Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome . Yehzkel Dror. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001. 264 pp. $67.00 (hardback).
Government's Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security. Paul C. Light. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. 200 pp. $19.95 (hardcover).
The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for Twenty-First Century America. Donald F. Kettl. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 240 pp. $17.95 (paperback). Reviewed by MARK CARL ROM, Georgetown University
Politics and the Russian Army: Civil–Military Relations, 1689–2000. Brian D. Taylor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 355 pp. $25.00 (paperback), $75.00 (hardback). Reviewed by DONALD ABENHEIM, Naval Postgraduate School
Defending Europe: The EU, NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy . Jolyon Howorth and John T. S. Keeler, eds. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 247 pp. $55.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by MICHAEL BAUN, Valdosta State University
Migration and the Externalities of European Integration . Sandra Lavenex and Emek M. Uçarer. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 240 pp. $24.95 (paperback), $75.00 (hardback). Reviewed by SEBASTIEN GAGNON-MESSIER, University of Maryland
Government: A Public Administration Perspective . Jos C. N. Raadschelders. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. 464 pp. $39.95 (paperback), $ 79.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by MARGARET F. REID, University of Arkansas
Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the 21^st Century. Lisa Anderson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 158 pp. $27.50 (cloth). Reviewed by ROBERT W. RYCROFT, George Washington University     

BOOK REVIEWS

Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble: The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1994.

Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz, eds.: Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice. Lanham, Md.: Rowman &; Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1995.

John Gray: Beyond the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common Environment. London: Routledge, 1993

Darrow Schecter: Radical Theories: Paths Beyond Marxism and Social Democracy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994     

Book Reviews

Negotiating the World Economy, by John S. Odell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000, 252 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Reviewed by Daniel J.B. Mitchell Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition, edited by Robert A. Moffitt and Michele Ver Ploeg. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001, 268 pp., $42.95. Reviewed by Daniel H. Weinberg Red Tape and Housing Costs: How Regulation Affects New Residential Development, by Michael I. Luger and Kenneth Temkin. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2000, 192 pp., $24.95 cloth. Reviewed by Thomas Bier Waste Trading among Rich Nations, by Kate O'Neill. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000, 310 pp., $60.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman Markets for Clean Air, by A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan‐Pablo Montero, and Elizabeth M. Bailey. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 352 pp., $40.00. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming, by David G. Victor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, 178 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Robert Falkner Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, Stephen Van Evera, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999, 270 pp., $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Reviewed by Erik Gartzke Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons, by T. V. Paul. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2000, 227 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Leonard S. Spector The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, by David S. Landes, New York: W.W. Norton, 1998, 650 pp., $11.87 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. The End of the Nation‐state: The Rise of the Regional Economies, by Kenichi Ohmae, New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1995, 214 pp., $16.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. Governance in a Globalizing World, edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, 386 pp., $18.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr.     

The Model of Europe and Other Contributions to the Study of European Political Development

Flora, P., Kuhnle, S. and Urwin D. (1999) State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bartolini, S. (2000) The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860–1980: The Class Cleavage . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Caramani, D. (2004) The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bartolini, S. (2005) Restructuring Europe: Centre Formation, System Building, and Political Structuring between the Nation State and the European Union . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ferrera, M. (2005) The Boundaries of Welfare: European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bozo, F. (2001) Two Strategies for Europe: De Gaulle, the United States, and the Atlantic Alliance . Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield.     

Book reviews

Parties and Party Systems: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature on Parties and Party Systems in Europe Since 1945 on CD‐ROM. Edited by Stefano Bartolini, Daniele Caramani and Simon Hug. London: Sage Publications, 1998. £99 (stand alone version), £150 (network version). ISBN 0–7619–5924–6 and ‐6002–3.

Changing Party Systems in Western Europe. Edited by David Broughton and Mark Donovan. London: Pinter, 1998. Pp.xix+315, 2 figures, 13 tables, biblio., index. £55 (cloth); £16.99 (paper). ISBN 1–85567–327–4 and ‐328–48.

The Choice for Europe. Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht. By Andrew Moravcsik. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp.xii+514, index. £16.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8014–8509–6.

People and Parliament in the European Union: Participation, Democracy, and Legitimacy. By Jean Blondel, Richard Sinnott and Palle Svensson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp.xvi + 287. £40 (cloth). ISBN 0–19–829308–9.

Legitimacy and the European Union. By David Beetham and Christopher Lord. London: Longman, 1998. Pp.viii +144. £9.99 (paper). ISBN 0–582–30489‐X.

Democracy in Europe: Legitimising Politics in a Non‐State Polity. By Heidrun Abromeit. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1998. Pp.ix + 182, bibliog., index. £25 (cloth). ISBN 1–57181–985–1.

Political Theory and the European Union: Legitimacy, constitutional choice and citizenship. Edited by Albert Weale and Michael Nentwich. London: Routledge, 1998. Pp.xiii + 205. £55 (cloth). ISBN 0–415–17313–2.

Germany, France and the Integration of Europe: A Realist Interpretation. Thomas Pedersen. London: Pinter, 1998. Pp. viii + 221, bibliog., index. £40. ISBN 1–85567–537–4.

Recreating Europe: The European Union's Policy towards Central and Eastern Europe. By Alan Mayhew. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xxi + 403, 2 maps, 7 figures, 37 tables, bibliog., index. £45 (cloth); £15.95 (paper). ISBN 0–521–63086‐X and ‐63897–6.

Enlarging the EU Eastwards. By Heather Grabbe and Kirsty Hughes. London: Pinter for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1998. Pp.x + 130, 1 map, 16 tables, 4 figures, bibliog., index. £27.50 (cloth); £11.99 (paper). ISBN 1–85567–525–0 and ‐526–9.

Divided Europe: The New Domination of the East. By Adam Burgess. London: Pluto Press, 1997. Pp.222, bibliog., index. £40 (cloth); £13.99 (paper). ISBN 0–7453–1262–4 and ‐1257–8.

The European People's Party: Origins and Development. By Thomas Jansen. New York: St Martin's Press; London: Macmillan. 1998. pp.xiv + 206. 2 annexes, bibliog., index. £45. ISBN 0–312–21062–0 and 333–72057–1

The Italian Guillotine. Operation Clean Hands and the Overthrow of the First Republic. By S. H. Burnett and L. Mantovani, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Pp.xii + 332, chronology, The Cast of Characters, index. £45 (cloth); £15.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8476–8877–1 and ‐8878‐X.

The French Civil Service. By M. Luc Rouban. Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 1998. Pp.118, bibliog. NP. ISBN 9–782110–038777.     

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

E.T. Layton with R Pinneau and J. Costello, And I Was There. Pearl Harbor and Midway (New York: William Morrow), pp. 596, $19.95.

Donald A. Torres, Handbook of Federal Police and Investigative Agencies (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1985), pp. 411, £49.95.

Ernest R. May (ed.), Knowing One's Enemies. Intelligence Assessment Before the Two World Wars (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 561, $29.50 or £19.80 (cloth); $14.50 or £9.70 (paper).     

Fortitude,ultra and the ‘need to know’

E.T. Layton with R Pinneau and J. Costello, And I Was There. Pearl Harbor and Midway (New York: William Morrow), pp. 596, $19.95.

Donald A. Torres, Handbook of Federal Police and Investigative Agencies (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1985), pp. 411, £49.95.

Ernest R. May (ed.), Knowing One's Enemies. Intelligence Assessment Before the Two World Wars (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 561, $29.50 or £19.80 (cloth); $14.50 or £9.70 (paper).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Abstract

THE CLINTON WARS. Sidney Blumenthal. London: Viking Press, 2003, 822 pages. £25.00. Reviewed by Jerry Palmer.

THE ILLUSION OFPUBLIC OPINION: FACT AND ARTIFACT IN AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION POLLS. George F. Bishop. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004, 248 pages. Reviewed by Lawrence Hamer.     

Reviews and notes

Zillah R. Eisenstein (ed.), Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism. (New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1970. 394 pp. $5.95 paper).

The Lavender and Red Book: A Gay Liberation/Socialist Anthology (Lavender and Red Union, Los Angeles; 1976).

Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She‐Male. (New York: Beacon Press, 1979. 220 pp. $12.95 cloth).

Dorothy Dinnerstein, The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1977) first published in 1976.

Bertell Oilman, Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich. (Boston: South End Press, 1979. 228 pp. $5.50 paper, $15.00 cloth).     

BOOK REVIEWS

ABSTRACT

CAMPAIGN MODE: STRATEGIC VISION IN CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS. Michael John Burton and Daniel M. Shea. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, 179 pages. Reviewed by Paul Baines.

CAPTURINGCAMPAIGNDYNAMICS:THENATIONALANNEN-BERG ELECTION SURVEY. Daniel Romer, Kate Kenski, Paul Waldman, Christopher Adasiewicz and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 224 pages. Reviewed by Paul Baines.     

Conceptualizing and Measuring Collaborative Networks

Walter J.M. Kickert, Erik-Hans Klijn, and Joop F. M. Koppenjan, eds., Managing Complex Networks: Strategies for the Public Sector (London: Sage Publications, 1997). 206pp., $41.95 paper, ISBN: 0-7619-5548-8.
Myrna P. Mandell, ed., Getting Results through Collaboration: Networks and Network Structures for Public Policy and Management (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2001). 275 pp., $89.95 hard, ISBN: 1-56720-455-4.
Robert Agranoff, and Michael McGuire, Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Governments (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003). 219 pp., $26.95 paper, ISBN: 1-58901-018-3.     

Politics without a centre

The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy. By SUSAN STRANGE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xvii + 218, biblio., index. £14.95 (paper). ISBN 0–521–56440–9.

Uncertain Boundaries: The Social and Political Construction of European Economies. By MARINO REGINI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.x + 164, biblio., index. £30 (cloth). ISBN 0–521–47371–3

Internationalization and Domestic Politics. Edited by ROBERT O. KEOHANE and HELEN V. MILNER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. x + 308, biblio., index. £14.95 (paper). ISBN 0–521–565587–1.

Balancing State Intervention: The Limits of Transatlantic Markets. Edited by ROGER BENJAMIN, C. RICHARD NEU and DENISE QUIGLEY. Pp. xiv + 274, index. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1995. £40 (cloth). ISBN 0–333–64162–0.

Cash, Crisis, and Corporate Governance: The Role of National Financial Systems in Industrial Restructuring. By VICTORIA MARKLEW. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pp.viii +260, biblio, index. $44.40 (cloth). ISBN 0–472–10504–3.     

Left docudrama 2004

Ernst Bloch, the principle of hope (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 198$).

Ernst Bloch, natural law and human dignity (Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press, 1986).

Steven Lukes, marxism and morality (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).

Nancy S. Love, marx, nietzsche, and modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).

Michael E. Brown, the production of society—a Marxian foundation for social theory (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman &; Littlefield, 1986).

William DiFazio, longshoremen—community and resistance on the Brooklyn waterfront, introduction by Stanley Aronowitz (South Hadley: Bergin &; Garvey, 1985).

Adam Przeworski and John Sprague, paper stones, a history of electoral socialism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).

Noam Chomsky, turning the tide: U.S. intervention in central America and the struggle for peace (Boston: South End Press, 1985).

John Gerassi, the premature antifascists: north American volunteers In The Spanish civil war, 1936–1939: an oral history (New York and Westport, CT: Praeger, 1986).     

Institutions come before markets

The Theory of Institutional Design. Edited by Robert E. Goodin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.x + 288, name and subject indexes. £16.95 (paper); £35/$49.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–521–63643–4 and 47119–2.

The Political Economy of Public Administration. Institutional Choice in the Public Sector. By Murray J. Horn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.ix + 263, biblio., name and subject indexes. £14.95/$21.95 (paper); £35/$59.95 (cloth) ISBN 0–521–48436–7 and 48201–1.

The Future of Governing : Four Emerging Models. By B. Guy Peters. Lawrence, KS: The University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp.ix + 179, biblio., index. £11.95 (paper); £27.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–7006–0794–3 and 0793–5.

Public Management and Administrative Reform in Western Europe. Edited by Walter J. M.Kickert. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1997. Pp.xv + 278, 6 figures, 19 tables, biblio., index. £49.95 (cloth). ISBN 1–85898–553–6.     

Book reviews

Patterns of Democracy. Government Forms and Performance in Thirty‐Six Countries. By Arend Lijphart. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp.351, biblio., index. £26 (cloth); £10.95 (paper) ISBN 0–300–07893–5.

Critical Citizens. Global Support for Democratic Governance. Edited by P. Norris. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.xv + 303, 37 figures, 59 tables, biblio, index. £45 (cloth) ISBN 0–19–829479–4.

Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism. Edited by H. Kitschelt, P. Lange, G. Marks and J.D. Stephens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xiii + 527, biblio, index. £45 (US$69.95) (cloth) ISBN 0–521–62446–2; £16.95 (US$27.95) (paper) ISBN 0–521–63496–0.

Comparative Public Policy ‐ Patterns of Post‐war Transformation. By Francis G. Castles. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp.368, £59.95 (cloth) ISBN 1–858989–816–0; £19.95 (paper) ISBN 1–858989–823–3.

The Political System of the European Union. By S. Hix. London: Macmillan, 1999. Pp.ix + 427, 52 tables and 28 figures, biblio, index. £16.99 (paper) ISBN 0–333–71654‐X; £49.50 (cloth) ISBN 0–333–71653–1.

The Long Presidency. France in the Mitterrand Years, 1981–1995. By Julius Friend. Boulder, CO and Oxford: Westview Press, 1998. Pp.xi + 308, biblio, index. £30.95 (cloth) ISBN 0–8133–2850–0.

Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Edited by Mark F. Gilbert and K. Robert Nilsson. The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland and London, 1999. Pp.xxxvi + 463. 18 tables. $65 (cloth) ISBN 0–8108–3584–3

Zukunft der Sozialpartnerschaft: Veränderungsdynamik und Reformbedarf. Edited by F. Karlhofer and E. Tálos. Vienna: Signum, 1999. Pp.301, 9 tables, 3 figures, ATS 350 ISBN 3–85436–297–8.

Geografia della cittadinanza sociale in Italia. By Valeria Fargion. Bologna: II Mulino, 1997. Pp.351, biblio, index. L.45,000 (paper) ISBN 88–15–06127–4.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Decline of the Public: The Hollowing-Out of Citizenship , by David Marquand. Polity. 176pp. £45 and £14.99.
Endgames and New Times: The Final Years of British Communism 1964–1991 , by Geoff Andrews. Lawrence & Wishart. 264 pp. £15.99.
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire , by Niall Ferguson. Allen Lane. 384 pp. £20.
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City , by Tristram Hunt. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. pp. 432. £25.
From Bevan to Blair: Fifty Years Reporting from the Front Line , by Geoffrey Goodman. Pluto Press. 286 pp. £18.99.
Obscure Scribblers: A History of Parliamentary Journalism , by Andrew Sparrow. Politico's. 238 pp. £20.
The New Labour Reader , edited by Andrew Chadwick and Richard Heffernan. Polity. 352 pp. £17.99 and £60.00.
The Progressive Manifesto. New Ideas for the Centre-Left , edited by Anthony Giddens. Polity. 224 pp. £14.99.
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States , by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. Norton & Co., 2004. xviii+567 pp. £6.99.
The Sacred and the Sovereign: Religion and International Politics , edited by John D. Carlson and Erik C. Owens. Georgetown University Press. xvii+284 pp. £19.50.
Free World: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of our Time , by Timothy Garton Ash. Allen Lane. 308 pp. £ 17.99.
William Pitt the Younger , by William Hague. HarperCollins. 652 pp. £25.     

Book Reviews

Small Firms and Local Economic Networks: The Death of the Local Economy?. James Curran and Robert Blackburn, 1994. London: Paul Chapman Publishing. 210 pp.; £29.95 hardback. ISBN: 1 85396 209 0

Tourism and Politics: Policy, Power and Place. Colin Michael Hall, 1994 (reprinted. March 1996). Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. 239 pp.; £14.99 paperback. ISBN: 0 471 9647 2

European Union Spatial Policy and Planning. R. WILLIAMS, 1996. London: Paul Chapman Publishing. 304 pp. £16.95 paperback. ISBN: 1 8539 6 305 4

Disability and the City: International Perspectives. Rob Imrie, 1996. London: Paul Chapman Publishing. 200 pp.; £15.95 paperback. ISBN: 185396 273 2 (paperback)     

The problems of economic adjustment

Unkept Promises, Unclear Consequences: US Economic Policy and the Japanese Response, edited by Ryuzo Sato and John A. Rizzo. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988. viii+200 pp. £25, ISBN 0-521-35201-0.Beyond Trade Friction; Japan-US Economic Relations, edited by Ryuzo Sato and Julianne Nelson. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. xiii+201 pp. £25. ISBN 0-521-36467-1.Global Adjustment and the Future of Asian-Pacific Economy, edited by Miyohei Shinohara and Fu-chen Lo. Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, and Asian and Pacific Development Centre, Kuala Lumpur, 1989. xxi+585 pp. $80. ISBN 4-258-54009-9.Asia-Pacific Economies: Promises and Challenges (part B), edited by M. Dutta. JAI Press, London, 1987. xxi+308 pp. £95 (for two volume set). ISBN 0-89232-647-6.Politics and Productivity: How Japan's development strategy works, edited by Chalmers Johnson, Laura D'Andrea Tyson and John Zysman. Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Ma., 1989. xxi+332 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-88730-350-1.Between MITI and the Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology, by Daniel Okimoto. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1989. xv + 267 pp. $26.50. ISBN 0-8047-1298-0.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
The Fateful Split: Catholics and the Royal Ulster Constabulary , by Chris Ryder. Methuen. 360pp. £17.99.
The IRA at War 1916–1923 , by Peter Hart. Oxford University Press. 290pp. £25.00.
Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas , by Richard Bourke. Pimlico. 462pp. £10.00 (pb).
War and Genocide, Organised Killing in Modern Society , by Martin Shaw. Polity. xii + 257pp. £15.99 (pb) and £55.00 (hb).
The Spectre of Genocide. Mass Murder in Historical Perspective , edited by Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan. Cambridge University Press. x + 396pp. £16.95.
New Labour's Pasts: The Labour Party and its Discontents , by James E. Cronin. Pearson Longman. 497 pp. £25.00
The Long Search for a Third Way—The British Labour Party and the Italian Left since 1945 , by Ilaria Favretto. Palgrave. 233pp. £47.50.
Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy , edited by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert. Routledge. xiv + 238pp. £ 65.00.
The Conservatives in Crisis: The Tories after 1997 , edited by Mark Garnett and Philip Lynch. Manchester University Press. 272 pp. £14.99.
Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History , James A. Marone. Yale University Press. xii + 575 pp. £25.00.
Jewish Workers and the Labour Movement. A Comparative Study of Amsterdam, London and Paris, 1870–1914 , by Karin Hofmeester. Ashgate. xv + 346 pp. £ 57.50.
In Search of Revolution. International Communist Parties in the Third Period , edited by Matthew Worley. I.B. Tauris. 400 pp. £45.00.
Cold War, Crisis and Conflict. The CPGB 1951–68 , by John Callaghan. Lawrence & Wishart. 320 pp. £14.99.
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less , by Barry Schwartz. Harper Collins (USA). 266 pp. US$23.95.