BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
JAMES WALTER, The Leader: A Political Biography of Gough Whitlam .
R. B. SCOTTON and HELEN FERBER (eds), Public Expenditures and Social Policy in Australia .
ANDREW DUNSIRE, The Execution Process , Vol. I: Implementation in a Bureaucracy .
HAL COLEBATCH, Policy, Process and Outcome in Government: A Study of the Rural Improvement Programme .
JOHN WARHURST, State Governments and Australian Tariff Policy , Canberra, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Australian National University.
BERNARD BARRETT, The Civic Frontier .     

BOOK NOTES

JANEK RATNATUNGA, Financial Controls in Marketing, Monograph No. 6, 1983
NORMAN FISHER (ed.), Change and Public Sector Industrial Relations, Proceedings of the ACT Group, AIPA, Autumn Seminar 1981
DAVID SHAND (ed.), Making Government Budgets Work: Canberra and the States, Proceedings of the ACT Group, AIPA, Autumn Seminar 1982
ANN HODGKINSON (ed.), Towards Territorial Government, Proceedings of the Seminar on Self-Government for the ACT conducted by the Australian Institute of Urban Studies, July 1982
JOHN DIXON AND D. L. JAYASURIYA (eds), Social Policy in the 1980s, Papers presented at the 1982 conference of the Australasian Social Policy and Administration Association, 1983
MERYL STANTON (ed.), Employment of Disabled People, Seminar Proceedings No. 5, 1981
M. WATERS, Strikes in Australia: a Sociological Analysis of Industrial Conflict
Commonwealth Secretariat, Training of Trainers: A Select Annotated Bibliography, (compiled by A. P. Saxana, Asian and Pacific Development Centre, Kuala Lumpur)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Monroe E. Price. Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and Its Challenge to State Power.
Shanthi Kalathil and Taylor C. Boas. Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule.
Leslie A. Pal and R. Kent Weaver, eds. The Government Taketh Away: The Politics of Pain in the United States and Canada.
Pete Alcock, Christina Beatty, Stephen Fothergill, Rob Macmillan and Sue Yeandle. Work to Welfare: How Men Become Detached from the Labour Market.
Colin Leys. Market Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest.
Mark Blyth. Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Dean Michael Mead, The Quick Guide to Local Government Financial Statements
Dean Michael Mead, What You Should Know about Your Local Government Finances: A Guide to Financial Statements
Dean Michael Mead, What You Should Know about Your School District's Finances: A Guide to Financial Statements
Dean Michael Mead, The Quick Guide to School District Financial Statements     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The State Under Contract JONATHON BOSTON
The Greens BOB BROWN and PETER SINGER
An Unsentimental Union: The NSW Nurses Association MARY DICKENSON
The Menzies Era: A Reappraisal of Government, Politics and Policy SCOTT PRASSER, JR NETHERCOTE and JOHN WARHURST
A Government of Routines: Executive Coordination in an Australian State GLYN DAVIS
Strikes: Causes, Conduct and Consequences DOUGLAS BLACKMUR
The New Public Management     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Howard A Frank, Budgetary Forecasting in Local Government: New Tools and Techniques John E. Anderson, (ed.) Fiscal Equalization for State and Local Government Finance National Commission on the State and Local Public Service, Frustrated Federalism: RX for State and Local Health Care Reform     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Business Mates: The Power and Politics of the Hawke Era. By DOUG McEACHERN The Accord and the Australian Labour Movement. By GWYNNETH SINGLETON The Executive State: WA Inc and the Constitution. Edited by PATRICK O'BRIEN and MARTYN WEBB Surveys in Development Economics. Edited by NORMAN GEMMELL What Should Government Do? Edited by PETER COALDRAKE and J.R. NETHERCOTE Economic and Management Pressures on Australian Public Administration. Edited by CHRIS PIRIE and JOHN POWER The Anglo-American Lexicon of the Social Sciences. By L. J. SHARPE     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins Peter Edwards Australian Social Attitudes. The First Report Shaun Wilson, Gabrielle Meagher, David Denemark and Mark Western (eds) Terms of Trust: Arguments over Ethics in Australian Government John Uhr Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies Mark Considine The Life and Death of Harold Holt Tom Frame Head of State: the Governor‐General, the Monarchy, the Republic and the Dismissal David Smith Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia and the Pacific Haig Patapan, John Wanna and Patrick Weller (eds) The Governance of Public and Non‐Profit Organisations: What do boards do? Chris Cornforth (ed) Australia Unsettled: The Legacy of ‘Neo‐liberalism’ Dennis Woodward Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives Martin Painter and Jon Pierre (eds)     

Government Deficit and Debt: Learning from the Canadian Experience

A Government Reinvented: A Study of Alberta's Deficit Elimination Program C BRUCE, R KNEEBONE and K McKENZIE (eds) The Trojan Horse: Alberta and the Future of Canada G LAXER and T HARRISON (eds) Unnecessary Debts L OSBERG and P FORTIN (eds) Deficit Reduction: What Pain, What Gain? B ROBSON and W SCARTH (eds)     

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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Citizen Participation in Government. Edited by MARGARET MUNRO-CLARK
The Business of Government: Western Australia: 1983–1990. Edited by ALLAN PEACHMENT (Leichhardt
Exemplary Public Administrators: Character and Leadership in Government. Edited by TERRY COOPER and N. DALE WRIGHT
Ethics in Public Service. Edited by RICHARD A. CHAPMAN
Public Sector Management in Australia. By JOHN WANNA, CIARAN O'FAIRCHEALLAIGH & PATRICK WELLER
Service Delivery and Public Sector Marketing. Edited by CIARAN O'FAIRCHEALLAIGH, PETER GRAHAM & JENI WARBURTON
The Contracting State. By IAN HARDEN     

BOOK REVIEWS

A Future For All . By Malcolm Wicks . In Defence of the Welfare State . Edited by Paul Wilding . Nationalizing Social Security in Europe and America . Edited by Douglas E. Ashford and E. W. Kelley . The Welfare State East and West . Edited by Richard Rose and Rei Shiratori . Income Packaging in the Welfare State . By Lee Rainwater , Martin Rein and Joseph Schwartz . Welfare in Transition . Edited by Robert Erikson and Rune Aberg . The Possibility of Politics . By Stein Ringen . Freedom , Equality and the Market . By Barry Hindess . Protecting the Vulnerable . By Robert E. Goodin . Does Aid Work ? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force . By Robert Cassen and Associates . Foreign Aid Reconsidered . By Roger C. Riddell . State , Finance and Industry . By A. Cox . Governing the Economy . By Peter A. Hall . The State and the Market Economy . By J. E. S. Hayward . Political Control of the Macro Economy . By Paul Whiteley . Political Theories of Modern Government . By Peter Self . A Lament for the Law Commission . By R. T. Oerton . Corporatism and Political Theory . By Alan Cawson . Varieties of Corporatism : Theory and Practice . By Peter J. Williamson . The White House and Capital Hill : The Politics of Presidential Persuasion . By Nigel Bowles . Karl Kautsky . By Dick Geary . J. Ramsay Mac Donald . By Austen Morgan . James Maxton . By William Knox . Labour People : Leaders and Lieutenants , Hardie to Kinnock . By Kenneth 0.Morgan . The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism . By Colin Campbell . The Politics of the Police . By Robert Reiner . What is to be done about Law and Order ? By John Lea and Jock Young . The governance of the Police . By Laurence Lustgarten . The Policing of Industrial Disputes 1893–1984. By Roger Geary .     

BOOKS

Books reviewed in this article:
John Lovell, British Trade Unions, 1875-1933
Asa Briggs and John Saville (eds.), Essays in Labour History 1918-1939, Vol. 3
David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald
Nevil Johnson, In Search of the Constitution: Reflections on State and Society in Britain
Martin Minogue (ed.), Documents on Contemporary British Government, Vol. I: British Government and Constitutional Change , xii + 413 pp., Vol. 2: Local Government in Britain
William A. Robson, Welfare State and Welfare Society, Illusion and Reality
Wyn Grant and David Marsh, The CBI
Gabriele Ganz, Government and Industry . Professional Books, Abingdon, 1977, xii + 112 pp., £5.80.
Keith Barnard and Kenneth Lee (eds.), Conflicts in the National Health Service
The Citizen and the Public Agencies: a Report by Justice
Sir Leslie Scarman, English Law and Social Policy: A Symposium based on Sir Leslie Scarman's 1974 Hamlyn Lectures
Muriel Brown, An Introduction to Social Administration
David M. Clark, Battle for the Counties: Guide to the County Council Elections 1977
F. W. S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results
P. H. J. H. Gosden, Education in the Second World War: A Study in Policy and Administration
Chris Harlow, Innovation and Productivity under Nationalisation: The First Thirty Years
S. Jacobs, The Right to a Decent House
Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Diplomats: The Foreign Office Today
Ian Sellers, Nineteenth-Century Nonconformity
S. A. Walkland & Michael Ryle (eds.), The Commons in the Seventies
C. W. Cassinelli, Total Revolution     

GOVERNMENT PRODUCTIVITY, EFFECTIVENESS, AND PUBLIC POLICY

Marc Holzer and Stuart S. Nagel (editors) . 1984. Productivity and Public Policy .
George W. Downs and Patrick D. Larkey . 1986. The Search for Government Efficiency: From Hubris to Helplessness
Elaine Morley . 1986. A Practitioner's Guide to Public Sector Productivity Improvement .
Richard H. Silkman and Dennis R. Young with the assistance of Robert Lipp . 1985. Subsidizing Inefficiency: A Study of State Aid and Local Government Productivity .     

BOOK NOTES

T. H. KEWLEY, Australian Social Security Today .
RUSSELL MATHEWS, Australian Federalism 1979 .
ALAN THOMAS, Broadcast and Be Damned .
RALPH PER VAN and CAMPBELL SHARMAN, Essays on Western Australian Politics .
DAVID DONNISON with PAUL SOTO, The Good City: A Study of Urban Development and Policy in Britain .
ROBERT ALBON (ed.), Rent Control, Costs and Consequences .
MICHAEL E. CORBY, The Postal Business, 1969-79: A Study in Public Sector Management .
Efficiency in Government Expenditure .
H. SADDLER and others, Public Choice in Tasmania .
ROBERT J. HAYNES, Organisation Theory and Local Government .
D. J. WALMSLEY, Social Justice and Australian Federalism
PETER RYAN, Redmond Barry, A Colonial Life 1813–1880 .
Directory to Commonwealth and State Government Services in South Australia .
Administrative Review Council , Fourth Annual Report.
RUTH ATKINS, Albany to Zeehan: A New Look at Local Governments .
Relations between Levels of Government .
Endowed Lectures, 1974–1979 .
Proceedings of the National Government Accounting Convention .     

Book Reviews

The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s. By JOSEPH WHITE AND AARON WILDAVSKY.
The Deregulation of the World Financial Markets: Myths, Realities and Impacts. By SARKIS J. KHOURY.
Government by Moonlight: The Hybrid Parts of the State. By PATRICK BIRKIN-SHAW, IAN HARDEN, NORMAN LEWIS.
Strategies for Managing Intergovernmental Policies and Networks. Edited by ROBERT W. GAGE and MYRNA P. MANDELL.
Strategies for Managing Intergovernmental Policies and Networks. Edited by ROBERT W. GAGE and MYRNA P. MANDELL.
The Silence of Constitutions: Gaps, "Abeyances" and Political Temperament in the Maintenance of Government. By MICHAEL FOLEY.
Demographic Change and the American Future. By R. SCOTT FOSLER, WILLIAM ALONSO, JACK A. MEYER, and ROSEMARY KERN.
The State and Policy Outcomes in Latin America. By LAWRENCE S. GRAHAM.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Critical tears in Immigration: Canada and Australia Compared. By FREDA HAWKINS (Montreal
Utah and Queensland Coal: A Study in the Micro Political Economy of Modern Capitalism and the State. By BRIAN GALLIGAN
"That Community Government Mob": Local Government in Small Northern Territory Communities. By JACKIE WOLFE
Health Care and Public Policy: An Australian Analysis. By GEORGE PALMER and STEPHANIE SHORT
From Colony to Coloniser: Studies in Australian Administrative History. Edited by J.J. EDDY AND J.R. NETHERCOTE
A Policy Framework for Improving the Performance of Government Trading Enterprises. By the STEERING COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT TRADING ENTERPRISES
Engagement of External Consultants by Commonwealth Departments: Report 302. By JOINT COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS     

Activist Lawyers Repent

Books reviewed in this article:
Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod, Democracy By Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government     

Distant Mirrors: Eight Recent Exemplary Models

Books reviewed:
Ferrel Heady, One Time Around
Herbert H. Werlin, The Mysteries of Development: Studies Using Political Elasticity Theory
Theodore R.Marmor, The Politics of Medicare
Jerry Mitchell, The American Experiment with Government Corporations
Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
Garry Wills, A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government
David F. Lindenfeld, The Practical Imagination: The German Sciences of State in the Nineteenth Century
Jos C. N. Raadschelders, Handbook of Administrative History     

Governance, Management, and Performance: They Matter

Books reviewed in this article:
Carolyn J. Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., eds., Governance and Performance: New Perspectives
Patricia W. Ingraham, Philip G. Joyce, and Amy Kneedler Donahue, Government Performance: Why Management Matters
Janet M. Kelly and William C. Rivenbark, Performance Budgeting for State and Local Government