BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Ferrel Heady . Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective. John J, Corson and R. Shale Paul . Men Near the Top. P. Loveday and A. W. Martin , Parliament, Factions and Parties: The First Thirty Years of Responsible Government in New South Wales J. A. La Nauze . Alfred Deakin. Ian G. Sharp and Colin M. Tatz (eds). Aborigines in the Economy. J. P. Sinclair . Behind the Ranges. R. L. Cope (ed.). Library Services to the Legislature: A Symposium. Deborah Paige and Kit Jones . Health and Welfare Services in Britain in 1975. Keith Mc Ewan . Once a Jolly Comrade.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Peter Oborne, Alastair Campbell: New Labour and the Rise of the Media Class Nicholas Jones, The Control Freaks: How New Labour Gets its Own Way Paul Richards, How to Win an Election: The Art of Political Campaigning Charles Miller, Politico’s Guide to Political Lobbying Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes Niall Ferguson, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World 1700–2000 Stephen F. Cohen, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post‐Communist Russia Alan Macfarlane, The Riddle of the Modern World, of Liberty, Wealth and Equality Howard Glennerster, John Hills and Tony Travers, Paying for Health, Education, and Housing: How does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings? Malachi Haim Hacohen, Karl Popper, the Formative Years 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna Vito Tanzi and Ludger Schuknecht, Public Spending in the Twentieth Century: A Global Perspective Robert Oakeshott, Jobs and Fairness: The Logic and Experience of Employee Ownership     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Patrick Weller, Dodging Raindrops – John Button: A Labor Life
W. Funnell and K. Cooper, Public Sector Accounting and Accountability in Australia
Mark Latham, Civilising Global Capital: New Thinking for Australian Labor
G.B. Adams and D.L. Balfour, Unmasking Administrative Evil
G Terrill, Secrecy and Openness: The Federal Government from Menzies to Whitlam and Beyond
L.R. Jones and F. Thompson, Public Management: Institutional Renewal for the Twenty-First Century
Productivity Commission, Inquiry Report, Report No. 5, Implementation of Ecologically Sustainable Development by Commonwealth Departments and Agencies
Randal G. Stewart, Public Policy: Strategy and Accountability     

BOOK NOTES

J. Griffith (Ed.). 1968 Australian and New Zealand Hospitals and Health Services Yearbook. School of Hospital Administration, University of New South Wales, and Hospital Administration Journal, Sydney, 1968 W. J. Penfold (Ed.). The Role of the Hospital Board. School of Hospital Administration, University of New South Wales R. L. Wettenhall . A Guide to Tasmanian Government Administration (Foreword by the Hon. Eric Reece, M.H.A., Premier of Tasmania) N.S.W. Parliamentary Library. The Eastern Suburbs Railway: Events from 1946 to 1965. Sydney Thomas Lee Roberts . Judicial Organization and Institutions of Contemporary West Africa: a Profile. New York, 1966, Institute of Public Administration The Records of the Cabinet Office to 1922. Public Records Office Handbook No. 11, London, H.M.S.O., 1966     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Henry Mayer (ed.). Australian Politics: A Reader. A. F. Davies and S. Encel (eds.). Australian Society: A Sociological Introduction. E. K. Fisk (ed.). New Guinea on the Threshold. E. L. Normanton . The Accountability and Audit of Governments. Giles Radice . Democratic Socialism: A Short Survey. W. H. C. Eddy , J. D. B. Miller , D. H. Monro and R. N. Spann . Studies in Democracy. Gerald E. Caiden . The A.C.P.T.A.: A Study of White Collar Public Service Ruth Knight . Illiberal Liberal: Robert Lowe in New South Wales T. H. Mc Elligott . Education in Ireland.     

BOOK NOTES

Book reviewed in this article: official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, No. Business and Procedures of the House of Representatives. H. J. Hofstra . New Techniques of Budget Preparation and Management. C. E. Hawley and R. G. Weintraub (eds). Administrative Questions and Political Answers. R. A. Irish . A Businessman's Views of the Administration H. G. Gelber . Australia, Britain and the E.E.C., 1961 to 1963. M. W. Raffel . Planning by the North Canterbury Hospital Board. J. William Fulbright . Prospects for the West. E. M. Kassalow . National Labor Movements in the Postwar World. Bruce H. Millen . The Political Role of Labor in Developing Countries. J. Edward Gerald . The Social Responsibility of the Press. Sanford A. Lakoff . Equality in Political Philosophy. hilip Mullenbach . Civilian Nuclear Power. H. V. Livermore . A New History of Portugal. Nikola Balog . Administrative Management of Public Enterprises. Mumtaz Soysal . Public Relations in Administration: II. The Influence of the Public on the Operation of Public Administration, Excluding Electoral Rights.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Timothy Conlan, From New Federalism to Devolution: Twenty‐Five Years of Intergovernmental Reform Martin PainterCollaborative Federalism: Economic Reform in Australia in the 1990s Douglas C. Foyle, Counting the Public In: Presidents, Public Opinion andForeign Policy Gerda Falkner, EU Social Policy in the 1990s: Towards a Corporatist Policy Community Maria Amparo, Cruz‐Saco, and Carmelo Mesa‐Lago, (eds.) Do Options Exist? The Reform of Pension and Health Care Systems in Latin America Janine R. Wedel, Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989–1998     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War. Calling the Tune? by Hugh Wilford. Western Intelligence and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Ten Days That Did Not Shake the World 1980–1990, edited by David Arbel and Ran Edelist. Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century, edited by Heike Bungert, Jan G. Heitman and Michael Wala. How Mumbo‐Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions, by Francis Wheen. Neighbours from Hell: The Politics of Behaviour, by Frank Field. Memoirs, by Douglas Hurd. Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens, by Julian Le Grand. Concept and Controversy: Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market, by W. W. Rostow. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, with an Introduction and Notes by Gareth Steadman Jones. World on Fire, by Amy Chua.     

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?     

Water law and the American West(s)

Donald J. Pisani: To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848–1902. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

John Hart: Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Arthur L. Littleworth and Eric L. Garner: California Water. Point Arena, CA: Solano Press Books, 1995.     

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?     

Review Articles and Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Tim Rowse, Notes on the Launch: Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life 1 First published in Quadrant Magazine, October 2002.
Tim Rowse, Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life Sam Scruton Richardson, No Weariness: The Memoir of a Generalist in Public Service in Four Continents, 1919–2000 Rae Wear, Johannes Bjelke–Petersen: The Lords Premier HK Colebatch, Policy (2nd edn) Jon Hawkes, The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability. Culture’s Essential Role in Public Planning David Burchill and Andrew Leigh (eds.), The Prince’s New Clothes: Why do Australians Dislike Their Politicians? Public Service and Merit Protection Commission, Serving the Nation: 100 Years of Public Service Gary P Sampson and W Bradnee Chambers (eds), Trade, Environment, and the Millennium Edward Elgar, Political Economy in Federal States: Selected Essays of Stanley L Winer     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy. By Donald Savoie. Administrative Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards Public Sector Reform in Post-Communist Societies. Joachim Jens Hesse, ed. Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy in America's Culture Wars. By James Davison Hunter. Social Security and Medicare: A Policy Primer. By Eric R. Kingson and Edward D. Berkowitz. The Political Psychology of the Gulf War: Leaders, Publics and the Process of Conflict. Stanley A. Renshon, ed.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bruce Mccallum , The Public Service Manager: An Introduction to Personnel Management in the Australian Public Service R. J. K. Chapman and Michael Wood , Australian Local Government Kosmas Tsokhas , A Class Apart? Businessmen and Australian Politics 1960–1980 Andrew Kakabadse and Suresh Mukhi (eds), The Future of Management Education Jonathan Boston , Incomes Policy in New Zealand: 1968–1984, Wellington, Victorian University Press for the Institute of Policy Studies David Dery , Problem Definition in Policy Analysis     

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Robert Presthus . Behavioral Approaches to Public Administration. A. F. Davies . Private Politics: A Study of Five Political Outlooks. Gordon Reid . The Politics of Financial Control: The Role of the House of Commons. David Coombes . The Member of Parliament and the Administration: The Case of the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries. R. N. Aggarwala . Finance Committees of the Indian Parliament. C. D. Rowley . The New Guinea Villager. J. P. Mackintosh and others. Nigerian Government and Politics.     

The Call to Public Service: Entrance, Learning, and Reflection

Books reviewed in this article: Richard P. Nathan, So You Want to Be in Government? Handbook for Appointed Officials in America's Governments Kenneth H. Ashworth, Caught between the Dog and the Fireplug, or, How to Survive Public Service O.C. McSwite, Invitation to Public Administration     

Reviews and notes

Visions of Emancipation: The Italian Workers’ Movement since 1945, by Joanne Barkan. New York: Praeger, 1984.

Socialism in History: Political Essays of Henry Pachter, edited by Stephen Eric Bronner (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984).

The Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline. Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan. (N.Y.: Methuen, 1982. Pp. viii + 258.)

Shutdown at Youngstown: Public Policy for Mass Unemployment. Terry F. Buss and F. Stevens Redburn. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. Pp. xv + 219.)

The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill Closing. Staughton Lynd. (San Pedro: Singlejack Books, 1982. Pp. xx + 244.)

Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy. Frank Fischer and Carmen Sirianni, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.

The Politics of Terrorism. Michael Stohl, ed. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. New York and Basel: Marcel Dekker, 1983. 473 pp.

The State as Terrorist: The Dynamics of Governmental Violence and Repression. Michael Stohl and George Lopez, eds. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984. 202 pp.     

BOOK REVEIWS

Book reviewed in this articles: Susan G. Hadden. 1989. A Citizens Right to Know: Risk Communication & Public Policy James L. Regens and Robert W. Rycroft. 1988. The Acid Rain Controversy Lee Clarke . 1989. Acceptable Risk? Making Decision in a Toxic Environment Lance de Haven-Smith. (1988). Philosophical Critiques of Policy Analysis: Lindblom, Habermas, and the Great Society. Arnold Vedlitz . (1988). Conservative Mythology and Public Policy in America Lenore J. Weitzman. 1985. The Divorce Revolution: Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in America Stephen H. Schneider. 1989. Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century? Michael D. Laurence, John R. Snortum and Franklin E. Zimring , (eds.). 1988. Social Control of the Drinking Driver     

BOOK NOTES

O. W. POWELL, Medical Research and Public Policy KENNETH WILTSHIRE and CHARLES STOKES, Government Regulation and the Commercial Electronic Media I. K. F. BIRCH, The School and the Law, and E. R. TREYVAUD and JOHN MCLAREN, Equal but Cheaper G. D. McCOLL, The Economics of Electricity Supply in Australia HENRY MAYER, with MARGARET BETTISON and JUDY KEENE, ARGAP: A Research Guide to Australian Politics and Cognate Subjects C. A. BURMESTER, comp., Guide to the Collections ROSEMARY WALTERS, In the Pub: A Guide to the Learning Resources in the Public Service JEREMY J. JOHNSON, comp., Corporate Planning: A Bibliography and Selective Guide to the Sources of Literature Australian Politics: A New Ball Game? J. M. POWER, Cases in Local Government Management E. GRANDJEAN and A. GILGEN, Environmental Factors in Urban Planning AUSTRALIAN FOUNDATION ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE, National Alcohol and Drug Dependence Multi-disciplinary Institute, ′75 BRIAN SMITH, Policy Making in British Government SEAN DOONEY, The Irish Civil Service KENNETH KERNAGHAN, Executive Manpower in the Public Service: Make or Buy