Paradoxes of soviet law

The Soviet Legal System, Vol. 1: Fundamental Principles and Historical Commentary, 3rd edn, edited by J. N. Hazard, P. B. Maggs and W. E. Butler. New York: Oceana Publications Inc., 1977. 608 pp. $17.50. Vol. II: Selected Contemporary Legislation and Documents, edited by W. E. Butler. New York: Oceana Publications Inc., 1978. 733 pp. $40.00.     

Is it Better to be a Boy? A Disaggregated Outlay Equivalent Analysis of Gender Bias in Papua New Guinea

The demographic evidence of gender bias in many countries has provided an impetus for finding ways to study the status of women in developing countries. Because of the lack of accurate intra-household data, Deaton [1989 Deaton, A. 1989. Looking for Boy–Girl Discrimination in Household Expenditure Data. World Bank Economic Review, Vol.3, No.1: pp.1–15 [Google Scholar]] introduced a method for using household expenditure data to infer discrimination in the allocation of goods between boys and girls. Few studies of discrimination using the method, however, have detected bias even though alternative indicators suggest it is a serious problem. In this paper, we study the case of Papua New Guinea, a country in which there are many indicators of severe gender bias. Discrimination in the allocation of goods between boys and girls within households in Papua New Guinea is examined using Deaton's outlay-equivalent ratio method. Adding a boy to the household reduces expenditure on adult goods by as much as would a nine-tenths reduction in total outlay per member, but girls have no effect on adult goods expenditure. The hypothesis of Haddad and Reardon [1993 Haddad, L and Reardon, T. 1993. Gender Bias in the Allocation of Resource within Households in Burkina Faso: a Disaggregated Outlay Equivalent Analysis. Journal of Development Studies, Vol.29, No.2: pp.260–76 [Google Scholar]] that gender bias is inversely related to the importance of female labour in agricultural production is not supported. Sensitivity analysis shows that bias in rural areas occurs equally regardless of the age of the household head, while bias against girls may be less in regions of the country that have ethnic groups which practice matrilineal descent.     

The enterprise and industrial composition of new British portfolio foreign investment, 1865–1914

Source Material on the South African Economy 1860–1970 by H. Hobart Houghton and J. Dagut. Vol. 1, 1972, pp. 369; Vol. II, 1972, pp. 247; Vol. III, 1973, pp. 263. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.     

Book notes

Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective (Second Edition), Ferrel Heady, Marcel Dekker Inc., 1979, pp. 429, price unknown.

Programme Evaluation at H.E.W., Research versus Reality: Part 2, Education, James G. Abert (Ed.), Marcel Dekker Inc., 1979, pp. 395, price unknown.

Public Sector Decision Making, David Pearce (Ed.), Special issue of OMECA, The International Journal of Management Science (Vol. 7, No. 5, 1979), Pergamon Press, pp. 101, £9.00 paperback.

Why Policies Succeed or Fail, Helen M. Ingram and Dean E. Mann (Eds), Sage Publications, 1980, pp. 312, £12.50 cloth, £6.25 paper.

Supplementary Benefits and the Consumer, Eric Brigg and Anthony M. Rees, Occasional Papers on Social Administration No. 65, Bedford Square Press, 1979, pp. 172, £5.95.

More Bad News, Glasgow University Media Group, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980, pp. 483, £17.50.

The Road and Christ Church Meadow: The Oxford Inner Relief Road Controversy 1923–1974 — A Study of the Relationship between Central and Local Government, Roland Newman, Oxford Polytechnic, 1980, pp. 71, £1.00.

Planned Safety Management: A Guide to Action, A. Stevenson, Alan Osborne and Associates, 1980, pp. 116, £4.50 paperback.

Public Policy Research: A Review of Qualitative Methods, Ken Young and Liz Mills, Social Science Research Council, 1980, pp. 43, £1.00.

The Practice of Urban Economics, Alfred J. Watkins, Sage Publications (Vol. 107 of Sage Library of Social Research), 1980, pp. 247, £11.25 hardback, £5.50 paperback.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article Administrative Theory and Public Administration R. J. S. Baker Central Government Administration: A Student's Guide to Public Administration. Vol. 1. E. N. Gladden Local, Corporational and International Administration: A Student's Guide to Public Administration. Vol.2. E. N. Gladden Studies in the Growth of Nineteenth-Century Government G. Sutherland The Limits of Organizational Change Herbert Kaufman The Managerial Class of India V. Subramaniam Social Background of India's Administrators V.Subramaniam Bureaucracy and Politics in India C.P.Bhambhri Politics, Finance and the Role of Economics: An Essay on the Control of Public Enterprise Christopher Foster Government Contracts Colin Turpin     

Cost Benefit Study of the New Covent Garden Market

The Hon. Editor has received the following letter commenting on Professor Kirk's and Mr. Sloyan's article on the New Covent Garden Market (Vol. 56 Spring 1978). The author is lecturer in applied economics in the Department of Social and Economic Research, University of Glasgow. Mr. Heald's letter is followed by a reply by Professor Kirk on behalf of Mr. Sloyan and himself.     

Book notices

W. Brus, P. Kende, Z. Mlynar, ’Normalization’ Processes in Soviet‐Dominated Central Europe: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Research Project, ‘Crisis in Soviet‐Type Systems’, Directed by Zdenek Mlynar and a Scientific Council, Study No. 1, 1982. 48 pp.

The Soviet Union 1980–81: Domestic Policy, The Economy, Foreign Policy, Vol. 6. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 1983. xii + 347 pp.

Howard Machin (ed.) National Communism in Western Europe: A Third Way for Socialism? London and New York: Methuen, 1983. viii + 232 pp. £4.95 (paperback).

Zdenek Mlynar, Relative Stabilization of the Soviet Systems in the 1970s, Research Project, ‘Crises in Soviet‐Type Systems’, Study No. 2, 1983, 40 pp.

Michael Clarke (ed.), Corruption: Consequences and Control, London: Frances Pinter, 1983. xix + 290 pp. £17.50.

Daniel N. Nelson (ed.), Communism and the Politics of Inequalities, Lexington, Mass, and Toronto: Lexington Books (distributed by Gower Publishing outside the American continent), 1983. ix + 290 pp. £22.50.

Christopher T. Saunders (ed.), Regional Integration East and West, London: Macmillan in association with the Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies, 1983. ix + 272 pp. £25.00.

Aurel Braun, Small‐State Security in the Balkans, London: Macmillan, 1983. xi + 334 pp. £25.00.     

Book reviews

Yeshayahu Jelinek, The Parish Republic; Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1939–1945, East European Quarterly, Boulder, Colorado; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1976, 206 p., $11.50.

M.K. Dziewanowski, The Communist Party of Poland: An Outline of History. 2d ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. 419 p. $20.00.

Branko Horvat, Mihailo Markovic and Rudi Supek, eds., Self‐governing Socialism. A Reader. White Plains, N.Y.: International Arts and Sciences Press, 1975. Vol. I, xiv, 490 pp., Vol. II, viii, 327 pp. $19.00 paper.

Celia S. Heller, On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. 369 p. $14.95.     

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Yeshayahu Jelinek, The Parish Republic; Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1939–1945, East European Quarterly, Boulder, Colorado; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1976, 206 p., $11.50.

M.K. Dziewanowski, The Communist Party of Poland: An Outline of History. 2d ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. 419 p. $20.00.

Branko Horvat, Mihailo Markovic and Rudi Supek, eds., Self‐governing Socialism. A Reader. White Plains, N.Y.: International Arts and Sciences Press, 1975. Vol. I, xiv, 490 pp., Vol. II, viii, 327 pp. $19.00 paper.

Celia S. Heller, On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. 369 p. $14.95.     

Introduction to global OD,I: extending the North American base

As the label “Global OD, I” intends to imply, the symposium is viewed as the first in a continuing series dealing with applications of the values-cum-technology usually called Organization Development or, more conveniently, OD. This action theory has developed a North American base over the past 3 or 4 decades, and extensions beyond this continent have now grown apace. Illustratively, a survey in the early 1980s found 100 research reports about OD applications, and there appears to have been no let-up. This industriousness will at once feed future Global OD symposia, and derive some direction from them.

The motivation for this series of symposia is direct. Such extensions beyond the North American base will help test OD's reach and grasp, while those theoretical developments and applications also seek to be responsive to significant and serious problems/opportunities on Space Ship Earth. We are all internationalists now, albeit with differing reservations about what we are in the midst of getting ourselves into.

“Global OD, I” models what is to come. This first symposium draws contributors from four continents; and it contains contributions that deal with OD in two modes -- as generic, or as rooted in specific non-North American contexts. This complements a series of symposia of long-standing in the Public Administration Quarterly, which have a strong bias toward domestic OD theory and applications in the public sector. Symposium VI of that series appeared in two parts in two 1993 PAQ numbers.

Specifically, this symposium contains ten contributions. Brief introductions follow.     

Limiting conflict in the Gulf

Non‐fiction reviews

Undoing Independence: regionalism and the reincorporation of Transkei into South Africa. Andrew Donaldson, Julia Segar and Roger Southall (eds), Grahamstown: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, 1992. (Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary African Studies 11(2); published mid‐1993) pp 281 US$12.00 pb

Frontiers. The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People. Noel Mostert, London: Jonathan Cape, 1992, pp xxix + 1355. £25

Ghana and the Rawlings Factor. by Kevin Shillington, London: Macmillan, 1992, pp 184, £5.95 pb, £14.95 hb

Staying Poor. Ghana's Political Economy, 1950–1990. by Douglas Rimmer, Oxford: Pergamon Press (for the World Bank), 1992 pp

Class, Politics and Ideology in the Iranian Revolution. by Mansoor Moaddel, New York and Oxford: Columbia University Press, 1993, pp 309, $43.50 hb

The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality. by John L Esposito, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp 212, $22.00 hb.

Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment. by Cristobal Kay, London and New York: Routledge, 1989, pp 295

Communications and the ‘Third World’. by Geoffrey Reeves, London: Routledge, 1993, pp 277, £12.99 pb

A New World Order: Grassroots Movements for Global Change. by Paul Ekins, London: Routledge, 1992, pp 248, £9.99 pb

Reference reviews

Directory of African Film‐Makers and Films. Compiled and edited by Keith Shiri, Trowbridge, Wiltshire: Hicks Books, 1992, pp 194, £33.00 hb

The Penguin History of Latin America. by Edwin Williamson, London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1992, pp 631, £25.00 hb

The United Nations Library on Transnational Corporations. Edited by John Dunning The Theory of Transnational Corporations. Vol 1 Transnational Corporations: a historical perspective. Vol 2 Transnational Corporations and Economic Development. Vol 3. Transnational Corporations and Business Strategy. Vol 4. London: Routledge, 1992, total pp 1644, Boxed set of four volumes: £350.00.

Green Globe Yearbook 1992. Edited by H O Bergesen, M Norderhaug and G Parmann, For Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway Oxford &; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp 303, £25.00 hb

World Resources 1992–93: A Guide to the Global Environment. Toward Sustainable Development. by The World Resources Institute, In collaboration with United Nations Oxford &; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp 385, £15.95

Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World. by David Maybury‐Lewis, London: Viking, 1992, pp 397, £17.99 pb     

Explanations of,and responses to,youth homelessness in local authority housing departments

This article examines the relationship between beliefs about youth homelessness and the steps being taken by local authorities to tackle the problem, based on interviews with officers responsible for dealing with youth homelessness in north‐eastern local authorities. Officers blamed young people's homelessness on a wide range of factors, but the action they thought appropriate to tackle the problem tended to focus on making more accommodation available or supporting young people to live in it. Officers expressed frustration at their inability to provide adequate support. It appeared that action to meet young people's needs was most likely to be taken when it also incorporated a ‘housing management’ objective such as filling empty properties.     

Book notices

Karl‐Ernst Schenk (ed.), Wirtschaftsordnung, Industrieorganisation und Koordination—Theorien und Länder‐vergleiche. Stuttgart, New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1985, x + 211 pp. DM 46,—

The Economist Intelligence Unit, Regional Review: Eastern Europe and the USSR 1985. London: The Economist Publications Ltd., 1985, 119 pp. £65.00

The AEI Foreign Policy and Defence Review. Vol. 5 No. 2 (January 1985). Washington: American Enterprise institute, 1985. 52 pp. $5.00

Gershon David Hundert and Gershon C. Bacon, The Jews in Poland and Russia: Bibliographical Essays. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. viii + 276 pp. £25.00.

Randolph L. Braham (ed.), The Hungarian Jewish Catastrophe: a Selected and Annotated Bibliography. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xvi + 501 pp. $52.00.

Edward C. Thaden with the collaboration of Marianna Forster Thaden, Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710–1870. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985, xi + 273 pp. £32.30.

John Milner, Vladimir Tatlin and the Russian Avant‐Garde. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985, viii + 252 pp. p/b £8.95.

Christina Lodder, Russian Constructionism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985, viii + 238 pp. p/b £9.95.

Harry G. Shaffer, (ed.), The Soviet System in Theory and Practice: Western and Soviet Views. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1984, xx + 451 pp. p/b $12.95.

John W. Burton, Global Conflict. The Domestic Sources of International Crisis. Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books, 1985, xii + 194 pp. h/b £20.00.

Danylo Shumuk, Life Sentence. Memoirs of a Ukrainian Political Prisoner. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1984, xxii + 401 pp., no price.

Paul Seabury and Walter A. McDougal, eds., The Grenada Papers. San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1984, xviii + 346 pp., h/b £17.45, p/b £9.20.

Paul B. Anderson, No East or West. Paris: YMCA Press, 1985, iii + 175 pp., no price.

Volodymyr Kubiojovyc, ed., Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Vol. 1, A‐F. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984, xv + 952 pp., 120 Canadian dollars.     

Loss and Recovery in War Refugees

Abstract

In an exploratory study of loss and recuperation in six Bosnian refugees, loss of place, home, and a way of life appeared to be overwhelming. In spite of such major losses, respondents used numerous coping mechanisms to deal with the loss. Cognitive coping appeared to be more appropriate, given the limited avenues for active coping. Making meaning out of their experience appeared to be an important avenue of healing. Some used limited active and emotional coping that when combined with cognitive methods helped give them a sense of control over their situation, however minor. Thus they could maintain a part of themselves unaffected by the onslaught of trauma and loss.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article:
Royal Commissions and Departmental Committees in Britain T.J. Cartwright.
Techniques and Public Administration: A Contextual Evaluation Maurice Spiers.
Essays on the Study of Urban Politics Ken Young (ed.).
Power, Persistence and Change Margaret Stacey.
The Management of Welfare: A Study of British Social Service Administration R.G.S. Brown.
Environmental Planning, Vol. I, Reconstruction and Land Use Planning 1939-1947 By J.B. Cullingworth.
Ad HOG Governments: Special Purpose Transportation Authorities in Britain and the United States Robert G. Smith.     

Socialist Serbia's Narratives: From Yugoslavia to a Greater Serbia

The essay surveys various attempts of Serbian intellectual and political elites to define Serbian national goals in relation to a socialist Yugoslavia. I suggest that even though rhetorical devices and policies applied throughout the entire socialist period have appeared to be the same (e.g., that all Serbs should live in one state), different contexts in each of the subperiods of socialist Serbia and Yugoslavia yielded entirely different results (e.g., in favor of Yugoslavia, or in favor of a Greater Serbia). In the paper, I identify four distinct, yet interrelated, Serbian national discourses: conservative–socialist, socialist–reformist, national–liberal, and xenophobic nationalist. They are evaluated in relation to official Yugoslavism in the early 1960s and Serbian reformist policy of civic nationalism in the late 1960s to early 1970s, debates over the 1974 Constitution, and, finally, Serbian intellectual and political responses to the Yugoslav political crisis in the late 1980s to early 1990s. These moments have been chosen because of their particular relevance for understanding the mutations of Serbian national discourse in the former Yugoslavia.     

Planning and Strategy in Reforming Romania's SRI

Counting the wars

Count Alexandre de Marenches and David A. Andelman: The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism William Morrow, New York, 1992, 281 p., $23.00.

The Israeli nuclear minimax

Seymour M. Hersh: The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy Random House, New York, 1991, 356 p., $23.00.

Weighing evidence for the intelligence analyst

David A. Schum: Evidence and Inference for the Intelligence Analyst 2 Vols./ University Press of America, 1987, Vol. 1—486 p., $125.00; Vol.2—359 p., $85.00.

Yankee secrets

Edmund R. Thompson, ed.: Spies of the American Revolution David Atlee Phillips New England Chapter, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Kennebunk, Maine, 1991, 234 p., $12.95.

Enquiring minds want to know…

Peter Gudgin: Military Intelligence: The British Story Arms and Armour Press, London, 1989, 156 p., $21.95.     

Book notices

Edmund Herzig, Iran and the Former Soviet South. London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1995, 60 pp., No price.

Yuri Buranov, Lenin's Will Falsified and Forbidden. From the Secret Archives of the Former Soviet Union. New York: Prometheus Books, 1994, 241 pp., £28.00.

Julia Alexandrow with Tommy French, Flight from Novaa Salow. Autobiography of a Ukrainian Who Escaped Starvation in the 1930s Under the Russians and Then Suffered Nazi Enslavement. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1995, xiii + 202 pp., £29.25.

Gregory L. Freeze & S. V. Mironenko (eds), State Archive of the Russian Federation. A Research Guide. Volume 1. Collections of the State Archive of the Russian Federation on the History of Russia in the 19th and Early‐20th Centuries. Moscow: Blagovest, 1994, xviii + 394 pp., No price.

V. A. Kozlov & S. V. Mironenko (eds), State Archive of the Russian Federation. Archive of Contemporary Russian History. Volume 1. The ‘Special Files’ for I. V. Stalin. Moscow: Blagovest, 1994, 353 pp. No price. Volume 2. The ‘Special Files’ for V. M. Molotov. Moscow: Blagovest, 1994, 219 pp., No price.

J. Arch Getty & V. P. Kozlov (eds), Russian Center for Preservation and Study of Documents of Contemporary History. A Research Guide. Moscow: Blagovest, 1993, xxx + 220 pp., No price.     

Paths to the recognition of homo-parental adoptive rights in the EU-27: a QCA analysis

Although the recognition of the adoptive rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) couples is a socially salient topic, cross-national variation regarding this issue has been largely underexplored in social science research. With the aid of configurational analysis, this article fills this gap and shows the conditions that explain the recognition of the adoptive rights of homosexual couples in the countries of the EU-27. It is argued that two different paths led to this outcome. All countries where adoptive rights were recognized had higher degrees of secularization and lower levels of social homophobia. In addition, in Northern European countries, the Protestant background and absence of conservative governments for a certain time period seemed to be the determinant. However, for the remaining European countries that recognized these rights, rising levels of gender equality appeared to have a more salient role.     

Extricating the state: The move to competitive capture in post-communist Bulgaria

This article uses the Bulgarian case to analyse movement from a situation of what appeared to be a ‘Partial-Reform Equilibrium’ to an ‘Equilibrium of Competitive Capture’. In such a process, elections are important forces for change, but not because they bring reformist parties to power or lead to completed economic liberalisation. Instead, especially in the first several electoral cycles in a new democracy, they can bring to power new leaders who are not beholden to existing captors, but rather to other clients that would like to capture the state for their own interests. Over time, the country experiences a parade of captors, eventually leading to a system where no single group owns the state, but where it is still not insulated. Instead, several competing groups fight with each other to raid it for their own benefits.