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 .     

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Book reviews in this article: Engllishness : Politics and Culture , 1880–1920. Edited by Robert Colls and Philip Dodd . The Scottish Trades Union Congress . The First Eighty Years : 1897–1977. By Angela Tuckett . Scotland : The Case for Optimism . By Jim Sillars . Atrocity and Amnesia : The Political Novel Since 1945. By Robert Boyers . Thinkers of the New Left . By Roger Scruton . Bringing the State Back In . Edited by Peter Evans , Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol . The Nation -State and Violence . By Anthony Giddens . The Political Economy of Corporatism . Edited by Wyn Grant . A World in Crisis ? Geographical Perspectives . Edited by R. J. Johnston and P. J. Taylor . The Artful Albanian : The Memoirs of Enver Hoxha . Edited by Jon Halliday . Margaret Cole 1893–1980: A Political Biography . By Betty D. Vernon Duff Cooper : The Authorized Biography . By John Charmley .     

SHORTER NOTICES

The German Dilemma : The Throes of Political Emancipation . By Karl Dietrich Bracher . The Pluralist State . By David Nicholls . The Failure of the State : On The Distribution of Political and Economic Power in Europe . Edited by James Cornford . British Members of Parliament : A Self -Portrait . By Anthony King . The Communist Parties of Western Europe . By Neil Mcinnes . The Foreign Policy of France From 1914 TO 1945. By J. Néaré . Teaching Politics : Problems and Perspectives . Edited by Tom Brennan and Jonathan F. Brown . Who Killed The British Empire ? An Inquest . By George Woodcock . Passages From Antiquity to Feudalism . By Perry Anderson . [New Left Books. 304 pp. £5.] Lineages of The Absolutist State . By Perry Anderson . The Union of Post Office Workers . By Michael Moran .     

Book Reviews

The President as World Leader. By BARBARA KELLERMAN and RYAN J. BARILLEAUX.
Keeping a Watchful Eye. By JOEL D. ABERBACH.
Economic Decline and Political Change: Canada, Great Britain, the United States. Edited by HAROLD D. CLARKE, MARIANNE C. STEWART, and GARY ZUK.
Business, Ethics, and the Environment: The Public Policy Debate. Edited by W. MICHAEL HOFFMAN, ROBERT FREDERICK, and EDWARD S. PETRY.
Europe 1992: An American Perspective. Edited by GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER.
The Nixon Presidency: Power and Politics in Turbulent Times. By MICHAEL A. GENOVESE.
Criticism and Public Rationality: Professional Rigidity and the Search for Caring Government. By HARRY SMART.
Wisdom: Its Nature, Origins, and Development. Edited by ROBERT J. STERNBERG.     

BOOK REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article: English History : 1914–1945. By A. J. P. Taylor . The Liddell Hart Memoirs . The Clydesiders . A Left Wing Struggle for Parliamentary Power . By Robert Keith Middlemas . Government and the Railways in Nineteenth -Century Britain . By Henry Parris . The Railways and the Nation . By A. J. Pearson . Dark Ghetto : Dilemmas of Social Power . By Kenneth B. Clark How Colour Prejudiced is Britain? By Clifford S. Hill . Crisis in the West . By Drew Middleton . NATO in Transition . By Timothy W. Stanley . NATO in Quest of Cohesion . edited by K. H. Cerny and H. W. Briefs . Detente : Cold War Strategies in Transition . Edited by Eleanor Lansing Dulles and Robert Dickson Crane . de Gaulle . By Alexander Werth . John F. Kennedy . Portrait of a President . By Hugh Sidey . Three Faces of Fascism . By Ernst Nolte . Translated by L. Vennewitz . Politics in the Congo : Decolonization and Independence . By Crawford Young . Castroism : Theory and Practice . By Theodore Draper . Obstacles to Change in Latin America . Edited by Claudio Veliz . French Electoral Systems and Elections Since 1789. By Peter Campbell . Viscount Bolingbroke . By Jeffrey Hart . The Works of Joseph de Maistre . By Jack Lively . Writers and Politics . By Conor Cruise O'Brien .     

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Book reviews in this article: Jinnah of Pakistan . By Stanley Wolpert . Weakness and Deceit . US Policy and El Salvador . By Raymond Bonner . Revival and Reaction . The Right in Contemporary America . By Gillian Peele . Citiesin Recession . Critical Reactions to the Urban Policies of the new right. Edited by Ivan Szelenyi. Neville Chamberlain . Volume One : Pioneering and Reform , 1869–1929. By David Dilks . Garvin of the Observer. By David Ayerst . Ordinary Vices . By Judith N. Shklar . Science , Technology and Society Today . Edited by Michael Gibbons and Philip Gummett . New Technology and the Future of Work and Skills . Edited by Pauline Marstrand. Understanding Systems Failures . By Victor Bignell and Joyce Fortune . The Cold and the Dark : The World After Nuclear War . By Paul Ehrlich , Carl Sagan , Donald Kennedy and Walter Roberts . Social Constraints on Technological Progress . By Rob Coppock . Commons Select Committees : Catalysts for Progress ? Edited by Dermot Englefield . Sport and Political Ideology . By John M. Hoberman .     

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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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Books reviewed in this issue.
Visions of America
PAUL AUERBACH
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm.
The Challenge of Affluence Self-control and Well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950, by Avner Offer.
A great world disorder
Andrew Gamble
Global Challenges for Leviathan: A Political Philosophy of Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming , by Furio Cerutti.
Let's do it by lot
Andrew Blick
The Athenian Option: Radical Reform for the House of Lords , by Anthony Barnett and Peter Carty.
A People's Parliament , by Keith Sutherland.
The lawyer's responsibility
Caroline Fournet
Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law , by Philippe Sands.
The journalist's responsibilities
John Lloyd
Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press , by Michael Schudson.
Red in tooth and claw
Dick Pountain
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too , by James K. Galbraith.
The quandaries of the Nazi empire
Richard Mullender
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe , by Mark Mazower.
The colour-coding of American elections
Gianfranco Pasquino
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do , by Andrew Gelman.
Organising warring parties
John Ramsden
Parties at War: Political Organisation in Second World War Britain , by Andrew Thorpe.
The United States since Vietnam: a life on the wire
Vassilis K. Fouskas
World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy , by Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth.     

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 REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article: The Enterprise Years : A Businessman in the Cabinet . BY David Young . Upwardly Mobile. by Norman tebbit . Ministers Decide : A Memoir of the Thatcher Years . By Norman Fowler . My Style of Government . By Nicholas Ridley . Right at the Centre . By Cecil Parkinson . Staying power . By Peter Walker . A Sparrow's flight . By Lord Hailsham . Kill the Messenger . By Bernard ingham . The View From No. II: Memoirs of a Tory Radical . By Nigel Lawson . Britons : Forging the Nation 1701–1837. By Linda Colley . Myths of the English . Edited by Roy Porter . Beaverbrook: a life . By Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie . Murdoch . By William Shawcross . Vers Une Nouvelle Europe ? Towards a New Europe ? Edited by Mario Telo .     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The Return of the Political. By Chantal Mouffe. Specters of Marx. By Jacques Derrida. Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Edited and Introduced By Amy Gutmann. Liberal Nationalism. By Yael Tamir. What's the Matter with Liberalism? By Ronald Beiner. Thick and Thin: Moral Argument At Home and Abroad. By Michael Walzer.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Private Pay for Public Work: Performance-Related Pay for Public Sector Managers. By R obert W ood and M aria M aguire
Reforming the Public Service: Lessons from Recent Experiences. Edited by P atrick W eller , J ohn F orster and G lyn D avis
Program Evaluation and Performance Monitoring: An Australian Perspective. Edited by C iaron O'F aircheallaigh and B ill R yan
Beyond the Protective State: The Political Economy of Australia's Industry Policy. By A nn C apling and B rian G alligan
Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy. Edited by B rian G alligan , O wen H ughes and C liff W alsh
In Reserve: Central Banking in Australia, 1945-75. By B oris S chedvin
Comparative Political Studies: Australia and Canada. Edited by M alcolm A lexander and B rian G alligan
Public Administration in Small and Island States. Edited by R andall B aker
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives. By A lan B ullock
Natural Hazards and Reinsurance. Edited by J ohn O liver and N eil R. B ritton
Natural and Technological Hazards: Implications for the Insurance Industry. Edited by N eil R. B ritton and J ohn O liver
Catastrophe Insurance for Tomorrow: Planning for Future Adversities. Edited by N eil R. B ritton and J ohn O liver     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War. Calling the Tune? by Hugh Wilford. Western Intelligence and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Ten Days That Did Not Shake the World 1980–1990, edited by David Arbel and Ran Edelist. Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century, edited by Heike Bungert, Jan G. Heitman and Michael Wala. How Mumbo‐Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions, by Francis Wheen. Neighbours from Hell: The Politics of Behaviour, by Frank Field. Memoirs, by Douglas Hurd. Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens, by Julian Le Grand. Concept and Controversy: Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market, by W. W. Rostow. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, with an Introduction and Notes by Gareth Steadman Jones. World on Fire, by Amy Chua.     

BOOK REVIEWS

A Future For All . By Malcolm Wicks . In Defence of the Welfare State . Edited by Paul Wilding . Nationalizing Social Security in Europe and America . Edited by Douglas E. Ashford and E. W. Kelley . The Welfare State East and West . Edited by Richard Rose and Rei Shiratori . Income Packaging in the Welfare State . By Lee Rainwater , Martin Rein and Joseph Schwartz . Welfare in Transition . Edited by Robert Erikson and Rune Aberg . The Possibility of Politics . By Stein Ringen . Freedom , Equality and the Market . By Barry Hindess . Protecting the Vulnerable . By Robert E. Goodin . Does Aid Work ? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force . By Robert Cassen and Associates . Foreign Aid Reconsidered . By Roger C. Riddell . State , Finance and Industry . By A. Cox . Governing the Economy . By Peter A. Hall . The State and the Market Economy . By J. E. S. Hayward . Political Control of the Macro Economy . By Paul Whiteley . Political Theories of Modern Government . By Peter Self . A Lament for the Law Commission . By R. T. Oerton . Corporatism and Political Theory . By Alan Cawson . Varieties of Corporatism : Theory and Practice . By Peter J. Williamson . The White House and Capital Hill : The Politics of Presidential Persuasion . By Nigel Bowles . Karl Kautsky . By Dick Geary . J. Ramsay Mac Donald . By Austen Morgan . James Maxton . By William Knox . Labour People : Leaders and Lieutenants , Hardie to Kinnock . By Kenneth 0.Morgan . The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism . By Colin Campbell . The Politics of the Police . By Robert Reiner . What is to be done about Law and Order ? By John Lea and Jock Young . The governance of the Police . By Laurence Lustgarten . The Policing of Industrial Disputes 1893–1984. By Roger Geary .     

Comparative Politics,Policy Analysis and Governance ‐ A European Contribution to the Study of the European Union?

Policy‐Making in the European Union. Fourth edition. Edited by Helen Wallace and William Wallace. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.xxvi + 610, 32 figures, 21 boxes, 45 tables, 2 appendices, bibliography, index. £17.99 (paper) ISBN 0–19–878242‐X.

The Political System of the European Union. By Simon Hix. London: Macmillan, 1999. Pp.xx + 427, 53 tables, 28 figures, appendix, bibliography, index. £49.50 (cloth) ISBN 0–333–71653–1; £16.99 (paper) ISBN 0–333–71654‐X.

Decision‐Making in the European Union. By John Peterson and Elizabeth Bomberg. London: Macmillan, 1999. Pp.xvi + 336, 52 boxes, 16 tables, bibliography, index. £47.50 (cloth) ISBN 0–333–60491–1; £15.99 (paper) ISBN 0–333–60492‐X.

The Transformation of Governance in the European Union. Edited by Beate Kohler‐Koch and Rainer Eising. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp.xvi + 320, 7 tables, 2 figures, bibliography, index. £60 (cloth) ISBN 0–415–21548‐X.

Theories of European Integration. By Ben Rosamond. London: Macmillan, 2000. Pp.xiii + 232, 5 tables, 1 figure, bibliography, glossary, index. £42.50 (cloth) ISBN 0–333–64716–5; £13.99 (paper) ISBN 0–333–64717–3.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Rise and Fall of Communism . By Richard H. Hudelson . The End of the Communist Power Monopoly . By Michael Waller . The Politics of Transition . By Stephen White , Graeme Gill and Darrell Slider . The Sovietransition : From Gorbachev to Yeltsin . Edited by Stephen White , Rita Di Leo and Ottorino Cappelli . Politics in Eastern Europe . By George Schopflin . Eastern Europe in the Postwar World . By Thomas W. Simons , JR. 2nd. Ed. Developments in East European Politics . Edited by Stephen White , Judy Batt and Paul G. Lewis . Transition to Democracy in Poland . Edited by Richard F. Starr . Leo Walesa Democrat or Dictator ? By Jaroslaw Kurski . Translated by Peter Obst . Broken Bonds . The Disintegration of Yugoslavia . By Lenard J. Cohen . Contrasting us and German Attitudes to Soviet Trade , 1917–91: Politics by Economic Means . By Hilbne Seppain . Erconciling the Solitudes : Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism . By Charles Taylor . The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation : Case Studies of Protracted Ethnic Conflicts . Edited by John Mcgarry and Brendan O'Leary . Ethnic Conflict and International Security . Edited by Michael E. Brown. The Scar of Race . By Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza . Race , Riots and Policing : Lore and Disorder in a Multi -Racist Society . By Michael Keith . Race and Racism in Britain . 2nd ed. By John Solomos . Not Easy Being British : Colour , Culture and Citizenship . By Tariq Modood . Paying the Piper : Culture , Music and Money . By Alan Peacock . Wilson . By Philip Ziegler . Markets and Democracy ; Participation , Accountability and Feficiency . Edited by Samuel Bowles , Herbert Gintis and Bo Gustafs -Son Beyond Unemployment . By Robery Skidelsky and Liam Halligan . Trends in British Public Policy : Do Governments Make Any Difference ? By Brian W. Ohgwood .     

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 REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article: The Member of Parliament and the Administration . By David Coombes . The Kerensky Memoirs —Russia and History's Turning Point . By Alexander Kerensky . Uganda : The Development of its Laws and Constitution . By H. F. Morris and James S. Read . The French Army in Politics 1945–1962. By John Steward Ambler . The Three Lives of Charles de Gaulle . By David Schoenbrun . Japan 1931–45: Militarism , Fascism , Japanism ? By Ivan Morris . Democracy in Prewar Japan : Groundwork or Facade ? By George O. Totten . Intellectuals in Politics : John Stuart Mill and the Philosophic Radicals . By Joseph Hamburger . Speaking European (The Anglo-Continental Cleavage). By W. Horsfall Carter . Economic Advice and Presidential Leadership : The Council of Economic Advisers . By Edward S. Flash , Jr . Law and Social Change in Ghana . By William Burnett Harvey . The British Monopolies Commission . By C. K. Rowley . Leslie Mitchell : Lewis Grassic Gibbon . By Ian S. Munro . Foreword by Hugh Mac Diarmid . The Spanish Republic and the Civil War , 1931–1939. By Gabriel Jackson . Whatever Will Happen to the National Plan ? By Ralph Oppenheimer and Harold Lind .     

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Books reviewed:
Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory , by Bhikhu Parekh
Multicultural Questions , edited by Christian Joppke and Steven Lukes
Peoples, Cultures and Nations in Political Philosophy , by Paul Gilbert
Race and Ethnicity in Modern Britain , by David Mason
Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain , by Randall Hansen
The Ashdown Diaries , vol. 1: 1988–1997 , by Paddy Ashdown
Diaries: Into Politics , by Alan Clark
Life in the Jungle: My Autobiography , by Michael Heseltine
Left Behind: Lessons from Labour's Heartland , by Peter Kilfoyle
Ann Widdecombe: Right from the Beginning , by Nicholas Kochan
William Hague: In His Own Right , by Jo-Anne Nadler
Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics , by Jing Huang
Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party , by Xiaobo Lu
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Ni·o Famines and the Making of the Third World , by Mike Davis
Going to the Wars , by Max Hastings
Governing with Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe , by Alec Stone Sweet
No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey through the American South , by Gary Younge
Parliament under Blair , by Peter Riddell
New Labour in Power , edited by David Coates and Peter Lawler
New Labour and Thatcherism , by Richard Heffernan
The Retreat of Social Democracy , by John Callaghan. Manchester University Press
Labour's First Century , edited by Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane and Nick Tiratsoo
The Labour Party: A Centenary History , edited by Brian Brivati and Richard Heffernan