Book Reviews

Advice and Consent: The Development of the Policy Sciences. By PETER DE LEON.
The Reach and Grasp of Policy Analysis: Comparative Views of the Craft. By RICHARD HOFFERBERT.
Governing Education: A Sociology of Policy Since 1945. By ANDREW McPHERSON and CHARLES D. RAAB.
Privatising the World. By OLIVER LETWIN.
La France Face au Sud: Le Miroir Brise. By JACQUES ADDA and MARIE-CLAUDE SMOUTS.
The President and Civil Rights Policy: Leadership and Change. By STEVEN A. SHULL
The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation: Tracking the Unicorn. By BRUCE YANDLE.
L'Etat en Amerique. Edited by MARIE-FRANCE TOINET.     

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Pressure Power and Policy: State Autonomy and Policy Networks in Britain and the United States . By Martin J. Smith.
Bureaucracy in Crisis: Three Mile Island, the Shuttle Challenger, and Risk Assessment . By Maureen Hogan Casamayou.
Ethics in Public Service . Edited by Richard A. Chapman.
Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability . By Paul C.
Media Polls in American Politics . Edited by Thomas E. Mann and Gary R. Orren.
Politics and Policy Implementation: Project Renewal in Israel . By Frederick A. Lazin.
Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation . By Stephen Breyer.
The Moral Dimensions of Public Policy Choice: Beyond the Market Paradigm . Edited by John Martin Gillroy and Maurice Wade.     

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Privatizing Public Enterprises: Constitutions, the State and Regulation in Comparative Perspective . By Cosmo Graham and Tony Prosser.
Politics and Jobs; The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States . By Margaret Weir.
The Dynamics of Legislation: Leadership and Policy Change in the Congressional Process . By Charles R. Wise.
Controversies in Minority Voting: The Voting Rights Act in Perspective . Edited by Bernard Grofman and Chandler Davidson.
Native Americans and Public Policy . By Fremont J. Lyden and Lyman H. Legters.     

REVIEWS

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Review Essay Interpretive Policy Analysis Frank Fischer
Review Essay Interpretive Policy Analysis Maarten A Hajer & Hendrik Wagenaar eds
Review Essay Interpretive Policy Analysis Dvora Yanow
Review Essay Interpretive Policy Analysis Dvora Yanow
Australia's Choices: Options for a Prosperous and Fair Society Ian Marsh ed.
Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice Gordon Tullick, Arthur Seldon and Gordon L Brady
Civil Service Systems in Anglo-American Countries John Halligan ed.
The Decline of the Tea Lady: Management for Dissidents Jenny Stewart     

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Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma . By Mary R. English.
Making War: The 200-Year-Old Battle Between the President and Conwess Over How Ameriia Goes to War . By John Lehman.
The Muses, The Masses and the Massey Commission . By Paul Litt.
Toxic Politics, Responding to Chemical Disasters . By Michael R. Reich.
The Speaker and the Budget, Leadership in the Post-Reform House of Representatives . By Daniel J. Palazzolo.
Health Insurance and Public Policy: Risk, Allocation, and Equity . Edited by Miriam K. Mills and Robert H. Blank.
Regulating Privacy Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States . By Colin J. Bennett.     

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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy . By Bryan D. Jones.
Economic Politics . By William R. Keech.
Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective . By Theda Skocpol.
The Brazilian Voter: Mass Politics in Democratic Transition, 1974–1986 . By Kurt von Mettenheim.     

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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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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Timothy Conlan. 1988. New Federalism: Intergovernmental Reform from Nixon to Reagan .
Phoebe H. Cottingham and David T. Ellwood (eds.) 1989. Welfare Policy for the 1990s.
Robert E. Goodin and Julian LeGrand . 1987. Not Only the Poor The Middle Classes and the Welfare State
B. Guy Peters . 1988. Comparing Public Bureaucracies: Problems of Theory and Method
Alice Sardell. 1988. The U.S. Experiment in Social Medicine: The Community Health Center Program, 1965-1986
Robert Jacobson . 1989. An "Open" Approach to Information Policy Making: A Case Study of the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act
Mimi Abramovitz . 1989. Regulating the Lives of Women
Daniel A. Mazmanian, et al. 1988. Breaking Political Gridlock: California's Experiment in Public-Private Cooperation for Hazardous Waste Policy     

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Robert A. Heineman, William T. Bluhm, Steven A. Peterson, and Edward N. Kearny . 1990. The World of the Policy Analyst .
James Ring Adams . 1990. The Big Fix Inside the S t3 L Scandal: How an Unholy Alliance of Politics and Money Destroyed America's Banking System .
Peter H. Rossi . 1989. Down and Out in America: The Origins of Hmlessness .
Mavis Maclean and Dulcie Groves (Eds.). 1991. Women's Issues in Social Policy .     

ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC POLICY

Comparative State Policies. Edited by B. GALLIGAN (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1988, 303pp).
From Fraser to Hawke: Australian Public Policy in the 1980s. Edited by B. HEAD and A. PATIENCE (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1989, 525pp).
Hawke and Australian Public Policy: Consensus and Restructuring. Edited by E. JENNETT and R. STEWART (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1990, 422PP).     

BOOK REVIEWS

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Darrell M. West . 1987. Congress and Economic Policy Making
James D. Savage . 1988. Balanced Budgets & American Politics
Raymond Tatlovich and Byron W. Daynes (Eds.) 1988. Social Regulatory Policy .
W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson . 1988. Broken Promises: How Americans Fail Their Children .
Curtis Prout and Robert N. Ross . 1988. Care and Punishment: The Dilemmas of Prison Medicine .     

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Localism and Centralism in Europe: The Political and Legal Bases of Local Self-Government . By Edward C. Page.
Liberty and Community: Canadian Federalism and the Failure of the Constitution . By Robert C. Vipond.
Reluctant Partners: Implementing Federal Policy . By Robert P. Stoker.
Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics . By Bron Raymond Taylor.
Repealing the War Powers Resolution: Restoring the Rule of Law in US Foreign Policy . By Robert F. Turner.
Agenda For Excellence: Public Service in America . By Patricia W. Ingraham and Donald F. Kettl, eds.
The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat: Appraisals and Evidence . By Andre Blais and Stephane Dion, eds.
Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking and Investigations, 1946–1990 . By David R. Mayhew.     

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The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite. By JAMES ALLEN SMITH.
The Political Failure of Employment Policy 1945–1982. By GARY MUCCIARONI.
The Politics of Public Spending in Canada. By DONALD J. SAVOIE.
The Organization of Hypocrisy. Talk, Decisions and Actions in Organizations. By NILS BRUNSSON.
Conflict and Rhetoric in French Policymaking. By FRANK R. BAUMGARTNER.
Affirmative Talk, Affirmative Action: A Comparative Study of the Politics of Affirmative Action. By AUGUSTUS J. JONES, JR.     

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Democracy's Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity, and the Global Economy . By Robert C. Paehlke.
Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy . By Henry Richardson.
Time . By Barbara Adam.     

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Regulating the New Financial Services Industry . By CYNTHIA A. CLASSMAN, JAMES L. PIERCE, ROBERTA KARMEL AND JOHN J. LAFALCE.
The Organization-Society Nexus: A Critical Review of Models and Metaphors . By RONALD G. CORWIN.
Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy . By RITA MAE KELLY and JANE BAYES (Eds).
Why Presidents Succeed: A Political Psychology of Leadership . By DEAN KEITH SIMONTON.
Public Utilities and the Poor: Rights and Responsibilities . By DAVID C. SWEET and KATHRYN WERTHEIM HEXTER.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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Andrea L. Bonnicksen . 1989. In Vitro Fertilization: Building Policy from Laboratories to Legislatures .
Jacques S. Gansler . 1989. Affording Defense .
Harrel R. Rodgers, Jr. (ed.). 1988. Beyond Welfare: New Approaches to the Problem of Poverty in America .
Alan C. Lamborn and Stephen P. Mumme . 1988. Statecraft, Domestic Politics, and Foreign Policy-Making: The El Chamizal Dispute .
Edmund F. McGarrell . 1988. Juvenile Correctional Reform: Two Decades of Policy and Procedural Change .
Robert D. Tollison (ed.). 1988. Clearing the Air: Perspectives on Environmental Tobacco Smoke .     

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William Ascher and Robert Healy . 1990. Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries: Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution .
Severyn T. Bruyn . 1991. A Future for the American Economy: The Social Market .
Dan Caldwell . 1991. The Dynamics of Domestic Politics and Arms Control: The SALT 11 Treaty Ratijication Debate .
Charles R Wise . 1991. The Dynamics of Legislation: Leadership and Policy Change in the Congressional Process .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Tage Erlander: Serving the Welfare State. By OLOF RUIN (translated by Michael E. Metcalf).
Ethics for Policymaking: A Methodological Analysis. By EUGENE J. MEEHAN.
Ethics for Public Managers. By HAROLD F. GORTNER.
The Responsible Public Servant. By KENNETH KERNAGHAN and JOHN W. LANGFORD.
The Environmental Contexts of AIDS. By MARIE A. MUIR.
The Catastrophe Ahead: AIDS and the Case for a New Public Policy. By WILLIAM B. JOHNSTON and KEVIN R. HOPKINS.
Hostile Brothers: Competition and Closure in the European Electronks Industry. By ALAN CAWSON, KEVIN MORGAN, DOUGLAS WEBBER, PETER HOLMES and ANNE STEVENS.
Politics, Markets and America's Schools. By JOHN E. CHUBB and TERRY M. MOE.
The Symbolic Presidency: How Presidents Portray Themselves. By BARBARA HINCK-LEY.     

GOVERNMENT PRODUCTIVITY, EFFECTIVENESS, AND PUBLIC POLICY

Marc Holzer and Stuart S. Nagel (editors) . 1984. Productivity and Public Policy .
George W. Downs and Patrick D. Larkey . 1986. The Search for Government Efficiency: From Hubris to Helplessness
Elaine Morley . 1986. A Practitioner's Guide to Public Sector Productivity Improvement .
Richard H. Silkman and Dennis R. Young with the assistance of Robert Lipp . 1985. Subsidizing Inefficiency: A Study of State Aid and Local Government Productivity .     

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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.