BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Rise and Fall of Communism . By Richard H. Hudelson . The End of the Communist Power Monopoly . By Michael Waller . The Politics of Transition . By Stephen White , Graeme Gill and Darrell Slider . The Sovietransition : From Gorbachev to Yeltsin . Edited by Stephen White , Rita Di Leo and Ottorino Cappelli . Politics in Eastern Europe . By George Schopflin . Eastern Europe in the Postwar World . By Thomas W. Simons , JR. 2nd. Ed. Developments in East European Politics . Edited by Stephen White , Judy Batt and Paul G. Lewis . Transition to Democracy in Poland . Edited by Richard F. Starr . Leo Walesa Democrat or Dictator ? By Jaroslaw Kurski . Translated by Peter Obst . Broken Bonds . The Disintegration of Yugoslavia . By Lenard J. Cohen . Contrasting us and German Attitudes to Soviet Trade , 1917–91: Politics by Economic Means . By Hilbne Seppain . Erconciling the Solitudes : Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism . By Charles Taylor . The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation : Case Studies of Protracted Ethnic Conflicts . Edited by John Mcgarry and Brendan O'Leary . Ethnic Conflict and International Security . Edited by Michael E. Brown. The Scar of Race . By Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza . Race , Riots and Policing : Lore and Disorder in a Multi -Racist Society . By Michael Keith . Race and Racism in Britain . 2nd ed. By John Solomos . Not Easy Being British : Colour , Culture and Citizenship . By Tariq Modood . Paying the Piper : Culture , Music and Money . By Alan Peacock . Wilson . By Philip Ziegler . Markets and Democracy ; Participation , Accountability and Feficiency . Edited by Samuel Bowles , Herbert Gintis and Bo Gustafs -Son Beyond Unemployment . By Robery Skidelsky and Liam Halligan . Trends in British Public Policy : Do Governments Make Any Difference ? By Brian W. Ohgwood .     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Politics of Community : a Feminist Critique of the Liberal -Communitarian Debate . By Elizabeth Frazer and Nicola Lacey . Gender and Party Politics . Edited by Joni Lovenduski and Pippa Norris . Democracy and Difference . By Anine Phillips . Engendering Democracy . By Anne Phillips . Government by the Market ?the Politics of Publichoice . By Peter Self . Fred 0. Muller JR., & Jeffrey Paul . Liberalism and the Economic Order . Edited by Ellen Frankel Paul . Public Policy and the Nature of the New Right . Edited by Grant Jordan & Nigel Ashford . Common Sense : a New Constitution for Britain . By Tony Benn and Andrew Hood . The History of the City of Sheffield : vol. 1 Politics , vol. 2 Society , vol.3 Images . Ed. by Clyde Binfield , David Martin , Richard Childs , Roger Harper , David Hey and Geoffrey Tweedale . Understanding the New European Community . By William Nicoll and Trevor C. Salmon . Europe the Strange Superpower . By David Buchan . The Frontier of National Sovereignty . By Milward , Lynch , Romero and Sorensen Citizenship and the European Community . By Elizabeth Meehan . The United States of Europe . By Ernest Wistricht . The European Imperative ; Economic and Social Cohesion in the 1990s. By Stuart Holland . Powek on the Back Benches ?: The Growth of Select Committee Influence . By Derek Hawes . Law , Process and Custody . By Genevra Richardson . Justice and the Genesis of War . By David A. Welch . a History of Warfare . By John Keegan . Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century . Ed. by D. George Boyce , Robert Eccleshall and VIncent Geog -Hegan . Northern Ireland : the Choice . By Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden . De Valera : Long Fellow , Long Shadow . By Tim Pat Coogan . Straight Left : An Autobiography . By Paddy Devlin . Heresy : the Battle of Ideas in Modern Ireland . By Desmond F. Foster . Ireland Today ; Anatomy of a Changing State . By Gemma Hussey . In Search of a State ; Catholics in Northern Ireland . By Fionnuala 0. Connor . Northern Ireland ; Sharing Authority . By Brendan O'Leary , Tom Lyne , Jim Marshall and Bob Rowthorn .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles: Australia's Money Mandarins: The Reserve Bank and the Politics of Money Stephen Bell Australian Public Policy (2nd ed) Alan Fenna Who Rules? How Government Retains Control of a Privatised Economy Michael Keating Political Corruption in Australia: a very wicked place? Peter John Perry The Governance of World Trade: International Civil Servants and the GATT/WTO Xu Yi‐chong and Patrick Weller Agencies: How Governments Do Things through Semi‐Autonomous Organizations Christopher Pollitt, Colin Talbot, Janice Caulfield and Amanda Smullen An uneasy relationship: Norfolk Island and the Commonwealth of Australia Maev O'Collins Maconochie's Gentlemen: the story of Norfolk Island and the roots of modern prison reform Norval Morris     

BOOK REVIEWS

A Future For All . By Malcolm Wicks . In Defence of the Welfare State . Edited by Paul Wilding . Nationalizing Social Security in Europe and America . Edited by Douglas E. Ashford and E. W. Kelley . The Welfare State East and West . Edited by Richard Rose and Rei Shiratori . Income Packaging in the Welfare State . By Lee Rainwater , Martin Rein and Joseph Schwartz . Welfare in Transition . Edited by Robert Erikson and Rune Aberg . The Possibility of Politics . By Stein Ringen . Freedom , Equality and the Market . By Barry Hindess . Protecting the Vulnerable . By Robert E. Goodin . Does Aid Work ? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force . By Robert Cassen and Associates . Foreign Aid Reconsidered . By Roger C. Riddell . State , Finance and Industry . By A. Cox . Governing the Economy . By Peter A. Hall . The State and the Market Economy . By J. E. S. Hayward . Political Control of the Macro Economy . By Paul Whiteley . Political Theories of Modern Government . By Peter Self . A Lament for the Law Commission . By R. T. Oerton . Corporatism and Political Theory . By Alan Cawson . Varieties of Corporatism : Theory and Practice . By Peter J. Williamson . The White House and Capital Hill : The Politics of Presidential Persuasion . By Nigel Bowles . Karl Kautsky . By Dick Geary . J. Ramsay Mac Donald . By Austen Morgan . James Maxton . By William Knox . Labour People : Leaders and Lieutenants , Hardie to Kinnock . By Kenneth 0.Morgan . The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism . By Colin Campbell . The Politics of the Police . By Robert Reiner . What is to be done about Law and Order ? By John Lea and Jock Young . The governance of the Police . By Laurence Lustgarten . The Policing of Industrial Disputes 1893–1984. By Roger Geary .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Gramsci . By James Joll . “Eurocommunism ” AND THE State . By Santiago Carrillo . The Italian Road TO Socialism . An interview by Eric Hhobsbawm with Giorgio Napolitano . Red Bologna . By Max Jéuggi , Roger Müller and Sil Schmid . Gollancz : The Story OF A Publishing House , 1928–1978. By Sheila Hodges . Politics AND Markets . The World's Political -Economic Systems . By Charles E. Lindblom . Conflict OR CO-Operation ?THE Growth OF Industrial Democracy . By John Elliott . With a preface by Lord Bullock . THE Great Rights OF Mankind . By Bernard Schwartz . Freedom AND THE Court . By Henry J. Abraham . A Prime Minister ON Prime Ministers . By Harold Wilson . Joseph Chamberlain . By Enoch Powell . People AND Parliament . Edited by John P. Mackintosh , M.P. Your Disobedient Servant . By Leslie Chapman . British Rearmament IN THE Thirties . By Robert Paul Shay , JR. Brazil : A Political Analysis . By Peter Flynn . THE Brazilian Corporative State AND Working Class Politics . BY (plus Bibliog. and Index)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Richard Rose: Ordinary People in Public Policy: A Behavioural Analysis .
Bernt Aardal & Henry Valen: Velgere, partier og politisk avstand (Voters, parties, and political distance) .
Ebba Dohlman: National Welfare and Economic Interdependence: The Case of Sweden's Foreign Trade Policy .
David Arter: Politics and Policy-Making in Finland .
Arthur Gould: Conflict and Control in Welfare Policy.
Carol M. Mueller (ed.): The Politics of the Gender Gap. The Social Construction of Political Influence .
Christopher Coker: Reflections on American Foreign Policy Since 1945 .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Henry Milner: Sweden. Social Democracy in Practice.
Andrew Dobson: Green Political Thought. An Introduction.
Jonathan Wolff: Robert Nozick. Property, Justice and the Minimal State.
Ola Tunander: Cold Water Politics. The Maritime Strategy and Geopolitics of the Northern Front.
Johan P. Olsen: Statsstyre og institusjonsutforming (with contributions by Morten Egeberg, Per Légreid and Harald Sétren).
R. B. Bertramsen, J. P. Frölund Thomsen & J. Torfing: State, Economy and Society.     

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European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment, by Guiliano Bonoli, Vic George and Peter Taylor‐Gooby The New Politics of the Welfare State, edited by Paul Pierson The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, by Jacob S. Hacker The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model, by Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen Market‐Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest, by Colin Leys The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty‐First Century, by Robert Cooper Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters or Technicians? By Tevi Troy Nehru: A Political Life, by Judith M. Brown The Labour Market under New Labour: The State of Working Britain 2003, edited by Richard Dickens, Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth European Integration, 1950–2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? by John Gillingham Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article Political Communications : The General Election Campaign of 1983. Ed. by Ivor Crewe and Martin Harrop . Money and Votes : Constituency Campaign Spending and Election Results . By R. J . Johnson The Funding of Political Parties in Britain . By Keith Ewing Teledemocracy . By F. Christopher Arterton . Thatcherism at Work . By John Mac Innes . Thatcherism and British Politics , The End of Consensus ? By Dennis Kavanagh . Reshaping Local Government . Ed. by Michael Parkinson . Reshaping Central Government . Ed. by Anthony Harrison and John Gretton Mrs Thatcher's Case-book . By Terry Garrison . The Business of Medicine : Private Health Care in Britain . By Joan Higgins . Making Trouble : Autobiographical Explorations and Socialism .BY James D. Young . Revolutionary Rehearsals . Ed. by Colin Barker . The Fire Last Time : 1968 and After . By Chris Harman .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: Internationalising the Seabed By Roderick Ogley . Seeing Green : The Politics of Ecology Explained . By Jonathon Porritt . Green Politics : The Global Promise . By Fritjof Capra and Charlene Spretnak . The Green Movement in West Germany . By Elim Papadakis . Greening the Tories : New Policies for the Environment . By Andrew Sullivan . Conservation and Change : Policy for the Environment . What Kind of Growth : People or Profits . By Duncan Smith . Labour's Charter for the Environment . Capitalism since World War II: the making and breakup of the great boom . By Philip Armstrong , Andrew Glyn and John Harrison A Socialist Anatomy of Britain . Edited by David Coates , Gordon Johnston and Ray Bush . Local Socialism ? Labour Councils and New Left Alternatives . Edited by Martin Boddy and Colin Fudge . The Politics of Socialism : an essay in political theory . By John Dunn . Against Socialist Illusion: a radical argument . By David Selbourne . Public Life and Late Capitalism: toward a socialist theory of democracy . By John Keane . Capitalism and Social Democracy . By Adam Przeworski . Policy , Power and Order: the persistence of economic problems in capitalist states . By Kerry Schott . Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism . Edited by John Goldthorpe . The Politics of Local Socialism . By John Gyford . The Aims and Outcomes of Social Policy Research . By Patricia Thomas . How Democracies Perish . By Jean -François Revel . The Crawford Papers . Edited by John Vincent . The British Empire in the Middle East 1945-1951: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism . By Wm . Roger Louis . Packaging the Presidency: a history and criticism of presidential campaign advertising . By Kathleen Hall Jamieson .     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: The New Wars. By Herfried Münkler. (Cambridge: Polity, 2005). Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. (New York: Penguin Press, 2004). Sovereignty and its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political. By William Rasch. (London: Birkbeck Law Press, 2004). The State of the Political: Conceptions of Politics and the State in the Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann. By Duncan Kelly. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
John Agnew, Place and Politics: The Geographical Mediation of State and Society .
Don Foster with Dennis Davis and Diane Sandler, Detention and Torture in South Africa .
Kenneth W. Grundy, The Militarization of South African Politics .
Harold Wolpe, Race, Class and the Apartheid State .
Fred Halliday and Hamza Alavi (eds), State and Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan .
Joseph LaPalombara, Democracy Italian Style .
Howard Penniman (ed.), Italy at the Polls, 1983: A Study of the National Elections .
Harald Müller (ed.), A European Non-Proliferation Policy: Prospects and Problems .
Ronald E. Powaski, March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present .
John Simpson (ed.), Nuclear Non-Proliferation: An Agenda for the 1990s .
Patrick Seyd, The Rise and Fall of the Labour Left .
Hilary Wainwright, Labour—A Tale of Two Parties .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. The Dogs of Journalism. STEVEN BARNETT. Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies. Public intellectual: The art of making oneself up. Richard Mullender. Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Volume 4, by Richard Rorty. The Second Plane: September 11: 2001–2007, by Martin Amis. Planning and all that. Matthew Grant. From Dreams to Disillusionment: Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain, by Glen O'Hara. Let a hundred flowers bloom. Munira Mirza Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts, by Caroline Levine. How to change your brains. Dick Pountain On Deep History and the Brain, by Daniel Lord Smail. ‘Clean’ torture. Caroline Fournet Torture and Democracy, by Darius Rejali. Reforming Italy. Gianfranco Pasquino Political Institutions in Italy, by Maurizio Cotta and Luca Verzichelli. Choice and competition in health care. Jennifer Dixon The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Competition and Choice, by Julian Le Grand, Afterword by Alain Enthoven. Who is afraid of politics?. Meg Russell Politics and the People: A History of British Democracy since 1918, by Kevin Jefferys. Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work, by Gerry Stoker, Palgrave Macmillan. Why We Hate Politics, by Colin Hay.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Graham K. Wilson, Only in America? The Politics of the United States in Comparative Perspective Bent Flyvbjerg, Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice Bo Rothstein, Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare State Carles Boix, Political Parties, Growth, and Equality: Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy Peter M. Lewis, Pear T. Robinson and Barnett R. Rubin, Stabilizing Nigeria: Sanctions, Incentives, and Support for Civil Society     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
RICHARD A. CHAPMAN and MICHAEL HUNT eds., Open Government: A Study of the Prospects of Open Government Within the Limitations of the British Political System
PETER A. HALL, Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France.
DONALD F. KETTL, Government By Proxy .
JOHN A. ROHR, To Run a Constitution: the Legitimacy of the Administrative State .
FOREST CHISMAN and ALAN PIFER, Government for the People: The Federal Social Role. What It Is. What It Should Be .
JOHN HART The Presidential Branch .     

SHORTER NOTICES

THE British General Election OF 1979. By David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh . THE Bili , ION Pounds : Whitehall 'S Takeover THE Town Halls . By Tyrrel Buyrcess AND Tony Travers Paying BY Degrees . By Michael A. Crew and Alistair Young . Specialist Committees IN THE House OF Commons —Have They Failed ? By John P. Mackintosh . Democracy IN Plural Societies . By Arend Liji Hart . THE Politics AND Economics OF THE Transition Period . By Nikolai Bukharin . Edited by Kenneth J. Tarbuck . A Documentary Study OF Hendrik DE MAN, Socialist Critic OF Marxism . Edited by Peter Dodge .     

BOOK REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article: English History : 1914–1945. By A. J. P. Taylor . The Liddell Hart Memoirs . The Clydesiders . A Left Wing Struggle for Parliamentary Power . By Robert Keith Middlemas . Government and the Railways in Nineteenth -Century Britain . By Henry Parris . The Railways and the Nation . By A. J. Pearson . Dark Ghetto : Dilemmas of Social Power . By Kenneth B. Clark How Colour Prejudiced is Britain? By Clifford S. Hill . Crisis in the West . By Drew Middleton . NATO in Transition . By Timothy W. Stanley . NATO in Quest of Cohesion . edited by K. H. Cerny and H. W. Briefs . Detente : Cold War Strategies in Transition . Edited by Eleanor Lansing Dulles and Robert Dickson Crane . de Gaulle . By Alexander Werth . John F. Kennedy . Portrait of a President . By Hugh Sidey . Three Faces of Fascism . By Ernst Nolte . Translated by L. Vennewitz . Politics in the Congo : Decolonization and Independence . By Crawford Young . Castroism : Theory and Practice . By Theodore Draper . Obstacles to Change in Latin America . Edited by Claudio Veliz . French Electoral Systems and Elections Since 1789. By Peter Campbell . Viscount Bolingbroke . By Jeffrey Hart . The Works of Joseph de Maistre . By Jack Lively . Writers and Politics . By Conor Cruise O'Brien .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Ministers And Mandarins . By William Plowden . Transforming Central Government . By Patricia Greer . Policy And Change . Edited by Randall Smith And Jane Raistick Arguments For a New Left . By Hilary Wainwright . Modern European Socialism . By Lawrence Wilde . Social Democracy in a Post -Communist Europe . Edited by Michael Waller , Bruno Coppieters and Kris Deschouwer . Townscape with Figures : Parnham —Portrait of an English Town . By Richard Hoggart . A. J. P. Taylor : The Traitor within the Gates . By Robert Cole . A. J. P. Taylor . By Adam Sysman . The Return to Incomes Policy . Edited by Ronald Dore , Robert Boyer and Zoe Mars . Making the Peace : Public Order and Public Security in Modern Britain . By Charles Townshend . The Ecology of Commerce : How Business Can Save the Planet . By Paul Hawken . Responding to Global Warming : the Technology , Economics and Politics of Sustainable Energy . By Peter Read . The Politics of Dispossession : The Struggle for Palestinian Self -Determination 1969–1994. Law , Process and Custody : Prisoners and Patients . By Genevra Richardson . The Politics of Decentralisation : Revitalising Local Democracy . By Danny Burns , Robin Hambleton and Paul Hoggett . Citizens and Cities : Urban Policy in the 1990s. By Dilys M. Hill . Whose Utility? The Social Impact of Public Utility Privatization and Regulation in Britain . By John Ernst . Humour and History . Edited by Keith Cameron .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Poverty IN THE United Kingdom . By Peter Townsend . Social Mobility AND Class Struc -JRE IN Modern Britain . By John H. Goldthorpe in collaboration with Catriona Llewellyn and Clive Payne . Labour AND Equality . Edited by Nick Bosanquet and Peter Townsend . Power AND Responsibility IN Health Care : THE N.H.S. AS A Political Institution . By W. J. M. Mackenzie . THE House OF Commons IN THE Twentieth Century : Essays BY Members OF THE Study OF Parliament Group . Edited by S. A. Walkland . THE Transfer OF Power , 1942–47. VOL. Viii : THE Interim Government , 3 July -1 November 1946. Edited by Nrcholas Mansergh and Penderel Moon . Socialist Thought IN Imaginative Literature . By Stephen Ingle . Socialist Propaganda IN THE Twentieth -Century Novel . By David Smith . G. D. H. Cole AND Socralist Democracy . By A. W. Wright . Consensus AND Disunity : THE Lloyd George Coalition Government 1918–1922. By Kenneth O. Morgan . Tariff Reform IN British Politics , 1903–1913. By Alan Sykes . Labour AND Scottish Nationalism . By Michael Keating and David Bleiman . THE State IN Northern Ireland 1921–72. By Paul BEW, Peter Gibbon and Henry Patterson . Inflation AND Stabilisation IN Latin America . Edited by R. Thorp and L. Whitehead . Wave-Power: “Insurance”, Smokescreen or Politically Significant Technology? Wave Energy : Energy Paper NO. 42, Prepared for Department of Energy by Energy Technical Support Unit . Proceedings OF THE Wave Energy Conference , London , Heathrow , 22–23 November 1978. Edited by Peter Quarrel . Energy From THE Waves . By David Ross .     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Chrystia Freeland, Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution
Federico Varese, The Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy
Alexander Lukin, Political Culture of Russian 'Democrats'
David Hooper, Reputations under Fire
Alan Milne, Politics, Wellbeing and the Market
Sir Con O'Neill, Britain's Entry into the European Community: Report on the Negotiations of 1970–1972
Gennady Chufrin, The Security of the Caspian Sea Region
Andrew Glyn, Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times: The Left and Economic Policy since 1980
Ton Notermans, Social Democracy and Monetary Union
Gerassimos Moschonas, In the Name of Social Democracy: The Great Transformation, 1945 to the Present
David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention
Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter–Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
Peter Catterall, Colin Seymour–Ure and Adrian Smith, Northcliffe's Legacy: Aspects of the British Popular Press, 1896–1996