BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article Political Communications : The General Election Campaign of 1983. Ed. by Ivor Crewe and Martin Harrop . Money and Votes : Constituency Campaign Spending and Election Results . By R. J . Johnson The Funding of Political Parties in Britain . By Keith Ewing Teledemocracy . By F. Christopher Arterton . Thatcherism at Work . By John Mac Innes . Thatcherism and British Politics , The End of Consensus ? By Dennis Kavanagh . Reshaping Local Government . Ed. by Michael Parkinson . Reshaping Central Government . Ed. by Anthony Harrison and John Gretton Mrs Thatcher's Case-book . By Terry Garrison . The Business of Medicine : Private Health Care in Britain . By Joan Higgins . Making Trouble : Autobiographical Explorations and Socialism .BY James D. Young . Revolutionary Rehearsals . Ed. by Colin Barker . The Fire Last Time : 1968 and After . By Chris Harman .     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Explaining Policy Reversals. By Christopher Hood. The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal. By Sidney M. Milkis. Values and Public Policy. Edited by Henry J. Aaron, Thomas E. Mann, and Timothy Taylor. The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adam to George Bush. By Stephen Skowronek. International Handbook of Local and Regional Government. By Alan Norton. Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor. By Jeffrey R. Henig.     

CHARTING A COURSE THROUGH THE HEALTH CARE POLICY MAZE

Health Policy: Development, Implementation and Evaluation in Australia. By H eather GARDNER (ed.)
The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910–1960. By J ames A G illespie
Federalism and Health Policy: The Development of Health Systems in Canada and Australia. By G wendolyn G ray
The President's Health Security Plan. By W hite H ouse D omestic C ouncil
Hospitals in Transition: The Resource Management Experiment. By T im P ackwood , J ustin K een and M artin B uxton     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Health Services Since the War Vol. i Problems of Haelth Care : The National Health Service Before 1957. By Charles Webster . Ruling Performance : British Governments from Attlee to Thatcher . Ed. by Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon . Advising the Rulers . Ed. by William Plowden . Ministers and Ministries By Richard Rose , with chapters by Peter Bell , Richard Parry and Ian Thomas . The Unprincipled Society . By David Marquand . Superpower Diplomacy in the Horn of Africa . By Samuel M. Makinda . Military Power and Politics in Black Africa . Ed. Simon Baynham . The Militarization of South African Politics . By Kenneth W. Grundy . Endgame in South Africa ? By Robin Cohen . Apartheid's Second Front . By Joseph Hanlon . Beggar Your Neighbours . By Joseph Hanlon . The Political Economy of Revolution Nicaragua . Ed. by Rose J. Spalding . Conflict in Nicaragua . A Muliidimensional Perspective . Ed. by Jiri Valenta and Esperanza Du?n . Nicaragua , Revolution and Democracy . By Jo? ; Luis Cokaggio . Youth and Society : Perspectives from Papua New Guinea . Ed by Maev O'Collins . Women In Politics in Papua New Guinea . Ed Maev O'Collins . Law and Order In a Changing Society . Ed. by Louise Morauta . The Challenge : Economics of Perestroika . By Abel Aganbegyan . The Soviet Economy : Problems and Prospects . By Padma Desai . Soviet Agriculture . By Zhores Medvedev . The German Greens : A Social and Political Profile . By Werner Hülsberg The Green Party in West Germany : Who Are They and What Do They Really Want ? By Manuel Dittmers . Prospects for Africa . A special report by Save the Children and the Overseas Development Institute . The Greening of Africa . By Paul Harrison . Imposing Aid : Emergency Assistance to Refugees . By B. E. Harrell -Bond . The imf & Ghana . The Confidential Record . Ed. By Eboe Hutchful . The Tears of the White Man . Compassion as Contempt . By Pascal Bruckner . Politics: a Work in Constructive Social Theory . By Roberto Mangabeira Unger . Social Theory : Its Situation and its Task . False Necessity : Anti -Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy . Plasticity into Power : Comparative -Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success . Church and Politics in a Secular Age . By Kenneth N. Medhurst and George H Moyser . The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers : Economic Change and Political Conflict from 1500 to 2000 By Paul Kennedy . James Connolly : A Political Biography . By Austen Morgan .     

Book reviews

Deane Curtin, Chinnagounders’ Challenge: The Question of Ecological Citizenship. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Jim Yong Kim, et ah, ed., Dying For Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2000.

Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin, Hilary French, et al., eds., State of the World 1998. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998.

Margit Mayer and John Ely, eds., The German Greens. Paradox Between Movement and Party. Translated by Michael Schatzschneider. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.     

STUDYING THE STATES

The Bannon Decade: The Politics of Restraint in South Australia. Edited by Andrew Parkin & Allan Patience Trials in Power: Cain, Kirner and Victoria 1982–1992. Edited by Mark Considine & Brian Costar Keeping them Honest: Democratic Reform in Queensland. Edited by Andrew Hede , Scott Prasser & Mark Neylan The Tasmanian Parliamentary Accord & Public Policy: Accommodating the new politics? Edited by Marcus Haward & Peter Larmour Affairs of State: Politics in the Australian States and Territories. By Scott Bennett     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Necessity of Politics: Reclaiming American Public Life by Christopher Beem. For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today by Jedediah Purdy.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Canberra: A People's Capital? Edited by RAE ELSE-MITCHELL Managing Gender: The State, The New Middle Class and Women Workers, 1830–1930: By DESLEY DEACON Flood Insurance and Relief in Australia . Edited by D.I. SMITH & J.W. HANDMER     

Corporate Power and Political Science

Miles Wolpin. Alternative Security and Military Dissent. Bethesda, MD: Austin &; Winfield. 1994. 286 pp. $19.95.

Peter Ackerman and Christopher Kruegler. Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994. 366 pp.

Glenn D. Paige. To Nonviolent Political Science: From Seasons of Violence. Honolulu: Center for Global Nonviolence Planning Project, Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, 1993.179 pp.

Frank T. Fitzgerald. The Cuban Revolution in Crisis: From Managing Socialism to Managing Survival. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1994. 239 pp.

Mandy Macdonald and Mike Gatehouse. In the Mountains of Morazán: Portrait of a Returned Refugee Community in El Salvador. London: Latin America Bureau. 1995. 216 pp.

Catherine Samary. Yugoslavia Dismembered. Translated by Peter Drucker. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1995.185 pp. (Published asLe Déchirure yougoslave, 1994, L'Harmattan.)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Politics of Community : a Feminist Critique of the Liberal -Communitarian Debate . By Elizabeth Frazer and Nicola Lacey . Gender and Party Politics . Edited by Joni Lovenduski and Pippa Norris . Democracy and Difference . By Anine Phillips . Engendering Democracy . By Anne Phillips . Government by the Market ?the Politics of Publichoice . By Peter Self . Fred 0. Muller JR., & Jeffrey Paul . Liberalism and the Economic Order . Edited by Ellen Frankel Paul . Public Policy and the Nature of the New Right . Edited by Grant Jordan & Nigel Ashford . Common Sense : a New Constitution for Britain . By Tony Benn and Andrew Hood . The History of the City of Sheffield : vol. 1 Politics , vol. 2 Society , vol.3 Images . Ed. by Clyde Binfield , David Martin , Richard Childs , Roger Harper , David Hey and Geoffrey Tweedale . Understanding the New European Community . By William Nicoll and Trevor C. Salmon . Europe the Strange Superpower . By David Buchan . The Frontier of National Sovereignty . By Milward , Lynch , Romero and Sorensen Citizenship and the European Community . By Elizabeth Meehan . The United States of Europe . By Ernest Wistricht . The European Imperative ; Economic and Social Cohesion in the 1990s. By Stuart Holland . Powek on the Back Benches ?: The Growth of Select Committee Influence . By Derek Hawes . Law , Process and Custody . By Genevra Richardson . Justice and the Genesis of War . By David A. Welch . a History of Warfare . By John Keegan . Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century . Ed. by D. George Boyce , Robert Eccleshall and VIncent Geog -Hegan . Northern Ireland : the Choice . By Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden . De Valera : Long Fellow , Long Shadow . By Tim Pat Coogan . Straight Left : An Autobiography . By Paddy Devlin . Heresy : the Battle of Ideas in Modern Ireland . By Desmond F. Foster . Ireland Today ; Anatomy of a Changing State . By Gemma Hussey . In Search of a State ; Catholics in Northern Ireland . By Fionnuala 0. Connor . Northern Ireland ; Sharing Authority . By Brendan O'Leary , Tom Lyne , Jim Marshall and Bob Rowthorn .     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Roger Colls, Identity of England Richard Weight, Patriots: National Identity in Britain, 1940–2000 Ken Jones, Education in Britain 1944 to the Present David Bruce MacDonald, Balkan Holocausts? Serbian and Croatian Victim‐Centred Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000 Susan Giaimo, Markets and Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany and the United States Caleb Carr, The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare against Civilians—Why it Has Always Failed, and Why it Will Fail Again Christopher May, The Information Society: A Sceptical View Peter Mangold, Success and Failure in British Foreign Policy: Evaluating the Record, 1900–2000 David Archard and Colin M. Macleod (eds.), The Moral and Political Status of Children Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History     

Book Reviews

Sung Deuk Hahm and L. Christopher Plein After Development: The Transformation of the Korean Presidency and Bureaucracy
Judith E. Michaels The President's Call: Executive Leadership from FDR to George Bush
Peter Barberis The Elite of the Elite: Permanent Secretaries in the British Higher Civil Service
Sofia A. Perez Banking on Privilege: The Politics of Spanish Financial Reform
John Erik Fossum Oil, the State, and Federalism: The Rise and Demise of Petro-Canada as a Statist Impulse     

From autocracy to party government: Interpreting regime changes in Spain and Portugal

The Transition to Democracy in Spain. By José Maravall. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp.213. £14.95.

Democratic Politics in Spain. Edited by David S. Bell London: Frances Pinter, 1983. Pp.xiii + 203. £15.00.

Spain, Conditional Democracy. Editedby Christopher Abel and Nissa Torrents. London: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. 198. £14.95.

Portugal, A Twentieth‐century Interpretation. By TOM Gallagher. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983. Pp.xii + 278. £18.50.

Portugal Since the Revolution: Economic and Political Perspectives. Edited by Jorge Braga de Macedo and Simon Serfaty. Colorado: Westview Press, 1981. Pp.xiv + 217. £13.25.

In Search of Modern Portugal. The Revolution and its Consequences. Edited by Lawrence S. Graham and Douglas L. Wheeler. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1983. Pp.xv + 380. $30.00.     

Intelligence studies: The emergence of the British school

Christopher Andrew and Jeremy Noakes (eds.), Intelligence and International Relations 1900–1945 (Exeter: University of Exeter Publications, 1987), pp.320; £10.00 (paperback).     

Book Reviews

Richard Breen, Damian F. Hanna, David B. Rottman and Christopher T. Whelan
Brian Girvin, Between Two Worlds: Politics and Economy in Independent Ireland
Derek Sayer, The Violence of Abstraction: the Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism
Derek Sayer (ed.), Readings from Karl Marx
Lawrence Wilde, Marx and Contradiction
Peter Morris, Power: A Philosophical Analysis
Stewart R. Clegg, Frameworks of Power
David A. Baldwin, Paradoxes of power
J. W. Grove, In Defence of Science: Science, Technology and Politics in Modern Society
The British Academy, Ireland after the Union     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Financial Management For Public, Health, and Not-For-Profit Organizations. By Steven A. Finkler.
Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975. By Zulian E. Zelizer.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma . By Mary R. English.
Making War: The 200-Year-Old Battle Between the President and Conwess Over How Ameriia Goes to War . By John Lehman.
The Muses, The Masses and the Massey Commission . By Paul Litt.
Toxic Politics, Responding to Chemical Disasters . By Michael R. Reich.
The Speaker and the Budget, Leadership in the Post-Reform House of Representatives . By Daniel J. Palazzolo.
Health Insurance and Public Policy: Risk, Allocation, and Equity . Edited by Miriam K. Mills and Robert H. Blank.
Regulating Privacy Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States . By Colin J. Bennett.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Public Choices and Policy Change: The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries. By Merilee S. Grindle and John W. Thomas. Delivering Health Care Comprehensively. By Richard Brotman, David Hutson, Irving Silverman, and Frederic Suffet. History and Context in Comparative Public Policy. By Douglas E. Ashford, ed. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? by Gerald N. Rosenberg.     

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