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The German Dilemma : The Throes of Political Emancipation . By Karl Dietrich Bracher . The Pluralist State . By David Nicholls . The Failure of the State : On The Distribution of Political and Economic Power in Europe . Edited by James Cornford . British Members of Parliament : A Self -Portrait . By Anthony King . The Communist Parties of Western Europe . By Neil Mcinnes . The Foreign Policy of France From 1914 TO 1945. By J. Néaré . Teaching Politics : Problems and Perspectives . Edited by Tom Brennan and Jonathan F. Brown . Who Killed The British Empire ? An Inquest . By George Woodcock . Passages From Antiquity to Feudalism . By Perry Anderson . [New Left Books. 304 pp. £5.] Lineages of The Absolutist State . By Perry Anderson . The Union of Post Office Workers . By Michael Moran .     

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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 .     

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Richard Breen, Damian F. Hanna, David B. Rottman and Christopher T. Whelan
Brian Girvin, Between Two Worlds: Politics and Economy in Independent Ireland
Derek Sayer, The Violence of Abstraction: the Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism
Derek Sayer (ed.), Readings from Karl Marx
Lawrence Wilde, Marx and Contradiction
Peter Morris, Power: A Philosophical Analysis
Stewart R. Clegg, Frameworks of Power
David A. Baldwin, Paradoxes of power
J. W. Grove, In Defence of Science: Science, Technology and Politics in Modern Society
The British Academy, Ireland after the Union     

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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 .     

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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.     

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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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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 .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
M unicipal E ntertainment and the A rts in G reater L ondon . By S. K. R uck .
R uin and R esurgence 1939–1965. By R. C. M owat .
B ritish P olitics 1918–64. By L. J. M acfarlane .
S ince 1945: A spects of W orld H istory . Edited by J. L. H enderson .
P olitics in W est A frica . By W. A rthur L ewis .
H alifax : T he L ife of L ord H alifax . By T he E arl of B irkenhead .
T he B ritish C ommunist P arty . I ts O rigins and D evelopment U ntil 1929. By L. J. M acfarlane .
P ower and the S oviet é lite —"T he L etter of an O ld B olshevik " and other essays. By Boris Nicolaevsky. U npersoned : T he F all of N ikita S. K hrushchev . By Martin Page and David Burg.
M arxism in the M odern world . Edited by milorad M. drachovitch.
T he P olitics of B ureaucracy . By G ordon T ullock .
T hailand and the S truggle for S outheast A sia . By D onald E. N euchterlein .
S outh E ast A sia in T urmoil . By B rian C rozier .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Keeping the Peace: Police Accountability and Oversight. Edited by David Moore and Roger Wettenhall What's Right? Free Enterprise versus Government Control: Getting the Balance Right By George Mc Farlane The Australian Public Sector: Pathways to Change. Edited by James Guthrie Can Governments Learn? Comparative Perspectives on Evaluation and Organizational Learning. Edited by Frans L Leeuw , Ray C Rist and Richard C Sonnichsen     

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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 .     

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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 .     

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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 .     

The 1981 Netherlands election

The Left in France. By Neill Nugent and David Lowe. London: Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xi + 275. £15.000.

Contemporary French Political Parties. Edited by David S. Bell. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. 199, £13.95.     

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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 .     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The Return of the Political. By Chantal Mouffe. Specters of Marx. By Jacques Derrida. Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Edited and Introduced By Amy Gutmann. Liberal Nationalism. By Yael Tamir. What's the Matter with Liberalism? By Ronald Beiner. Thick and Thin: Moral Argument At Home and Abroad. By Michael Walzer.     

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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 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     

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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 .     

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Book review in this article:
C abinet . By P eter H ennessy .
W orld A rmaments and D isarmament : SIPRI Y earbook 1986.
N uclear W ar , N uclear P roliferation and their C onsequences . Edited by P rince S adruddin A ga K han
S ecurity or A rmageddon : I srael's N uclear S trategy . Edited by L. R. B eres .
N uclear R ights /N uclear W rongs . Edited by E. F. P aul et al.
T he D ecline of C lass V oting in B ritain . By M ark F ranklin .
H ow B ritain V otes . By A nthony H eath , R oger J owell & J ohn C urtice .
C lass and the B ritish E lectorate . By D avid R obertson .
M ountbatten : the O fficial B iography . By P hilip Z iegler .
T he P rice of W ar : B ritish P olicy on G erman R eparations 1941–1949. By A lec C airncross .
R educing E ducational D isadvantage . By P aul W idlake .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Public Administration and Sustainable Development. Edited by Mohammad Ja 'Far Ekram Ja 'Fari , Raul P De Guzman and Mila A Reforma Political Leadership in an Age of Constraint: Bureaucratic Politics Under Hawke and Keating. By Colin Campbell SJ and John Halligan Transforming Australian Local Government. By Michael Jones Public Sector Reform Under the First Goss Government: A Documentary Sourcebook. Edited by Glyn Davis Towards National Administration: Studies in Australian Administrative History. Edited by JJ Eddy and JR Nethercote Documenting a Nation: Australian Archives—The First Fifty Years. By Hilary Golder Ethics for the Public Sector: Education & Training. Edited by Noel Preston Corruption Character & Conduct: Essays on Canadian Government Ethics. Edited by John W Langford and Allan Tupper The Politics of Australia. By Dean Jaensch The Australian Form of Government: Models in Dispute. By Richard Lucy A National Survey of Indigenous Australians: Options and Implications. Edited by J.C. Altman Regional Change in the Economic Status of Indigenous Australians, 1986–1991. By J. Taylor