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ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYSIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO RULES, ENFORCEMENT AND ORGANISATION Christopher Hood THE NOBLE LIE: THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION AND THE RULE OF LAW Ian Harden and Norman Lewis THE MANAGEMENT OF HUNG AUTHORITIES Local Government Training Board THE NEW MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT John Stewart THE CHANGING GOVERNMENT OF EDUCATION S. Ranson and J. Tomlinson (eds.) PLANNING, NEED AND SCARCITY: ESSAYS ON THE PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES Adrian Webb & Gerald Wistow IN DEFENCE OF THE WELFARE STATE Paul Wilding (ed.) WHAT PRICE COMMUNITY MEDICINE? THE EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES: FAMILY PRACTITIONER COMMITTEES IN THE 1980s PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN THE INNER CITIES AFTER ACHESON Gerald Rhodes, Usha Prashar and Ken Young THE DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY: TASKS, ORGANISATION AND RELATIONSHIPS OF THE GOVERNING BODY Warren Kinston THE STATE, FINANCE AND INDUSTRY Andrew Cox (ed.) NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES AND PUBLIC CONTROL: LEGAL, CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES Tony Prosser THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY: 1946–82, THE NATIONALIZED INDUSTRY William Ashworth THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRITISH REGIONAL POLICY D. W. Parsons GOVERNING THE ECONOMY: THE POLITICS OF STATE INTERVENTION IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE Peter A. Hall DECENTRALISATION AND CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE Michael Keating and Paul Hainsworth Gower CENTRALISATION AND DECENTRALISATION IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE Stephen Garrish THE SQUARE MILE: A GUIDE TO THE CITY REVOLUTION John Plender and Paul Wallace ADJUSTING TO DEMOCRACY: THE ROLE OF THE MINISTRY OF LABOUR IN BRITISH POLITICS 1916–1939 Rodney Lowe POLICY ANALYSIS AND CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES Sir Douglas Was, Michael Elliott, Anthony Barker (eds.) HOUSING A DIVIDED SOCIETY C. E. B. Brett     

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NATIONAL STYLES OF REGULATION: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES David Vogel THE ADMINISTRATION OF STANDARDS OF CONDUCT IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A RESEARCH REPORT Alan Parker, Aidan Rose and John Taylor REGIONALISM IN EUROPEAN POLITICS Roger Morgan (ed.) PROMOTING LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY Colin Mellors (ed.) THE NATIONAL WORLD OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT R. A. W. Rhodes URBAN POLITICAL THEORY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF FISCAL STRESS Michael Goldsmith and Søren Vinadsen (eds) THE EVOLUTION OF SPATIAL POLICY: A CASE STUDY OF INNER-URBAN POLICY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1968–1981 Paul Lawless Pion HOUSING LAND POLICY Yvonne Rydin A PRICE WORTH PAYING? A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT GRANT AID TO VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS Diana Leat, Sue Tester BRITISH STEEL: AN INDUSTRY BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR Heidrun Abromeit PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND THE SELECT COMMITTEES OF THE COMMONS Vilma Flegmann Gower THE NATURE OF UNITED NATIONS BUREAUCRACIES David Pitt and Thomas Weiss (eds.) MAKING THE MANAGERIAL PRESIDENCY: COMPREHENSIVE REORGANIZATION PLANNING 1905–1980 Peri E Arnold POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN HUNGARY Gy. Szoboszlai (ed). POLICY MANAGEMENT AND POLICY ASSESSMENT: DEVELOPMENTS IN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT Proceedings of a Seminar organized by Peat-Marwick and the RIPA Royal Institute of Public Administration     

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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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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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YES, PRIME MINISTER, VOLUME 1 Jonathan Lynn Antony Jay (eds.) ADVISING THE RULERS William Plowden (ed.) THE POLITICAL SCIENCE OF BRITISH POLITICS Jack Hayward Philip Norton (eds.) FROM CRISIS TO COMPLACENCY? SHAPING PUBLIC POLICY IN BRITAIN Brian Hogwood PRIVATISATION: THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE – AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE Kenneth Wiltshire THE WELFARE STATE EAST AND WEST Richard Rose and Rei Shiratori (eds.) ACCOUNTABILITIES IN FIVE PUBLIC SERVICES Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein Tavistock MATCHING RESOURCES TO NEEDS IN COMMUNITY CARE Bleddyn Davies David Challis Gower CASE MANAGEMENT IN COMMUNITY CARE David Challis and Bleddyn Davies Gower RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN THE HEALTH SERVICE: A REVIEW OF THE METHODS OF THE RESOURCE ALLOCATION WORKING PARTY (RAWP) Nicholas Mays Gwyn Bevan LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGERS AT WORK: The City and County Manager System of Local Government in the Republic of Ireland Neil Collins Institute of Public Administration (Dublin) 1987 NUCLEAR POWER IN CRISIS Andrew Blowers and David Pepper (eds.) QUASI-LEGISLATION: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SECONDARY LEGISLATION Gabriele Ganz Sweet & Maxwell, 1987 PLAYING THE PUBLIC INOUIRY GAME. AN OBIECTOR'S GUIDE Wendy Le Las SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND GOVERNMENT: COMPARATIVE ESSAYS ON BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES M. Bulmer (ed.) ORGANIZATION THEORY AND TECHNOCRATIC CONSCIOUSNESS: RATIONALITY, IDEOLOGY, AND QUALITY OF WORK Mats Alvesson De Gruyter     

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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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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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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:
EVIDENCE, ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION IN THE POLICY PROCESS Giandomenico Majone.
MANAGERIALISM AND THE PUBLIC SERVICES: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE C. Pollitt.
PUBLIC POLICY UNDER THATCHER, S. P. Savage, L. Robins.
OUTPUT AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN GOVERNMENT: THE STATE OF THE ART Martin Cave, Maurice Ksgan Robert Smith (eds.)
PARLIAMENT AND PRESSURE POLITICS Michael Rush (ed.)
PARLIAMENT TODAY Andrew Adonis.
HAPPY AND GLORIOUS: THE CONSTITUTION IN TRANSITION Norman Lewis (ed.)
POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN SCOTLAND Arthur Midwinter, Michael Keating James Mitchell.
ENDURING INEQUALITY: REUGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IN EMF'LOYMENT IN NORTHERN IRELAND Vincent McConnack, Joe O'Hara.
NORTHERN IRELAND IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: AN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS Arthur Aughey, Paul Hainsworth Martin J. Trimbie.
EQUALIZING PEOPLE D. G. Green.
THE STATE OF WELFARE: THE WELFARE STATE IN BRITAIN SINCE 1974 John Hills (ed.), Nicholas Barr et al.
THE DYNAMICS OF BRITISH HEALTH POLICY Steve Harrison, David Hunter Christopher Pollitt.
NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY PROGRAMMES N. Cannon (ed.)
RACE AND LOCAL POLITICA Wendy Ball and John Solomos.
MOVING THE HOUSING MARKET R. Forrest, A. Murie.
THE QUALITY OF SERWCE IN HOUSING MANAGEMENT, K. Walsh K. Spencer.
CORPORATE MANAGEMENT IN AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT, G. Davis, P. Weller C. Lewis (eds.)
BUDGETARY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL: THE PUEILIC SECTOR IN AUSTRALIA J. Forster J. Wanna (eds.)
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN AUSTRALIA: A WATERSHED J. Power (ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article: REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND Brian W. Hogwood and Michael Keating (eds.) LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN SINCE REORGANISATION Alan Alexander LOCAL GOVERNMENT: POLITICIANS, PROFESSIONALS AND THE PUBLIC IN LOCAL AUTHORITIES Howard Elcock (with a chapter by Michael Wheaton) THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY Wyn Grant ACCOUNTING FOR BRITISH STEEL: A FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF THE FAILURE OF THE BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION 1967–80, AND WHO WAS TO BLAME R.A. Bryer, T.J. Brignall and A.R. Maunders NATIONAL OIL COMPANIES L. E. Grayson THE OTHER PRICE OF BRITAIN'S OIL: SAFETY AND CONTROL IN THE NORTH SEA W. G. Carson METROPOLITAN LONDON: POLITICS AND URBAN CHANGE 1837–1981 Ken Young and Patricia L. Garside PUBLIC SECRETS: A STUDY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT SECRECY K. C. Robertson QUANGOS IN BRITAIN: GOVERNMENT AND THE NETWORKS OF PUBLIC POLICY-MAKING Anthony Barker (ed.) RUNNING IN THE RED: THE POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF URBAN FISCAL STRESS Irene S. Rubin WHO'S MASTER, WHO'S SERVANT?: REFORMING BUREAUCRACY Geoffrey Hawker THE USES OF SOCIAL RESEARCH: SOCIAL INVESTIGATION IN PUBLIC POLICY-MAKING Martin Bulmer     

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Book reviews in this article:
ADMINISTRATIVE POLITICS IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT Andrew Gray and William Jenkins.
POLITICAL THEORIES OF MODERN GOVERNMENT, ITS ROLE, AND REFORM Peter Self.
THE PATHOLOGY OF PUBLIC POLICY B. W. Hogwood and B. G. Peters.
PAYING & CHOOSING: THE INTELLIGENT PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE MIXED ECONOMY Leo Pliatzky.
PARLIAMENT IN THE 1980s Philip Norton (ed.).
THE NEW SELECT COMMITTEES Gavin Drewry (ed.).
HALF CENTURY OF MUNICIPAL DECLINE 1935–1985 Martin Loughlin, M. David Gelfand and Ken Young (eds.).
THE POLITICS OF LOCAL EXPENDITURE K. Newton and T. J. Karran.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN AND WEST GERMANY Alan Norton (ed).
REGULATING THE AIRLINES: ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE AND AGENCY DISCRETION Robert Baldwin.
THE THISTLE AND THE CROWN: A HISTORY OF THE SCOTTISH OFFICE John S. Gibson.
THE MIDDLE OF WHITEHALL: SOME ASPECTS OF THE WORK OF BRITISH CIVIL SERVANTS Dorothy Johnstone.
PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND Richard Chapman (ed.).
UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UK: POLITICS AND POLICIES Jeremy Moon and Jeremy Richardson.
THE ROLE OF VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS IN SOCIAL WELFARE Hugh Mellor.
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES Philip L. Lloyd
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION W. Thornhill     

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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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MANAGEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: ENABLING THE LEARNING SOCIETY Stewart Ranson and John Stewart MANAGING IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT Richard Kerley FAILURE IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT: THE POLITICS OF THE POLL TAX D. Butler, A. Adonis and T. Travers NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENT IN THE 1980s: POLICY MAKING ON THE HOOF? Stephen Harrison MANAGING SOCIAL POLICY John Clarke, Allan Cochrane and Eugene McLaughlin (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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Book reviews in this article: THE POLICY PROCESS IN THE MODERN CAPITALIST STATE Christopher Ham and Michael Hill. LAW AND ADMINISTRATION Carol Harlow and Richard Rawlings. DOES POLITICS MATTER? THE DETERMINANTS OF PUBLIC POLICY L. J. Sharpe K. Newton. GOING FOR BROKE GAMBLING WITH TAXPAYERS MONEY John Redwood. ENVIRONMENT AND ENFORCEMENT: REGULATION AND THE SOCIAL DEFINITION OF POLLUTION Keith Hawkins. EEC ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND BRITAIN: AN ESSAY AND A HANDBOOK Nigel Haigh. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN BRITAIN John Greenwood and David Wilson. PUBLIC SERVICE PROVISION AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Andrew Kirby, Paul Know Steven Pinch (eds.). INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY Jill Hills. POLITICAL INNOVATION IN AMERICA: THE POLITICS OF POLICY INITIATION Nelson W. Polsby. ETHNIC PLURALISM AND PUBLIC POLICY Nathan Glazer Ken Young (eds.). THE CRISIS OF THE UNIVERSITY Peter Scott. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON RELATIONS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1960–82 Stephen Young     

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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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Book reviews in this article:
PUBLIC POLICY IN BRITAIN Martin Burch and Bruce Wood.
POLICY ADVICE AND ORGANIZATIONAL SURVIVAL Michael J. Prince.
TAX POLICY-MAKING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Ann Robinson and Cedric Sandford.
THE FRAGMENTED STATE: THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF POWER Ronan Paddison.
TERRITORY AND POWER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM J. Bulpitt.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY K. Koenig, H-J. von Oertzen and F. Wagener (eds.).
GOVERNMENT AND URBAN POVERTY: INSIDE THE POLICY MAKING PROCESS Joan Higgins et al.
PLANNING FOR PRIORITY GROUPS Howard Glennerster, Nancy Korman and Francis Marslen-Wilson.
POLICIES, PROGRAMMES AND DISADVANTAGE: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE Roger Fuller and Olive Stevenson.
SOVIET LOCAL POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT Everett M. Jacobs (ed.).
THE POLITICS OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Rudolf Klein.
BRITISH POLICY AND THE IRISH ADMINISTRATION 1920–22 John McColgan.     

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GOVERNMENT BEYOND THE CENTRE: SUB-NATIONAL POLITICS IN BRITAIN Clive Gray THE CASE FOR BUREAUCRACY. A PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION POLEMIC (3RD EDN.) Charles T. Goodsell PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION: AN INTRODUCTION Owen E. Hughes PRESSURE, POWER AND POLICY: STATE AUTONOMY AND POLICY NETWORKS IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES Martin J. Smith T.J.: A LIFE OF DR THOMAS JONES, CH E.L. Ellis     

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Book reviews in this article:
THE VICKERS PAPERS The Open Systems Group (ed.).
POLITICAL AUTHORITY AND BUREAUCRATIC POWER: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Edward C. Page.
POLICIES INTO PRACTICE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES IN IMPLEMENTATION David Lewis and Helen Wallace (eds.).
THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION D.C. Pitt and B.C. Smith (eds.).
SOMETHING IN THE AIR: CORPORATE POWER AND THE ENVIRONMENT Andrew Blowers.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST John LI. J. Edwards.
GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL LABOUR MARKET POLICY IMPLEMENTATION Tom Davies, Charlie Mason with Liz Davies.
PRIVATIZING PUBLIC ENTERPRISES D. Steel and D. Heald (eds.).
STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE NATIONALIZED INDUSTRIES John Grieve Smith (ed.).
THE REGULATION GAME: HOW BRITISH AND WEST GERMAN COMPANIES BARGAIN WITH GOVERNMENT Alan Peacock (ed.).
ISSUES IN PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING Anthony Hopwood and Cyril Tomkins (eds.).
VALUE FOR MONEY AUDITING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR John J. Glynn.
FISCAL DECENTRALISATION Thomas Wilson and others.
WELFARE BUREAUCRACIES: THEIR DESIGN AND CHANGE IN RESPONSE TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS David Billis.
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SCHOOL BUILDING: ASPECTS OF PUBLIC POLICY 1945–73 Stuart Maclure.
HISTORIA ADMINISTRACJI Hubert Izdebski.
ADMINISTRATION IN PEOPLE'S POLAND Janusz Letowski (ed.).     

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BETWEEN CENTRE AND LOCALITY Stewart Ranson, George Jones and Kieron Walsh (eds.)
DECENTRALIZATION: THE TERRITORIAL DIMENSION OF THE STATE B. C. Smith George Allen and Unwin
THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Anthony King (ed)
TODAY'S CIVIL SERVICE Dermot Englefield (ed.)
BOROUGH GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: READING 1835–1985 Alan Alexander George Allen and Unwin
LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND THE CREATION OF EMPLOYMENT J. A. Chandler and Paul Lawless Gower
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT IN WESTERN NATIONS R. Rose et al
SECRET SERVICE: THE MAKING OF THE BRITISH INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY Christopher Andrew Heinemann
CONCORDE AND DISSENT: EXPLAINING HIGH TECHNOLOGY PROJECT FAILURES IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE Elliot J. Feldman
THE POLICY OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND ITS RAMIFICATIONS: A REVIEW Calum Paton
HOW ADOLF HITLER REFORMED WHITEHALL Peter Hennessy and Sir Douglas Hague Strathclyde
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YEARS OF RECOVERY: BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY 1945–51 Alec Cairncross Methuen
LIFE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Leo Klinkers (ed.)
LIVERPOOL ON THE BRINK: ONE CITY'S STRUGGLE AGAINST GOVERNMENT CUTS Michael Parkinson
THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN BRITISH SOCIAL SERVICES Maria Brenton Longman