Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Ombudsmen and Others: Citizens' Protectors in Nine Countries By Walter Gellhorn. Pressure Groups and Political Culture: A Comparative Study By F.G. Castles. The Thai Bureaucracy: Institutional Change and Development By William J. Siffin. Thailand: the Modernization of a Bureaucratic Polity By Fred W. Riggs. The Economic Impact of TVA Edited by John R. Moore. A History of Police in England and Wales, 900–1966 By T. A. Critchley. Local Government at Work: A Case Study of a County Borough By H. Victor Wiseman. County Government in England and Wales By Jeffrey Stanyer. Public Investment in Australia: A Study of Australian Public Authority Investment and Development By Russell Mathews. The Craft of Diplomacy: Mechanics and Development of National Representation Overseas By Douglas Busk. Whitehall and the Commonwealth By J. A. Cross. The NATO International Staff/Secretariat 1952–1957: A Study in International Administration By Robert S. Jordan.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Towards a European Civil Service By D. Coombes. European Unity: Co-operation and Integration—A Survey of the European Organizations By Michael Palmer, John Lambert et. al. The Power of the Prime Minister By Humphrey Berkeley. Public Enterprises in India: A Study of Public Relations and Annual Reports By Laxmi Narain. The Nationalized Industries: An Introduction By W. Thornhill. The Claim of Scotland By H. J. Paton. The Union Public Services Commission By M. A. Muttalib. Public Service Commissions of India: A Study By C. N. Bhalerao. Treasury Control and Social Administration: A Study of Establishment Growth at the Local Government Board 1871–1905 By Roy M. MacLeod. Resources for Education By John Vaizey and John Sheehan.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviews in this articles: The Member of Parliament and the Administration: The Case of the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries By David Coombes. Greater London: The Politics of Metropolitan Reform By Frank Smallwood. Local Government in Crisis By William A. Robson. Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective By Ferrel Heady. Approach to Public Administration By E.N. Gladden. Introduction à la Science Administrative By Bernard Gournay. The Assistant Secretaries By Dean E. Mann with J.W. Doig. Changing Administrations By D.T. Stanley. Guide to Decision: The Royal Commission By Charles J. Hanser. Corruption: Control of Maladministration By John B. Monteiro. Cases and Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law By Geoffrey Wilson. Pensions and Public Servants: A Study of the Origins of the British System By Marios Raphael. Social Casework and Administration By Anthony Forder.     

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Book reviews in this article: Local Government in South East England Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Political Science. The Lessons of the London Government Reforms Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Political Science Governing the Commune of Veyrier: Politics in Swiss Local Government By George A. Codding, Jr. The System By Max Nicholson. The Commonwealth Bureaucracy By Gerald E. Caiden. Men Who Govern: A Biographical Profile of Federal Political Executives By David T. Stanley, Dean E. Mann and Jameson W. Doig. The President as Chief Administrator: A Study of Franklin D. Roosevelt By A.J. Wann. The French Parliament 1958–67 By Philip M. Williams. Le Gouvernement et l'Administration de la France By Gérard Belorgey. Broadcasting and Public Policy By E.G. Wedell. Science and Technology in British Politics By Norman J. Vig. The Comprehensive Development Area By T. Hart. Man and Environment: Crisis and the Strategy of Choice By Robert Arvill.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this Article New Federations: Experiments in the Commonwealth By R.L. Watts. Central Departments and Local Authorities By J.A.G. Griffith. Husing and Local Government By J.B. Cullingworth. The Organization and Practice of Local Government By Geoffrey Drain. Policies and Politics in Secondary Education By David Peschek and J. Brand. Decisions: Case Studies in Australian Administration Edited by B.B. Schaffer and D.C. Corbett. The Process of Planning: A Study of India's Five-Year Plans 1950–1964 By A.H. Hanson. Development Planning in Ireland By Loraine Donaldson. Nationalization in British Industry By Leonard Tivey. A History of Income Tax By B.E.V. Sabine. Doctors and the State: The British Medical Profession and Government Action in Public Health, 1870–1912 By Jeanne L. Brand. Career Service: An Introduction to the History of Personnel Administration in the Commonwealth Public Service 1960–1961 By G.E. Caiden.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Essays on Reform 1967 Edited by Bernard Crick. Organizational Intelligence By Harold I. Wilensky. Politics and Government at Home and Abroad By William A. Robson. The British System of Government By A. H. Birch. Field Administration: An Aspect of Decentralization By B.C. Smith. Public Administration in Northern Ireland Edited by Edwin Rhodes. The Power of Parliament By Ronald Butt. Data Processing Managers By R.J. Harper. Computer Dynamics in Public Administration By B.G. Schumacher. The Committee System of the United States Congress By John D. Lees. Colonial Development and Good Government By J.M. Lee. Management in Hospitals By J.A. Spencer. French Pensions By Tony Lynes. The City Government of Calcutta: A Study of Inertia By Ali Ashraf.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Statesmen in Disguise: The Changing Role of the Administrative Class of the British Home Civil Service, 1853–1966 Geoffrey K.Fry. Macmillan. The Higher Civil Service in Britain By Richard A.Chapman. Governing Britain By A.H.Hanson and Malcolm Walles. Government in France: An Introduction to the Executive Power By Malcolm Anderson. Government in Sweden: The Executive at Work By Neil Elder. Local Government in England 1958–1969 By H.Victor Wiseman (ed.). Democracy and Community By William Hampton. Going Comprehensive: Educational Policy-making in Two County Boroughs By R.Batley, O.O'Brien and H.Parris. American City Politics By P.J.Madgwick. Government Patronage of the Arts in Great Britain By J.S.Harris.     

Book Reviews

The New Politics of British Local Governance. Edited by Gerry Stoker. Macmillan, 2000. Pp.xvii + 294, £16.99 pb.

Local Political Leadership. By Steve Leach and David Wilson. Policy Press, 2000. Pp.v + 228. £17.99.

Structural Reform of British Local Government: Rhetoric and Reality. By Michael Chisholm. Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp.194. £40.

The Careers of Councillors: Gender, Party and Politics. By Catherine Bochel and Hugh M. Bochel. Ashgate, 2000. Pp.143. £37.50 hb.

Communicating Successfully in Groups: A Practical Guide for the Workplace. By Marie Reid and Richard Hammersley. Routledge, 2000. Pp.188. £10.99 pb.

Using Psychology in Management Training: The Psychological Foundations of Management Skills. By David A. Statt. Routledge, 2000. £14.99.

Housing Associations and Housing Policy: A Historical Perspective. By Peter Malpass. Macmillan Press, 2000. Pp.298. £16.99 pb.

The State of UK Housing: A Factfile on Dwelling Conditions. By Philip Leather and Tanya Morrison. The Policy Press, 2000. £15.95 hb.

Allocating Social Housing: Law and Practice in the Management of Social Housing. By Hal Pawson, David Mullins and Siobhan McGrath. Lemos and Crane, 2000. £18.95 pb.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this Article The Scientific Estate By Don K. Price. The Government of Northern Ireland: Public Finance and Public Services 1921–1964 By R. L. Lawrence. The Inland Revenue By Sir Alexander Johnston. The Metropolis By John C. Bollens and Henry J. Schmandt. An Anatomy of Social Welfare Services By Margot Jefferys. Local Health and Welfare Services By Julia Parker. I Was There: The Memoirs of H. S. Tremenheere Compiled and edited with critical commentary by E. L. and O. P. Edmonds. Tribunals and Inquiries By N. D. Vandyk. Introducing Computers By F. J. M. Laver. Management: A Subject Listing of Recommended Books, Pamphlets and Journals By Betsy Ann Olive.     

Book reviews

Iron Oxen: A Documentary of Revolution in Chinese Farming. By William Hinton. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1970. Pp. x + 225. $6.95 and £2.15.

Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University. By William Hinton. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1972. Pp. 288. $7.95 and £3.15.

The Development of China's Steel Industry and Soviet Technical Aid. By M. Gardner Clark. Ithaca, NY: New York State School of Industrial and Labour Relations, Cornell University, 1973. Pp. vii + 104, appendices. $7.00.

Urban Unemployment in Developing Countries. By Paul Bairoch. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1973. Pp. v + 99. 12 Swiss F.

Fiscal Federalism. By Wallace E. Oates. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. Pp. xvi + 256, diagrams.

Foreign Resources and Economic Development: A Symposium on the Report of the Pearson Commission. Edited by T. J. Byres. Portland, Oregon and London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1971. Pp. xi + 199, index. £2.75.

The Inter‐American Development Bank: A Study in Development Financing. By Sidney Dell. New York, Washington and London: Praeger Publishers, 1972. Pp. xv + 255. £6.25.

Money and Economic Development: The Horowitz Lectures of 1972. By Milton Friedman. New York: Praeger, 1973. Pp. x + 67, diagrams. £3.50.

Modern Revolutions: An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political Phenomenon. By John Dunn. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. 294, index, bibliography. £1 .40 (Paper).

Socialist Economic Development and Reforms. By J. Wilczynski. London: Mac‐Millan, 1972. Pp. xvii + 350. £5.

Reforms in the Soviet and East European Economies. Edited by L. A. D. Dellin and Hermann Gross. Lexington: D. C. Heath and Co, 1972, Pp. viii + 175. £4.

Politics and Society in Post‐War Naples. By P. A. Allum. London: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 410, appendices, maps, bibliography and index. £11.00.

Latin America Review of Books. Edited by Colin Harding and Christopher Roper. London and Leeds: Latin America Review of Books Ltd, No. 1 Spring 1973. Pp. 220. £3.00 (cloth), £1.25 (paper).

Rural Guerrillas in Latin America. By Richard Gott. London: Penguin Books, 1973. Pp. 637. £1.00.

Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution. By André Gunder Frank, New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1969. Pp. xviii + 409. £3.90.

Politics and Social Structure in Latin America. By James Petras. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1970. Pp. 382. £4.25.

The Politics of Land Reform in Chile, 1950–1970. By Robert R. Kaufman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972. Pp. 321. £6.00.

Political Mobilization of the Venezuelan Peasant. By John Duncan Powell. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. 229.

Urban Challenge in East Africa. Edited by John Hutton. Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1972. Pp. viii + 285, map, tables and photos. Shs. 42 in East Africa.

Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1972. Pp. xx + 600. 305 wf.

Arms and African Development. Proceedings of the First Pan‐African Citizens Conference. Edited by Frederick S. Arkhurst. New York and London: Praeger, 1972. Pp. xvi + 158. £7.75.

Man, State, and Society in the Contemporary Maghrib. Edited by I. William Zartman. New York: Praeger and London: Pall Mall, 1973. Pp. vii + 531, appendices with tables, maps, bibliographical essay. $13.50 and £5.67.

Histoire Economique du Québec 1851–1896. By Jean Hamelin and Yves Roby. Editions Fides: Montreal, 1971. Pp. 436, index. $10.00.

Indochina in Conflict: A Political Assessment. Edited by Joseph J. Zasloff and Alan E. Goodman. Lexington, Mass., Toronto and London: D. C. Heath and Co, 1972. Pp. xv + 227. £5.00.

The Dynamics of Indian Political Factions. By Mary C. Carras. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972. £6.50.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Federal Britain? The Case for Regionalism By J.C.Banks. Planning for Service: An Examination of the Organization and Administration of Local Authority Social Service Departments By Robert Foren and Malcolm J.Brown. Modern Management in Local Government By Raymond S.B.Knowles. The Motor Car and Politics, 1896–1970 By William Plowden. Studies in Nigerian Administration Edited by D.J.Murray. The Rise of a Central Authority for English Education By A.S.Bishop.     

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Appropriate Technologies for Third World Development: Proceedings of a Conference held by the International Economic Association at Teheran, Iran. Edited by Austin Robinson, London: Macmillan, 1979. pp. xix + 417. £20.

Appropriate Technology: Technology with a Human Face. By P. D. Dunn. London: Macmillan, 1978. pp. xi+ 220. £6.95.

Small Enterprises in Developing Countries: Case Studies and Conclusions. By Malcolm Harper with Tan Thiam Soon. London: Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., 1979. pp. xi+ 115. £2.95.

Economics and the Design of Small Farmer Technology. Edited by A. Valdes, G. M. Scobie and J. L. Dillon. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1979.

Economic Development: Empirical Investigations. By Pan A. Yotopoulos and Jeffrey B. Nugent. New York: Harper and Row, 1976. pp. 478.

Socialist Planning. By Michael Ellman. Cambridge University Press, 1979. pp. 300. Hardback £15, paperback £4.95.

Monetary Policy and the Open Economy: Mexico's Experience. By D. Sykes Wilford. New York: Praeger, 1977.

South Asia's Exports to the EEC — Obstacles and Opportunities. By V. Cable and A. Weston. London: Overseas Development Institute, 1979. pp. vii+ 179, £5.00

The Growth of East African Exports and their Effect on Economic Development. By Leslie Stein. London: Croom Helm, 1979. pp. 272. £11.95.

Peru 1890–1977; Growth and Policy in an Open Economy. By Rosemary Thorp and Geoffrey Bertram. London: Macmillan, 1978. pp. xv + 475. £15.

Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana. By Rhoda Howard. London: Croom Helm, 1978. pp. 244, £8.95.

Peruvian Nationalism: A Corporatist Revolution. Edited by David Chaplin. New Brunswick, N. J.: Transaction Books, 1976. pp. 494. £5.

An Economic History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century. By Laura Randall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. pp. 322. $21.90.

The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition. By Alan Macfarlane, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978. pp. xv+216. £8.50.

World Accumulation, 1492–1789. By Andre Gunder Frank. London: Macmillan, 1979. pp. 303. Hardback £10, paperback £3.95.

Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment. By Andre Gunder Frank. London: Macmillan, 1979. pp. xx + 226. Hardback £10, paperback £4.95.

Unequal Exchange, Imperialism and Underdevelopment. An Essay on the Political Economy of World Capitalism. By Ranjit Sau. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1978. pp. xi + 202. Rs50/5.50.

The Soviet Theory of Development: India and the Third World in Marxist‐Leninist Scholarship. By Stephen Clarkson. London: Macmillan, 1979, pp. xii + 322, Notes and index, £12.00 (Hardback), £4.95 (paperback).

Pastoral Change and the Role of Drought. By Gudrun Dahl and Anders Hjort. Stockholm: SAREC Report No. 2, 1979. pp. 50, bibliography, six diagrams.

Ujamaa Villages in Tanzania: Analysis of a Social Experiment. By Michaela von Freyhold. London: Heinemann, 1979. pp. xviii+ 201, £3.95 (paper).

Rural Employment and Administration in the Third World: Development Methods and Alternative Strategies. By Charles Harvey, Jake Jacobs, Geoff Lamb, and Bernard Schaffer. Farnborough,’ England: Teakfield, 1979. pp. xi+111. £7.50.

The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. By James C. Scott. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. pp. ix + 246, £2.85 (paper).

Cities of Peasants: The Political Economy of Urbanization in the Third World. By Bryan Roberts. London: Edward Arnold, 1978. pp. vii + 207, £4.50.

Casual Work and Poverty in Third World Cities. Edited by Ray Bromley and Chris Gerry. New York: John Wiley, 1979. pp. x +323. £13.50.

Slums of Hope? Shanty Towns of the Third World. By Peter Lloyd. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979. pp. 246, £1.25.

Social Security in Latin America. By Carmelo Mesa‐Lago. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. pp. xix + 351.

Poverty, Development, and Health Policy. By B. Abel‐Smith, with A. Leiserson. Public Health Papers No. 69. Geneva: World Health Organization. 1978. pp. 108, $5.00.     

Reorienting development administration

Development By People: Citizen Construction of a Just World. By Guy Gran. New York: Praeger, UK distributor Holt‐Saunders, 1983. Pp.xxiv + 480. £34.50 and £9.95.ISBN 0 03 063294 3 and 063296 X.

No Shortcuts to Progress: African Development Management in Perspective. By Goran Hyden. London: Heinemann, 1983. Pp.xv + 223. £12.50 and £4.95. ISBN 0 435 96303 1 and 96302 3.

Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration. By Dennis A. Rondinelli, London: Methuen, 1983. £10.95 and £4.95. Pp.ix + 167. ISBN 0 416 73630 0 and 73640 8.

The Challenge of Integrated Rural Development in India: A Policy and Management Perspective. By Gerald E. Sussman. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, UK distributor Bowker, 1983. Pp.xvi + 178. £22. ISBN 0 86531 922 7.     

Economic Development,Foreign Aid and Neoclassical Growth: A Comment

The Democratic Process in a Developing Society. By A. H. Somjee. London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. vi + 161. £12.

Pastoral Production and Society/Production Pastorale et Société. Edited by Équipe Écologie et Anthropologie des Sociétés Pastorales. Cambridge and Paris: Cambridge University Press/Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1979. Pp. 493. Hardback £15.50, paperback £5.95.

Rural Women at Work: Strategies for Development in South Asia. By Ruth Dixon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. £10.50.

Agricultural Modernisation, Poverty and Inequality: the Distributional Impact of the Green Revolution in Regions of Malaysia and Indonesia. By David S. Gibbons, Rodolphe De Koninck and Ibrahim Hasan. Farnborough, England: Saxon House, 1980. Pp. lx + 225. £12.50.

Agrarian Structures and Agrarian Reform. By S. I. Cohen. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. Pp. xiv + 136. Dfl. 28.50.

The Political Economy of Collectivised Agriculture: A Comparative Study of Communist and Non‐Communist Systems. Edited by Ronald A. Francisco, Betty A. Laird and Roy D. Laird. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1979. Pp. 251. £13.75.

Agrarian Systems and Rural Development. By Dharam Ghai, Azizur Rahman Khan, Eddy Lee and Samir Radwan. London: Macmillan for the ILO, 1979. Pp. xv + 375. £20.

Food Aid and the Developing World: Four African Case Studies. By Christopher Stevens. London: Croom Helm, 1979. Pp. 224. Hardback £9.95, paperback £4.95.

Population and Economic Development. By Yves Bizien. New York: Praeger, 1979. Pp. vi + 186. £12.25.

Short‐Term Macroeconomic Policy in Latin America. Edited by Jere Behrman and James A. Hanson. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger for NBER, 1979.

Inflation and Stabilisation in Latin America. Edited by Rosemary Thorp and Lawrence Whitehead. London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. xl + 285. £20.     

Books received

The Economy of Bangladesh. By Azizur Rahman Khan. London : Macmillan and New York: St. Martins Press, 1972. Pp. xviii + 196; £4.95.

Matching Employment Opportunities and Expectations: A Programme of Action for Ceylon. Report by the International Labour Office. Geneva, 1971. Pp. xvii + 251; £1.60 and U.S.$4.

Price Consistency in Development Planning. By Peter A. Cornelisse. Rotterdam University Press, 1973. Pp. xiv + 154 n.p.

The Mexican Economy: Twentieth‐Century Structure and Growth. By Clark W. Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. Pp. xxiv, 468; £6.05.

Nutrition, National Development and Planning. Edited by A. Berg, N. S. Scrimshaw and D. L. Call. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T., 1973. Pp. 400. £4–50.

The Nutrition Factor: its Role in National Development. By Alan Berg, Portions with Robert J. Muscat. Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1973. Pp. xii 4‐ 290, Tables, Figures. $8.95.

The Ecology of Malnutrition in Mexico and Central America. By Jacques M. May and Donna L. McLellan. New York: Hafner, 1972. Pp. xiii + 397, tables, maps; £7.50.

The Ecology of Malnutrition in the Caribbean. By Jacques M. May and Donna L. McLellan. New York: Hafner, 1973. Pp. viii + 490, tables, maps; £9.95.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this Article White Collar Union: 60 years of NALGO By Alec Spoor. Town Government in South East England A Comparative Study of Six Local Authorities. By Gerald Rhodes. Civil Services of the United Kingdom 1853–1970 By E.N. Gladden. Local Government Finance in Nigeria By G. Oka Orewa. Men Near the Top By J.J. Corson and R. Shale Paul. Towards a Sociology of Management By Sir Geoffrey Vickers. The Government of Housing By D.V. Donnison. Flow Charts, Logical Trees and Algorithms By B.N. Lewis, I.S. Horabin and C.P. Gane. Network Analysis in Forming a New Organization By W.S. Ryan. Caring for People: Staffing Residential Homes Report of a committee of enquiry set up by the National Council of Social Service. Continuously under Review By Rosemary Stewart and Janet Sleeman.     

Book reviews

Policy Evaluation in the Public Sector: Approaches and Methods. By Colin Palfrey, Ceri Phillips, Paul Thomas and David Edwards. Avebury, 1992. Pp. 176. £32.50 hb.

Managing for Service Quality. By Chris Skelcher. Managing Local Government series, Longman, 1992. Pp. 125. £16.95 pb.

Working Together for Better Community Care. By Randall Smith, Lucy Gaster, Lyn Harrison, Linda Martin, Robin Means and Peter Thistlethwaite. School of Urban Advanced Studies, University of Bristol, 1993. Pp. 228. £11.95 pb.

Citizen Involvement: A Practical Guide for Change. By Peter Beresford and Suzy Croft. Practical Social Work series edited by Jo Campling. Macmillan, 1993. Pp. 240. £32.50 hb, £9.50 pb.

Implementing Housing Policy. Edited by Peter Malpass and Robin Means. Buckingham, Open University Press, 1993. Pp. 199. £37.50 hb, £12.99 pb.

In Support of Education: The Functioning of Local Government. By Philippa Cordingley and Maurice Kogan. London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1993. Pp. 122. £11.50 pb.

Tourism, Museums and the Local Economy: The Economic Impact of the North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish. By Peter Johnson and Barry Thomas. Edward Elgar, 1992. Pp. 160. £29.50 hb.

The A‐Z of Council Tax and Council Tax Benefit: A Citizen's Guide. Association of District Councils, December 1992. £8.00.     

Book Reviews

Women and Public Policy: The Shifting Boundaries Between the Public and Private Spheres. Edited by S. Baker and A. Van Doorne‐Huiskes. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1999. Pp.234.

Environmental Movements: Local, National and Global. Edited by Christopher Rootes. Frank Cass. 1999. Pp 316. £39.50 hb; £17.50 pb.

Driving Forces ‐ The Automobile, its Enemies and the Politics of Mobility. By James A. Dunn JR. Brookings Institution Press, 1998. Pp.230. $18.95 pb; $44.95 hb.

Perspectives on British Rural Planning Policy 1994–97. By Andrew Gilg. Ashgate, 1999. Pp.154. £35 hb.

Power to the Parishes. Special issue of Local Governance. Edited by A. Coulson. Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, 2000. £10.

The Changing Nature of Local Government in Developing Countries. Edited by Patricia L. McCarney. Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, 1996. Pp.314.

Planning Beyond 2000. Edited by P. Allmendinger and M. Chapman. John Wiley &; Sons, 1999. £22.50 pb.

Regional Policy and Planning in Europe. By P. Balchin, L. Sykora and G. Bull. Routledge, 1999. £15.99 pb.

Urban Policy and Politics in Britain. By Dilys M. Hill. Macmillan, 2000. Pp.254. £.14.99 pb.

Local Statesmen: The Story of Politics in Nottinghamshire County Council. By Peter Housden. The Local Government Centre, University of Warwick and Nottinghamshire County Council, 2000. Pp.219. £9.99 plus £2 postage and packaging.

County Borough Elections in England and Wales 1919–1938: A Comparative Analysis: Volume 1: Barnsley ‐ Bournemouth. By Sam Davies and Bob Morley. Ashgate, 1999. Pp.708. £80.

The British Police. Police Forces and Chief Officers 1829–2000. By Martin Stallion and David S. Wall. Police History Society, 1999. Pp.256. £15 pb.

Policing Provincial England 1829–1856: The Politics of Reform. By David Philips and Robert D. Storch. Leicester University Press, 1999. Pp.342. £55 hb.     

Book review

Aspects of Development and Underdevelopment. By Joan Robinson. Cambridge‐Cambridge University Press (Modern Cambridge Economics), 1979. Pp. x + 146. Hardback £7.95, paperback £2.50.

From Modernization to Modes of Production: a critique of the sociologies of development and underdevelopment. By John G. Taylor. London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. xii + 335. Hardback £12, paperback £4.95.

Theories of Underdevelopment. By Ian Roxborough. London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. xii + 175. Hardback £10, paperback £3.95.

Development Administration: Concepts, Goals, Methods. By George F. Gant. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 343. $21.50.

Developing Country Debt. Edited by Lawrence G. Franco and Marilyn J. Seiber. New York: Pergamon Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 309. £20.

The Lending Policy of the World Bank in the 1970s: Analysis and Evaluation. By Bettina S. Hürni. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1980. Pp. xvi + 173. $20.

The World Bank and the Poor. By Aart van de Laar. Boston, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1980. Pp. xii + 260. $15.

The New Authoritarianism in Latin America. Edited by David Collier. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. Pp. v + 456. Hardback £15.10, paperback £3.65.

The Political Economy of Peru 1956–78: Economic development and the restructuring of capital. By E. V. K. FitzGerald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 360. £17.50.

Scarcity and Survival in Central America. By William H. Durham. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979. Pp. xvii + 209. £14.50.

Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti. By Mats Lundahl. London: Croom Helm, 1979. Pp. 699. £19.95.

The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam. By Samuel L. Popkin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Pp. xxi + 306. £9.

The Economy of Kenya: the Kenyatta Era. By Arthur Hazlewood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. x + 231. Hardback £9, paperback £4.95.

Chinese Education in Transition: Prelude to the Cultural Revolution. By Julia Kwong. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 207 $13.95.

Hydropolitics of the Nile Valley. By John Waterbury. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 301. $20.

The Volta River Project: A Case Study in Politics and Technology. By David Hart. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1980. Pp. 142. £7.50.

Economic Development, Cities and Planning: The Case of Bombay. By Nigel Harris. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. vi + 93. £5.15.

Sociological Analysis of the Working of Small Farmers Development Agency. By Mumtaz Ali Khan. Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1978. Pp. x + 175. Rs. 32.

Planning for Basic Needs in Kenya: Performance, Policies and Prospects. By Dharam Ghai, Martin Godfrey and Franklyn Lisk. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1979. Pp. x + 167. £5.

Women in Rural Development: the People's Republic of China. By Elisabeth Croll. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1979. Pp. 61. Paperback, £3.75.     

Rethinking Public Service Delivery: Managing with External Providers John Alford and Janine O'Flynn

Governance by Green Taxes. By Mikael Skou Anderson. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994. £40 hb; £14.99 pb.

The German Greens, Challenging the Consensus. By Thomas Scharf. Berg, 1994. Pp.278. £34.95 hb; £14.95 pb.

Privatisation and Popular Capitalism. By Peter Saunders and Colin Harris. Open University Press, 1994. Pp.192. £37.50 hb; £12.99 pb.

Cymuned a Chenedl: Ysgrifau ar Ymreolaeth. By Ioan Bowen Rees. Gomer Press, Llandysul, Dyfed, 1993. Pp.233. £9.95.

Success and Failure in Housing Provision: European Systems Compared. By James Barlow and Simon Duncan. Pergamon, 1994. Pp. 170. £24.95 pb.

Planning and Urban Change. By Stephen V. Ward, London: Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd, 1994. Pp.320. £14.95.

Citizens and Cities: Urban Policy in the 1990s. By Dilys M. Hill. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994. Pp.262. £10.95 pb.

Quality in Public Services: Managers’ Choice. By Lucy Gaster. Public Policy and Management Series, Open University Press, 1995. Pp.149. £37.50 hb; £13.99 pb.

Managing in Local Government. By Richard Kerley. Macmillan, 1994. Pp.256. £37.50 hb; £11.99 pb.

Divided Britain. By Ray Hudson and Allan Williams. John Wiley, 2nd edn., 1995. Pp.315. £12.95 pb.

Public Policy in Britain. Edited by Stephen Savage, Rob Atkinson and Lynton Robins. Macmillan, 1994. Pp.316. £40 hb; £12.99 pb.

The Channel Tunnel: A Geographical Perspective. Edited by Richard Gibb. Wiley, 1994. Pp.220 + bibliography. £39.95.

Education Reform: A Critical and Post‐Structural Approach. By Stephen J. Ball. Open University Press, 1994. Pp.xii + 164. £37.50.

Reinvesting a Region: Restructuring in West Yorkshire. Edited by Graham Houghton and William Whitney. Avebury, 1994. Pp.243. £27.50 hb.

Against All Odds: Local Economic Development Policies and Local Government Autonomy in Sweden and Britain. By Christine Hudson, Research Report 1993:3, Department of Political Science, University of Umeå, Sweden, 1993.

On The Third Age, Inlogov Informs, Issue 2, Volume 4, 1994/5. Edited by Lesley Grayson and Margaret Hobson. Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, 1995. Pp.155. £35 pb.