BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Nineteen Men and One Woman DICK LEONARD The 20 British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century, twenty volumes, general editor Francis Beckett. Britain's Prime Ministers, by Roger Ellis and Geoffrey Treasure. Contra Blair Richard Briand Yo, Blair!: Tony Blair's Disastrous Premiership, by Geoffrey Wheatcroft. The columnist's progress Mark Garnett What's Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way, by Nick Cohen. The neo‐con and Iraq Martin Durham The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq, edited by Gary Rosen. The road to hell … Dick Pountain The Politics of Good Intentions: History, Fear and Hypocrisy in the New World Order, by David Runciman.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books review in this article: Perestroika or katastroika ? DAVID LANE Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective, by Archie Brown. Consuming public services John Clarke The Reform of Public Services under New Labour: Narratives of Consumerism, by Catherine Needham. Liberalism, radical Islam and identity Richard Mullender Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, by Ian Buruma Michael Moore: an American patriot ? Jad Adams Citizen Moore: An American Maverick, by Roger Rapoport Robert Peel's great lesson Dick Leonard Robert Peel: A Biography, by Douglas Hurd. Ambition or overreach ? Andrew Blick Instruction to Deliver: Tony Blair, Public Services and the Challenge of Achieving Targets, by Michael Barber. A dessicated master of the universe Jean Seaton Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. The Travails of Opposition
MARK GARNETT The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron, by Tim Bale. Labour's travails
Richard Briand Speak for Britain! A New History of the Labour Party, by Martin Pugh. Anti‐social behaviour? Dial 101
Paul Michael Garrett The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics, by Stuart Waiton. Surviving nukes in one's back garden
Victoria Honeyman After the Bomb; Civil Defence and Nuclear War in Britain 1945–68, by Matthew Grant. Israel's foundation myths
Richard Kuper The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand, (trans. Yael Lotan). Political science mission statement
Gianfranco Pasquino The Oxford Handbook of Political Science, edited by Robert E. Goodin. Sir Ian Blair: the Burkean top cop
Ian Loader Policing Controversy, by Ian Blair. To intervene or not to intervene?
Daniele Archibugi Humanitarian Intervention, by Michael Newman. A phenomenal trade unionist
Geoffrey Goodman Arthur Horner: A Political Biography. Vol. 1: 1918–1944; Vol. 2: 1944–1968, by Nina Fishman.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Bush's Indecisive Decisions
GIANFRANCO PASQUINO Decision Points, by George W. Bush. Anger, pessimism and community
Richard Mullender The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope, by Roger Scruton. Forever learning
Brian Groombridge Remaking Adult Learning, edited by Jay Derrick, Ursula Howard, John Field, Peter Lavender, Sue Meyer, Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein and Tom Schuller. The ‘good’ migrant
Anne Kershen Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London, by Maritsa V. Poros. Imagining migrants
Tiziana Caponio Migration, Public Opinion and Politics: The Transatlantic Council on Migration, edited by Bertelsmann Stiftung and Migration Policy Institute. Dissenting communists
Maud Anne Bracke L'appuntamento mancato. La sinistra italiana e il dissenso nei regimi comunisti, 1968–1989, by Valentine Lomellini. Not a rose‐tinted view
Richard Briand Ages of Reform: Dawns and Downfalls of the British Left, by Kenneth O. Morgan. The people's flag is deepest green
Dick Pountain The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth, by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Democratic Flaws
RICHARD BOURKE The Life and Death of Democracy, by John Keane. Flawed democracy
Gianfranco Pasquino Democracy Inc. Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, by Sheldon Wolin. Democracy in the Land of Good Things (Britain)
Richard Mullender Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty, by Peter Kellner. The soldier's right to kill
Christopher Finlay Killing in War, by Jeff McMahan. Facts from Eastern Europe and elsewhere
Richard Briand Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name, by Timothy Garton Ash. The soul of Tony Blair
Ilaria Favretto Losing Labour's Soul? New Labour and the Blair Government, 1997–2007, by Eric Shaw. Greeks and Turks in Europe and Cyprus
Mehmet Ugur Turkey's Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy, by Constantine Arvanitopoulos. Cyprus: The Post‐Imperial Constitution, by Vassilis K. Fouskas and Alex O. Tackie. Obama's last chance
Tony Klug The Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance, by David Gardner. Thatcher's grandchildren
Mark Garnett Thatcher's Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the 1980s, by Richard Vinen.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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 .     

Liberal Interventionism

David Lipsey analyses the arguments made by former Labour prime minister Tony Blair in his Chicago speeches for armed liberal intervention in states which are abusing the human rights of their citizens. He traces these arguments back to previous advocates of such intervention such as W. E. Gladstone and Woodrow Wilson. The arguments of Blair and advocates are often compelling in principle. However, in most cases—Iraq and Libya are examples—the practical consequences of military action turn out to be disastrous. Though opposing pacifism, and the ill‐thought‐out hostility to all things military of Labour's current leader Jeremy Corbyn, Lipsey's advice to those thinking of intervening is: don't.     

Intelligence scholarship as all‐source analysis: The case of Tom Bower's the perfect English Spy

Tom Bower, The Perfect English Spy: Sir Dick White and the Secret War 1935–90 (London: Heinemann, 1995). Pp.385, 24 photos, biblio., index. £16.99. ISBN 0–434–0080–9     

Tribute to Richard E. Zody

Public budgeting is multifaceted. It draws from areas of study and practice ranging from management to administration to planning. Guided by analysis—enhanced by computational and technical advances—and political systems, it overlays the public sector at every level of government, including local, state, national, and international. It is also the domain of both academics and practitioners. This tribute honors Richard E. Zody by focusing on the multifaceted nature of public budgeting to reflect the career of a man committed to many of these dimensions. The central focus of his career was on improving public budgetary and management systems, and in doing so, he deftly drew from the many dimensions of budgeting. Dick demonstrated in his study, writing, teaching, and application an intellectual interest in two particular themes: the relationship between academics and practitioners; and budgeting and management, which includes the use of analytical skill and strategic planning. Through these interests, Dick impacted many lives.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed Robert Kagan. , Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, John Dumbrell., A Special Relationship: Anglo‐American Relations in the Cold War and After Peter Busch, All the Way with JFK? Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War Sudhir Hazareesingh, Intellectual Founders of the Republic: Five Studies in Nineteenth‐Century French Political Thought Sudhir Hazareesingh. (ed.), The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France Hugh Roberts, The Battlefield: Algeria 1988–2002. Studies in a Broken Polity Debbie Cox, Politics, Language, and Gender in the Algerian Arabic Novel Bernard Mommer, Global Oil and the Nation State Iain Byrne, Pauline Ngan and Stuart Weir. Politico's, Democracy under Blair: A Democratic Audit of the United Kingdom Stephen Driver and Luke Martel, Blair's Britain Paul F. Jankowski, Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue Richard T. Evans, Telling Lies about Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair     

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. The Real Story of the Romanian ‘Revolution’
SILVIA MARTON 1989 à l'est de l'Europe: une mémoire controversée, edited by Jérôme Heurtaux and Cédric Pellen. La mort des Ceau?escu: la vérité sur un coup d'Etat communiste, by Catherine Durandin and Guy Hoedts. A hedgehog approach to capitalism
Paul Auerbach 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, by Ha‐Joon Chang. A Scottish Salmond in a sea of banalities?
Tom Gallagher Salmond Against the Odds, by David Torrance. Israel: the politics of brute force
Geoffrey Bindman The Punishment of Gaza, by Gideon Levy. Heath: no need to be loved
Mark Garnett Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography, by Philip Ziegler. The politics of rebellious music
Nico Pizzolato Reds, Whites and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music and Race in the United States, by William G. Roy. Lloyd George's wrong choices
Dick Leonard David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider, by Roy Hattersley. The constraints on American caesars
Richard Briand American Caesars: Lives of the American Presidents, from Franklyn D. Roosevelt to George Bush, by Nigel Hamilton. Faltering Habermas
Gianfranco Pasquino Europe: The Faltering Project, by Jürgen Habermas. Some light on the Prince of Darkness
Andrew Blick The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour, by Peter Mandelson. Trio: Inside the Blair, Brown, Mandelson Project, by Giles Radice.     

The Postwar Premiership League

The article reports the results from the latest survey of academic experts polled on the performance of post‐1945 prime ministers. Academic specialists in British politics and history rate Clement Attlee as the best postwar prime minister, with Margaret Thatcher in second place just ahead of Tony Blair in third place. Gordon Brown's stint in Number 10 was the third‐worst since the Second World War, according to the respondents to the survey that rated his premiership as less successful than that of John Major. The article compares public and academic opinion and rankings of prime ministers and their performance, noting significant discrepancies in contemporary and retrospective evaluations. Academic respondents to the survey also provided detailed ratings and evaluations of the performance and policy impact of the four prime ministers since 1979: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.     

Change and Decay

Books reviewed:
Tivey, Leonard (edited by Robert Hazell). Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years
Seyd, Ben (edited by Robert Blackburn and Raymond Plant). The Politics of the British Constitution; Constitutional Reform: The Labour Government's Constitutional Reform Agenda
Klein, Rudolf (Bill Jordan). The New Politics of Welfare
O'Brien, David (edited by Dick Leonard). Crosland and New Labour
Parker, Noel (Maurice Keens-Soper). Europe in the World: The Persistence of Power Politics
Arnsel, Anja (Peter Gay). My German Question
Archard, David (edited by Richard Bellamy and Martin Hollis). Pluralism and Liberal Neutrality
Vosper, Susan Saunders (Robert Service). A History of Twentieth-century Russia
Garnett, Mark (Luisa Passerini). Europe in Love, Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics in Britain between the Wars
Jenkinson, Sally L (Bruce Hoffman). Inside Terrorism     

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 in this issue. ‘It's Inequality, Stupid!’
PHILIP ARMSTRONG AND BOB SUTCLIFFE Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, by Raghuram G. Rajan. Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis, by Arthur MacEwan and John A. Miller. Politics without power
Richard Briand A Walk‐On Part, by Chris Mullin. Debunking Afghan myths
Joanna Buckley Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground, by Jonathan Steele. The way after the Third Way
Patrick Diamond Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age, by Jenny Andersson. Latin America: the left returns
Richard Gott The Triumph of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, by George Philip and Francisco Panizza. The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, edited by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts. The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left, by Emir Sader, translated by Iain Bruce. (Re)inventing political culture?
Gianfranco Pasquino Reinventing Political Culture: The Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power, by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb. When the middle began to be squeezed
Dick Pountain Winner‐Take‐All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. Italy: endlessly resisting
John Foot The Legacy of the Italian Resistance, by Philip Cooke. Plus ça change …
Mark Garnett Eighteenth‐century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt, by Dick Leonard. Gridlock or peak travel?
David Metz Gridlock Nation, by Kwasi Kwarteng and Jonathan Dupont. TINA (there is no etc.): the sequel
Jim Tomlinson UK Economy: The Crisis in Perspective, edited by Gabriele Giudice, Robert Kuenzel and Thomas Springbett.     

Review Essay: Death and Delusion on the Trade Front

Books reviewed in this article: How to Kill a Country: Australia's Devastating Trade Deal with the United States Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon and John Matthews All the Way with the USA: Australia, the US and Free Trade Ann Capling Community and Local Governance in Australia Paul Smyth, Tim Reddel and Andrew Jones (eds) The Thirty Year Problem: The Politics of Australian Tax Reform Richard Eccleston Into the Future: The Neglect of the Long Term in Australian Politics Ian Marsh and David Yencken Yes, Premier: Labor leadership in Australia's States and Territories John Wanna and Paul Williams (eds) Making and Breaking Universities Bruce Williams Ethics and organisational politics Chris Provis Power Politics. The electricity crisis and you John Spoehr (ed) Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue John Braithwaite Pensions: Challenges and Reforms, International Studies on Social Security, Vol. 9 Editors Einar Overbye and Peter A. Kemp     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. The Dogs of Journalism. STEVEN BARNETT. Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies. Public intellectual: The art of making oneself up. Richard Mullender. Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Volume 4, by Richard Rorty. The Second Plane: September 11: 2001–2007, by Martin Amis. Planning and all that. Matthew Grant. From Dreams to Disillusionment: Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain, by Glen O'Hara. Let a hundred flowers bloom. Munira Mirza Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts, by Caroline Levine. How to change your brains. Dick Pountain On Deep History and the Brain, by Daniel Lord Smail. ‘Clean’ torture. Caroline Fournet Torture and Democracy, by Darius Rejali. Reforming Italy. Gianfranco Pasquino Political Institutions in Italy, by Maurizio Cotta and Luca Verzichelli. Choice and competition in health care. Jennifer Dixon The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Competition and Choice, by Julian Le Grand, Afterword by Alain Enthoven. Who is afraid of politics?. Meg Russell Politics and the People: A History of British Democracy since 1918, by Kevin Jefferys. Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work, by Gerry Stoker, Palgrave Macmillan. Why We Hate Politics, by Colin Hay.     

Informality and Circumscription: The Blair Style of Government in War and Peace

In the latest of his periodic 'overflights' of the Blair style of government since 1997, Peter Hennessy examines the significance of the 2004 Butler Report (on intelligence and weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq War) for Tony Blair both as war premier and also as an indicator of his governing practices in general. He concludes that the Cabinet's overall performance on the road to war was seriously inadequate, and is especially critical of its failure to test out fully the Attorney General's opinion in the legality of the war.     

The Spies Who Loved Them: The Blairs in Barcelona, 1937

In recent years, and particularly around the time of his birth-centenary in 2003, George Orwell's reputation has come under a cloud. Both his unexampled honesty as a writer and his stainless political idealism have been brought into question. This article takes a further tentative step into this hitherto forbidden region by exploring the connections of Eric Blair and Eileen O'Shaughnessey with various espionage agents and intelligence networks in Barcelona in the spring of 1937. Although the argument is founded on a range of original contemporary documentation, as with many Spanish Civil War stories, facts are complicated and conclusions necessarily provisional.