Gender equality and social security

He is author of Capitalism and the Welfare State; Clients and Constituents;and co-author (with Barbara Gilbert) of The Enabling State: Modern Welfare Capitalism in America;and (with Joel Duerr Berrick) With the Best of Intentions: The Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Movement.     

Book Reviews

European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment, by Guiliano Bonoli, Vic George and Peter Taylor‐Gooby The New Politics of the Welfare State, edited by Paul Pierson The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, by Jacob S. Hacker The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model, by Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen Market‐Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest, by Colin Leys The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty‐First Century, by Robert Cooper Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters or Technicians? By Tevi Troy Nehru: A Political Life, by Judith M. Brown The Labour Market under New Labour: The State of Working Britain 2003, edited by Richard Dickens, Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth European Integration, 1950–2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? by John Gillingham Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore     

God, Mammon and the Rise of Nationalism

Books reviewed in this article:
David A. Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
Liah Greenfeld, The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth
Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
Maurizio Ferrera and Martin Rhodes (eds.), Recasting European Welfare States
Evelyn Huber and John Stephens, Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets
Paul Pierson (ed.), The New Politics of the Welfare State
Duane Swank, Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States
John Ramsden (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics
Nicholas J. Wheeler, Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society
Giles Radice, Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey
Michael McManus, Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire     

Assets and welfare

He is author of Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy.     

Reflections of a bourgeois Menshevik

He is author of The End of Ideology; The Radical Right; The Coming of Post-Industrial Society; The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism;and The Social Sciences since World War Two.     

Book Reviews

Books review: Daniel Cohen, The Wealth of the World and the Poverty of Nations Peter J. Taylor, The Way the Modern World Works: World Hegemony to World Impasse Anton Zijderveld, The Waning of the Welfare State: The End of Comprehensive State Succor Bill Jordan, The New Politics of Welfare: Social Justice in a Global Context Leonard E. Burman, The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy TheConstitution of Iran, Asghar Schirazi. James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State Wolfgang Reinicke, Global Public Policy: Governing without Government? Peter Trubowitz, Emily O. Goldman, and Edward Rhodes, eds. The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests Frederick W. Mayer, Interpreting NAFTA: The Science and Art of Political Analysis J. Nicholas Ziegler, Governing Ideas: Strategies for Innovation in France and Germany Pietro S. Nivola, Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America     

Comparing welfare states

Comparing Welfare States: Britain in International Context. Edited by ALLAN COCHRANE and JOHN CLARKE. London: Sage in association with the Open University, 1993. Pp.xiv + 274, index. £35 (hardback) ISBN 0–8039–8845–1, £12.95 (paperback) 0–8039–8846‐X.

Women Across Continents: Feminist Comparative Social Policy By LENA DOMINELLI. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991. Pp.x + 351, biblio, index. NP (hardback). ISBN 0–7450–0336–2, £12.95 (paperback), 0–7450–0939–5.

Divisions of Welfare: A Critical Introduction to Comparative Social Policy. By NORMAN GINSBURG. London: Sage, 1992. Pp.xii + 228, appendix, references, index. £30 (hardback) ISBN 0–8039–8440–5, £10.95 (paperback) 0–8039–841–3.

Capitalist Welfare Systems: A Comparison of Japan, Britain and Sweden. By ARTHUR GOULD. London: Longman, 1993. Pp.xi + 276, notes, bibliography, index. NP. ISBN 0–582–08349–4.

New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe. Edited by CATHERINE JONES, London: Routledge, 1993. Pp.vii + 251, index. NP. ISBN 0–415–07041–4 (hardback), NP. 0–415–07042–2 (paperback).

Can the Welfare State Compete? A Comparative Study of Five Advanced Capitalist Countries. Edited by ALFRED PFALLER, IAN GOUGH and GORAN THERBORN. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp.xi + 354, notes, bibliography, index. NP. ISBN 0–333–48755–9.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A. B. Atkinson. Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment, by Paul Pierson. Managing Policy Change in Britain: The Politics of Water, by William A. Maloney and Jeremy Richardson. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change, by Stanley Fish. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, by Will Kymlicka. The Rights of Minority Cultures, edited by Will Kymlicka. Globalisation in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance, by Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson. Economic Growth and Political Change in Asia, by Graham Field. American Exceptionalism: A Double-edged Sword, by Seymour Martin Lipset. Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, by Zeev Sternhell, trans. David Maisel. Strategies for Self-Govemment: The Campaigns for a Scottish Parliament, by James Mitchell. The Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Norbert Elias, edited by Michael Schröter, translated from the German and with a preface by Eric Chinning and Stephen Mennell.     

Resolving the contradictions of modernity and modernism

He is the author, among other books, of The End of Ideology; The Coming of Post-Industrial Society; The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism;and The Social Sciences Since World War Two.This is the first of a two-part essay on Modernity and Modernism. An enlarged version, with reference citations and text emendations in footnotes, will be published later this year by Transaction.     

White trash: Eugenics as social ideology

She is coeditor of Judge, Lawyer, Victim, Thief: Women, Gender Roles, and Criminal Justice;author of, published by Northeastern University Press, White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies, 1877–1919,from which this article is adapted with permission; and author also of Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800–1935.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Colin J. Bennett and Charles D. Raab. The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective. Reviewed by DENNIS W. JOHNSON
Erik Jones. The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union: Integration and Idiosyncrasy. Reviewed by DANIEL WINCOTT
Raul L. Madrid. Retiring the State: The Politics of Pension Privatization in Latin America and Beyond. Reviewed by CARMELO MESA-LAGO
Vivien A. Schmidt. The Futures of European Capitalism. Reviewed by VICKI BIRCHFIELD
Jonathan A. Rodden, Gunnar S. Eskeland, and Jennie Litvack, eds. Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints. Reviewed by DANIEL ZIBLATT
Peter A. Swenson. Capitalists against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden. Reviewed by SANDRA SUÁREZ     

Family planning and world health

She is coauthor of the 1987 and 1988 editions of State of the World;and author or coauthor of several Worldwatch papers, including: “Our Demographically Divided World” and “The Future of Urbanization.”     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Christoffer Green‐Pedersen. The Politics of Justification: Party Competition and Welfare State Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998. Lei Delsen. Exit Polder Model? Socioeconomic Changes in the Netherlands. Thomas J. Biersteker and Rodney Bruce Hall, eds. The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance. Daniel J. Pare. Internet Governance in Transition: Who Is the Master of This Domain? M. De Jong, K. Lalenis, and V. Mamadouh, eds. The Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation: Experiences with the Transfer of Policy Institutions. Valerie Braithwaite and Margaret Levi, eds. Trust and Governance: Volume I in the Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust. M. Anne Pitcher. Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975–2000.     

Book Reviews: The Balance between Forgetting and Remembering

Books reviewed Gary Jonathan Bass, Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Trials Richard Goldstone, For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator Joanna Van Selm, (ed) Kosovo's Refugees in the European Union Peter Shore, Separate Ways: The Heart of Europe Tommaso Padoa‐Schioppa, The Road to Monetary Union in Europe: The Emperor, the Kings and the Genies Kenneth Dyson, The Politics of the Euro‐Zone: Stability or Breakdown? Stefano Bartolini, The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860–1980: The Class Cleavage Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States Richard Little and Mark Wickham‐Jones, (eds) New Labour's Foreign Policy: A New Moral Crusade? Thomas Frank, One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy Fritz W. Scharpf and Vivien A. Schmidt, (eds) Welfare and Work in the Open Economy Fritz W. Scharpf and Vivien A. Schmidt, (eds) From Vulnerability to Competitiveness Fritz W. Scharpf and Vivien A. Schmidt, (eds)Diverse Responses to Common Challenges Andrew Samuels, Politics on the Couch: Citizenship and the Internal Life John B. Thompson, Political Scandal: Power and Visibility in the Media Age Andrew Thorpe, The British Communist Party and Moscow 1920–43     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: John Gray, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism Kanishka Jayasuriya, (ed.) Law, Capitalism, and Power in Asia: The Rule of Law and Legal Institutions Philippe C. Schmitter, How to Democratize the European Union ... and Why Bother?     

Observations on Capitalism and Government–Society Relations: A Retrospective on Schumpeter’s Capitalism,Socialism, and Democracy

Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (New York: Harper & Row, 1950). 431 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES

Book reviewed in this article: G. F. Sawer . Modern Federalism. C. A. Watts and Company Ltd, 1969 Raymond O'Dea . Industrial Relations in Australia. 2nd ed., Sydney, 1970 John Playford . Neo-Capitalism in Australia., Monograph Series, No. 1, Arena Publications Association, Victoria, 1969 Graham Little . The University Experience. Melbourne University Press, 1970 B. R. Davidson . Australia Wet or Dry? The Physical and Economic Limits to the Expansion of Irrigation A. D. Neale . The Antitrust Laws of the U.S.A.: A Study of Competition Enforced by Law. Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 1970 Ronald F. Bunn . German Politics and the Spiegel Affair: A Case Study of the Bonn System. Louisiana State University Press, 1968 R. T. Appleyard , editor. Man and His Environment. Octagon Lectures 1969, University of Western Australia Press, 1970 G. A. Rennison . We Live Among Strangers: A Sociology of the Welfare Slate. Melbourne University Press, 1970     

Book Reviews

Andrew Levine, Arguing for Socialism—Theoretical Considerations (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984).

Irving Howe, Socialism and America (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985).

Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Retreat from Class: A New “True” Socialism (London: Verso/American distributor: Shocken, 1986)

Joanne Barkan, Visions of Emancipation: the Italian Workers’ Movement Since 1945. (New York City: Praeger, 1984)

Carlos M. Vilas, The Sandinista Revolution: National Liberation and Social Transformation in Central America, trans. Judy Butler (New York City: Monthly Review Press, 1986)

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Democracy and Capitalism—Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social thought (New York: Basic Books, 1986).

Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin, The Dialectical Biologist. (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1985).

Anthony Giddens, The Nation‐State and Violence: Volume Two of The Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985)

Bob Jessop, Nicos poulantzas. Marxist theory and political strategy, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985).     

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: From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland. Susan Rose–Ackerman. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
Reviewed by MITCHELL ORENSTEIN, Syracuse University Multi‐Level Governance. Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 237 pp. £47.50 (cloth).
Reviewed by JULIE M. SIMMONS, University of Guelph Players in the Public Policy Process: Nonprofits as Social Capital and Agents. Herrington J. Bryce. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 288 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
Reviewed by ROBERT C. TURNER, Skidmore College Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality. David P. Varady, ed. New York: State University of New York Press, 2005. 310 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
Reviewed by MARY PATTILLO, Northwestern University Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea. Joseph Wong. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 222 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Reviewed by HUCK‐JU KWON, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea