatisation . By MATTEI DOG AN and DOMINIQUE PELASSY
Leadership and Innovation, A Biographical Perspective on Entrepreneurs in Government . By JAMESON W. DOIG and ERWIN C. HARGROVE, eds.
The Politics of Numbers . Edited by WILLIAM ALONSO and PAUL STARR
Breaking the Impasse. Consensual Approaches to Resolving Public Disputes . By LAWRENCE SUSSKIND and JEFFREY CRUIKSHANK
The Politics of Federal Reorganization: Creating the U.S. Department of Education . By BERYL A. RADIN and WILLIS D. HAWLEY
The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir . TERREL H. BELL     

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Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector. By D avid O sborne and T ed G aebler
Public Policy in Australia. By G. D avis , J. W anna , J. W arhurst & P. W eller
Microeconomic Reform in Australia. By P eter F orsyth (ed.)
The Invisible State: The Formation of the Australian State 1788–1901. By A lastair D avidson
The Political Impact of the High Court. By D avid S olomon
News Not Views: The ABC, the Press and Politics 1932–1947. By N eville P etersen
Corporatization and Privatization: Lessons from New Zealand. By I an D uncan and A lan B ollard
Public Administration and Management in Small States: Pacific Experiences. By Y ash G hai (ed.)
Australian Public Sector Management. By D avid C orbett     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Enterprise Years : A Businessman in the Cabinet . BY David Young . Upwardly Mobile. by Norman tebbit . Ministers Decide : A Memoir of the Thatcher Years . By Norman Fowler . My Style of Government . By Nicholas Ridley . Right at the Centre . By Cecil Parkinson . Staying power . By Peter Walker . A Sparrow's flight . By Lord Hailsham . Kill the Messenger . By Bernard ingham . The View From No. II: Memoirs of a Tory Radical . By Nigel Lawson . Britons : Forging the Nation 1701–1837. By Linda Colley . Myths of the English . Edited by Roy Porter . Beaverbrook: a life . By Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie . Murdoch . By William Shawcross . Vers Une Nouvelle Europe ? Towards a New Europe ? Edited by Mario Telo .     

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Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in the Public Sector. Edited by M argaret G ardner
Hawke's Third Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1987–1990. Edited by J ohn H alligan and R oger W ettenhall .
The Lie of the Level Playing Field. By J enny S tewart
Market, Bureaucracy and Community: A Student's Guide to Organisation. By H al C olebatch and P eter L armour
Political Management in Canada. By A llan B lakeney and S andford B orins     

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Accounting for Public Policy: Power, Professionals and Politics In Local Government. By DAVID ROSENBERG
Getting Our Acts Together: Intergovernmental Policy Coordination In Employment, Education and Training. Edited by ANNA YEATMAN and DAVID CORBETT
The Literature on Royal Commissions, Select Committees of Parliament and Boards of Inquiry held in Australia 1856–1980: A Select Bibliography. By JULIE G. MARSHALL     

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The Pentagonists. By A. ERNEST FITZGERALD
The Ring of Power: The White House Staff and Its Expanding Role in Government , By BRADLEY H. PATTERSON, Jr.
The Politics of the U.S. Cabinet: Representation in the Executive Branch 1789–1984. By JEFFREY E. COHEN.
Comparing Public Bureaucracies: Problems of Theory and Method. By B. GUY PETERS.
Pathways to Power: Selecting Rulers in Pluralist Democracies. Edited by MATTEI DOGAN.
Policy Studies: Integration and Evaluation. By STUART S. NAGEL.     

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Book review in this article: Thickening Government, Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability. By Paul C. Light. Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, Brifish, and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State. By Sven Steinmo. Ideology and Political Choice: The Search for Freedom, Justice, and Virtue. By Vernon Van Dyke. Next Steps: Improving Management in Government? By Barry J. O'Toole and Grant Jordan, eds.