Book Notes

David H. Guston, Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Productivity and Integrity of Research .
Michael Kenny and James Meadowcroft (Eds.), Planning Sustainability .
Cathie Jo Martin, Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy .
Michael Mason, Environmental Democracy .
Michael Moran, Governing the Health Care State: A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany .
Stephen D. Sugarman and Frank R. Kemerer (Eds.), School Choice and Social Controversy: Politics, Policy, and Law .
Joseph P. Viteritti, Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society .
Jay D. White, Taking Language Seriously: The Narrative Foundations of Public Administration Research .     

IV. LITERATURE REVIEW

Book Reviewed in this artices:
Geoffrey Blainey, The Causes of War
Manus Midlarsky, On War: Political Violence in the International System
Ronald Levy, Nearing the Crossroads: Contending Approaches to Contemporary American Foreign Policy
Morton H. Halperin, with the assistance of Priscilla Clapp and Arnold Kanter, Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy
F. S. Northedge, ed., The Foreign Policies of the Powers
Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron B. Wildavsky, Implementation
Arnold J. Meltsner, The Politics of City Revenue
Richard S. Bolan and Ronald L. Nuttall, Urban Planning and Politics
Dennis A. Rondinelli, Urban and Regional Development Planning: Policy and Administration
L. Harmon Zeigler and M. Kent Jennings, Governing American Schools
Elchanan Cohn and Stephen D. Millman, Economics of State Aid to Education
W. Norton Grubb and Stephan Michelson, States and Schools: The Political Economy of Public School Finance
Dale Mann, Policy Decision-Making in Education: An Introduction to calculation and Control
Paul R. Dommel, The Politics of Revenue Sharing
Alford, Robert R., Health Care Politics; Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform
Federal Statistics , Report of the President's Commission
Stapleton, W. Vaughn, and Lee E. Teitelbaum, In Defense of Youth: A Study of the Role of Counsel in American Juvenile Courts
Nicholas Henry, Public Administration and Public Affairs     

Book Notes

John D. Donahue, Making Washington Work: Tales of Innovation in the Federal Government .
Bryan C. Hassel, The Charter School Challenge: Avoiding the Pitfalls, Fulfilling the Promise .
Joseph Losco and Brian L. Fife (Eds.), Higher Education in Transition: The Challenges of the New Millennium .
Toni Marzotto, Vicky Moshier Burnor, and Gordon Scott Bonham, The Evolution of Public Policy: Cars and the Environment .
Gregory E. McAvoy, Controlling Technocracy: Citizen Rationality and the Nimby Syndrome .
Kant Pate1 and Mark E. Rushefsky, Health Care Politics and Policy in America .
Kevin Theakston, (Ed.), Bureaucrats and Leadership .     

Educational Policy Analyses: Three Recent Works

Books reviewed in this articles:
Derrick Ben, ed., Shades of Brown; New Perspectives on School Desegregation
Michael E. Manley-Casimir, ed., Family Choice in Schooling
Michael A. Rebell and Arthur R. Block, Educational Policy Making and the Courts: An Empirical Study of Judicial Activism     

Book Notes

R. Douglas Arnold, Michael J. Graetz, and Alicia H. Munnell (Eds.), Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics, and Economics .
Eugene Bardach, Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship .
J. Patrick Dobel, Public Integrity .
Milton Fisk, Toward a Healthy Society: The Morality and Politics of American Health Care Reform .
Marie Gottschalk, The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States .
Graeme A. Hodge, Privatization: An International Review of Performance .
Donald F. Kettl, The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation of Governance .
Steven G. Koven, Public Budgeting in the United States: The Cultural and Ideological Setting .
George A. Krause, A Two-way Street: The Institutional Dynamics of the Modern Administrative State .
Michael T. McGuire and William H. Anderson, The U.S. Healthcare Dilemma: Mirrors and Chains .
Kenneth J. Meier and Jeff Gill, What Works: A New Approach to Program and Policy Analysis .
Karen Mossberger, The Politics of Ideas and the Spread of Enterprise Zones .
Kate O'Neill, Waste Trading among Rich Nations: Building a New Theory of Environmental Regulation.
William Simonsen and Mark D. Robbins, Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation .
John D. Wirth, Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Graham Wilson, Special Interests and Policy Making: Agricultural Policies and Politics in Britain and the United States of America. 1956–70
Joseph P. Viteritti, Bureaucracy and Social Justice: Allocation of Jobs and Services lo Minorities
Richard R. Fagen. ed., Capitalism and the Slate in U.S. -Latin American Relations
Robert Stobeugh and Daniel Yergin, eds., Eneqy Future: Report of the Energy Project ot the Harvard Business School     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Spatial Dynamics of U. S. Urban-Industrial Growth, 1800-1914, by Allan R.
City and Regional Planning in Poland, edited by Jack C. Fisher.
Open Space For Urban America, by Ann Louise Strong.
Development Planning: The Essentials of Economic Policy, by W. Arthur Lewis.
Yugoslavia–A Multinational State: Regional Difference and Administrative Response, by Jack C. Fisher.     

Obstacles to utopia

Stanley R. Ingman and Anthony E. Thomas, eds. Topias and Utopias in Health: Policy Studies. The Hague and Paris: Mouton Publishers, 1975. Distributed in North America by Aldine Publishing Company, ix + 548 pp. Tables, biographical notes, and indices. $24.50.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Interregional Migration: Dynamic Theory and Comparative Analysis , edited by Wolfgang Weidlich and Gunter Haag. Behavioural Modelling in Geography and Planning , edited by Reginald G. Golledge and Harry Timmermans. Free Enterprise City: Houston in Political and Economic Perspective , by Joe R Feagin. The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State: State and Local Economic Development Policy in the United States , by Peter K. Eisinger. Societal Responses to Regional Climatic Change: Forecasting by Analogy , edited by Michael H. Glantz. Studies in the Economics of Central America , by Victor Bulmer-Thomas. Central America: The Future of Economic Integration , edited by George Irvin and Stuart Holland. Urbanization in Asia: Spatial Dimensions and Policy Issues , edited by Frank J. Costa, Ashok K. Dutt, Laurence J. C. Ma, and Allen Noble. Unemployment, Vacancies and Local Labor Markets , by Harry J. Holzer. Assisting Displaced Workers: Do the States Have a Better Idea? , by Duane E. Leigh. Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice , by Edward J. Blakely.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Victor L. Arnold ed. , Alternatives to Confronation – a National Policy Toward Regional Change
Lewis Benton, ed. , Private Management and Public Policy: Reciprocal Effects
Constance Ewing Cook , Nuclear Power and Legal Advocacy
Samuel S. Epstein , The Politics of Cancer
Charles R. Foster, ed. , Comparative Public Policy and Citizen Participation: Energy, Education, Health and Urban Issues in the U.S. and Germany
William J. Crimshaw , Union Rule in the Schools: Sig- City Policies in Transformation
Daniel A. Mazmanian and Jeanne Nienaber , Can Organizations Change: Environmental Protection, Citizen Participation, and the Corps of Engineers
Donald Mickelwait, Charles F. Sweet, and Elliott R. Morss. New Directions in Development
Warren B. Miller and R. Kenneth Godwin , Psyche and Demos: Individual Psychology and the Issues of Population
Stuart S. Nagel and Marian G. Neef , Decision Theory and the Legal Process
Barry S. Rundquist, ed. , Political Benefits: Empirical Studies of American Public Programs
David Pearce Snyder, ed. , The Family in Post-Industrial America
Sidney Sonenblum , The Energy Connections: Between Energy and the Economy
Alan L. Sorkin , The Economics of the Postal System
Keith M. Wulff, ed. , Regulation of Scientific Inquiry: Societal Concern with Research     

LITERATURE REVIEW

RECENT RELEVANT LITERATURE
Arnold J. Meltsner, Policy Analysis in the Bureaucracy
Louis Fisher, Presidential Spending Power
Morton H. Halperin, Jerry J. Herman, Robert L. Borosage and Christine M. Marwick, The Lawless State: The Crimes of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies
David Berlinski, On Systems Analysis; An Essay Concerning the Limitations of Some Mathematical Methods in Social. Political and Biological Sciences
Herbert E. Alexander, Financing Politics; Money, Elections and Political Reform
Robert J. Kalter and William A. Vogely, eds., Energy Supply and Government Policy
BOOK NOTES
Dale Mann, Policy Decision-Making in Education: An Introduction to Calculation and Control
Joseph A. Pechman, Federal Tax Policy (3rd ed., Washington, B.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1977)
Kenneth M. Friedman and Stuart H. Rakoff, eds., Toward a National Health Policy
Angus Campbell, Philip E. Converse, and Willard L. Rodgers, The Quality of American Life; Perceptions, Evaluations/and Satisfactions
Philip M. Hauser, Social Statistics in Use
Allen H. Barton, et al., Decentralizing City Government
A POLICY STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHY BY POLITICAL SCIENCE FIELDS     

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 Notes

John C. Campbell and Naoki Ikegami, The Art of Balance in Health Policy Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost, Egalitarian System .
Terry N. Clark and Vincent Hoffman-Martinot (Eds.), The New Political Culture .
Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gailc, The Work of Cities .
Stephen E. Condrey (Ed.), Handhook of Human Resource Management in Government .
Timothy Conlan, From New Federalism to Devolution: Twency-Five years of Intergovernmental Reform .
William M. Epstcin, Welfare in America: How Social Science Fails the Poor .
Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward L. Rubin, Judicial Policy Making und the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons .
Stephen J. McGovern, Politics of Downtown Development: Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, DC .
William K. Nester, A Short History cf American Industrial Policies .
Richard J. Payne, Getting Beyond Race: The Changing American Culture .
Jon Pierre (Ed.), Partnerships in Urban Governance: European und American Experience .
Mark G. Popovich (Ed.), Creating High-Performance Government Organizations .
Kalman Rupp and David C. Stapleton (Eds.), Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications .
Janie S. Steckenrider and Tonya M. Parrot (Eds.), New Directions in Old-Age Policies .     

LITERATURE REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this articles: BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY LIBRARY AND INFORMATION POLICY: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS Kenneth J. Coffey, Strategic Implications of the All-Volunteer Force. The Conventional Defense of Central Europe W. Scott Thompson, ed., National Security in the 1980s: From Weakness to Strength Lennart J. Lundqvist, The Hare and the Tortoise: Clean Air Policies in the United States and Sweden Charles T. Stewart, Jr. Air Pollution, Human Health, and Public Policy Richard J. Tobin, The Social Gamble: Determining Acceptable Levels of Air Quality Lennart J. Lundqvist, The Hare and the Tortoise: Clean Air Policies in the United States and Sweden Charles T. Stewart, Jr. Air Pollution, Human Health, and Public Policy Richard J. Tobin, The Social Gamble: Determining Acceptable Levels of Air Quality Lynton R. Hayes, Energy, Economic Growth, and Regulationism in the West Helen M. Ingram Nancy K. Laney and John R. McCain, A Policy Approach to Political Representation: Lessons from the Four Corners States Stuart L. Hart and Gordon A. Enk, Green Goals and Greenbacks: State Level Environmental Review Programs and Their Associated Costs Alfred A. Marcus, Promise and Performance; Choosing and Implementing an Environmental Policy Krause, Lawrence B. and Sekiguchi, Sueo, eds., Economic Interaction in the Pacific Basin Tasca, Diane, ed., U.S.-Japanese-Economic Relations: Cooperation, Competition, and Confrontation Vasey, Lloyd R. ed., Pacific Asia and U.S. Policies: A Political-Economic Strategic Assessment BOOK REVIEWS Franklin A. Long and Judith Reppy, ed., The Genesis of New Weapons—Decision Making for Military R&D Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Warfare In a Fragile World: Military Impact on the Human Environment George F, Break, Financing Government in a Federal System Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services Jeffrey A. Raffel, The Politics of School Desegregation: The Metropolitan Remedy in Delaware BOOKNOTES Cotton M. Lindsay, ed., NEW DIRECTIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH CAHE: A PRESCRIPTION FOR THE 1980'S Gautreaux Housing Demonstration: An Evaluation of Its Impact on Participating Households The Conversion of Rental Housing to Condominiums and Cooperatives     

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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Conflict Resolution and the Structure of the State System: An Analysis of Arbitral Settlements , by Gregory A. Raymond.
The Economic Value of the Quality of Life , by Thomas M. Power.
Unpriced Values: Decisions Without Market Prices, by John A. Sinden and Albert C. Worrell.
Methodes ďAnalyse Geographique Quantitative , by Hubert Béguin.
Economic-Environmental-Energy Interactions: Modeling and Policy Analysis , by T. R. Lakshmanan and P. Nijkamp (eds.).
Urban Growth and City-System in the United States, 1840-1860 , by Allan Pred.
Territory Without Places: The Planned Banalization of Regions , by Jean-Michel Roux.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Spatial Approach for District Planning: A Case Study of Karnal District , by R. N. Sharma.
The Border Economy: Regional Development in the Southwest , by Niles Hansen.
Geographical Economics , by Patrick O'Sullivan.
Regional Policy: Past Experiences and New Directions , by D. MacLennan and J. B. Parr (eds.).
Who Pays State and Local Taxes , by Donald Phares.
Education and Society: The Geographer's View , Volume 1, Stockholm Studies in Human Geography, by Torvald Gerger and Göran Hoppe.
Integration and Unequal Development; the Experience of the E.C. , by D. Seers and C. Vaistos (eds.) with the assistance of M. L. Kiljunen.
National Urbanization Policy in Developing Countries , by Bertrand Renaud.
International Migration and Economic Development: A Theoretical and Empirical Study , by Domenick Salvatore.
Federalism and Regional Development. Case Studies on the Experience in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, by George W. Hoffman (ed.).     

B. REVIEW ESSAYS

Sam Peltzman, Regulation of Automobile Safety
George J. Stigler, The Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation
William M. Wardell and Louis Lasagna, Regulation and Drug Development
William D. Coplin, Michael K. O'Leary, et al., Learninq Packaqes in the Policy Sciences
Daniel P. Harrison, Social Forecasting Methodology: Suggestion for Research
George K. Chacko, Technological Forecasting: Prospects, Problems and Policy