BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Robert Presthus . Behavioral Approaches to Public Administration. A. F. Davies . Private Politics: A Study of Five Political Outlooks. Gordon Reid . The Politics of Financial Control: The Role of the House of Commons. David Coombes . The Member of Parliament and the Administration: The Case of the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries. R. N. Aggarwala . Finance Committees of the Indian Parliament. C. D. Rowley . The New Guinea Villager. J. P. Mackintosh and others. Nigerian Government and Politics.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Barry Hughes , Exit Full Employment: Economic Policy in the Stone Age. Peter Sheehan , Crisis in Abundance. Royal Institute of Public Administration, Policy and Practice: The Experience of Government. Clifford Pearce , The Machinery of Change in Local Government 1888–1974. P. B. Beaumont , Government as Employer—Setting an Example?. A.F. Davies , skills, Outlooks and Passions: A Psychoanalytic Contribution to the Study of Politics. Andrew Parkin and Allan Patience (eds). John Power , Helen Nelson (eds), The Regional Administrator in the Riverina, Roger Scott , Northern Ireland, The Politics of Violence. John Dixon , Australia's Policy Towards the Aged.     

BOOK NOTES

Book reviewed in this article: Geoffrey Sawer . Australian Government Today David Coombes . Politics and Bureaucracy in the European Community. Giovanni Napione . L'Ombudsman: Il controllore della pubblica amministrazione. Akio Watanabe . The Okinawa Problem: A Chapter in Japan—U.S. Relations. V. Subramaniam . The Managerial Class of India.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Necessity of Politics: Reclaiming American Public Life by Christopher Beem. For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today by Jedediah Purdy.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Explaining Policy Reversals. By Christopher Hood. The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal. By Sidney M. Milkis. Values and Public Policy. Edited by Henry J. Aaron, Thomas E. Mann, and Timothy Taylor. The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adam to George Bush. By Stephen Skowronek. International Handbook of Local and Regional Government. By Alan Norton. Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor. By Jeffrey R. Henig.     

The conditions of production: A note∗

Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb: For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

Bill Weinberg: War on the Land: Ecology and Politics in Central America. Zed Press, 1991.

Daniel Faber: Environment Under Fire: Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis in Central America. Monthly Review Press, 1993.

Malcom V. Brock: Biotechnology in Japan. Routledge, London/New York, 1989.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics by Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink. Domestic Society and International Cooperation: The Impact of Protest on US Arms Control Policy by Jeffrey Knopf.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Governance, Politics, and the State. Jon Pierre and B. Guy Peters. The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Robert E. Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, and Henk‐Jan Dirven. Local Voices, National Issues: The Impact of Local Initiative in Japanese Policy‐Making. Sheila A. Smith, ed. Two Tiers or Two Speeds? The European Security Order and the Enlargement of the European Union and NATO. James Sperling, ed. Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition. Valerie Sperling. Remaking New Zealand and Australian Economic Policy: Ideas, Institutions, and Policy Communities. Shaun Goldfinch.     

LA's the place: The Urban character and significance of Los Angeles 1

Michael Dear, H. Eric Shockman, and Greg Hise, eds., Rethinking Los Angeles. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996.

William Fulton, The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles. Point Arena, CA: Solano Press Books, 1997)

Roger Keil, Los Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization and Social Struggles. Chichester, UK: 1998.

Allen J. Scott and Edward J. Soja, eds., The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Boundaries of Law, Politics and Religion by Lewis V. Baldwin. Against Us, But For Us: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the State by Michael G. Long. Macon.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Using Theory to Improve Program and Policy Evaluations. Edited by Huey-Tsyh Chen and Peter H. Rossi. A Flock of Shepherds: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops. By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Leadership and the Bush Presidency: Prudence or Drift in an Era of Change? Edited by Ryan J. Barilleaux and Mary E. Stuckey. The Poverty Debate: Politics and the Poor in America. By C. Emory Burton. Economic Rationalism in Canberra — A Nation Building State Changes Its Mind. By Michael Pusey.     

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: The New Wars. By Herfried Münkler. (Cambridge: Polity, 2005). Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. (New York: Penguin Press, 2004). Sovereignty and its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political. By William Rasch. (London: Birkbeck Law Press, 2004). The State of the Political: Conceptions of Politics and the State in the Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann. By Duncan Kelly. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: John D. Montgomery , and William J. Sippin (eds.). Approaches to Development: Politics, Administration and Change. Sanford A. Lakoff (ed.). Knowledge and Power: Essays on Science and Government. James Jupp . Arrivals and Departures. J. E. Isaac arid G. W. Ford (eds.). Australian Labour Relations: Readings and Australian Labour Economics: Readings. E. L. French (ed.). Melbourne Studies in Education, 1965. N.S.W. Parliamentary Library. Payment of Members in New South Wales, Pros and Cons from 1912.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Henry Mayer (ed.). Australian Politics: A Reader. A. F. Davies and S. Encel (eds.). Australian Society: A Sociological Introduction. E. K. Fisk (ed.). New Guinea on the Threshold. E. L. Normanton . The Accountability and Audit of Governments. Giles Radice . Democratic Socialism: A Short Survey. W. H. C. Eddy , J. D. B. Miller , D. H. Monro and R. N. Spann . Studies in Democracy. Gerald E. Caiden . The A.C.P.T.A.: A Study of White Collar Public Service Ruth Knight . Illiberal Liberal: Robert Lowe in New South Wales T. H. Mc Elligott . Education in Ireland.     

Book Reviews: Big Fears and Some Ideas

Books reviewed: Forrester, Viviane. The Economic Horror. Hirschman, Albert O. Crossing Boundaries: Selected Writings. Young, Jock. The Exclusive Society: Social Exclusion, Crime and Difference in Late Modernity. Worcester, Robert and Mortimer, Roger. Explaining Labour's Landslide. Parker, Noel. Revolutions and History: An Essay in Interpretation. Schneer, Jonathan. London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis. Taylor, Brandon. Art for the Nation: Exhibitions and the London Public 1747–2001. Major, John. The Autobiography. Lamont, Norman. In Office. Crick, Bernard. Tailpeace: Clearing Up After Myself. Montefiore, Alan and Vines, David (eds) Integrity in the Public and Private Domains. Goldsworth, Jeffrey. The Sovereignty of Parliament: History and Philosophy. Lynch, Philip. The Politics of Nationhood: Sovereignty, Britishness and Conservative Politics. Newsinger, John. Orwell's Politics. Jowell, Roger; Curtice, John; Park, Alison and Thomson, Katarina. British Social Attitudes, 16th Report: Who Shares New Labour Values?.     

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.     

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

Books reviewed: The US Presidency in Crisis: A Comparative Perspective, by Colin Campbell Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models B. Guy Peters “A Dutch Miracle,” Job Growth, Welfare Reform and Corporatism in the Netherlands, by Jelle Visser and Anton Hemerijck The Economic History of the Netherlands, 1914–1995: A Small Open Economy in the “Long” Twentieth Century, by Jan L. van Zanden The German and Dutch Economies: Who Follows Whom?, edited by Lei Delsen and Eelke de Jonge The Reordering of British Politics: Politics After Thatcher, by Dennis Kavanagh     

Book Review

Books reviewed: Stephen Padgett, Organizing Democracy in Eastern Germany: Interest Groups in Postcommunist Society Jennifer A. Yoder, From East Germans to Germans? The New Postcommunist Elites Tom Christensen and B. Guy Peters, (eds.) Structure, Culture, and Governance: A Comparison of Norway and the United States Cathie Jo Martin, Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy Charles R. Epp, The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective Thomas Banchoff, The German Problem Transformed: Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy, 1945–1995 James Sperling, The German Problem: Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy, 1945‐1995