Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid, New Public Management: The Transformation of Ideas and Practice Noel Preston, Understanding Ethics (2nd edn) Rod Rhodes and Patrick Weller (eds.), The Changing World of Top Officials: Mandarins or Valets? Sandford Berg, Michael Pollitt and Masatsugu Tsuji (eds.), Private Initiatives in Infrastructure Jenny Fleming and Ian Holland (eds.), Motivating Ministers to Morality Heather Strang and John Braithwaite (eds.), Restorative Justice and Civil Society Xu Yi‐chong, Powering China, Reforming the Electric Power Industry in China Greg McCarthy, Things Fall Apart: A History of the State Bank of South Australia Peter Loveday, Dean Jaensch and Baiba Berzins, Labor's Win: The Northern Territory Election 2001     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Peter Oborne, Alastair Campbell: New Labour and the Rise of the Media Class Nicholas Jones, The Control Freaks: How New Labour Gets its Own Way Paul Richards, How to Win an Election: The Art of Political Campaigning Charles Miller, Politico’s Guide to Political Lobbying Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes Niall Ferguson, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World 1700–2000 Stephen F. Cohen, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post‐Communist Russia Alan Macfarlane, The Riddle of the Modern World, of Liberty, Wealth and Equality Howard Glennerster, John Hills and Tony Travers, Paying for Health, Education, and Housing: How does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings? Malachi Haim Hacohen, Karl Popper, the Formative Years 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna Vito Tanzi and Ludger Schuknecht, Public Spending in the Twentieth Century: A Global Perspective Robert Oakeshott, Jobs and Fairness: The Logic and Experience of Employee Ownership     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Governance Stories Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes Administering Welfare Reform: International Transformations in Welfare Governance Paul Henman and Menno Fenger (eds) Health Policy and Politics: Networks, Ideas and Power Jenny Lewis The Longest Decade George Megalogenis Globalisation, Policy Transfer and Policy Research Institutes Stella Ladi     

Civil liberties and the left

Mzwanele Mayekiso, Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa. Monthly Review Press: New York. 1996. pp. 288. (foreword by Mel King)

Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England, Edited by Susan D. Amussen and Mark A. Kishlansky. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995)

Modernization and the Production of Power

Kevin A. Yelvington, Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), 286 pp.

Milagros Pena, Theologies and Liberation in Peru: The Role of Ideas in Social Movements (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), 222 pp.

Partha Chatterjee (ed), Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 220 pp.

Carol A. Breckenridge (ed.), Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in South Asia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 261 pp.

Sara Diamond, Roads to Dominion: Right‐Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States. (New York: The Guilford Press, 1995. pp. 445. $19.95.)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. ‘It's Inequality, Stupid!’
PHILIP ARMSTRONG AND BOB SUTCLIFFE Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, by Raghuram G. Rajan. Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis, by Arthur MacEwan and John A. Miller. Politics without power
Richard Briand A Walk‐On Part, by Chris Mullin. Debunking Afghan myths
Joanna Buckley Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground, by Jonathan Steele. The way after the Third Way
Patrick Diamond Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age, by Jenny Andersson. Latin America: the left returns
Richard Gott The Triumph of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, by George Philip and Francisco Panizza. The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, edited by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts. The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left, by Emir Sader, translated by Iain Bruce. (Re)inventing political culture?
Gianfranco Pasquino Reinventing Political Culture: The Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power, by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb. When the middle began to be squeezed
Dick Pountain Winner‐Take‐All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. Italy: endlessly resisting
John Foot The Legacy of the Italian Resistance, by Philip Cooke. Plus ça change …
Mark Garnett Eighteenth‐century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt, by Dick Leonard. Gridlock or peak travel?
David Metz Gridlock Nation, by Kwasi Kwarteng and Jonathan Dupont. TINA (there is no etc.): the sequel
Jim Tomlinson UK Economy: The Crisis in Perspective, edited by Gabriele Giudice, Robert Kuenzel and Thomas Springbett.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed Robert Kagan. , Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, John Dumbrell., A Special Relationship: Anglo‐American Relations in the Cold War and After Peter Busch, All the Way with JFK? Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War Sudhir Hazareesingh, Intellectual Founders of the Republic: Five Studies in Nineteenth‐Century French Political Thought Sudhir Hazareesingh. (ed.), The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France Hugh Roberts, The Battlefield: Algeria 1988–2002. Studies in a Broken Polity Debbie Cox, Politics, Language, and Gender in the Algerian Arabic Novel Bernard Mommer, Global Oil and the Nation State Iain Byrne, Pauline Ngan and Stuart Weir. Politico's, Democracy under Blair: A Democratic Audit of the United Kingdom Stephen Driver and Luke Martel, Blair's Britain Paul F. Jankowski, Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue Richard T. Evans, Telling Lies about Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair     

Democracy and populism

He is currently president of the New England Political Science Association and has been a member of the Advisory Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. His books include America’s Constitutional Soul; Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power; Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories;and a new translation of Machiavelli’s The Prince.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Strength at the Centre —The Case for a Prime Minister's Department . By Sir Kenneth Berrill . The Other Price of Britain's Oil : Safety and Control in the North Sea . By W. G. Carson . Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (Chairman : Sir Hans Kornberg ). The Political Economy of Co-operation and Participation : A Third Sector . Edited by Alasdair Clayre . Workers' Co-operatives : Jobs and Dreams . By Jenny Thornley . Whose Business is Business ? Community Business Ventures Unit . The Real World of the Small Business Owner . By R. Scase and R. Goffee . The Petite Bourgeoisie : Comparative Studies of the Uneasy Stratum . Edited by F. Bechhofer and B. Elliott . Girls , Wives , Factory Lives . By Anna Pollert . The Transfer of Power , 1942–47. vol. IX: The Fixing of a Time Limit , November 4, 1946–March 22, 1947. [HMSO. cxxv and 1053 pp. 55] : and Vol. X: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty , Formulation of a Plan , March 27–May 30, 1947. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh and Penderel Moon .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr.: Solidarity or Egoism Kramer vs. Hibbs. The Case of the Research Design Measuring the Sociotropic Variables: Are they Elusive or Robust? Value for Money Jenny Chapman: Politics, Feminism and the Reformation of Gender     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. ‘We can't go on as we are’
Donald Sassoon Mammon's Kingdom. A Essay on Britain, Now, by David Marquand. Superpower no more
Gianfranco Pasquino Good‐Bye Hegemony! Power and Influence in the Global System, by Simon Reich and Richard Ned Lebow. The real professionals: The NGOs
Matthew Grant The Politics of Expertise: How NGOs Shaped Modern Britain, by Matthew Hilton, James McKay, Nicholas Crowson and Jean‐François Mouhot. Good‐bye democracy
Tony Wright Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy, by Peter Mair. The joys of scraps
Joseph Rykwert Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion‐Dollar Trash Trade, by Adam Minter. Making Thatcherism possible
Robert Taylor Crisis? What Crisis? The Callaghan Government and the British Winter of Discontent by John Shepherd. Love in the time of capitalism
Stella Tillyard Why Love Hurts. A Sociological Explanation, by Eva Illouz You want to see how we live? We live like dogs.
Victoria Brittain Refugees of the Revolution. Experiences of Palestinian Exile, by Diana Allan. From the haven of care to community care
Lindsay Duguid The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times, by Barbara Taylor. Serving the Prime Minister
Catherine Haddon At Power's Elbow. Aides to the Prime Minister from Robert Walpole to David Cameron, by Andrew Blick and George Jones. Narrative bombshells
Duncan Kelly The War That Ended Peace, by Margaret Macmillan Catastrophe, by Max Hastings. July 1914, by Sean McMeeckin.     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: From White Australia to Woomera: The History of Australian Immigration James Jupp The Ethical State? Social Liberalism in Australia Marian Sawer What's Wrong with the Liberal Party? Greg Barnes Government Reformed: Values and New Political Institutions Ian Holland and Jenny Fleming eds Turning off the Television: Broadcasting's Uncertain Future Jock Given Handbook of Public Administration B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre eds Policy Responses to Social Exclusion: Towards Inclusion? Janie Percy‐Smith ed. Bob Carr: A Self‐Made Man Andrew West and Rachel Morris     

Vatican intelligence capabilities in the second world war

Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals (London: HarperCollins 1994) Pp.419, 20 illus. biblio. index. £20. ISBN 0–00–255516–6.

Jenny Rees, Looking for Mr Nobody: The Secret Life of Gorowny Rees (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1994) Pp.291, 30 illus. biblio. index. £18.99. ISBN 0–297–81430–3.

V.E. Tarrant, The Red Orchestra: the Soviet Spy Network Inside Nazi Europe (London: Arms and Armour Press, 1995) Pp.224, biblio. index. £15.99. ISBN 1–85409–216–2.

Anthony Cave Brown, Treason in the Blood: H. St John Philby, Kim Philby and the Spy Case of the Century (London: Hale 1995) Pp.678, 23 illus. biblio. index. £25. ISBN 0–7090–5582‐X.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Claude Klein, Théorie et Pratique du Pouvoir Constituant
Antonio Negri, Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State
Ricardo Blaug, Democracy, Real and Ideal: Discourse Ethics and Radical Politics     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Pakistan: The Hope of Wiser Mornings
F. S. AIJAZUDDIN The Future of Pakistan, by Stephen P. Cohen and others. The euro crisis: will the left awaken?
Jon Bloomfield The Future of Social Democracy: Building the Good Society, by Henning Meyer and Jonathan Rutherford. Nudging or nagging? Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour, by Peter John, Sarah Cotterill, Alice Moseley, Liz Richardson, Graham Smith, Gerry Stoker, Corinne Wales, Hanhua Liu and Hisako Nomura. Is Berlusconi history?
Claudia Capelli Berlusconi passato alla storia. L'Italia nell'era della democrazia autoritaria, by Antonio Gibelli. Berlusconismo. Analisi di un sistema di potere, edited by Paul Ginsborg and Enrica Asquer. Island story or real history?
Kate Moorse The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth‐century England, by David Cannadine, Jenny Keating and Nicola Sheldon. The Tea Parties: neither crazies nor righteous
Martin Durham The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williams. A global mafia?
John Dickie Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories, by Federico Varese. What now, America?
Ilaria Poggiolini Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power, by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Knaves not fools
Dick Pountain The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super‐Rich and the Economy, by Stewart Lansley.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Yaron Ezrahi, Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel
Fred Dallmayr, Alternative Visions: Paths in the Global Village
Dick Howard, Political Judgments     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Jane E. Fountain, Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change Alan Charles Raul, Privacy and the Digital State: Balancing Public Information and Personal Privacy Elaine Ciulla Kamarck and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (eds.), Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age Peter John Perry, Political Corruption in Australia: A Very Wicked Place? Adrienne Héritier, Dieter Kerwer, Christopher Knill, Dirk Lehmkuhl, Michael Teutsch, and Anne‐Cecile Douillet, Differential Europe: The European Union Impact on National Policy‐making Susan C. Stokes, Mandates and Democracies: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America Matthew Flinders, The Politics of Accountability in the Modern State     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Whitehall. By PETER HENNESSY.
Organizing the Presidency. By STEPHEN HESS.
Inside the Think Tank: Advising the Cabinet, 1971–1983 . By TESSA BLACKSTONE and WILLIAM PLOWDEN.
The Postmodern President: The White House Meets the World. By RICHARD ROSE.
Private Power and Centralization in France: The Notaires and the State. By EZRA N. SULEIMAN.
The Changing Politics of Local Government. By JOHN GYFORD, STEVE LEACH and CHRIS GAME.
Constitutional Dialogues: Interpretation as Political Process. By LOUIS FISHER.
Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power. By HARVEY C. MANSFIELD, JR.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Fred Argy, Australia at the Crossroads: Radical Free Market or a Progressive Liberalism? Peter Bridgman and Glyn Davis, Australian Policy Handbook Diane Gibson, Aged Care: Old Policies, New Problems Michael Coper and George Williams(eds.), Justice Lionel Murphy: Influential or Merely Prescient? Jenny Hocking, Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography Charles Sampford and Kim Preston (eds.), Interpreting Constitutions: Theories, Principles and Institutions Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben, Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and Internet Greg J Bamber and Russell Lansbury(ed.), Review of International andComparative Employment Relations: A Study of Industrialised Market Economies Michael Bittman and Jocelyn Pixley, The Double Life of the Family     

Book Reviews

Jennie Lee: A Life (Patricia Hollis); Gordon Brown (Paul Routledge); Callaghan: A Life (Kenneth A. Morgan), Eric Shaw Whatever Happened to the Tories? The Conservative Party since 1945 (Ian Gilmour and Mark Garnett); Major: A Political Life (Anthony Seldon), Patrick Seyd Memoir of a Fascist Childhood (Trevor Grundy), Anne Poole The Revival of Right-wing Extremism in the Nineties (edited by Peter H. Merkl and Leonard Weinberg), Herman Lebovics Liberty before Liberalism (Quentin Skinner), Bernard Crick Parliament under Pressure (Peter Riddell); Parliament and the People (Philip Laundy), John Griffith Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy (Eamonn Callan); Citizenship in Modern Britain (Keith Faulks); Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives (Ruth Lister), Derek Heater The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification (Michael Powell), Rudolf Klein Cities for a Small Planet (Richard Rogers); Planning for Urban Quality (Richard Parfect and Gordon Power), Anja Amsel Holistic Government (Perri 6), Roger Levett     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article:
Review Essay Interpretive Policy Analysis Frank Fischer
Review Essay Interpretive Policy Analysis Maarten A Hajer & Hendrik Wagenaar eds
Review Essay Interpretive Policy Analysis Dvora Yanow
Review Essay Interpretive Policy Analysis Dvora Yanow
Australia's Choices: Options for a Prosperous and Fair Society Ian Marsh ed.
Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice Gordon Tullick, Arthur Seldon and Gordon L Brady
Civil Service Systems in Anglo-American Countries John Halligan ed.
The Decline of the Tea Lady: Management for Dissidents Jenny Stewart