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POLITICS AND THE PEOPLE OF LONDON: THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL, 1889–1965 Andrew Saint (ed.)
GOVERNMENT BY MOONLIGHT: THE HYBRID PARTS OF THE STATE Patrick Birkinshaw, Ian Harden Norman Lewis.
PRESSURE GROUPS, POLITICS AND DEMOCRACY IN BRITAIN Wyn Grant.
SECRECY IN BRITAIN Clive Ponting.
PRIVATIISATION Richard Parry (ed.)
CONSUMING PUBLIC SERVICES Nicholas Deakin and Anthony Wright (eds.)
THE MAKING OF TORY EDUCATION POLICY IN POST-WAR BRITAIN, 1950–1986 Christopher Knight
DIRECTORS OF EDUCATION FACING REFORM Tony Bush, Maurice Kogan and Tony Lenney.
INSPECTING THE INSPECTORATES: SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein.
THE HEALTH ADVISORY SERVICE M. Henkel, M. Kogan, T. Packwood, T. Whitaker, P. Youll.
LOCAL ECONOMIC POLICY Mike Campbell (ed.)
LOCAL POLITICS AND PARTICIPATION IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE Albert Mabileau, George Moyser, Geraint Parry and Patrick Quantin.     

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THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Nevil Johnson
DEMOCRACY AND MARKET SYSTEM Charles E. Lindblom
DECISIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS James G. March
CUTBACK MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC BUREAUCRACIES: POPULAR THEORIES AND OBSERVED OUTCOMES IN WHITEHALL Andrew Dunsire and Christopher Hood
HEAD OF THE CIVIL SERVICE – A STUDY OF SIR WARREN FISHER Eunan O'Halpin
MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY Geoffrey Marshall (ed.)
PRIVATE GAIN AND PUBLIC SERVICE – THE ASSOCIATION OF FIRST DIVISION CIVIL SERVANTS Barry J. O'Toole
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT: SELF-INSTRUCTION PACKAGE Cabinet Office and HM Treasury
THE NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY 1982–1986: A CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERIMENT Cornelius O'Leary, Sydney Elliott and R. A. Wilford
MANAGING THE ENABLING AUTHORITY Rodney Brooke
ACCOUNTING FOR PUBLIC POLICY: POWER, PROFESSIONALS AND POLITICS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT David Rosenberg
AN INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT Ian Taylor and George Popham (eds.)
TESTING THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL WELFARE – INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON POLICY CHANGES IN NINE COUNTRIES Robert Morris (ed.)
GOVERNMENT AND THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BRITAIN AND WEST GERMANY Wyn Grant, William Paterson and Colin Whitston
THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AS POLICE OFFICERS John Carrier
A HISTORY OF DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL 1888–1989 Jeffrey Stanyer
THE TREASURY UNDER MRS THATCHER Leo Pliatzky
CHARITIES AND GOVERNMENT Alan Ware
GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE US, CANADA AND THE UK Wyn Grant     

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WHITEHALL Peter Hennessy
INSIDE THE THINK TANK: ADVISING THE CABINET 1971–1983 Tessa Blackstone and William Plowden William Heinemann
ORGANISING FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT – A LOCAL RESPONSIBILITY John Barratt and John Downs
UNDERSTANDING THE MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT John Stewart
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT Alan Fowler
LOCAL LABOUR AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A STUDY OF CHANGING INTERESTS, POLITICS AND POLICY IN SOUTHWARK, 1919–1982 Sue Goss
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE: WHO REALLY CONTROLS IT AND HOW Andrew Likierman
THE COMMONS UNDER SCRUTINY Michael Ryle and Peter Richards (eds.)
THE HOUSE OF LORDS Donald Shell
THE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT: THE JOB OF THE BACKBENCHER Lisanne Radice, Elizabeth Vallance and Virginia Willis
PERFORMANCE MONITORING IN A PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE: THE CASE OF THE CAREERS SERVICE Michael Carley
MAKING EUROPEAN POLICIES WORK: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNITY LEGISLATION EN THE MEMBER STATES: VOLUME I COMPARATIVE SYNTHESES AND VOLUME II NATIONAL REPORTS Heinrich Siedentopf and Jacques Ziller (eds.)
GOVERNMENTS, MANAGERS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Anthony Ferner
THE MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT: FROM MACMILLAN TO HESELTINE Sir Ewen Broadbent
GOVERNMENT AND EXPERTISE: SPECIALISTS, ADMINISTRATORS AND PROFESSIONALS, 1860–1919 Roy MacLeod (ed.)
THE CORPORATE STATE: CORPORATISM AND THE STATE TRADITION IN WESTERN EUROPE Andrew Cox and Noel O'Sullivan (eds) .
THE FREE ECONOMY AND THE STRONG STATE: THE POLITICS OF THATCHERISM Andrew Gamble     

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Book reviews in this article:
UNDERSTANDING BIG GOVERNMENT: THE PROGRAMME APPROACH Richard Rose.
PLANNING THE URBAN REGION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POLICIES AND ORGANIZATIONS Peter Self.
BUREAUCRACY AND DEMOCRACY: A POLITICAL DILEMMA E. Etzioni-Halevy.
COMPONENTS OF WELFARE Stephen Hatch and Ian Mocroft.
THE POLITICS OF LOCAL SPENDING Arthur Midwinter.
THE POLITICS OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM David Judge (ed.).
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS Clive Archer.
GOVERNMENT AND RESEARCH – THE ROTHSCHILD EXPERIMENT IN A GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT M. Kogan and M. Henkel.
POLICY ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins (eds.).
THE STUDY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Keith M. Henderson.
PERSPECTIVES ON MANAGEMENT: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS Michael J. Earl (ed.).
LES NATIONALISATIONS 1982 André G. Delion and Michael Durupty.
QUANGOS: THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE G. R. Curnow and C. A. Saunders (eds.).
BY WORD OF MOUTH: ELITE ORAL HISTORY Anthony Seldon and Joanna Papworth.
OH, CAPTAIN SHAW Ronald Cox.
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE David Heald.     

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Book reviews in this article: GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED (BBC REITH LECTURES 1983) Douglas Wass. MANIPULATING THE MACHINE: CHANGING THE PATTERN OF MINISTERIAL DEPARTMENTS 1960–83 Christopher Pollitt. BUT, CHANCELLOR: AN INQUIRY INTO THE TREASURY Hugo Young and Anne Sloman. LEADERSHIP IN THE BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE Richard A. Chapman. THE COMMONS' SELECT COMMITTEES: CATALYSTS FOR PROGRESS? Dermot Englefield (ed.). PARLIAMENTARY SELECT COMMITTEES IN ACTION Dilys Hill (ed.). ETHICS IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES K. Kernaghan and O. P. Dwivedi. INSIDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A CASE FOR RADICAL REFORM Alex Henney. MUNICIPAL EMPIRE: THE TOWN HALLS AND THEIR BENEFICIARIES David Walker. PRESSURE GROUPS AND GOVERNMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN G. Alderman. CORRUPTION AND MISCONDUCT IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POLITICS Alan Doig. THE POLITICS OF TRANSPORT Enid Witrich. THE OPERATION OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND Doreen Collins.     

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YES, PRIME MINISTER, VOLUME 1 Jonathan Lynn Antony Jay (eds.) ADVISING THE RULERS William Plowden (ed.) THE POLITICAL SCIENCE OF BRITISH POLITICS Jack Hayward Philip Norton (eds.) FROM CRISIS TO COMPLACENCY? SHAPING PUBLIC POLICY IN BRITAIN Brian Hogwood PRIVATISATION: THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE – AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE Kenneth Wiltshire THE WELFARE STATE EAST AND WEST Richard Rose and Rei Shiratori (eds.) ACCOUNTABILITIES IN FIVE PUBLIC SERVICES Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein Tavistock MATCHING RESOURCES TO NEEDS IN COMMUNITY CARE Bleddyn Davies David Challis Gower CASE MANAGEMENT IN COMMUNITY CARE David Challis and Bleddyn Davies Gower RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN THE HEALTH SERVICE: A REVIEW OF THE METHODS OF THE RESOURCE ALLOCATION WORKING PARTY (RAWP) Nicholas Mays Gwyn Bevan LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGERS AT WORK: The City and County Manager System of Local Government in the Republic of Ireland Neil Collins Institute of Public Administration (Dublin) 1987 NUCLEAR POWER IN CRISIS Andrew Blowers and David Pepper (eds.) QUASI-LEGISLATION: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SECONDARY LEGISLATION Gabriele Ganz Sweet & Maxwell, 1987 PLAYING THE PUBLIC INOUIRY GAME. AN OBIECTOR'S GUIDE Wendy Le Las SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND GOVERNMENT: COMPARATIVE ESSAYS ON BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES M. Bulmer (ed.) ORGANIZATION THEORY AND TECHNOCRATIC CONSCIOUSNESS: RATIONALITY, IDEOLOGY, AND QUALITY OF WORK Mats Alvesson De Gruyter     

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THE POLITICS OF HUNG AUTHORITIES Steve Leach and John Stewart.
CO-OPTIVE POLITICS AND STATE LEGITIMACY Michael Saward.
EUROPEAN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW J. Schwarz.
LOCALISM AND CENTRALISM IN EUROPE Edward C. Page.
THE POLITICS OF ANTAGONISM; UNDERSTANDING NORTHERN IRELAND Brendan O'Leary and John McGarry.
ORGANIZED INTERESTS AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY Justin Greenwood, Jurgen R. Grote and Karsten Ronit (eds.).
INFLUENCING THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY Cecilia Andersen.
MANAGING CHANGE: IMPLEMENTING PRIMARY HEALTH CARE POLICY Patricia Day (ed.)
THE NEW POLITICS OF BRITISH TRADE UNIONISM David Marsh.
BUREAUCRATS, TECHNOCRATS, FEMOCRATS: ESSAYS ON THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN STATE Anna Yeatman.
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FEDERALISM: THE GROWTH OF NATIONAL POWER Joseph Zimmerman.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: CABINET DECISIONS ON FOREIGN POLICY. THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE OCTOBER 1938–JUNE 1941 Christopher Hill. PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS Mark Franklin and Philip Norton (eds.) THE HOUSE OF LORDS AT WORK: A STUDY BASED ON THE 1988–1989 SESSION Donald Shell and David Beamish (eds.) DOES PARLIAMENT MATTER? Philip Norton. THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC POLICY Wyn Grant. STRENGTHENING LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE 1990s Steven Leach (ed.) FROM RATES TO THE POLL TAX Arthur Midwinter and Claire Monaghan.     

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GETTING CLOSER TO THE PUBLIC Local Government Training Board
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: THE TOWN HALLS RESPOND David Blunkett and Keith Jackson
LEGALITY AND LOCAL POLITICS L. Bridges, C. Game, O. Lomas, J. McBride and S. Ranson
JUNIOR MINISTERS IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT Kevin Theakston
IMPROVING PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Les Metcalfe and Sue Richards
SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: EXPERIENCE OF A PILOT MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
POLICY MAKING UNDER ADVERSITY Yehezkel Dror
BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC CHOICE Jan-Eric Lane (ed.)
ADMINISTRATION AS SERVICE – THE PUBLIC AS CLIENT Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PROCESS: LEARNING BY DOING David Heald and Richard Rose (eds.)
REGULATION AND PUBLIC LAW Robert Baldwin and Christopher McCrudden Weidenfeld and Nicolson
STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Tom Rathwell
HEALTH MANPOWER: PLANNING, PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT Andrew F. Long and Geoffrey Mercer
HMI Denis Lawton and Peter Gordon Routledge and Kegan Paul
SCRUTINY OF PROCEDURES FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND A report by Angus Mitchell to the Secretary of State for Education and Science
BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN Wyn Grant with Jane Sargent Macmillan
CHANGING TRAINS: MESSAGES FOR MANAGEMENT FROM THE SCOTRAIL CHALLENGE Valerie Stewart and Vivian Chadwick David & Charles
CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WEST EUROPEAN UNITARY STATES Edward C. Page and Michael J. Goldsmith (eds.)
THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAPITOL HILL: THE POLITICS OF PRESIDENTIAL PERSUASION Nigel Bowles     

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Book reviews in this article: POLICY STYLES IN WESTERN EUROPE Jeremy Richardson (ed.). POLITICS, POLICY AND THE EUROPEAN RECESSION Andrew Cox (ed.). BRITISH DOGMATISM AND FRENCH PRAGMATISM: CENTRAL-LOCAL POLICYMAKING IN THE WELFARE STATE Douglas E. Ashford. CENTRAL GRANTS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT R. J. Bennett. HOW MUCH ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS WORTH? John Gretton and Anthony Harrison (eds.) EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF HEALTH PROGRAMS: A PRIMER Michael E. Borus, C. Gregory Bunk and William R. Trash. HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: ITS ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT N. W. Chaplin (ed.). HEALTH POLICY IN BRITAIN: THE POLITICS AND ORGANISATION OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Christopher Ham. POLICY-MAKING AND PLANNING IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Kenneth Lee and Anne Mills. CONSUMING SECRETS: HOW OFFICIAL SECRECY AFFECTS EVERYDAY LIFE IN BRITAIN Rosemary Delbridge and Martin Smith (eds.). THE POLITICS OF SECRECY: CONFIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW James Michael. WAR AND THE STATE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT, 1914–1919 Kathleen Burk (ed.). THE POLITICS OF THE ARTS COUNCIL ROBERT HUTCHISON. THE PROMOTION OF INNOVATION IN HEALTH CARE: THE CASE FOR DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES IN THE NHS Chris Ham and Laurie McMahon CRITICAL READINGS IN PLANNING THEORY Chris Paris (ed.). MANAGEMENT REFORM IN SCOTTISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT Arthur Midwinter.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
GETTING AND SPENDING: PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, EMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION Leo Pliatzky
THE ENGLISH ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM 1780–1870 Sir Norman Chester
POLICY AND ACTION: ESSAYS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC POLICY S. Barrett and C. Fudge (eds.)
THE POLITICS OF MASS HOUSING IN BRITAIN 1945–1975: A STUDY OF CORPORATE POWER AND PROFESSIONAL INFLUENCE IN THE WELFARE STATE Patrick Dunleavy
POLICY AND PRACTICE IN THE MULTI-RACIAL CITY Ken Young and Naomi Connelly
THE POLITICS OF POVERTY David Donnison
POVERTY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-POVERTY POLICY IN THE UK Richard Berthoud, Joan C. Brown and Steven Cooper
THE POLITICS OF POVERTY Susanne MacGregor
THE ROLE OF THE LEGISLATURE IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES Norman J. Ornstein (ed.)
OMBUDSMAN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY P. Cook
THE FUTURE OF COUNCIL HOUSING John English (ed.)
THE WASHINGTON REPORTERS Stephen Hess
NUCLEAR POWER HAZARD CONTROL POLICY John C. Chicken     

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DEMOCRACY, BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC CHOICE Patrick Dunleavy.
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM COMES OF AGE Gerald E. Caiden.
EDINBURGH ESSAYS IN PUBLIC LAW W. Fie, C. Himsworth and N. Walker (eds.)
CRITICISM AND PUBLIC RATIONALITY: PROFESSIONAL RIGIDITY AND THE SEARCH FOR CARING G0VERNMENT Harry Smart.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE: TREMDS AND DEVELOPMENTS Richard Batley and Gerry Stoker (eds.)
STATE RESTRUCTURING AND LOCAL POWER - A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE C. Pickvance and E. Preteceille (eds.)
GOVERNING BIG CITIES: THE MANAGEMENT OF DECENTRALIZATION Graham Bush.
THE POLITICS OF THE IRISH CONSTITLITION Basil Chubb.
POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING IN NORTHERN IRELAND M. Connolly.
INNOVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK Lewis Roberts and Albert Weale (eds.)
CONTROLLING POLLUTION IN THE ROUND: CHANGE AND CHOICE IN ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY A. Weale, T. O'Riordan and L. Kramme.
WASTE LOCATION: SPATIAL ASPECTS OF WASTE MANAGEMENT, HAZARDS AND DISPOSAL M. Clark, D. Smith and A. Blowers (eds.)
THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF NUCLEAR WASTE A. Blowers, D. Lowry and B. Solomon.
PUBLIC ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: SEVEN COUNTRY STUDIES Roger Wettenhall and Colm O'Nuallain.
ESPIONAGE AND SECRECY: THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS 1911–1989 OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Rosamund M. Thomas.
A VOICE FOR CHILDREN: SPEAKING OUT AS THEIR OMBUDSMAN Målfrid Grude Flekkøy Jessica.
UNRAVELLING HOUSING FINANCE: SUBSIDIES, BENEFITS, AND TAXATION John Hills Alan Murie.
DILEMMAS OF PLANNING PRACTICE Huw Thomas and Patsy Healey (eds.)     

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Book Reviewed in this article: GOVERNMENT BY THE MARKET? THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC CHOICE Peter Self ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES: TYPES AND TRANSFORMATIONS Diana C. Pheysey     

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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Institute for Public Policy Research. PUBLIC LAW AND DEMOCRACY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA P. P. Craig. THE PUBLIC SECTOR: CHALLENGE FOR CO-ORDINATION AND LEARNING Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (ed.) WHAT NEXT?: AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS AND THE CIVIL SERVICE Anne Davies and John Willman. BRITISH GOVERNMENT: THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE TERRITORY Peter Madgwick. LEARNING FROM PRECEDENT IN WHITEHALL Peter Nailor. A HARD POUNDING: POLITICS AND ECONOMIC CRISIS 1974–76 Edmund Dell. PARLIAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Charles Carstairs and Richard Ware (eds.) CITIZENS, CONSUMERS AND COUNCILS: LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PUBLIC John Gyford. COUNCILLORS IN CRISIS THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORLDS OF LOCAL COUNCILLORS Jacqueline Barron, Gerald Crawley and Tony Wood. LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND NATIONAL POWER Samuel Humes IV. LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN John Kingdom. PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS P. B. Beaumont. IN THE WAY OF WOMEN: MEN'S RESISTANCE TO SEX EQUALITY IN ORGANIZATIONS C. Cockburn. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENTS FOR WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: AN ANGLO-GERMAN PERSPECTIVE Margery Povall and Monika Langkau-Herrmann (eds.) DEMOCRATIZING FRANCE: THE POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF DECENTRALISATION Vim A. Schmidt. LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND INNOVATION: EVENTS AND CHANGES: THE FIRST STEPS OF LOCAL TTANSITION IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE G. Peteri (ed.) THE CHANNEL TUNNEL: PUBLIC POLICY, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Ian Holliday, Gerard Marcou and Roger Vickerman. RESHAPING THE STATE: NEW ZEALAND'S BUREAUCRATIC REVOLUTION J. Boston, J. Martin, J. Pallot and P. Walsh (eds.) REINVENTING RATIONALiTY: THE ROLE OF REGULATORY ANALYSIS IN THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY Thomas O. McGarity.     

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Book Reviewed in this article:
THE WELFARE STATE IN BRITAIN SINCE 1945 Rodney Lowe.
UNRAVELLING HOUSING FINANCE John Hills.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES. AN INTRODUCTORY SURVEY J.A. Chandler (ed.)
RESEARCHING THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR Susan K. E. Saxon-Harold and Jeremy Kendall (eds.)
ADVISING WEST EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS: INQUIRIES, EXPERTISE AND PUBLIC POLICY B. Guy Peters and Anthony Barker (eds.)
THE POLITICS OF EXPERT ADVICE: CREATING, USING AND MANIPULATING SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE FOR PUBLIC POLICY Anthony Barker and B. Guy Peters (eds.)
THE USES OF DISCRETION Keith Hawkins (ed.)
THE REGIONS AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY Robert Leonardi (ed.)     

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THE TOOLS OF GOVERNMENT Christopher C. Hood
GOVERNMENTS UNDER STRESS: POLITICAL EXECUTIVES AND KEY BUREAUCRATS IN WASHINGTON, LONDON AND OTTAWA Colin Campbell.
NATIONAL PARTIES AND LOCAL POLITICS John Gyford and Mari James.
NATIONAL INTERESTS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Ken Young (ed.)
PARLIAMENT AND THE EXECUTIVE Royal Institute of Public Administration.
PARLIAMENT AND BUREAUCRACY. PARLIAMENTARY SCRUTINY OF ADMINISTRATION PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS IN THE 1980s. J. R. Nethercote (ed.).
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS IN POLITICS Philip Lowe and Jane Goyder.
THE NATION'S OIL: A STORY OF CONTROL Gerry Corti and Frank Frazer.
PARTICIPATION Anne Richardson.
INDUSTRIAL CRISIS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE STATE AND INDUSTRY Kenneth Dyson and Stephen Wilks (eds.).
STATE AND GOVERNMENT IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY: THE EXECUTIVE AT WORK Ned Johnson.
BOTH ENDS OF THE AVENUE: THE PRESIDENCY, THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND CONGRESS IN THE 1980s Anthony King (ed.).
LE NOUVEL ORDRE ÉCONOMIQUE INTERNATIONAL ET L'ADMIMSTRATION PUBLIQUE Gérard Timsit (ed.).
COMMUNITY AGAINST GOVERNMENT: THE BRITISH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 1968–78 Martin Loney.
THE CASE FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT G. Jones and J. Stewart.     

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THE POST-BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATION: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Charles Heckscher and Anne Donnellon (eds.)
PRACTICAL PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Robert T. Golembiewski     

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PRIME MINISTER, CABINET AND CORE EXECUTIVE R.A.W. Rhodes and Patrick Dunleavy THE BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE Robert Pyper QUALITY IN PUBLIC SERVICES Lucy Gaster QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN EUROPEAN PUBLIC SERVICES: CONCEPTS, CASES AND COMMENTARY Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert (eds.) LEADERSHIP OF PUBLIC BUREAUCRACIES Larry D. Terry THEORY AND METHODS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE David Marsh'and Gerry Stoker JUDICIAL REVIEW: LAW AND PROCEDURE Richard Gordon THEORIES OF URBAN POLITICS D. Judge, G. Stoker and H. Wolman (eds.) UNDERSTANDING POLICY FIASCOS Mark Bovens and Paul‘tHart BRITISH SOCIAL POLICY SINCE 1945 Howard Glennerster DISMANTLING THE WELFARE STATE? REAGAN, THATCHER, AND THE POLITICS OF RETRENCHMENT Paul Pierson THE FOUNDATION OF MERIT: PUBLIC SERVICE IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY Patricia Wallace Ingraham THE REGIONAL IMPERATIVE: REGIONAL PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN BRITAIN, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES Urlan A. Wannop PERPETUATING THE PORK BARREL: POLICY SUBSYSTEMS AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY Robert M. Stein and Kenneth N. Bickers FROM ARM'S LENGTH TO HANDS-ON: THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF ONTARIO'S PUBLIC SERVICE 1867–1940 J. E. Hodgetts THE ROAD TO BETTER PUBLIC SERVICES: PROGRESS AND CONSTRAINTS IN FIVE CANADIAN FEDERAL AGENCIES G. Bruce Doern LES RÉSEAUX DE POLITIQUE PUBLIQUE: DÉBAT AUTOUR DES POLICY NETWORKS Patrick Le Galès and Mark Thatcher (eds.) THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF SPAIN Paul Heywood ADENAUER TO KOHL: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN CHANCELLORSHIP Stephen Padgett POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES Robert Elgie     

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CABINET Peter Hennessy
WHITEHALL: TRAGEDY AND FARCE Clive Ponting
POLICY CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT: THREE CASE STUDIES Nicholas Deakin (ed.)
JOB AT THE TOP Sir John Boynton
ESSAYS ON THE FUTURE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT Michael Goldsmith (ed.)
NEW RESEARCH IN CENTRAL-LOCAL RELATIONS Michael Goldsmith (ed.)
CENTRAL-LOCAL RELATIONS: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND TRADING STANDARDS SERVICES Gerald Rhodes
PROFESSIONALISM AND POLICY: THE ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONS IN THE CENTRAL-LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP M. Laffin Gower
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CORPORATISM Wyn Grant (ed.)
PUBLIC PERSONNEL POLICY: THE POLITICS OF CIVIL SERVICE David H. Rosenbloom (ed.)
THE PRIVATE EXERCISE OF PUBLIC FUNCTIONS Denis L. Thompson (ed.)
MEASURING UP: CONSUMER ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL AUTHORITY SERVICES National Consumer Council
PUBLIC HOUSING AND PRIVATE PROPERTY 1970–1984 Stephanie Cooper Gower
WOMEN AND EUROPEAN POLITICS: COMTEMPORARY FEMINISM AND PUBLIC POLICY Joni Lovenduski
FUTURE WORK: JOBS, SELF-EMPLOYMENT AND LEISURE AFTER THE INDUSTRIAL AGE James Robertson Gower
THE COMPLETE PLAIN WORDS Sir Ernest Gowers