COMPARATIVE

Books Reviewed
Tony Fitzpatrick, AFTER THE NEW SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: social welfare for the twenty-first century , (EDWIN GRIGGS), 151
Paul Gready, POLITICAL TRANSITION: politics and culture , (DAVID J. GALBREATH), 151
Steve John and Stuart Thomson (eds), NEW ACTIVISM AND THE CORPORATE RESPONSE , (WILLIAM DINAN), 152
Bruno Coppieters and Richard Sakwa (eds), CONTEXTUALISING SECESSION: normative studies in comparative perspective , (COSTAS LAOUTIDES), 153
John J. Czaplicka and Blair A. Ruble (eds), COMPOSING URBAN HISTORY AND THE CONSTITUTION OF CIVIC IDENTITIES , (JAMES G. MELLON), 154
Russell J. Dalton, DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE, DEMOCRATIC CHOICES: the erosion of political support in advanced industrial democracies , (MARC HOOGHE), 155
Pippa Norris, Montague Kern and Marion Just (eds), FRAMING TERRORISM: the news media, the government, and the public , (SIMON DALFERTH), 155
Diane Stone and Andrew Denham (eds), THINK TANK TRADITIONS: policy research and the politics of ideas , (RACHEL TURNER), 156
Robert H. Blank and Viloa Burau, COMPARATIVE HEALTH POLICY , (EDWIN GRIGGS), 157
Bruce E. Cain, Russell J. Dalton and Susan E. Scarrow, DEMOCRACY TRANSFORMED? Expanding political opportunities in advanced industrial democracies , (MAREK RYBAR), 158
Erik Bleich, RACE POLITICS IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE: ideas and policymaking since the 1960s , (ACHIM GOERRES), 159
Duncan Watts, UNDERSTANDING US/UK GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: a comparative guide , (TERRENCE CASEY), 159     

COMPARATIVE

Books Reviewed
Carles Boix, DEMOCRACY AND REDISTRIBUTION , (AGUSTÍN JOSÉ MENÉNDEZ), 304
Tim Newburn and Richard Sparks (eds), CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND POLITICAL CULTURES: national and international dimensions of crime control , (DALE MINESHIMA), 305
Fiona Devine and Mary C. Waters (eds), SOCIAL INEQUALITIES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE , (DWIN GRIGGS), 305
Greg Barns, WHAT's WRONG WITH THE LIBERAL PARTY ? , (MICHAEL RUSH), 306
Katherine Hite and Paola Cesarini (eds), AUTHORITARIAN LEGACIES AND DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA AND SOUTHERN EUROPE , (SEÁN HANLEY), 307
Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini, COMPARING MEDIA SYSTEMS: three models of media and politics , (NICK COULDRY), 308
Nilolao Zahariadis, AMBIGUITY AND CHOICE IN PUBLIC POLICY: political decision making in modern democracies , (MARA S. SIDNEY), 308
Anne Davis (ed.), THE FUTURE OF THE DEMOCRATIC LEFT IN INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACIES , (DAN HOUGH), 309
Ugo M. Amoretti and Nancy Bermeo (eds), FEDERALISM AND TERRITORIAL CLEAVAGES , (LEONARD J. SADOSKY), 310
Alfred P. Montero and David J. Samuels, DECENTRALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA , (OZLEM GOLGELIOGLU), 311
Vladimir Gel'man, Sergei Ryzhenkov and Michael Brie, MAKING AND BREAKING DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS , (NEIL A. CRUICKSHANK), 311
F. Leslie Seidle and David C. Docherty (eds), REFORMING PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY , (ANDREW CORK), 312
John P. McHale, COMMUNICATION AND CHANGE: strategies of social and political advocates , (YVES LABERGE), 313
Robin Hambleton, Hank V. Savitch and Murray Stewart (eds), GLOBALISM AND LOCAL DEMOCRACY: challenge and change in Europe and North America , (GABRIELE DE ANGELIS), 314     

THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ECONOMIC POLICYMAKING

Peter A. Hall. Governing the Economy
Jack Hayward. The State and the Market Economy: Industrial Patriotism and Economic Intervention in France .
Sharon Zukin (Ed.). Industrial Policy: Business and Politics in the United States and France .     

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RULEMAKING PROVISIONS IN STATE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACTS

As the primary source of procedures that state agencies must follow, state Administrative Procedure Acts (APAs) structure administrative discretion in the promulgation of rules and regulations. While the federal APA has been studied extensively, much less has been written about state procedural statutes. This article describes the major rulemaking provisions in state APAs and provides a broad, comparative, and systematic understanding of these provisions. Our analysis yields three major findings. First, state procedural statutes vary considerably in the extent to which they structure administrative discretion in rulemaking. Second, adoption of these rulemaking provisions tends to vary in a systematic way, as states first incorporate due process provisions, and then adopt responsiveness and rationality provisions. Third, in the area of procedural regulatory reform, states have made considerable strides in reforming regulatory administration.