BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Canadinn Crown Corporations. By C. A. Ashley and R. G. H. Smails. The United Nations Administrative Tribunal. By Byung Chul Koh. Public Sector Pensions. By Gerald Rhodes. Urban Transportation and Public Policy. By Lyle C. Fitch and Associates.     

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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 .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Handbook of Public Administration Edited by jack rabin, w. bartley hildreth, and gerald j. miller. Public Financial Management: A Canadian Text By C. LLOYD BROWN-JOHN, ANDRÉ LEBLOND, and D. BRIAN marson. Nucleus: A History of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited By Robert bothwell. Proving Discrimination in Canada By BÉatrice Vizkelety. The Future of Health and Health Care Systems in the Industrialized Societies International Public Policy Sourcebook: Vol. 1, Health and Social Welfare Division of Social Sciences, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus Edited by jack paul desario. Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues By warren bennis. The Invisible Bureaucracy - The Unconscious in Organizational Problem Solving By HOWELL BAUM, New York: Oxford University Press. 1987 The Workplace Within: Psychodynamlcs of Organizational Life By larry hirschhorn.     

New public management: Just a “fashlon model on the runway”?

“Government reform has broad goals ‐ npm is more effective at the narrow end of measuring client satisfaction. [1]f fundamental public policy issues are not dealt with adequately then well‐managed policy implementation cannot lead to effective public policy.” The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation of Governance. By donald f. kettl. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. 2000. Pp. vii, 87. Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective. Edited by keith m. Henderson and O.P. dwivedi. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1999. Pp. xx, 330. The New Public Management: International Developments. Edited by david barrows and h. ian macdonald. Toronto: Captus Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 225.     

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A Fiscal History of Canada-The Postwar Years By J. harvey perry. Government Policy Toward Business By james a. brander. Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Reform By Edward berkowitz and kim mcquaid. The Real Worlds of Canadian Politics: Cases in Process and Policy By Robert m. campbell and Leslie a. pal. The Merit System and Municipal Civil Service: A Fostering of Social Inequality By FRANCESGOITFRIED Marketing Public Transit: A Strategic Approach By C.H. LOVELOCK, G. LEWIN, G.S. DAY and J.E.G. BATESON. Impact Analysis for Program Evaluation By Lawrence b. mohr. Cases in Public Policy Analysis By george m. guess and paul g. farnham. Fair Pay: The Managerial Challenge of Comparable Worth and Job Evaluation BY thomas h. Patten.     

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: 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     

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 .     

Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Hankey: Man of Secrets By STEPHEN ROSKILL Public Administration: Policy-Making in Government Agencies By IRA SHARKANSKY Canada in Question: Federalism in the Seventies By D. v. SMILEY Up Against City Hall By JOHN SEWELL City Lib: Parties and Reform By STEPHEN CLARKSON Programs in Search of a Policy: Low Income Housing in Canada By MICHAEL DENNIS and SUSAN FISH Politics and Government of Urban Canada: Selected Readings Edited by LIONEL D. FELDMAN and MICHAEL D. GOLDRICG The Financial Structure and the Decision-Making Process of Canadian Municipal Government By THOMAS J. PLUNKETT More Taxes and More Traffic By NANCY BRYAN Inside the Third Reich By ALBERT SPEER The Influence of the United States on Canadian Development: Eleven Case StudiesEdited by RICHARD A. PRESTON Setting National Priorities: the 1973 Budget By C. L. SCHULTZE, E. R. FRIED, A. M. RIVIJN, and N. H. TEETERS Adaptation of Public Personnel Administration to Changes in Society General Report of the 14th International Congress of Administrative Sciences. By ARYEH ATTIR Establishing Ombudsman Offices: Recent Experience in the United States By STANLEY V. ANDERSON and JOHN E. MOORE Administrative Theory and Public Administration By R. J. S. BAKER     

Book Reviews Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Strategic Design and Organizational Change: Pacific Rim Seaports in Transition:By Herman L. Boschken. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1988. Pp. xvi, 234; Index. $29.95 (cloth) Leadership, Organizations and Culture:By Peter B. Smith and Mark F. Peterson. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. 1988. Pp. 208 When Public Sector Workers Unionize:Edited by Richard B. Freeman and Casey Ichniowski. Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1988. Pg. 419 Spolls of Power: The Politics of Patronage:By Jeffrey Simpson. Toronto: Collins Publishers. 1988. Pp. 406. $27.95 (cloth)     

Books Reviewed Competes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: ProFile Index: Canadian Provincial and Municipal Publications 1974 / Index ProFile: Publications provinciales et municipales canadiennes 1974 Une économie à libérer By Par maurice saint-germain. Police, culture et société Pressure Group Behaviour in Canadian Politics Edited by A. PAUL PROSS. Ethical Conduct: Guidelines for Government Employees / Comportement Professionnel: Directives à l'Intention des Fonctionnaires By Kenneth kernaghan. How to Manage by Objectives By JOHN W. HUMBLE. Report of the Nova Scotia Royal Commission on Education, Public Services and Provincial-Municipal Relations By James D. McNiven. Governing Greater Stockholm: a Study of Policy Development and System Change By THOMAS J. ANTON. Public Sector Employment Selection: A Manual for The Personnel Generalist Edited by GRACE H. WRIGHT. The New Zealand Bureaucrat By THOMAS B. SMITH. Accounting Income Models: an application and evaluation By JOHN R. HANNA. Incomes Policy and Inflation Edited by Michael parkin and MICHAEL T. SUMNER. Man vs the Welfare State By HENRY HAZLITT. Understanding Public Policy By THOMAS R. DYE. Canadian Public Land Use in Perspective Edited by J.G. NELSON, R.C. SCACE, and R. KOURI. Les Systèmes d'information aux fins de gestion PAR ROLLAND HURTUBISE.     

Manager's matter: news from the laboratory

Advancing Public Management: New Developments in Theory, Methods and Practice. Edited by jeffrey l. brudney, laurence o'toole jr. and hal g. rainey. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 304. Transforming Government: Lessons from the Reinvention Laboratories. By PATRICIA w. INGRAHAM, JAMES R. THOMPSON and RONALD SANDERS. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. 1998. Pp. xxi, 266. The Stakeholder Society. By bruce ackerman and anne alstott. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 296.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism: Paradoxes, Achievements, and Tragedies of Nationhood By samuel v . laselva . Flexible Innovation: Technological Alliances in Canadian Industry By jorge niosi , withmaryse bergeron , michele sawchuck and Nathalie hade . Democracy Dialogue and Environment: The Contested Languages of Social Regulation by BRUCE A. WILLIAMS and ALBERT R. MATHENY. The Greening of Canada: Federal Institutions and Decisions by g. bruce doern andthomas conway Comparative Competition Policy: National Institutions in a Global Market Edited by c. bruce doern and Stephen wilks . The Implications of Knowledge-Based Growth for Micro-Economic Policies: The Industry Canada Research Series. Edited by peter howitt . Book Notes Résumés de livres Milakovich, Michael E. Improving Scrvice Quality, Achieving High Performance in the Public and Private Sectors. Delray Beach, Ha.: St. Lucie Press, 1995. Pp. 258. Koehler, Jerry W. and Joseph M. Pankowski. Quality Government: Designing, Developing and Implementing tqm. Delray Beach, Ha.: St. Lucie Press, 1996. Pp. 281. US$39.95. Koehler, Jerry W. and Joseph M. Pankowski. Teams in Government: A Handbook for Team-Eased Organizations. Delray Beach, Ha.: St. Lucie Press, 1996. Pp. 172. US$29.95. Koehler, Jerry W. and Joseph M. Pankowski. Continual Improvement in Government: Tools and Methods. Delray Beach, Ha.: St. Lucie Press, 1996. Pp. 150. US$29.95.     

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 .     

Books Reviewed Comptes rendus

Prairie Politics and Society: Regionalism in Decline; By ROGER GIBBINS Cultural Boundaries and the Cohesion of Canada; By RAYMOND BRETON, JEFFREY G. REITZ, VICTOR VALENTINE Women and the Constitution; Edited by AUDREY DOERR and MICHELINE CARRIER New Public Administration; By H. GEORGE FREDERICKSON. University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press Federalism, Bureaucracy, and Public Policy: The Politics of Highway Transport Regulation; By RICHARD J. SCHULTZ . Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Institute of Public Administration of Canada The Politics of Federalism: Ontario's Relations with the Federal Government, 1867–1942; By CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG . Ontario Historical Studies Series, Toronto: University of Toronto Press Organizational Effectiveness in a Multinational Bureaucracy; By HANS J. MICHELMANN Welfare, Justice, and Freedom; By SCOTT GORDON Women and the Chip: Case Studies of the Effects of Informatics on Employment in Canada; By HEATHER MENZIES Wealth and Poverty; By GEORGE GILDER     

Book Reviews Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article: The Politics of Nationalism in Canada: Cultural Conflict since 1760 is a faculty member, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia. By DAVID CHENNELLS. Law as a Gendering Practice Karine Levasseur is a doctoral student, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University.Edited by DOROTHY E. CHUNN and DANY LACOMBE. Restraining Equality. Human Rights Commissions in Canada By R. BRIAN HOWE and DAVID JOHNSON. The Rights Revolution Rosemary Proctor, consultant and writer on public policy and governance, was formerly a deputy minister with the Ontario government and recently director of the South Africa/Canada Program on Governance. By MICHAEL IGNATIEFF. Agricultural Policy, Volumes I and II (Part 14 of the International Library of Comparative Public Policy) Edited by WYN P. GRANT AND JOHN T.S. KEELER. Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities Edited by ELLEN CONDLIFFE LAGEMANN. Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada By PATRICK MACKLEM. Greed, Chaos and Governance: Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law By JERRY L. MASHAW. The Politics of Educational Reform in Alberta By ALLISON TAYLOR. The Public Employment Service in a Changing Labour Market By PHAN THUY, ELLEN HANSON and DAVDI PRICE.     

Book Reviews Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Rationality in Public Policy: Retrospect and Prospect. A Tribute to Douglas G. Hartle. Canadian Tax Paper No. 104 Edited by RICHARD M. BIRD, MICHAEL J. TREILBOCK and THOMAS A. WILSON. Precarious Values: Organizations, Politics and Labour Market Policy in Ontario By THOMAS R. KLASSEN. Les relations du travail au Québec de michel leclerc et michel QUIMPER The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification By MICAHEL POWER Bureaucratic Language In Government and Business ROGER W. SHUY. From Bureaucracy to Public Management: The Administrative Culture of the Government of Canada By O.P. DWIEDI and JAMES IAIN GOW.     

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

Book reviewed in this article: Les relations intergouvernementales au Canada, 1867–1967, Par gérard VEILLEUX Recovering Canada's Nationhood By D. W. CARR Independence: The Canadian Challenge Edited by ABRAHAM ROTSTEIN and GARY LAX Canadian Federalism: Myth or Reality? Edited by J. PETER MEEKISON Labour Economics in Canada By SYLVIA OSTRY and MAHMOOD A. ZAIDI State Enterprise: Business or Politics? By DAVID COOMBES Politics, Finance and the Role of Economics: An Essay on the Control of Public Enterprise By c. D. FOSTER Economic Analysis and Public Enterprises By RALPH TURVEY International Community Power Structures By DELBERT c. MILLER Papers Relating to the President's Departmental Reorganization Program — A Reference Compilation By the OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Style in Administration: Readings in British Public Administration Edited by RICHARD A. CHAPMAN and A. DUNSIRE