BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Administrative Vocation. By RS Parker State, Economy and Public Policy in Australia. Edited by Stephen Bell and Brian Head Work for All: Full Employment in the Nineties. By John Langmore and John Quiggin Australian Mandarins: Perceptions of the Role of Departmental Secretaries. By Robert Hyslop Westminster Inc.: A Survey of Three States in the 1980s. Edited by Allan Peachment Environmental Impact Assessment: Cutting Edge for the 21st Century. By Alan Gilpin Inside Bureaucratic Power: The Wilenski Review of NSW Government. By Richard Alaba Australian Political Ideas. Edited by Geoff Stokes Chasing the Future: Recession, Recovery and The New Politics in Australia. By Laura Tingle Justice and Identity: Antipodean Practices. Edited by Margaret Wilson and Anna Yeatman Parties and Federalism in Australia and Canada. Edited by Campbell Sharman Welfare and Inequality: National and International Perspectives on the Australian Welfare State. By Peter Saunders Social Security in Australia. By Terry Carney and Peter Hanks Research in Public Administration, Vol. 1 (1991) and Vol. 2 (1993). Edited by James L Perry New Agendas in the Study of the Policy Process. Edited by Michael Hill The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning. Edited by Frank Fischer and John Forester Drought, Policy and Politics in India: The Need for a Long-term Perspective. By Kuldeep Mathur and Niraja G Jayal     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Citizen Participation in Government. Edited by MARGARET MUNRO-CLARK
The Business of Government: Western Australia: 1983–1990. Edited by ALLAN PEACHMENT (Leichhardt
Exemplary Public Administrators: Character and Leadership in Government. Edited by TERRY COOPER and N. DALE WRIGHT
Ethics in Public Service. Edited by RICHARD A. CHAPMAN
Public Sector Management in Australia. By JOHN WANNA, CIARAN O'FAIRCHEALLAIGH & PATRICK WELLER
Service Delivery and Public Sector Marketing. Edited by CIARAN O'FAIRCHEALLAIGH, PETER GRAHAM & JENI WARBURTON
The Contracting State. By IAN HARDEN     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Private Pay for Public Work: Performance-Related Pay for Public Sector Managers. By R obert W ood and M aria M aguire
Reforming the Public Service: Lessons from Recent Experiences. Edited by P atrick W eller , J ohn F orster and G lyn D avis
Program Evaluation and Performance Monitoring: An Australian Perspective. Edited by C iaron O'F aircheallaigh and B ill R yan
Beyond the Protective State: The Political Economy of Australia's Industry Policy. By A nn C apling and B rian G alligan
Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy. Edited by B rian G alligan , O wen H ughes and C liff W alsh
In Reserve: Central Banking in Australia, 1945-75. By B oris S chedvin
Comparative Political Studies: Australia and Canada. Edited by M alcolm A lexander and B rian G alligan
Public Administration in Small and Island States. Edited by R andall B aker
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives. By A lan B ullock
Natural Hazards and Reinsurance. Edited by J ohn O liver and N eil R. B ritton
Natural and Technological Hazards: Implications for the Insurance Industry. Edited by N eil R. B ritton and J ohn O liver
Catastrophe Insurance for Tomorrow: Planning for Future Adversities. Edited by N eil R. B ritton and J ohn O liver     

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 reviews in this article: Engllishness : Politics and Culture , 1880–1920. Edited by Robert Colls and Philip Dodd . The Scottish Trades Union Congress . The First Eighty Years : 1897–1977. By Angela Tuckett . Scotland : The Case for Optimism . By Jim Sillars . Atrocity and Amnesia : The Political Novel Since 1945. By Robert Boyers . Thinkers of the New Left . By Roger Scruton . Bringing the State Back In . Edited by Peter Evans , Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol . The Nation -State and Violence . By Anthony Giddens . The Political Economy of Corporatism . Edited by Wyn Grant . A World in Crisis ? Geographical Perspectives . Edited by R. J. Johnston and P. J. Taylor . The Artful Albanian : The Memoirs of Enver Hoxha . Edited by Jon Halliday . Margaret Cole 1893–1980: A Political Biography . By Betty D. Vernon Duff Cooper : The Authorized Biography . By John Charmley .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Business Mates: The Power and Politics of the Hawke Era. By DOUG McEACHERN The Accord and the Australian Labour Movement. By GWYNNETH SINGLETON The Executive State: WA Inc and the Constitution. Edited by PATRICK O'BRIEN and MARTYN WEBB Surveys in Development Economics. Edited by NORMAN GEMMELL What Should Government Do? Edited by PETER COALDRAKE and J.R. NETHERCOTE Economic and Management Pressures on Australian Public Administration. Edited by CHRIS PIRIE and JOHN POWER The Anglo-American Lexicon of the Social Sciences. By L. J. SHARPE     

STUDYING THE STATES

The Bannon Decade: The Politics of Restraint in South Australia. Edited by Andrew Parkin & Allan Patience Trials in Power: Cain, Kirner and Victoria 1982–1992. Edited by Mark Considine & Brian Costar Keeping them Honest: Democratic Reform in Queensland. Edited by Andrew Hede , Scott Prasser & Mark Neylan The Tasmanian Parliamentary Accord & Public Policy: Accommodating the new politics? Edited by Marcus Haward & Peter Larmour Affairs of State: Politics in the Australian States and Territories. By Scott Bennett     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Keeping the Peace: Police Accountability and Oversight. Edited by David Moore and Roger Wettenhall What's Right? Free Enterprise versus Government Control: Getting the Balance Right By George Mc Farlane The Australian Public Sector: Pathways to Change. Edited by James Guthrie Can Governments Learn? Comparative Perspectives on Evaluation and Organizational Learning. Edited by Frans L Leeuw , Ray C Rist and Richard C Sonnichsen     

Book Reviews

The President as World Leader. By BARBARA KELLERMAN and RYAN J. BARILLEAUX.
Keeping a Watchful Eye. By JOEL D. ABERBACH.
Economic Decline and Political Change: Canada, Great Britain, the United States. Edited by HAROLD D. CLARKE, MARIANNE C. STEWART, and GARY ZUK.
Business, Ethics, and the Environment: The Public Policy Debate. Edited by W. MICHAEL HOFFMAN, ROBERT FREDERICK, and EDWARD S. PETRY.
Europe 1992: An American Perspective. Edited by GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER.
The Nixon Presidency: Power and Politics in Turbulent Times. By MICHAEL A. GENOVESE.
Criticism and Public Rationality: Professional Rigidity and the Search for Caring Government. By HARRY SMART.
Wisdom: Its Nature, Origins, and Development. Edited by ROBERT J. STERNBERG.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Australia's Seventh State. Edited by PETER LOVEDAY and PETER McNAB
Aspects of Public Sector Employment Law. By G.J. McCARRY
Educational Policy in Australia and America: Comparative Perspectives. Edited by WILLIAM LOWE BOYD and DON SMART
Taxation by Political Inertia: Financing the Growth of Government in Britain. By RICHARD ROSE and TERENCE KARRAN
New Strategies for Executive Development: The Management of Public Accountability. By JOHN UHR
Hawke's Second Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1984–1987. Edited by R. WETTENHALL and J.R. NETHERCOTE     

MORE VALUABLE CONFERENCE BOOKS

Public Administration in Australia: A Watershed. Edited by JOHN POWER (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger in association with the Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration, 1990, 168 pp).
Decision Making in Australian Government: The Cabinet and Budget Processes. Edited by BRIAN GALLIGAN, J.R. NETHERCOTE and CLIFF WALSH (Canberra: Centre of Research on Federal Financial Relations and Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration, ACT Division 1990, 141 pp).
Budgetary Management and Control: The Public Sector in Australasia. Edited by JOHN FORSTER and JOHN WANNA (Melbourne, Macmillan, 1990, 206 pp).     

ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC POLICY

Comparative State Policies. Edited by B. GALLIGAN (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1988, 303pp).
From Fraser to Hawke: Australian Public Policy in the 1980s. Edited by B. HEAD and A. PATIENCE (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1989, 525pp).
Hawke and Australian Public Policy: Consensus and Restructuring. Edited by E. JENNETT and R. STEWART (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1990, 422PP).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this Article:
PUBLIC ECONOMICS AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE. Edited by LOWDON WINGO and ALAN EVANS.
PLANNING, POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST. Edited by WALTER GOLDSTEIN.
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL. By SIR RICHARD CLARKE. Edited by SIR ALEC CAIRNCROSS.
THE MEASUREMENT AND REFORM OF BUDGETARY POLICY. By T. S. WARD and R. R. NEILD.
THE CULTURE GAP: AN EXPERIENCE OF GOVERNMENT AND THE ARTS. By HUGH JENKINS.
THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LAW. By LORD DENNING.
INEQUALITY IN THE PENAL LOBBY: A CASE STUDY OF THE HOWARD LEAGUE AND RAP. By M. RYAN.
IN THE OFFICE OF CONSTABLE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY By SIR ROBERT MARK.
INFERNAL CHILD: A MEMOIR. By ERIN PIZZEY.
THE FEDERAL PRINCIPLE, A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME IN QUEST OF MEANING. By S. RUFUS DAVIS.
FEDERAL SOLUTIONS TO EUROPEAN ISSUES. Edited by BERNARD BURROWS, GEOFFREY DENTON and GEOFFREY EDWARDS.
DIVIDED LOYALTIES: BRITISH REGIONAL ASSERTION AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION. Edited by MARTIN KOLINSKY, assisted by DAVID SCOTT BELL.
TERRITORIAL POLITICS IN INDUSTRIAL NATIONS. Edited by SIDNEY TARROW, PETER J. KATZENSTEIN and LUIGI GRAZINNO.
GUSTAV HEINEMANN. EIN LEBEN FÜR DIE DEMOKRATIE. By HELMUT LINDE-MANN
LIBERALS AND SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. By PETER CLARKE.
THE NEW LIBERALISM: AN IDEOLOGY OF SOCIAL REFORM. By MICHAEL FREEDEN.
LLOYD GEORGE: THE GOAT IN THE WILDERNESS. By JOHN CAMPBELL.
LLOYD GEORGE: THE PEOPLE'S CHAMPION 1902-1911. By JOHN GRIGG.
THE AGE OF BALFOUR AND BALDWIN, 1902-1940: A HISTORY OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. Volume Three. By JOHN RAMSDEN.
BREAKAWAY: THE SCOTTISH LABOUR PARTY. By HENRY M. DRUCKER.
SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH. Edited by MARTIN BULMER.     

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND AUSTRALIAN ENGAGEMENT WITH ASIA

Public Administration in Asia and the Pacific: Survey of Teaching and Research in Twelve Countries. Edited by L edivina C aring
Administrative Reform Towards Productivity in Bureaucratic Performance. Edited by Z hang Z hijian , R aul P. D e G uzman A nd M ila A. R eforma
Politics and Administration in Changing Societies: Essays in Honour of Professor Fred W. Riggs. Edited by R amesh K. A rora     

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this article: Arguments for Democracy . By Tony Benn . Edited by Chris Mullin . Breaking the Mould ? By Ian Bradley . The Future of Socialism . By Anthony Crosland . The Socialist Agenda . Edited by David Lipsey and Dick Leonard . Face the Future . By David Owen . Politics is For People . By Shirley Williams . The Strategy of Equality : Redistribution and the Social Services . By Julian Le Grand . The Question of Separatism . By Jane Jacobs . Financing Devolution Within the United Kingdom : A Study of the Lessons from Failure . By David Heald . Anthony Eden . By David Carlton . Knowing Right from Wrong : The Insanity Defense of Daniel Mc Naughtan . By Richard Moran . Retreat from Power : Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century . Volume One : 1906–1939. Volume Two: After 1939. Edited by David Dilks . Sadat . By David Hirst and Irene Beeson . Poverty and Famines : An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation . By Amartya Sen . An Evolutionary View of Economic Growth . By Ashok S. Guha . The European Transition from Oil : Societal Impacts and Constraints on Energy Policy . Edited by Gordon T. Goodman , Lars A. Kristoferson and Jack M. Hollander . The Global Politics of Arms Sales . By Andrew J. Pierre . From Dessalines to Duvalier . Race , Colour , and National Independence in Haiti . By David Nicholls . Mussolini . By Denis Mack Smith . Contemporary Terror : Studies in Sub-state Violence . Edited by David Carlton and Carlo Schaerf . Revolt from the Center . By Niels Meyer , Helveg Petersen and Villy Sorensen .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
New York Unbound: the City and the Politics of the Future. Edited by P. SALINS
Ideas for Australian Cities , 3rd Edition. By HUGH STRETTON
Introduction to Australian Administrative Law. By MARGARET ALLARS
Management of Success: The Moulding of Modern Singapore. Edited by KERNIAL SINGH SANDHU and PAUL WHEATLEYd     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Politics of Public Budgeting. By I.S. RUBIN (New Jersey: Chatham House, 1990, 248pp). Budgeting In the Provinces: Leadership and the Premiers. Edited by A. MASLOVE
Aboriginal Employment Equity by the Year 2000. Edited by J.C. ALTMAN
Making Equity Planning Work. By NORMAN KRUMHOLZ and JOHN FORESTER     

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 REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: International . Disputes : The Political Aspects . By Professor F. S. Northedge and M. D. Donelan . The Evolving United Nations : A Prospect for Peace ? Edited by K. J. Twitciiett . Foreword by Lord Garadon . The Intellectual Origins of the Prague Spring . By Vladimir V. Kusin . The Secret Vyso?y Congress . Edited and with an introduction by Ji?ia Pelikán . Geneva 1954: The Settlement of the Indo -Chinfse War . By Robert P. Randle . Britain and West Germany : Changing Societies and the Future of Foreign Policy . Edited by Karl Kaiser and Roger Morgan . Economic Analysis and Public Enterprises . By Ralph Turvey . The Price of Amenity : Five Studies in Conservation and Government . By Roy Gregory . Memoirs of Hope : Renewal 1958–1962. Endeavour 1962. By Charles de Gaulle . Translated by Terence Kilmartin . Kencontres Avec …de Gaulle . By Jules Mocii .