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Book reviewed in this article: All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism By LINDA MCQUAIG. Negotiating NAFTA: Explaining the Outcome in Culture, Textiles, Autos, and Pharmaceuticals By MARYSE ROBERT The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy De KENNETH CLOKE et JOAN GOLDSMITH. Commissioned Ridings: Designing Canada's Electoral Districts By JOHN C. COURTNEY. Value Change and Governance in Canada Edited by NEIL NEVITTE. New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty‐First Century By ANTHONY PERL. Municipal Benchmarks: Assessing Local Performance and Establishing Community Standards By DAVID N. AMMONS. Thinking Government: Ideas, Policies, Institutions, and Public‐Sector Management in Canada By DAVID JOHNSON.     

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The Responsible Public Servant By KENNETH KERNAGHAN and JOHN W. LANGFORD. Getting the Pink Slip: Severances and Firings in the Senior Public Service Toronto. Privatisation and Deregulation in Canada and Britain De J. RICHARDSON. Public Enterprise Performance Evaluation: Seven Country Studies De R. WETTENHALL et C. O'NUALLAIN, éditeurs. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It By JAMES Q. WILSON. Two Nations, One Money? By DAVID E. W. LAIDLER and WILLIAM P. ROBSON.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Les relations intergouvernementales au Canada, 1867–1967, Par gérard VEILLEUX Recovering Canada's Nationhood By D. W. CARR Independence: The Canadian Challenge Edited by ABRAHAM ROTSTEIN and GARY LAX Canadian Federalism: Myth or Reality? Edited by J. PETER MEEKISON Labour Economics in Canada By SYLVIA OSTRY and MAHMOOD A. ZAIDI State Enterprise: Business or Politics? By DAVID COOMBES Politics, Finance and the Role of Economics: An Essay on the Control of Public Enterprise By c. D. FOSTER Economic Analysis and Public Enterprises By RALPH TURVEY International Community Power Structures By DELBERT c. MILLER Papers Relating to the President's Departmental Reorganization Program — A Reference Compilation By the OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Style in Administration: Readings in British Public Administration Edited by RICHARD A. CHAPMAN and A. DUNSIRE     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Civil Service Commission 1855 1991. A Bureau Biography, By RICHARD A. CHAPMAN Modernizing Civil Services, Edited by TONY BUTCHER AND ANDREW MASSEY “If you build it…” Business, Government and Ontario's Electronic Toll Highway, By CHANDRAN MYLVAGANAM and SANDFORD BORINS Democracy Off Balance: Freedom of Expression and Hate Propaganda Law in Canada, By STEFAN BRAUN Reforming Parliamentary Democracy, Edited by F. LESLIE SEIDLE and DAVID C. DOCHERTY     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Politics of Nationalism in Canada: Cultural Conflict since 1760 is a faculty member, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia. By DAVID CHENNELLS. Law as a Gendering Practice Karine Levasseur is a doctoral student, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University.Edited by DOROTHY E. CHUNN and DANY LACOMBE. Restraining Equality. Human Rights Commissions in Canada By R. BRIAN HOWE and DAVID JOHNSON. The Rights Revolution Rosemary Proctor, consultant and writer on public policy and governance, was formerly a deputy minister with the Ontario government and recently director of the South Africa/Canada Program on Governance. By MICHAEL IGNATIEFF. Agricultural Policy, Volumes I and II (Part 14 of the International Library of Comparative Public Policy) Edited by WYN P. GRANT AND JOHN T.S. KEELER. Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities Edited by ELLEN CONDLIFFE LAGEMANN. Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada By PATRICK MACKLEM. Greed, Chaos and Governance: Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law By JERRY L. MASHAW. The Politics of Educational Reform in Alberta By ALLISON TAYLOR. The Public Employment Service in a Changing Labour Market By PHAN THUY, ELLEN HANSON and DAVDI PRICE.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Effective Public Manager: Achieving Success in Government By steven cohen. Wildlife and the Public Interest: Non-Profit Organizations and Federal Wildlife Policy BY james a. Government Response to Financial Constraints: Budgetary Control in Canada By l.r. jones and jerry l. mccaffery. Diefenbaker's World: A Populist in Foreign Affairs By h. basil robinson. Aboriginal Peoples and Government Responsibility: Exploring Federal and Provincial Roles Edited by david c. hawkes. The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation: Tracking the Unicorn By bruce YANDLE Japan's Civil Service System: Its Structure, Personnel, and Politics BY pauls. kim. Petit traité de I'État De gÉrard Bergeron. Federalism and Political Community: Essays in Honour of Donald Smiley By DAVID P. SHUGARMAN and REG WHITAKER     

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Book reviewed in this article: Conducting the People's Business: The Framework and Functions of Public Administration Edited by WILLIAM G. HILLS, VOYLE C. SCURLOCK, HAROLD D. VIAILLE, and JAMES A. WEST APL et les cadres Par ROLLAND A. HURTUBISE et YVES POULIN The Developing System of Public Expenditure Management and Control By SIR SAMUEL GOLDMAN, KCB La fonction publique:canadienne et québécoise, Par PATRICE GARANT Bureaucratic Careers: Anglophones and Francophobes in the Canadian Public Service By CHRISTOPHER BEATTIE, JACQUES DÉSY, and STEPHEN LONGSTAFF Federalism & Policy Development: the case of adult occupational training in Ontario By J. STETAN DUPRÉ, DAVID M. CAMERON, GRAEME H. MCKECHNIE, and THEODORE B. ROTENBERG Models in Urban and Regional Planning By BENJAMIN REIF Gestion et comptabilité:à la rescousse des systèmes d'information, Par J. E. COOKE et D. H. DRURY The Diplomacy of Constraint: Canada, The Korean War, and The United States By DENIS STAIRS Environment and society: a book of readings on environmental policy, attitudes and values Edited by ROBERT T. ROELOFS, JOSEPH N. CROWLEY, and DONALD L. HARDESTY     

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Book reviewed in this article: Un État Réduit? A Down-sized State? Edited by ROBERT BERNIER and JAMES IAIN GOW. Governance in a Changing Environment Edited by B. GUY PETERS and DONALD J. SAVOIE. La reforme de la constitution au Canada Par ANDRE TREMBLAY. Corporate Decision-Making in Canada Edited by RONALD J. DANIELS and RANDALL MORCK. How Ottawa Spends 1996-97 Life Under the Knife. Carleton Public Policy Series No. 18. Edited by GENE SWIMMER. Special Operating Agencies: Autonomy, Accountability, and Peformance Measurement By J. DAVID WRIGHT. Ontario Hydro at the Millennium: Has Monopoly's Moment Passed? Edited by RONALD J. DANIELS. Maintaining a Competitive Workforce: Employer-Based Training in the Canadian Economy By DEREK HUM and WAYNE SIMPSON. Hard Choices or No Choices: Assessing Program Review/L'heure des choix difficiles: L'évaluation de I'Examen des programmes. Limiting Rights: The Dilemma of Judicial Review By JANET L. HIEBERT.     

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DAVID M. CAMERON More Than an Academic Question: Univdrsity, Government and Policy in Canada Compte rendu de Pierre Cazalis GORDON SELMAN The Foundations of Adult Education in Canada PAUL DAMPIER Reviewed by Benjamin Levin ROBERT BOARDMAN Canadian Environmental Policy: Ecosystems, Politics and Process Reviewed by Paul Wilson PETER J. BERGERSON Teaching Public Policy: Theo?y, Research and Practice Reviewed by Paul Barker CAROL H. WEISS Organizations for Policy Analysis: Helfiing Government Think Reviewed by Evert A. Lindquist DAVID N. AMMONS Renuiting Local Government Executives JAMES J. GLASS Reviewed by Peter G. Boswell GERALD N. ROSENBERG The Hollow Hope - Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Reviewed by Hugh Mellon RENfE DUPUIS La question indienne au Canada Compte rendu de Eric Gourdeau     

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Book reviewed in this article: The History of City Planning: a survey By Michael Huco-Brunt. Old Age Pensions and Policy-Making in Canada By KENNETH BRYDEN. Front-Bench Opposition: The role of the leader of the Opposition, the Shadow Cabinet and Shadow Government in British Politics By R.M. punnett. Land: private property, public control By R.W.G. BRYANT. Elites in the Policy Process By Robert presthus. Public Involvement in Local Government in the 1970's By the MANAGEMENT INFORMATION service. Policy Analysis in Local Government: a systems approach to decision-making By kenneth l. kraemer. Patterns of Australian Federalism By J.E. Richardson. Revenue-Sharing in the Federal Republic of Germany By J.S.H. hunter. Power in Britain Edited by JOHN URRY. Economic Analysis and Canadian Policy By DAVID STAGER. Administrative Theories and Politics By PETER SELF.     

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Book reviewed in this article: From Amoral to Humane Bureaucrac By EUGENE P. DVORIN and ROBET H. SIMMONS The Things that are Caesar's. The memoirs of a Canadian public servant. By MOM HEENEY The Canadian Public Service: A Physiology of Government 1867–1970 By J. E. HODGETTS Inside City Hall By JOHN SEWELL, DAVID CROMBE, WILLIAM KILBOURN, and KARL JAFFARY Marlborough Marathon By J. L. GRANATSTEIN A Citizen's Guide to City Politics By JAMES LORIMER The Canadian City By JOHN N. JACKSON Governing Metropolitan Toronto By ALBERT ROSE Fighting Back: Urban Renewal in Trefann Court By GRAHAM FRASER Emerging Party Politics in Urban Canada Edited by JACK K. MASSON and JAMES D. ANDERSON Canada's Water for Sale? By RICHARD c. BOCKING The Desirability of a Correctional Ombudsman By TIMOTHY L. FITZHARRIS The Characteristics of Effective Organizations By PAUL E. MOTT Les Années 1970 Par le CONSEIL ÉCONOMIQUE DU CANADA     

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Book reviewed in this article: Military Spending in Developing Countries: How Much Is Too Much?By BRIAN s. MACDONALD Policy Innovation in the Saskatchewan Public Sector, 1971–82 Edited by ELEANOR GLOR Civil Service Reform: Building a Government that Works Par DONALD F. KETTL, PATRICIA W. INGRAHAM, RONALD P. SANDERS Reform of Retirement Income Policy: International and Canadian Perspectives Edited by KEITH G. BANTING and ROBIN BOADWAY Alternative Service Delivery: Sharing Governance in Canada Edited by ROBIN FORD and DAVID ZUSSMAN Postmodern Public Administration: Toward Discourse By CHARLES j. FOX and HUGH T. MILLER Public Management: The New Zealand Model Par JONATHAN BOSTON, JOHN MARTIN, JUNE PALLOT, PAT WALSH New Public Management and Public Administration in Canada Edited by MOHAMED CHARIH and ARTHUR DANIELS     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Politics of Energy: The Development and Implementation of the NEP By G. Bruce Doern and Glen Toner . The Supreme Court of Canada: History of the Institution By James G. Snell and Frederick Vaughan . Reforming Human Services By Michael Clague , Robert Dill , Roop Seebaran , and Brian Wharf . Alberta's Local Governments and Their Politics By Jack Masson . Administration and Development in the Arab World: an annotated bibliography By Jamil E. Jreisat and Zaki R. Ghosheh . Managing New Technologies: the Information Revolution in Local Government Costis Toregas , editor. Bureaucracy in Canada: Control and Reform By Sharon L. Sutherland and G. Bruce Doern . Hate on Trial: The Zundel Affair, the Media and Public Opinion in Canada By Gabriel weimann and Conrad Winn . Tackling the Federal Deficit By Edward A. Carmichael . The Supreme Court of Canada as an Instrument of Political Change Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, Law and Constitutional Issues Series, Co-ordinated by Ivan Bernier and Andree Lajoie . The Dynamics of Government Programs for Urban Indians in the Prairie Provinces Raymond Breton and Gail Grant ed., with contributions from David L. Anderson , Harvey Bostrom , James Frideres and John A. Price . Maturing in Hard Times: Canada's Department of Finance through the Great Depression By Robert B. Bryce . Les politiques gouvernementales: élaboration, gestion, évaluation. By Michel Bellavance     

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Book reviewed in this article: The City: Canada's Prospects, Canada's Problems Edited by LLOYD AXWORTHY and JAMES M. GILLIES External Affairs and Canadian Federalism Edited by HOWARD A. LEESON and WILFRIED VAN-DERELST Developing Policies for Public Security and Criminal Justice By ROBERT EVANS, JR. The Form of Cities in Central Canada: Selected Papers Edited by L.S. BOURNE, R.D. MACKINNON, and J.W. SIMMONS The Politics of Progress By RAYMOND E. WOLFINGER Administrative Tribunals By R.E. WRAITH and P.G. HUTCHESSON Current Practice in Program Budgeting (PPBS) Analysis and Case Studies Covering Government and Business By DAVID NOVICK Mobility Behaviour in the Canadian Labour Force By JOHN VANDERKAMP Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered By E.F. SCHUMACHER Oil Pollution as an International Problem: A Study of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia By WILLIAM M. ROSS An End to Hierarchy! An End to Competition!: Organizing the Politics and Economics of Survival By FREDERICK C. THAYER     

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Decentralist Trends in Western Democracies Les nationalisations 1982 The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism Judicial Administration in Canada The Administrative State in Canada:Essays in Honour of J.E. Hodgetts You and Your Local Government Metropolitan Winnipeg: Politics and Reform of Local Government The Politics of Urban Public Services Where Business Fails: Business Government Relations at the Federal Level in Canada     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Organization-Society Nexus: A Critical Review of Models and Metaphors By ronald corwin. Equality Rights and Their Limitations in the Charter Marek Debicki Telecommunications in Canada: An Analysls of Outlook and Trends By steven globerman with deborah carter. Health Care and Cultural Change: The Indian Experience in the Central Subarctlc By t. kue young. The Expenditure Budget Process of the Government of Canada: A Public Choice - Rent-Seeking Perspective By douglas g. hartle.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The New Public Management: Canada in A Comparative Perspective By PETER AUCOIN. Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems By MICHAEL HOWLETT and M. RAMESH. Canada. Commission royale sur les peuples autochtones. La reinstallation dans I'ExtrQme-Arctique: un rapport sur la reinstallation de 1953–1955 . Uncommon Sense About Organizations: Cases, Studies, and Field Observations By GEERT HOFSTEDE. What Price Mental Health? The Ethics and Politics of Setting Priorities Edited by PHILIP J. BOYLE and DANIEL CALLAHAN. Rethinking Federalism: Citizens, Markets, and Governments in a Changing World Edited by KAREN mop, SYLVIA OSTRY, RICHARD SIMEON and KATHERINE SWINTON. Bankrupt Education: The Decline of Liberal Education in Canada By PETER c. EMBERLEY and WALLER R. NEWELL. Public Policy: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Policy Analysis By WAYNE PARSONS.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Hankey: Man of Secrets By STEPHEN ROSKILL Public Administration: Policy-Making in Government Agencies By IRA SHARKANSKY Canada in Question: Federalism in the Seventies By D. v. SMILEY Up Against City Hall By JOHN SEWELL City Lib: Parties and Reform By STEPHEN CLARKSON Programs in Search of a Policy: Low Income Housing in Canada By MICHAEL DENNIS and SUSAN FISH Politics and Government of Urban Canada: Selected Readings Edited by LIONEL D. FELDMAN and MICHAEL D. GOLDRICG The Financial Structure and the Decision-Making Process of Canadian Municipal Government By THOMAS J. PLUNKETT More Taxes and More Traffic By NANCY BRYAN Inside the Third Reich By ALBERT SPEER The Influence of the United States on Canadian Development: Eleven Case StudiesEdited by RICHARD A. PRESTON Setting National Priorities: the 1973 Budget By C. L. SCHULTZE, E. R. FRIED, A. M. RIVIJN, and N. H. TEETERS Adaptation of Public Personnel Administration to Changes in Society General Report of the 14th International Congress of Administrative Sciences. By ARYEH ATTIR Establishing Ombudsman Offices: Recent Experience in the United States By STANLEY V. ANDERSON and JOHN E. MOORE Administrative Theory and Public Administration By R. J. S. BAKER     

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Book reviewed in this article: Society and Politics in Alberta: Research Papers Edited by carlo caldarola . Prairie Capitalism: Power and Influence in the New West By john Richards and lahry pratt Cordial but not Cosy: A History of the Office of the Auditor General By sonja sinclair Public Policy in Canada: Organization, Process and Management Edited by g. bruce doern and peter aucoin . The Superbureaucrats: Structure and Behaviour in Central Agencies By colin campbell and george j. szablowski . Communicating at the Top: What you need to know about communicating to run an organization By george de mare . The Professions and Public Policy Edited by philip slayton and michael j. trebil-cock . The New Managerial Grid By robebt r. blake and jane s. mouton. Les grands rouages de la machine administrative québécoise Par alain baccigalupo .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Canada and Immigration: Public Policy and Public Concern Canadian Public Administration Series. By FREDA HAWKINS Collective Bargaining in the Public Service THE INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF CANADA Staff Relations in the Civil Service: Fifty Years of Whitleyism By HENRY PARRIS Conseil des premiers ministres des Maritimes: premier rapport annuel. Par LE CONSEIL Rebels and Colleagues: Advertising and Social Change in French Canada By FREDERICK ELKIN People in the Way: The Human Aspects of the Columbia River Project By J. W. WILSON The Ombudsman Plan: Essays on the Worldwide Spread of an Idea By DONALD C. ROWAT Armstrong's Fight for FM Broadcasting: One Man vs Big Business and Bureaucracy By D. H. V. ERICKSON The Nationalized Industries Since 1960: A Book of Readings Edited by LEONARD TIVEY The Role of Commissions in Pol icy-Making Edited by RICHARD A. CHAPMAN. Cost Benefit Analysis in Administration By TREVOR NEWTON Political Bureaucracy By LEWIS C. MAINZER Prelude to Administrative Theory: Essays in Social Structure and Social Process By HENRY ZENTNER