BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Give & Take: The Losing Partnership in Aboriginal Poverty. By DAVID POLLARD
Planning in the Face of Power. By JOHN FORESTER
Law and Government in Colonial Australia. By PAUL FINN
A Guide to Sources of Information on Australian Industrial Relations. By GREGORY R JONES
Review of the Efficiency Scrutiny Program. By SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Ethical Standards and Values in the Australian Public Service A JOINT PUBLICATION OF THE MANAGEMENT ADVISORY BOARD AND ITS MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE Whose Utility? The Social Impact of Public Utility Privatisation and Regulation in Britain JOHN ERNST Public Management: The New Zealand Model JONATHAN BOSTON, JOHN MARTIN, JUNE PALLOT and PAT WALSH People, Places and Policies: Aspects of Queensland Government 1859–1920 KAY COHEN and KENNETH WILTSHIRE Environmental Politics and Policy Making in Australia TIMOTHY DOYLE and AYNSLEY KELLOW Police Leadership in Australasia BARBARA ETTER and MICK PALMER Transforming Power: The Politics of Electricity Planning AYNSLEY KELLOW     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Australia's Seventh State. Edited by PETER LOVEDAY and PETER McNAB
Aspects of Public Sector Employment Law. By G.J. McCARRY
Educational Policy in Australia and America: Comparative Perspectives. Edited by WILLIAM LOWE BOYD and DON SMART
Taxation by Political Inertia: Financing the Growth of Government in Britain. By RICHARD ROSE and TERENCE KARRAN
New Strategies for Executive Development: The Management of Public Accountability. By JOHN UHR
Hawke's Second Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1984–1987. Edited by R. WETTENHALL and J.R. NETHERCOTE     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bruce Mccallum , The Public Service Manager: An Introduction to Personnel Management in the Australian Public Service R. J. K. Chapman and Michael Wood , Australian Local Government Kosmas Tsokhas , A Class Apart? Businessmen and Australian Politics 1960–1980 Andrew Kakabadse and Suresh Mukhi (eds), The Future of Management Education Jonathan Boston , Incomes Policy in New Zealand: 1968–1984, Wellington, Victorian University Press for the Institute of Policy Studies David Dery , Problem Definition in Policy Analysis     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector. By D avid O sborne and T ed G aebler
Public Policy in Australia. By G. D avis , J. W anna , J. W arhurst & P. W eller
Microeconomic Reform in Australia. By P eter F orsyth (ed.)
The Invisible State: The Formation of the Australian State 1788–1901. By A lastair D avidson
The Political Impact of the High Court. By D avid S olomon
News Not Views: The ABC, the Press and Politics 1932–1947. By N eville P etersen
Corporatization and Privatization: Lessons from New Zealand. By I an D uncan and A lan B ollard
Public Administration and Management in Small States: Pacific Experiences. By Y ash G hai (ed.)
Australian Public Sector Management. By D avid C orbett     

Book Notes

The Political Economy of Public Administration MURRAY J. HORN
Raising the Standard: Benchmarking for Better Government MAB/MIAC REPORT No. 21 (Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, June 1996)
Queensland Policy Handbook OFFICE OF THE CABINET
Evaluating Policy Advice: Learning from Commonwealth Experience JOHN UHR and KEITH MACKAY
The Serious Business of Governing PETER J. CRAWFORD (Sydney, Hale and Iremonger in association with the Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Public Administration and Sustainable Development. Edited by Mohammad Ja 'Far Ekram Ja 'Fari , Raul P De Guzman and Mila A Reforma Political Leadership in an Age of Constraint: Bureaucratic Politics Under Hawke and Keating. By Colin Campbell SJ and John Halligan Transforming Australian Local Government. By Michael Jones Public Sector Reform Under the First Goss Government: A Documentary Sourcebook. Edited by Glyn Davis Towards National Administration: Studies in Australian Administrative History. Edited by JJ Eddy and JR Nethercote Documenting a Nation: Australian Archives—The First Fifty Years. By Hilary Golder Ethics for the Public Sector: Education & Training. Edited by Noel Preston Corruption Character & Conduct: Essays on Canadian Government Ethics. Edited by John W Langford and Allan Tupper The Politics of Australia. By Dean Jaensch The Australian Form of Government: Models in Dispute. By Richard Lucy A National Survey of Indigenous Australians: Options and Implications. Edited by J.C. Altman Regional Change in the Economic Status of Indigenous Australians, 1986–1991. By J. Taylor     

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 .     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
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.     

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     

BOOK NOTES

J.A.G. G riffith . Parliamentary Scrutiny of Government Bills.
M aurice S piers . Techniques of Public Administration.
E.S. Q uade . Analysis for Public Policy Decisions.
H.J. G ibbney (comp.). Labor in Print: a guide to the people who created a labor press in Australia between 1850 and 1939.
Subject Index to the Acts of the Australian Parliament , compiled by B.M. Wicks.
T homas R. D ye . Understanding Public Policy     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
R onald M endelsohn , Australian Social Welfare Finance
C hristopher H odgkinson , The Philosophy of Leadership
J ohn S tewart , Local Government: The Conditions of Local Choice
G reg H ancock , M ichael W. K irst and D avid G rossman (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Educational Policy: Perspectives from Australia and USA
A. P arkin and J. W arhurst (eds.), Machine Politics in the Australian Labor Party
M ark F indlay , S andra E gger and J eff S utton (eds.). Issues In Criminal Justice Administration
E va E tzioni -H alevy , Bureaucracy and Democracy: A Political Dilemma     

Book Reviews

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.     

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     

CHARTING A COURSE THROUGH THE HEALTH CARE POLICY MAZE

Health Policy: Development, Implementation and Evaluation in Australia. By H eather GARDNER (ed.)
The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910–1960. By J ames A G illespie
Federalism and Health Policy: The Development of Health Systems in Canada and Australia. By G wendolyn G ray
The President's Health Security Plan. By W hite H ouse D omestic C ouncil
Hospitals in Transition: The Resource Management Experiment. By T im P ackwood , J ustin K een and M artin B uxton     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Business Mates: The Power and Politics of the Hawke Era. By DOUG McEACHERN The Accord and the Australian Labour Movement. By GWYNNETH SINGLETON The Executive State: WA Inc and the Constitution. Edited by PATRICK O'BRIEN and MARTYN WEBB Surveys in Development Economics. Edited by NORMAN GEMMELL What Should Government Do? Edited by PETER COALDRAKE and J.R. NETHERCOTE Economic and Management Pressures on Australian Public Administration. Edited by CHRIS PIRIE and JOHN POWER The Anglo-American Lexicon of the Social Sciences. By L. J. SHARPE     

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

Book reviewed in this article: Nalgo Reconstruction Committee : Interim Report on the Reform of Local Government Structure. The Future of Local Government . The Government of Wales . By Alderman Edgar L. Chappell . The Spanish Labyrintyh . By Gerald Brenan . Education for a World Adrift . By Sir Richard Livingstone The New Bellef in the Common Man . By Carl J. Friedrich . The British Empire , Its Structure and Spirit . By Eric A. Walker . The Black Man's Burden . By John Burger . The Labour Party's Post -War Policy for the Areican and Pacific Colonies . Report on the Constitutinal Problem in Iinda . By R. Coupland . Labour on the Land . By W. H. Pedley . The Great Hatred . By Mcaurice Samuel .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in the Public Sector. Edited by M argaret G ardner
Hawke's Third Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1987–1990. Edited by J ohn H alligan and R oger W ettenhall .
The Lie of the Level Playing Field. By J enny S tewart
Market, Bureaucracy and Community: A Student's Guide to Organisation. By H al C olebatch and P eter L armour
Political Management in Canada. By A llan B lakeney and S andford B orins