Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Elizabeth Dickson and George E. Peterson, Public Employee Compensation: A Twelve City Comparison
James R. Griesemer, Budgeting for Results in Local Government
Edward A. Lehan, Simplified Government Budgeting
Edward A. Lehan, Budget Making, A workbook of Theory and Practice     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
RUSSELL MATHEWS (ed.), Making Federalism Work: Towards a More Efficient, Equitable and Responsive Federal System
R.M. BURNS et al., Political and Administrative Federalism
P.D. GROENEWEGEN, The Taxable Capacity of Local Government in New South Wales
F.A. LARCOMBE, The Stabilisation of Local Government in New South Wales 1858–1906
L.J. BARKER (ed.), Governance of the Australian Colleges of Advanced Education
MORRIS JANOWITZ, Social Control of the Welfare State
LYNTON K. CALDWELL, Man and his Environment: Policy and Administration
ALAN MURIE et al., Housing Policy and the Housing System
NIAL OSBOROUGH, Borstal in Ireland
DAVID HEALD, Making Devolution Work
T. H. RIGBY and R. F. MILLER, Political and Administrative Aspects of the Scientific and Technical Revolution in the U.S.S.R.
PETER WILENSKI, The Delivery of Health Services in the People's Republic of China
MARTIN SHUBIK, The Uses and Methods of Gaming
MARTIN SHUBIK, Games for Society, Business and War: Towards a Theory of Gaming
M. KUBR (ed.), Management Consulting: a Guide to the Profession
J. DAVID EDELSTEIN and MALCOLM WARNER, Comparative Union Democracy Organisation and Opposition in British and American Unions     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
J. Richard Aronson and Eli Schwartz (eds.), Management Policies in Local Government Finance
H. Clyde Reeves (ed.), The Role of the State in Property Taxation
C. Lowell Harriss (ed.), The Property Tax and Local Finance
Government Finance Research Center, Indicators of Urban Condition     

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 NOTES

MICHAEL M. HARMON, Action Theory for Public Administration
MARTIN BULMER, The Uses of Social Research. Social Investigation in Public Policy-Making
GRANT HARMAN and DON SMART (eds), Federal Intervention in Australian Education
JAMES CURRAN and JEAN SEATON, Power Without Responsibility. The Press and Broadcasting in Britain
DAVID SHAND (ed.), Making Government Budgets Work. Canberra and the States. Canberra College of Advanced Education and Australian Institute of Public Administration (ACT Group)
WENCESLAS BAUDRILLART and ROBERT POINSARD, 20 Years of Budgetary Reform: A Tentative International Stocktaking, Brussels, XVIIIth International Congress of Administrative Sciences, Working Group in Integrated Budget Systems, 1982.
J. O. N. PERKINS, The Australian Financial System After the Campbell Report
K. H. BRADSHAW, D. N. FOSTER, B. R. SMITH and G. A. VIENAUX (eds), An Operations Research Case Book
DOCUMENTACION ADMINISTRATIVA (Madrid), 191, July–Sept., 1981, La Experiencia Regional Italiana, Vol. I     

BOOK NOTES

DENNIS KAVANAGH, Political Science and Political Behaviour
CHRISTOPHER CUNNEEN, Kings' Men. Australia's Governors-General from Hopetoun to Isaacs
ROBERT BANKS (ed.), Private Values and Public Policy: The Ethics of Decision-Making in Government Administration
GARRY WOTHERSPOON (ed.), Sydney's Transport. Studies in Urban History
GREGORY P. JONES, The Federal Government 1983 A Chronology of Events and Decisions with References
MARGARET BOWMAN and WILLIAM HAMPTON (eds), Local Democracies. A Study in Comparative Local Government
JAMES JUPP (ed.), Ethnic Politics in Australia     

Environmentalism: Movements,rhetorics, representations

Leif Ohlsson, ed., Hydropolitics: Conflicts Over Water as a Development Constraint. London: Zed Books, 1995.

John M. Donahue and Barbara Rose Johnston, eds., Water, Culture, &; Power: Local Struggles in a Global Context. Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1998.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Edward J. Clyncu and Thomas P. Lauth, (eds.) Governors, Legislatures, and Budget Across the American States C. William Garner, Accounting and Budgeting in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Manager's Guide Herman B. Leonard, Checks Unbalanced: The Quiet Side of Public Spending David M. Lawrence, Local Government Finance in North Carolina Timpthy J. Conlan, Margaret T. Wrightson, and David R. Beam, Taxing Choices: The Politics of Tax Reform     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Howard A Frank, Budgetary Forecasting in Local Government: New Tools and Techniques John E. Anderson, (ed.) Fiscal Equalization for State and Local Government Finance National Commission on the State and Local Public Service, Frustrated Federalism: RX for State and Local Health Care Reform     

Book Recieved

HENRY WYEU (ed.), Australian Politics: A Reoder. F. W. Cheshire. Melbourne. 1966 R. D. LUMB. The Constitutions of the Australian Stutes, 2nd ed. H. J. HOFSTRA. New Techniques of Budget Preparation and Management. International Inst. of Admin. Sciences, Brussels, 1965. J. LITWIN. Control of River Pollution by Industry. International Inst. of Admin. Sciences, Brussels, 1965. T. J. McELLIGOT. Education in Ireland. Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, 1965 R. PRESTHUS. Behavioral Approaches to Public Administration. A. F. DAMES & S. ENCEL. Australian Society: A Sociological Introduction. F. W. Cheshire, Melbowm, 1965.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Thomas D. Lynch, (ed.) Federal Budget & Financial Management Reform Steven D. Gold, David M. Smith, Stephen B. Lawton, and Andrea C. Hyary, (eds.) Public School Finance Programme of the Untied States and Canada 1990-1991 B.J. Reed and John W. Swain, Public Finance Administration     

地方治理中的参与式预算——关于浙江温岭市新河镇改革的案例研究

参与式预算是一种公民直接参与决策的治理形式,是参与式民主的一种形式.实施参与式预算,能够促进公共学习和激发公民的权利意识,通过改善政策和资源分配,实现社会公正,以及改革行政机构.在这种直接的、自愿和普遍参与的民主过程中,人们能够平等讨论和决定公共预算、各项政策以及政府管理.在充分吸收国外参与式预算实践的基础上,浙江省新河镇基于国家既有的法律框架,以及民主恳谈的制度平台,开始实施预算改革,扩大了公民参与政府决策的广度和深度,深刻地影响着中国基层民主的发展.在理论分析和实地调查的基础上,运用比较分析的方法,初步探讨了参与式预算在中国地方治理中的兴起与发展,力图为中国地方治理,以及基层民主政治建设提供新的观察视角.     

BOOK NOTES

Books Reviewed in this article:
EZRA N. SULEIMAN (ed.), Parliaments and Parliamentarians in Democratic Politics
RONALD MENDELSOHN (ed.), Finance of Old Age
JOHN DIXON and HYUNG SHIK KIM (eds), Social Welfare in Asia
RUDOLF KLEIN and MICHAEL O'HIGGINS (eds.). The Future of Welfare
GEORGE JONES and JOHN STEWART, The Case for Local Government
ANDREW SPAULL, A History of the Australian Education Council     

Congressional Budget Reform: Impact on the Appropriations Committees

The congressional budget process has undergone several major reforms in the last twenty years: the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and 1987 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings I and II) and the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (BEA) that have had a direct impact on the Appropriations Committees and the appropriations process. This article evaluates that impact on the decision-making capacity and power of the Appropriations Committees.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
CAMERON HAZLEHURST and J. R. NETHERCOTE (eds.), Reforming Australian Government: The Coombs Report and Beyond
R. F. I. SMITH and PATRICK WELLER (eds.), Public Service Inquiries in Australia
R. L. MATHEWS (ed.), State and Local Taxation
J. S. HUNTER, Federalism and Fiscal Balance: A Comparative Study
V. SUBRAMANIAM, Transplanted Indo-British Administration
NORMAN LEWIS and BERNARD GATESHILL, The Commission for Local Administration: a preliminary appraisal
MALCOLM BAINS, Management Reform in English Local Government
M. A. JONES, Organisational and Social Planning in Australian Local Government
J. J. MACKEN, C. MOLONEY and G. J. McCARRY, The Common Law of Employment
PATRICK KEATINGE, A Place Among The Nations: Issues of Irish Foreign Policy
JOHN D. ROCHE, Planning in the ESB
C. V. BROWN and P. M. JACKSON, Public Sector Economics     

BOOK NOTES

An Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis. An Introduction to Program Budgeting. F. J. Burrows . Minimum Development Rating. Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances in Australia. Industrialization and the Individual. James Jupp , Australian Party Politics, 2nd ed. J. T. Sutcliffe , A History of Trade Unionism in Australia. S. H. H. Hildersley and Raymond Nottage , Sources of Local Revenue. Management of Local Government. The Maud Committee Report. R. M. and C. H. Berndt . The First Australians. Peter France . The Charter of the Land. Allan Flanders . Trade Unions. John Hirst . A Proposal for an Integrated School Library System for the Public Schools of New South Wales. R. Preston (ed.). Contemporary Australia: Studies in History, Politics, and Economics.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Governance, Politics, and the State. Jon Pierre and B. Guy Peters. The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Robert E. Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, and Henk‐Jan Dirven. Local Voices, National Issues: The Impact of Local Initiative in Japanese Policy‐Making. Sheila A. Smith, ed. Two Tiers or Two Speeds? The European Security Order and the Enlargement of the European Union and NATO. James Sperling, ed. Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition. Valerie Sperling. Remaking New Zealand and Australian Economic Policy: Ideas, Institutions, and Policy Communities. Shaun Goldfinch.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Robert D. Reischauer, Setting National Priorities: Budget Choices for the Next Century
The Twentieth Century Fund, Federalism and the Balanced Budget Amendment     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: A National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report, Harvey S. Rosen, (ed.) Studies in State and Local Public Finance Steven D. Gold, (ed.) Reforming State Tax Systems Daniel Bell and Lester Thurow, The Deficits: How Big? How Long? How Dangerous?     

BOOK NOTES

KENNETH KERNAGHAN AND O.P. DWIVEDI, Ethics in the Public Service: Comparative Perspectives, Brussels, International Institute of Administrative Sciences
MARK W. HUDDLESTON, Comparative Public Administration: An Annotated Bibliography
G. S. BAIN (ed.), Industrial Relations in Britain
GILL PALMER, British Industrial Relations
EVERETT M. JACOBS (Ed.), Soviet Local Politics and Government
ALEXANDER KOUZMIN (ed.), Public Sector Administration: New Perspectives