Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
RICHARD A. CHAPMAN and MICHAEL HUNT eds., Open Government: A Study of the Prospects of Open Government Within the Limitations of the British Political System
PETER A. HALL, Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France.
DONALD F. KETTL, Government By Proxy .
JOHN A. ROHR, To Run a Constitution: the Legitimacy of the Administrative State .
FOREST CHISMAN and ALAN PIFER, Government for the People: The Federal Social Role. What It Is. What It Should Be .
JOHN HART The Presidential Branch .     

Book Notes

S olomon E ncel , P auline K. M arstrand , W illiam PAGE (eds), The Art of Anticipation: Values and Methods in Forecasting
P. H. L evin , Government and the Planning Process
M ichael H ill , The State, Administration and the Individual
D avid N ovick , A World of Scarcities: Critical Issues in Public Policy
Report of the Joint Steering Committee, Joint Study into Local Government Finances in Australia and New Zealand
J. W. H unt , L. V. E ntrekin , G. E. P opp , Administrative Analysis: Text and Cases
M. M anning and K. T urner , Guide to the Records of the N.S.W. Division of the Liberal Party of Australia, 1945–1970
Guide to the Records of the Colonial Secretary's Office
C entre for R esearch on F ederal F inancial R elations , 1976 Report and Review of Fiscal Federalism in Australia
Newsletter of the Royal Institute of Public Administration A.C.T. Group
M ichael P usey , Dynamics of Bureaucracy. A Case Analysis in Education
A ustralian C ouncil for E ducation A dministration , Second National Conference, 1975, Policy in Education , Special Issue of The Educational Administrator
J im M unro , Classes, Conflict, and Control: Studies in Criminal Justice Management
A lain D arbel and D ominique S chnapper , Morphologie de La Haute Administration Française
Revue Française d'Administration Publique
Revista de Administratión Publico (Mexico)     

BOOK NOTES

O. W. POWELL, Medical Research and Public Policy KENNETH WILTSHIRE and CHARLES STOKES, Government Regulation and the Commercial Electronic Media I. K. F. BIRCH, The School and the Law, and E. R. TREYVAUD and JOHN MCLAREN, Equal but Cheaper G. D. McCOLL, The Economics of Electricity Supply in Australia HENRY MAYER, with MARGARET BETTISON and JUDY KEENE, ARGAP: A Research Guide to Australian Politics and Cognate Subjects C. A. BURMESTER, comp., Guide to the Collections ROSEMARY WALTERS, In the Pub: A Guide to the Learning Resources in the Public Service JEREMY J. JOHNSON, comp., Corporate Planning: A Bibliography and Selective Guide to the Sources of Literature Australian Politics: A New Ball Game? J. M. POWER, Cases in Local Government Management E. GRANDJEAN and A. GILGEN, Environmental Factors in Urban Planning AUSTRALIAN FOUNDATION ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE, National Alcohol and Drug Dependence Multi-disciplinary Institute, ′75 BRIAN SMITH, Policy Making in British Government SEAN DOONEY, The Irish Civil Service KENNETH KERNAGHAN, Executive Manpower in the Public Service: Make or Buy     

SHORTER NOTICES

Who Should Know What ? By J. A. Barnes . State and Economy in International Capitalism . Edited by Colin Crouch . Urban Policy and Politics in a Bureaucratic Age . By Clarence Stone , Robert Whelan and William Murin . Respectable Rebels . Middle Class Campaigns in Britain in The 1970S. Edited by Roger King and Neill Nugent .     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Michael J. Boskin and Aaron Wildavsky, The Federal Budget: Economics and Politics
Joan K. Martin, Urban Financial Stress: Why Cities Go Broke
James T. Bennett and Manuel H. Johnson, Better Government at Half the Price: Private Production of Public Services
E.S. Savas, Privatizing the Public Sector
H. Edward Wesemann, Contracting for City Services
Public Securities Association, Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds
Morris Beck, Government Spending: Trends and Issues
Roger A. Freeman, The Wayward Welfare State
James Mingle and Associates, Challenges of Retrenchment: Strategies for Consolidating Programs, Cutting Costs and Allocation Resources
William Spangar Peirce, Bureaucratic Failure and Public Expenditure
G. Bruce Doern, How Ottawa Spends Your Tax Dollars: National Policy and Economic Development—1982     

BOOKS

Books reviewed in this article:
John Lovell, British Trade Unions, 1875-1933
Asa Briggs and John Saville (eds.), Essays in Labour History 1918-1939, Vol. 3
David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald
Nevil Johnson, In Search of the Constitution: Reflections on State and Society in Britain
Martin Minogue (ed.), Documents on Contemporary British Government, Vol. I: British Government and Constitutional Change , xii + 413 pp., Vol. 2: Local Government in Britain
William A. Robson, Welfare State and Welfare Society, Illusion and Reality
Wyn Grant and David Marsh, The CBI
Gabriele Ganz, Government and Industry . Professional Books, Abingdon, 1977, xii + 112 pp., £5.80.
Keith Barnard and Kenneth Lee (eds.), Conflicts in the National Health Service
The Citizen and the Public Agencies: a Report by Justice
Sir Leslie Scarman, English Law and Social Policy: A Symposium based on Sir Leslie Scarman's 1974 Hamlyn Lectures
Muriel Brown, An Introduction to Social Administration
David M. Clark, Battle for the Counties: Guide to the County Council Elections 1977
F. W. S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results
P. H. J. H. Gosden, Education in the Second World War: A Study in Policy and Administration
Chris Harlow, Innovation and Productivity under Nationalisation: The First Thirty Years
S. Jacobs, The Right to a Decent House
Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Diplomats: The Foreign Office Today
Ian Sellers, Nineteenth-Century Nonconformity
S. A. Walkland & Michael Ryle (eds.), The Commons in the Seventies
C. W. Cassinelli, Total Revolution     

GOVERNMENT PRODUCTIVITY, EFFECTIVENESS, AND PUBLIC POLICY

Marc Holzer and Stuart S. Nagel (editors) . 1984. Productivity and Public Policy .
George W. Downs and Patrick D. Larkey . 1986. The Search for Government Efficiency: From Hubris to Helplessness
Elaine Morley . 1986. A Practitioner's Guide to Public Sector Productivity Improvement .
Richard H. Silkman and Dennis R. Young with the assistance of Robert Lipp . 1985. Subsidizing Inefficiency: A Study of State Aid and Local Government Productivity .     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Kenneth D. Sanders Local Government Financial and Budgetary Analysis
Richard J. Stillman II Results-Oriented Budgeting for Local Public Managers in the 1980's
Helen F. Ladd and T. Nicolaus Tideman Tax and Expenditure Limitations
Irwin T. David, C. Eugene Sturgeon and Eula L. Adams How to Evaluate and Improve Internal Controls in Government Units
Harvey E. Brazer and Deborah S. Laren Michigan's Fiscal and Economic Structure     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed in this article:
Thomas D. Lynch, Exercises in Public Budgeting
Richard Wagner, Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility and the Constitution
Edward M. Gramlich, Benefit-Cost Analysis of Government Programs
Richard E. Brown, Meredith C. Williams and Thomas P. Gallagher, Auditing Performance in Government, Concepts and Cases
John L. Mikesell, Fiscal Administration: Analysis and Applications for the Public Sector
Frederick O.R. Hayes, David A. Grossman, Gerry E. Mechling, John S. Thomas, Steven J. Rosenbloom, Linkages: Improving Financial Management in Local Government     

BOOK NOTES

Raymond J. O'DEA. A Guide to Industrial Relations in Australia. West Publishing Corporation, Sydney, 1967 Michael Baume . The Sydney Opera House Affair. Nelson, Melbourne, 1967 John A. Salmond . The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933–1942. Duke University Press, Durham, N.C. 1967 Eugene B. Skolnikoff . Science, Technology, and American Foreign Policy. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1967 A. F. Davies . Images of Class. Sydney Studies in Politics No. 6. Sydney University W. Haus and A. Krebsbach . Local Government Laws in Europe. Kohl-hammer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1967     

The Effect of Tax and Expenditure Limitations on Revenue Volatility: Evidence from Colorado

Much of the research on tax and expenditure limitations (TELs) focuses on the impact that limits have on the size of the public sector or the distribution of expenditures at the state and local levels. While these results shed light on the extent to which TELs succeed in reducing government spending, they do not have much to say about the impact of TELs on government budgeting or financial planning, despite the fact that voters support TELs in the hope of reducing government inefficiency (Courant, Gramlich, and Rubinfeld 1980; Ladd and Wilson 1982). This paper examines the effect of TELs on the stability of government revenues; sound tax policy entails controlling the volatility of revenues in order to plan more effectively for the future. Using panel data from Colorado's Division of Local Government as well as the Census Bureau's Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances, this paper examines the impact of Colorado's 1992 Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) on local government finances. Results from difference‐in‐difference estimation suggest that TELs increase revenue and expenditure volatility.     

BOOK NOTES

Government Service as a Profession, Brisbane, Queensland Regional Group of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1978 K. WINDOW, Local Government Reform, Brisbane, Queensland Group of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1978 JAMES M. BUCHANAN and RICHARD E. WAGNER, FiscalResponsibility in Constitutional Democracy, Leiden and Boston, Studies in Public Choice, No. I, Martinus Nijhoff, 1978 Y. FORTIN, Le Controle de I'Administration Economique en Grand-Bretagne, Paris, Editions du CNRS, 1978 Ethics in Public Administration: A Bibliography, Canberra, Public Service Board, 1979 R. N. SPANN, Government Administration in Australia, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1979 COLIN PRITCHARD and RICHARD TAYLOR, Social Work: Reform or Revolution? R. T. GOLEMBIEWSKI and M. COHEN, People in Public Service: A Reader in Public Personnel Administration, Illinois, Peacock Publishers Inc., 1976 CLAUDIA D. SCOTT, Local and Regional Government in New Zealand: Function and Finance R. M. BURNS, Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: Canadian and Australian Experiences, Canberra, The Australian National University Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Research Monograph No. 22 1977 ALBERT BRETON and ANTHONY SCOTT, The Economic Consrirurion of Federal Stares, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1978 Bureau of Transport Economics, A Discussion Paper of Transport Planning in Sydney to 1975, Canberra, AGPS, 1978 RUSSELL MATHEWS, Australian Federalism 1977, Canberra, The Australian National University Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, 1978 RICHARD L. DAFT and SELWYN W. BECKER, Innovarion in Organizations. Innovation Adoption in School Organizations, New York, Elsevier, 1978 RICHARD LEHNE, The Quest for Justice. The Politics of School Finance Reform, New York, Longmans, 1978 JEAN I. MARTIN, The Migrant Presence. Australian Responses 1947–1977, Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, Studies in Society series No. 2, 1978 H. WHITMORE and M. ARONSON, Review of Administrative Action, Sydney, The Law Book Co., 1978 R. A. WILD, Social Strarification in Ausrralia, Sydney, George Allen & Unwin Australia Ltd., Studies in Society series No. 3,1978 ADAM GRAYCAR, Social Policy: An Australian Inrroducrion, Melbourne, Macmillan, 1977 DAVID SOLOMON, Inside rhe Australian Parfiamenr, Sydney, George Allen and Unwin, 1978 J. R. HAY, The Development of rhe British Werfare Srare. 1880–1975, London, Edward Arnold, 1978 INA BERTRAND, Film Censorship in Australia, St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1978 BRUCE MUIRDEN, When Power Wenr Public: a Study in Expediency: the nationalisation of the Adelaide Electric Supply Co., Bedford Park, APSA, Politics, Flinders University, 1978 ANDREW LEMON (ed.), Archives Conference Proceedings, 1977, Australian Society of Archivists, P.O. Box 83, O'Connor 2601, 1978 H. C. COOMBS, Kulinma: Listening to Aboriginal Australians, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1979 DIANA CLOSE, LOULA RODOPOULOS, JENNIE M. BRIGGS, and ELISABETH GAWITH, Interviewing Immigrants: Developing Research in the Australian Context, Melbourne, Clearing House on Migration Issues, 1978     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Public Administration and Sustainable Development. Edited by Mohammad Ja 'Far Ekram Ja 'Fari , Raul P De Guzman and Mila A Reforma Political Leadership in an Age of Constraint: Bureaucratic Politics Under Hawke and Keating. By Colin Campbell SJ and John Halligan Transforming Australian Local Government. By Michael Jones Public Sector Reform Under the First Goss Government: A Documentary Sourcebook. Edited by Glyn Davis Towards National Administration: Studies in Australian Administrative History. Edited by JJ Eddy and JR Nethercote Documenting a Nation: Australian Archives—The First Fifty Years. By Hilary Golder Ethics for the Public Sector: Education & Training. Edited by Noel Preston Corruption Character & Conduct: Essays on Canadian Government Ethics. Edited by John W Langford and Allan Tupper The Politics of Australia. By Dean Jaensch The Australian Form of Government: Models in Dispute. By Richard Lucy A National Survey of Indigenous Australians: Options and Implications. Edited by J.C. Altman Regional Change in the Economic Status of Indigenous Australians, 1986–1991. By J. Taylor     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bruce Mccallum , The Public Service Manager: An Introduction to Personnel Management in the Australian Public Service R. J. K. Chapman and Michael Wood , Australian Local Government Kosmas Tsokhas , A Class Apart? Businessmen and Australian Politics 1960–1980 Andrew Kakabadse and Suresh Mukhi (eds), The Future of Management Education Jonathan Boston , Incomes Policy in New Zealand: 1968–1984, Wellington, Victorian University Press for the Institute of Policy Studies David Dery , Problem Definition in Policy Analysis     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
RUSSELL MATHEWS (ed.), Making Federalism Work: Towards a More Efficient, Equitable and Responsive Federal System
R.M. BURNS et al., Political and Administrative Federalism
P.D. GROENEWEGEN, The Taxable Capacity of Local Government in New South Wales
F.A. LARCOMBE, The Stabilisation of Local Government in New South Wales 1858–1906
L.J. BARKER (ed.), Governance of the Australian Colleges of Advanced Education
MORRIS JANOWITZ, Social Control of the Welfare State
LYNTON K. CALDWELL, Man and his Environment: Policy and Administration
ALAN MURIE et al., Housing Policy and the Housing System
NIAL OSBOROUGH, Borstal in Ireland
DAVID HEALD, Making Devolution Work
T. H. RIGBY and R. F. MILLER, Political and Administrative Aspects of the Scientific and Technical Revolution in the U.S.S.R.
PETER WILENSKI, The Delivery of Health Services in the People's Republic of China
MARTIN SHUBIK, The Uses and Methods of Gaming
MARTIN SHUBIK, Games for Society, Business and War: Towards a Theory of Gaming
M. KUBR (ed.), Management Consulting: a Guide to the Profession
J. DAVID EDELSTEIN and MALCOLM WARNER, Comparative Union Democracy Organisation and Opposition in British and American Unions     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
At the Margins: Presidential Leadership of Congress , By GEORGE C. EDWARDS III.
The President as Prisoner: A Structural Critique of the Carter and Reagan Years. By WILLIAM F. GROVER.
Regulatory Interventionism in the Utility Industry . By BARBARA R. BARKOVICH.
Private Gain and Public Service: The Association of First Division Civil Servants. By BARRY O'TOOLE.
Ulster: Conflict and Consent. By TOM WILSON.
Guide to the Presidency. Edited by MICHAEL NELSON.
Prime Minister & Premiers: Political Leadership and Public Policy in Canada. Edited by LESLIE A. PAL AND DAVID TARAS.
The Future Of Local Government , Edited by JOHN STEWART and GERRY STOKER.     

Preliminary Submission to the House of Representatives Economic, Finance and Public Administration Committee Inquiry into Cost Shifting by State Governments to Local Governments

The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) is the peak body for local authorities across Australia. Representing 698 councils, shires and other local governing bodies, ALGA advocates on behalf of local institutions, the local communities they represent and the process through which they interact. Founded in 1947 by the six states, ALGA now represents all states and territories and is a full member of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). This article is an edited version of the ALGA's preliminary submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee inquiry into the Financial Position of, and Cost Shifting onto, Local Government.     

Free Market Experiments in the Laboratory of Democracy: The Long Decade of Policy Reform in New Zealand those risks

Books reviewd in this essay:
Christine Cheyne, Mike O'Brien and Michael Belgrave, Social Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Critical Introduction
Brian Easton, The Commercialisation of New Zealand
Paul Dalziel and Ralph Lattimore, The New Zealand Macroeconomy: A Briefing on the Reforms
RC Mascarenhas, Government and the Economy in New Zealand
Raymond Miller (ed.), New Zealand Politics in Transition
Geoffrey Palmer and Michael Palmer, Bridled Power: New Zealand Government Under MMP     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article:
Eleanor P. Wolf, Trial and Error: The Detroit School Segregation Case .
Robert A. Dentler and Marvin B. Scon, Schools on Trial: An Inside Account .
John Brigham and Don W. Brown (eds.) Policy Implementation .
George C. Edwards III, Implementing Public Policy .
Robert T. Nakamura and Frank Smallwood. The Politics of Policy Implementation .
Randall B. Ripley and Grace A. Franklin, Bureaucracy and Policy Implementation .
Laurence Rutter, The Essential Community: Local Government in the Year 2000 .
Hadley Arkes, The Philosopher in the City: The Moral Dimensions of Urban Politics .