BOOK NOTES

Government Service as a Profession, Brisbane, Queensland Regional Group of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1978 K. WINDOW, Local Government Reform, Brisbane, Queensland Group of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1978 JAMES M. BUCHANAN and RICHARD E. WAGNER, FiscalResponsibility in Constitutional Democracy, Leiden and Boston, Studies in Public Choice, No. I, Martinus Nijhoff, 1978 Y. FORTIN, Le Controle de I'Administration Economique en Grand-Bretagne, Paris, Editions du CNRS, 1978 Ethics in Public Administration: A Bibliography, Canberra, Public Service Board, 1979 R. N. SPANN, Government Administration in Australia, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1979 COLIN PRITCHARD and RICHARD TAYLOR, Social Work: Reform or Revolution? R. T. GOLEMBIEWSKI and M. COHEN, People in Public Service: A Reader in Public Personnel Administration, Illinois, Peacock Publishers Inc., 1976 CLAUDIA D. SCOTT, Local and Regional Government in New Zealand: Function and Finance R. M. BURNS, Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: Canadian and Australian Experiences, Canberra, The Australian National University Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Research Monograph No. 22 1977 ALBERT BRETON and ANTHONY SCOTT, The Economic Consrirurion of Federal Stares, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1978 Bureau of Transport Economics, A Discussion Paper of Transport Planning in Sydney to 1975, Canberra, AGPS, 1978 RUSSELL MATHEWS, Australian Federalism 1977, Canberra, The Australian National University Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, 1978 RICHARD L. DAFT and SELWYN W. BECKER, Innovarion in Organizations. Innovation Adoption in School Organizations, New York, Elsevier, 1978 RICHARD LEHNE, The Quest for Justice. The Politics of School Finance Reform, New York, Longmans, 1978 JEAN I. MARTIN, The Migrant Presence. Australian Responses 1947–1977, Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, Studies in Society series No. 2, 1978 H. WHITMORE and M. ARONSON, Review of Administrative Action, Sydney, The Law Book Co., 1978 R. A. WILD, Social Strarification in Ausrralia, Sydney, George Allen & Unwin Australia Ltd., Studies in Society series No. 3,1978 ADAM GRAYCAR, Social Policy: An Australian Inrroducrion, Melbourne, Macmillan, 1977 DAVID SOLOMON, Inside rhe Australian Parfiamenr, Sydney, George Allen and Unwin, 1978 J. R. HAY, The Development of rhe British Werfare Srare. 1880–1975, London, Edward Arnold, 1978 INA BERTRAND, Film Censorship in Australia, St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1978 BRUCE MUIRDEN, When Power Wenr Public: a Study in Expediency: the nationalisation of the Adelaide Electric Supply Co., Bedford Park, APSA, Politics, Flinders University, 1978 ANDREW LEMON (ed.), Archives Conference Proceedings, 1977, Australian Society of Archivists, P.O. Box 83, O'Connor 2601, 1978 H. C. COOMBS, Kulinma: Listening to Aboriginal Australians, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1979 DIANA CLOSE, LOULA RODOPOULOS, JENNIE M. BRIGGS, and ELISABETH GAWITH, Interviewing Immigrants: Developing Research in the Australian Context, Melbourne, Clearing House on Migration Issues, 1978     

Books: Comparative Politics and Area Studies

R. Banton, P. Clifford, S. Frosh, J. Lousada and J. Rosenthal, The Politics of Mental Health (London, Macmillan, 1985)
T. Forester (ed.), The Information Technology Revolution (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985
Philip Green, Retrieving Democracy: in Search of Civic Equality (Totawa, N. J., Rowman & Allanheid 1985)
Joseph J. Houska, Influencing Mass Political Behaviour: Elites and Political Subcultures in the Netherlands and Austria (Berkeley, Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1985)
R. Kuhn (ed.), The Politics of Broadcasting (Beckenham, Croorn Helm, 1984)
G. E. Lang and K. Lang, Politics and Television Reviewed (Berkeley, Sage, 1984)
A. Organski, J. Kugler, J. Johnson and Y. Cohen, Births, Deaths and Taxes (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1984)
W. E. Styler, Adult Education and Political Systems (Nottingham, Publications Unit, Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham, 1985)
David Robertson, A Dictionary of Modern Politics (London, Europa Publications, 1985)
J. T. Morley, Secular Socialists: The CCF/NDP in Ontario , A Biography (Toronto, McCill-Queen's University Press, 1984)
H. S. Parmet, JFK: the Presidency of John F. Kennedy (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1984)
R. H. K. Vietor, Energy Policy in America Since 1945 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985)
G. T. Mazuzan and J. S. Walker, Controlling the Atom (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984)
A. Figueroa, Capitalist Development and the Peasant Economy in Peru (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984)
Harvey B. Feigenbaum, The Politics of Public Enterprise: Oil and the French State (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1985)
Eckhard Jesse, Wahlrecht zwischen Kontinuitat und Reform 1949–1983 (Dusseldorf, Droste, 1985)
H. Lydall, Yugoslav Socialism: Theory and Practice (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1984)     

Books: Political Theory and Methodology

Neal Wood, John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984)
John W. Yolton, Locke: an Introduction (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985)
N. Tarcov, Locke's Educationfor Liberty (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1984)
F. G. Whelan, Order and Artifice in Hume's Political Philosophy (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1985)
J. Robertson, The Scottish Enlightenment and the Militia Issue (Edinburgh, John Donald, 1985)
J. R. Dinwiddy, (ed.), The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 6, January 1798 to December 1801 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984)
Alvin W. Gouldner, Against Fragmentation: the Origins of Marxism and the Sociology of Zntellectuals (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985)
Bruce Mazlish, The Meaning of Karl Marx (New York, Oxford University Press, 1984)
Edmond Preteceille and Jean-Pierre Terrail, Capitalism, Consumption and Needs (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985)
F. R. Dallmayr, Polis and Praxis (Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1985)
J. L. Talmon, The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution (London, Secker and Warburg, 1980)
L. J. Macfarlane, The Theory and Practice of Human Rights (London, Temple Smith, 1985)
Jeremy Waldron (ed.), Theories of Righfs (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984)
Bill Jordan, The State: Authority and Autonomy (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985)
Franlin I. Gamwell, Beyond Preference: Liberal Theories of Independent Associations (Chicago, University of Chicago Press)
Ted C. Lewellen, Political Anthropology: an Introduction (South Hadley, Mass., Bergin and Garvey, 1983)
Ilkka Heiskanen and Sakari Hanninen (eds), Exploring the Basis of Politics (The Finnish Political Science Association, 1983)
Christopher G. A. Bryant, Positivism in Social Theory and Research (London, Macmillan, 1985)     

Book Reviews

Negotiating the World Economy, by John S. Odell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000, 252 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Reviewed by Daniel J.B. Mitchell Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition, edited by Robert A. Moffitt and Michele Ver Ploeg. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001, 268 pp., $42.95. Reviewed by Daniel H. Weinberg Red Tape and Housing Costs: How Regulation Affects New Residential Development, by Michael I. Luger and Kenneth Temkin. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2000, 192 pp., $24.95 cloth. Reviewed by Thomas Bier Waste Trading among Rich Nations, by Kate O'Neill. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000, 310 pp., $60.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman Markets for Clean Air, by A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan‐Pablo Montero, and Elizabeth M. Bailey. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 352 pp., $40.00. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming, by David G. Victor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, 178 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Robert Falkner Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, Stephen Van Evera, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999, 270 pp., $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Reviewed by Erik Gartzke Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons, by T. V. Paul. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2000, 227 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Leonard S. Spector The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, by David S. Landes, New York: W.W. Norton, 1998, 650 pp., $11.87 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. The End of the Nation‐state: The Rise of the Regional Economies, by Kenichi Ohmae, New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1995, 214 pp., $16.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. Governance in a Globalizing World, edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, 386 pp., $18.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr.     

Books: International Relations

D. Allen and A. Pijpers (eds), European Foreign Policy-Making and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1984)
Sydney D. Bailey (ed.), The Making of Resolution 242 (Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1985
David Howard Bain, Sitting in Darkness, Americans in the Philippines (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984
C. Coker, The Future of the Atlantic Alliance (London, Macmillan, with the Royal United Services Institute, 1985)
C. Rose, Campaigns Against Western Defence (London, Macmillan, with the Royal United Services Institute, 1985)
G. R. Berridge and A. Jennings (eds), Diplomacy at the UN (London, Macmillan, 1958)
John Burton, Global Conflict: The Domestic Sources of International Crisis (Brighton, Wheatsheaf Books for The Center for International Development, University of Maryland, 1984)
B. J. C. Kercher and D. J. Moss (eds), Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy 1895–1939 (Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 1984)
D. Holloway and J. M. 0. Sharp (eds), The Warsaw Pact (London, Macmillan, 1984)
W. R. Louis, The British Empire in the Middle East 1945–1951: Arab Nationalism, The United States, and Postwar Imperialism (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984)
Brian Murphy, The World Wired Up: Unscrambling the New Communications Puzzle (London, Comedia, 1983)
Steve Smith (ed.), International Relations: British and American Perspectives (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, in association with the British International Studies Association, 1985)
I. Wallerstein, The Politics of the World Economy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984)     

BOOK NOTES

AINSLEY JOLLEY, Macro-economic Policy in Australia 1972–76, Australian Studies in Economics, London, Croom Helm, 1978
DAVID SCHUMAN, The Ideology of Form, Lexington, Mass., Lexington Books, D. C. Heath, 1978
R. S. PARKER, The Government of New South Wales, University of Queensland Press, 1978
PETER HAY, IAN WARD, JOHN WARHURST, Anatomy of an Election
Hong Kong Journal of Public Administration, edited by Ian Scott and Miron Mushkat, Vol. 1, No. 1, June 1979     

Spatial Econometric Models of Cross-Sectional Interdependence in Political Science Panel and Time-Series-Cross-Section Data

Jude C. Hays Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801 e-mail: jchays{at}uiuc.edu e-mail: franzese{at}umich.edu (corresponding author) In this paper, we demonstrate the econometric consequences ofdifferent specification and estimation choices in the analysisof spatially interdependent data and show how to calculate andpresent spatial effect estimates substantively. We considerfour common estimators—nonspatial OLS, spatial OLS, spatial2SLS, and spatial ML. We examine analytically the respectiveomitted-variable and simultaneity biases of nonspatial OLS andspatial OLS in the simplest case and then evaluate the performanceof all four estimators in bias, efficiency, and SE accuracyterms under more realistic conditions using Monte Carlo experiments.We provide empirical illustration, showing how to calculateand present spatial effect estimates effectively, using dataon European governments' active labor market expenditures. Ourmain conclusions are that spatial OLS, despite its simultaneity,performs acceptably under low-to-moderate interdependence strengthand reasonable sample dimensions. Spatial 2SLS or spatial MLmay be advised for other conditions, but, unless interdependenceis truly absent or minuscule, any of the spatial estimatorsunambiguously, and often dramatically, dominates on all threecriteria the nonspatial OLS commonly used currently in empiricalwork in political science. Authors' note: This research was supported in part by NationalScience Foundation grant no. 0318045. We thank Chris Achen,Jim Alt, Kenichi Ariga, Neal Beck, Jake Bowers, Kerwin Charles,Bryce Corrigan, Tom Cusack, David Darmofal, Jakob de Haan, JohnDinardo, Zach Elkins, John Freeman, Fabrizio Gilardi, KristianGleditsch, Mark Hallerberg, John Jackson, Aya Kachi, JonathanKatz, Mark Kayser, Achim Kemmerling, Gary King, Hasan Kirmanoglu,James Kuklinski, Tse-Min Lin, Xiaobo Lu, Walter Mebane, CovadongaMeseguer, Michael Peress, Thomas Pluemper, Dennis Quinn, MeganReif, Frances Rosenbluth, Ken Scheve, Phil Schrodt, Beth Simmons,Duane Swank, Wendy Tam Cho, Craig Volden, Michael Ward, andGregory J. Wawro for useful comments on this and/or other workin our broader project on spatial econometric models in politicalscience. Bryce Corrigan, Aya Kachi, and Xiaobo Lu each providedexcellent research assistance and Kristian Gleditsch, Mark Hallerberg,and Duane Swank also generously shared data. We alone are responsiblefor any errors.     

Book Reviews

S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 1: Ancient Monarchies and Empires
S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 2: the Intermediate Ages
S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 3: Empires, Monarchies and the Modern State
Ivor Crewe and Anthony King, SDP: the Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. I: the Rise of the Network Society
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. II: the Power of Identity
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. III: End of the Millennium
Shane O'Neill, Impartiality in Context: Grounding Justice in a Pluralist World
Onora O'Neill, Towards Justice and Virtue: a Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning
Richard English and Graham Walker (eds), Unionism in Modern Ireland: New Perspectives on Politics and Culture
Norman Porter, Rethinking Unionism: an Alternative for Northern Ireland
James Mayall, The New Interventionism, 1991–1994
Ramesh Thakur (ed), The United Nations at Fifty: Retrospect and Prospect
Philip Pettit, Republicanism: a Theory of Freedom and Government
David Arter, Parties and Democracy in the Post-Soviet Republics: the Case of Estonia
V. Stanley Vardys and Judith B. Sedaitis, Lithuania: the Rebel Nation
Clifford W. Brown Jr, Linda W. Powell and Clyde Wilcox, Serious Money: Financial Power Bases in the Presidential Nomination Process
Thomas M. Holbrook, Do Campaigns Matter?
Harvey L. Schantz (ed.), American Presidential Elections: Process, Policy, and Political Change
Susan J. Tolchin, The Angry American: How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation     

Assessing faculty research productivity in graduate public policy programs

This study assesses the faculty research productivity of 23 graduate public policy programs, and is based upon data from the Social Sciences Citations Index. The results clearly show that a handful of policy programs have outstanding research records: UC Berkeley, Princeton, Michigan, Chicago, Duke, Carnegie-Mellon, Rand, Syracuse, and, of course, Harvard. Most of the rest also have quite commendable records by this criterion.Inquiries regarding this study should be addressed to Professor Fred Thompson, Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, where Michael Farber is currently a second-year student. Patricia Powers graduated in 1983 and is currently employed by ICF in Washington, D.C.     

BOOKS

Books reviewed in this article:
John Lovell, British Trade Unions, 1875-1933
Asa Briggs and John Saville (eds.), Essays in Labour History 1918-1939, Vol. 3
David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald
Nevil Johnson, In Search of the Constitution: Reflections on State and Society in Britain
Martin Minogue (ed.), Documents on Contemporary British Government, Vol. I: British Government and Constitutional Change , xii + 413 pp., Vol. 2: Local Government in Britain
William A. Robson, Welfare State and Welfare Society, Illusion and Reality
Wyn Grant and David Marsh, The CBI
Gabriele Ganz, Government and Industry . Professional Books, Abingdon, 1977, xii + 112 pp., £5.80.
Keith Barnard and Kenneth Lee (eds.), Conflicts in the National Health Service
The Citizen and the Public Agencies: a Report by Justice
Sir Leslie Scarman, English Law and Social Policy: A Symposium based on Sir Leslie Scarman's 1974 Hamlyn Lectures
Muriel Brown, An Introduction to Social Administration
David M. Clark, Battle for the Counties: Guide to the County Council Elections 1977
F. W. S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results
P. H. J. H. Gosden, Education in the Second World War: A Study in Policy and Administration
Chris Harlow, Innovation and Productivity under Nationalisation: The First Thirty Years
S. Jacobs, The Right to a Decent House
Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Diplomats: The Foreign Office Today
Ian Sellers, Nineteenth-Century Nonconformity
S. A. Walkland & Michael Ryle (eds.), The Commons in the Seventies
C. W. Cassinelli, Total Revolution     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Richard P. Nathan, Fred C. Doolittle and Associates, Reagan and the States Volume III, John M. Quigley, (ed.) Perspectives on Local Public Finance and Public Policy: A Research Annual George E. Peterson, Randall R. Bovbjerg, Barbara A. Davis, Walter G. Davis, Eugene C. Durman, Theresa A. Gullo, The Changing Domestic Priorities Series, John L. Palmer and Isabel V. Sawhill, (ed.) The Reagan Block Grants: What Have We Learned?     

Perceiving misperception

With Perry to Japan: A Memoir by William Heine, translated, with an introduction and annotations, by Frederic Trautmann. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1990. xv + 237 pp., illus. $32. ISBN 0-8248-1258-1.Images of Japanese Society: A Study in the Social Construction of Reality, by Ross Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto. Kegan Paul International, London and New York, 1990. xxxii+552pp. £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0-7103-0379-3.Home, Sweet Tokyo: Life in a Weird and Wonderful City, By Rick Kennedy. Kodansha International, Tokyo and New York, 1989. 192 pp. £3.95 paperback. ISBN 0-87011-908-7.Asia in Western Fiction, edited by Robin W. Winks and James R. Rush, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1990. x + 229 pp. £27.50. ISBN 0-7190-2906-6.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
A dam G raycar (ed.), Retreat from the Welfare State
K. S. I nglis , This is the ABC , Melbourne
C. B urns (ed.), The Path to Reform , Wellington, New Zealand, Institute of Public Administration/Government Printer, 1982. Pp. 219. $NZ15.75. R. S. M ascarenhas , Public Enterprise in New Zealand , Wellington
P eter S elf , Planning the Urban Region: A Comparative Study of Policies and Organisations , London
K rishna K. T ummala (ed.), Administrative Systems Abroad , Washington D.C.
E dward P.W olfers , D iana C onyers , P eter L armour and Y ash P. G hai , Decentralisation: Options and Issues. A Manual for Policy Makers , London
W illiam C. L outhan , The Politics of Managerial Morality: A Value-Critical Approach to Political Corruption and Ethics Policy , Washington, D.C.     

Indigenous societies and contemporary politics

Developments in Polynesian Ethnology, edited by Alan Howard and Robert Borofsky. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1990. ix + 374 pp. £26.60. ISBN 0–8248–1181‐X. Melanesia and the Western Polynesian Fringe: Vol. III of Russia and the South Pacific, 1696–1840, by Glynn Barratt. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1990. xvii+257 pp., 8 pp. plates, 12 maps. £34.15. ISBN 0–7748–0338‐X. Naga: Cultural Origins in Siam and the West Pacific, by Sumet Jumsai. Oxford University Press, Singapore and Oxford, 1989. 216 pp., 5 tables, 183 figs., 20 col. illus. £23.50 paperback. ISBN 0–19–588949–5. The Hawaiian Calabash, by Irving Jenkins, with photographs by Hugh de Vries. xii + 269 pp., col. and half‐tone plates, illus. £95. ISBN 0–7103–0339–4. New Caledonia: Anti‐colonialism in a Pacific territory (revised edition), by Helen Fraser. Peace Research Centre, ANU, Canberra, 1988. viii+88 pp. ISBN 0–7315–0484–4. Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific, by David Robie. Zed Books, London and New Jersey, 1990. 313 pp. £29.95 hardback, £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0–86232–864–0 and 0–86232–865–9. Australian Studies: A Survey, edited by James Walter. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, Toronto, viii + 326 pp. £16. ISBN0–19–554773‐X. Australian Society, edited by Keith Hancock. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990. xiii+258 pp. £25. ISBN 0–521–36161–3.     

NORTH AMERICA

Books Reviewed
George C. Edwards III, WHY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS BAD FOR AMERICA , (ALAN SIAROFF), 416
Alexander T. J. Lennon and Camille Eiss, RESHAPING ROGUE STATES: preemption, regime change, and US policy towards Iran, Iraq and North Korea , (ALEX BELLAMY), 417
Alan Schroeder, CELEBRITY-IN-CHIEF: how show business took over the White House , (AARON COOLEY), 417
Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber, GET OUT THE VOTE: how to increase voter turnout , (PAT LYONS), 418
Mark N. Franklin, VOTER TURNOUT AND THE DYNAMICS OF ELECTORAL COMPETITION IN ESTABLISHED DEMOCRACIES SINCE 1945 , (PAT LYONS), 418
David M. Ricci, GOOD CITIZENSHIP IN AMERICA , (YVES LABERGE), 420
Steve A. Yetiv, EXPLAINING FOREIGN POLICY: US decision making and the Persian Gulf War , (LEE MARSDEN), 420
John Lewis Gaddis, SURPRISE, SECURITY, AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE , (ERIC J. C. MEIJER), 420
James David Meernik, THE POLITICAL USE OF MILITARY FORCE IN US FOREIGN POLICY , (CLAIRE THOMAS), 422
Thomas M. Magstadt, AN EMPIRE IF YOU CAN KEEP IT: power and principle in American foreign policy , (SAMUEL JACOB KURUVILLA), 423
Paul Hollander (ed.), UNDERSTANDING ANTI-AMERICANISM: its origins and impact at home and abroad , (YVES LABERGE), 422
Robert Harrison, CONGRESS, PROGRESSIVE REFORM, AND THE NEW AMERICAN STATE , (AARON COOLEY), 425
Andrew S. McFarland, NEOPLURALISM: the evolution of political process theory , (JAMES G. MELLON), 425
Christopher J. Insole, THE POLITICS OF HUMAN FRAILTY: a theological defence of political liberalism , (LIFFORD ANGELL BATES, JR.), 426     

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     

Comparative Politics,Policy Analysis and Governance ‐ A European Contribution to the Study of the European Union?

Policy‐Making in the European Union. Fourth edition. Edited by Helen Wallace and William Wallace. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.xxvi + 610, 32 figures, 21 boxes, 45 tables, 2 appendices, bibliography, index. £17.99 (paper) ISBN 0–19–878242‐X.

The Political System of the European Union. By Simon Hix. London: Macmillan, 1999. Pp.xx + 427, 53 tables, 28 figures, appendix, bibliography, index. £49.50 (cloth) ISBN 0–333–71653–1; £16.99 (paper) ISBN 0–333–71654‐X.

Decision‐Making in the European Union. By John Peterson and Elizabeth Bomberg. London: Macmillan, 1999. Pp.xvi + 336, 52 boxes, 16 tables, bibliography, index. £47.50 (cloth) ISBN 0–333–60491–1; £15.99 (paper) ISBN 0–333–60492‐X.

The Transformation of Governance in the European Union. Edited by Beate Kohler‐Koch and Rainer Eising. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp.xvi + 320, 7 tables, 2 figures, bibliography, index. £60 (cloth) ISBN 0–415–21548‐X.

Theories of European Integration. By Ben Rosamond. London: Macmillan, 2000. Pp.xiii + 232, 5 tables, 1 figure, bibliography, glossary, index. £42.50 (cloth) ISBN 0–333–64716–5; £13.99 (paper) ISBN 0–333–64717–3.     

Rivalry and superior dispatch: an?analysis of competing courts in medieval and early modern England

In most areas, economists look to competition to align incentives, but not so with courts. Many believe that competition enables plaintiff forum shopping, but Adam Smith praised rivalry among courts. This article describes the courts when the common law developed. In many areas of law, courts were monopolized and imposed decisions on unwilling participants. In other areas, however, large degrees of competition and consent were present. In many areas, local, hundred, manorial, county, ecclesiastical, law merchant, chancery, and common law courts competed for customers. When parties had a choice, courts needed to provide a forum that was ex ante value maximizing.     

Shorter note

US Senate Hearings before the Select Committee on Intelligence, 102nd Congress, First Session on the Nomination of Robert M. Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence: Vol. 1, September 16, 17, 19, 20 1991; Vol.2, September 24, October 1, 2 1991; Vol.3, October 3, 4, 18 1991 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1992).