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Dionne, E.J. Jr. They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era Gitlin, Todd The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars Hochschild, Jennifer L. Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class and the Soul of the Nation Kozol, Jonathan Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation Foster, Christopher D. and Plowden, Francis J. The State Under Stress Barberis, Peter The Elite of the Elite: Permanent Secretaries in the British Higher Civil Service Porter, Norman Rethinking Unionism: An Alternative Vision for Northern Ireland English, Richard and Walker, Graham (eds) Unionism in Modern Ireland: New Perspectives on Politics and Culture Clarke, Peter Hope and Glory: Britain 1900–1990 Harrison, Brian The Transformation of British Politics 1860–1995 Radice, Giles (ed) What Needs to Change? New Visions for Britain King, Preston (ed) Socialism and the Common Good: New Fabian Essays Perryman, Mark (ed) The Blair Agenda Stone, Diane Capturing the Political Imagination: Think Tanks and the Policy Process Denham, Andrew Think Tanks of the New Right Klein, Rudolf, Day, Patricia and Redmayne, Sharon Managing Scarcity: Priority Setting and Rationing in the National Health Service Lawson, Richard Bills of Health Disney, Richard Can We Afford to Grow Older? Brown, Alice, McCrone, David and Paterson, Lindsay Politics and Society in Scotland The Constitution Unit Scotland’s Parliament: Fundamentals for a New Scotland Act The Constitution Unit Regional Government in England     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Vernon Bogdanor (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Institutions .
David Held, Models of Democracy .
David Held and Christopher Pollitt (eds), New Forms of Democracy .
David Miller, Janet Coleman, William Connolly and Alan Ryan (eds), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought .
A. J. M. Milne, Human Rights and Human Diversity .
R. J. Vincent, Human Rights and International Relations .
Stephen Padgett and Tony Burkett, Political Parties and Elections in West Germany: The Search for a New Stability .
Marshall Shulman (ed.), East-West Tensions in the Third World .
Caroline Thomas, In Search of Security: the Third World in International Relations .     

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Armstrong, David, Lloyd, Lorna and Redmond, John From Versailles to Maastricht: International Organisation in the Twentieth Century Brubaker, Rogers Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe Gillespie, Paul (ed) Britain’s European Question: The Issues for Ireland Hesse, Joachim Jens and Wright, Vincent (eds) Federalizing Europe? The Costs, Benefits, and Preconditions of Political Systems Hooghe, Liesbet (ed) Cohesion Policy and European Integration: Building Multi-level Governance Laffan, Brigid (ed) Constitution-building in the European Union Lane, Jan-Erik, McKay, David and Newtown, Kenneth (ed) Political Data Handbook: OECD Countries, 2nd edn Page, Edward C. People Who Run Europe Smith, Michael New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Briain’s Spies Came In From the Cold Urban, Mark UK Eyes Alpha: The Inside Story of British Intelligence Herman, Michael Intelligence Power in Peace and War West, Nigel The Secret War for the Falklands: The SAS, M16 and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost Jones, Tudor Remaking the Labour Party: From Gaitskell to Blair Thompson, Noel Political Economy and the Labour Party Shepherd, Robert Enoch Powell Webster, Charles The Health Service since the War, vol. II: Government and Health Care—The British National Health Service, 1958–1979 Adams, Adrian and So, Jaabe A Claim to Land by the River: A Household in Senegal Strange, Susan The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy Vatikiotis, Michael J. Political Change in Southeast Asia: Trimming the Banyan Tree Jacobs, Michael/Real World Coalition The Politics of the Real World Landauer, Thomas K. The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability and Productivity MacKenzie, Donald Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change     

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D. E. Moggridge, Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography
Michael Ayers (ed.), Locke, Volume I: Epistemology
T. R. Malthus, edited by Patricia James An Essay on the Principle of Population
T. R. Malthus, edited by John Pullen, Principles of Political Economy
Ephraim Nimni, Marxism and Nationalism: Theoretical Origins of a Political Crisis
Glenn D. Hook and Michael A. Weiner (eds), The Internationalization of Japan
Nicholas Hopkinson, Japan and the European Community
Takashi Inoguchi, Japan's International Relations
Takako Kishima, Political Life in Japan: Democracy in a Reversible World
John Schultz and Kimitada Miwa (eds), Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century
Institut Charles de Gaulle, De Gaulle en son siècle     

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Alan Scott, Ideology and the New Social Movements
Russell J. Dalton and Manfred Kuechler (eds), Challenging the Political Order: New Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies
Phyllis Johnson and David Martin, Apartheid Terrorism
Joseph Hanlon (ed.), The Sanctions Report: Documents and Statistics
Inter-governmental Group of Commonwealth Ministers, Banking on Apartheid
Keith Ovenden and Tony Cole, Apartheid and International Finance: a Program for Change
Steven B. Smith, Hegel's Critique of Liberalism: Rights in Context
Hiroshi Uchida, Marx's Grundrisse and Hegel's Logic
Paul Owen Johnson, The Critique of Thought: a Re-examinaiton of Hegel's Science of Logic
Aryeh Botwinick, Skepticism and Political Participation     

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Books reviewed:
David Mckay, Designing Europe: Comparative Lessons from the Federal Experience
Adrienne Héritier et al., Differential Europe: The European Union Impact on National Policymaking,
Montserrat Guibernau (ed.), Governing European Diversity
Alec Stone Sweet, Wayne Sandholtz and Neil Fligstein (eds.), The Institutionalization of Europe
David Calleo, Rethinking Europe's Future
by Simon Walters, Tory Wars: Conservatives in Crisis
Boris Johnson, Friends, Voters, Countrymen: Jottings on the Stump
Edward Vaizey, Nicholas Bore and Michael Gove (eds.), A Blue Tomorrow: New Visions for Modern Conservatives
Victor Davis Hanson, Why the West Has Won: Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam
Michael Howard, The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order
Ulrich Beck, The Brave New World of Work
Ian Gough, Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies: Selected Essays 1994–99
Roland Axtmann (ed.), Balancing Democracy
Richard Vernon, Political Morality: A Theory of Liberal Democracy
Paul Ward, The Red Flag and the Union Jack: Englishness, Patriotism and the British Left, 1881–1924
Peter Hennessy, The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War
James Ellison, Threatening Europe: Britain and the Creation of the European Economic Community 1955–58
Murray Edelman, The Politics of Misinformation
Nicholas Jones, Campaign 2001
James Stanyer, The Creation of Political News: Television and British Party Political Conferences     

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Books reviewed:
Susanne K. Schmidt and Raymond Werle, Coordinating Technology: Studies in the International Standardization of Telecommunications
Alan Stone, How America Got On-Line: Politics, Markets and the Revolution in Telecommunications
Jacob Torfing, Politics, Regulation and the Modern Welfare State
Rodney Brazier, Ministers of the Crown
Christopher Hood, The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric and Public Management
Clay Clemens and William E. Paterson, The Kohl Chancellorship
Jonathan Story and Ingo Walter, Political Economy of Financial Integration in Europe: The Battle of the Systems
Jonathan Golub, ed., New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU     

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Philip Pettit, The Common Mind: an Essay on Psychology, Society and Politics
David A. Lake (ed.), The International Political Economy of Trade. Volumes I & II
Mark W. Zacher (ed.), The International Political Economy of Natural Resources, Volumes I & II
Alec Cairncross, The British Economy since 1945: Economic Policy and Performance
Frances Cairncross and Alec Cairncross (eds), The Legacy of the Golden Age: the 1960s and their Economic Consequences
David Albright, Frans Berkhout and William Walker, World Inventory of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1992
Edward J. Laurance, Siemon T. Wezeman and Herbert Wulf, Arms Watch: SIPRI Report on the First Year of the UN Register of Conventional Arms
SIPRI Yearbook 1993, World Armaments and Disarmament
Herbert Wulf (ed.), Arms Industry Limited
Andrew Geddes, Britain in the European Community
Ole Nφrgaard, Thomas Pedersen and Nikolaj Peterson (eds), The European Community in World Politics
Neill Nugent (ed.), The European Community 1992: Annual Review of Activities
Lincoln Allison (ed.), The Changing Politics of Sport
Giovanni Giorgini, La città e il tiranno. Il concetto di tirannide nella Grecia del VH-IV secolo a.C
Antonella Besussi, La società migliore: principi e politiche del New Deal     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Nevil Johnson: The Limits of Political Science.
Adrian Leftwich (ed.): New Developments in Political Science. An International Review of Achievements and Prospects.
Hans Mouritzen: Finlandization: Towards a General Theory of Adaptive Politics.
Nielsen, K. & Pedersen, O. K. (eds.): Forhandlingsøkanomi i Norden.
Clarence N. Stone: Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946–1988.     

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Books in this article:
Timothy Stainton, Autonomy and Social Policy
Diana Woodhouse, Ministers and Parliament: Accountability in Theory and Practice
Claude J. Galipeau, Isaiah Berlin's Liberalism
Harald Müller, David Fischer and Wolfgang KÖtter, Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Global Order
Robin Mansell, The New Telecommunications: a Political Economy of Network Evolution
Gad Barzilai, Ahron Kliema and Gil Shidlo (eds), The Gulf Crisis and its Global Aftermath
Scott Lash and John Urry, Economies of Signs and Space
Derek Hawes, Power on the Back Benches? The Growth of Select Committee Influence
J. Donald Moon, Constructing Community: Moral Pluralism and Tragic Conflicts
Peter Emberley and Barry Cooper (transl. and eds), Faith and Political Philosophy: the Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964
Johann P. Arnason, The Future that Failed: Origins and Destinies of the Soviet Model
Elmar Altvater (transl. Patrick Camiller), The Future of the Market: an Essay on the Regulation of Money and Nature after the Collapse of'Actually Existing Socialism'
Malcolm Anderson and Monica den Boer (eds), Policing across National Boundaries     

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Alan W. Cafruny and Carl Lankowski (eds), Europe's Ambiguous Unity: Conflict and Consensus in the Post-Maastricht Era
Wyn Grant, The Common Agricultural Policy
Janne Haaland Matláry, Energy Policy in the European Union
Christopher Piening, Global Europe: the European Union in World Affairs
Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community
Michael David Kandiah and Anthony Seldon (eds), Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain, Volume II
Andrew Denham, Think Tanks of the New Right
David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1997
Anthony King et al ., New Labour Triumphs: Britain at the Polls
Andrew Geddes and Jonathan Tonge (eds), Labour's Landslide
Guy Arnold, World Government by Stealth: the Future of the United Nations
Michael Wesley, Casualties of the New World Order: the Causes of Failure of UN Missions to Civil Wars
Norman Geras, The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy after the Holocaust
Alistair J. H. Murray, Reconstructing Realism: between Power Politics and Cosmopolitan Ethics
Colin Crouch and Wolfgang Streeck (eds), Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and Diversity
J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer (eds), Contemporary Capitalism: the Embeddedness of Institutions
David Martin Jones, Political Development in Pacific Asia     

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Klingemann, Hans-Dieter and Fuchs, Dieter (eds). Beliefs in Government, Volume 1: Citizens and the State
Niedermayer, Oskar and Sinnott, Richard (eds). Beliefs in Government, Volume 2: Public Opinion and Internationalized Governance
Borre, Ole and Scarbrough, Elinor (eds). Beliefs in Government, Volume 3: the Scope of Government
Van Deth, Jan W. and Scarbrough, Elinor (eds). Beliefs in Government, Volume 4: the Impact of Values
Kaase, Max and Newton, Kenneth. Beliefs in Government, Volume 5: Beliefs in Government
Bogdanor, Vernon. The Monarchy and the Constitution
Anderson, Leslie E. The Political Ecology of the Modern Peasant: Calculation and Community
Stueck, William. The Korean War: an International History
Fischel, William A. Regulatory Takings: Law, Economics, and Politics
Friedman, Barry D. Regulation in the Reagan–Bush Era: the Eruption of Presidential Influence
Hannaford, Ivan (foreword by Bernard Crick). Race: the History of an Idea in the West
Guéhenno, Jean-Marie (transl. Victoria Eliott). The End of the Nation-State
Kupchan, Charles A. (ed.). Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe
Smith, Anthony D. Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era
Viroli, Maurizio. For Love of Country: an Essay on Patriotism and Nationalism
Schuerman, William E. Between the Norm and the Exception: the Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law     

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David J. Smith and Gerald Chambers, Inequality in Northern Ireland (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991)
Wolfgang Rüdig (ed.), Green Politics One: 1990 (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1990)
Edward M. Spiers, Chemical Weaponry: a Continuing Challenge (Basingstoke, Macmillan 1989)
Thomas Stock and Ronald Sutherland (eds), National Implementation of the Future Chemical Weapons Convention (Oxford, Oxford University Press/SIPRI, 1990)
Susan Wright (ed.), Preventing a Biological Arms Race (Cambridge, MA and London, The MIT Press, 1990)
Hubert M. Blalock, Jr, Power and Conflict: Toward a General Theory (London, Sage, 1989)
Kenneth E. Boulding, Three Faces of Power (London, Sage, 1989)
Agnes Heller and Ferenc Feher, The Postmodern Political Condition (Oxford, Polity Press, 1988)
Andrew Milner, Philip Thompson and Chris Worth (eds), Postmodern Conditions (New York, Oxford and Munich, Berg, 1990)
Jonathan Boston and Martin Holland (eds), The Fourth Labour Government: Radical Politics in New Zealand (Auckland, Oxford University Press, 1987)
Martin Myant, The Czechoslovak Economy 1948-1988: the Battle for Economic Reform (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989)
Ivan T. Berend, The Hungarian Economic Reforms 1953-1988 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990) x + 347 pp., |SL40.00 ISBN 0 521 38037 5.     

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Book reviews in this article:
Richard J. Arneson (ed.), Liberalism
Jyrki Käkönen (ed.), Perspectives on Environmental Conflict and International Politics
Ian H. Rowlands and Malory Greene (eds), Global Environmental Change and International Relations
W. W. Bartley III and Stephen Kresge (eds), The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume III. The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History
James DeFronzo, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
Jack A. Goldstone, Ted Robert Gurr and Farrokh Moshiri (eds), Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century
Guy Sorman, The Unborn Revolution
David Fischer, Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons: the Past and the Prospects
Carlo Schaerf and David Carlton (eds), Reducing Nuclear Arsenals
Robin Jeffrey, Politics, Women and Well-Being: How Kerala Became 'A Model'
Richard W. Franke and Barbara H. Chasin, Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State
Bill Jones and Lynton Robins (eds), Two Decades in British Politics: Essays to Mark Twenty-one Years of the Politics Association
Terry Nardin and David R. Mapel (eds), Traditions of International Ethics     

BOOK NOTES

Book reviewed in this article: official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, No. Business and Procedures of the House of Representatives. H. J. Hofstra . New Techniques of Budget Preparation and Management. C. E. Hawley and R. G. Weintraub (eds). Administrative Questions and Political Answers. R. A. Irish . A Businessman's Views of the Administration H. G. Gelber . Australia, Britain and the E.E.C., 1961 to 1963. M. W. Raffel . Planning by the North Canterbury Hospital Board. J. William Fulbright . Prospects for the West. E. M. Kassalow . National Labor Movements in the Postwar World. Bruce H. Millen . The Political Role of Labor in Developing Countries. J. Edward Gerald . The Social Responsibility of the Press. Sanford A. Lakoff . Equality in Political Philosophy. hilip Mullenbach . Civilian Nuclear Power. H. V. Livermore . A New History of Portugal. Nikola Balog . Administrative Management of Public Enterprises. Mumtaz Soysal . Public Relations in Administration: II. The Influence of the Public on the Operation of Public Administration, Excluding Electoral Rights.     

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Donald Sassoon, One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century Erich Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust Ivan Hannaford, Race: The History of an Idea in the West Michael H. Armacost, Friends or Rivals? The Insider’s Account of US–Japan Relations Susanne MacGregor, Arthur Lipow (eds), The Other City: People and Politics in New York and London Krishan Kumar, From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: New Theories of the Contemporary World Edward Tenner, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge Effect Jay G. Blumler, Michael Gurevitch, The Crisis of Public Communication Jack Hayward, Elitism, Populism and European Politics Jack Hayward, The Crisis of Representation in Europe Adrian Guelke, The Age of Terrorism and the International Political System     

God, Mammon and the Rise of Nationalism

Books reviewed in this article:
David A. Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
Liah Greenfeld, The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth
Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
Maurizio Ferrera and Martin Rhodes (eds.), Recasting European Welfare States
Evelyn Huber and John Stephens, Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets
Paul Pierson (ed.), The New Politics of the Welfare State
Duane Swank, Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States
John Ramsden (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics
Nicholas J. Wheeler, Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society
Giles Radice, Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey
Michael McManus, Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire     

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Books reviewed in this article: From White Australia to Woomera: The History of Australian Immigration James Jupp The Ethical State? Social Liberalism in Australia Marian Sawer What's Wrong with the Liberal Party? Greg Barnes Government Reformed: Values and New Political Institutions Ian Holland and Jenny Fleming eds Turning off the Television: Broadcasting's Uncertain Future Jock Given Handbook of Public Administration B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre eds Policy Responses to Social Exclusion: Towards Inclusion? Janie Percy‐Smith ed. Bob Carr: A Self‐Made Man Andrew West and Rachel Morris     

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Books in this article:
S. Hargreaves Heap and Y. Varoufakis, Game Theory: a Critical Introduction
James D. Morrow, Game Theory for Political Scientists
Michael B. Berkman, The State Roots of National Politics: Congress and the Tax Agenda
John F. Cogan, Timothy J. Muris and Allen Schick, The Budget Puzzle: Understanding Federal Spending
Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations
Timothy P. Roth, Information, Ideology and Freedom: the Disenfranchised Electorate (Lanham MD, University Press of America, 1994).
Alex Callinicos, Theories and Narratives: Reflections on the Philosophy of History (Oxford, Polity, 1995)
Jill Benderley and Evan Kraft (eds). Independent Slovenia: Origins, Movements, Prospects
Jacqueline Hayden, Poles Apart: Solidarity and the New Poland
Charles F. Andrain, Comparative Political Systems: Policy Performance and Social Change
Joanna Hodge, Heidegger and Ethics
Robin Archer, Economic Democracy: the Politics of Feasible Socialism
Barbara Farnham (ed.), Avoiding Losses/Taking Risks: Prospect Theory and International Conflict
Jerome Huyler, Locke in America: the Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era
John Robertson (ed.) A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the Union of 1707
Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship
Russell Hardin, One for All: the Logic of Group Conflict
Donald Harman Akenson, Conor: a Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien, Volume I: Narrative
Donald Harman Akenson, Conor: a Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien, Volume II: Anthology     

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Books reviewed: Fred Argy, Australia at the Crossroads: Radical Free Market or a Progressive Liberalism? Peter Bridgman and Glyn Davis, Australian Policy Handbook Diane Gibson, Aged Care: Old Policies, New Problems Michael Coper and George Williams(eds.), Justice Lionel Murphy: Influential or Merely Prescient? Jenny Hocking, Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography Charles Sampford and Kim Preston (eds.), Interpreting Constitutions: Theories, Principles and Institutions Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben, Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and Internet Greg J Bamber and Russell Lansbury(ed.), Review of International andComparative Employment Relations: A Study of Industrialised Market Economies Michael Bittman and Jocelyn Pixley, The Double Life of the Family