Book Reviews Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Strategic Design and Organizational Change: Pacific Rim Seaports in Transition:By Herman L. Boschken. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1988. Pp. xvi, 234; Index. $29.95 (cloth) Leadership, Organizations and Culture:By Peter B. Smith and Mark F. Peterson. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. 1988. Pp. 208 When Public Sector Workers Unionize:Edited by Richard B. Freeman and Casey Ichniowski. Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1988. Pg. 419 Spolls of Power: The Politics of Patronage:By Jeffrey Simpson. Toronto: Collins Publishers. 1988. Pp. 406. $27.95 (cloth)     

Quebec nationalism in the 1980s: a spent force?

The Independence Movement in Quebec 1945–1980. By William D. Coleman . Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1984. Pp. xii, 274. Inder (paper) Conflict and Language Planning in Quebec. Edited by Richard Y. Bourhis . Clevedon, Avon: Multilingual Matters Ltd. 1984. Pp. xvi, 304. Index. $19.95 Problems and Opportunities in U.S.-Quebec Relations. Edited by Alfred O. Hero , Jr . and Marcel Daneau . Boulder and London: Westview Press. 1984. Pp. xv, 320. Index (cloth)     

Urban economic development and regulation by municipal licensing

Urban Economic Development: Edited by Richard D. Bincham and John P. Blair . Beverley Hills: Sage Publications. 1984. Pp. 287. $28.00 (hardcover). $14.00 (paper) Regulation by Municipal Licensing: By John Bosson , S.M. Makuch and John Palmer . Ontario Economic Council Research Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1984. Pp. 111 (paper). $6.50     

Bureaucracy and governance

Bureaucracy and Political Power. By B. C. Smith . Sussex and New York: Wheatsheaf Books and St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. 237. Bibliography and index. £12.95 (cloth) Organizing Governance: Governing Organizations. By Colin Campbell and B. Guy Peters , eds. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1988. Pp. 388. $34.95 (cloth)     

Pressman/Wildavsky and Bardach: Implementation in the public sector,past, present and future

Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington are Dashed in Oakland: or, why it's amazing that federal programs work at all, this being the saga of the Economic Development Administration as told by two sympathetic observers who seek to build morals on a foundation of ruined hopes. By JEFFREY L. PRESSMAN and AARON WILDAVSKY. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1973, and subsequent editions. Pp. 182. The Implementation Game: What Happens after a Bill becomes a Law. By EUGENE BARDACH. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1977. Pp. x, 323.     

Trends in industrial policy: the ongoing debate

Le Canada et la Nouvelle Division Internationale du Travail/Canada and the New International Division of Labour. Edited by DUNCAN CAMKRON Canada Can Compete! Strategic Management of the Canadian Industrial Portfolio. By JOSEPH R. D'CRUZ and JAMES D. FLECK MITI and the Japanese Economic Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975. By CHALMERS JOHNSON The Industrial Policy Debate. Edited by CHALMERS JOHNSON Trade, Industrial Policy, and Canadian Manufacturing. By RJCHARD O. HARMS Trade, Industrial Policy, and International Competition. By RICHARD C. HARRIS. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada. 1985. Pp. xvii, 167. $14.95 (paper).     

Aboriginal self-government

Aboriginal Self-Government Arrangements in Canada. By Evelyn J. Peters , Background Paper 15, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University: Kingston, Ontario. 1987. Pp. 66 (paper) Completing Canada: Inuit Approaches to Self-Government. Inuit Committee on National Issues . Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University: Kingston, Ontario. 1987. Pp. 44 (paper) Future Issues of Jurisdiction and Cooperation between Aboriginal and Non-aboriginal Governments. By Ian B. Cowie . Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University: Kingston, Ontario. 1987. Pp. 75 (paper)     

Book reviews: Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: The Study of Government: Political Science and Public Administration : By F.F. RIDLEY. Techniques and Public Administration: A Contextual Evaluation : By MAURICE SPIERS. Main Street: Windsor to Quebec City : Par MAURICE YEATES. Intergovernmental Relations in Australia : Edited by H.L. MATHEWS. Canada: Strategy for International Development Cooperation 1975–1980 : By THE CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY. L'administrateur et la prise de decision : Par PIERRE FULIATRAULT et YVON G. PEHREAULT. Interest Arbitration in the Federal Public Service of Canada : By L.W.C.S. BARNES and L.A. KELLY. Comparative Public Policy: The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America : By ARNOD J. HEIDENHEIMER, HUGH HECLO and CAROLYN TEICH ADAMS.     

Book Reviews Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Patchworks of Purpose: The Development of Provincial Social Assistance Regimes in Canada By Gerard William Boychuk Le ‘ management public ’: discours et fonction Par Caroline Vayrou Service in the Field: The World of Front-Line Public Servants. Canadian Public Administration Series.By Barbara Wake Carroll and David Siegel How Ottawa Spends 1988–99. Balancing Act: The Post-Deficit Mandate. Carleton Public Policy Series No. 19 Edited by Leslie Pal A Question of Ethics: Canadians Speak out By Maureen Mancuso The Second Keating Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1993–1996 Edited by Gwynneth Singleton Performance Review in Local Government By Rob Ball     

Books Reviewed Comptes rendus

Prairie Politics and Society: Regionalism in Decline; By ROGER GIBBINS Cultural Boundaries and the Cohesion of Canada; By RAYMOND BRETON, JEFFREY G. REITZ, VICTOR VALENTINE Women and the Constitution; Edited by AUDREY DOERR and MICHELINE CARRIER New Public Administration; By H. GEORGE FREDERICKSON. University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press Federalism, Bureaucracy, and Public Policy: The Politics of Highway Transport Regulation; By RICHARD J. SCHULTZ . Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Institute of Public Administration of Canada The Politics of Federalism: Ontario's Relations with the Federal Government, 1867–1942; By CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG . Ontario Historical Studies Series, Toronto: University of Toronto Press Organizational Effectiveness in a Multinational Bureaucracy; By HANS J. MICHELMANN Welfare, Justice, and Freedom; By SCOTT GORDON Women and the Chip: Case Studies of the Effects of Informatics on Employment in Canada; By HEATHER MENZIES Wealth and Poverty; By GEORGE GILDER     

Book reviews Comptes rendus

Dream No Little Dreams: A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944–1961. IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance By a.w. johnson, with the assistance of Rosemary Proctor. Federalism in the Forest: National Versus State Natural Resource Policy. American Governance & Public Policy Series By tomas m. koontz. Washington, D.C.: Georgetozorr University Press. Beyond Service: State Workers, Public Policy, and the Prospects for Democratic Administration. IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance By greg mcelligott. Toronto: University of Toronto Press The Regulators: Anonymous Power Brokers in American Politics By cindy skrzycki. New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.     

Books reviewed Comptes rendus

Canadian Cases in Public Administration By Kenneth Kernaghan . Québec 2001: Une société refroidie Parp. a . julien , p . lamonde etd . latouche . Crime and Its Treatment in Canada Second edition. Edited by w. t . mcgrath . La modernisation politique du Québec Paredmond orban (dir.) Royal Commissions and Departmental Committees in Britain Byt. j . cahtwright . Public Policy and Administration in Australia: A Reader Edited byr. n . spann andg. r . curnow . Policy-Making in the German Federal Bureaucracy Byrenate mayntz andfritz W. scharpf . L'administration de la justice en matière criminelle au Québec Parme marcel gerbeau . The Limits of Administration By Christopher hood .     

Book Reviews Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article: New Players, Partners and Processes: A Public Sector without Boundaries?:MEREDITH EDWARDS AND JOHN LANGPORD The Trouble with Government:By DEREK BOK. Cambridge, Mass. Workfare: Why Good Social Policy Ideas Go Bad:By MAEVE QUAID Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada:Edited by DUANE ADAMS Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power:By C. FRED ALFORD Décentralisation, politiques publiques et relations de pouvoir:De VINCENT LEMIEUX Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian‐White Relations in Canada:By J.R. MILLER World Public Sector Report: Globalization and the State 2001:By UNITED NATIONS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS     

Books Reviewed Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Administration publique Québécoise The Structure of Canadian Government By J. R. mallory. The Report on Maritime Union By the governments of new Brunswick, nova SCOTIA AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. Les tribunaux administratifs et la Constitution Par gilles pépin. Economic Evaluation of Municipal Expenditures — PPBS By a. J. robinson. Economic Consultative Bodies: Their Origins and Institutional Characteristics By paul malles. The Commons in Transition Edited by a. h. hanson and bernard crick. Public Administration in the Second United Nations Development Decade: Report of the Second Meeting of Experts Toward a New Public Administration: The Minnowbrook Perspective Edited by frank marini.     

Book Reviews Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Public Management in a Borderless Economy; By Rodney Dobell and Philip Steenkamp Memoirs; By Pierre Elliot Trudeau . The Downing Street Years; By MARGARET THATCHER. The Legal Framework of Government; Dr Gregory Tardi . Taking Power: Managing Transitions/Prendre le Pouvoir: La gestion des transitions gouvernementales; Edited by Donald J. Savoie . Getting It Right: Regional Development in Canada; By R. Harley Mcgee . Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State; By Camilla Stivers .     

Book Reviews Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article: The Parliament of Canaday:By c.e.s. franks Improving Public Management:By les metcalfe Public infrastructure Planning and Management:Edited by jay m. stein. Beverly Hills The Nonprofit Economy:By burton a. weisbrod Federal State, National Economy:By peter Leslie State Capitalism: Public Enterprise in Canada:By JEANNE KIRK LAUX and MAUREEN APPEL MOLOT Privatization: The British Experience; An Australian Perspective:By kenneth Wiltshire Governments in Conflict? Provinces and Indian Nations in Canada:Edited by J. anthony long Bureaucratic Responsibility:By JOHN burke Political Ethics and Public Office:By dennis F. Thompson     

Books Reviewed Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Public Administration: History and Theory in Contemporary Perspective ; Edited by Joseph A. Uveces Jr . No Fault of Their Own: Unemployment and the Canadian Welfare State 1914–1941 ; By James Struthers . When Freedom is Lost: The Dark Side of the Relationship Between Government and the Fort Hope Band ; By Paul Driben and Robert S. Trudeau . Local Government: Politicians, Professionals and the Public in Local Authorities ; By Howard Elcock . City Politics in Canada ; Edited by Warren Magnusson and Andrew Sancton . Parliament and Bureaucracy, Parliamentary Scrutiny of Administration: Prospects and Problems in the 1980s ; Edited by J.R. Nethercote . The Executive Challenge ; By Michael B. Mc Caskey . The Politics of Canadian Airport Development: Lessons for Federalism ; By Elliot J. Feldman and Jerome Milch . Organisation Theory and Management ; Edited by Thomas D. Lynch . The Politics of Canadian Public Policy ; Michael M. Atkinson and Marsha A. Chandler     

Books reviewed Comptes rendus

Opting Out of Medicare: Private Medical Markets in OntarioBy A.D. WOLFSON and CABOLYN J. TUOHY Canadian Public Policy and Administration: Theory and EnvironmentBy V. SEYMOUR WILSON Nowhere To Go By NICOLE S. MORGAN Evaluation Research and Practice: Comparative and International Perspectives By BOBERT A. LEVINE, MABIAN S. SOLOMON, GERD-MICHAEL HELLSTEIN, HELLMUT WOLLMAN In the Shadow of Organization By ROBERT B. DENHARDT. Lawrence, Kan State Manufacturing Enterprise in a Mixed Economy: The Turkish CaseBy BERTIL WALSTEDT Privacy and Government Data Banks: An International Perspective By DAVID H. FLAHERTY Toward Reform of Program Evaluation: Aims, Methods and Institutional Arrangements By LEE J. CRONBACH AND ASSOCIATES. (SUEANN ROBINSON AMBRON, SANFORD M. DORNBUSCH, ROBERT D. HESS, ROBERT C. HORNIK, D.C. PHILLIPS, DECKER F. WALKER AND STEPHEN S. WEINER) Unions and the Public Interest: Collective Bargaining in the Government Sector By SANDRA CHRISTENSEN     

Book Reviews Comptes rendus

Value for Many: The Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 1947–1997/ D'une grande valeur pour beaucoup: L'lnstitut d'administration publique du Canada, 1947–1997. Monographs in Canadian Public Administration -No. 21. By Don Seymour Wilson T he Federal Court of Canada: A History, 1875–1992 Byian bushnell . Public Management and Administrative Reform in Western Europe Edited by Walter J. M. kickert . Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees: Canada, United States, Britain, and France By ANDRE BLAIS, DONALD E. BLAKE and ST#EABPHANE DION. Dilemmas of Urban Economic Development: Issues in Theory and Practice Edited by richard d. bingham and Robert mier