BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
CAMERON HAZLEHURST and J. R. NETHERCOTE (eds.), Reforming Australian Government: The Coombs Report and Beyond
R. F. I. SMITH and PATRICK WELLER (eds.), Public Service Inquiries in Australia
R. L. MATHEWS (ed.), State and Local Taxation
J. S. HUNTER, Federalism and Fiscal Balance: A Comparative Study
V. SUBRAMANIAM, Transplanted Indo-British Administration
NORMAN LEWIS and BERNARD GATESHILL, The Commission for Local Administration: a preliminary appraisal
MALCOLM BAINS, Management Reform in English Local Government
M. A. JONES, Organisational and Social Planning in Australian Local Government
J. J. MACKEN, C. MOLONEY and G. J. McCARRY, The Common Law of Employment
PATRICK KEATINGE, A Place Among The Nations: Issues of Irish Foreign Policy
JOHN D. ROCHE, Planning in the ESB
C. V. BROWN and P. M. JACKSON, Public Sector Economics     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
The Clinton Presidency: First Appraisals . By Colin Campbell and Bert Rockman, eds.
The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient . By Donald Wittman.
Agenda for Excellence 2: Administering the State . B. Guy Peters and Bert A. Rockman, eds.
From Art to Politics: How Artistic Creations Shape Political Conceptions . By Murry Edelman.
Election Campaigning: The New Marketing of Politics . By Dennis Kavanagh.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
John Agnew, Place and Politics: The Geographical Mediation of State and Society .
Don Foster with Dennis Davis and Diane Sandler, Detention and Torture in South Africa .
Kenneth W. Grundy, The Militarization of South African Politics .
Harold Wolpe, Race, Class and the Apartheid State .
Fred Halliday and Hamza Alavi (eds), State and Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan .
Joseph LaPalombara, Democracy Italian Style .
Howard Penniman (ed.), Italy at the Polls, 1983: A Study of the National Elections .
Harald Müller (ed.), A European Non-Proliferation Policy: Prospects and Problems .
Ronald E. Powaski, March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present .
John Simpson (ed.), Nuclear Non-Proliferation: An Agenda for the 1990s .
Patrick Seyd, The Rise and Fall of the Labour Left .
Hilary Wainwright, Labour—A Tale of Two Parties .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
MAX FRENKEL, Federal Theory , Canberra, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations
KENNETH WILTSHIRE, Planning and Federalism: Australian and Canadian Experience , St. Lucia
CHRISTOPHER D. GILBERT, Australian and Canadian Federalism 1967–1984: A Study of Judicial Techniques
MARK BIRRELL (ed.), The Australian States: Towards a Renaissance
IVAN BERINGER, GEORGE CHOMIAK, HAMISH RUSSEL, Corporate Management: The Australian Public Sector , Sydney
S.R. MAHESHWARI, The Higher Civil Service in Japan , New Delhi,
O.P. DWIVEDI AND NELSON E. PAULIAS (eds), Ethics in Government     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
At the Margins: Presidential Leadership of Congress , By GEORGE C. EDWARDS III.
The President as Prisoner: A Structural Critique of the Carter and Reagan Years. By WILLIAM F. GROVER.
Regulatory Interventionism in the Utility Industry . By BARBARA R. BARKOVICH.
Private Gain and Public Service: The Association of First Division Civil Servants. By BARRY O'TOOLE.
Ulster: Conflict and Consent. By TOM WILSON.
Guide to the Presidency. Edited by MICHAEL NELSON.
Prime Minister & Premiers: Political Leadership and Public Policy in Canada. Edited by LESLIE A. PAL AND DAVID TARAS.
The Future Of Local Government , Edited by JOHN STEWART and GERRY STOKER.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
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     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid, New Public Management: The Transformation of Ideas and Practice Noel Preston, Understanding Ethics (2nd edn) Rod Rhodes and Patrick Weller (eds.), The Changing World of Top Officials: Mandarins or Valets? Sandford Berg, Michael Pollitt and Masatsugu Tsuji (eds.), Private Initiatives in Infrastructure Jenny Fleming and Ian Holland (eds.), Motivating Ministers to Morality Heather Strang and John Braithwaite (eds.), Restorative Justice and Civil Society Xu Yi‐chong, Powering China, Reforming the Electric Power Industry in China Greg McCarthy, Things Fall Apart: A History of the State Bank of South Australia Peter Loveday, Dean Jaensch and Baiba Berzins, Labor's Win: The Northern Territory Election 2001     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
R onald M endelsohn , Australian Social Welfare Finance
C hristopher H odgkinson , The Philosophy of Leadership
J ohn S tewart , Local Government: The Conditions of Local Choice
G reg H ancock , M ichael W. K irst and D avid G rossman (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Educational Policy: Perspectives from Australia and USA
A. P arkin and J. W arhurst (eds.), Machine Politics in the Australian Labor Party
M ark F indlay , S andra E gger and J eff S utton (eds.). Issues In Criminal Justice Administration
E va E tzioni -H alevy , Bureaucracy and Democracy: A Political Dilemma     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. By Robert D. Putnam, with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti. Regulating Unfair Trade. By Pietro Nivola. Trends in Public Sector Pay: A Study of Nine OECD Countries 1985-1990. Public Management Occasional Papers The Rebirth of Federalism: Slouching Toward Washington. By David B. Walker. Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990. By Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman eds.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
J. Richard Aronson and Eli Schwartz (eds.), Management Policies in Local Government Finance
H. Clyde Reeves (ed.), The Role of the State in Property Taxation
C. Lowell Harriss (ed.), The Property Tax and Local Finance
Government Finance Research Center, Indicators of Urban Condition     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
ALF RATTIGAN, Industry Assistance: the inside story
B. HEAD(ed.), The Politics of Development in Australia
A. PATIENCE (ed.), The Bjelke-Petersen Premiership 1968–1983: Issues in Public Policy
DONALD C. ROWAT, The Ombudsman Plan: The Worldwide Spread of an Idea
P. R. HAY, J. HALLIGAN, J. WAR-HURST and B. COSTAR (eds), Essays on Victorian Politics
BEDE NAIRN, The 'Big Fella': Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891–1949
JIM HAGAN, Australian Trade Unionism in Documents
ALEXANDER KOUZMIN, J. R. NETHER-COTE, ROGER WETTENHALL (eds), Australian Commonwealth Administration 1983: Essays in Review
J. R. NETHERCOTE, ALEXANDER KOUZMIN, ROGER WETTENHALL (eds), Australian Commonwealth Administration 1984: Essays in Review     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Vernon Bogdanor (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Institutions .
David Held, Models of Democracy .
David Held and Christopher Pollitt (eds), New Forms of Democracy .
David Miller, Janet Coleman, William Connolly and Alan Ryan (eds), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought .
A. J. M. Milne, Human Rights and Human Diversity .
R. J. Vincent, Human Rights and International Relations .
Stephen Padgett and Tony Burkett, Political Parties and Elections in West Germany: The Search for a New Stability .
Marshall Shulman (ed.), East-West Tensions in the Third World .
Caroline Thomas, In Search of Security: the Third World in International Relations .     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Richard J. Arneson (ed.), Liberalism
Jyrki Käkönen (ed.), Perspectives on Environmental Conflict and International Politics
Ian H. Rowlands and Malory Greene (eds), Global Environmental Change and International Relations
W. W. Bartley III and Stephen Kresge (eds), The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume III. The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History
James DeFronzo, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
Jack A. Goldstone, Ted Robert Gurr and Farrokh Moshiri (eds), Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century
Guy Sorman, The Unborn Revolution
David Fischer, Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons: the Past and the Prospects
Carlo Schaerf and David Carlton (eds), Reducing Nuclear Arsenals
Robin Jeffrey, Politics, Women and Well-Being: How Kerala Became 'A Model'
Richard W. Franke and Barbara H. Chasin, Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State
Bill Jones and Lynton Robins (eds), Two Decades in British Politics: Essays to Mark Twenty-one Years of the Politics Association
Terry Nardin and David R. Mapel (eds), Traditions of International Ethics     

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Philip Pettit, The Common Mind: an Essay on Psychology, Society and Politics
David A. Lake (ed.), The International Political Economy of Trade. Volumes I & II
Mark W. Zacher (ed.), The International Political Economy of Natural Resources, Volumes I & II
Alec Cairncross, The British Economy since 1945: Economic Policy and Performance
Frances Cairncross and Alec Cairncross (eds), The Legacy of the Golden Age: the 1960s and their Economic Consequences
David Albright, Frans Berkhout and William Walker, World Inventory of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1992
Edward J. Laurance, Siemon T. Wezeman and Herbert Wulf, Arms Watch: SIPRI Report on the First Year of the UN Register of Conventional Arms
SIPRI Yearbook 1993, World Armaments and Disarmament
Herbert Wulf (ed.), Arms Industry Limited
Andrew Geddes, Britain in the European Community
Ole Nφrgaard, Thomas Pedersen and Nikolaj Peterson (eds), The European Community in World Politics
Neill Nugent (ed.), The European Community 1992: Annual Review of Activities
Lincoln Allison (ed.), The Changing Politics of Sport
Giovanni Giorgini, La città e il tiranno. Il concetto di tirannide nella Grecia del VH-IV secolo a.C
Antonella Besussi, La società migliore: principi e politiche del New Deal     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Using Theory to Improve Program and Policy Evaluations. Edited by Huey-Tsyh Chen and Peter H. Rossi. A Flock of Shepherds: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops. By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Leadership and the Bush Presidency: Prudence or Drift in an Era of Change? Edited by Ryan J. Barilleaux and Mary E. Stuckey. The Poverty Debate: Politics and the Poor in America. By C. Emory Burton. Economic Rationalism in Canberra — A Nation Building State Changes Its Mind. By Michael Pusey.     

CARTER, REAGAN, AND THE QUEST FOR LEADERSHIP

Books reviewed in this article.
Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., and David deF. Whitman, The President as Policymaker: Jimmy Carter and Welfare Reform
Anthony King (Ed.), Both Ends of the Avenue: The Presidency, the Executive Branch, and Congress in the 1980s
Fred I. Creenstein (Ed.), The Reagan Presidency: An Early Assessment     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
L isl K lein , New Forms of Work Organization
D avid H ambly and J ohn G oldring (eds.), Australian Lawyers and Social Change.
C.A. T isdell , Economics of Markets     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Owen Hughes, Public Management and Administration: An Introduction Byong‐man Ahn, John Halligan and Stephen Wilks (eds.), Reforming Public and Corporate Governance: Management and the Market in Australia, Britain and Korea Fred Argy, Where to From Here? Australian Egalitarianism Under Threat Richard Woolcott,The Hot Seat: Reflections on Diplomacy from Stalin's Death to the Bali Bombings Bent Flyvbjerg, Rationality and Power Bent Flyvbjerg, Making Social Science Matter Denis Murphy, Roger Joyce, Margaret Cribb and Rae Wear (eds.), The Premiers of Queensland Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh, A New Approach to Policy Evaluation: Mining and Indigenous People Michael Pusey, The Experience of Middle Australia. The Dark Side of Economic Reform     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Paul A. B. Clarke, The Autonomy of Politics .
Nevil Johnson, The Limits of Political Science .
William B. Quandt (ed.), The Middle East: Ten Years after Camp David .
Hisham Sharabi (ed.), The Next Arab Decade: Alternative Futures .
Emile Sahliyeh, In Search of Leadership: West Bank Politics Since 1967 .
John Dreijmanis (ed.), Karl Jaspers on Max Weber .
Wolfgang J. Mommsen, The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber .
Geoffrey Marshall (ed.), Ministerial Responsibility .
Marie-Laurence Netter, La Révolution Française n'est pas Terminée .
Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality .
Maurizio Viroli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 'Well-Ordered Society .
Mark Poster (ed.), Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings .     

Community Sustainability and Land Use

Books reviewed:
Timothy Beatley, Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities
Amer El-Ahraf, Mohammad Qayoumi and Ron Dowd, The Impact of Public Policy on Environmental Quality and Health: The Case of Land Use Management and Planning
Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft, (eds.) Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy
Kee Warner and Harvey Molotch, Building Rules: How Local Rules Shape Community Environments and Economies