Book Reviews Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy:Edited by rita mae kelly and jane bayes Canadian Legislatures: 1987–1988:Edited by Robert J. Fleming From Sissons to Meer: The Administrative Development of the Yukon Government 1948–1979:By janet moodie Michael The Canadian Welfare State, Evolution and Transition:By Jacqueline s. ismael (Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press. 1987) The Media Society: Basic Issues and Controversies:By ross A. eaman Telecommunications in Turmoil: Technology and Public Policy:By gerald R. faulhaber Perspectives on Technology and Development:O.P. dwivedi     

Review article Note bibliographique OD: An alternative approach to organizational change

Organization Development: Its Nature, Origin and Prospects. By WARREN G. BENNIS. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969. Pp. 87. 3.65 Organization Development: Strategies and Models. By RICHARD BECK-HARD. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969, Pp. 119. 3.65 Building A Dynamic Corporation Through Grid Organization Develop ment. By ROBERT G. BLAKE and JANE s. MOUTON. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969. Pp. 120. 3.65 Developing Organizations: Diagnosis and Action. By PAUL R. LAWRENCE and JAY w. LORSCH. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969. Pp. 101. 3.65 Process Consultation: Its Role in Organizational Development. By EDGAR H. SCHEIN. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969. Pp. 147. 3.65 Interpersonal Peacemaking: Confrontations and Third Party Consultation. By RICHARD E. WALTON. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969. Pp. 151. 3.65     

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Guide méthodologique de la recherche Par ROBERT J. GRAVEL. Political Choice in Canada By HAROLD D. CLARKE, JANE JENSON, LAWRENCE LEDUC and JON H. PAMMETT. The Conserver Solution: A Blueprint for the Conserver Society By LAWBENCE SOLOMON. Understanding Intergovernmental Relations By DEIL s. WBIGHT. Confrontation and Collaboration — Intergovernmental Relations in Canada Today Edited by RICHABD SIMEON. Local Government in Canada By C.R. TINDAL and S. NOBES TINDAL. Shaping the Canadian City: Essays on Urban Politics and Policy, 1890–1920 By JOHN C. WEAVES. Structural Changes in Local Government: Government for Urban Regions By C.R. TINDAL. The Politics of Urban Development: Canadian Urban Expressway Disputes By CHRISTOPHER LEO. Community Development: Learning And Action By HAYDEN ROBERTS. The Australian Federal System By JEAN HOLMES Innovation and Implementation in Public Organizations By RICHABD H. NELSON and DOUGLAS YATES Policy Analysis: A Political and Organisational Perspective By W.I. JENKINS. Perspectives on the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration By P.K. GOPECKI and W.T. STANBUBY Ombudsmen Around the World: A Comparative Chart By KENT M. WEEKS.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Rapport de l'enquête de la Commission royal sur la fiscalité. Financial Committees of the Indian Parliament: A Study in Parliamentary Control over Public Expenditure. By R. N. Agawam . The Financing of Canadian Federation: The First Hundred Years. By A. Milton Moore , J. Harvey Perry , and Donald I. Beach . The British and Their Successors: A Study in the Development of the Government Services in the New States. By R. Symonds .     

Book Reviews Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Public Management in a Borderless Economy; By Rodney Dobell and Philip Steenkamp Memoirs; By Pierre Elliot Trudeau . The Downing Street Years; By MARGARET THATCHER. The Legal Framework of Government; Dr Gregory Tardi . Taking Power: Managing Transitions/Prendre le Pouvoir: La gestion des transitions gouvernementales; Edited by Donald J. Savoie . Getting It Right: Regional Development in Canada; By R. Harley Mcgee . Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State; By Camilla Stivers .     

Books reviewed Comptes rendus

Canada's Video Revolution: Pay-TV, Home Video and Beyond: By Peter Lyman The Introduction of Pay-TV in Canada: Issues and Implications: Edited by R. Brian Woodrow and Kenneth B. Woodside Aquaculture: The Legal Frame Work : By Bruce H. Wildsmith Marketing Canada's Energy: A Strategy for Security in Oil and Gas: By I.A. Mcdougall Offshore Oil: Opportunities for Industrial Development and Job Creation : By Roger Voyer Traité de droit administratif : 2^eédition, tome 1 par René Dussault et Louis Borceat     

2001年铁路春运票价上浮案评析

2001年铁路春运客票价格上浮引起的行政争议案件,受到社会各界的广泛关注。北京市一中院和北京市高院先后于2001年11月和2002年2月28日作出一审判决和终审判决。乔占祥诉铁道部2001年春运票价上浮案(以下称为“乔占祥诉铁道部案”)涉及的主要法律问题有:铁路春运票价上浮的性质;“铁道部通知”是否具有可诉性;铁路春运票价上浮的听证程序;铁道部对“国家计委批复”的转送等。该案给我们的主要启示是:行政机关如何进一步依法行政;如何建立健全价格决策听证等程序;如何建立对抽象行政行为的司法审查;如何完善依法行政的各项制度等。     

Urban economic development and regulation by municipal licensing

Urban Economic Development: Edited by Richard D. Bincham and John P. Blair . Beverley Hills: Sage Publications. 1984. Pp. 287. $28.00 (hardcover). $14.00 (paper) Regulation by Municipal Licensing: By John Bosson , S.M. Makuch and John Palmer . Ontario Economic Council Research Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1984. Pp. 111 (paper). $6.50     

Book Reviews Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Patchworks of Purpose: The Development of Provincial Social Assistance Regimes in Canada By Gerard William Boychuk Le ‘ management public ’: discours et fonction Par Caroline Vayrou Service in the Field: The World of Front-Line Public Servants. Canadian Public Administration Series.By Barbara Wake Carroll and David Siegel How Ottawa Spends 1988–99. Balancing Act: The Post-Deficit Mandate. Carleton Public Policy Series No. 19 Edited by Leslie Pal A Question of Ethics: Canadians Speak out By Maureen Mancuso The Second Keating Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1993–1996 Edited by Gwynneth Singleton Performance Review in Local Government By Rob Ball     

Book reviews: Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: The Study of Government: Political Science and Public Administration : By F.F. RIDLEY. Techniques and Public Administration: A Contextual Evaluation : By MAURICE SPIERS. Main Street: Windsor to Quebec City : Par MAURICE YEATES. Intergovernmental Relations in Australia : Edited by H.L. MATHEWS. Canada: Strategy for International Development Cooperation 1975–1980 : By THE CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY. L'administrateur et la prise de decision : Par PIERRE FULIATRAULT et YVON G. PEHREAULT. Interest Arbitration in the Federal Public Service of Canada : By L.W.C.S. BARNES and L.A. KELLY. Comparative Public Policy: The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America : By ARNOD J. HEIDENHEIMER, HUGH HECLO and CAROLYN TEICH ADAMS.     

Book Reviewed: Comptes Rendus

The Crown in Canada : By FRANK MACKINNON. Money, Inflation, and the Bank of Canada : An Analysis of Canadian Monetary Policy from 1970 to early 1975: By THMAS J. COUBCHENE. Government in Canada : By T.A. HOCKIN. The Illusion of Wage and Price Control : Edited by MICHAEL WALKEB. Canadian Perspectives on Wage-Price Guidelines: A Book of Readings : Edited by W.D. WOOD and PRADEEP KUMAR. The Prime Minister and the Cabinet : By W.A. MATHESON. Planning and Development: A Case of Two Nova Scotia Communities : By A. PAUL PROSS. Savoir organiser, Savoir décider : Par GERALD LEFEBVBE. Public Policy-Making : By JAMES E. ANDERSON. Prospective de I'Etat : Par ALAIN PLANTEY.     

Pressman/Wildavsky and Bardach: Implementation in the public sector,past, present and future

Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington are Dashed in Oakland: or, why it's amazing that federal programs work at all, this being the saga of the Economic Development Administration as told by two sympathetic observers who seek to build morals on a foundation of ruined hopes. By JEFFREY L. PRESSMAN and AARON WILDAVSKY. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1973, and subsequent editions. Pp. 182. The Implementation Game: What Happens after a Bill becomes a Law. By EUGENE BARDACH. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1977. Pp. x, 323.     

Books Reviewed Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Administration publique Québécoise The Structure of Canadian Government By J. R. mallory. The Report on Maritime Union By the governments of new Brunswick, nova SCOTIA AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. Les tribunaux administratifs et la Constitution Par gilles pépin. Economic Evaluation of Municipal Expenditures — PPBS By a. J. robinson. Economic Consultative Bodies: Their Origins and Institutional Characteristics By paul malles. The Commons in Transition Edited by a. h. hanson and bernard crick. Public Administration in the Second United Nations Development Decade: Report of the Second Meeting of Experts Toward a New Public Administration: The Minnowbrook Perspective Edited by frank marini.     

Book Reviews Comptes rendus

Value for Many: The Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 1947–1997/ D'une grande valeur pour beaucoup: L'lnstitut d'administration publique du Canada, 1947–1997. Monographs in Canadian Public Administration -No. 21. By Don Seymour Wilson T he Federal Court of Canada: A History, 1875–1992 Byian bushnell . Public Management and Administrative Reform in Western Europe Edited by Walter J. M. kickert . Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees: Canada, United States, Britain, and France By ANDRE BLAIS, DONALD E. BLAKE and ST#EABPHANE DION. Dilemmas of Urban Economic Development: Issues in Theory and Practice Edited by richard d. bingham and Robert mier     

Book Reviews Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Images of Organization:By gareth Morgan Business and Politics: A Study of Collective Action:By william d. coleman Tommy Douglas: The Road to Jerusalem:By thomas H. McLEOD and ian mcleod. City Polic Making in Theory and Practice. the Case of Toronto's Downtown Plan:By FRABCES FRISKEN Policy Evaluation for Local Government:By terry busson and philip coulter Telecommunications: A Strategic Persective on Regional, Economic and Business Development:Edited by maurice f. estabrooks and rudolphe h. lamarche Histoire de I'administration publique québécoise 1867–1970:Par james iain Cow A Guide to Hazardous Materials Management:By aileen schumacher Hazardous Waste: Confronting the Challenge:By CHRISTOPHER HARRIS, WILLIAM L. WANT and morris A. ward The Higher Civil Service in Belgium and in Industrialized Countries: Recruitment, Career and Training:Brussels: International Institute of Administrative Sciences     

Books Reviewed Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article: The Urban Transport Problem By D. J. REYNOLDS. The New Town Story By FRANK SCHAFFER. Personnel Dialogue for the Seventies:m By THE PUBLIC PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION. Police Supervision: Theory and Practice By PAUL M. WHISENAND. Planning on Uncertainty By RUTH P. MACK. Design for Development in Ontario: The Initiation of a Regional Planning Program By R. S. THOMAN. Parties to Change By P. SILCOX. The Canadian Political System: Environment, Structure and Process By RICHARD J. VAN LOON and MICHAEL S. WHITTINGton. The Structures of Policy-Making in Canada Edited by G. BRUCE DOERN and PETER AUCOIN. Poverty in Canada. Report of the Special Senate Committee on Poverty By the GOVERNMENT OF CANADA. Ottawa: Information Canada. 1971. Pp. xxxii, 224. $2.00.     

Books reviewed Comptes rendus

The Indian Administrative System Bureaucracy and Development: Indian Perspectives Public Enterprises in India State Supervision over Municipal Administration: A Case Study of Rajasthan Eminent Administrative Thinkers The Ecological Dimensions of Development Administration Privatization Theory and Practice: Distributing Shares in Private and Public Enterprises Problems of Change in Urban Government M.O. DICKERSON, S. DRABEK and J.T. WOODS Canadian Industrial Organization and Policy Social Science Research and Decision-Making Environmental Planning, Volume III: New Towns Policy The Idea File of Harold Adams Innis Introduced and edited by William Christian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press     

Books Reviewed Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Public Administration: History and Theory in Contemporary Perspective ; Edited by Joseph A. Uveces Jr . No Fault of Their Own: Unemployment and the Canadian Welfare State 1914–1941 ; By James Struthers . When Freedom is Lost: The Dark Side of the Relationship Between Government and the Fort Hope Band ; By Paul Driben and Robert S. Trudeau . Local Government: Politicians, Professionals and the Public in Local Authorities ; By Howard Elcock . City Politics in Canada ; Edited by Warren Magnusson and Andrew Sancton . Parliament and Bureaucracy, Parliamentary Scrutiny of Administration: Prospects and Problems in the 1980s ; Edited by J.R. Nethercote . The Executive Challenge ; By Michael B. Mc Caskey . The Politics of Canadian Airport Development: Lessons for Federalism ; By Elliot J. Feldman and Jerome Milch . Organisation Theory and Management ; Edited by Thomas D. Lynch . The Politics of Canadian Public Policy ; Michael M. Atkinson and Marsha A. Chandler     

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus

Histoire de l'administration publique québécoise, 1867–1970 By James Iain Gow . Canadian Public Administration: Problematical Perspectives By Robert F. Adie and Paul G. Thomas. Réflexions sur Tart de se gouverner Par Louis Bernard. The Long Road to Reform: Restructuring Public Education in Quebec By Henry Milner . Regional Economic Development: Canada's Search for Solutions By donald J. savoie . Northern Development: The Canadian Dilemma By Robert Page Grand Illusions: The Politics of the Keynesian Experience in Canada 1945–1975 By Robert m. Campbell .