Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory , by Bhikhu Parekh
Multicultural Questions , edited by Christian Joppke and Steven Lukes
Peoples, Cultures and Nations in Political Philosophy , by Paul Gilbert
Race and Ethnicity in Modern Britain , by David Mason
Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain , by Randall Hansen
The Ashdown Diaries , vol. 1: 1988–1997 , by Paddy Ashdown
Diaries: Into Politics , by Alan Clark
Life in the Jungle: My Autobiography , by Michael Heseltine
Left Behind: Lessons from Labour's Heartland , by Peter Kilfoyle
Ann Widdecombe: Right from the Beginning , by Nicholas Kochan
William Hague: In His Own Right , by Jo-Anne Nadler
Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics , by Jing Huang
Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party , by Xiaobo Lu
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Ni·o Famines and the Making of the Third World , by Mike Davis
Going to the Wars , by Max Hastings
Governing with Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe , by Alec Stone Sweet
No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey through the American South , by Gary Younge
Parliament under Blair , by Peter Riddell
New Labour in Power , edited by David Coates and Peter Lawler
New Labour and Thatcherism , by Richard Heffernan
The Retreat of Social Democracy , by John Callaghan. Manchester University Press
Labour's First Century , edited by Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane and Nick Tiratsoo
The Labour Party: A Centenary History , edited by Brian Brivati and Richard Heffernan     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
The New Gender Agenda , edited by Anna Coote
Money, Markets and the State: Social Democratic Policies since 1918 , by Ton Notermans
It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States , by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks
Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations , by John S. Dryzek
The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945 , by Peter Hennessy
Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh , by Toby Harnden
The IRA 1968–2000: Analysis of a Secret Army , by J. Bowyer Bell
In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethics and Politics , by Norberto Bobbio, translated by Teresa Chataway
Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach , by Martha C. Nussbaum
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering , by Norman G. Finkelstein
The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics , by John Dunn
Trouble-maker: The Life and History of A. J. P. Taylor , by Kathleen Burk     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
CULTURE AND CONSENSUS: England, Art and Politics since 1940. From the Blitz to the Annus Horribilis: A Nation in Triumph and Disarray , by Robert Hewison.
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion , by Ernest Gellner.
Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove , by Ernest Gellner.
Why the Allies Won , by Richard Overy.
The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities, 1945–1950 , by Correlli Barnett.
England Arise! The Labour Party and Popular Politics in 1940s Britain , by Steven Fielding, Peter Thompson and Nick Tiratsoo. Manchester University Press, vii + 244pp.
Fascism: A History , by Roger Eatwell.
Making Sense of Tyranny: Interpretations of Totalitarianism , by Simon Tormey.
Ayes to the Left: A Future for Socialism , by Peter Hain.
Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR , by Mary Fulbrook.
Ethics and International Politics , by Luigi Bonante.
The Quality of Life in London , edited by A. H. Halsey, Roger Jowell and Bridget Taylor.
Great Parliamentary Speeches: Memorable Occasions from the First 16 Years of Parliamentary Broadcasting 1978–1994 , compiled by Peter Hill.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895–1995 .
The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State , by Nicholas Timmins.
Party, Parliament and Personality , edited by Peter Jones. Routledge.
The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe , by Edmund Dell.
The Throw that Failed: Britain's 1961 Application to Join the Common Market , by Lionel Bell.
Mandarin: The Diaries of an Ambassdor, 1969–1982 , by Sir Nicholas Henderson.
The Failure and Future of British Democracy , by Andrew Marr.
World Orders, Old and New , by Noam Chomsky.
Economic Democracy: The Politics of Feasible Socialism , by Robin Archer.
Socialism after Communism: The New Market Socialism , by Christopher Pierson.
Intellectuals and Socialism: 'Social Democrats'and the Labour Party , by Radnika Desai.
Opening the Books: Essays on the Cultural and Social History of the British Communist Party , edited by Geoff Andrews, Nina Fishman and Kevin Morgan.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Rise of New Labour: Party Policies and Voter Choices , edited by Anthony Heath, Roger Jo well and John Curtice.
Fightback! Labour's Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s , by Dianne Hayter.
Old Labour to New , by Greg Rosen.
New Labour: A Critique , by Mark Bevir.
The Struggle for Labour's Soul: Understanding Labour's Political Thought since 1945 , edited by Raymond Plant, Matt Beech and Kevin Hickson.
Governing as New Labour: Policy and Politics under Blair , edited by Steve Ludlam and Martin J. Smith
New Labour at the Centre: Constructing Political Space , by Andrew Hindmoor
(LSE) is at present writing
Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective , by Istvan Hont.
Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War , by RETORT (Iain Boal, T. J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts).
The Right Nation: Why America Is Different , by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course , by Richard Haass.
Frontline: The True Story of the British Mavericks Who Changed the Face of War Reporting , by David Loyn.
The Place at the End of the World , by Janine di Giovanni
The New East End: Kinship, Race and Conflict , by Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron and Michael Young.     

Federalism and Modernization: Canada and the United States

Since World War II, the federal systems in the United Statesand Canada have moved in opposite directions: the U.S. has becomeincreasingly centralized, while the provinces in Canada havegained power at the expense of Ottawa. These divergences canbe explained by such societal factors as economic structures,international commitments, and locations of minority populations;and by institutional factors, such as the number of constituentunits, methods by which provincial authorities are representedin federal legislatures, and especially by the contrast betweenCanada's Westminster-type institutions and the U.S. separationof powers. These differences are illustrated by intergovernmentalfiscal processes, energy policies, and federal-municipal relations.They cannot be accounted for by modernization theories, butrather by economic structures, demographic distributions, andespecially constitutional and institutional arrangements.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue.
Visions of America
PAUL AUERBACH
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm.
The Challenge of Affluence Self-control and Well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950, by Avner Offer.
A great world disorder
Andrew Gamble
Global Challenges for Leviathan: A Political Philosophy of Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming , by Furio Cerutti.
Let's do it by lot
Andrew Blick
The Athenian Option: Radical Reform for the House of Lords , by Anthony Barnett and Peter Carty.
A People's Parliament , by Keith Sutherland.
The lawyer's responsibility
Caroline Fournet
Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law , by Philippe Sands.
The journalist's responsibilities
John Lloyd
Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press , by Michael Schudson.
Red in tooth and claw
Dick Pountain
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too , by James K. Galbraith.
The quandaries of the Nazi empire
Richard Mullender
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe , by Mark Mazower.
The colour-coding of American elections
Gianfranco Pasquino
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do , by Andrew Gelman.
Organising warring parties
John Ramsden
Parties at War: Political Organisation in Second World War Britain , by Andrew Thorpe.
The United States since Vietnam: a life on the wire
Vassilis K. Fouskas
World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy , by Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth.     

The issue of standing in cost-benefit analysis

Insufficient attention has been given in cost-benefit analysis to whose benefits are to be counted. Foreigners, illegal aliens, fetuses, and criminals are problematic cases. Persons or entities may be given “standing” by participation in decision processes; by having their preferences counted, if meaningful preferences exist; by having their welfare counted, if they cannot express their preferences; or by representation by others whom they do not choose. Problems of standing arise in the valuation of life, the consideration of future generations and nonhuman entities, and equity weighting. These problem may be treated by altering the scope of the expert community or by interaction between that community and the political community. They are not always resolvable, but should be treated more explicitly.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A. B. Atkinson. Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment, by Paul Pierson. Managing Policy Change in Britain: The Politics of Water, by William A. Maloney and Jeremy Richardson. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change, by Stanley Fish. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, by Will Kymlicka. The Rights of Minority Cultures, edited by Will Kymlicka. Globalisation in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance, by Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson. Economic Growth and Political Change in Asia, by Graham Field. American Exceptionalism: A Double-edged Sword, by Seymour Martin Lipset. Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, by Zeev Sternhell, trans. David Maisel. Strategies for Self-Govemment: The Campaigns for a Scottish Parliament, by James Mitchell. The Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Norbert Elias, edited by Michael Schröter, translated from the German and with a preface by Eric Chinning and Stephen Mennell.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. ‘Special’ yes, but when and why? Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America, by Kathleen Burk. God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, by Walter Russell Mead. Judicial corruption Global Corruption Report 2007: Corruption in Judicial Systems, by Transparency International. Internet crimes Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age, by David S. Wall. $$ and €€€ in the global world The Euro and the Dollar in a Globalized Economy, edited by Joaquín Roy and Pedro Gomis‐Porqueras. The engagement of media citizens Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention, by Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham. Scotching the Scots The Scots and the Union, by Christopher Whatley. The Union: England, Scotland and the Treaty of 1707, by Michael Fry. The Union of 1707: Why and How, by Paul Henderson Scot. Citizens and supercapitalists Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life, by Robert Reich. More Blair effects Blair's Britain, 1997–2007, edited by Anthony Seldon. Carl Schmitt: a scholarly Nazi Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The ‘Jewish Question’, The Holocaust and German Legal Theory, by Raphael Gross. Ein gefährlicher Geist. Carl Schmitts Wirkung in Europa, by Jan‐Werner Müller. Carl Schmitt, Ludwig Feuchtwanger, Briefwechsel 1918–1935, edited by Rolf Rieß. Hans Blumenberg, Carl Schmitt, Briefwechsel, edited by Alexander Schmitz and Marcel Lepper. Gretha Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Briefwechsel (1934–1953), edited by Ingeborg Villinger and Alexander Jaser.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War. Calling the Tune? by Hugh Wilford. Western Intelligence and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Ten Days That Did Not Shake the World 1980–1990, edited by David Arbel and Ran Edelist. Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century, edited by Heike Bungert, Jan G. Heitman and Michael Wala. How Mumbo‐Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions, by Francis Wheen. Neighbours from Hell: The Politics of Behaviour, by Frank Field. Memoirs, by Douglas Hurd. Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens, by Julian Le Grand. Concept and Controversy: Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market, by W. W. Rostow. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, with an Introduction and Notes by Gareth Steadman Jones. World on Fire, by Amy Chua.     

Book Reviews

Negotiating the World Economy, by John S. Odell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000, 252 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Reviewed by Daniel J.B. Mitchell Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition, edited by Robert A. Moffitt and Michele Ver Ploeg. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001, 268 pp., $42.95. Reviewed by Daniel H. Weinberg Red Tape and Housing Costs: How Regulation Affects New Residential Development, by Michael I. Luger and Kenneth Temkin. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2000, 192 pp., $24.95 cloth. Reviewed by Thomas Bier Waste Trading among Rich Nations, by Kate O'Neill. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000, 310 pp., $60.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman Markets for Clean Air, by A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan‐Pablo Montero, and Elizabeth M. Bailey. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 352 pp., $40.00. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming, by David G. Victor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, 178 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Robert Falkner Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, Stephen Van Evera, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999, 270 pp., $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Reviewed by Erik Gartzke Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons, by T. V. Paul. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2000, 227 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Leonard S. Spector The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, by David S. Landes, New York: W.W. Norton, 1998, 650 pp., $11.87 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. The End of the Nation‐state: The Rise of the Regional Economies, by Kenichi Ohmae, New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1995, 214 pp., $16.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. Governance in a Globalizing World, edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, 386 pp., $18.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this articles.
Leonard Woolf: A Life , by Victoria Glendinning.
Free money for all : Ingrid Robeyns Redesigning Distribution: Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as cornerstones for an Egalitarian capitalism , edited by Erik Olin Wright.
The story of Amnesty : Tom Buchanan Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International , by Stephen Hopgood.
Democracy beyond democracy : Rachel Sieder Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon , edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos.
The ambiguities of populism Francisco Panizza On Polulist Reason , by Ernesto Laclau.
Britain's scientific-military complex : Michael Rustin Warfare State Britain , 1920-1970, by David Edgerton.
Silvio Berlusconi, the 2006 elections and the future of Italy John Foot The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with Fabled History and a Storied culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi , by Alexander Stille.
Crazy cows: an inquest James Cornford The Politics of BSE , by Richard Packer.     

Collaborative Federalism

Famously, federalism combines self-rule with shared rule or unity with diversity. Typically, the mix is achieved by creating or preserving two levels of government, each with a direct relationship with the people, and by dividing power between them. Traditionally, unity is achieved through the exercise of power by the central government, in relation to the polity as a whole. Diversity is the consequence of the exercise of power by sub-national governments over a portion of the population, generally territorially identified. The boundaries of power between the two spheres are secured by entrenching them in a written Constitution established as fundamental law, which is interpreted and applied by a court or courts.     

和谐社会与法治国家的同质性思考

依法治国,建设社会主义法治国家已走过十年历程。和谐社会与法治国家具有天然的同质性,二者追求社会和谐进步的目标一致,民主、秩序、公平正义、人权保障等价值追求一致。因此我们要进一步明确和谐社会构建中法治的重要作用,通过尊重保障权利,禁止权力滥用,大力培育市民社会的公民意识与法治精神以及建立道德规范体系,加快法治国家建设的进程,推进社会主义和谐社会建设。     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Uniting the United Kingdom? The Making of British History, edited by Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer. Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State 1485–1725, edited by Steven G. Ellis and Sarah Barber. A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the Union of 1707, edited by John Robertson. The British Problem, c.1534–1707, edited by Brendan Bradshaw and John Morrill. Macmillan. Three Nations—A Common History? England, Scotland, Ireland and British History c.1600–1920, edited by Ronald G. Asch. Brockmeyer. Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603, edited by Roger A. Mason. The Monarchy and the Constitution, by Vernon Bogdanor. The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution, by Peter Hennessy. Prime Minster, Cabinet and Core Executive, edited by R. A. W. Rhodes and Patrick Dunleavy. SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony King. Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age, by John Gray. The Way We Live Now, by Richard Hoggart. Arts and Cultures: The History of the 50 Years of the Arts Council of Great Britain, by Andrew Sinclair. The Faber Book of Science, edited by John Carey. But is it True? by Aaron Wildavsky. Orchestrating Europe: The Informal Politics of the European Union 1973–95, by Keith Middlemas. Living Islam:From Samarkand to Stomoway, by Akbar S. Ahmed. Jihad vs. McWorld: How the Planet is both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for Democracy, by Benjamin Barber. Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama.     

Note on rent-seeking and committees using a proportionate-sharing rule

The paper examines how the effort expended in pursuit of rents may be affected by having the rents awarded by either an individual or a committee, under differing allocation rules. Congleton (1984) found that rent-seeking efforts should be markedly lower when rents are awarded by committees rather than by a single administrator. This paper reexamines the proportionate-sharing rule, and finds that, depending on decision-making norms followed by committee members, allocation by committee may result in rent-seeking expenditures that are less than, equal to, or greater than those where rents are proportionately divided by a single administrator.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews: Kumar, Amitava, Passport Photos (reviewed by Mohini Chandra); Farmer, Sarah, Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane (reviewed by Nigel Saint); Wailoo, Keith, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (reviewed by Andrew M. Kaye); Gerlach, Wolfgang, And the Witnesses Were Silent: The Confessing Church and the Persecution of the Jews (reviewed by Andrew Chandler); Langewiesche, Dieter, Nation, Nationalismus, Nationalstaat in Deutschland und Europa (reviewed by Mark Hewitson); Driver, C. J., Patrick Duncan, South Africa and Pan-African (reviewed by Franklin Hugh Adler); Todorov, Tzvetan (ed.), Voices from the Gulag. Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria (reviewed by Florin Lobont)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article:
Modern Massacres RICHARD BOURKE The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing , by Michael Mann
The Jewish lobby Nathan Abrams US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Role of Lobbies and Special Interest Groups , by Janice J. Terry
Blair and Bush Richard Briand American Ally: Tony Blair and the War on Terror , by Con Coughlin
Dealing with God Dick Pountain Dick Fountain is an editor and technical author, based in London, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon , by Daniel C. Dennett
Neo-conservatism in a refractory world Richard Mullender After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads , by Francis Fukuyama
Revisiting Harold Wilson Matthew Grant The Wilson Governments, 1964–70: A Reappraisal , edited by Glenn O'Hara and Helen Parr
Violent news Maurice Walsh Carnage and the Media: The Making and Breaking of News about Violence , by Jean Seaton
Obsessed with 'the Krauts' Axel Körner Don't Mention the War. The British and the Germans since 1890 , by John Ramsden     

构建社会主义和谐社会的法机制研究(下)

(5)法保障实行广泛的社会自治,扩大社会权力,形成“小政府、大社会”的关系格局。法之所以必须而且能够成为国家回归社会的强大手段甚至是基本手段,根本原因就在于立法权是“市民社会向国家派出的代表团[1”]319,所以它所制定的法是社会意志或广大群众公意的体现。既然如此,法就成为支配国家、特别是政府的惟一力量。社会主义和谐社会也必然是安定和有序的社会。安定有序是国家与法产生的最根本的历史动因。这是法学家们很早就认识并进行过系统论述的。英国的洛克认为,法律之所以必需,是为了改变“原始状态”中的那种人人拥有处理自己案件的…