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     

The State of Citizenship

Books reviewed in this article: Luc, Rouban (ed.) Citizens and the New Governance: Beyond New Public Management Wayne, Hudson and John, Kane (eds) Rethinking Australian Citizenship Birte, Siim Gender and Citizenship: Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins Peter Edwards Australian Social Attitudes. The First Report Shaun Wilson, Gabrielle Meagher, David Denemark and Mark Western (eds) Terms of Trust: Arguments over Ethics in Australian Government John Uhr Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies Mark Considine The Life and Death of Harold Holt Tom Frame Head of State: the Governor‐General, the Monarchy, the Republic and the Dismissal David Smith Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia and the Pacific Haig Patapan, John Wanna and Patrick Weller (eds) The Governance of Public and Non‐Profit Organisations: What do boards do? Chris Cornforth (ed) Australia Unsettled: The Legacy of ‘Neo‐liberalism’ Dennis Woodward Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives Martin Painter and Jon Pierre (eds)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Vincent Bugliosi, The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President Jack N. Rakove (ed.), The Unfinished Election of 2000: Leading Scholars Examine America’s Strangest Election Daniel Lazare, The Velvet Coup: The Constitution, the Supreme Court and the Decline of American Democracy Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett, Keith Joseph Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox Gerd‐Rainer Horn and Emmanuel Gerard (eds.), Left Catholicism 1943–1955: Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation Lorna Arnold, Britain and the H‐Bomb Joseph V. Femia, Against the Masses: Varieties of Anti‐Democratic Thought since the French Revolution Gino Bedani and Bruce Haddock (eds.), The Politics of Italian National Identity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective Paul M. Sniderman, Pierangelo Peri, Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr and Thomas Piazza, The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy Norman Birnbaum, After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century Gøsta Esping‐Andersen and Marino Regini (eds.), Why Deregulate Labour Markets? Andrew Murray, Off the Rails: Britain’s Great Rail Crisis—Cause, Consequences and Cure Christian Wolmar, Broken Rails     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Peter J. Williamson: Corporatism in Perspective .
Norman M. Bradburn & Seymour Sudman: Polls and Surveys. Understanding What They Tell Us.
Erik Damgaard, Peter Gerlich & J. J. Richardson (eds.): The Politics of Economic Crisis.
Risto Alapuro: State and Revolution in Finland .
Cranford Pratt (ed.): Internationalism under Strain: The North-South Politics of Canada, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden .
Leif Lewin: Det gemensamma bästa. Om egenintresset och allmänintresset i västerländsk politik .
Brian Girvin (ed.): The Transformation of Contemporary Conservatism .     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Jane E. Fountain, Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change Alan Charles Raul, Privacy and the Digital State: Balancing Public Information and Personal Privacy Elaine Ciulla Kamarck and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (eds.), Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age Peter John Perry, Political Corruption in Australia: A Very Wicked Place? Adrienne Héritier, Dieter Kerwer, Christopher Knill, Dirk Lehmkuhl, Michael Teutsch, and Anne‐Cecile Douillet, Differential Europe: The European Union Impact on National Policy‐making Susan C. Stokes, Mandates and Democracies: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America Matthew Flinders, The Politics of Accountability in the Modern State     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Edward J. Clyncu and Thomas P. Lauth, (eds.) Governors, Legislatures, and Budget Across the American States C. William Garner, Accounting and Budgeting in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Manager's Guide Herman B. Leonard, Checks Unbalanced: The Quiet Side of Public Spending David M. Lawrence, Local Government Finance in North Carolina Timpthy J. Conlan, Margaret T. Wrightson, and David R. Beam, Taxing Choices: The Politics of Tax Reform     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Valerie Sperling, ed., Building the Russian State: Institutional Crisis and the Quest for Democratic Governance Victoria E. Bonnell and George W. Breslauer., eds., Russia in the New Century: Stability or Disorder? Stephen McBride, Paradigm Shift: Globalization and the Canadian State Pippa Norris, Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Carolyn J. Hill, Improving Governance: A New Logic for Empirical Research Mauro F. Guillen, Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Irene Rubin, The Politics of Public Budgeting: Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing Public Works Today: A Profile of Local Service Organizations and Managers Wayne Vroman, Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Adequacy in the 1990's Laurence J. Kotlifoff and David A. Wise, The Wage Carrot and the Pension Stick: Retirement Benefits and Labour Force Participation Lawrence J. Haas, Running on Empty: Bush, Congress, and the Politics of a Bankrupt Government Robert Berne and Richard Schramm, The Financial Analysis of Governments     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Refining Regulatory Regimes: Utilities in Europe David Cohen and Adrienne Heritier (eds) Civil Service Reform in the United States: Personnel Policy and Politics at the Subnational Level J. Edward Kellough and Lloyd G. Nigro (eds) Measuring Corruption Charles Sampford, Arthur Shacklock, Carmel Connors and Fredrick Galtung (eds) Francis De Groot. Irish Fascist. Australian Legend Andrew Moore Recognising Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English‐Settler Colonialism Peter Russell     

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

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     

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: 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     

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

Campbell, Colin and Wilson, Graham K., The End of Whitehall: Death of a Paradigm? Rohr, John A., Founding Republics in France and America: A Study in Constitutional Governance Weller, Patrick and Davis, Glyn (eds.), New Ideas, Better Government Goodin, R.E. (ed.), The Theory of Institutional Design Oakeshott, Michael, The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Skepticism     

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 Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bruce Mccallum , The Public Service Manager: An Introduction to Personnel Management in the Australian Public Service R. J. K. Chapman and Michael Wood , Australian Local Government Kosmas Tsokhas , A Class Apart? Businessmen and Australian Politics 1960–1980 Andrew Kakabadse and Suresh Mukhi (eds), The Future of Management Education Jonathan Boston , Incomes Policy in New Zealand: 1968–1984, Wellington, Victorian University Press for the Institute of Policy Studies David Dery , Problem Definition in Policy Analysis     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: M. A. Jones , Local Government and the People: Challenges for the Eighties Robert H. Simmons , Achieving Humane Organization, Malibu, California, Daniel Spencer. Leon Glezer , Tariff Politics: Australian Policy-Making 1960–1980, Melbourne Geoffrey Hawker , Who's Master, Who's Servant? Reforming Bureaucracy, Sydney T. J. Barrington , The Irish Administrative System, Dublin Gerald Rhodes , Inspectorates in British Government, London Hugh Saddler , Energy in Australia: Politics and Economics, Sydney Brendan Hensey , The Health Services of Ireland, third edition, Dublin J. P. Casey , The Office of the Attorney General in Ireland, Dublin     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Governance Stories Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes Administering Welfare Reform: International Transformations in Welfare Governance Paul Henman and Menno Fenger (eds) Health Policy and Politics: Networks, Ideas and Power Jenny Lewis The Longest Decade George Megalogenis Globalisation, Policy Transfer and Policy Research Institutes Stella Ladi