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Book reviews in this article: POLICY STYLES IN WESTERN EUROPE Jeremy Richardson (ed.). POLITICS, POLICY AND THE EUROPEAN RECESSION Andrew Cox (ed.). BRITISH DOGMATISM AND FRENCH PRAGMATISM: CENTRAL-LOCAL POLICYMAKING IN THE WELFARE STATE Douglas E. Ashford. CENTRAL GRANTS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT R. J. Bennett. HOW MUCH ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS WORTH? John Gretton and Anthony Harrison (eds.) EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF HEALTH PROGRAMS: A PRIMER Michael E. Borus, C. Gregory Bunk and William R. Trash. HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: ITS ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT N. W. Chaplin (ed.). HEALTH POLICY IN BRITAIN: THE POLITICS AND ORGANISATION OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Christopher Ham. POLICY-MAKING AND PLANNING IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Kenneth Lee and Anne Mills. CONSUMING SECRETS: HOW OFFICIAL SECRECY AFFECTS EVERYDAY LIFE IN BRITAIN Rosemary Delbridge and Martin Smith (eds.). THE POLITICS OF SECRECY: CONFIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW James Michael. WAR AND THE STATE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT, 1914–1919 Kathleen Burk (ed.). THE POLITICS OF THE ARTS COUNCIL ROBERT HUTCHISON. THE PROMOTION OF INNOVATION IN HEALTH CARE: THE CASE FOR DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES IN THE NHS Chris Ham and Laurie McMahon CRITICAL READINGS IN PLANNING THEORY Chris Paris (ed.). MANAGEMENT REFORM IN SCOTTISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT Arthur Midwinter.     

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GETTING CLOSER TO THE PUBLIC Local Government Training Board
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: THE TOWN HALLS RESPOND David Blunkett and Keith Jackson
LEGALITY AND LOCAL POLITICS L. Bridges, C. Game, O. Lomas, J. McBride and S. Ranson
JUNIOR MINISTERS IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT Kevin Theakston
IMPROVING PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Les Metcalfe and Sue Richards
SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: EXPERIENCE OF A PILOT MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
POLICY MAKING UNDER ADVERSITY Yehezkel Dror
BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC CHOICE Jan-Eric Lane (ed.)
ADMINISTRATION AS SERVICE – THE PUBLIC AS CLIENT Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PROCESS: LEARNING BY DOING David Heald and Richard Rose (eds.)
REGULATION AND PUBLIC LAW Robert Baldwin and Christopher McCrudden Weidenfeld and Nicolson
STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Tom Rathwell
HEALTH MANPOWER: PLANNING, PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT Andrew F. Long and Geoffrey Mercer
HMI Denis Lawton and Peter Gordon Routledge and Kegan Paul
SCRUTINY OF PROCEDURES FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND A report by Angus Mitchell to the Secretary of State for Education and Science
BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN Wyn Grant with Jane Sargent Macmillan
CHANGING TRAINS: MESSAGES FOR MANAGEMENT FROM THE SCOTRAIL CHALLENGE Valerie Stewart and Vivian Chadwick David & Charles
CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WEST EUROPEAN UNITARY STATES Edward C. Page and Michael J. Goldsmith (eds.)
THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAPITOL HILL: THE POLITICS OF PRESIDENTIAL PERSUASION Nigel Bowles     

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BEYOND THE BOTTOM LINE: MANAGEMENT IN GOVERNMENT Timothy W. Plumptre
ACCOUNTABILITY AMONG SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS Mary Daly
BEYOND WESTMINSTER AND WHITEHALL: THE SUB-CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS OF BRITAIN R. A. W. Rhodes
MANAGING THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: SHIFTING THE FRONTIER Stephen Harrison
JOINT PLANNING AND JOINT MANAGEMENT Gerald Wistow and Tessa Brooks (eds.)
EVALUATING POLICE WORK: AN ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT Christine Horton and David Smith
INFORMATION AND GOVERNMENT: STUDIES IN THE DYNAMICS OF POLICY-MAKING Roger Davidson and Phil White (eds.)
GOVERNING EDUCATION: A SOCIOLOGY OF POLICY SINCE 1945 A. McPherson and C. Raab
FREEDOM AND EDUCATION: WAYS OF INCREASING OPENNESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY John Tomlinson, Peter Mortimore and Pamela Sammons
THE POLITICS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT G. Stoker
THE REFORM OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE IN BRITAIN S. J. Bailey and R. Paddison (eds.)
THE POLITICS OF THE URBAN CRISIS A. Sills, G. Taylor and P. Golding Hutchinson
REVERSING INDUSTRIAL DECLINE Paul Hirst and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds.)     

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AN INDUSTRIALIST IN THE TREASURY – THE POST-WAR YEARS Edwin Plowden
1688–1988: TIME FOR A NEW CONSTITUTION R. Holme and M. Elliott
DEVELOPING POLICY RESEARCH Tim Booth
THE DYNAMICS OF STRATEGIC CHANGE C. R. Hinings and Royston Greenwood
ORGANIZING GOVERNANCE, GOVERNING ORGANIZATIONS Colin Campbell, S. J. and B. Guy Peter (eds.)
THE RETREAT OF THE STATE: DEREGULATION AND PRIVATISATION IN THE UK AND US Dennis Swann
TROUBLED WATER: RIVERS, POLITICS AND POLLUTION David Kinnersley
SIZEWELL 'B': AN ANATOMY OF THE INQUIRY Timothy O'Riordan, Ray Kemp and Michael Purdue
DEFENCE POLICY MAKING: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS G. M. Dillon (ed.)
POST-INDUSTRIAL CITIES: POLITICS AND PLANNING IN NEW YORK, PARIS AND LONDON H. V. Savitch
THE POSTMODERN PRESIDENT: THE WHITE HOUSE MEETS THE WORLD Richard Rose
HAWKE'S SECOND GOVERNMENT: AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH ADMINISTRATION 1984–1987 Roger Wettenhall and J. R. Nethercote
MARKETING IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT Kieron Walsh
THE CHANGING POLITICS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT J. Gyford, S. Leach, and C. Game
SOCIAL WORK AND LOCAL POLITICS Paul Daniel and John Wheeler
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR A. P. Kakabadse, P. R. Brovetto, Rainer Holzer (eds.)     

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Book reviewed in this Article:
EVIDENCE, ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION IN THE POLICY PROCESS Giandomenico Majone.
MANAGERIALISM AND THE PUBLIC SERVICES: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE C. Pollitt.
PUBLIC POLICY UNDER THATCHER, S. P. Savage, L. Robins.
OUTPUT AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN GOVERNMENT: THE STATE OF THE ART Martin Cave, Maurice Ksgan Robert Smith (eds.)
PARLIAMENT AND PRESSURE POLITICS Michael Rush (ed.)
PARLIAMENT TODAY Andrew Adonis.
HAPPY AND GLORIOUS: THE CONSTITUTION IN TRANSITION Norman Lewis (ed.)
POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN SCOTLAND Arthur Midwinter, Michael Keating James Mitchell.
ENDURING INEQUALITY: REUGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IN EMF'LOYMENT IN NORTHERN IRELAND Vincent McConnack, Joe O'Hara.
NORTHERN IRELAND IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: AN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS Arthur Aughey, Paul Hainsworth Martin J. Trimbie.
EQUALIZING PEOPLE D. G. Green.
THE STATE OF WELFARE: THE WELFARE STATE IN BRITAIN SINCE 1974 John Hills (ed.), Nicholas Barr et al.
THE DYNAMICS OF BRITISH HEALTH POLICY Steve Harrison, David Hunter Christopher Pollitt.
NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY PROGRAMMES N. Cannon (ed.)
RACE AND LOCAL POLITICA Wendy Ball and John Solomos.
MOVING THE HOUSING MARKET R. Forrest, A. Murie.
THE QUALITY OF SERWCE IN HOUSING MANAGEMENT, K. Walsh K. Spencer.
CORPORATE MANAGEMENT IN AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT, G. Davis, P. Weller C. Lewis (eds.)
BUDGETARY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL: THE PUEILIC SECTOR IN AUSTRALIA J. Forster J. Wanna (eds.)
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN AUSTRALIA: A WATERSHED J. Power (ed.)     

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ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYSIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO RULES, ENFORCEMENT AND ORGANISATION Christopher Hood THE NOBLE LIE: THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION AND THE RULE OF LAW Ian Harden and Norman Lewis THE MANAGEMENT OF HUNG AUTHORITIES Local Government Training Board THE NEW MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT John Stewart THE CHANGING GOVERNMENT OF EDUCATION S. Ranson and J. Tomlinson (eds.) PLANNING, NEED AND SCARCITY: ESSAYS ON THE PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES Adrian Webb & Gerald Wistow IN DEFENCE OF THE WELFARE STATE Paul Wilding (ed.) WHAT PRICE COMMUNITY MEDICINE? THE EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES: FAMILY PRACTITIONER COMMITTEES IN THE 1980s PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN THE INNER CITIES AFTER ACHESON Gerald Rhodes, Usha Prashar and Ken Young THE DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY: TASKS, ORGANISATION AND RELATIONSHIPS OF THE GOVERNING BODY Warren Kinston THE STATE, FINANCE AND INDUSTRY Andrew Cox (ed.) NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES AND PUBLIC CONTROL: LEGAL, CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES Tony Prosser THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY: 1946–82, THE NATIONALIZED INDUSTRY William Ashworth THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRITISH REGIONAL POLICY D. W. Parsons GOVERNING THE ECONOMY: THE POLITICS OF STATE INTERVENTION IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE Peter A. Hall DECENTRALISATION AND CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE Michael Keating and Paul Hainsworth Gower CENTRALISATION AND DECENTRALISATION IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE Stephen Garrish THE SQUARE MILE: A GUIDE TO THE CITY REVOLUTION John Plender and Paul Wallace ADJUSTING TO DEMOCRACY: THE ROLE OF THE MINISTRY OF LABOUR IN BRITISH POLITICS 1916–1939 Rodney Lowe POLICY ANALYSIS AND CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES Sir Douglas Was, Michael Elliott, Anthony Barker (eds.) HOUSING A DIVIDED SOCIETY C. E. B. Brett     

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Book reviewed in this article:
SOLVING LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROBLEMS — PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN CITIES AND REGIONS Charles E. Pinkus and Anne Dixson
PUBLIC DUTIES: THE MORAL OBLIGATIONS OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS J. L. Fleishman, L. Liebman and M. H. Moore (eds.).
THE MAKING OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE John E. Pater
VOLUNTARY SOCIAL SERVICES Norman Johnson
THE ADMINISTRATIVE 'REVOLUTION' IN WHITEHALL: A STUDY OF THE POLITICS OF ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE IN BRITISH CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SINCE THE 1950s G. K. Fry
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN: EVERYONE'S GUIDE TO HOW IT ALL WORKS Tony Byrne
MODERN POLICING David Watts Pope and Norman L. Weiner (eds.)
SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE FAILURE OF THE STATE: CENTRALISED SOCIAL SERVICES AND PARTICIPATORY ALTERNATIVES R. Hadley and S. Hatch
WOMEN IN TOP JOBS 1968–1979 Michael Fogarty, Isobel Allen and Patricia Walters
INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND INNOVATION Charles Carter (ed.)
PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN Michael Rush
BACKBENCH SPECIALISATION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS David Judge
CASH LIMITS AND EXTERNAL FINANCING LIMITS Andrew Likierman
PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT IN THE UK G. Wilkinson and P. M. Jackson
THE POLICY PROCESS IN COMMUNIST STATES: POLITICS AND INDUSTRIAL ADMINISTRATION Leslie Holmes
HEALTH AND WEALTH: AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF HEALTH-CARE SPENDING Robert J. Maxwell
THE HOME OFFICE 1848–1914: FROM CLERKS TO BUREAUCRATS Jill Pellew
CULTURE OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES Andrew Kakabadse     

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PLANNING UNDER PRESSURE: THE STRATEGIC CHOICE APPROACH John Friend and Alan Hickling
POLICYMAKING, COMMUNICATION, AND SOCIAL LEARNING Sir Geoffrey Vickers, (eds.): Guy B. Adams, John Forester, and Bayard L. Catron
RESHAPING LOCAL GOVERNMENT 1979–1987 Michael Parkinson (ed.)
RESHAPING THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE 1979–87 Robert Maxwell (ed.)
JOINT APPROACHES TO SOCIAL POLICY: RATIONALITY AND PRACTICE Linda Challis et al.
PRIVATE MEMBERS' BILLS David Marsh and Melvyn Read
POLITICAL ECONOMY: PUBLIC POLICIES DM THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN Jerold L. Waltman and Donley T. Studlar (eds.)
THE POLITICS OF STEEL: WESTERN EUROPE AND THE STEEL INDUSTRY IN THE CRISIS YEARS (1974–1984) Yves Meny and Vincent Wright (eds.)
THE STATE AND THE CITY Ted Robert Gurr and Desmond S. King
LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES. THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION Kenneth Dyson (ed.)
INDICTMENT: POWER AND POLITICS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY D. Morrell
DEUTSCHES BERUFSBEAMTENTUM UND BRITISCHE BESATZUNG: PLANUNG UND POLITIK 1943–1947 Ulrich Reusch Klett-Cotta
PUBLIC SERVICE LABOUR RELATIONS: RECENT TRENDS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS Tiziano Treu et al.     

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THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Nevil Johnson
DEMOCRACY AND MARKET SYSTEM Charles E. Lindblom
DECISIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS James G. March
CUTBACK MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC BUREAUCRACIES: POPULAR THEORIES AND OBSERVED OUTCOMES IN WHITEHALL Andrew Dunsire and Christopher Hood
HEAD OF THE CIVIL SERVICE – A STUDY OF SIR WARREN FISHER Eunan O'Halpin
MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY Geoffrey Marshall (ed.)
PRIVATE GAIN AND PUBLIC SERVICE – THE ASSOCIATION OF FIRST DIVISION CIVIL SERVANTS Barry J. O'Toole
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT: SELF-INSTRUCTION PACKAGE Cabinet Office and HM Treasury
THE NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY 1982–1986: A CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERIMENT Cornelius O'Leary, Sydney Elliott and R. A. Wilford
MANAGING THE ENABLING AUTHORITY Rodney Brooke
ACCOUNTING FOR PUBLIC POLICY: POWER, PROFESSIONALS AND POLITICS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT David Rosenberg
AN INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT Ian Taylor and George Popham (eds.)
TESTING THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL WELFARE – INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON POLICY CHANGES IN NINE COUNTRIES Robert Morris (ed.)
GOVERNMENT AND THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BRITAIN AND WEST GERMANY Wyn Grant, William Paterson and Colin Whitston
THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AS POLICE OFFICERS John Carrier
A HISTORY OF DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL 1888–1989 Jeffrey Stanyer
THE TREASURY UNDER MRS THATCHER Leo Pliatzky
CHARITIES AND GOVERNMENT Alan Ware
GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE US, CANADA AND THE UK Wyn Grant     

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RULES AND GOVERNMENT Robert Baldwin THE END OF WHITEHALL: DEATH OF A PARADIGM? Colin Campbell and Graham K. Wilson THE CIVIL SERVICE SINCE 1945 Kevin Theakston THE CIVIL SERVICE Keith Dowding THE BRITISH CABINET SYSTEM Martin Burch and Ian Holliday Governing the UK in the 1990s Robert Pyper and Linton Robins POLICY AND MANAGEMENT IN THE BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE Geoffrey Fry THE CHANGING-ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT Steve Leach, John Stewart and Kieron Walsh EXPLAINING ECONOMIC POLICY REVERSALS Christopher Hood MEASURING OUTCOME IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR Peter Smith (ed.) PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT, VOLS I AND II John Bourn MANAGING POLICY CHANGE IN BRITAIN: THE POLITICS OF WATER William Maloney and Jeremy Richardson     

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Book reviews in this article:
UNDERSTANDING BIG GOVERNMENT: THE PROGRAMME APPROACH Richard Rose.
PLANNING THE URBAN REGION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POLICIES AND ORGANIZATIONS Peter Self.
BUREAUCRACY AND DEMOCRACY: A POLITICAL DILEMMA E. Etzioni-Halevy.
COMPONENTS OF WELFARE Stephen Hatch and Ian Mocroft.
THE POLITICS OF LOCAL SPENDING Arthur Midwinter.
THE POLITICS OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM David Judge (ed.).
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS Clive Archer.
GOVERNMENT AND RESEARCH – THE ROTHSCHILD EXPERIMENT IN A GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT M. Kogan and M. Henkel.
POLICY ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins (eds.).
THE STUDY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Keith M. Henderson.
PERSPECTIVES ON MANAGEMENT: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS Michael J. Earl (ed.).
LES NATIONALISATIONS 1982 André G. Delion and Michael Durupty.
QUANGOS: THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE G. R. Curnow and C. A. Saunders (eds.).
BY WORD OF MOUTH: ELITE ORAL HISTORY Anthony Seldon and Joanna Papworth.
OH, CAPTAIN SHAW Ronald Cox.
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE David Heald.     

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Book reviews in this article:
ADMINISTRATIVE POLITICS IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT Andrew Gray and William Jenkins.
POLITICAL THEORIES OF MODERN GOVERNMENT, ITS ROLE, AND REFORM Peter Self.
THE PATHOLOGY OF PUBLIC POLICY B. W. Hogwood and B. G. Peters.
PAYING & CHOOSING: THE INTELLIGENT PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE MIXED ECONOMY Leo Pliatzky.
PARLIAMENT IN THE 1980s Philip Norton (ed.).
THE NEW SELECT COMMITTEES Gavin Drewry (ed.).
HALF CENTURY OF MUNICIPAL DECLINE 1935–1985 Martin Loughlin, M. David Gelfand and Ken Young (eds.).
THE POLITICS OF LOCAL EXPENDITURE K. Newton and T. J. Karran.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN AND WEST GERMANY Alan Norton (ed).
REGULATING THE AIRLINES: ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE AND AGENCY DISCRETION Robert Baldwin.
THE THISTLE AND THE CROWN: A HISTORY OF THE SCOTTISH OFFICE John S. Gibson.
THE MIDDLE OF WHITEHALL: SOME ASPECTS OF THE WORK OF BRITISH CIVIL SERVANTS Dorothy Johnstone.
PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND Richard Chapman (ed.).
UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UK: POLITICS AND POLICIES Jeremy Moon and Jeremy Richardson.
THE ROLE OF VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS IN SOCIAL WELFARE Hugh Mellor.
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES Philip L. Lloyd
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION W. Thornhill     

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Book reviews in this article:
PUBLIC POLICY IN BRITAIN Martin Burch and Bruce Wood.
POLICY ADVICE AND ORGANIZATIONAL SURVIVAL Michael J. Prince.
TAX POLICY-MAKING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Ann Robinson and Cedric Sandford.
THE FRAGMENTED STATE: THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF POWER Ronan Paddison.
TERRITORY AND POWER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM J. Bulpitt.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY K. Koenig, H-J. von Oertzen and F. Wagener (eds.).
GOVERNMENT AND URBAN POVERTY: INSIDE THE POLICY MAKING PROCESS Joan Higgins et al.
PLANNING FOR PRIORITY GROUPS Howard Glennerster, Nancy Korman and Francis Marslen-Wilson.
POLICIES, PROGRAMMES AND DISADVANTAGE: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE Roger Fuller and Olive Stevenson.
SOVIET LOCAL POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT Everett M. Jacobs (ed.).
THE POLITICS OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Rudolf Klein.
BRITISH POLICY AND THE IRISH ADMINISTRATION 1920–22 John McColgan.     

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CABINET Peter Hennessy
WHITEHALL: TRAGEDY AND FARCE Clive Ponting
POLICY CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT: THREE CASE STUDIES Nicholas Deakin (ed.)
JOB AT THE TOP Sir John Boynton
ESSAYS ON THE FUTURE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT Michael Goldsmith (ed.)
NEW RESEARCH IN CENTRAL-LOCAL RELATIONS Michael Goldsmith (ed.)
CENTRAL-LOCAL RELATIONS: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND TRADING STANDARDS SERVICES Gerald Rhodes
PROFESSIONALISM AND POLICY: THE ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONS IN THE CENTRAL-LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP M. Laffin Gower
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CORPORATISM Wyn Grant (ed.)
PUBLIC PERSONNEL POLICY: THE POLITICS OF CIVIL SERVICE David H. Rosenbloom (ed.)
THE PRIVATE EXERCISE OF PUBLIC FUNCTIONS Denis L. Thompson (ed.)
MEASURING UP: CONSUMER ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL AUTHORITY SERVICES National Consumer Council
PUBLIC HOUSING AND PRIVATE PROPERTY 1970–1984 Stephanie Cooper Gower
WOMEN AND EUROPEAN POLITICS: COMTEMPORARY FEMINISM AND PUBLIC POLICY Joni Lovenduski
FUTURE WORK: JOBS, SELF-EMPLOYMENT AND LEISURE AFTER THE INDUSTRIAL AGE James Robertson Gower
THE COMPLETE PLAIN WORDS Sir Ernest Gowers     

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NATIONAL STYLES OF REGULATION: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES David Vogel THE ADMINISTRATION OF STANDARDS OF CONDUCT IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A RESEARCH REPORT Alan Parker, Aidan Rose and John Taylor REGIONALISM IN EUROPEAN POLITICS Roger Morgan (ed.) PROMOTING LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY Colin Mellors (ed.) THE NATIONAL WORLD OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT R. A. W. Rhodes URBAN POLITICAL THEORY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF FISCAL STRESS Michael Goldsmith and Søren Vinadsen (eds) THE EVOLUTION OF SPATIAL POLICY: A CASE STUDY OF INNER-URBAN POLICY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1968–1981 Paul Lawless Pion HOUSING LAND POLICY Yvonne Rydin A PRICE WORTH PAYING? A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT GRANT AID TO VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS Diana Leat, Sue Tester BRITISH STEEL: AN INDUSTRY BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR Heidrun Abromeit PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND THE SELECT COMMITTEES OF THE COMMONS Vilma Flegmann Gower THE NATURE OF UNITED NATIONS BUREAUCRACIES David Pitt and Thomas Weiss (eds.) MAKING THE MANAGERIAL PRESIDENCY: COMPREHENSIVE REORGANIZATION PLANNING 1905–1980 Peri E Arnold POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN HUNGARY Gy. Szoboszlai (ed). POLICY MANAGEMENT AND POLICY ASSESSMENT: DEVELOPMENTS IN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT Proceedings of a Seminar organized by Peat-Marwick and the RIPA Royal Institute of Public Administration     

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ADMINISTRATIVE ARGUMENT Christopher Hood and Michael Jackson.
GOVERNMENT, EVALUATION AND CHANGE Mary Henkel.
CHOICES FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE 1990s AND BEYONQ Michael Clarke and John Stewart.
HOLLOW PROMISES: RHETORIC AND REALITY IN THE INNER CITY M. Keith and A. Rogers (eds.)
URBAN PLAMVLVG UNDER THATCHERISM Andy Thornley.
THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE POLL TAX: MRS THATCHER'S DOWNFALL John Gibson.
DEVELOPMENTS IN FRENCH POLITICS Peter A. Hall, Jack Hayward and Howard Machin (eds.)
GOVERNING FROM THE CENTRE: POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING IN THE NETHERLANDS Ken Gladdish.
PARLIAMENT AND INDUSTRY David Judge.
THE POLITICS OF AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT IN BRITAIN Martin J. Smith.
BUSINESS AND POLITICS: A COMPARATIVE INTRODUCTION (2nd ed.) Graham K. Wilson.
LEGISLATURES IN THE POLICY PROCESS THE DILEMMAS OF ECONOMIC POLICY David Olson Michael Mezey (eds.).
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MODERN STATES: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND THEORETICAL CROSSROADS Peter Wagner, Carol Hirschon Weiss, Bjorn Wittrock and Hellmut Wollman (eds.)
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD PERSPECTIVE O. P. Dwivedi and Keith M. Henderson (eds.)
RESEARCH IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION VOLUME 1 1991 James L. Perry (ed.)
FROM PROHIBITION TO REGULATION: BOOKMAKING, ANTIGAMBLING AND THE LAW David Dixon.
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN LEXICON OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES L. J. Sharpe.     

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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Institute for Public Policy Research. PUBLIC LAW AND DEMOCRACY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA P. P. Craig. THE PUBLIC SECTOR: CHALLENGE FOR CO-ORDINATION AND LEARNING Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (ed.) WHAT NEXT?: AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS AND THE CIVIL SERVICE Anne Davies and John Willman. BRITISH GOVERNMENT: THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE TERRITORY Peter Madgwick. LEARNING FROM PRECEDENT IN WHITEHALL Peter Nailor. A HARD POUNDING: POLITICS AND ECONOMIC CRISIS 1974–76 Edmund Dell. PARLIAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Charles Carstairs and Richard Ware (eds.) CITIZENS, CONSUMERS AND COUNCILS: LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PUBLIC John Gyford. COUNCILLORS IN CRISIS THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORLDS OF LOCAL COUNCILLORS Jacqueline Barron, Gerald Crawley and Tony Wood. LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND NATIONAL POWER Samuel Humes IV. LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN John Kingdom. PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS P. B. Beaumont. IN THE WAY OF WOMEN: MEN'S RESISTANCE TO SEX EQUALITY IN ORGANIZATIONS C. Cockburn. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENTS FOR WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: AN ANGLO-GERMAN PERSPECTIVE Margery Povall and Monika Langkau-Herrmann (eds.) DEMOCRATIZING FRANCE: THE POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF DECENTRALISATION Vim A. Schmidt. LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND INNOVATION: EVENTS AND CHANGES: THE FIRST STEPS OF LOCAL TTANSITION IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE G. Peteri (ed.) THE CHANNEL TUNNEL: PUBLIC POLICY, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Ian Holliday, Gerard Marcou and Roger Vickerman. RESHAPING THE STATE: NEW ZEALAND'S BUREAUCRATIC REVOLUTION J. Boston, J. Martin, J. Pallot and P. Walsh (eds.) REINVENTING RATIONALiTY: THE ROLE OF REGULATORY ANALYSIS IN THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY Thomas O. McGarity.     

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JUDICIAL POLITICS SINCE 1920 John Griffith BUSÍNESS AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN Wýn Grant INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT Richard Pettinger PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT: THEORY, CRITIQUE AND PRACTICE David McKevitt and Alan Lawton (eds.) MARKETS AND MANAGERS: NEW ISSUES IN THE DELIVERY OF WELFARE Peter Taylor-Gooby and Robyn Lawson (eds). THE WELFARE STATE IN BRITAIN: A POLITICAL HISTORY SINCE 1945 Michael Hill SOCIAL SECURITY POLICY IN BRITAIN Michael Hill THE POLITICS OF WELFARE: CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE Nicholas Deakin SOCIAL CARE IN A MIXED ECONOMY G. Wistow, M. Knapp, B. Hardy and C. Allen CONTROLLING HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: THE FUTURE OF WORK AND ORGANIZATION IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt A FUTURE FOR THE NHS? HEALTH CARE IN THE 1990s Wendy Ranadé THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE: THINK TANKS AND THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION, 1931–1983 Richard Cockett OMBUDSMEN IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR Mary Seneviratne THE DIARY OF SIR EDWARD WALTER HAMILTON 1885-1906 Dudley W.R. Bahlman (ed.) CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN. AN ANNUAL REVIEW 1993 Peter Catterall (ed.) CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN. AN ANNUAL REVIEW 1994 Peter Catterall (ed.) CITIES IN THE 1990s G. Stoker and S. Young URBAN POLICY IN BRITAIN. THE CITY, THE STATE AND THE MARKET R. Atkinson and G. Moon THE ROLE OF THE PRIME MINISTER IN FRANCE, 1981–1991 Robert Elgie MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS IN URBAN POLICY: LESSONS FROM FRANCE P. Le Galès and J. Mawson SUCCESSFUL TAX REFORM: LESSONS FROM AN ANALYSIS OF TAX REFORM IN SIX COUNTRIES Cedric Sandford BLUEPRINT 3: MEASURING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT David Pearce et al. THE RISE OF MESO GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE L.J. Sharpe (ed.)     

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THE BRITISH POLITICAL TRADITION VOLUME 3: A MUCH GOVERNED NATION – PARTS 1 AND 2 W. H. Greenleaf Methuen
MINISTERS AND MINISTRIES: A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS Richard Rose
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