Book Reviews

Books in this article:
S. Hargreaves Heap and Y. Varoufakis, Game Theory: a Critical Introduction
James D. Morrow, Game Theory for Political Scientists
Michael B. Berkman, The State Roots of National Politics: Congress and the Tax Agenda
John F. Cogan, Timothy J. Muris and Allen Schick, The Budget Puzzle: Understanding Federal Spending
Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations
Timothy P. Roth, Information, Ideology and Freedom: the Disenfranchised Electorate (Lanham MD, University Press of America, 1994).
Alex Callinicos, Theories and Narratives: Reflections on the Philosophy of History (Oxford, Polity, 1995)
Jill Benderley and Evan Kraft (eds). Independent Slovenia: Origins, Movements, Prospects
Jacqueline Hayden, Poles Apart: Solidarity and the New Poland
Charles F. Andrain, Comparative Political Systems: Policy Performance and Social Change
Joanna Hodge, Heidegger and Ethics
Robin Archer, Economic Democracy: the Politics of Feasible Socialism
Barbara Farnham (ed.), Avoiding Losses/Taking Risks: Prospect Theory and International Conflict
Jerome Huyler, Locke in America: the Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era
John Robertson (ed.) A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the Union of 1707
Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship
Russell Hardin, One for All: the Logic of Group Conflict
Donald Harman Akenson, Conor: a Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien, Volume I: Narrative
Donald Harman Akenson, Conor: a Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien, Volume II: Anthology     

Book Reviews

S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 1: Ancient Monarchies and Empires
S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 2: the Intermediate Ages
S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 3: Empires, Monarchies and the Modern State
Ivor Crewe and Anthony King, SDP: the Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. I: the Rise of the Network Society
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. II: the Power of Identity
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. III: End of the Millennium
Shane O'Neill, Impartiality in Context: Grounding Justice in a Pluralist World
Onora O'Neill, Towards Justice and Virtue: a Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning
Richard English and Graham Walker (eds), Unionism in Modern Ireland: New Perspectives on Politics and Culture
Norman Porter, Rethinking Unionism: an Alternative for Northern Ireland
James Mayall, The New Interventionism, 1991–1994
Ramesh Thakur (ed), The United Nations at Fifty: Retrospect and Prospect
Philip Pettit, Republicanism: a Theory of Freedom and Government
David Arter, Parties and Democracy in the Post-Soviet Republics: the Case of Estonia
V. Stanley Vardys and Judith B. Sedaitis, Lithuania: the Rebel Nation
Clifford W. Brown Jr, Linda W. Powell and Clyde Wilcox, Serious Money: Financial Power Bases in the Presidential Nomination Process
Thomas M. Holbrook, Do Campaigns Matter?
Harvey L. Schantz (ed.), American Presidential Elections: Process, Policy, and Political Change
Susan J. Tolchin, The Angry American: How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation     

On Sugar,Capitalism, and Socialism

Elinor G. K. Melville: A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Douglas Murray: Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America ,Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994

Wes Jackson: Becoming Native to this Place . Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1994.

Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello: Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction From Ground Up .Boston: South End Press, 1994.

Wolfgang Sachs, editor: Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict . London and New Jersey: Zed Books and Halifax, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 1993.

John Walton: Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.

Brendan Prendiville: Environmental Politics in France . Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1994.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble: The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1994.

Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz, eds.: Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice. Lanham, Md.: Rowman &; Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1995.

John Gray: Beyond the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common Environment. London: Routledge, 1993

Darrow Schecter: Radical Theories: Paths Beyond Marxism and Social Democracy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Richard Rose: Ordinary People in Public Policy: A Behavioural Analysis .
Bernt Aardal & Henry Valen: Velgere, partier og politisk avstand (Voters, parties, and political distance) .
Ebba Dohlman: National Welfare and Economic Interdependence: The Case of Sweden's Foreign Trade Policy .
David Arter: Politics and Policy-Making in Finland .
Arthur Gould: Conflict and Control in Welfare Policy.
Carol M. Mueller (ed.): The Politics of the Gender Gap. The Social Construction of Political Influence .
Christopher Coker: Reflections on American Foreign Policy Since 1945 .     

Eco‐citles and red green politics

Jay Gould: The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996.

Don Fitz, ed.: Dioxin: The Orange Resource Book (A special issue of Synthesis/Regeneration), 1995.

David Abram: The Spell of the Sensuous. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.

Sheldon Krimsky and Roger Wrubel: Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Science, Policy and Social Issues. Urbana/Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Jeremy Rifkin: The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post‐Market Era. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.

Roy Morrison: Ecological Democracy. Boston: South End Press, 1995.

Andrew Rowell: Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Ari Salminen: Organized Welfare: The Case of Finland's Welfare Bureaucracy - A Nordic Comparison
Göran Djupsund og Lars Svåsand (red.): Partiorganisasjoner: Studier i struktur og processer i finske, norske, og svenske partier
Leif Lewin: Samhället och de organiserade intressena
Christopher Hood & Michael Jackson: Administrative Argument
Bob Deacon (ed.): The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy Past, Present and Future
Marja Keranen (ed.): Gender and Politics in Finland     

Noam Chomsky's politics

Karen J. Warren: Ecological Feminist Philosophies . Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996.

Nicholas Low and Brendan Gleeson: Justice, Society and Nature: An Exploration of Political Ecology. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

Robert Elliot: Faking Nature: The Ethics of Environmental Restoration. London: Routledge, 1997.

Barbara Noske: Beyond Boundaries: Humans and Animals. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1997.

Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend, eds.: Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993

Steven Mark Cohn: Too Cheap to Meter: An Economic and Philosophical Analysis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Jesse Vorst, Ross Dobson, and Ron Fletcher, eds: Green on Red: Evolving Ecological Socialism. Winnipeg/Halifax: Society for Socialist Studies/Fernwood Publishing, 1993.     

The Land of Henry George

Andrew McLaughlin: Regarding Nature: Industrialism and Deep Ecology .Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993

Raymond A. Rogers: Nature and the Crisis of Modernity: A Critique of Contemporary Discourse on Managing the Earth .Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1994.

Mark Dowie: Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century .Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

Luke Martell: Ecology and Society: An Introduction .London: Polity Press, 1995.     

Book Reviews

Arran Gare: NIHILISM, INC.: Environmental Destruction and the Metaphysics of Sustainability. Como, New South Wales, Australia: Eco‐Logical Press, 1996.

David Harvey: Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

David Macauley, editor: Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology. New York: The Guilford Press, 1996.

Daniel M. Herman and John T. O'Connor: Who Owns the Sun? People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 1996.

Harold Crooks: Giants of Garbage: The Rise of the Global Waste Industry and the Politics of Pollution Control. Toronto: Lorimer, 1993

Sudhir Chella Rajan: The Enigma of Automobility: Democratic Politics and Pollution Control. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Garrett Hardin: Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.     

Investigations into Types of Wastefulness

Rosi Braidotti, Ewa Charkiewicz, Sabine Hausler, and Saskia Wieringa: Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development. London: Zed Press, 1994.

Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva: Ecofeminism. London: Zed Books, 1993.

Val Plumwood: Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. London: Routledge, 1993.

Joni Seager: Earth Follies: Feminism, Politics and the Environment London: Earthscan, 1993.

Vandana Shiva, ed.: Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1994.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Glyn, Davis and Michael, Keating, The Future of Governance: Policy Choices
Geoffrey, Bolton, Edmund Barton: The One Man for the Job
John, Halligan and Roger, Wettenhall, A Decade of Self-government in the Australian Capital Territory
Christopher, Sheil, Water's Fall: Running the Risks with Economic Rationalism
Gerard, Carney, Members of Parliament: Law and Ethics
Stephen, Hamnett and Robert, Freestone, The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History
Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth/State Service Provision (SCRCSSP), Linking Inputs and Outputs: Activity Measurement by Police Services: Research Paper     

Keep Them in the Dark: Australian Government Strategy to Weaken Activism against Australia's new Nuclear Reactor

Martin O'Connor, editor: Is Capitalism Sustainable? Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology. New York: Guilford Publications, 1994.

Kate Soper: What is Nature? Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.

Jim Schwab: Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue‐Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1994.

Michael E. Zimmerman: Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Michael Hough: Cities and Natural Process. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Wayne Roberts and Susan Brandum: GET A LIFE! How to make a good buck, Dance around the dinosaurs, and Save the world while you're at it. Get A Life Publishing, Toronto, 1995.

Sara Berry: No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Nevil Johnson: The Limits of Political Science.
Adrian Leftwich (ed.): New Developments in Political Science. An International Review of Achievements and Prospects.
Hans Mouritzen: Finlandization: Towards a General Theory of Adaptive Politics.
Nielsen, K. & Pedersen, O. K. (eds.): Forhandlingsøkanomi i Norden.
Clarence N. Stone: Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946–1988.     

The Model of Europe and Other Contributions to the Study of European Political Development

Flora, P., Kuhnle, S. and Urwin D. (1999) State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bartolini, S. (2000) The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860–1980: The Class Cleavage . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Caramani, D. (2004) The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bartolini, S. (2005) Restructuring Europe: Centre Formation, System Building, and Political Structuring between the Nation State and the European Union . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ferrera, M. (2005) The Boundaries of Welfare: European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bozo, F. (2001) Two Strategies for Europe: De Gaulle, the United States, and the Atlantic Alliance . Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield.     

because they are forbidden but forbidden because they are

Carolyn Merchant: Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. New York/London: Routledge, 1992.

David Pepper: Eco‐Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice. New York/London: Routledge, 1993.

Kirkpatrick Sale: The Green Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Paul Hawken: The Ecology of Commerce. New York: Harper and Row, 1993

Vincente Navarro: Dangerous to Your Health. Capitalism in Health Care. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993     

Book Reviews

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     

Book notes

Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar: Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood . Boston: South End Press, 1994.

Mary Richardson, Joan Sherman and Michael Gismondi: Winning Back the Words: Confronting Experts in an Environmental Public Hearing . Toronto: Garamond Press, 1993.

Joan Nordquist: Multinational Corporations and the Environment: A Bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1994, 68p.     

Book notes

Jeffrey Mourssaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy: When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals. New York: Doubleday, 1995.

Val Plumwood: Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. London: Routledge, 1993.

Karen J. Warren, ed.: Ecological Feminism. London: Routledge, 1994.

John Brinckerhoff Jackson: A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Wendy Harcourt, editor: Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development. New Jersey: Zed Books Limited and the Society for International Development, 1994.     

Coca Eradication in the Andes: Lessons from Bolivia

Al Gedicks: The New Resources Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations. Boston: South End Press, 1993.

Richard Hofrichter, ed.: Toxics Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice . Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1993.

Raymond Bonner: At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife. New York: Knopf, 1993.

Theodore Steinberg: Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.