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Book reviewed in this article: Implementing Thatcherite Policies: Audit of an Era. Edited by DAVID MARSH and R.A.W. RHODES Planning, Politics and the State: Political Foundations of Planning Thought By NICHOLAS P. LOW Incrementalism and Public Policy. By MICHAEL T. HAYES Disabling Policies? A Comparative Approach to Education Policy and Disability. By G. FULCHER Political Management in the 1990s. By JOHN HALLIGAN and JOHN POWER     

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Book reviews in this article:
Authority and Change: The Sources of Economic Growth. By JUDITH MARQUAND.
The Centralization-Decentralization Conundrum: Organization and Management in the Canadian Government. By PETER AUCOIN and HERMAN BAKVIS.
Between Profit and State: Intermediate Organization in Britain and the United States. By ALAN WARE.
In Pursuit of National Interests: Australian Foreign Policy in the 1990s. Edited by F. A. MEDIANSKY AND A. C. PALFREEMAN.
Comparative Policy Research — Learning from Experience . Edited by MEINOLF DIERKES, HANS N. WEILER AND ARIANE BERTHOIN ANTAL.
Political Economy of Economic Policy. By WILFRED L. DAVID.
Innovation Through Technical and Scientific Information: Government and Industry Cooperation. By STEVEN BALLARD, THOMAS E. JAMES, JR., TIMOTHY I. ADAMS, MICHAEL D. DEVINE, LANI L. MALYSA, AND MARK MEO.     

Book Reviews

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.     

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Regulating the New Financial Services Industry . By CYNTHIA A. CLASSMAN, JAMES L. PIERCE, ROBERTA KARMEL AND JOHN J. LAFALCE.
The Organization-Society Nexus: A Critical Review of Models and Metaphors . By RONALD G. CORWIN.
Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy . By RITA MAE KELLY and JANE BAYES (Eds).
Why Presidents Succeed: A Political Psychology of Leadership . By DEAN KEITH SIMONTON.
Public Utilities and the Poor: Rights and Responsibilities . By DAVID C. SWEET and KATHRYN WERTHEIM HEXTER.     

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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.     

Policy Learning and British Governance in the 1960s

Book reviewed: Hugh Pemberton. Policy Learning and British Governance in the 1960s.
Reviewed by DAVID P. DOLOWITZ     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The Paradox of Parties: Australian Political Parties in the 1990s MARIAN SIMMS (ed.)
Removal of the Commonwealth Marriage Bar: A Documentary History MARIAN SAWER (ed.)
Transforming Government Enterprises: Managing Radical Organisational Change in Deregulated Environments BARRY SPICER, DAVID EMANUEL and MICHAEL POWELL
Ungoverning the Economy: The Political Economy of Australian Economic Policy STEPHEN BELL     

Reviews

Winning Ways Through Corporate Governance NEVILLE BAIN and DAVID BAND
The Art of Judgment: A Study of Policy Making SIR GEOFFREY VICKERS
Australian Political Institutions GWYNNETH SINGLETON, DON AITKIN, BRIAN JINKS and JOHN WARHURST
Leadership of Public Bureaucracies: The Administrator as Conservator LARRY D TERRY
Responsibility as Paradox: A Critique of Rational Discourse on Government MICHAEL M HARMON
The Wik Case: Issues and Implications GRAHAM HILEY
Working the System: A Guide for Citizens, Consumers and Communities PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: Jinnah of Pakistan . By Stanley Wolpert . Weakness and Deceit . US Policy and El Salvador . By Raymond Bonner . Revival and Reaction . The Right in Contemporary America . By Gillian Peele . Citiesin Recession . Critical Reactions to the Urban Policies of the new right. Edited by Ivan Szelenyi. Neville Chamberlain . Volume One : Pioneering and Reform , 1869–1929. By David Dilks . Garvin of the Observer. By David Ayerst . Ordinary Vices . By Judith N. Shklar . Science , Technology and Society Today . Edited by Michael Gibbons and Philip Gummett . New Technology and the Future of Work and Skills . Edited by Pauline Marstrand. Understanding Systems Failures . By Victor Bignell and Joyce Fortune . The Cold and the Dark : The World After Nuclear War . By Paul Ehrlich , Carl Sagan , Donald Kennedy and Walter Roberts . Social Constraints on Technological Progress . By Rob Coppock . Commons Select Committees : Catalysts for Progress ? Edited by Dermot Englefield . Sport and Political Ideology . By John M. Hoberman .     

Book Notes

Public Administration in Britain Today. By JOHN GREENWOOD and DAVID WILSON
Understanding Voluntary Organisations. By CHARLES HANDY
Education Regions in Queensland: Towards a Philosophy and Practice, 1937–1988. By GREG LOGAN
Australian Political Facts. By IAN McALLISTER, MALCOLM MACKERRAS, ALVARO ASCUI and SUSAN MOSS
Civil Service Pay In Africa. By DEREK ROBINSON     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Give & Take: The Losing Partnership in Aboriginal Poverty. By DAVID POLLARD
Planning in the Face of Power. By JOHN FORESTER
Law and Government in Colonial Australia. By PAUL FINN
A Guide to Sources of Information on Australian Industrial Relations. By GREGORY R JONES
Review of the Efficiency Scrutiny Program. By SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION     

Book Reviews

Advice and Consent: The Development of the Policy Sciences. By PETER DE LEON.
The Reach and Grasp of Policy Analysis: Comparative Views of the Craft. By RICHARD HOFFERBERT.
Governing Education: A Sociology of Policy Since 1945. By ANDREW McPHERSON and CHARLES D. RAAB.
Privatising the World. By OLIVER LETWIN.
La France Face au Sud: Le Miroir Brise. By JACQUES ADDA and MARIE-CLAUDE SMOUTS.
The President and Civil Rights Policy: Leadership and Change. By STEVEN A. SHULL
The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation: Tracking the Unicorn. By BRUCE YANDLE.
L'Etat en Amerique. Edited by MARIE-FRANCE TOINET.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
Pressure Power and Policy: State Autonomy and Policy Networks in Britain and the United States . By Martin J. Smith.
Bureaucracy in Crisis: Three Mile Island, the Shuttle Challenger, and Risk Assessment . By Maureen Hogan Casamayou.
Ethics in Public Service . Edited by Richard A. Chapman.
Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability . By Paul C.
Media Polls in American Politics . Edited by Thomas E. Mann and Gary R. Orren.
Politics and Policy Implementation: Project Renewal in Israel . By Frederick A. Lazin.
Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation . By Stephen Breyer.
The Moral Dimensions of Public Policy Choice: Beyond the Market Paradigm . Edited by John Martin Gillroy and Maurice Wade.     

BOOK NOTES

GEOFFREY HAWKER, R. F. I. SMITH and PATRICK WELLER, Politics and Policy in Australia, St Lucia
MARTIN PAINTER and BERNARD CAREY, Politics between Departments, St Lucja
G. SINGER and MEREDITH WALLACE, The Adminisrrarive Walrz
CORNELIUS J. LAMMERS and DAVID J. HICKSON, Orgunizarions Alike and Unlike
D. W. RAWSON, Unions and Unionists in Australia
TIMOTHY PASCOE for ARTS, Strengthening the Governance of Arts Organizations
Working Papers on Parliament, Canberra Series in Administrative Studies No. 5
Top Administrators: Meeting Their Needs, Seminar Papers, Royal Institute of Public Administration (Queensland Regional Group), 1979
MAVIS PUTHUCHEARY, The Politics of Administration: The Malaysian Experience
HAL KENDIG, New Life for Old Suburbs
MARTYN FORREST, The Organisation of Government in Western Australia     

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Book review in this article:
Privatizing Public Enterprises: Constitutions, the State and Regulation in Comparative Perspective . By Cosmo Graham and Tony Prosser.
Politics and Jobs; The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States . By Margaret Weir.
The Dynamics of Legislation: Leadership and Policy Change in the Congressional Process . By Charles R. Wise.
Controversies in Minority Voting: The Voting Rights Act in Perspective . Edited by Bernard Grofman and Chandler Davidson.
Native Americans and Public Policy . By Fremont J. Lyden and Lyman H. Legters.     

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 reviewed in this article: The Politics of Community : a Feminist Critique of the Liberal -Communitarian Debate . By Elizabeth Frazer and Nicola Lacey . Gender and Party Politics . Edited by Joni Lovenduski and Pippa Norris . Democracy and Difference . By Anine Phillips . Engendering Democracy . By Anne Phillips . Government by the Market ?the Politics of Publichoice . By Peter Self . Fred 0. Muller JR., & Jeffrey Paul . Liberalism and the Economic Order . Edited by Ellen Frankel Paul . Public Policy and the Nature of the New Right . Edited by Grant Jordan & Nigel Ashford . Common Sense : a New Constitution for Britain . By Tony Benn and Andrew Hood . The History of the City of Sheffield : vol. 1 Politics , vol. 2 Society , vol.3 Images . Ed. by Clyde Binfield , David Martin , Richard Childs , Roger Harper , David Hey and Geoffrey Tweedale . Understanding the New European Community . By William Nicoll and Trevor C. Salmon . Europe the Strange Superpower . By David Buchan . The Frontier of National Sovereignty . By Milward , Lynch , Romero and Sorensen Citizenship and the European Community . By Elizabeth Meehan . The United States of Europe . By Ernest Wistricht . The European Imperative ; Economic and Social Cohesion in the 1990s. By Stuart Holland . Powek on the Back Benches ?: The Growth of Select Committee Influence . By Derek Hawes . Law , Process and Custody . By Genevra Richardson . Justice and the Genesis of War . By David A. Welch . a History of Warfare . By John Keegan . Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century . Ed. by D. George Boyce , Robert Eccleshall and VIncent Geog -Hegan . Northern Ireland : the Choice . By Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden . De Valera : Long Fellow , Long Shadow . By Tim Pat Coogan . Straight Left : An Autobiography . By Paddy Devlin . Heresy : the Battle of Ideas in Modern Ireland . By Desmond F. Foster . Ireland Today ; Anatomy of a Changing State . By Gemma Hussey . In Search of a State ; Catholics in Northern Ireland . By Fionnuala 0. Connor . Northern Ireland ; Sharing Authority . By Brendan O'Leary , Tom Lyne , Jim Marshall and Bob Rowthorn .     

BOOK NOTES

JANEK RATNATUNGA, Financial Controls in Marketing, Monograph No. 6, 1983
NORMAN FISHER (ed.), Change and Public Sector Industrial Relations, Proceedings of the ACT Group, AIPA, Autumn Seminar 1981
DAVID SHAND (ed.), Making Government Budgets Work: Canberra and the States, Proceedings of the ACT Group, AIPA, Autumn Seminar 1982
ANN HODGKINSON (ed.), Towards Territorial Government, Proceedings of the Seminar on Self-Government for the ACT conducted by the Australian Institute of Urban Studies, July 1982
JOHN DIXON AND D. L. JAYASURIYA (eds), Social Policy in the 1980s, Papers presented at the 1982 conference of the Australasian Social Policy and Administration Association, 1983
MERYL STANTON (ed.), Employment of Disabled People, Seminar Proceedings No. 5, 1981
M. WATERS, Strikes in Australia: a Sociological Analysis of Industrial Conflict
Commonwealth Secretariat, Training of Trainers: A Select Annotated Bibliography, (compiled by A. P. Saxana, Asian and Pacific Development Centre, Kuala Lumpur)     

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.     

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Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma . By Mary R. English.
Making War: The 200-Year-Old Battle Between the President and Conwess Over How Ameriia Goes to War . By John Lehman.
The Muses, The Masses and the Massey Commission . By Paul Litt.
Toxic Politics, Responding to Chemical Disasters . By Michael R. Reich.
The Speaker and the Budget, Leadership in the Post-Reform House of Representatives . By Daniel J. Palazzolo.
Health Insurance and Public Policy: Risk, Allocation, and Equity . Edited by Miriam K. Mills and Robert H. Blank.
Regulating Privacy Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States . By Colin J. Bennett.