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POLITICS, ETHICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE Royal Institute of Public Administration THE CHANGING CONSTITUTION Jeffrey Jowell and Dawn Oliver (eds) LAW, LEGITIMACY AND THE CONSTITUTION Patrick MacAuslan and John F. McEldowney (eds) PLANNING THE BRITISH ECONOMY Paul Hare Macmillan Political Innovation in America: The Politics of Policy Initiation Nelson W. Polsby CENTRAL ORGANIZATIONS OF DEFENSE Martin Edmonds (ed) WHITEHALL AND WESTMINSTER. GOVERNMENT INFORMS PARLIAMENT: THE CHANGING SCENE Dermot Englefield MANAGING EDUCATION: THE SYSTEM AND THE INSTITUTION Meredydd Hughes, Peter Ribbins and Hywel Thomas (eds) THE POLITICS BEHIND BURNHAM: A STUDY OF TEACHERS' SALARY NEGOTIATIONS Rene Saran Sheffield WHATEVER HAPPENED TO URBAN POLICY? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF URBAN POLICY IN AUSTRALIA, CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES Richard H. Leach LOCAL AUTHORITY BORROWING: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Sir Harry Page George IN DEFENCE OF WELFARE Philip Bean, John Ferris and David Whynes (eds) THE FUTURE OF WELFARE Rudolf Klein and Michael O'Higgins (eds) REVIEW OF SOCIAL WELFARE IN BRITAIN. 1885–1985 Rex Pope, Alan Pratt and Bernard Hoyle (eds) CONTROLLING CHEMICALS: THE POLITICS OF REGULATION IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES Ronald Brickman, Sheila Jasanoff and Thomas Ilgen     

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Book reviews in this article: GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED (BBC REITH LECTURES 1983) Douglas Wass. MANIPULATING THE MACHINE: CHANGING THE PATTERN OF MINISTERIAL DEPARTMENTS 1960–83 Christopher Pollitt. BUT, CHANCELLOR: AN INQUIRY INTO THE TREASURY Hugo Young and Anne Sloman. LEADERSHIP IN THE BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE Richard A. Chapman. THE COMMONS' SELECT COMMITTEES: CATALYSTS FOR PROGRESS? Dermot Englefield (ed.). PARLIAMENTARY SELECT COMMITTEES IN ACTION Dilys Hill (ed.). ETHICS IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES K. Kernaghan and O. P. Dwivedi. INSIDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A CASE FOR RADICAL REFORM Alex Henney. MUNICIPAL EMPIRE: THE TOWN HALLS AND THEIR BENEFICIARIES David Walker. PRESSURE GROUPS AND GOVERNMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN G. Alderman. CORRUPTION AND MISCONDUCT IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POLITICS Alan Doig. THE POLITICS OF TRANSPORT Enid Witrich. THE OPERATION OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND Doreen Collins.     

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THE BRITISH POLITICAL TRADITION VOLUME 3: A MUCH GOVERNED NATION – PARTS 1 AND 2 W. H. Greenleaf Methuen
MINISTERS AND MINISTRIES: A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS Richard Rose
RULING PERFORMANCE: BRITISH GOVERNMENTS FROM ATTLEE TO THATCHER Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon (eds.)
RESHAPING CENTRAL GOVERNMENT: RESHAPING OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR. VOL 1 John Gretton and Anthony Harrison (eds.)
DON AND MANDARIN: MEMOIRS OF AN ECONOMIST Donald MacDougall John Murray
MANAGING PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS: LESSONS FROM CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE Jan Kooiman and Kjell A. Eliassen (eds.)
PUBLIC POLICY-MAKING FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT J. A. Chandler
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE COMMUNITY Colin Mellors and Nigel Copperthwaite
LEARNING FROM LOCAL AUTHORITY BUDGETING Howard Elcock and Grant Jordan (eds.)
THE GROWTH AND EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC SPENDING M. S. Levitt and M. A. S. Joyce
DEVELOPING LOCAL ECONOMIC STRATEGIES Allan Cochrane (ed.)
POLITICAL ETHICS AND PUBLIC OFFICE Dennis F. Thompson
BUREAUCRATIC DISCRETION: LAW AND POLICY IN FEDERAL REGULATORY AGENCIES Gary C. Bryner
THE WELFARE STATE IN TRANSITION: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WELFARE PLURALISM Norman Johnson
PROPERTY BEFORE PEOPLE: THE MANAGEMENT OF TWENTIETH CENTURY COUNCIL HOUSING Anne Power
ROOSEVELT TO REAGAN: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN PRESIDENCY M. Shaw (ed.)
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE Howard E. McCurdy     

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THE CIVIL SERVICE TODAY Gavin Drewry and Tony Butcher FUTURE SHAPE OF REFORM IN WHITEHALL ETHICS IN THE BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE Richard A. Chapman BUREAUCRACY AND POLITICAL POWER B. C. Smith TENSIONS IN THE TERRITORIAL POLITICS OF WESTERN EUROPE R. A. W. Rhodes and Vincent Wright (eds.) LOCAL DEMOCRACY IN PRACTICE Clive Martlew ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE: SOME NECESSARY REFORMS Report of the Committee of the JUSTICE-All Souls Review of Administrative Law in the United Kingdom NEW DIRECTIONS IN JUDICIAL REVIEW J. L. Jowell and D. Oliver (eds.) DELIVERING PUBLIC SERVICES IN WESTERN EUROPE: SHARING WESTERN EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE OF PARA-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION C. Hood and G. F. Schuppert (eds.) FOCUS ON HEALTH CARE: SURVEYING THE PUBLIC IN FOUR HEALTH DISTRICTS Patricia Prescott-Clarke, Tessa Brooks and Caroline Machray NATIONAL BROADCASTING UNDER SIEGE Eva Etzioni Halevy ADMINISTERING CENTRAL-LOCAL RELATIONS, 1871–1919: THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD IN ITS FISCAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT Christine Bellamy THE USE OF PERFORMANCE INDICATORS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPING PRACTICE Martin Cave, Stephen Hanney, Maurice Kogan and Gillian Trevett PUBLIC SECTOR BARGAINING IN THE 1980s Rene Saran and John Sheldrake (eds.) THE REASONABLE ARM OF THE LAW? THE LAW ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICERS Bridget M. Hutter LAW AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ECONOMIC POLICY: COMPARATIVE AND CRITICAL APPROACHES Terence Daintith (ed.)     

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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Institute for Public Policy Research. PUBLIC LAW AND DEMOCRACY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA P. P. Craig. THE PUBLIC SECTOR: CHALLENGE FOR CO-ORDINATION AND LEARNING Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (ed.) WHAT NEXT?: AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS AND THE CIVIL SERVICE Anne Davies and John Willman. BRITISH GOVERNMENT: THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE TERRITORY Peter Madgwick. LEARNING FROM PRECEDENT IN WHITEHALL Peter Nailor. A HARD POUNDING: POLITICS AND ECONOMIC CRISIS 1974–76 Edmund Dell. PARLIAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Charles Carstairs and Richard Ware (eds.) CITIZENS, CONSUMERS AND COUNCILS: LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PUBLIC John Gyford. COUNCILLORS IN CRISIS THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORLDS OF LOCAL COUNCILLORS Jacqueline Barron, Gerald Crawley and Tony Wood. LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND NATIONAL POWER Samuel Humes IV. LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN John Kingdom. PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS P. B. Beaumont. IN THE WAY OF WOMEN: MEN'S RESISTANCE TO SEX EQUALITY IN ORGANIZATIONS C. Cockburn. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENTS FOR WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: AN ANGLO-GERMAN PERSPECTIVE Margery Povall and Monika Langkau-Herrmann (eds.) DEMOCRATIZING FRANCE: THE POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF DECENTRALISATION Vim A. Schmidt. LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND INNOVATION: EVENTS AND CHANGES: THE FIRST STEPS OF LOCAL TTANSITION IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE G. Peteri (ed.) THE CHANNEL TUNNEL: PUBLIC POLICY, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Ian Holliday, Gerard Marcou and Roger Vickerman. RESHAPING THE STATE: NEW ZEALAND'S BUREAUCRATIC REVOLUTION J. Boston, J. Martin, J. Pallot and P. Walsh (eds.) REINVENTING RATIONALiTY: THE ROLE OF REGULATORY ANALYSIS IN THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY Thomas O. McGarity.     

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Book reviewed in this article: REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND Brian W. Hogwood and Michael Keating (eds.) LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN SINCE REORGANISATION Alan Alexander LOCAL GOVERNMENT: POLITICIANS, PROFESSIONALS AND THE PUBLIC IN LOCAL AUTHORITIES Howard Elcock (with a chapter by Michael Wheaton) THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY Wyn Grant ACCOUNTING FOR BRITISH STEEL: A FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF THE FAILURE OF THE BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION 1967–80, AND WHO WAS TO BLAME R.A. Bryer, T.J. Brignall and A.R. Maunders NATIONAL OIL COMPANIES L. E. Grayson THE OTHER PRICE OF BRITAIN'S OIL: SAFETY AND CONTROL IN THE NORTH SEA W. G. Carson METROPOLITAN LONDON: POLITICS AND URBAN CHANGE 1837–1981 Ken Young and Patricia L. Garside PUBLIC SECRETS: A STUDY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT SECRECY K. C. Robertson QUANGOS IN BRITAIN: GOVERNMENT AND THE NETWORKS OF PUBLIC POLICY-MAKING Anthony Barker (ed.) RUNNING IN THE RED: THE POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF URBAN FISCAL STRESS Irene S. Rubin WHO'S MASTER, WHO'S SERVANT?: REFORMING BUREAUCRACY Geoffrey Hawker THE USES OF SOCIAL RESEARCH: SOCIAL INVESTIGATION IN PUBLIC POLICY-MAKING Martin Bulmer     

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PRIME MINISTER, CABINET AND CORE EXECUTIVE R.A.W. Rhodes and Patrick Dunleavy THE BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE Robert Pyper QUALITY IN PUBLIC SERVICES Lucy Gaster QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN EUROPEAN PUBLIC SERVICES: CONCEPTS, CASES AND COMMENTARY Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert (eds.) LEADERSHIP OF PUBLIC BUREAUCRACIES Larry D. Terry THEORY AND METHODS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE David Marsh'and Gerry Stoker JUDICIAL REVIEW: LAW AND PROCEDURE Richard Gordon THEORIES OF URBAN POLITICS D. Judge, G. Stoker and H. Wolman (eds.) UNDERSTANDING POLICY FIASCOS Mark Bovens and Paul‘tHart BRITISH SOCIAL POLICY SINCE 1945 Howard Glennerster DISMANTLING THE WELFARE STATE? REAGAN, THATCHER, AND THE POLITICS OF RETRENCHMENT Paul Pierson THE FOUNDATION OF MERIT: PUBLIC SERVICE IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY Patricia Wallace Ingraham THE REGIONAL IMPERATIVE: REGIONAL PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN BRITAIN, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES Urlan A. Wannop PERPETUATING THE PORK BARREL: POLICY SUBSYSTEMS AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY Robert M. Stein and Kenneth N. Bickers FROM ARM'S LENGTH TO HANDS-ON: THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF ONTARIO'S PUBLIC SERVICE 1867–1940 J. E. Hodgetts THE ROAD TO BETTER PUBLIC SERVICES: PROGRESS AND CONSTRAINTS IN FIVE CANADIAN FEDERAL AGENCIES G. Bruce Doern LES RÉSEAUX DE POLITIQUE PUBLIQUE: DÉBAT AUTOUR DES POLICY NETWORKS Patrick Le Galès and Mark Thatcher (eds.) THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF SPAIN Paul Heywood ADENAUER TO KOHL: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN CHANCELLORSHIP Stephen Padgett POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES Robert Elgie     

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YES, PRIME MINISTER, VOLUME 1 Jonathan Lynn Antony Jay (eds.) ADVISING THE RULERS William Plowden (ed.) THE POLITICAL SCIENCE OF BRITISH POLITICS Jack Hayward Philip Norton (eds.) FROM CRISIS TO COMPLACENCY? SHAPING PUBLIC POLICY IN BRITAIN Brian Hogwood PRIVATISATION: THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE – AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE Kenneth Wiltshire THE WELFARE STATE EAST AND WEST Richard Rose and Rei Shiratori (eds.) ACCOUNTABILITIES IN FIVE PUBLIC SERVICES Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein Tavistock MATCHING RESOURCES TO NEEDS IN COMMUNITY CARE Bleddyn Davies David Challis Gower CASE MANAGEMENT IN COMMUNITY CARE David Challis and Bleddyn Davies Gower RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN THE HEALTH SERVICE: A REVIEW OF THE METHODS OF THE RESOURCE ALLOCATION WORKING PARTY (RAWP) Nicholas Mays Gwyn Bevan LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGERS AT WORK: The City and County Manager System of Local Government in the Republic of Ireland Neil Collins Institute of Public Administration (Dublin) 1987 NUCLEAR POWER IN CRISIS Andrew Blowers and David Pepper (eds.) QUASI-LEGISLATION: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SECONDARY LEGISLATION Gabriele Ganz Sweet & Maxwell, 1987 PLAYING THE PUBLIC INOUIRY GAME. AN OBIECTOR'S GUIDE Wendy Le Las SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND GOVERNMENT: COMPARATIVE ESSAYS ON BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES M. Bulmer (ed.) ORGANIZATION THEORY AND TECHNOCRATIC CONSCIOUSNESS: RATIONALITY, IDEOLOGY, AND QUALITY OF WORK Mats Alvesson De Gruyter     

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PUBLIC POWER AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Peter Wilenski
PUBLIC LAW AND POLITICS Carol Harlow (ed.)
PUBLIC LAW AND POLITICS Carol Harlow (ed.)
TOP JOBS IN WHITEHALL: APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS IN THE SENIOR CML SERVICE
GIVING DIRECTION TO CML SERVANTS: SIGNALS FROM THE LAW, EXPERTISE, THE MARKET, AND THE ELECTORATE Richard Rose
PRIVATISATION AND REGULATION: THE UK EXPERIENCE John Kay, Colin Mayer and David Thompson (eds.)
PUBLIC ENTERPRISE IN WESTERN EUROPE Henry Parris, Pierre Pestieau and Peter Saynor
BRITISH RAILWAYS 1948–1973: A BUSINESS HISTORY T. R. Gourvish
THE EMERGENCE OF THE WELFARE STATES Douglas E. Ashford
MANAGING HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH AUTHORITY MEMBERS IN SEARCH OF A ROLE Christopher Ham
GOVERNMENT AND THE UNIVERSITIES IN BRITAIN: PROGRAMME AND PERFORMANCE 1960–1980 John Carswell
DISASTER POLICY IMPLEMENTATION: MANAGING PROGRAMS UNDER SHARED GOVERNANCE Peter J. May Walter
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE SOVIET UNION Cameron Ross     

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JUDICIAL POLITICS SINCE 1920 John Griffith BUSÍNESS AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN Wýn Grant INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT Richard Pettinger PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT: THEORY, CRITIQUE AND PRACTICE David McKevitt and Alan Lawton (eds.) MARKETS AND MANAGERS: NEW ISSUES IN THE DELIVERY OF WELFARE Peter Taylor-Gooby and Robyn Lawson (eds). THE WELFARE STATE IN BRITAIN: A POLITICAL HISTORY SINCE 1945 Michael Hill SOCIAL SECURITY POLICY IN BRITAIN Michael Hill THE POLITICS OF WELFARE: CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE Nicholas Deakin SOCIAL CARE IN A MIXED ECONOMY G. Wistow, M. Knapp, B. Hardy and C. Allen CONTROLLING HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: THE FUTURE OF WORK AND ORGANIZATION IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt A FUTURE FOR THE NHS? HEALTH CARE IN THE 1990s Wendy Ranadé THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE: THINK TANKS AND THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION, 1931–1983 Richard Cockett OMBUDSMEN IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR Mary Seneviratne THE DIARY OF SIR EDWARD WALTER HAMILTON 1885-1906 Dudley W.R. Bahlman (ed.) CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN. AN ANNUAL REVIEW 1993 Peter Catterall (ed.) CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN. AN ANNUAL REVIEW 1994 Peter Catterall (ed.) CITIES IN THE 1990s G. Stoker and S. Young URBAN POLICY IN BRITAIN. THE CITY, THE STATE AND THE MARKET R. Atkinson and G. Moon THE ROLE OF THE PRIME MINISTER IN FRANCE, 1981–1991 Robert Elgie MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS IN URBAN POLICY: LESSONS FROM FRANCE P. Le Galès and J. Mawson SUCCESSFUL TAX REFORM: LESSONS FROM AN ANALYSIS OF TAX REFORM IN SIX COUNTRIES Cedric Sandford BLUEPRINT 3: MEASURING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT David Pearce et al. THE RISE OF MESO GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE L.J. Sharpe (ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article:
GETTING AND SPENDING: PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, EMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION Leo Pliatzky
THE ENGLISH ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM 1780–1870 Sir Norman Chester
POLICY AND ACTION: ESSAYS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC POLICY S. Barrett and C. Fudge (eds.)
THE POLITICS OF MASS HOUSING IN BRITAIN 1945–1975: A STUDY OF CORPORATE POWER AND PROFESSIONAL INFLUENCE IN THE WELFARE STATE Patrick Dunleavy
POLICY AND PRACTICE IN THE MULTI-RACIAL CITY Ken Young and Naomi Connelly
THE POLITICS OF POVERTY David Donnison
POVERTY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-POVERTY POLICY IN THE UK Richard Berthoud, Joan C. Brown and Steven Cooper
THE POLITICS OF POVERTY Susanne MacGregor
THE ROLE OF THE LEGISLATURE IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES Norman J. Ornstein (ed.)
OMBUDSMAN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY P. Cook
THE FUTURE OF COUNCIL HOUSING John English (ed.)
THE WASHINGTON REPORTERS Stephen Hess
NUCLEAR POWER HAZARD CONTROL POLICY John C. Chicken     

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Book reviewed in this Article:
EVIDENCE, ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION IN THE POLICY PROCESS Giandomenico Majone.
MANAGERIALISM AND THE PUBLIC SERVICES: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE C. Pollitt.
PUBLIC POLICY UNDER THATCHER, S. P. Savage, L. Robins.
OUTPUT AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN GOVERNMENT: THE STATE OF THE ART Martin Cave, Maurice Ksgan Robert Smith (eds.)
PARLIAMENT AND PRESSURE POLITICS Michael Rush (ed.)
PARLIAMENT TODAY Andrew Adonis.
HAPPY AND GLORIOUS: THE CONSTITUTION IN TRANSITION Norman Lewis (ed.)
POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN SCOTLAND Arthur Midwinter, Michael Keating James Mitchell.
ENDURING INEQUALITY: REUGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IN EMF'LOYMENT IN NORTHERN IRELAND Vincent McConnack, Joe O'Hara.
NORTHERN IRELAND IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: AN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS Arthur Aughey, Paul Hainsworth Martin J. Trimbie.
EQUALIZING PEOPLE D. G. Green.
THE STATE OF WELFARE: THE WELFARE STATE IN BRITAIN SINCE 1974 John Hills (ed.), Nicholas Barr et al.
THE DYNAMICS OF BRITISH HEALTH POLICY Steve Harrison, David Hunter Christopher Pollitt.
NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY PROGRAMMES N. Cannon (ed.)
RACE AND LOCAL POLITICA Wendy Ball and John Solomos.
MOVING THE HOUSING MARKET R. Forrest, A. Murie.
THE QUALITY OF SERWCE IN HOUSING MANAGEMENT, K. Walsh K. Spencer.
CORPORATE MANAGEMENT IN AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT, G. Davis, P. Weller C. Lewis (eds.)
BUDGETARY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL: THE PUEILIC SECTOR IN AUSTRALIA J. Forster J. Wanna (eds.)
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN AUSTRALIA: A WATERSHED J. Power (ed.)     

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CABINET Peter Hennessy
WHITEHALL: TRAGEDY AND FARCE Clive Ponting
POLICY CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT: THREE CASE STUDIES Nicholas Deakin (ed.)
JOB AT THE TOP Sir John Boynton
ESSAYS ON THE FUTURE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT Michael Goldsmith (ed.)
NEW RESEARCH IN CENTRAL-LOCAL RELATIONS Michael Goldsmith (ed.)
CENTRAL-LOCAL RELATIONS: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND TRADING STANDARDS SERVICES Gerald Rhodes
PROFESSIONALISM AND POLICY: THE ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONS IN THE CENTRAL-LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP M. Laffin Gower
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CORPORATISM Wyn Grant (ed.)
PUBLIC PERSONNEL POLICY: THE POLITICS OF CIVIL SERVICE David H. Rosenbloom (ed.)
THE PRIVATE EXERCISE OF PUBLIC FUNCTIONS Denis L. Thompson (ed.)
MEASURING UP: CONSUMER ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL AUTHORITY SERVICES National Consumer Council
PUBLIC HOUSING AND PRIVATE PROPERTY 1970–1984 Stephanie Cooper Gower
WOMEN AND EUROPEAN POLITICS: COMTEMPORARY FEMINISM AND PUBLIC POLICY Joni Lovenduski
FUTURE WORK: JOBS, SELF-EMPLOYMENT AND LEISURE AFTER THE INDUSTRIAL AGE James Robertson Gower
THE COMPLETE PLAIN WORDS Sir Ernest Gowers     

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NATIONAL STYLES OF REGULATION: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES David Vogel THE ADMINISTRATION OF STANDARDS OF CONDUCT IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A RESEARCH REPORT Alan Parker, Aidan Rose and John Taylor REGIONALISM IN EUROPEAN POLITICS Roger Morgan (ed.) PROMOTING LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY Colin Mellors (ed.) THE NATIONAL WORLD OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT R. A. W. Rhodes URBAN POLITICAL THEORY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF FISCAL STRESS Michael Goldsmith and Søren Vinadsen (eds) THE EVOLUTION OF SPATIAL POLICY: A CASE STUDY OF INNER-URBAN POLICY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1968–1981 Paul Lawless Pion HOUSING LAND POLICY Yvonne Rydin A PRICE WORTH PAYING? A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT GRANT AID TO VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS Diana Leat, Sue Tester BRITISH STEEL: AN INDUSTRY BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR Heidrun Abromeit PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND THE SELECT COMMITTEES OF THE COMMONS Vilma Flegmann Gower THE NATURE OF UNITED NATIONS BUREAUCRACIES David Pitt and Thomas Weiss (eds.) MAKING THE MANAGERIAL PRESIDENCY: COMPREHENSIVE REORGANIZATION PLANNING 1905–1980 Peri E Arnold POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN HUNGARY Gy. Szoboszlai (ed). POLICY MANAGEMENT AND POLICY ASSESSMENT: DEVELOPMENTS IN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT Proceedings of a Seminar organized by Peat-Marwick and the RIPA Royal Institute of Public Administration     

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ADMINISTRATIVE ARGUMENT Christopher Hood and Michael Jackson.
GOVERNMENT, EVALUATION AND CHANGE Mary Henkel.
CHOICES FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE 1990s AND BEYONQ Michael Clarke and John Stewart.
HOLLOW PROMISES: RHETORIC AND REALITY IN THE INNER CITY M. Keith and A. Rogers (eds.)
URBAN PLAMVLVG UNDER THATCHERISM Andy Thornley.
THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE POLL TAX: MRS THATCHER'S DOWNFALL John Gibson.
DEVELOPMENTS IN FRENCH POLITICS Peter A. Hall, Jack Hayward and Howard Machin (eds.)
GOVERNING FROM THE CENTRE: POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING IN THE NETHERLANDS Ken Gladdish.
PARLIAMENT AND INDUSTRY David Judge.
THE POLITICS OF AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT IN BRITAIN Martin J. Smith.
BUSINESS AND POLITICS: A COMPARATIVE INTRODUCTION (2nd ed.) Graham K. Wilson.
LEGISLATURES IN THE POLICY PROCESS THE DILEMMAS OF ECONOMIC POLICY David Olson Michael Mezey (eds.).
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MODERN STATES: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND THEORETICAL CROSSROADS Peter Wagner, Carol Hirschon Weiss, Bjorn Wittrock and Hellmut Wollman (eds.)
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD PERSPECTIVE O. P. Dwivedi and Keith M. Henderson (eds.)
RESEARCH IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION VOLUME 1 1991 James L. Perry (ed.)
FROM PROHIBITION TO REGULATION: BOOKMAKING, ANTIGAMBLING AND THE LAW David Dixon.
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN LEXICON OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES L. J. Sharpe.     

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ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYSIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO RULES, ENFORCEMENT AND ORGANISATION Christopher Hood THE NOBLE LIE: THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION AND THE RULE OF LAW Ian Harden and Norman Lewis THE MANAGEMENT OF HUNG AUTHORITIES Local Government Training Board THE NEW MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT John Stewart THE CHANGING GOVERNMENT OF EDUCATION S. Ranson and J. Tomlinson (eds.) PLANNING, NEED AND SCARCITY: ESSAYS ON THE PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES Adrian Webb & Gerald Wistow IN DEFENCE OF THE WELFARE STATE Paul Wilding (ed.) WHAT PRICE COMMUNITY MEDICINE? THE EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES: FAMILY PRACTITIONER COMMITTEES IN THE 1980s PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN THE INNER CITIES AFTER ACHESON Gerald Rhodes, Usha Prashar and Ken Young THE DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY: TASKS, ORGANISATION AND RELATIONSHIPS OF THE GOVERNING BODY Warren Kinston THE STATE, FINANCE AND INDUSTRY Andrew Cox (ed.) NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES AND PUBLIC CONTROL: LEGAL, CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES Tony Prosser THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY: 1946–82, THE NATIONALIZED INDUSTRY William Ashworth THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRITISH REGIONAL POLICY D. W. Parsons GOVERNING THE ECONOMY: THE POLITICS OF STATE INTERVENTION IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE Peter A. Hall DECENTRALISATION AND CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE Michael Keating and Paul Hainsworth Gower CENTRALISATION AND DECENTRALISATION IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE Stephen Garrish THE SQUARE MILE: A GUIDE TO THE CITY REVOLUTION John Plender and Paul Wallace ADJUSTING TO DEMOCRACY: THE ROLE OF THE MINISTRY OF LABOUR IN BRITISH POLITICS 1916–1939 Rodney Lowe POLICY ANALYSIS AND CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES Sir Douglas Was, Michael Elliott, Anthony Barker (eds.) HOUSING A DIVIDED SOCIETY C. E. B. Brett     

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WHITEHALL Peter Hennessy
INSIDE THE THINK TANK: ADVISING THE CABINET 1971–1983 Tessa Blackstone and William Plowden William Heinemann
ORGANISING FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT – A LOCAL RESPONSIBILITY John Barratt and John Downs
UNDERSTANDING THE MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT John Stewart
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT Alan Fowler
LOCAL LABOUR AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A STUDY OF CHANGING INTERESTS, POLITICS AND POLICY IN SOUTHWARK, 1919–1982 Sue Goss
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE: WHO REALLY CONTROLS IT AND HOW Andrew Likierman
THE COMMONS UNDER SCRUTINY Michael Ryle and Peter Richards (eds.)
THE HOUSE OF LORDS Donald Shell
THE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT: THE JOB OF THE BACKBENCHER Lisanne Radice, Elizabeth Vallance and Virginia Willis
PERFORMANCE MONITORING IN A PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE: THE CASE OF THE CAREERS SERVICE Michael Carley
MAKING EUROPEAN POLICIES WORK: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNITY LEGISLATION EN THE MEMBER STATES: VOLUME I COMPARATIVE SYNTHESES AND VOLUME II NATIONAL REPORTS Heinrich Siedentopf and Jacques Ziller (eds.)
GOVERNMENTS, MANAGERS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Anthony Ferner
THE MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT: FROM MACMILLAN TO HESELTINE Sir Ewen Broadbent
GOVERNMENT AND EXPERTISE: SPECIALISTS, ADMINISTRATORS AND PROFESSIONALS, 1860–1919 Roy MacLeod (ed.)
THE CORPORATE STATE: CORPORATISM AND THE STATE TRADITION IN WESTERN EUROPE Andrew Cox and Noel O'Sullivan (eds) .
THE FREE ECONOMY AND THE STRONG STATE: THE POLITICS OF THATCHERISM Andrew Gamble     

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Book reviewed in this article:
SOLVING LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROBLEMS — PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN CITIES AND REGIONS Charles E. Pinkus and Anne Dixson
PUBLIC DUTIES: THE MORAL OBLIGATIONS OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS J. L. Fleishman, L. Liebman and M. H. Moore (eds.).
THE MAKING OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE John E. Pater
VOLUNTARY SOCIAL SERVICES Norman Johnson
THE ADMINISTRATIVE 'REVOLUTION' IN WHITEHALL: A STUDY OF THE POLITICS OF ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE IN BRITISH CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SINCE THE 1950s G. K. Fry
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN: EVERYONE'S GUIDE TO HOW IT ALL WORKS Tony Byrne
MODERN POLICING David Watts Pope and Norman L. Weiner (eds.)
SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE FAILURE OF THE STATE: CENTRALISED SOCIAL SERVICES AND PARTICIPATORY ALTERNATIVES R. Hadley and S. Hatch
WOMEN IN TOP JOBS 1968–1979 Michael Fogarty, Isobel Allen and Patricia Walters
INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND INNOVATION Charles Carter (ed.)
PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN Michael Rush
BACKBENCH SPECIALISATION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS David Judge
CASH LIMITS AND EXTERNAL FINANCING LIMITS Andrew Likierman
PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT IN THE UK G. Wilkinson and P. M. Jackson
THE POLICY PROCESS IN COMMUNIST STATES: POLITICS AND INDUSTRIAL ADMINISTRATION Leslie Holmes
HEALTH AND WEALTH: AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF HEALTH-CARE SPENDING Robert J. Maxwell
THE HOME OFFICE 1848–1914: FROM CLERKS TO BUREAUCRATS Jill Pellew
CULTURE OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES Andrew Kakabadse     

REVIEWS

DEMOCRACY, BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC CHOICE Patrick Dunleavy.
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM COMES OF AGE Gerald E. Caiden.
EDINBURGH ESSAYS IN PUBLIC LAW W. Fie, C. Himsworth and N. Walker (eds.)
CRITICISM AND PUBLIC RATIONALITY: PROFESSIONAL RIGIDITY AND THE SEARCH FOR CARING G0VERNMENT Harry Smart.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE: TREMDS AND DEVELOPMENTS Richard Batley and Gerry Stoker (eds.)
STATE RESTRUCTURING AND LOCAL POWER - A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE C. Pickvance and E. Preteceille (eds.)
GOVERNING BIG CITIES: THE MANAGEMENT OF DECENTRALIZATION Graham Bush.
THE POLITICS OF THE IRISH CONSTITLITION Basil Chubb.
POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING IN NORTHERN IRELAND M. Connolly.
INNOVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK Lewis Roberts and Albert Weale (eds.)
CONTROLLING POLLUTION IN THE ROUND: CHANGE AND CHOICE IN ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY A. Weale, T. O'Riordan and L. Kramme.
WASTE LOCATION: SPATIAL ASPECTS OF WASTE MANAGEMENT, HAZARDS AND DISPOSAL M. Clark, D. Smith and A. Blowers (eds.)
THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF NUCLEAR WASTE A. Blowers, D. Lowry and B. Solomon.
PUBLIC ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: SEVEN COUNTRY STUDIES Roger Wettenhall and Colm O'Nuallain.
ESPIONAGE AND SECRECY: THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS 1911–1989 OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Rosamund M. Thomas.
A VOICE FOR CHILDREN: SPEAKING OUT AS THEIR OMBUDSMAN Målfrid Grude Flekkøy Jessica.
UNRAVELLING HOUSING FINANCE: SUBSIDIES, BENEFITS, AND TAXATION John Hills Alan Murie.
DILEMMAS OF PLANNING PRACTICE Huw Thomas and Patsy Healey (eds.)     

REVIEWS

THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Nevil Johnson
DEMOCRACY AND MARKET SYSTEM Charles E. Lindblom
DECISIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS James G. March
CUTBACK MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC BUREAUCRACIES: POPULAR THEORIES AND OBSERVED OUTCOMES IN WHITEHALL Andrew Dunsire and Christopher Hood
HEAD OF THE CIVIL SERVICE – A STUDY OF SIR WARREN FISHER Eunan O'Halpin
MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY Geoffrey Marshall (ed.)
PRIVATE GAIN AND PUBLIC SERVICE – THE ASSOCIATION OF FIRST DIVISION CIVIL SERVANTS Barry J. O'Toole
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT: SELF-INSTRUCTION PACKAGE Cabinet Office and HM Treasury
THE NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY 1982–1986: A CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERIMENT Cornelius O'Leary, Sydney Elliott and R. A. Wilford
MANAGING THE ENABLING AUTHORITY Rodney Brooke
ACCOUNTING FOR PUBLIC POLICY: POWER, PROFESSIONALS AND POLITICS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT David Rosenberg
AN INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT Ian Taylor and George Popham (eds.)
TESTING THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL WELFARE – INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON POLICY CHANGES IN NINE COUNTRIES Robert Morris (ed.)
GOVERNMENT AND THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BRITAIN AND WEST GERMANY Wyn Grant, William Paterson and Colin Whitston
THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AS POLICE OFFICERS John Carrier
A HISTORY OF DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL 1888–1989 Jeffrey Stanyer
THE TREASURY UNDER MRS THATCHER Leo Pliatzky
CHARITIES AND GOVERNMENT Alan Ware
GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE US, CANADA AND THE UK Wyn Grant