Book Notes

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Documents on Contemporary British Government: vol. 1. British Government and Constitutional Change Martin Minogue (ed).
Documents on Contemporary British Government: Vol. 2. Local Government in Britain Martin Minogue (ed).
Local Government Administration Alan Griffiths.
The Economic Advisory Council 1930–1939 Susan Howson and Donald Winch.
Index to the Report of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration Helen Dent and others.
Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law Earl Jowitt and Clifford Walsh.
Community Health Councils and Planning in the National Health Service Douglas Weller.
Research and Reform: The Case of the Southwark Community Development Project 1969–1972 Stephen Hatch, Enid Fox and Charles Legg.
Housing and Race in Industrial Society David H. McKay.
Pollution: the Professionals and the Public Compiled by Andrew Porteous, Keith Attenborough
Workers' Participation in Western Europe 1976 Roger Harrison.
The Market and the State: Essays in Honour of Adam Smith Thomas Wilson and Andrew S. Skinner.
The National Insurance Commissioners Sir Robert Micklethwait, Q.C. Stevens
American Legal Processes William P. McLauchlan.
American Legal Processes William P. McLauchlan.
The Place of Criminal Justice in Development Planning Hardy Wick war
Shackleton on the Law and Practice of Meetings A. Harding Boulton.
Social Statistics in Ireland: A Guide to their Sources and Uses James McGilvray.
Community Work: Learning and Supervision Catherine Briscoe and David N. Thomas (eds).
Policing in a Perplexed Society Sir Robert Mark.
Occupiers Liability Act 1957 and the Liability of Hospitals B. Williams.
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Recent Government Publications     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Management in Central and Local Government John Bourn.
The Growth of Government: the Development of Ideas about the Role of the State and the Functions of Government in Britain Since 1780 Geoffrey K. Fry.
Politics and Policy in Australia G. Hawker, R.F.I. Smith and P. Weller.
Politics Between Departments M. Painter and B. Carey.
Devolution at Work: A Case Study of the Isle of Man D. G. Kermode.
The Local Government Service in England and Wales K. P. Poole.
Local Government in Britain and France: Problems and Prospects Jacques Lagroye and Vincent Wright, (eds.).
Urban Politics: a Sociological Interpretation Peter Saunders.
The Politics of Positive Discrimination: An Evaluation of the Urban Programme 1967–77 John Edwards and Richard Batley.
Essays on Housing Policy: The British Scene J. B. Cullingworth.
Housing and Public Policy Stewart Lansley. Croom Helm.
State Housing in Britain Stephen Merrett.
Governing Under Pressure: The Policy Process in a Post-Parliamentary Democracy J. J. Richardson and A. G. Jordan. Martin Robertson.
Pressure Politics in Contemporary Britain Graham Wootton.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Articles Policy-Making in Britain: A Reader in Government Edited by Richard Rose Government in Britain By G.T.Popham. Management by Motivation By Saul W.Gellerman. Borough Politics By G.W.Jones. Advising Ministers: A Case-Study of the South West Economic Planning Council By Brian C. Smith. Regional Policy in Britain By Gavin McCrone Social Security: Beveridge and After By V.N.George. The Police: A Study in Manpower By J.P. Martin and Gail Wilson. Cost Benefit Analysis in Local Government Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants O & M in Local Government By T. P. Sherman.     

Book Reviews

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British Cabinet Ministers: The Roles of Politicians in Executive Office Bruce Headey, Allen and Unwin, 1974.
The Problem of Party Government Richard Rose.
Democratic Theory and Local Government Dilys M.Hill.
The Economic Theory of Representative Government Albert Breton.
Independence and Deterrence Britain and Atomic Energy 1945–1952.
The Management of Urban Change in Britain and Germany Richard Rose (ed.).
Power and Authority in British Universities Graeme C.Moodie and Rowland Eustace.
Power and Politics in the School System Michael Locke.
The Government and Management of Schools George Baron and D.A.Howell.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Articles Value Systems and Social Process By Sir Geoffrey Vickers. Democracy and the Public Service By Frederick C.Mosher. Specialists and Generalists: A Comparative Study of the Professional Civil Servant at Home and Abroad Edited by F.F.Ridley. British Government and Politics By R.M.Punnett. The Government of Modern Britain By F.Stacey. The Legislative Process in Great Britain By S.A. Walkland. Ombudsmen for American Government Edited by Stanley V.Anderson. The Politics of Science: Readings in Science, Technology and Government Edited by William R.Nelson. Geography and Regional Planning By T.W.Freeman. Comparative Social Administration By Barbara Rodgers and others.     

Book Notes

Book review in this article
Public Administration: A Bibliography Howard E.McCurdy.
The Administrative Reform Commission Shriram Maheshwari.
A Guide to Parliamentary Papers P. and G.Ford.
Personnel Management in Hospitals Graham Millard.
Design of Form in Government Departments
Staff Appraisal G.A.Randell
Industrial Relations in the Common Market Campbell Balfour. Routledge & Kegan Paul
Administrative Justice and Supplementary Benefits Melvin Herman. Occasional Papers on Social Administration No.
Incomes Policy and the Public Sector Campbell Balfour. Routledge & Kegan Paul
Plans and Provisions for the Mentally Handicapped M.Bone, B.Spain and F.M.Martin. National Institute for Social Work Training Series No. 23. George Allen & Unwin, 1972.
Planning and Education Derek Birley. Routledge & Kegan Paul
The Evolution of a Profession: A Study of the Contribution of Teachers'Associations to the Development of School Teaching as a Professional Occupation P.H.J.H.Gosden.
National Economic Planning C.T.Sandford.
Regional Planning and Regional Government in Europe E.Kalk (ed.). The Hague: International Union of Local Authorities
Ballina: A Local Study in Regional Economic Development J.W.Chadwick, J.B.Houston and J.R.W.Mason. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration
The City: Problems of Planning Murray Stewart
The State of Britain Colin Buchanan.
Federal-Provincial Diplomacy: The Making of Recent Policy in Canada Richard Simeon.
Local Government Finance in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects Adebayo Adedeji and L.Rowland
Local Income Taxes: Economic Effects and Equip R.Stafford Smith. Berkeley
Elements of Cost-Benefit Analysis E.J.Mishan.     

Feature reviews

China is now the world's second largest oil consuming nation. China's external quest for oil has thus generated much attention and is believed by many to destabilise the world order. This article attempts to provide an overview of China's external initiatives for satisfying domestic oil demands and to examine the implications of China's oil diplomacy on regional and global political stability. The article suggests that China has taken three steps to satisfy its growing domestic demand for oil—expanding overseas oil supplies from the Middle East, diversifying its importing sources by reaching out to Africa, Russia, Central Asia and the Americas, and securing oil transport routes. This article argues that China's oil diplomacy strengthens its ties with oil-producing nations and complicates those with oil-importing nations. Nevertheless, contrary to pessimistic predictions, China's oil diplomacy has neither upset the USA's fundamental policies towards Iraq and Iran, nor has it generated armed clashes in the South China Sea. China has largely accommodated the USA in these areas and has forged joint efforts in energy exploration with its Asian neighbours, except for Japan. China's benign oil diplomacy can be explained by the minor role of oil imports in its energy consumption and, more importantly, by China's peaceful-rise strategy.     

Book Notes

Book Reveiwed in this article
Local Government and Politics Martin Cross and David Mallen.
Introduction to British Government S. G. Richards.
People and Parliament John P. Mackintosh.
Directions for Change: Review of New South Wales Government Administration An Interim Report by Peter Wilenski
A History of Police in England and Wales T. A. Critchley.
Companion to Management Studies Harold Lucas.
Zero-Base Budgeting in the Public Sector: A Pragmatic Approach Peter C. Sarant.
An Introduction to Selection Interviewing Dr. E. Anstey.
Understanding Job Evaluation Mike Burns.
Personnel Management in Government: Politics and Process Jay M. Shafritz et al.
Computers and Local Government. Vol. 1. A Manager's Guide Kenneth L. Kraemer and John Leslie King.
Socialising Public Ownership Martyn Sloman.
The Development of the British Welfare State 1880–1975 J. R. Hay.
The Origins of British Social Policy Pat Thane (ed.)
Social Policy 1830–1914: Individualism, Collectivism and the Origins of the Welfare State Eric J. Evans (ed.)
The Changing National Health Service R. G. S. Brown.
The Organization of Soviet Medical Care Michael Ryan.
Health Services in Britain 9th ed. HMSO
Social Services in Britain 11th ed. HMSO
Schools in Britain HMSO
Governance of Federal Regulatory Agencies David M. Welborn.
Price Determination and Prices Policy Joan Mitchell.
Workers' Participation in Industry Michael Poole
Inside the System J. L. Hesketh.
Hello, Good Evening and Welcome … John Brand.
Law on Accidents to Health Service Staff and Volunteers W. A. J. Farndale and Susan Russell.     

Book Reviews

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The Study of Government: Political Science and Public Administration F.F.Ridley.
Bureaucratic Encounters: A Pilot Study in the Evaluation of Government Services Daniel Katz, Barbara A.Gutek, Robert L.Kahn, and Eugenia Barton.
The Local Government Act 1972: Problems of Implementation P.G.Richards.
Practical Corporate Planning in Local Government John Skitt.
Regional Devolution and Social Policy Edward Craven (ed).
Management in the Education Service: Challenge and Response Society of Education Officers.
Appraisal for Staff Development Ronald Wraith.
The Cabinet Office to 1945 S.S.Wilson.
Ethical Conduct: Guidelines for Government Employees Kenneth Kernaghan.
Presidential Advisory Commissions Thomas R.Wolanin.     

Book Reviews

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Administering Britain Brian C. Smith and Jeffrey Stanyer
The Quest for Control: A Critique of the Rational-Central Rule Approach in Public Affairs . H. Van Gunsteren
Staff Appraisal and Development E. Anstey. C. Fletcher, J. Walker.
The Consume Cause: A Short Account of its Organization, Development, Power and Importance Ronald Wraith
Government and the Planning Process P. H. Levin.
Public Expenditure in Practice Lord Diamond
A Tax Shall Be Charged Dorothy Johnstone.
Value for Money in Health Services B. Abel-Smith.
Personnel Management in Local Government Alan Fowler.
Welfare State and Welfare Society: Illusion and Reality William A. Robson.
The Sale of Council Houses: A Study in Social Policy
Housing Policy and the Housing System Alan Murie
The Foreign Policy Process in Britain William Wallace.     

Funding Supported Accommodation: Financial and Administrative Implications of Reforming Housing Benefit

Government proposals to reform the funding of support services in Britain require local authorities to take stock of support schemes in their areas before a new single support budget will replace existing arrangements in April 2003. In the course of the transition, local authorities will also need to scrutinize supported accommodation charges in order to remove charges for services that are unlawfully paid for by Housing Benefit. This paper highlights likely problems in the identification of support schemes and in the estimation of the costs of services. The proposed tightening of the calculation of Housing Benefit will reduce entitlements to the majority of claimants in supported accommodation, many of whom are amongst the poorest people in the country. Efforts must be made to ensure that claimants facing a reduction in their payments are not faced by steady, or even rising, housing costs. In particular, tenants in schemes, which receive no funding under the new single budget, must be protected. The paper discusses the proposals' contribution to bringing housing and community care policies closer together.     

Funding Supported Accommodation: Financial and Administrative Implications of Reforming Housing Benefit

Government proposals to reform the funding of support services in Britain require local authorities to take stock of support schemes in their areas before a new single support budget will replace existing arrangements in April 2003. In the course of the transition, local authorities will also need to scrutinize supported accommodation charges in order to remove charges for services that are unlawfully paid for by Housing Benefit. This paper highlights likely problems in the identification of support schemes and in the estimation of the costs of services. The proposed tightening of the calculation of Housing Benefit will reduce entitlements to the majority of claimants in supported accommodation, many of whom are amongst the poorest people in the country. Efforts must be made to ensure that claimants facing a reduction in their payments are not faced by steady, or even rising, housing costs. In particular, tenants in schemes, which receive no funding under the new single budget, must be protected. The paper discusses the proposals' contribution to bringing housing and community care policies closer together.     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Prisoners of Professionalism: On the Construction and Responsibility of Political Studies. A Review Article Mark Bevir
Reply to Mark Bevir: 'Prisoners of Professionalism' Jack Hayward
Paradigm Politics Hugh T. Miller
Additional Comments on Modernist Empiricism Mark Bevir
The History of Government from the Earliest Times (Vols 1 to 3) S.E. Finer
Administering the Summit: Administration of the Core Executive in Developed Countries B. Guy Peters, R.A.W. Rhodes and Vincent Wright (eds)
Regulation Inside Government: Waste Watchers, Quality Policy and Sleaze Busters Christopher Hood, Oliver James, George Jones, Colin Stott and Tony Travers
Unfinished Business: Reforming the House of Lords Ivor Richard and Damien Welfare
The Politics and Policy of Local Taxation in Britain Allan McConnell
Social Science in Government: The Role of Policy Researchers Richard P. Nathan
Critical Issues in Cross-National Public Administration: Privatization, Democratization, Decentralization Stuart S. Nagel (ed.)     

Determinants of diaspora policy engagement of Ethiopians in the Netherlands

ABSTRACT

State-diaspora relations is an emerging area of inquiry as we seek to deepen our understandings of state-diaspora policies. Few studies have yet to examine how the diaspora reacts to state-led policies for engagement. This paper examines Ethiopian migrants in the Netherlands awareness of and participation in five different diaspora policies implemented by the Government of Ethiopia. We explore the factors that contribute to having knowledge of these diaspora policies from a sample of 350 Ethiopians in the Netherlands. Five categories of factors are investigated including: socio-demographic characteristics, transnational ties, integration, migration experience, and trust. We find that trust and migration experience are the most significant variables in determining knowledge of the Ethiopian diaspora policies.     

THE LIMITS OF CHANGE: LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN

Women make up the majority of local government employees in Great Britain but are not, however, evenly represented throughout the employment structure. Rather, women are overwhelmingly concentrated in low paid, low status and often part-time jobs, and are under-represented as decision makers, either as managers or elected council members. The situation of black and ethnic minority women is one of even greater marginalization. From 1982–7 over 200 local authorities adopted equal opportunity (EO) policies, both for employment practice and service delivery, the aims of which included redressing this inequitable situation for women. The achievements of these EO policies have proved to be very limited. Most have been introduced with few resources and little managerial or political support and without mechanisms for implementation or management accountability. EO reforms have been contained within the existing relationships and structures of local authorities when by definition, successful EO policies will upset the status quo. Nevertheless important lessons have been learned from this first pioneering phase of EO policy development.     

Book Reviews

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Formulating Government Budgets: Aspects of Australian and North American Experience K. Knight and K. Wiltshire.
Government Secrecy in Democracies Itzhak Galnoor (Editor)
The Politics of the Judiciary J. A. G. Griffith.
Productivity in Local Government Frederick O'R. Hayes.
The Personal Social Services Eric Sainsbury.
The Future of Voluntary Organizations: Report of the Wolfenden Committee .
Corporate Social Responsibility: A Reassessment Michael Beesley and Tom Evans.
Special Interests arid Policymaking: Agricultural Policies and Politics in Britain arid the United States of America, 1956–70 . G. K. Wilson
Direct Participation in Action: the new bureaucracy David Pace and John Hunter     

Book Notes

Book Reveiwed in this article
Public Policy Evaluation Kenneth M. Dolbeare (ed.)
Perspectives on Public Policy Making William B. Gwyn and George C. Edwards, III (eds.)
Ife Essays in Administration Colin Baker and M.J. Balogun (eds.)
Local Government Councillors-Their Motives and Manners Sir George Mallaby
Developing Personnel Skills Local Government Training Board
The Employment Protection Act 1975 Annotations by Brain Bercusson.
The Staffing of Public Libraries Department of Education and Science, 2 vols, HMSO
Work and Welfare in Britain and the USA Bruno Stein, Macmillan
The New Poor Law in the Nineteenth Century Derek Fraser (ed.)
The Children Act 1975 M.D.A. Freeman
Community Land: The New Act Victor Moore
Law and Bureaucracy: Administrative Discretion and the Limits of Legal Action Jeffrey L. Jowell
Incentives and Productivity in Public Enterprises J. Satyanarayana.
Airport Strategy and Planning Kenneth R. Sealy
The History and Practice of the Political Police in Britain Tony Bunyan     

Politics and propaganda of the provisional IRA

Abstract

So long as the declared objective of the Provisional IRA's violent campaign was the abolition of the Protestant‐dominated Northern Ireland Government, many Northern Catholics gave political or moral support. Propaganda mobilized this audience and was also directed outwards, mainly towards America and Britain, utilizing ancient myths, current allegations or revolutionary fervor according to the taste of each audience. But once Stormont had fallen, the Provi‐sionals were unable to convince their supporters that the IRA had been wise to reject negotiations offered by the UK Government and instead to adhere to a strategy of uniting Ireland by force. Violence became an end in itself, appealing only to minority audiences held under propaganda's spell, and diminishing rather than enhancing the prospects of a united Ireland.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Articles Forecasting and the Social Sciences Edited by Michael Young. Organization and Environment: Managing Differentiation and Integration By Paul R. Lawrence and Jay W.Lorsch. Technocracy By Jean Meynaud. Contemporary Soviet Government By L.G.Churchward. The Devolution of Power: Local Democracy, Regionalism and Nationalism By J.P. Mackintosh, m.p. Chatto and Windus and Charles Knight Economic Planning and Policies in Britain, France and Germany By Geoffrey Denton, Murray Forsyth and Malcom MacLeannan. Social Needs and Resources in Local Services By Bleddyn Davies. The New Local Government System By Peter G.Richards. The Organization of British Central Government 1914–1964 Edited by D.N.Chester, written by F.M.G.Willson.     

Joined up policy in practice? The coherence and impacts of the local government modernisation agenda

Abstract

The last decade has witnessed a raft of new policies designed to transform the politics and performance of local authorities in the UK. Over the next three years, a specially commissioned themed section of Local Government Studies will explore the impact of these policies drawing on recent empirical studies by leading researchers in the field. This paper, the first in the series, sets the scene by tracing the evolution of key policies, analysing their objectives and assessing the extent to which they can, as central government has claimed, be seen as a coherent package of complementary policies. It concludes that whilst at first sight the links between policies within the Local Government Modernisation Agenda are not obvious, policies have become increasingly holistic. Local authority officers perceive them to be interacting in ways that contribute to the achievement of service improvement, more effective community leadership, increased stakeholder engagement, greater accountability and increased public confidence. However, the lack of ‘joined up’ working across Whitehall presents significant problems for councils and other agencies that are responsible for local service delivery and a continuing challenge for central government.