Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Ari Salminen: Organized Welfare: The Case of Finland's Welfare Bureaucracy - A Nordic Comparison
Göran Djupsund og Lars Svåsand (red.): Partiorganisasjoner: Studier i struktur og processer i finske, norske, og svenske partier
Leif Lewin: Samhället och de organiserade intressena
Christopher Hood & Michael Jackson: Administrative Argument
Bob Deacon (ed.): The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy Past, Present and Future
Marja Keranen (ed.): Gender and Politics in Finland     

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

Book reviewed in this article:
Nevil Johnson: The Limits of Political Science.
Adrian Leftwich (ed.): New Developments in Political Science. An International Review of Achievements and Prospects.
Hans Mouritzen: Finlandization: Towards a General Theory of Adaptive Politics.
Nielsen, K. & Pedersen, O. K. (eds.): Forhandlingsøkanomi i Norden.
Clarence N. Stone: Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946–1988.     

The Postnational Constellation: Democratic Governance in the Era of Globalization

Books reviewed in this article:
Daniele Archibugi, David Held, and Martin Köhler, (ed.) Re-imagining Political Community: Studies in Cosmopolitan Democracy.
Max Pensky, (ed.) The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays. By Jürgen Habermas.
Beate Kohler-Koch, Regieren in entgrenzten Räumen. (Governance in Debordered Spaces.) Politische Vierteljahresschrift, special issue 29.
Wolfgang Streeck, (ed.) Internationale Wirtschaft, nationale Demokratie. Herausforderungen für die Demokratietheorie. (International Economy, National Democracy: Challenges for Democratic Theory.)
Michael Zürn, Regieren jenseits des Nationalstaates. (Governance Beyond the Nation-State.)     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Fragile Bastion: Judicial Independence in the Nineties and Beyond H CUNNINGHAM (ed.)
Policy and Change: The Howard Mandate SCOTT PRASSER and GRAEME STARR (eds)
Genesis, Termination and Succession in the Life Cycle of Organizations: The Case of the Maritime Resource Management Service M PAUL BROWN (Monographs on Canadian Public Administration — No. 19)
Managerialism: The Great Debate M CONSIDINE and M PAINTER (eds)
The Chance of Politics PAUL HASLUCK (ed.)
Health Policy in Australia H. GARDNER (ed.)     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
From Hawke to Keating, Australian Commonwealth Administration, 1990–1993 Jenny Stewart (ed.)
The Second Keating Government, Australian Commonwealth Administration 1993–1996: Gwynneth Singleton (ed.)
Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexivity and Accountability R.A.W. Rhodes     

On Diplomacy

Johnston, D. (ed.) (2003) Faith-Based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jönsson, C. and Hall, M. (2005) Essence of Diplomacy . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Melissen, J. (ed.) (2005) The New Public Diplomacy: Soft Power in International Relations . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: A National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report, Harvey S. Rosen, (ed.) Studies in State and Local Public Finance Steven D. Gold, (ed.) Reforming State Tax Systems Daniel Bell and Lester Thurow, The Deficits: How Big? How Long? How Dangerous?     

Book notes

Susan Bambrick (ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 384pp. £40. ISBN 0–521–365112.

Paul M. Evans (ed.) Studying Asia Pacific Security: The Future of Research, Training and Dialogue Activities Ontario: University of Toronto‐York University Joint Centre for Asia‐Pacific Studies/Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia, 1994. 388pp. ISBN 1–895296–15–3.     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: The Ethical Organisation: Ethical Theory and Corporate Behaviour ALAN KITSON and ROBERT CAMPBELL Management Ethics: Theory, Cases and Practice GORDON L CLARK and ELIZABETH PRIOR JONSON (eds) Making Groups Work: Rethinking Practice J FENJAMIN, J BESSANT and R WATTS The Capable Executive PAUL H DAINTY and MOREEN ANDERSON Managing Performance and Goal Achievement IAN LEES Productive Diversity: A New Australian Model for Work and Management BILL COPE and MARY KALANTZIS Markets, the State and the Environment: Towards Integration ROBYN ECKERSLEY (ed.) Commercial Implications of Native Title BRYAN HORRIGAN and SIMON YOUNG (eds) Shooting the Banker: Essays on ATSIC and Self-Determination. PATRICK SULLIVAN (Ed.) The End of Politics? Explorations into Modern Antipolitics ANDREAS SCHEDLER (ed.) Socialism in Contemporary Australia TIM BATTIN and GRAHAM MADDOX (eds) Labor Essays 1997: Renewing and Revitalising Labor GARY JUNGWIRTH (ed.) The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia Since 1945 BARBARA SULLIVAN South Australia, Federalism and Public Policy ANDREW PARKIN (ed.) Korean Public Administration: Managing the Uneven Development BUN WOONG KIM and PAN SUK KIM State-Owned Enterprise Reform in Vietnam: Lessons from Asia NG CHEE YUEN, NICK FREEMAN and FRANK H HUYNH (eds)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Steven D. Gold, (ed.) The Unfinished Agenda for State Tax Reform Andrew Dunsire and Christopher Hood, Cutback Management in Public Bureaucracies: Popular Theories and Observed Out-comes in Whitehall The Auditor General's Report to the Legislative Assembly, Province of British Columbia, Canada, April 10, 1989 Charles K. Coe, (ed.) Public Financial Management for Public Budgeting & Finance     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
Carson, Claybourne and Halloran, Peter (eds). A Knock at Midnight: The Great Sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posner, Gerald (edited by Claybourne Carson). Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Carson, Claybourne (ed.) The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lebovics, Herman. Mona Lisa's Escort: Andre´ Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture
Berliner, Joseph. The Economics of the Good Society
Edwards, Ruth Dudley. The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions
Hood, Christopher; Scott, Colin; James, Oliver; Jones, George and Travers, Tony. Regulation Inside Government: Waste-Watchers, Quality Police and Sleaze-Busters
Jarvie, Ian and Pralong, Sandra (eds) Popper's Open Society after Fifty Years: The Continuing Relevance of Karl Popper
Amsterdamski, Stefan (ed.) The Significance of Popper's Thought
Fulbrook, Mary. German National Identity after the Holocaust
Dorey, Peter (ed.) The Major Premiership: Politics and Policies under John Major
Longworth, Norman. Making Lifelong Learning Work: Learning Cities for a Learning Century
Williamson, Bill. Lifeworlds and Learning: Essays in the Theory, Philosophy and Practice of Lifelong Learning     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Lawrence H. Summers, (ed.) Tax Policy and the Economy
U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Fiscal Discipline in the Federal System: National Reform and the Experience of the States
Volume 3,1987, Part A, James L. Chan, (ed.) Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
Volume 3,1987, Part B, James L. Chan, (ed.) Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
Leon E. Hay and John H. Engstrom, Essentials of Accounting for Governmental and Not-For-Profit Organizations     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Richard P. Nathan, Fred C. Doolittle and Associates, Reagan and the States Volume III, John M. Quigley, (ed.) Perspectives on Local Public Finance and Public Policy: A Research Annual George E. Peterson, Randall R. Bovbjerg, Barbara A. Davis, Walter G. Davis, Eugene C. Durman, Theresa A. Gullo, The Changing Domestic Priorities Series, John L. Palmer and Isabel V. Sawhill, (ed.) The Reagan Block Grants: What Have We Learned?     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The Paradox of Parties: Australian Political Parties in the 1990s MARIAN SIMMS (ed.)
Removal of the Commonwealth Marriage Bar: A Documentary History MARIAN SAWER (ed.)
Transforming Government Enterprises: Managing Radical Organisational Change in Deregulated Environments BARRY SPICER, DAVID EMANUEL and MICHAEL POWELL
Ungoverning the Economy: The Political Economy of Australian Economic Policy STEPHEN BELL     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector. By D avid O sborne and T ed G aebler
Public Policy in Australia. By G. D avis , J. W anna , J. W arhurst & P. W eller
Microeconomic Reform in Australia. By P eter F orsyth (ed.)
The Invisible State: The Formation of the Australian State 1788–1901. By A lastair D avidson
The Political Impact of the High Court. By D avid S olomon
News Not Views: The ABC, the Press and Politics 1932–1947. By N eville P etersen
Corporatization and Privatization: Lessons from New Zealand. By I an D uncan and A lan B ollard
Public Administration and Management in Small States: Pacific Experiences. By Y ash G hai (ed.)
Australian Public Sector Management. By D avid C orbett     

Book review

Civil liberties, repression and the law

Richard Polenberg: Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech (New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1987.)

Richard O. Curry, ed., Freedom at Risk: Secrecy, Censorship and Repression in the 1980's. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.)     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
The Patron State: Government and the Arts in Europe, North America and Japan . By MILTON C. CUMMINGS JR. and RICHARD S. KATZ (eds.)
Advising The Rulers . By WILLIAM PLOWDEN (ed.)
The State and Public Bureaucracies: A Comparative Perspective . By METIN HEPER (ed.)
Steering the Modern State: Changes in Central Coordination in Three Australian State Governments . By MARTIN PAINTER.
Japan's Civil Service System: Its Structure, Personnel, and Politics . By PAUL S. KIM
Reaganomics: An Insider's Account of the Policies and the People . By WILLIAM A. NISKANEN     

Under cover of boredom: Recent publications on the ‘Stasi’, the East German ministry for state security

David Childs and Richard Popplewell, The Stasi: The East German Intelligence and Security Service (New York: New York University Press, 1996; and London: Macmillan, 1996). Pp.253, biblio., index. US$45 and £40. ISBN 0–8147–1551–6 and 0–333–63094–7.

Markus Wolf with Anne McElvoy, Man Without a Face (New York: Random House Times Books, 1997). Pp.367, index. US$25. ISBN 0–8129–6394–6.

Markus Wolf, Spionage Chef im Geheimen Krieg: Erinnerungen (Munich: List Verlag, 1997). Pp.512. DM44. ISBN 3–471–79158–2.

Wjatscheslaw Keworkow, Der geheime Kanal (Berlin: Rowohlt, 1995). Pp.284. DM29.80. ISBN 3–87134–224–6.

Abteilung Bildung und Forschung (ed.) Wissenschaftliche Reihe des Bundesbeauftragten für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (Berlin: Chr. Links Verlag). Eight volumes to date. Volumes discussed in review:

Helmut Müller‐Enbergs (ed.) Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit (Berlin: Links, 1996). Vol. 3. Pp.544, biblio, index. DM40. ISBN 3–86153–101–1.

Siegfried Suckut (ed.) Das Wörterbuch der Staatssicherheit (Berlin: Links, 2nd ed., 1996). Vol.5. Pp.472. DM40. ISBN 3–86153–111–9.

Siegfried Suckut and Walter Süß (eds.) Staatspartei und Staatssicherheit: Zum Verhältnis von SED und MfS (Berlin: Links, 1997). Vol.8. Pp.351. DM38. ISBN 3–86153–131–3.     

Books: British Politics

P. Cosgrave, Thatcher: the First Term (London, The Bodley Head, 1985)
A. King (ed.), The British Prime Minister (second edition) (London, Macmillan, 1985)
A. Ranney (ed.) Britain at the Polls 1983 (Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1985)
D. S. Bell (ed.), The Conservative Government 1979–84: an Interim Report (London, Croom Helm, 1985
S. Fothergill and J. Vincent, The State of the Nation (London, Pan, 1985
Philip Norton (ed.), Parliament in the 1980s (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985
Leo Pliatzky, Paying and Choosing: the Intelligent Person's Guide to the Mixed Economy (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985)
John Grieve Smith (ed.) Strategic Planning in Nationalised Industries (London, Macmillan, 1984)
E. Durbin, New Jerusalem (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985)
Geofrey Foote, The Labour Party's Political Thought (London, Croom Helm, 1985)
D. Selbourne, Against Socialist Illusion: a Radical Argument (London, Macmillan, 1985)
J. Grigg, Lloyd George—From Peace to War (London, Methuen, 1985)
David Dutton, Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics (Bolton, Ross Anderson Publications 1985)
Norman Flynn, Steve Leach and Carol Vielba, Abolition or Reform? The GLCand the Metropolitan County Councils (London, George Allen & Unwin, 1985)