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The Pentagonists. By A. ERNEST FITZGERALD
The Ring of Power: The White House Staff and Its Expanding Role in Government , By BRADLEY H. PATTERSON, Jr.
The Politics of the U.S. Cabinet: Representation in the Executive Branch 1789–1984. By JEFFREY E. COHEN.
Comparing Public Bureaucracies: Problems of Theory and Method. By B. GUY PETERS.
Pathways to Power: Selecting Rulers in Pluralist Democracies. Edited by MATTEI DOGAN.
Policy Studies: Integration and Evaluation. By STUART S. NAGEL.     

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Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy. By A. Claire Cutler.
Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after Total War, Totalitarianism and the Holocaust . By Ira Katznelson.
Responsibility and Judgment . By Hannah Arendt.     

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Pressure Power and Policy: State Autonomy and Policy Networks in Britain and the United States . By Martin J. Smith.
Bureaucracy in Crisis: Three Mile Island, the Shuttle Challenger, and Risk Assessment . By Maureen Hogan Casamayou.
Ethics in Public Service . Edited by Richard A. Chapman.
Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability . By Paul C.
Media Polls in American Politics . Edited by Thomas E. Mann and Gary R. Orren.
Politics and Policy Implementation: Project Renewal in Israel . By Frederick A. Lazin.
Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation . By Stephen Breyer.
The Moral Dimensions of Public Policy Choice: Beyond the Market Paradigm . Edited by John Martin Gillroy and Maurice Wade.     

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Accounting for Public Policy: Power, Professionals and Politics In Local Government. By DAVID ROSENBERG
Getting Our Acts Together: Intergovernmental Policy Coordination In Employment, Education and Training. Edited by ANNA YEATMAN and DAVID CORBETT
The Literature on Royal Commissions, Select Committees of Parliament and Boards of Inquiry held in Australia 1856–1980: A Select Bibliography. By JULIE G. MARSHALL     

The Complexity of 'Political Islamism'

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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).     

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Localism and Centralism in Europe: The Political and Legal Bases of Local Self-Government . By Edward C. Page.
Liberty and Community: Canadian Federalism and the Failure of the Constitution . By Robert C. Vipond.
Reluctant Partners: Implementing Federal Policy . By Robert P. Stoker.
Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics . By Bron Raymond Taylor.
Repealing the War Powers Resolution: Restoring the Rule of Law in US Foreign Policy . By Robert F. Turner.
Agenda For Excellence: Public Service in America . By Patricia W. Ingraham and Donald F. Kettl, eds.
The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat: Appraisals and Evidence . By Andre Blais and Stephane Dion, eds.
Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking and Investigations, 1946–1990 . By David R. Mayhew.     

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Tage Erlander: Serving the Welfare State. By OLOF RUIN (translated by Michael E. Metcalf).
Ethics for Policymaking: A Methodological Analysis. By EUGENE J. MEEHAN.
Ethics for Public Managers. By HAROLD F. GORTNER.
The Responsible Public Servant. By KENNETH KERNAGHAN and JOHN W. LANGFORD.
The Environmental Contexts of AIDS. By MARIE A. MUIR.
The Catastrophe Ahead: AIDS and the Case for a New Public Policy. By WILLIAM B. JOHNSTON and KEVIN R. HOPKINS.
Hostile Brothers: Competition and Closure in the European Electronks Industry. By ALAN CAWSON, KEVIN MORGAN, DOUGLAS WEBBER, PETER HOLMES and ANNE STEVENS.
Politics, Markets and America's Schools. By JOHN E. CHUBB and TERRY M. MOE.
The Symbolic Presidency: How Presidents Portray Themselves. By BARBARA HINCK-LEY.     

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Washington, Westminster and Whitehall. By WALTER WILLIAMS.
Controlling the Sword: The Democratic Governance of National Security. By BRUCE RUSSETT.
Civilian-Based Defense; A Post-Military Weapons System. By GENE SHARP.
Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics. By JAMES G. MARCH and JOHAN P. OLSEN.
Presidential Influence and the Administrative State. By RICHARD W. WATERMAN.
Intergovernmental Relations in the Administrative State: The Johnson Presidency. By DAVID M. WELBORN and JESSE BURKHEAD.
The Human Resource Crisis in the Public Sector. By LARRY M. LANE and JAMES F. WOLF.
Creative Marginality: Innovation at the Intersections of the Social Sciences. By MATTEI DOGAN and ROBERT PAHRE.     

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Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in A Global Economy . By David Vogel.
Jacques Delors and European lnfegration . By George Ross.
Strategic Disagreement: Stalemate in American Politics . By John B. Gilmour.
The Disposable Work Force: Worker Displacement and Employment Instability in America . By Thomas S. Moore.
Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage . By David Card and Alan B. Krueger.     

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The State, Business, and Industrial Change in Canada. By MICHAEL ATKINSON and WILLIAM D. COLEMAN.
Ethics in the British Civil Service. By RICHARD A. CHAPMAN.
Head of the Civil Service: A Study of Sir Warren Fisher. By EUNAN O'HALPIN.
The Ethics of Public Service: Resolving Moral Dilemmas in Public Organizations. By KATHRYN G. DENHARDT.
White House Ethics: The History of the Politics of Conflict of Interest Regulation. By ROBERT N. ROBERTS.
Maori, Pakeha and Democracy. By RICHARD MULGAN.
The Gatekeepers: Comparative Immigration Policy. Edited by MICHAEL C. LEMAY.
Perestroika Annual: Volume 2. Edited by ABEL G. AGANBEGYAN.     

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The Clinton Presidency: First Appraisals . By Colin Campbell and Bert Rockman, eds.
The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient . By Donald Wittman.
Agenda for Excellence 2: Administering the State . B. Guy Peters and Bert A. Rockman, eds.
From Art to Politics: How Artistic Creations Shape Political Conceptions . By Murry Edelman.
Election Campaigning: The New Marketing of Politics . By Dennis Kavanagh.     

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Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities: The Public Policy Dilemma . By Mary R. English.
Making War: The 200-Year-Old Battle Between the President and Conwess Over How Ameriia Goes to War . By John Lehman.
The Muses, The Masses and the Massey Commission . By Paul Litt.
Toxic Politics, Responding to Chemical Disasters . By Michael R. Reich.
The Speaker and the Budget, Leadership in the Post-Reform House of Representatives . By Daniel J. Palazzolo.
Health Insurance and Public Policy: Risk, Allocation, and Equity . Edited by Miriam K. Mills and Robert H. Blank.
Regulating Privacy Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States . By Colin J. Bennett.     

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Advice and Consent: The Development of the Policy Sciences. By PETER DE LEON.
The Reach and Grasp of Policy Analysis: Comparative Views of the Craft. By RICHARD HOFFERBERT.
Governing Education: A Sociology of Policy Since 1945. By ANDREW McPHERSON and CHARLES D. RAAB.
Privatising the World. By OLIVER LETWIN.
La France Face au Sud: Le Miroir Brise. By JACQUES ADDA and MARIE-CLAUDE SMOUTS.
The President and Civil Rights Policy: Leadership and Change. By STEVEN A. SHULL
The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation: Tracking the Unicorn. By BRUCE YANDLE.
L'Etat en Amerique. Edited by MARIE-FRANCE TOINET.     

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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     

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At the Margins: Presidential Leadership of Congress , By GEORGE C. EDWARDS III.
The President as Prisoner: A Structural Critique of the Carter and Reagan Years. By WILLIAM F. GROVER.
Regulatory Interventionism in the Utility Industry . By BARBARA R. BARKOVICH.
Private Gain and Public Service: The Association of First Division Civil Servants. By BARRY O'TOOLE.
Ulster: Conflict and Consent. By TOM WILSON.
Guide to the Presidency. Edited by MICHAEL NELSON.
Prime Minister & Premiers: Political Leadership and Public Policy in Canada. Edited by LESLIE A. PAL AND DAVID TARAS.
The Future Of Local Government , Edited by JOHN STEWART and GERRY STOKER.     

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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.     

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Privatizing Public Enterprises: Constitutions, the State and Regulation in Comparative Perspective . By Cosmo Graham and Tony Prosser.
Politics and Jobs; The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States . By Margaret Weir.
The Dynamics of Legislation: Leadership and Policy Change in the Congressional Process . By Charles R. Wise.
Controversies in Minority Voting: The Voting Rights Act in Perspective . Edited by Bernard Grofman and Chandler Davidson.
Native Americans and Public Policy . By Fremont J. Lyden and Lyman H. Legters.     

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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.     

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The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite. By JAMES ALLEN SMITH.
The Political Failure of Employment Policy 1945–1982. By GARY MUCCIARONI.
The Politics of Public Spending in Canada. By DONALD J. SAVOIE.
The Organization of Hypocrisy. Talk, Decisions and Actions in Organizations. By NILS BRUNSSON.
Conflict and Rhetoric in French Policymaking. By FRANK R. BAUMGARTNER.
Affirmative Talk, Affirmative Action: A Comparative Study of the Politics of Affirmative Action. By AUGUSTUS J. JONES, JR.     

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Authority and Change: The Sources of Economic Growth. By JUDITH MARQUAND.
The Centralization-Decentralization Conundrum: Organization and Management in the Canadian Government. By PETER AUCOIN and HERMAN BAKVIS.
Between Profit and State: Intermediate Organization in Britain and the United States. By ALAN WARE.
In Pursuit of National Interests: Australian Foreign Policy in the 1990s. Edited by F. A. MEDIANSKY AND A. C. PALFREEMAN.
Comparative Policy Research — Learning from Experience . Edited by MEINOLF DIERKES, HANS N. WEILER AND ARIANE BERTHOIN ANTAL.
Political Economy of Economic Policy. By WILFRED L. DAVID.
Innovation Through Technical and Scientific Information: Government and Industry Cooperation. By STEVEN BALLARD, THOMAS E. JAMES, JR., TIMOTHY I. ADAMS, MICHAEL D. DEVINE, LANI L. MALYSA, AND MARK MEO.