Shorter note

US Senate Hearings before the Select Committee on Intelligence, 102nd Congress, First Session on the Nomination of Robert M. Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence: Vol. 1, September 16, 17, 19, 20 1991; Vol.2, September 24, October 1, 2 1991; Vol.3, October 3, 4, 18 1991 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1992).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Jonathan Schneer, Labour's Conscience: The Labour Left 1945–51 .
Giovanni Sartori, The Theory of Democracy Revisited: Vol. 1 The Contemporary Debate, Vol. 2 The Classical Issues .
Dimitry V. Pospielovsky, A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer Vol. 1: A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Anti-Religious Policies .
Dimitry V. Pospielovsky, A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer Vol. 2: Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigns and Persecutions .
Franklin Presler, Religion under Bureaucracy: Policy and Administration for Hindu Temples in South India .
Christiane Hurtig, Les Maharajahs et la Politique dans I'Inde Contemporaine .
B. P. Singh, The Problem of Change: A Study of North East India .
Omar Noman, The Political Economy of Pakistan 1947–85 .
J. A. S. Grenville, The Major International Treaties 1914–1945 .
J. A. S. Grenville and Bernard Wasserstein, The Major International Treaties since 1945: A History and Guide with Texts .
Michael Freeden (ed.), J. A. Hobson: A Reader .
J. A. Hobson (Introduction by J. Townshend), Imperialism: A Study .
John Keane, Democracy and Civil Society .
John Keane (ed.), Civil Society and the State .
Geoffrey Palmer, Unbridled Power: An Interpretation of New Zealand's Constitution and Government .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
H ugh H eclo and A aron W ildavsky . The Private Government of Public Money
E.N. G ladden . A History of Public Administration. Vol. I From Earliest Times to the Eleventh Century. Vol. II From the Eleventh Century to the Present Day.
R obert H yslop . Australian Naval Administration, 1900–1939.
I. F. N icolson and C. H. S tokes (eds). Mass Media in the Seventies: Their Impact on Public Administration.
V ictor A. T hompson . Without Sympathy or Enthusiasm: The Problem of Administrative Compassion.     

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     

Book Reviews

S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 1: Ancient Monarchies and Empires
S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 2: the Intermediate Ages
S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 3: Empires, Monarchies and the Modern State
Ivor Crewe and Anthony King, SDP: the Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. I: the Rise of the Network Society
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. II: the Power of Identity
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. III: End of the Millennium
Shane O'Neill, Impartiality in Context: Grounding Justice in a Pluralist World
Onora O'Neill, Towards Justice and Virtue: a Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning
Richard English and Graham Walker (eds), Unionism in Modern Ireland: New Perspectives on Politics and Culture
Norman Porter, Rethinking Unionism: an Alternative for Northern Ireland
James Mayall, The New Interventionism, 1991–1994
Ramesh Thakur (ed), The United Nations at Fifty: Retrospect and Prospect
Philip Pettit, Republicanism: a Theory of Freedom and Government
David Arter, Parties and Democracy in the Post-Soviet Republics: the Case of Estonia
V. Stanley Vardys and Judith B. Sedaitis, Lithuania: the Rebel Nation
Clifford W. Brown Jr, Linda W. Powell and Clyde Wilcox, Serious Money: Financial Power Bases in the Presidential Nomination Process
Thomas M. Holbrook, Do Campaigns Matter?
Harvey L. Schantz (ed.), American Presidential Elections: Process, Policy, and Political Change
Susan J. Tolchin, The Angry American: How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Administrative Vocation. By RS Parker State, Economy and Public Policy in Australia. Edited by Stephen Bell and Brian Head Work for All: Full Employment in the Nineties. By John Langmore and John Quiggin Australian Mandarins: Perceptions of the Role of Departmental Secretaries. By Robert Hyslop Westminster Inc.: A Survey of Three States in the 1980s. Edited by Allan Peachment Environmental Impact Assessment: Cutting Edge for the 21st Century. By Alan Gilpin Inside Bureaucratic Power: The Wilenski Review of NSW Government. By Richard Alaba Australian Political Ideas. Edited by Geoff Stokes Chasing the Future: Recession, Recovery and The New Politics in Australia. By Laura Tingle Justice and Identity: Antipodean Practices. Edited by Margaret Wilson and Anna Yeatman Parties and Federalism in Australia and Canada. Edited by Campbell Sharman Welfare and Inequality: National and International Perspectives on the Australian Welfare State. By Peter Saunders Social Security in Australia. By Terry Carney and Peter Hanks Research in Public Administration, Vol. 1 (1991) and Vol. 2 (1993). Edited by James L Perry New Agendas in the Study of the Policy Process. Edited by Michael Hill The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning. Edited by Frank Fischer and John Forester Drought, Policy and Politics in India: The Need for a Long-term Perspective. By Kuldeep Mathur and Niraja G Jayal     

The struggle for nature: Replies

Social Justice, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1996:

Andre E. Guilerme: The Age of Water: the Urban Environ‐ment in the North of France, A.D. 300–1800. College Station: Texas A &; M University Press, 1988.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Backbench Opinion in the House of Commons 1945–55. By Hugh Berrington . Britain and India : The Interaction of Two Peoples . By M. E. Chamberlain . Lord Esher , A Political Biography . By Peter Fraser . Modern Australia in Documents 1901–1970. Edited by F. K. Crowley . Georges Clemenceau —A Political Biography . By David Robin Watson . Italy —Republic without Government ? By P. A. Allum . Politics and Society in Post-war Naples . By P. A. Allum . Political Responsibility and Industry . By Edmund Dell . British Nationalisation , 1945–1973. By R. Kelf -Cohen . The Origins of Franco's Spain . The Right , The Republic and the Revolution , 1931–1936. By Richard A. H. Robinson . A Guerrilla Diary of the Spanish Civil War . By Francisco Pérez López . The Political Economy of Modern Spain . By Charles W. Anderson . De Gaulle : Vol . I, The Warrior ; Vol . II, The Statesman . By Brian Crozier .     

Under cover of boredom: Recent publications on the ‘Stasi’, the East German ministry for state security

David Childs and Richard Popplewell, The Stasi: The East German Intelligence and Security Service (New York: New York University Press, 1996; and London: Macmillan, 1996). Pp.253, biblio., index. US$45 and £40. ISBN 0–8147–1551–6 and 0–333–63094–7.

Markus Wolf with Anne McElvoy, Man Without a Face (New York: Random House Times Books, 1997). Pp.367, index. US$25. ISBN 0–8129–6394–6.

Markus Wolf, Spionage Chef im Geheimen Krieg: Erinnerungen (Munich: List Verlag, 1997). Pp.512. DM44. ISBN 3–471–79158–2.

Wjatscheslaw Keworkow, Der geheime Kanal (Berlin: Rowohlt, 1995). Pp.284. DM29.80. ISBN 3–87134–224–6.

Abteilung Bildung und Forschung (ed.) Wissenschaftliche Reihe des Bundesbeauftragten für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (Berlin: Chr. Links Verlag). Eight volumes to date. Volumes discussed in review:

Helmut Müller‐Enbergs (ed.) Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit (Berlin: Links, 1996). Vol. 3. Pp.544, biblio, index. DM40. ISBN 3–86153–101–1.

Siegfried Suckut (ed.) Das Wörterbuch der Staatssicherheit (Berlin: Links, 2nd ed., 1996). Vol.5. Pp.472. DM40. ISBN 3–86153–111–9.

Siegfried Suckut and Walter Süß (eds.) Staatspartei und Staatssicherheit: Zum Verhältnis von SED und MfS (Berlin: Links, 1997). Vol.8. Pp.351. DM38. ISBN 3–86153–131–3.     

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 REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. The Travails of Opposition
MARK GARNETT The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron, by Tim Bale. Labour's travails
Richard Briand Speak for Britain! A New History of the Labour Party, by Martin Pugh. Anti‐social behaviour? Dial 101
Paul Michael Garrett The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics, by Stuart Waiton. Surviving nukes in one's back garden
Victoria Honeyman After the Bomb; Civil Defence and Nuclear War in Britain 1945–68, by Matthew Grant. Israel's foundation myths
Richard Kuper The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand, (trans. Yael Lotan). Political science mission statement
Gianfranco Pasquino The Oxford Handbook of Political Science, edited by Robert E. Goodin. Sir Ian Blair: the Burkean top cop
Ian Loader Policing Controversy, by Ian Blair. To intervene or not to intervene?
Daniele Archibugi Humanitarian Intervention, by Michael Newman. A phenomenal trade unionist
Geoffrey Goodman Arthur Horner: A Political Biography. Vol. 1: 1918–1944; Vol. 2: 1944–1968, by Nina Fishman.     

Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress

Seeking and speaking the truth

>William Blum, ROGUE STATE: A GUIDE TO THE WORLD'S ONLY SUPERPOWER (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000).

Johanna Brenner, WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF CLASS (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000).

Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames, THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: FROM CHARITY TO CONFRONTATION (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001).

AND THEN, Vol. 10 (2001). Copies @ $5 may be ordered from Robert Roth, 210 West 10^th Street (# 3D), New York, NY 10014.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
C ontemporary C hina : Papers presented at the University of Guelph Conference April 1968.
T he C ultural R evolution in C hina . By J oan R obinson .
C ommunism and C hina : Ideology in Flux. By B enjamin S chwartz .
M odern china's search for a political form . Edited by J ack G ray .
P eople's war : The Conditions and the Consequences in China and in South East Asia. By J. L. S. G irling .
S un yat-sen : His life and its meaning. By A. L. S harman .
C ontemporary C hina . Vol. IV 1962-64. Edited by E. S tuart K irby .
C hina in crisis . Vol. II: China's Policies in Asia and America's Alternatives. Edited by T ang T sou .
C apitalism and N ationalism in P rewar J apan : The Ideology of the Business Elite, 1868-1941. By B. K. M arshall .
P olitical D evelopment of M odern J apan . (Studies in the Modernisation of Japan, No. 4.) Edited by R. E. W ard .
Borough Politics. A Study of the Wolverhampton Borough Council 1888-1964. By G. W. Jones.
The S ociology of B ritish C ommunism . By K enneth N ewton .
H ong K ong : A S ociety in T ransition . C ontributions to the S tudy of H ong K ong S ociety . Edited By I. C. J arvie in consultation with J oseph A gassi .
B reach of S ecurity : T he G erman S ecret I ntelligence F ile on E vents L eading to the S econd W orld W ar . Edited By D avid I rving , with an Introduction by D onald C. W att .     

Religion,Revolution and Higher Love

J. F. (Jim) Brown, SURGE TO FREEDOM: THE END OF COMMUNIST RULE IN EASTERN EUROPE (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1991)

Edward and Regula Boorstein, COUNTERREVOLUTION: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (New York: International Publishers, 1990)

Bade Onomode, A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE AFRICAN CRISIS (London: Zed, 1988).

Bade Onomode, ed., THE IMF, THE WORLD BANK AND THE AFRICAN DEBT: THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPACT. Vol. 2 (London: Zed, 1989).

Robert S. Dombroski, ANTONIO GRAMSCI (Boston: G. K. Hall &; Co., 1989)

Jürgen Habermas, MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTION translated by Christian Lenhart and Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990)     

Review Essay: Death and Delusion on the Trade Front

Books reviewed in this article: How to Kill a Country: Australia's Devastating Trade Deal with the United States Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon and John Matthews All the Way with the USA: Australia, the US and Free Trade Ann Capling Community and Local Governance in Australia Paul Smyth, Tim Reddel and Andrew Jones (eds) The Thirty Year Problem: The Politics of Australian Tax Reform Richard Eccleston Into the Future: The Neglect of the Long Term in Australian Politics Ian Marsh and David Yencken Yes, Premier: Labor leadership in Australia's States and Territories John Wanna and Paul Williams (eds) Making and Breaking Universities Bruce Williams Ethics and organisational politics Chris Provis Power Politics. The electricity crisis and you John Spoehr (ed) Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue John Braithwaite Pensions: Challenges and Reforms, International Studies on Social Security, Vol. 9 Editors Einar Overbye and Peter A. Kemp     

Hospital management improvement in China

Hospitals in China, as in many parts of the world, are facing unprecedented changes. The situation in China may be more complicated than in some countries, because these changes are compounded by the influence of major changes in the macro-economic system as well. In response to this situation the Chinese Ministry of Public Health has launched a major initiative to strengthen the management of their hospitals. This article reports on the plan of action for management improvement in the areas of administrative training, management structure, staff motivation, information system, with emphasis on quality and inter-hospital cooperation. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Public Admin. Dev. Vol. 17 : 267–275 (1997). No. of Figures: 0. No. of Tables: 0. No. of Refs: 21.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewd in this article.
INTERPRETING THE CONSTITUTION. By J. c. REES.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE BOARD OF TRADE,
REPORT OF H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S STUDY CONFERENCE
CITIES IN FLOOD.
THE PARLIAMENT OF SWEDEN.
MODERN ITALY.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH. Vol. I: THE MONARCHIES
CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS IN PAKISTAN.
THE APPROACH TO SELF-GOVERNMENT.
THE U.S.S.R. AND EASTERN EUROPE.
DOCUMENTS ON COMMUNISM, NATIONALISM AND SOVIET ADVISERS IN CHINA.
PROGRESS IN THE AGE OF REASON.
TASTE AND PRINCIPLE IN POLITICAL THEORY.     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Transfer of Power , 1942–47. Vol. VI: The post-war phase: new moves by the Labour Government, August 1, 1945-March 22, 1946. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh. Sartre and Marxism. By Pietro Chiodi. (Translated by Kate Soper .) Existential Marxism in Postwar France from Sartre to Althusser. By Mark Poster. Essays on John Maynard Keynes. Edited by Milo Keynes. The Power Game. By Jock Bruce -Gardyne and Nigel Lawson. Policy Making in British Government. By Brian Smith. Strikes and the Government 1893–1974. By Eric Wigham. Local Politics in Britain. By John Gyford. Why Marxism ? By Robert G. Wesson. Considerations on Western Marxism. By Perry Anderson.     

Short notices

Sourcebook of Korean Civilisation; Vol. 1: From the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century, edited by Peter H. Lee. Columbia University Press, New York, 1993. xxiv + 750 pp. £32.50. ISBN 0–231–07912–5.

War and Revolution in Japan, edited by Ian Neary. Sandgate Folkstone, Kent: The Japan Library. 1993. x+ 179 pp. £12.99. ISBN 1–873410–08–5.

Crises and Commitments: The Politics and Diplomacy of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1965, by Peter Edwards with Gregory Pemberton. Allen & Unwin in Association with the Australian War Memorial, North Sydney, NSW, 1992. xix + 515 pp., illus. £35. ISBN 1–86373–184–9.

Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 1: Ancient Japan, edited by Delmar Brown. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York and Oakleigh, Victoria, 1993. Maps, figures and tables, xiii + 602 pp. £70.

Australia's Business Challenge: South‐East Asia in the 1990s, East Asia Analytical Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs and Austrade, Canberra, ACT, 1992. xlix + 328 pp. ISBN 0–644–25852–7.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article.
D evelopment for F ree A sia . By M aurice Z inkin .
O ut of the G un . By D enis W arner .
T he N ew D imensions of P eace . By C hester B owles .
E ssays in S ociology and S ocial P hilosophy . Vol. I O n the D iversity of M orals ; Vol. II R eason and U nreason in S ociety . By M orris G insberg .
G erman S ociology . By R aymond A ron .
A C entury of F amily L aw : 1857–1957. Editors R. H. G raveson and F. R. C rane .
S t . A ntony's P apers . Number One. S oviet A ffairs .
A tomic W eapons and E ast -W est R elations . By P. M. S. B lackett .
A tomic Q uest . By A rthur H. C ompton .
R ocket . By A ir C hief M arshal S ir P hilip J oubert de la F erteg .
F abian I nternational E ssays . Edited by T. E. M. McK itterrick and K enneth Y ounger .
T he B ritish C ommonwealth . By F rank H. Underhill .
L aw and O rders . By S ir C arleton K emp A llen .
T he S uez C anal.
T he S chool T eachers. By A. T ropp.
E uropean R efugees: 1939–1952. A S tudy in F orced P opulation M ovement. By M alcolm J. P roudfoot.