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Book reviews in this article: POLICY STYLES IN WESTERN EUROPE Jeremy Richardson (ed.). POLITICS, POLICY AND THE EUROPEAN RECESSION Andrew Cox (ed.). BRITISH DOGMATISM AND FRENCH PRAGMATISM: CENTRAL-LOCAL POLICYMAKING IN THE WELFARE STATE Douglas E. Ashford. CENTRAL GRANTS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT R. J. Bennett. HOW MUCH ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS WORTH? John Gretton and Anthony Harrison (eds.) EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF HEALTH PROGRAMS: A PRIMER Michael E. Borus, C. Gregory Bunk and William R. Trash. HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: ITS ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT N. W. Chaplin (ed.). HEALTH POLICY IN BRITAIN: THE POLITICS AND ORGANISATION OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Christopher Ham. POLICY-MAKING AND PLANNING IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Kenneth Lee and Anne Mills. CONSUMING SECRETS: HOW OFFICIAL SECRECY AFFECTS EVERYDAY LIFE IN BRITAIN Rosemary Delbridge and Martin Smith (eds.). THE POLITICS OF SECRECY: CONFIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW James Michael. WAR AND THE STATE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT, 1914–1919 Kathleen Burk (ed.). THE POLITICS OF THE ARTS COUNCIL ROBERT HUTCHISON. THE PROMOTION OF INNOVATION IN HEALTH CARE: THE CASE FOR DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES IN THE NHS Chris Ham and Laurie McMahon CRITICAL READINGS IN PLANNING THEORY Chris Paris (ed.). MANAGEMENT REFORM IN SCOTTISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT Arthur Midwinter.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
BUREAUMETRICS Christopher Hood and Andrew Dunsire
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS: AN ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE D. C. Pitt and B. C. Smith
Open University Course D336 : People, Policies and Administration
THE ADMINISTRATIVE CONTEXT (Block 1): L. Lewis, C. Pollitt and K. Rowen.
MAKING POLICY (Block 2); J. Mitchell, J. Patten, C. Pollitt and M. Shackleton
IMPLEMENTATION, EVALUATION AND CHANGE (Block 3): A. Blowers, J. Brown, A. Dunsire and C. Pollitt.
PARTICIPATION (Block 4): M. Macartney, J. Mesher and D. Murray.
BIG GOVERNMENT IN HARD TIMES Christopher Hood and Maurice Wright (eds.)
CONTROL AND POWER IN CENTRAL-LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONS R.A.W. Rhodes
POLICY AND GOVERNMENT IN NORTHERN IRELAND: LESSONS OF DEVEOLUTION Derek Birrell and Alan Murie
THE GEOGRAPHY OF PUBLIC FINANCE: WELFARE UNDER FISCAL FEDERALISM AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE R. J. Bennett
URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY Kenneth Newton (ed.)
THE LOCAL FISCAL CRISIS IN WESTERN EUROPE: MYTHS AND REALITIES L. J. Sharpe (ed.)
INSPECTORATES IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT: LAW ENFORCEMENT AND STANDARDS OF EFFICIENCY Gerald Rhodes
POLICY-MAKING IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Christopher Ham
THE WORKLESS STATE: STUDIES IN UNEMPLOYMENT Brian Showler and Adrian Sinfield (eds.)
WHAT UNEMPLOYMENT MEANS Adrian Sinfield
RURAL HOUSING: COMPETITION AND CHOICE M. Dunn, M. Rawson, A. Rogers
THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM S.E. Finer and Anthony King
LOCAL GOVERNMENT Dilys M. Hill and Peter Richards
THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION 1855–1975 K.M. Reader     

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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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GETTING CLOSER TO THE PUBLIC Local Government Training Board
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: THE TOWN HALLS RESPOND David Blunkett and Keith Jackson
LEGALITY AND LOCAL POLITICS L. Bridges, C. Game, O. Lomas, J. McBride and S. Ranson
JUNIOR MINISTERS IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT Kevin Theakston
IMPROVING PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Les Metcalfe and Sue Richards
SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: EXPERIENCE OF A PILOT MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
POLICY MAKING UNDER ADVERSITY Yehezkel Dror
BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC CHOICE Jan-Eric Lane (ed.)
ADMINISTRATION AS SERVICE – THE PUBLIC AS CLIENT Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PROCESS: LEARNING BY DOING David Heald and Richard Rose (eds.)
REGULATION AND PUBLIC LAW Robert Baldwin and Christopher McCrudden Weidenfeld and Nicolson
STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Tom Rathwell
HEALTH MANPOWER: PLANNING, PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT Andrew F. Long and Geoffrey Mercer
HMI Denis Lawton and Peter Gordon Routledge and Kegan Paul
SCRUTINY OF PROCEDURES FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND A report by Angus Mitchell to the Secretary of State for Education and Science
BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN Wyn Grant with Jane Sargent Macmillan
CHANGING TRAINS: MESSAGES FOR MANAGEMENT FROM THE SCOTRAIL CHALLENGE Valerie Stewart and Vivian Chadwick David & Charles
CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WEST EUROPEAN UNITARY STATES Edward C. Page and Michael J. Goldsmith (eds.)
THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAPITOL HILL: THE POLITICS OF PRESIDENTIAL PERSUASION Nigel Bowles     

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Book reviewed in this Article:
THE FUTURE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT. John Stewart Gerry Stoker (eds.)
COUNCILS IN CONFLICT: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUNICIPAL LEFT. Stewart Lansley, Sue Goss Christian Wolmar.
BUDGETING IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: MANAGING THE MARGINS Howard Elcock, Grant Jordan Arthur Midwinter with George Boyne.
LOCAL PARTNERSHIP AND THE UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS IN BRITAIN Chris Moore J. J. Richardson in association. with Jeremy Moon.
NEW DIRECTIONS FOR COUNTY GOVERNMENT Ken Young (ed.)
TERRITORY AND ADMINISTRATION IN EUROPE Robert Bennett.
POLICY-MAKING IN FRANCE Paul Godt (ed.)
THE STATE AS EMPLOYER: LABOUR LAW IN THE PUBLIC SERVICES Sandra Fredman Gillian S. Morris.
MANAGING UNDER PRESSURE: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT Martin Laffin.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SERVICES R. Mailly, S. J. Dimmock A. S. Sethi (eds.).
CIPFA GUIDE TO THE COMMUNITY CHARGE Rita Hale Chris Stewart (eds.)
THE CIVIL SERVICE IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES J. E. Kingdom (ed.)
LOCAL JUSTICE - IDEALS AND REALITIES John W. Raine.     

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PLANNING UNDER PRESSURE: THE STRATEGIC CHOICE APPROACH John Friend and Alan Hickling
POLICYMAKING, COMMUNICATION, AND SOCIAL LEARNING Sir Geoffrey Vickers, (eds.): Guy B. Adams, John Forester, and Bayard L. Catron
RESHAPING LOCAL GOVERNMENT 1979–1987 Michael Parkinson (ed.)
RESHAPING THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE 1979–87 Robert Maxwell (ed.)
JOINT APPROACHES TO SOCIAL POLICY: RATIONALITY AND PRACTICE Linda Challis et al.
PRIVATE MEMBERS' BILLS David Marsh and Melvyn Read
POLITICAL ECONOMY: PUBLIC POLICIES DM THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN Jerold L. Waltman and Donley T. Studlar (eds.)
THE POLITICS OF STEEL: WESTERN EUROPE AND THE STEEL INDUSTRY IN THE CRISIS YEARS (1974–1984) Yves Meny and Vincent Wright (eds.)
THE STATE AND THE CITY Ted Robert Gurr and Desmond S. King
LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES. THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION Kenneth Dyson (ed.)
INDICTMENT: POWER AND POLITICS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY D. Morrell
DEUTSCHES BERUFSBEAMTENTUM UND BRITISCHE BESATZUNG: PLANUNG UND POLITIK 1943–1947 Ulrich Reusch Klett-Cotta
PUBLIC SERVICE LABOUR RELATIONS: RECENT TRENDS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS Tiziano Treu et al.     

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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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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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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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BEYOND THE BOTTOM LINE: MANAGEMENT IN GOVERNMENT Timothy W. Plumptre
ACCOUNTABILITY AMONG SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS Mary Daly
BEYOND WESTMINSTER AND WHITEHALL: THE SUB-CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS OF BRITAIN R. A. W. Rhodes
MANAGING THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: SHIFTING THE FRONTIER Stephen Harrison
JOINT PLANNING AND JOINT MANAGEMENT Gerald Wistow and Tessa Brooks (eds.)
EVALUATING POLICE WORK: AN ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT Christine Horton and David Smith
INFORMATION AND GOVERNMENT: STUDIES IN THE DYNAMICS OF POLICY-MAKING Roger Davidson and Phil White (eds.)
GOVERNING EDUCATION: A SOCIOLOGY OF POLICY SINCE 1945 A. McPherson and C. Raab
FREEDOM AND EDUCATION: WAYS OF INCREASING OPENNESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY John Tomlinson, Peter Mortimore and Pamela Sammons
THE POLITICS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT G. Stoker
THE REFORM OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE IN BRITAIN S. J. Bailey and R. Paddison (eds.)
THE POLITICS OF THE URBAN CRISIS A. Sills, G. Taylor and P. Golding Hutchinson
REVERSING INDUSTRIAL DECLINE Paul Hirst and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds.)     

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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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WESTMINSTER DOES PARLIAMENT WORK? John Garrett. THE PARLIAMENTARY STATE David Judge. REFORMING THE CIVIL SERVICE THE FULTON COMMITTEE ON THE BRITISH HOME CIVIL SERVICE 1966-1968 Geoffrey K. Fry. URBAN PLANNING UNDER THATCHERISM THE CHALLENGE OF THE MARKET (2nd. edn.) Andy Thornley. RESEARCH IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. VOLUME 2 James L. Perry (ed.) PUBLIC ENTERPRISE IN TRANSITION INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN STATE AND PRIVATIZED CORPORATIONS Andrew Pendleton and Jonathan Winterton (eds.) POLITIQUE URBAINE ET DEVELOPPEMENT LOCAL UNE COMPARAISON Patrick Le Galès. DUTCH GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS Rudy B. Andeweg and Galen A. Irwin.     

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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     

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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.)     

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RULES AND GOVERNMENT Robert Baldwin THE END OF WHITEHALL: DEATH OF A PARADIGM? Colin Campbell and Graham K. Wilson THE CIVIL SERVICE SINCE 1945 Kevin Theakston THE CIVIL SERVICE Keith Dowding THE BRITISH CABINET SYSTEM Martin Burch and Ian Holliday Governing the UK in the 1990s Robert Pyper and Linton Robins POLICY AND MANAGEMENT IN THE BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE Geoffrey Fry THE CHANGING-ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT Steve Leach, John Stewart and Kieron Walsh EXPLAINING ECONOMIC POLICY REVERSALS Christopher Hood MEASURING OUTCOME IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR Peter Smith (ed.) PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT, VOLS I AND II John Bourn MANAGING POLICY CHANGE IN BRITAIN: THE POLITICS OF WATER William Maloney and Jeremy Richardson     

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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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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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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     

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Book reviewed in this Article: GETTING PEOPLE INTO JOBS Keith Hayton. TARGETING URBAN EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVES Ivan Turok and Urlan Wannop. TOURISM AND THE INNER CITY Polytechnic of Central London. US EXPERIENCE OF URBAN REGENERATION T. Barnekov, D. Hart and W. Benfer. FIVE YEAR REVIEW OF BOLTON, MIDDLESBROUGH AND NOTTINGHAM PROGRAMME AUTHORITIES PIEDA Ltd. PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF URBAN CHANGE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Tony Fielding and Susan Halford. INTEREST GROUPS G. Wilson. THE THATCHER EFFECT Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon (eds.) LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THATCHERISM Hugh Butcher, Ian Law, Robert Leach and Maurice Mullard. PROFESSIONALISM IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT Martin Laffin, Ken Young. THE RURAL STATE? LJMITS TO PLANNING IN RURAL SOCIETY Paul Cloke and Jo Little. THE RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC SERVANT Kenneth Kernaghan and John W. Langford. MALCOLM FRASER PM: A STUDY IN PRIME MINISTERIAL POWER IN AUSTRALIA Pahick Weller. THE CIVIL SERVICE OBSERVED C. H. Murray. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE. AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ACHIEVEMENT AND PROSPECTS Adrian Leftwich (ed.) PROTECTING PRIVACY IN SURVEILLANCE SOCIETIES; THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, SWEDEN, FRANCE, CANADA, AND THE UNITED STATES David H. Flaherty. INVESTING IN THE FUTURE John Irvine, Ben R. Martin and Phoebe A. Isard. CREATING A RESPONSIVE PUBLIC SERVICE Roger Hadley and Ken Young.     

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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