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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