BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: Jinnah of Pakistan . By Stanley Wolpert . Weakness and Deceit . US Policy and El Salvador . By Raymond Bonner . Revival and Reaction . The Right in Contemporary America . By Gillian Peele . Citiesin Recession . Critical Reactions to the Urban Policies of the new right. Edited by Ivan Szelenyi. Neville Chamberlain . Volume One : Pioneering and Reform , 1869–1929. By David Dilks . Garvin of the Observer. By David Ayerst . Ordinary Vices . By Judith N. Shklar . Science , Technology and Society Today . Edited by Michael Gibbons and Philip Gummett . New Technology and the Future of Work and Skills . Edited by Pauline Marstrand. Understanding Systems Failures . By Victor Bignell and Joyce Fortune . The Cold and the Dark : The World After Nuclear War . By Paul Ehrlich , Carl Sagan , Donald Kennedy and Walter Roberts . Social Constraints on Technological Progress . By Rob Coppock . Commons Select Committees : Catalysts for Progress ? Edited by Dermot Englefield . Sport and Political Ideology . By John M. Hoberman .     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Enterprise Years : A Businessman in the Cabinet . BY David Young . Upwardly Mobile. by Norman tebbit . Ministers Decide : A Memoir of the Thatcher Years . By Norman Fowler . My Style of Government . By Nicholas Ridley . Right at the Centre . By Cecil Parkinson . Staying power . By Peter Walker . A Sparrow's flight . By Lord Hailsham . Kill the Messenger . By Bernard ingham . The View From No. II: Memoirs of a Tory Radical . By Nigel Lawson . Britons : Forging the Nation 1701–1837. By Linda Colley . Myths of the English . Edited by Roy Porter . Beaverbrook: a life . By Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie . Murdoch . By William Shawcross . Vers Une Nouvelle Europe ? Towards a New Europe ? Edited by Mario Telo .     

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Book review in this article: Arguments for Democracy . By Tony Benn . Edited by Chris Mullin . Breaking the Mould ? By Ian Bradley . The Future of Socialism . By Anthony Crosland . The Socialist Agenda . Edited by David Lipsey and Dick Leonard . Face the Future . By David Owen . Politics is For People . By Shirley Williams . The Strategy of Equality : Redistribution and the Social Services . By Julian Le Grand . The Question of Separatism . By Jane Jacobs . Financing Devolution Within the United Kingdom : A Study of the Lessons from Failure . By David Heald . Anthony Eden . By David Carlton . Knowing Right from Wrong : The Insanity Defense of Daniel Mc Naughtan . By Richard Moran . Retreat from Power : Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century . Volume One : 1906–1939. Volume Two: After 1939. Edited by David Dilks . Sadat . By David Hirst and Irene Beeson . Poverty and Famines : An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation . By Amartya Sen . An Evolutionary View of Economic Growth . By Ashok S. Guha . The European Transition from Oil : Societal Impacts and Constraints on Energy Policy . Edited by Gordon T. Goodman , Lars A. Kristoferson and Jack M. Hollander . The Global Politics of Arms Sales . By Andrew J. Pierre . From Dessalines to Duvalier . Race , Colour , and National Independence in Haiti . By David Nicholls . Mussolini . By Denis Mack Smith . Contemporary Terror : Studies in Sub-state Violence . Edited by David Carlton and Carlo Schaerf . Revolt from the Center . By Niels Meyer , Helveg Petersen and Villy Sorensen .     

Party politics of the right: Neo‐populist parties and the future of the West European party system

Radical Right‐Wing Populism in Western Europe. By HANS‐GEORG BETZ. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Pp.x + 226, 22 tables, biblio. $18.95 (paper); $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 0–312–12195–4 and 0–312–08390.

Volkes Stimme? Rechtspopulismus in Europa. By Armin PFAHL‐TRAUGHBER with contributions by OLIVER SCHMIDTKE and CAS MUDDE. Bonn: Dietz, 1994. Pp.191, biblio. DM19.80 (paper). ISBN 3–8012–3059–7.

Wer wählt rechts? Die Wähler und Anhänger rechts‐extremistischer Parteien im vereinigten Deutschland. By JÜRGEN W. FALTER, in collaboration with MARKUS KLEIN. München: C.H. Beck, 1994. Pp.167, biblio. DM17.80 (paper). ISBN 3‐ 406–37442–5.

Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland. Voraussetzungen, Zusammenhänge, Wirkung. Edited by WOLFGANG BENZ. Frankfurt a.M.: S. Fischer, 1994 (new exp. and rev. edition). Pp.331, index. DM18.90 (paper). ISBN 3–596–12276–7.

The Dark Side of Europe. The Extreme Right Today. By GEOFFREY HARRIS, foreword by GLYN FORD. Edinburgh University Press, 1994 (2nd edition). Pp.xi + 265, index, £12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–7486–0466–9.

Rechtsextremismus: weiblich ‐ männlich? Eine Fallstudie zu geschlechtsspezifischen Lebensverläufen, Handlungsspielräumen und Orientierungsweisen. By URSULA BIRSL, foreword by PETER LOSCHE. Leverkusen: Leske + Budrich, 1994. Pp.369, biblio. DM48 (paper). ISBN 3–8100–1204–1.

Rechtsextremismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit. Studien zur aktuellen Entwicklung. Edited by INSTITUT FÜR SOZIALFORSCHUNG. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus, 1994. Pp.219, biblio. DM18 (paper). ISBN 3–593–35026–2.

Racism, Ethnicity and Politics in Contemporary Europe. Edited by ALEC G. HARGREAVES and JEREMY LEAMAN. Gower House, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995. Pp.296, index, £39.95 (cloth). ISBN 1–85278–8838–0.

Das Gewalt‐Dilemma. Gesellschaftliche Reaktionen auf fremdenfreindliche Gewalt und Rechtsextremismus. Edited by WILHELM HEITMEYER. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1994. Pp.463, DM29.80 (paper). ISBN 3–518–11905–2.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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 .     

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Books Reviewed in this Article: THE Alternative in Eastern Europe . By Rudolf Bahro . The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays . By E. P. Thompson . Lenin's Political Thought . Volume I. Theory and Practice in the Democratic Revolution . By Neil Harding . Marxism and the Party . By John Molyneux . ON Human Nature . By Edward O. Wilson . The American as Anarchist . Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism . By David de Leon . Re -Inventing Anarchy . What are Anarchists Thinking These Days ? Edited by Howard J. Ehrlich , David DE Leon and Glenda Morris . Conservative Essays . Edited by Maurice Cowling . Can Government Go Bankrupt ? By Richard Rose and Guy Peters . Parliament and Public Spending : The Expenditure Committee of the House OF Commons 1970-76. By Ann Robinson . The Irish Department of Finasce 1922-58. By Ronan Fanning . Administrative Secrecy in Developed Countries . Edited by Donald C. Rowat . Privacy . Edited by John B. Young . Les Nucleocrates . By Philippe Simonnot . Exportations Nucleaires et Non -Proliferation . By Simone Courteix .     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Political Leadership in an Age of Constraint: The Australian Experience . By Colin Campbell and John Halligan.
Reforming the Civil Service: The Fulton Committee on the British Home Civil Service of 1966–1968 . By Geoffrey K. Fry.
Beyond Left and Right: Breaking the Political Stalemate . By A. Lawrence Chickering.
Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens' Views of Repository Siting . Edited by Riley E. Dunlap, Michael E. Kraft and Eugene A. Rosa.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Business Mates: The Power and Politics of the Hawke Era. By DOUG McEACHERN The Accord and the Australian Labour Movement. By GWYNNETH SINGLETON The Executive State: WA Inc and the Constitution. Edited by PATRICK O'BRIEN and MARTYN WEBB Surveys in Development Economics. Edited by NORMAN GEMMELL What Should Government Do? Edited by PETER COALDRAKE and J.R. NETHERCOTE Economic and Management Pressures on Australian Public Administration. Edited by CHRIS PIRIE and JOHN POWER The Anglo-American Lexicon of the Social Sciences. By L. J. SHARPE     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Private Pay for Public Work: Performance-Related Pay for Public Sector Managers. By R obert W ood and M aria M aguire
Reforming the Public Service: Lessons from Recent Experiences. Edited by P atrick W eller , J ohn F orster and G lyn D avis
Program Evaluation and Performance Monitoring: An Australian Perspective. Edited by C iaron O'F aircheallaigh and B ill R yan
Beyond the Protective State: The Political Economy of Australia's Industry Policy. By A nn C apling and B rian G alligan
Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy. Edited by B rian G alligan , O wen H ughes and C liff W alsh
In Reserve: Central Banking in Australia, 1945-75. By B oris S chedvin
Comparative Political Studies: Australia and Canada. Edited by M alcolm A lexander and B rian G alligan
Public Administration in Small and Island States. Edited by R andall B aker
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives. By A lan B ullock
Natural Hazards and Reinsurance. Edited by J ohn O liver and N eil R. B ritton
Natural and Technological Hazards: Implications for the Insurance Industry. Edited by N eil R. B ritton and J ohn O liver
Catastrophe Insurance for Tomorrow: Planning for Future Adversities. Edited by N eil R. B ritton and J ohn O liver     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Using Theory to Improve Program and Policy Evaluations. Edited by Huey-Tsyh Chen and Peter H. Rossi. A Flock of Shepherds: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops. By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Leadership and the Bush Presidency: Prudence or Drift in an Era of Change? Edited by Ryan J. Barilleaux and Mary E. Stuckey. The Poverty Debate: Politics and the Poor in America. By C. Emory Burton. Economic Rationalism in Canberra — A Nation Building State Changes Its Mind. By Michael Pusey.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: International . Disputes : The Political Aspects . By Professor F. S. Northedge and M. D. Donelan . The Evolving United Nations : A Prospect for Peace ? Edited by K. J. Twitciiett . Foreword by Lord Garadon . The Intellectual Origins of the Prague Spring . By Vladimir V. Kusin . The Secret Vyso?y Congress . Edited and with an introduction by Ji?ia Pelikán . Geneva 1954: The Settlement of the Indo -Chinfse War . By Robert P. Randle . Britain and West Germany : Changing Societies and the Future of Foreign Policy . Edited by Karl Kaiser and Roger Morgan . Economic Analysis and Public Enterprises . By Ralph Turvey . The Price of Amenity : Five Studies in Conservation and Government . By Roy Gregory . Memoirs of Hope : Renewal 1958–1962. Endeavour 1962. By Charles de Gaulle . Translated by Terence Kilmartin . Kencontres Avec …de Gaulle . By Jules Mocii .     

Governing at the frontier of the European commission: The case of seconded national officials

Political Integration and Disintegration in the British Isles. By A. H. Birch. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1977. Pp. 184. £6.50 hardback, £2.95 paperback.

Divided Loyalties. British Regional Assertion and European Integration Edited by M. Kolinsky. Manchester University Press, 1978. Pp. 224. £9.50

The Break up of Britain: Crises and Neo‐Nationalism. By Tom Nairn. London, New Left Books, 1977. Pp. 318. £750.

The British Right: Conservative and Right Wing Politics in Britain. Edited by Neill Nugent and Roger King, Westmead : Saxon House, 1977, Pp. vi + 230 £7.50     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Canberra: A People's Capital? Edited by RAE ELSE-MITCHELL Managing Gender: The State, The New Middle Class and Women Workers, 1830–1930: By DESLEY DEACON Flood Insurance and Relief in Australia . Edited by D.I. SMITH & J.W. HANDMER     

STUDYING THE STATES

The Bannon Decade: The Politics of Restraint in South Australia. Edited by Andrew Parkin & Allan Patience Trials in Power: Cain, Kirner and Victoria 1982–1992. Edited by Mark Considine & Brian Costar Keeping them Honest: Democratic Reform in Queensland. Edited by Andrew Hede , Scott Prasser & Mark Neylan The Tasmanian Parliamentary Accord & Public Policy: Accommodating the new politics? Edited by Marcus Haward & Peter Larmour Affairs of State: Politics in the Australian States and Territories. By Scott Bennett     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: Engllishness : Politics and Culture , 1880–1920. Edited by Robert Colls and Philip Dodd . The Scottish Trades Union Congress . The First Eighty Years : 1897–1977. By Angela Tuckett . Scotland : The Case for Optimism . By Jim Sillars . Atrocity and Amnesia : The Political Novel Since 1945. By Robert Boyers . Thinkers of the New Left . By Roger Scruton . Bringing the State Back In . Edited by Peter Evans , Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol . The Nation -State and Violence . By Anthony Giddens . The Political Economy of Corporatism . Edited by Wyn Grant . A World in Crisis ? Geographical Perspectives . Edited by R. J. Johnston and P. J. Taylor . The Artful Albanian : The Memoirs of Enver Hoxha . Edited by Jon Halliday . Margaret Cole 1893–1980: A Political Biography . By Betty D. Vernon Duff Cooper : The Authorized Biography . By John Charmley .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
L aw and O pinion in E ngland in the T wentieth C entury , being the text of seventeen lectures delivered at the London School of Economics, 1957–58. Editor: M orris G insberg .
T he A ge of I mprovement . By A sa B riggs .
Y our S econdary M odern S chools . By J. V incent C hapman .
T he P ress in A uthoritarian C ountries .
T he S oviet U nion and the M iddle E ast . By W alter L aqueur .
N igeria : B ackground to N ationalism . By J ames S. C oleman .
N ew F abian C olonial E ssays . Edited by A rthur C reech J ones .
B ritish P olicy in C hanging A frica . By S ir A ndrew C ohen .
W hat A re the P roblems of P arliamentary G overnment in W est A frica ?
E veryman's A frica . By J ohn H atch .
A S urvey of N orth W est A frica (T he M aghrib ). Edited by N evill B arbour .
S yria and L ebanon under F rench M andate . By S. H. L ongrigg .
S yria : A S hort H istory . By P hilip K. H itti .
T he A fro -A sian S tates and T heir P roblems . By K. M. P anikkar .
S ocialism in S outhern A sia . By S aul R ose .
T he D ictionary of N ational B iography , 1941–1950. Edited by L. G. W ickham -L egg and E. T. W illiams .
P rimitive R ebels . By E. J. H obsbawm .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
C ontemporary C hina : Papers presented at the University of Guelph Conference April 1968.
T he C ultural R evolution in C hina . By J oan R obinson .
C ommunism and C hina : Ideology in Flux. By B enjamin S chwartz .
M odern china's search for a political form . Edited by J ack G ray .
P eople's war : The Conditions and the Consequences in China and in South East Asia. By J. L. S. G irling .
S un yat-sen : His life and its meaning. By A. L. S harman .
C ontemporary C hina . Vol. IV 1962-64. Edited by E. S tuart K irby .
C hina in crisis . Vol. II: China's Policies in Asia and America's Alternatives. Edited by T ang T sou .
C apitalism and N ationalism in P rewar J apan : The Ideology of the Business Elite, 1868-1941. By B. K. M arshall .
P olitical D evelopment of M odern J apan . (Studies in the Modernisation of Japan, No. 4.) Edited by R. E. W ard .
Borough Politics. A Study of the Wolverhampton Borough Council 1888-1964. By G. W. Jones.
The S ociology of B ritish C ommunism . By K enneth N ewton .
H ong K ong : A S ociety in T ransition . C ontributions to the S tudy of H ong K ong S ociety . Edited By I. C. J arvie in consultation with J oseph A gassi .
B reach of S ecurity : T he G erman S ecret I ntelligence F ile on E vents L eading to the S econd W orld W ar . Edited By D avid I rving , with an Introduction by D onald C. W att .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Backbench Opinion in the House of Commons 1945–55. By Hugh Berrington . Britain and India : The Interaction of Two Peoples . By M. E. Chamberlain . Lord Esher , A Political Biography . By Peter Fraser . Modern Australia in Documents 1901–1970. Edited by F. K. Crowley . Georges Clemenceau —A Political Biography . By David Robin Watson . Italy —Republic without Government ? By P. A. Allum . Politics and Society in Post-war Naples . By P. A. Allum . Political Responsibility and Industry . By Edmund Dell . British Nationalisation , 1945–1973. By R. Kelf -Cohen . The Origins of Franco's Spain . The Right , The Republic and the Revolution , 1931–1936. By Richard A. H. Robinson . A Guerrilla Diary of the Spanish Civil War . By Francisco Pérez López . The Political Economy of Modern Spain . By Charles W. Anderson . De Gaulle : Vol . I, The Warrior ; Vol . II, The Statesman . By Brian Crozier .     

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND AUSTRALIAN ENGAGEMENT WITH ASIA

Public Administration in Asia and the Pacific: Survey of Teaching and Research in Twelve Countries. Edited by L edivina C aring
Administrative Reform Towards Productivity in Bureaucratic Performance. Edited by Z hang Z hijian , R aul P. D e G uzman A nd M ila A. R eforma
Politics and Administration in Changing Societies: Essays in Honour of Professor Fred W. Riggs. Edited by R amesh K. A rora