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     

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Books reviewed:
Sebastin Royo, From Social Democracy to Neoliberalism: The Consequences of Party Hegemony in Spain, 1982–1996
W. Rand Smith, The Left's Dirty Job: The Politics of IndustrialRestructuring in France and Spain
Jennifer Jackson Preece, National Minoritiesand the European Nation-States System
Ralph Grillo, Pluralism and the Politics of Difference: State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
Julia S. O'Connor, Ann Shola Orloff, and Sheila Shaver, States, Markets, Families
Desmond King, In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain     

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Books reviewed:
Mitchell Dean and Barry Hindess, Governing Australia: Studies in Contemporary Rationalities of Government
John Uhr, Deliberative Democracy in Australia: The Changing Place of Parliament
Anna Yeatman, Activism and the Policy Process
Paul Smith and Bettina Cass, Contesting the Australian Way: States, Markets and Civil Society
Elizabeth van Acker, Different Voices: Gender and Politics in Australia
Jan McMillen, Gambling Cultures, Studies in History and Interpretation     

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Books reviewed
The New Gender Agenda , edited by Anna Coote
Money, Markets and the State: Social Democratic Policies since 1918 , by Ton Notermans
It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States , by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks
Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations , by John S. Dryzek
The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945 , by Peter Hennessy
Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh , by Toby Harnden
The IRA 1968–2000: Analysis of a Secret Army , by J. Bowyer Bell
In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethics and Politics , by Norberto Bobbio, translated by Teresa Chataway
Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach , by Martha C. Nussbaum
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering , by Norman G. Finkelstein
The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics , by John Dunn
Trouble-maker: The Life and History of A. J. P. Taylor , by Kathleen Burk     

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Books reviewed:
David F. DeRosa, In Defense of Free Capital Markets: The Case against a New International Financial Architecture
Eric M. Patashnik, Putting Trust in the US Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment     

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Change and Decay? Public Administration in the 1990s. By HOWARD ELCOCK. Improving Public Management (enlarge edition). By LES METCALFE and SUE RICHARDS. Political Loyalty and the Public Service in West Germany: The 1972 Decree Against Radicals and its Consequences. By GERHARD BRAUNTHAL. Extraordinary Measures: The Exercise of Prerogative Powers in the United States. By DANIEL P. FRANKLIN. The Politics of National Security: Congress and US Defense Policy. By BARRY M. BLECHMAN. The Vertical Solitude: Managing in the Public Sector. By DAVID ZUSSMAN and JAK JABES. Leadership for the Twenty-First Century. By JOSEPH C. ROST. Interest Groups. By GRAHAM K. WILSON. Knowledge As Power: Political and Legal Control of Information. By DAVID SADOFSKY. Monetary Policy, Taxation, and International Investment Strategy. Edited by VICTOR A. CANTO and ARTHUR B. LAFFER.     

Pathological politics: The anatomy of government failure

This essay is a slightly altered version of chapter 4 in Beyond Politics: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy.(Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994). Reprinted by permission from The Independent Institute.     

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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     

Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China

Book reviewed: Dali Yang. Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China.
Reviewed by VICTOR SHIH     

Reviews

Books Reviewed: Betts, Katherine, The Great Divide: Immigration Politics in Australia Bennett, Tony, Emmison, Michael and Frow, John, Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Elliot, Lorraine, The Global Politics of the Environment Gabbitas, O. and Eldridge, D., Directions for State Tax Reform     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed
Wiring Europe . Giorgio Natalicchi. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2001. 260 pp. $27.00 (paperback), $72.00 (hardback).
Markets and Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States . Susan Giaimo. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002. 307 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
Public Management and Policy Transfer in Southeast Asia . Richard Common. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2001. 273 pp. $42.50.
Governance, Corruption, & Economic Performance . George T. Abed and Sanjeev Gupta, eds. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2002. 564 pp. $37.50 (paper).
Common Goods: Reinventing European and International Governance . Adrienne Héritier, ed. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 352 pp. $29.95 (paper), $74.00 (cloth).     

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Books reviewed:
The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome . Yehzkel Dror. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001. 264 pp. $67.00 (hardback).
Government's Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security. Paul C. Light. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. 200 pp. $19.95 (hardcover).
The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for Twenty-First Century America. Donald F. Kettl. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 240 pp. $17.95 (paperback). Reviewed by MARK CARL ROM, Georgetown University
Politics and the Russian Army: Civil–Military Relations, 1689–2000. Brian D. Taylor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 355 pp. $25.00 (paperback), $75.00 (hardback). Reviewed by DONALD ABENHEIM, Naval Postgraduate School
Defending Europe: The EU, NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy . Jolyon Howorth and John T. S. Keeler, eds. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 247 pp. $55.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by MICHAEL BAUN, Valdosta State University
Migration and the Externalities of European Integration . Sandra Lavenex and Emek M. Uçarer. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 240 pp. $24.95 (paperback), $75.00 (hardback). Reviewed by SEBASTIEN GAGNON-MESSIER, University of Maryland
Government: A Public Administration Perspective . Jos C. N. Raadschelders. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. 464 pp. $39.95 (paperback), $ 79.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by MARGARET F. REID, University of Arkansas
Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the 21^st Century. Lisa Anderson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 158 pp. $27.50 (cloth). Reviewed by ROBERT W. RYCROFT, George Washington University     

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Negotiating the World Economy, by John S. Odell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000, 252 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Reviewed by Daniel J.B. Mitchell Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition, edited by Robert A. Moffitt and Michele Ver Ploeg. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001, 268 pp., $42.95. Reviewed by Daniel H. Weinberg Red Tape and Housing Costs: How Regulation Affects New Residential Development, by Michael I. Luger and Kenneth Temkin. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2000, 192 pp., $24.95 cloth. Reviewed by Thomas Bier Waste Trading among Rich Nations, by Kate O'Neill. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000, 310 pp., $60.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman Markets for Clean Air, by A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan‐Pablo Montero, and Elizabeth M. Bailey. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 352 pp., $40.00. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming, by David G. Victor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, 178 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Robert Falkner Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, Stephen Van Evera, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999, 270 pp., $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Reviewed by Erik Gartzke Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons, by T. V. Paul. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2000, 227 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Leonard S. Spector The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, by David S. Landes, New York: W.W. Norton, 1998, 650 pp., $11.87 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. The End of the Nation‐state: The Rise of the Regional Economies, by Kenichi Ohmae, New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1995, 214 pp., $16.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. Governance in a Globalizing World, edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, 386 pp., $18.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Gramsci . By James Joll . “Eurocommunism ” AND THE State . By Santiago Carrillo . The Italian Road TO Socialism . An interview by Eric Hhobsbawm with Giorgio Napolitano . Red Bologna . By Max Jéuggi , Roger Müller and Sil Schmid . Gollancz : The Story OF A Publishing House , 1928–1978. By Sheila Hodges . Politics AND Markets . The World's Political -Economic Systems . By Charles E. Lindblom . Conflict OR CO-Operation ?THE Growth OF Industrial Democracy . By John Elliott . With a preface by Lord Bullock . THE Great Rights OF Mankind . By Bernard Schwartz . Freedom AND THE Court . By Henry J. Abraham . A Prime Minister ON Prime Ministers . By Harold Wilson . Joseph Chamberlain . By Enoch Powell . People AND Parliament . Edited by John P. Mackintosh , M.P. Your Disobedient Servant . By Leslie Chapman . British Rearmament IN THE Thirties . By Robert Paul Shay , JR. Brazil : A Political Analysis . By Peter Flynn . THE Brazilian Corporative State AND Working Class Politics . BY (plus Bibliog. and Index)     

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Tage Erlander: Serving the Welfare State. By OLOF RUIN (translated by Michael E. Metcalf).
Ethics for Policymaking: A Methodological Analysis. By EUGENE J. MEEHAN.
Ethics for Public Managers. By HAROLD F. GORTNER.
The Responsible Public Servant. By KENNETH KERNAGHAN and JOHN W. LANGFORD.
The Environmental Contexts of AIDS. By MARIE A. MUIR.
The Catastrophe Ahead: AIDS and the Case for a New Public Policy. By WILLIAM B. JOHNSTON and KEVIN R. HOPKINS.
Hostile Brothers: Competition and Closure in the European Electronks Industry. By ALAN CAWSON, KEVIN MORGAN, DOUGLAS WEBBER, PETER HOLMES and ANNE STEVENS.
Politics, Markets and America's Schools. By JOHN E. CHUBB and TERRY M. MOE.
The Symbolic Presidency: How Presidents Portray Themselves. By BARBARA HINCK-LEY.     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: The Ethical Organisation: Ethical Theory and Corporate Behaviour ALAN KITSON and ROBERT CAMPBELL Management Ethics: Theory, Cases and Practice GORDON L CLARK and ELIZABETH PRIOR JONSON (eds) Making Groups Work: Rethinking Practice J FENJAMIN, J BESSANT and R WATTS The Capable Executive PAUL H DAINTY and MOREEN ANDERSON Managing Performance and Goal Achievement IAN LEES Productive Diversity: A New Australian Model for Work and Management BILL COPE and MARY KALANTZIS Markets, the State and the Environment: Towards Integration ROBYN ECKERSLEY (ed.) Commercial Implications of Native Title BRYAN HORRIGAN and SIMON YOUNG (eds) Shooting the Banker: Essays on ATSIC and Self-Determination. PATRICK SULLIVAN (Ed.) The End of Politics? Explorations into Modern Antipolitics ANDREAS SCHEDLER (ed.) Socialism in Contemporary Australia TIM BATTIN and GRAHAM MADDOX (eds) Labor Essays 1997: Renewing and Revitalising Labor GARY JUNGWIRTH (ed.) The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia Since 1945 BARBARA SULLIVAN South Australia, Federalism and Public Policy ANDREW PARKIN (ed.) Korean Public Administration: Managing the Uneven Development BUN WOONG KIM and PAN SUK KIM State-Owned Enterprise Reform in Vietnam: Lessons from Asia NG CHEE YUEN, NICK FREEMAN and FRANK H HUYNH (eds)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Book Reviews the Barometer of Modern Reason. On the Philosophies of Current Events. By Vincent Descombes. Trans. By Stephen Adam Schwartz. Making Theory/Constructing Art. On the Authority of the Avant-Garde. By Daniel Herwitz. Hannah Arendt: Politics, History and Citizenship By Phillip Hansen.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: The Return of the Political. By Chantal Mouffe. Specters of Marx. By Jacques Derrida. Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Edited and Introduced By Amy Gutmann. Liberal Nationalism. By Yael Tamir. What's the Matter with Liberalism? By Ronald Beiner. Thick and Thin: Moral Argument At Home and Abroad. By Michael Walzer.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Rise and Fall of Communism . By Richard H. Hudelson . The End of the Communist Power Monopoly . By Michael Waller . The Politics of Transition . By Stephen White , Graeme Gill and Darrell Slider . The Sovietransition : From Gorbachev to Yeltsin . Edited by Stephen White , Rita Di Leo and Ottorino Cappelli . Politics in Eastern Europe . By George Schopflin . Eastern Europe in the Postwar World . By Thomas W. Simons , JR. 2nd. Ed. Developments in East European Politics . Edited by Stephen White , Judy Batt and Paul G. Lewis . Transition to Democracy in Poland . Edited by Richard F. Starr . Leo Walesa Democrat or Dictator ? By Jaroslaw Kurski . Translated by Peter Obst . Broken Bonds . The Disintegration of Yugoslavia . By Lenard J. Cohen . Contrasting us and German Attitudes to Soviet Trade , 1917–91: Politics by Economic Means . By Hilbne Seppain . Erconciling the Solitudes : Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism . By Charles Taylor . The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation : Case Studies of Protracted Ethnic Conflicts . Edited by John Mcgarry and Brendan O'Leary . Ethnic Conflict and International Security . Edited by Michael E. Brown. The Scar of Race . By Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza . Race , Riots and Policing : Lore and Disorder in a Multi -Racist Society . By Michael Keith . Race and Racism in Britain . 2nd ed. By John Solomos . Not Easy Being British : Colour , Culture and Citizenship . By Tariq Modood . Paying the Piper : Culture , Music and Money . By Alan Peacock . Wilson . By Philip Ziegler . Markets and Democracy ; Participation , Accountability and Feficiency . Edited by Samuel Bowles , Herbert Gintis and Bo Gustafs -Son Beyond Unemployment . By Robery Skidelsky and Liam Halligan . Trends in British Public Policy : Do Governments Make Any Difference ? By Brian W. Ohgwood .     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy . By Bryan D. Jones.
Economic Politics . By William R. Keech.
Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective . By Theda Skocpol.
The Brazilian Voter: Mass Politics in Democratic Transition, 1974–1986 . By Kurt von Mettenheim.