BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. The Dogs of Journalism. STEVEN BARNETT. Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies. Public intellectual: The art of making oneself up. Richard Mullender. Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Volume 4, by Richard Rorty. The Second Plane: September 11: 2001–2007, by Martin Amis. Planning and all that. Matthew Grant. From Dreams to Disillusionment: Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain, by Glen O'Hara. Let a hundred flowers bloom. Munira Mirza Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts, by Caroline Levine. How to change your brains. Dick Pountain On Deep History and the Brain, by Daniel Lord Smail. ‘Clean’ torture. Caroline Fournet Torture and Democracy, by Darius Rejali. Reforming Italy. Gianfranco Pasquino Political Institutions in Italy, by Maurizio Cotta and Luca Verzichelli. Choice and competition in health care. Jennifer Dixon The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Competition and Choice, by Julian Le Grand, Afterword by Alain Enthoven. Who is afraid of politics?. Meg Russell Politics and the People: A History of British Democracy since 1918, by Kevin Jefferys. Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work, by Gerry Stoker, Palgrave Macmillan. Why We Hate Politics, by Colin Hay.     

Book Reviews

Rosemary Hennessy, Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse
Richard J. Bernstein, Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question
David Ames Curtis (ed), The Castoriadis Reader
David Ames Curtis (ed), World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis and the Imagination
Morris Kaplan, Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Politics and Society in Contemporary France The State as Entrepreneur . Edited by Stuart Holland . West European Politics since 1945: The Shaping of the European Community . By Roger Morgan . Diplomacy and Persuasion : How Britain Joined the Common Market . By Uwe Kitzinger . Europe in The Making . By Walter Hallstein . The New Politics of European Integration . Edited by Ghita Ionescu . Out of the Ruins of Europe . By Walter Laqueur . The Long Debate on Poverty . Do Trade Unions Cause Inflation ? By Dudley Jackson , H. A. Turner and Frank Wilkinson . Staff Relations in the Civil Service . By Henry Parris . The Continuing Battle , Memoirs of a European The Memoirs of Lord Gladwyn . Politics in Western Europe : A Comparative Analysis . By Gordon Smith     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Kurt M. Thurmaier and Katherine G. Willoughby, Policy and Politics in State Budgeting
Ronald F. King, Budgeting Entitlements: The Politics of Food Stamps     

Old and New Politics in Denmark

A New Politics dimension of non-economic issue preferences emerged in Denmark during the 1980s. The new dimension is clearly separated from the traditional economic Old Politics dimension, though the two are correlated. The New Politics dimension has not given rise to viable new parties but is represented by three medium-sized parties: the Sodalist People's and Radical Liberal parties constitute the New Left, and the Progressive Party constitutes the New Right. The three old class parties contribute little towards explaining the individual variance in the position of New Politics; as always, the Social Democratic Party represents the Old Left while the Liberal and Conservative parties represent the Old Right. In terms of social positions, New Left attitudes are correlated especially with level of school education and with employment in the reproductive sectors.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy . By Bryan D. Jones.
Economic Politics . By William R. Keech.
Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective . By Theda Skocpol.
The Brazilian Voter: Mass Politics in Democratic Transition, 1974–1986 . By Kurt von Mettenheim.     

Professor Skinner's Visions

Skinner, Q. (2002) Visions of Politics , Volume I: Regarding Method . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Skinner, Q. (2002) Visions of Politics , Volume II: Renaissance Virtues . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Skinner, Q. (2002) Visions of Politics , Volume III: Hobbes and Civil Science . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Politics, Economics and Welfare Reform . By LESLIE LENKOWSKY
Le Moloch en Europe: Etatisation et Corporatisation . By MATTEI DOG AN and DOMINIQUE PELASSY
Leadership and Innovation, A Biographical Perspective on Entrepreneurs in Government . By JAMESON W. DOIG and ERWIN C. HARGROVE, eds.
The Politics of Numbers . Edited by WILLIAM ALONSO and PAUL STARR
Breaking the Impasse. Consensual Approaches to Resolving Public Disputes . By LAWRENCE SUSSKIND and JEFFREY CRUIKSHANK
The Politics of Federal Reorganization: Creating the U.S. Department of Education . By BERYL A. RADIN and WILLIS D. HAWLEY
The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir . TERREL H. BELL     

BOOK NOTES

GEOFFREY HAWKER, R. F. I. SMITH and PATRICK WELLER, Politics and Policy in Australia, St Lucia
MARTIN PAINTER and BERNARD CAREY, Politics between Departments, St Lucja
G. SINGER and MEREDITH WALLACE, The Adminisrrarive Walrz
CORNELIUS J. LAMMERS and DAVID J. HICKSON, Orgunizarions Alike and Unlike
D. W. RAWSON, Unions and Unionists in Australia
TIMOTHY PASCOE for ARTS, Strengthening the Governance of Arts Organizations
Working Papers on Parliament, Canberra Series in Administrative Studies No. 5
Top Administrators: Meeting Their Needs, Seminar Papers, Royal Institute of Public Administration (Queensland Regional Group), 1979
MAVIS PUTHUCHEARY, The Politics of Administration: The Malaysian Experience
HAL KENDIG, New Life for Old Suburbs
MARTYN FORREST, The Organisation of Government in Western Australia     

Child Care and the Liberal Welfare Regime: A Review Essay

A Review Essay of Vicky Randall, The Politics of Child Daycare in Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); Sally S. Cohen, Championing Child Care (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001); Deborah Brennan, The Politics of Australian Child Care, 2d. ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).     

Political Theory and the Agony of Politics

Mouffe, C. (2005) On the Political. Milton Park: Routledge.
Walzer, M. (2005) Politics and Passion: Towards a More Egalitarian Liberalism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Arendt, H. (2005) The Promise of Politics , ed. J. Kohn. New York: Schocken Books.     

Dollars and Decisions: Fiscal Policy and Administration in the American States

Books reviewed in this article:
Glenn Beamer, Creative Politics: Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System
David Brunori, State Tax Policy: A Political Perspective
Kurt M. Thurmaier and Katherine G. Willoughby, Policy and Politics in State Budgeting     

From a Positive to a Cultural Science: Towards a New Rationale for Political Studies

This article surveys developments in recent social theory in the course of outlining a new rationale for Politics following the subject's own expansion and in the light of developments in post-empiricist thought. It suggests reasons for thinking of Politics as a cultural rather than a positive science. It outlines a number of core or primary political problems which comprise the intellectual foundations of the discipline. It suggests, overall, that Politics is especially concerned with maintaining and improving the viability of human association(s) in the light of conditions created by the rise and expansion of complex societies.     

Searching for a New Politics: The New Politics Movement and the Struggle to Democratize the Democratic Party, 1968–1978

By the late 1960s, the Democratic Party had fallen into crisis. Vietnam, urban riots, and declining electoral fortunes marked a crossroads in the history of the party, raising questions about the meaning and trajectory of postwar liberalism. Amid the political chaos and economic crisis of the 1970s, a distinct political tendency running through the civil rights, feminist, labor, and antiwar movements demanded a new politics. The New Politics movement attempted to reform and realign the Democratic Party to the left. Reformers perceived party rules and structure as constraining progressives’ influence on public policy. Their project to democratize the Democratic Party began in the wake of the 1968 party crisis, and it ended ten years later with the failure to compel a sitting Democratic president and Democratic Congress to implement the party’s program for full employment. While faced with organized intraparty resistance, the failure of the New Politics movement hinged on the contradictory consequences of its struggle to open the party. The successes and failures of the New Politics movement suggest the limits and possibilities confronting progressive forces in the United States today. The New Politics episode can help clarify the goals and tactics involved in realigning American politics in a more progressive direction.     

‘New politics’ in Finland: The greens and the left wing in the 1990s

This article examines the development of two Finnish political parties (the Green Association and the Left‐Wing Alliance) from a ‘New Politics’ perspective, focusing on changes in their electoral, programmatic and organisational profiles, with emphasis on the composition and value‐related features of their electorates in 1991, 1995 and 1999. The results confirm the position of the Greens as the prime representative of New Politics; but the party has moved away from its anti‐establishment role and its supporters increasingly share the social and attitudinal characteristics of the average electorate. The UNA, on the other hand, has moved towards a New Politics profile and a gradual dealignment of its old male‐dominated working class electorate; but its central characteristics and its supporters are still firmly entrenched in an old leftist format.     

Change and Decay

Books reviewed:
Tivey, Leonard (edited by Robert Hazell). Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years
Seyd, Ben (edited by Robert Blackburn and Raymond Plant). The Politics of the British Constitution; Constitutional Reform: The Labour Government's Constitutional Reform Agenda
Klein, Rudolf (Bill Jordan). The New Politics of Welfare
O'Brien, David (edited by Dick Leonard). Crosland and New Labour
Parker, Noel (Maurice Keens-Soper). Europe in the World: The Persistence of Power Politics
Arnsel, Anja (Peter Gay). My German Question
Archard, David (edited by Richard Bellamy and Martin Hollis). Pluralism and Liberal Neutrality
Vosper, Susan Saunders (Robert Service). A History of Twentieth-century Russia
Garnett, Mark (Luisa Passerini). Europe in Love, Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics in Britain between the Wars
Jenkinson, Sally L (Bruce Hoffman). Inside Terrorism     

The Presidency and the Executive Branch

Books reviewed: John P. Burke, Presidential Transitions: From Politics to Practice. Paul Kengor, Wreath Layer or Policy Player? The Vice President's Role in Foreign Policy. Joel Aberbach and Bert Rockman, In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: The US Presidency in Crisis: A Comparative Perspective, by Colin Campbell Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models B. Guy Peters “A Dutch Miracle,” Job Growth, Welfare Reform and Corporatism in the Netherlands, by Jelle Visser and Anton Hemerijck The Economic History of the Netherlands, 1914–1995: A Small Open Economy in the “Long” Twentieth Century, by Jan L. van Zanden The German and Dutch Economies: Who Follows Whom?, edited by Lei Delsen and Eelke de Jonge The Reordering of British Politics: Politics After Thatcher, by Dennis Kavanagh     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
CULTURE AND CONSENSUS: England, Art and Politics since 1940. From the Blitz to the Annus Horribilis: A Nation in Triumph and Disarray , by Robert Hewison.
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion , by Ernest Gellner.
Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove , by Ernest Gellner.
Why the Allies Won , by Richard Overy.
The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities, 1945–1950 , by Correlli Barnett.
England Arise! The Labour Party and Popular Politics in 1940s Britain , by Steven Fielding, Peter Thompson and Nick Tiratsoo. Manchester University Press, vii + 244pp.
Fascism: A History , by Roger Eatwell.
Making Sense of Tyranny: Interpretations of Totalitarianism , by Simon Tormey.
Ayes to the Left: A Future for Socialism , by Peter Hain.
Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR , by Mary Fulbrook.
Ethics and International Politics , by Luigi Bonante.
The Quality of Life in London , edited by A. H. Halsey, Roger Jowell and Bridget Taylor.
Great Parliamentary Speeches: Memorable Occasions from the First 16 Years of Parliamentary Broadcasting 1978–1994 , compiled by Peter Hill.     

Reviews

Books Reviewed: Betts, Katherine, The Great Divide: Immigration Politics in Australia Bennett, Tony, Emmison, Michael and Frow, John, Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Elliot, Lorraine, The Global Politics of the Environment Gabbitas, O. and Eldridge, D., Directions for State Tax Reform