BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article:
The Limits of Disenchantment. Essays On Contemporary European Philosophy. By Peter Dews.
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference In Contemporary Feminist Theory. By Rosi Braidotti.
Perversion and Utopia. A Study In Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory. By Joel Whitebook.
The Ethos of Pluralization. By William E. Connolly.     

Strengths and stresses of socialist states

He is author of several books, including The Contemporary Marx; From Affluence to Praxis: Philosophy and Social Criticism;and Democratic Socialism: Theory and Praxis.     

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Book Reviewed in this article:
Virtually Normal: an Argument About Homosexuality By Andrew Sullivan
The Sense of Appropriateness. Application Discourses In Morality and Law. By Klaus Günther
Second Thesis: Rationality Criteria of Application (Adequacy Vs. Phronesis )
The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics and A Hidden God. By Mitchell Cohen
Gemeinsinn Und Moral: Gundzüge Einer Intersubjektivistischen Moralkonzeption. By Lutz Wingert     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: The Ethical Organisation: Ethical Theory and Corporate Behaviour ALAN KITSON and ROBERT CAMPBELL Management Ethics: Theory, Cases and Practice GORDON L CLARK and ELIZABETH PRIOR JONSON (eds) Making Groups Work: Rethinking Practice J FENJAMIN, J BESSANT and R WATTS The Capable Executive PAUL H DAINTY and MOREEN ANDERSON Managing Performance and Goal Achievement IAN LEES Productive Diversity: A New Australian Model for Work and Management BILL COPE and MARY KALANTZIS Markets, the State and the Environment: Towards Integration ROBYN ECKERSLEY (ed.) Commercial Implications of Native Title BRYAN HORRIGAN and SIMON YOUNG (eds) Shooting the Banker: Essays on ATSIC and Self-Determination. PATRICK SULLIVAN (Ed.) The End of Politics? Explorations into Modern Antipolitics ANDREAS SCHEDLER (ed.) Socialism in Contemporary Australia TIM BATTIN and GRAHAM MADDOX (eds) Labor Essays 1997: Renewing and Revitalising Labor GARY JUNGWIRTH (ed.) The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia Since 1945 BARBARA SULLIVAN South Australia, Federalism and Public Policy ANDREW PARKIN (ed.) Korean Public Administration: Managing the Uneven Development BUN WOONG KIM and PAN SUK KIM State-Owned Enterprise Reform in Vietnam: Lessons from Asia NG CHEE YUEN, NICK FREEMAN and FRANK H HUYNH (eds)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Jonathan Schneer, Labour's Conscience: The Labour Left 1945–51 .
Giovanni Sartori, The Theory of Democracy Revisited: Vol. 1 The Contemporary Debate, Vol. 2 The Classical Issues .
Dimitry V. Pospielovsky, A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer Vol. 1: A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Anti-Religious Policies .
Dimitry V. Pospielovsky, A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer Vol. 2: Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigns and Persecutions .
Franklin Presler, Religion under Bureaucracy: Policy and Administration for Hindu Temples in South India .
Christiane Hurtig, Les Maharajahs et la Politique dans I'Inde Contemporaine .
B. P. Singh, The Problem of Change: A Study of North East India .
Omar Noman, The Political Economy of Pakistan 1947–85 .
J. A. S. Grenville, The Major International Treaties 1914–1945 .
J. A. S. Grenville and Bernard Wasserstein, The Major International Treaties since 1945: A History and Guide with Texts .
Michael Freeden (ed.), J. A. Hobson: A Reader .
J. A. Hobson (Introduction by J. Townshend), Imperialism: A Study .
John Keane, Democracy and Civil Society .
John Keane (ed.), Civil Society and the State .
Geoffrey Palmer, Unbridled Power: An Interpretation of New Zealand's Constitution and Government .     

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Review of Public Service Personnel Management in Victoria, Report to the Honourable J.E. Kirner MP, Premier of Victoria. By JOHN ALFORD, FAY MARLES and JOHN POWER
Review of The Auditor-General: Ally of the People and Parliament — Reform of the Australian Audit Office, Report 296
Sisters in Suits: Women and Public Policy in Australia, by MARIAN SAWER
Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State, by ANNA YEATMAN
Decisions and Organizations. By J.G. MARCH     

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Book reviewed in this article: Politics and Society in Contemporary France The State as Entrepreneur . Edited by Stuart Holland . West European Politics since 1945: The Shaping of the European Community . By Roger Morgan . Diplomacy and Persuasion : How Britain Joined the Common Market . By Uwe Kitzinger . Europe in The Making . By Walter Hallstein . The New Politics of European Integration . Edited by Ghita Ionescu . Out of the Ruins of Europe . By Walter Laqueur . The Long Debate on Poverty . Do Trade Unions Cause Inflation ? By Dudley Jackson , H. A. Turner and Frank Wilkinson . Staff Relations in the Civil Service . By Henry Parris . The Continuing Battle , Memoirs of a European The Memoirs of Lord Gladwyn . Politics in Western Europe : A Comparative Analysis . By Gordon Smith     

Rethinking “Structural Violence”

The concept of structural violence first developed in the 1960s as a way to explain disparities in health and development between wealthy countries and impoverished postcolonial states. This idea emerged out of Dependency Theory and defined poverty and disease in the developing world as the product of exploitation by colonial or neocolonial powers. Contemporary researchers continue to invoke structural violence to explain international health trends, but a review of recent literature reveals that the concept is increasingly outdated and poorly theorized. It is especially problematic when used to describe contemporary epidemics of infectious disease. In this paper I offer a brief overview of the concept of structural violence and critique the way it has been used to explain the political economy of two recent outbreaks: Ebola in West Africa and cholera in Haiti. Ultimately the paper concludes that these scholars claim to be explaining epidemics but instead use their research as a form of moralistic storytelling that leaves the structural dimensions of health unexplored.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Book Reviews the Barometer of Modern Reason. On the Philosophies of Current Events. By Vincent Descombes. Trans. By Stephen Adam Schwartz. Making Theory/Constructing Art. On the Authority of the Avant-Garde. By Daniel Herwitz. Hannah Arendt: Politics, History and Citizenship By Phillip Hansen.     

The 1981 Netherlands election

The Left in France. By Neill Nugent and David Lowe. London: Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xi + 275. £15.000.

Contemporary French Political Parties. Edited by David S. Bell. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. 199, £13.95.     

The Theory and Politics of Contemporary Social Movements

Social movements of the 1960s have given rise to new theoretical perspectives such as Resource Mobilization Theory and theories of New Social Movements. Resource Mobilization Theory analyses the dynamics of mobilization: the effective organisation of social movements and their influence on mainstream political institutions. By contrast, New Social Movement theories seek to explain the anti-institutional nature of contemporary movements which are said to pursue radical social transformation through mainly cultural means. In this article, both theoretical approaches are examined but found to be inadequate explanations of the complexities of contemporary movements and their relationship with the political environment.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The General Election and the Formation of Government in Denmark 1971
The Economic Stabilization Programmes and their Political Consequences in Finland, 1967–1970
The 1972 Parliamentary Election in Finland
Norway: Local Elections in the Shadow of the Common Market
Sweden: The First Year of the One-Chamber Riksdag     

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Books Reviewed in this Article: THE Alternative in Eastern Europe . By Rudolf Bahro . The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays . By E. P. Thompson . Lenin's Political Thought . Volume I. Theory and Practice in the Democratic Revolution . By Neil Harding . Marxism and the Party . By John Molyneux . ON Human Nature . By Edward O. Wilson . The American as Anarchist . Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism . By David de Leon . Re -Inventing Anarchy . What are Anarchists Thinking These Days ? Edited by Howard J. Ehrlich , David DE Leon and Glenda Morris . Conservative Essays . Edited by Maurice Cowling . Can Government Go Bankrupt ? By Richard Rose and Guy Peters . Parliament and Public Spending : The Expenditure Committee of the House OF Commons 1970-76. By Ann Robinson . The Irish Department of Finasce 1922-58. By Ronan Fanning . Administrative Secrecy in Developed Countries . Edited by Donald C. Rowat . Privacy . Edited by John B. Young . Les Nucleocrates . By Philippe Simonnot . Exportations Nucleaires et Non -Proliferation . By Simone Courteix .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The New British Empire By W. Y. E lliott
R ed R ussia By T heodor S eibert
B olshevism I n P erspective By J. de V. L oder
New Russia By A. de M onzie Translated by R. J. S. C urtis
R ussia and T he S oviet U nion in T he F ar E ast By V ictor A. Y akhoutoff
R ussia , M arket O r M enace ? By T homas D. C ampbell
S oviet R ussia A nd T he W orld By M auriced D obb
O n M arxism T o -D ay By M aurice D obb
T he M ugwumps A nd the L abour P arty By G. T. G arratt
M oney and P olitics A broad By J ames K err P ollock     

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T he M odernisation of B ritish G overnment . By W. T hornhill .
C abinet S tudies : A R eader . By V alentine H erman and E. A lt .
The Cabinet office to 1945.
R oyal C ommissions and D epartmental C ommittees in B ritain . By T. J. C artwright .
P ublic E xpenditure in P ractice . By L ord D iamond .
S cottish P olitical , S ystem . By J ames G. K ellas .
L lw , J ustice and P olitics . By G avin D rewry .
K eir H ardie : R adical and S ocialist . By K enneth O. M organ .
K eir H ardie . By I ain M clean .
T he B ritish G eneral E lection of O ctober 1974. By D avid B utler and D ennis K avanagh .
S ocial S ervice B udgets and S ocial P olicy . By H. G lennerster .     

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A Future For All . By Malcolm Wicks . In Defence of the Welfare State . Edited by Paul Wilding . Nationalizing Social Security in Europe and America . Edited by Douglas E. Ashford and E. W. Kelley . The Welfare State East and West . Edited by Richard Rose and Rei Shiratori . Income Packaging in the Welfare State . By Lee Rainwater , Martin Rein and Joseph Schwartz . Welfare in Transition . Edited by Robert Erikson and Rune Aberg . The Possibility of Politics . By Stein Ringen . Freedom , Equality and the Market . By Barry Hindess . Protecting the Vulnerable . By Robert E. Goodin . Does Aid Work ? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force . By Robert Cassen and Associates . Foreign Aid Reconsidered . By Roger C. Riddell . State , Finance and Industry . By A. Cox . Governing the Economy . By Peter A. Hall . The State and the Market Economy . By J. E. S. Hayward . Political Control of the Macro Economy . By Paul Whiteley . Political Theories of Modern Government . By Peter Self . A Lament for the Law Commission . By R. T. Oerton . Corporatism and Political Theory . By Alan Cawson . Varieties of Corporatism : Theory and Practice . By Peter J. Williamson . The White House and Capital Hill : The Politics of Presidential Persuasion . By Nigel Bowles . Karl Kautsky . By Dick Geary . J. Ramsay Mac Donald . By Austen Morgan . James Maxton . By William Knox . Labour People : Leaders and Lieutenants , Hardie to Kinnock . By Kenneth 0.Morgan . The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism . By Colin Campbell . The Politics of the Police . By Robert Reiner . What is to be done about Law and Order ? By John Lea and Jock Young . The governance of the Police . By Laurence Lustgarten . The Policing of Industrial Disputes 1893–1984. By Roger Geary .     

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Book reviews in this article: Jinnah of Pakistan . By Stanley Wolpert . Weakness and Deceit . US Policy and El Salvador . By Raymond Bonner . Revival and Reaction . The Right in Contemporary America . By Gillian Peele . Citiesin Recession . Critical Reactions to the Urban Policies of the new right. Edited by Ivan Szelenyi. Neville Chamberlain . Volume One : Pioneering and Reform , 1869–1929. By David Dilks . Garvin of the Observer. By David Ayerst . Ordinary Vices . By Judith N. Shklar . Science , Technology and Society Today . Edited by Michael Gibbons and Philip Gummett . New Technology and the Future of Work and Skills . Edited by Pauline Marstrand. Understanding Systems Failures . By Victor Bignell and Joyce Fortune . The Cold and the Dark : The World After Nuclear War . By Paul Ehrlich , Carl Sagan , Donald Kennedy and Walter Roberts . Social Constraints on Technological Progress . By Rob Coppock . Commons Select Committees : Catalysts for Progress ? Edited by Dermot Englefield . Sport and Political Ideology . By John M. Hoberman .     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Health Services Since the War Vol. i Problems of Haelth Care : The National Health Service Before 1957. By Charles Webster . Ruling Performance : British Governments from Attlee to Thatcher . Ed. by Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon . Advising the Rulers . Ed. by William Plowden . Ministers and Ministries By Richard Rose , with chapters by Peter Bell , Richard Parry and Ian Thomas . The Unprincipled Society . By David Marquand . Superpower Diplomacy in the Horn of Africa . By Samuel M. Makinda . Military Power and Politics in Black Africa . Ed. Simon Baynham . The Militarization of South African Politics . By Kenneth W. Grundy . Endgame in South Africa ? By Robin Cohen . Apartheid's Second Front . By Joseph Hanlon . Beggar Your Neighbours . By Joseph Hanlon . The Political Economy of Revolution Nicaragua . Ed. by Rose J. Spalding . Conflict in Nicaragua . A Muliidimensional Perspective . Ed. by Jiri Valenta and Esperanza Du?n . Nicaragua , Revolution and Democracy . By Jo? ; Luis Cokaggio . Youth and Society : Perspectives from Papua New Guinea . Ed by Maev O'Collins . Women In Politics in Papua New Guinea . Ed Maev O'Collins . Law and Order In a Changing Society . Ed. by Louise Morauta . The Challenge : Economics of Perestroika . By Abel Aganbegyan . The Soviet Economy : Problems and Prospects . By Padma Desai . Soviet Agriculture . By Zhores Medvedev . The German Greens : A Social and Political Profile . By Werner Hülsberg The Green Party in West Germany : Who Are They and What Do They Really Want ? By Manuel Dittmers . Prospects for Africa . A special report by Save the Children and the Overseas Development Institute . The Greening of Africa . By Paul Harrison . Imposing Aid : Emergency Assistance to Refugees . By B. E. Harrell -Bond . The imf & Ghana . The Confidential Record . Ed. By Eboe Hutchful . The Tears of the White Man . Compassion as Contempt . By Pascal Bruckner . Politics: a Work in Constructive Social Theory . By Roberto Mangabeira Unger . Social Theory : Its Situation and its Task . False Necessity : Anti -Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy . Plasticity into Power : Comparative -Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success . Church and Politics in a Secular Age . By Kenneth N. Medhurst and George H Moyser . The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers : Economic Change and Political Conflict from 1500 to 2000 By Paul Kennedy . James Connolly : A Political Biography . By Austen Morgan .     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this article: Arguments for Democracy . By Tony Benn . Edited by Chris Mullin . Breaking the Mould ? By Ian Bradley . The Future of Socialism . By Anthony Crosland . The Socialist Agenda . Edited by David Lipsey and Dick Leonard . Face the Future . By David Owen . Politics is For People . By Shirley Williams . The Strategy of Equality : Redistribution and the Social Services . By Julian Le Grand . The Question of Separatism . By Jane Jacobs . Financing Devolution Within the United Kingdom : A Study of the Lessons from Failure . By David Heald . Anthony Eden . By David Carlton . Knowing Right from Wrong : The Insanity Defense of Daniel Mc Naughtan . By Richard Moran . Retreat from Power : Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century . Volume One : 1906–1939. Volume Two: After 1939. Edited by David Dilks . Sadat . By David Hirst and Irene Beeson . Poverty and Famines : An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation . By Amartya Sen . An Evolutionary View of Economic Growth . By Ashok S. Guha . The European Transition from Oil : Societal Impacts and Constraints on Energy Policy . Edited by Gordon T. Goodman , Lars A. Kristoferson and Jack M. Hollander . The Global Politics of Arms Sales . By Andrew J. Pierre . From Dessalines to Duvalier . Race , Colour , and National Independence in Haiti . By David Nicholls . Mussolini . By Denis Mack Smith . Contemporary Terror : Studies in Sub-state Violence . Edited by David Carlton and Carlo Schaerf . Revolt from the Center . By Niels Meyer , Helveg Petersen and Villy Sorensen .