Comments and Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Voitto Helander & Dag Anckar: Consultation and Political Culture. Essays on the Case of Finland. Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium 19: Tammisaari-Ekenäs, 1983
Harald Saetren: Iverksetting av offentlig politikk: En studie av utflytting av statsinstitusjoner fra Oslo 1960–1981, Universitetsforlaget: Bergen, 1983
Marvin E. Olsen: Participatory Pluralism. Political Participation in the United States and Sweden. Nelson-Hall, Chicago 1982
Johan P. Olsen, Organized Democracy, Political Institutions in a Welfare State — the Case of Norway , Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 1983     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Geoff Gallop, A State of Reform: Essays for a Better Future
Martin Painter, Collaborative Federalism: Economic Reform in Australia in the 1990s     

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Public Service Personnel Management in Victoria, Report to the Honourable J.E. Kirner MP, Premier of Victoria. By JOHN ALFORD, FAY MARLES and JOHN POWER
Review of The Auditor-General: Ally of the People and Parliament — Reform of the Australian Audit Office, Report 296
Sisters in Suits: Women and Public Policy in Australia, by MARIAN SAWER
Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State, by ANNA YEATMAN
Decisions and Organizations. By J.G. MARCH     

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     

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

Book reviewed in this article: Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A. B. Atkinson. Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment, by Paul Pierson. Managing Policy Change in Britain: The Politics of Water, by William A. Maloney and Jeremy Richardson. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change, by Stanley Fish. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, by Will Kymlicka. The Rights of Minority Cultures, edited by Will Kymlicka. Globalisation in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance, by Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson. Economic Growth and Political Change in Asia, by Graham Field. American Exceptionalism: A Double-edged Sword, by Seymour Martin Lipset. Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, by Zeev Sternhell, trans. David Maisel. Strategies for Self-Govemment: The Campaigns for a Scottish Parliament, by James Mitchell. The Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Norbert Elias, edited by Michael Schröter, translated from the German and with a preface by Eric Chinning and Stephen Mennell.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
ALF RATTIGAN, Industry Assistance: the inside story
B. HEAD(ed.), The Politics of Development in Australia
A. PATIENCE (ed.), The Bjelke-Petersen Premiership 1968–1983: Issues in Public Policy
DONALD C. ROWAT, The Ombudsman Plan: The Worldwide Spread of an Idea
P. R. HAY, J. HALLIGAN, J. WAR-HURST and B. COSTAR (eds), Essays on Victorian Politics
BEDE NAIRN, The 'Big Fella': Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891–1949
JIM HAGAN, Australian Trade Unionism in Documents
ALEXANDER KOUZMIN, J. R. NETHER-COTE, ROGER WETTENHALL (eds), Australian Commonwealth Administration 1983: Essays in Review
J. R. NETHERCOTE, ALEXANDER KOUZMIN, ROGER WETTENHALL (eds), Australian Commonwealth Administration 1984: Essays in Review     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Far Right ELISABETH CARTER Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe, by Piero Ignazi. Right‐wing Extremism in the Twenty‐first Century, edited by Peter H. Merkl and Leonard Weinberg. From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism: Radical Right‐wing Populism in Sweden, by Jens Rydgren. Modernity and Secession: The Social Sciences and the Political Discourse of the Lega Nord in Italy, by Michel Huysseune. New Labour new NHS? , Jennifer Dixon New Labour's State of Health. Political Economy, Public Policy and the NHS, by Calum Paton. Bad aid , Norman Flynn The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much III and so Little Good, by William Easterly. Plato Lives! , Richard Mullender Plato's Republic: A Biography, by Simon Blackburn. Plato's Children: The State We Are In, By Anthony O'Hear. plato and the Virtue of Courage, by Linda R. Rabieh. Exporting Burke , Richard Bourke Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke, by Seamus Deane.     

Reviews

Politics of the Media Ian Ward, Macmillan Melbourne 1995

Art & Social Structure Robert W Witkin, Polity Press Cambridge 1995

On Meaning‐Making: Essays in Semiotics Mieke Bal, Polebridge Press Sonoma California 1994     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
The New Gender Agenda , edited by Anna Coote
Money, Markets and the State: Social Democratic Policies since 1918 , by Ton Notermans
It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States , by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks
Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations , by John S. Dryzek
The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945 , by Peter Hennessy
Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh , by Toby Harnden
The IRA 1968–2000: Analysis of a Secret Army , by J. Bowyer Bell
In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethics and Politics , by Norberto Bobbio, translated by Teresa Chataway
Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach , by Martha C. Nussbaum
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering , by Norman G. Finkelstein
The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics , by John Dunn
Trouble-maker: The Life and History of A. J. P. Taylor , by Kathleen Burk     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895–1995 .
The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State , by Nicholas Timmins.
Party, Parliament and Personality , edited by Peter Jones. Routledge.
The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe , by Edmund Dell.
The Throw that Failed: Britain's 1961 Application to Join the Common Market , by Lionel Bell.
Mandarin: The Diaries of an Ambassdor, 1969–1982 , by Sir Nicholas Henderson.
The Failure and Future of British Democracy , by Andrew Marr.
World Orders, Old and New , by Noam Chomsky.
Economic Democracy: The Politics of Feasible Socialism , by Robin Archer.
Socialism after Communism: The New Market Socialism , by Christopher Pierson.
Intellectuals and Socialism: 'Social Democrats'and the Labour Party , by Radnika Desai.
Opening the Books: Essays on the Cultural and Social History of the British Communist Party , edited by Geoff Andrews, Nina Fishman and Kevin Morgan.     

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 .     

Columbus’ fall from grace

She has written widely on early modern Spanish history. Among her books are The Changing Face of Empire: Charles V, Philip II and Habsburg Authority, 1551–1559; Armada. The Official Catalogue of the National Maritime Museum Exhibition.She is also co-editor (with Simon Adams) of England, Spain, and the Gran Armada, 1585–1604. Essays from the Anglo-Spanish Conferences, London and Madrid, 1988.     

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 .     

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 Reviews

Books reviewed:
David Mckay, Designing Europe: Comparative Lessons from the Federal Experience
Adrienne Héritier et al., Differential Europe: The European Union Impact on National Policymaking,
Montserrat Guibernau (ed.), Governing European Diversity
Alec Stone Sweet, Wayne Sandholtz and Neil Fligstein (eds.), The Institutionalization of Europe
David Calleo, Rethinking Europe's Future
by Simon Walters, Tory Wars: Conservatives in Crisis
Boris Johnson, Friends, Voters, Countrymen: Jottings on the Stump
Edward Vaizey, Nicholas Bore and Michael Gove (eds.), A Blue Tomorrow: New Visions for Modern Conservatives
Victor Davis Hanson, Why the West Has Won: Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam
Michael Howard, The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order
Ulrich Beck, The Brave New World of Work
Ian Gough, Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies: Selected Essays 1994–99
Roland Axtmann (ed.), Balancing Democracy
Richard Vernon, Political Morality: A Theory of Liberal Democracy
Paul Ward, The Red Flag and the Union Jack: Englishness, Patriotism and the British Left, 1881–1924
Peter Hennessy, The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War
James Ellison, Threatening Europe: Britain and the Creation of the European Economic Community 1955–58
Murray Edelman, The Politics of Misinformation
Nicholas Jones, Campaign 2001
James Stanyer, The Creation of Political News: Television and British Party Political Conferences     

A Marx for the twenty-first century?

Among his many books are The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification; Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science; Three Sociological Traditions; Sociology Since Mid-Century: Essays in Theory Cumulation;and Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science.     

The Complexity of 'Political Islamism'

Books reviewed
The Future of Political Islam , by Graham Fuller. Palgrave. 228pp. £19.99.
Secularism, Islam and Modernity: Selected Essays of Alam Khundmiri , edited by M. T. Ansari. Sage. 308pp. £29.99.
Law and Power in the Islamic World , by Sami Zubaida. I. B. Tauris. 248pp. £35.00.
Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power , by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr. Oxford University Press. 220pp. £33.99.
False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy , by Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Verso. cxxix + 661pp. £28.00.
Preachers of Hate: The Rise of the Far Right , by Angus Roxburgh. Gibson Square Books. 312pp. £18.99.
A Mandarin's Tale , by Roy Denman. Politico's. 282pp. £20.00.
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950–1957 , edited with an introduction by Peter Catterall. Macmillan. 676pp. £25.00.
Memoirs from the Left , by John Saville. Merlin. 197pp. £14.95 (pb).
Zones of Conflict: US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East , by Vassilis Fouskas. Pluto Press. 177pp. £45.00 (hb), £14.99 (pb).     

Promoting health

He is the author of Painful Choices: Research and Essays on Health Care, Mental Health and Social Policy(3rd Edition), and From Advocacy to Allocation: The Evolving American Health Care System.