Book Notes

Abramovitz, Mimi. 1988. Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present
Bingham, Richard D., Roy E. Green, and Sammis B. White (eds.). 1987. The Homeless in Contemporary Society
Bogen, Elizabeth. 1987. Immigration in New York
Bowie, Norman E. (ed.). 1988. Equal Opportunity
Bryner, Gary C. 1987. Bureaucratic Discretion: Law and Policy in Federal Regulatory Agencies
Comfort, Louise K. (ed.) 1988. Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives
Cook, Brian J. 1988. Bureaucratic Politics and Regulatory Reform: The EPA and Emissions Trading
Cooper, Phillip J. 1988. Hard Judicial Choices: Federal District Judges and State and Local Officials
Culyer, A.J. and Bengt Jonsson (eds.). 1988. Public and Private Health Services
Danziger, Sheldon H. and Kent E. Portney (eds.). 1988. The Distributional Impacts of Public Policies
Davis, Charles E. and James P. Lester (eds.). 1988. Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Politics and Policy
Fagerhaugh, Shizuko Y., Anselm Strauss, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn L. Wiener. 1987. Hazards in Hospital Care: Ensuring Patient Safety
Forsythe, David P. 1988. Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy: Congress Reconsidered
Gilderbloom, John I. and Richard P. Appelbaum. 1988. Rethinking Rental Housing
Hahn, Harlan and Sheldon Kamieniecki. 1987. Referendum Voting: Social Status and Policy Preferences
Kelly, Rita Mae (ed.). 1988. Promoting Productivity in the Public Sector: Problems, Strategies, and Prospects
Kelly, Rita Mae and Jane Bayes (eds.). 1988. Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy
Plowden, William. 1987. Advising the Rulers
Roessner, J. David. 1988. Government Innovation Policy: Design, Implementation, Evaluation
Weidenbaum, Murray and Kenneth Chilton (eds.). 1988. Public Policy Toward Corporate Takeovers     

BEYOND THE RATIONALITY PROJECT: POLICY ANALYSIS AND THE POSTPOSITIVE CHALLENGE

Peter deLeon. 1988. Advice and Consent: The Development of the Policy Sciences
Deborah A. Stone. 1988. Policy Paradox and Political Reason
John S. Dryzek and Davis B. Bobrow. 1987. Policy Analysis by Design     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article
Jameson W. Doig and Erwin Hargrove (eds.). 1987. Leadership and Innovation: A Biographical Perspective on Entrepreneurs in Government
Frank Fischer and John Forester (eds.). 1987. Confronting Values in Policy Analysis: The Politics of Criteria , Sage Yearbooks in Politics and Public Policy
John W. Mendeloff. 1988. The Dilemma of Toxic Substance Regulation: How Overregulation Causes Underregulation
Willard C. Richan. 1986. Beyond Altruism: Social Welfare Policy in American Society
S. David Young. 1987. The Rule of Experts: Occupational Licensing in America     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Paul F. Whitely and Stephen J. Winyard. 1987. Pressure for the Poor: The Poverty Lobby and Policy Making
Daniel A. Mazmanian, Michael Stanley-Jones, and Miriam J. Green. Breaking Political Gridlock: California's Experiment in Public-Private Cooperation for Hazardous Waste Policy
Kenneth Flamm. 1988. Creating the Computer, Government, Industry, and High Technology
James L Regens and Robert W. Rycroft. 1988. The Acid Rain Controversy     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: William P. Browne. 1988. Private Interests, Public Policy, and American Agriculture E.S. Savas. 1987. Privatization: The Key to Better Government Henry J. Aaron, Barry P. Bosworth, and Gary Burtless. 1988. Can America Afford to Grow Old? Paying for Social Security E. Wayne Nafziger. 1988. Inequality in Africa: Political Elites, Proletariats, Peasants, and the Poor     

COLLECTIONS OF LEADING ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Howard E. Freeman, ed., Policy Studies Review Annual: Volume 2
Robert H. Haveman andB. Bruce Zellner, eds., Policy Studies Review Annual: Volume 3
Thomas D. Cook, etal., eds., Evaluation Studies Review Annual: Volume 3     

Review Article:Rediscovering India under the British

O.P. KEJARIWAL. The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Discovery of India's Past 1784–1838. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 293. $24.95 (US);

TAPAN RAYCHAUDHUM. Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xviii, 369. $39.95 (US);

JOAN G. ROLAND. Jews in British India: Identity in a Colonial Era. Hanover, N.H. and London: University Press of New England, 1989. Pp. xiii, 355. $40.00 (US);

NANCY GARDNER CASSELS. Religion and Pilgrim Tax under the Company Raj. Riverdale, Md.: The Riverdale Company, 1988. Pp. xiii, 184. $34.00 (US);

APARNA MUKHERJEE. British Colonial Policy in Burma: An Aspect of Colonialism in South-East Asia 1840–1885. Riverdale, Md.: The Riverdale Company, 1988. Pp. x, 559. $34.00 (US).     

THE POLICY LEGACY OF RONALD REAGAN

Charles O. Jones, ed. 1988. The Reagan Legacy: Promise and Performance B.B. Kymlicka and Jean V. Matthews, eds. 1988. The Reagan Revolution? J.D. Lees and Michael Turner, eds. 1988. Reagan's First Four Years: A New Beginning?     

Editorial notes

The New Cambridge History of India: the Portuguese in India by M.N. Pearson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xviii + 178; maps. £17.50.

Colonial Chesapeake Society edited by Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp.x + 512. £29.50.

A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British and the Mughals by Michael H. Fisher. London: Sangam Books Ltd., 1988. Pp.x + 284; illus. £17.95.

Common Law Aboriginal Title by Kent McNeil. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp.xli + 357. £40.00

Colonialism and Resistance in Belize; Essays in Historical Sociology by O. Nigel Bolland. Belize: Cubola Productions, 1988. Pp. + 218; maps and illus. US$10.00.

Labour in the Caribbean: From Emancipation to Independence edited by Malcolm Cross and Gad Heuman. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Caribbean, 1988. Pp.xvii + 329; map. £10.95.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume V:1801 to 1820, edited by Francess G. Halpenny. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. Pp.xxv + 1044. £38.25; Volume VI, 1821 to 1835. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp.xxiv + 960. £42.50.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume VII: 1836 to 1850 edited by Francess G. Halpenny and Jean Hamelin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Pp.xxix + 1088. £45.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Volume VIII: 1851–60. Edited by Francess G. Halpenny. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp.xxxvii + 1129. £40.00.

The Upper House in Colonial New Zealand. A Study of the Legislative Council of New Zealand in the period 1854–1887 begun by the late A.H. McLintock, Revised and completed by G.A. Wood. Government Printer, 1987. Pp.271. N.p.

Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest and Sea Power during the Pax Britannica by Bernard Semmel. Boston: Allen &; Unwin, 1986. Pp.xii + 239.

’Benefits Bestowed'? Education and British Imperialism edited by J. A. Mangan. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp.ix + 242; illus. £29.95.

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power by Robert I. Rotberg with the collaboration of Miles F. Shore. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp.xix + 800; maps and illus. £25.00.

Breaker Morant and the Bushveldt Carbineers edited with commentary by Arthur Davey. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series No.18, 1987. Pp.lxiv + 238; maps and illus. N.p.

The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa by Anne Phillips. London: James Currey and Indiana University Press, 1989. Pp.vii + 184. £25.00 hardback; £8.95 paperback.

Modern India, 1885–1947 by Sumit Sarkar (Cambridge Commonwealth Series). London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xxv + 489. £35.00 hardback; £14.95 paperback.

Fabianism and Colonialism, the Life and Political Thought of Lord Sydney Olivier by Francis Lee. London: Defiant Books, 1988. Pp.v + 242.

Finance and Empire: Sir Charles Addis, 1861–1945 by R.A. Dayer. London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.xxi + 431; maps and illus. £35.00.

The Hongkong Bank in the Period of Imperialism and War: II, 1895–1918 by Frank H.H. King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xxxv + 720; maps and illus. £60.00.

The Origins of the Boxer Uprising by Joseph W. Esherick. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1987. Pp.xx + 451. N.p.

The Dual Image of the Japanese Emperor by Kiyoko Takeda. London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.xvi + 183. £33.00.

The Cold War Begins in Asia: American East Asian Policy and the Fall of the Japanese Empire by Marc S. Gallicchio. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Pp.xvi + 188. US$25.00.

British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century by C.J. Bartlett. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.ix + 144. £20.00 hardback; £5.50 paperback.

British Imperial Policy and Decolonization 1938–64: Volume 2, 1951–64 by A.N. Porter and A.J. Stockwell (Cambridge Commonwealth Series). London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xviii + 601 £45.00 hardback; £19.95 paperback.

Mickey Mouse Numbers in World History: The Short View by D.C.M Platt. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.ix + 91. £24.50.     

Methodological Foundations for Public Policy Analysis: A Review Essay

Books reviewed in this articles:
Garry D. Brewer and Peter deLeon, The Foundations of Policy Analysis
Stuart S. Nagel, Policy Evaluation: Making Optimum Decisions
David C. Paris and James F. Reynolds, The Logic of Policy Inquiry
William N. Dunn, Public Policy Analysis: An Introduction
Melvin J. Dubnick and Barbara A. Bardes, Thinking About Public Policy: A Problem-Solving Approach     

TOWARD A POST-POSITIVIST POLICY ANALYSIS

Book reviewed in this article
Paul Diesing, Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences
Daniel Callahan and Bruce Jennings, Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis
Frank Fischer, Polities, Values, and Public Policy: The Problem of Methodology     

BOOK NOTES

Kenneth L. Adelman, African Realities
Davis B. Bobrow, Steve Chan, and John A. Kringen, Understanding Foreign Policy Decisions: The Chinese Case
Zsuzsa Ferge, A Society in the Making: Hungarian Social and Societal Policy 7945–75
Peter W. House and John McLeod, Large-Scale Models for Policy Evaluation
Michael Novak, ed., Democracy and Mediating Structures: A Theological Inquiry
Gareth Porter, Vietnam: The Definitive Documentation of Human Decisions, 2 vols.     

Book Notes

Books reviewed in this article: Donald L. Alexander (Ed.), Telecommunications Policy: Have Regulators Dialed the Wrong Number? John J. Audley, Green Politics and Global Trade: NAFTA and the Future of Environmental Politics. William I. Bacchus, The Price of American Foreign Policy: Congress, the Executive, and International Affairs Funding. Arnold Birenbaum, Managed Care: Made in America. Thomas A. Birkland, After Disaster; Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events. James Bowman and Donald Menzel (Eds.), Teaching Ethics and Values in Public Administration Programs. Robert J. Duffy, Nuclear Politics in America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation. Marianne Githens and Dorothy McBride Stetson (Eds.), Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Christopher Howard, The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States Joan Johnson-Freese and Roger Handberg, Space, The Dormant Frontier: Changing the Paradigm for the 21st Century. Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, The Changing Federal Role in U.S. Health Care Policy. Yong S. Lee (Ed.), Technology Transfer and Public Policy. James Midgley, Social Welfare in Global Context. Nancy C. Roberts and Paula J. King, Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Policy Entrepreneurs hip and Innovation. Denise Scheberle, Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation. David E. Wildasin (Ed.), Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations.     

BOOK REVIEWS

book reviewed in this article:
Craufurd D. Goodwin, ed., Energy Policy In Perspective: Today's Problems, Yesterday's Solutions
Loren Cobb and Robert M. Thrall, eds., Mathematical Frontiersv of the Social and Policy Sciences
David Collingridge, The Social Control of Technology
Frank J. Thompson, Health Policy and the Bureaucracy: Politics and Implementation
Joseph A. Yager. International Cooperation in Nuclear Energy
Philip van Slyck, Strategies for the 1980s: Lessons of Cuba, Vietnam, and Afghanistan     

The Usefulness of Applied Social Science: Three Views

Books reviewed in this article:
Peter W. House, The Art of Public Policy Analysis .
Robert F. Rich, Social Science Information and Public Policy Making .
Robert A. Scott and Arnold R. Shore, Why Sociology Does Not Apply; A Study of the Use of Sociology in Public Policy .     

Book Review Essay

Robert H. Haveman. 1987. Poverty Policy and Poverty Research
Lawrence M. Mead. 1986. Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship
William Julius Wilson. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass and Public Policy     

Book Notes

Sanford Borins, Innovating with Integrity: How Local Heroes are Transforming American Government .
Milton M. Carrow, Robert P. Churchill, and Joseph J. Cordes, Democracy, Social Values, and Public Policy .
Joseph D. Davey, The Politics of Prison Expansion: Winning Elections by Waging War on Crime. Westport
Sherry Glied, Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails .
Erich Goode, Between Politics and Reason: The Drug Legalization Debate.
Peter J. Haas, and J. Fred Springer, Applied Policy Research: Concepts and Cases .
Rodney E. Hero, Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics .
Stuart S. Nagel, Policy Within and Across Developing Nations .
Paul L. Posner, The Politics of Unfunded Mandates: Whither Federalism
Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, Lawrence Bobo, and Maria Krysan, Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (rev. ed.) .
Mark E. Rushefsky and Kant Patel, Politics, Power, & Policy Making: The Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s .
Donald A. Sylvan and James F. Voss (eds.), Problem Representation in Foreign Policy Decision Making .
Edward P. Weber, Pluralism by the Rules: Conflict and Cooperation in Environmental Regulation .
Walter A. Zelman and Robert A. Berenson, The Managed Care Blues and How to Cure Them .     

LITERATURE REVIEW

Book Reviewed in this artices:
Norval Morris, The Future of Imprisonment
Robert Eyestone, The Threads of Public Policy: A Study in Policy Leadership
Earl Johnson, Jr., Justice and Reform: The Formative Years of the OEO Legal Services Program
Marvin R. Burt, Policy Analysis: Introduction and Applications to Health Programs
Gary W. Shannon and G. E. Alan Dever, Health Care Delivery: Spatial Perspectives
Theodore R. Marmor, The Politics of Medicare
HEALTH POLICY AND THE POOR
Philip K. Piele and John Stuart Hall, Budgets, Bonds, and Ballots: Voting Behavior in School Financial Elections
Jerome T. Murphy, State Education Agencies and Discretionary Funds: Grease the Squeaky Wheel
John D. Owen, School Inequality and the Welfare State     

BOOK NOTES

Adams, F. Gerard and Jere R. Behrman, Commodity Exports and Economic Development; The Commodity Problem and Policy in Developing Countries Anderson, Lacelles and Douglas M. Windham (eds.), Education and Development: Issues in the Analysis and Planning of Postcolonial Societies Bailey, Sydney, How Wars End: The United Nations and The Termination of Armed Conflict, 1946–1964 Balinski, Michel L. and H. Peyton Young, Fair Representation; Meeting the Ideal of One Man, One Vote Barfield, Claude E., Science Policy from Ford to Reagan: Change and Continuity Barnett, Larry F., Population Policy and The U.S. Constitution Bish, Robert L., Governing Puget Sound Blair, Roger D. and Robert F. Lanziolloti (eds.), The Conglomerate Corporation: An Antitrust Law and Economic Symposium Brams, Steven J. and Peter C. Fishburn, Approval Voting Carp, Robert A. and C.K. Rowland, Policymaking and Politics in the Federal District Courts Cigler, Allan J. and Burdett A. Loom is (eds.), Interest Group Politics The Conservation Foundation, State of the Environment, 1982 Crecine, John P. (ed.), The New Educational Programs in Public Policy; The First Decade Dilger, Robert J., The Sunbelt/Snowbelt Controversy: The War Over Federal Funds Doig, Jameson W. (ed.), Criminal Corrections: Ideals and Realities Dunkerley, Harold B. (ed.) with Christine M.E. Whitehead, Urban Land Policy: Issues and Opportunities Ehrenberg, Ronald G. and Paul L. Schumann, Longer Hours or More Jobs: An Investigation of Amending Hours Legislation to Create Employment Feld, Alan L., Tax Policy and Corporate Concentration Greenberger, Martin, in collaboration with Garry D. Brewer, William W. Hogan and Milton Russell, Caught Unawares; The Energy Decade in Retrospect Hartland-Thundberg, Penelope and Morris H. Crawford, Government Support for Exports; A Second Best Alternative Katz, James Everett and Onkar S. Marwah (eds.), Nuclear Power in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Decision Making Linn, Johannes F., Cities in the Developing World; Policies for Their Equitable and Efficient Growth Lloyd, Christopher (ed.), Social Theory and Political Practice: Wolfson College Lectures, 1981 Lovett, William A., Inflation and Politics; Fiscal, Monetary, and Wage-Price Discipline Magat, Wesley A. (ed.), Reform of Environmental Regulation Mashaw, Jerry L., Bureaucratic Justice; Managing Social Security Disability Claims Moe, Ronald C., The Hoover Commissions Revisited Regan, Tom and Donald Vandeveer (eds.), And Justice for All; New Introductory Essays in Ethics and Public Policy Rothman, Harry, Rod Greenshields, and Francisco Rosillo Calle, Energy From Alcohol: The Brazilian Experience Sorley, Lewis, Arms Transfers Under Nixon; A Policy Analysis Stifel, Laurence D., Ralph K. Davidson, and James S. Coleman (eds.), Social Sciences and Public Policy in the Developing World Stone, Alan, and Edward J. Harpham (eds.), The Political Economy of Public Policy Storey, James R., Older Americans in the Reagan Era: Impacts of Federal Policy Changes Weisbrod, Burton A., Economics and Medical Research Whisnant, David E., Modernizing the Mountaineer: People, Power, and Planning in Appalachia