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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 .     

BOOK NOTES

Books reviewed in this articles: Alt, James E. and K. Alec Chrystal, Political Economics American Enterprise Institute, Natural Gas Proposals: 1983. 98th Congress, 1st Session American Enterprise Institute, Reauthrization of the Clean Water Act: 1983, 98th Congress, 1st Session Bajpai, U.S. (ed.), Non-Alignment: Pespectives and Prospects Ball, Howard (ed.), Federal Administrative Agencies: Essays on Power and Politics barker, Michael (ed.), State Employment Policy in Hard Times Baugh, William H., The Politics of Nuclear balance: Ambiguity and Continuity in Strategic Policies Baum, Kenneth H. and Lyle P. Schertz (eds.), Modeling Farm Decisions for Policy Analysis Brewster, Lawrence G., The Public Agenda: Issues in American Politics Bullock, Charles S. III and Charles M. lamb (Eds.), Implementation of Civil Rights Policy Campbell, Duncan C. and Richard L. Rowan, Multinational Enterprises and the OECD Industrial Relations Guidelines Clark, Terry Nichols and Lorna Crowley Fergusion, City Money: Political Processes, Fiscal Strain, and Retrenchment Dahl, Robert A., Modern Political Analysis Deloria, Vine Jr. and Clifford M. Lytle, American Indians, American Justice Eddy, William B. (ed.), Handbook of Organization Management Finsinger, Jorg (ed.), Public Sector Economics Franklin, Kay and Norman Schaeffer, Duel for the Dunes: Land Use Conflict on the Shores of Lake Michigan Gilberty, Neil, Capitalism and the Welfare State: Dilemmas of Social Benevolence Grannemann, Thomas W. and Mark V. Pauly, Controlling Medicaid Costs: Federalism, Competition, and Choice Hall, Richard H. and Robert E. Quinn (eds.), Organizational Theory and Public Policy Held, David, et al (eds.), States and Societies Herson, Lawrence J. R., The Politics of Ideas: Political Theory and American Public Policy Hicks, Donald A. and Norman J. Glickman (eds.), Transition to the 21st Century: Prospect and Policies for Economic and Urban-Regional Tansformation Kerr, Thomas J., Civil Defense in the United States: Bandaid for a Holocaust? Klein, Mitchell S. G., Law, Courts, and Policy Lynch, Thomas D. (ed.), Organization Theory and management Martin, Shan, Managing Without Managers: Alternative Work Arrangements in Public Organizations McNeil, john S., Pedro J. Lecca, and Roosevelt Wright, Jr., Military Retirement: Social, Economic, and Mental Health Dilemmas Miles, Robert H. and Arvind Bhambri, The Regulatory Executives Nelson, Michael (ed.), The Presidency and the Political System Northrup, Herbert R. and Richard L. Rowan, The International Transport Workers’ Federation and Flag of Convenience Shipping Paddison, Ronan, The Fragmented State: The Political Geography of Power pogrow, Stanley, Education in the Computer Age: Issues of Policy, Practice, and Reform Rostow, W. W., The Barbaric Counter-Revolution: Cause and Cure Samuels, Richard J., The Politics of Regional Policy in Japan: Localities Incorporated? Sternlieb, George and James W. Hughes, The Atlantic City Gamble Tatalovich, Raymond and Byron W. Daynes, Presidential Power in the United States Taylor, Charles Lewis (ed.), Why Governments Grow: Measuring Public Sector Size Thompson, William R. (ed.), Contending Approaches to World System Analysis Trebilcock, Michael, J., J. Robert S. Prichard, Thomas J. Courchene, and John Whalley (eds.), Federalism and the Canadian Economicc Union Van Maanen, John (ed.), Qualitative Methodology Wallance, Helen, William Wallace, and Carole Webb (eds.), Policy-Making in the European Community Whitaker, Gordon P. and Charles David Phillips (eds.), Evaluating Performance of Criminal Justice Agencies Wilson, John T., Academic Science, Higher Education, and the Federal Government, 1950–1983     

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Books reviewed:
Kenneth Button and Eric Pentecost, Regional Economic Performance within the European Union
Timothy P. Duane, Contesting Citizenship in China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market
Timothy P. Duane, Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West
Daniel A. Griffith, Carl G. Amrhein, and Jean-Marie Huirot (eds.), Economic Advances in Spatial Modelling and Methodology: Essays in Honour of Jean Paelinck
José Manual L. Santos, The Economic Valuation of Landscape Change: Theory and Policies for Land Use and Conservation
Javier Sanziola, Arts, Government and Community Revitalization
Leo Van Grunsven (ed.), Regional Change in Industrializing Asia: Regional and Local Responses to Changing Competitiveness
Allen G. Noble, Frank J. Costa, Ashok K. Dutt, and Robert B. Kent (eds.), Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century: New Priorities, New Philosophies     

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Eugene Bardach, Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship
David E. Camacho (Ed.), Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class and the Environment.
Donald T. Critchlow, Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America
Harvey Feigenbaum, Jeffrey Henig, and Chris Hamnett, Shrinking the Slate: The Political Underpinnings of Privatization .
Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens (Eds.), Urban Problems and Community Development
David M. Hart, Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States
Frederick M. Hess, Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform
Jerry Mitchell, The American Experiment with Government Corporations
Richard K. Olson and Thomas A. Lyson (Eds.), Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes
David Rusk, Inside Game, Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America.
Peter H. Schuck, Citizens, Strangers, and In-Betweens: Essays on Immigration and Citizenship
Elaine B. Sharp (Ed.), Culture Wars & Local Politics.
Norman J. Vig and Regina S. Axelrod (Eds.), The Global Environment-Institutions, Law, and Policy
Ronald K. Vogel (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States
Janet Coble Vinzant and Lane Crothers, Street-Level Leadership: Discretion & Legitimacy in Front-Line Public Service
K. Vogel (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 464 pp. $99.50 (cloth).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Doreen Massey , Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production .
Ron Martin and Bob Rowthorn (Eds.), The Geography of De-industrialization .
Stephen Pinch , Cities and Services: The Geography of Collective Consumption .
Peter Dickens, Simon Duncan, Martin Goodwin and Fred Gray , Housing, States and Localities .
David A. M. Lea and D. P. Chaudhri (Eds.), Rural Development and the State .
Morris, R. J. and J. Langton (Eds.) Atlas of Industrializing Britain 1780—1914 .
Pierre Clavel , The Progressive City: Planning and Participation 1969—1984 .
P. Lawless and F. Brown (1986) Urban Growth and Change in Britain,
K. Hoggart and E. Kofman (Eds.) Politics, Geography and Social Stratification .
Paul Lawless and Colin Raban (Eds.), The Contemporary British City .
Espaces Temps Réfléchir les sciences sociales. Voyage au centre de la ville. Eloge de l'urbanité .
Dunford, M. F. Capital, the state and regional development .
P. Hall, M. Breheny, R. McQuaid and D. Hart Western Sunrise: The Genesis and Growth of Britain's Major High Tech Corridor .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PUBLIC POLICY Raymond A. Bauer & Kenneth J. Gergen (eds.), The Study of Policy Formation Charles E. Lindblom, The Policy-Making Process C. West Churchman, The Systems Approach Yehezkel Dror, Public Policymaking Lester B. Pearson, The Crisis of Development Jagdish Bhagwait & Richard S. Eckaus (eds.), Foreign Aid Max Marwick (ed.), Witchcraft and Sorcery Peter Worsley et al, Introducing Sociology Peter Worsley (ed.), Modem Sociology: Introductory Readings Thomas Vietorisz & Bennett Harrison, The Economic Development of Harlem     

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Books reviewed;
Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes (eds.), A Companion to Economic Geography
David Harvey, Spaces of Hope
Manfred M. Fischer and Peter Nijkamp (eds.), Spatial Dynamics of European Integration: Regional and Policy Issues at the Turn of the Century
Ronald E. Miller, Optimization: Foundations and Applications
Martin J. Beckmann, Lectures on Location Theory
Bent Flyvbjerg, Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice
Harvey Lithwick and Yehunda Gradus (eds.), Developing Frontier Cities: Global Perspectives—Regional Contexts
Janice F. Madden, Changes in Income Inequality within U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Amy Glasmeier, Manufacturing Time: Global Competition in the Watch Industry, 1795–2000
Hans Westlund, Alexander Granberg, and Folke Snickars (eds.), Regional Development in Russia: Past Policies and Future Prospects
William J. Mitchell, e-topia: "Urban Life, Jim—But Not As We Know It"
Michael Harrison, Bournville: Model Village to Garden Suburb
Graham Crampton (ed.), Regional Unemployment, Job Matching, and Migration
Kenneth Button and Roger Stough, Air Transport Networks: Theory and Policy Implications
William Garrison and Jerry D. Ward, Tomorrow's Transportation: Changing Cities, Economies, and Lives
Anna Nagurney, Sustainable Transportation Networks
Thomas Hyclak, Rising Wage Inequality: The 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets     

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Book reviewed in this article:
S. Lash and J. Urry , The End of Organized Capitalism .
Nigel Thrift and Peter Williams , Class and Space .
J. Lewis and A. Townsend (Eds), The North-South Divide: Regional Change in Britain in the 1980s .
Ray Hudson , Wrecking a Region: State Policies, Party Politics and Regional Change in North East England .
P. Jackson (Ed), Race and Racism—Essays in Social Geography .     

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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 .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Hudson, Ray & Lewis, Jim (Eds.), Uneven Development in Southern Europe: Studies of Accumulation, Class, Migration and the State. A. Williams (Ed.), Southern Europe Transformed. Political and economic change in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Neil Smith , Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space. R.J. Johnston and P.J. Taylor , (Eds.) A World in Crisis? James Anderson (ed.) The Rise of the Modern State.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Chester Hartman (Ed.) America's Housing Crisis: What is to be Done
D. Massey and R. Meegan (Eds.), Politics and Method: Contrasting Studies in Industrial Geography .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
D. Harvey , Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization : Vol. 1, Consciousness and the Urban Experience; Vol. 2, The Urbanization of Capital .
R. D. Sack , Human Territoriality. Its Theory and History .
D. Pepper and A. Jenkins (Eds.), The Geography of Peace and War .
R. Hudson and J. Lewis (Eds.), Uneven Development in Southern Europe. Studies of Accumulation, Class, Migration and the State .
M. Birkel, B. Lavalle, Y. Aquila, B. Chenot, W. Casanova, A. M de la Mota, Ch. Girault and H. Godard , Villes et Nations en Amérique Latine (Cities and Nations in Latin America).     

Liberal Policy Debates and Their Consequences for African Americans

Marilyn E. Lashley and Melanie Njeri Jackson (Eds.), African Americans and the New Policy Consensus: Retreat of the Liberal State.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Little, J., Peake, L. and Richardson, P. (Eds.) Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban Environment. Agnew, J., and Duncan, J. (Eds.), The Power of Place: bringing together geographical and sociological imaginations. Wood, S. (Ed.) The transformation of work? Skill, flexibility and the labour process. Hall, P. and Preston, P. The Carrier Wave: New Information Technology and the Geography of Innovation 1846–2003.     

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Paul C. Cheshire and Edwin S. Mills (eds.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vol. 3: Applied Urban Economics
Donald G. Janelle and David C. Hodge (eds.), Information, Place, and Cyberspace: Issues in Accessibility
Carey McWilliams, California: The Great Exception
Office of the Philadelphia City Controller, Philadelphia: A New Urban Direction
Jan van der Linden, Interdependence and Specialisation in the European Union: Intercountry Input-Output Analysis and Economic Integration
Wolfgang Weidlich and Günter Haag (eds.), An Integrated Model of Transport and Urban Evolution, With an Application to a Metropole of an Emerging Nation
Rongxing Guo, How the Chinese Economy Works: A Multiregional Overview
Han Meyer, City and Port: Transformation of Port Cities: London, Barcelona, New York, Rotterdam
Frans Boekema, Kevin Morgan, Silvia Bakkers, and Roel Rutten (eds.), Knowledge, Innovation and Economic Growth: The Theory and Practice of Learning Regions
David Keeble and Frank Wilkinson (eds.), High-Technology Clusters, Networking, and Collective Learning in Europe
Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller, The Age of Migration, International Population Movements in the Modern World
Kavita Pandit and Suzanne Davies Withers, (eds.), Migration and Restructuring in the United States: A Geographical Perspective
Mark Casson and Andrew Godley (eds.), Cultural Factors in Economic Growth
Jacob B. Polak and Arnold Heertje (eds.), Analytical Transport Economics: An International Perspective
Robert Lewis, Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850–1930
Edgar W. Butler, James B. Pick, and W. James Hettrick, Mexico and Mexico City in the World Economy
David Meyer, Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis
Edna Bonacich and Richard P. Applebaum, Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry     

Book Reviews

William C. Green and Ernest J. Yanarella (Eds.), North American Auto Unions in Crisis: Lean Production as Contested Terrain
Richard Phillips, Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure
Henrietta L. Moore, Space, Text, and Gender: An Anthropological Study of the Marakwet of Kenya     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives. Mark Pinson (ed.) The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia. H. T. Norris, Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society between Europe and the Arab World. Walker Connor, Ethnonationalism: The quest for understanding. Raymond W. Duncan and Paul G. Holman, Jr. (eds.), Ethnic Nationalism and Regional Conflict: The Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Peter Jackson and Jan Penrose (eds.), Constructions of Race Place and Nation. Dermot Keogh and Michael T. Haltzel (eds.), Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation. Oliver P. Rafferty, Catholicism in Ulster 1603–1983: An Interpretative History. Charles Taylor, Amy Gutmann et al. (eds.), Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Stephen Iwan Griffiths, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Threats to European Security.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Renate D. Klein and Deborah Lynn Steinberg, (Eds.) Radical Voices: A Decade of Feminist Resistance from Women's Studies International Forum
D. Gregory and R. Walford, (eds.), Horizons in Human Geography.
P. J. Taylor Britain and the Cold War: 1945 as Geopolitical Transition.     

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 .     

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Books reviewed in this article: Masahisa Fujita and Jacques‐François Thisse, Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Regional Growth Timothy J. Bartik, Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Policies Help? Miriam Solomon, Social Empiricism Nicole Pohl, Mobility in Space and Time: Challenges to the Theory of International Economics Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, and Charles van Marrewijk, An Introduction to Geographical Economics: Trade, Location and Growth Bruce A. Weber, Greg J. Duncan, and Leslie A. Whitener (eds.), Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform Wallace E. Oates (ed.), Property Taxation and Local Government Finance: Essays in Honor of C. Lowell Harris Maryann P. Feldman and Nadine Massard (eds.), Institutions and Systems in the Geography of Innovation Dengjian Jim, The Dynamics of Knowledge Regimes: Technology, Culture and Competitiveness in the USA and Japan Harvey J. Miller and Jiawei Han (eds.), Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Anna Nagurney and June Dong, Supernetworks: Decision‐Making for the Information Age Stuart McCook, States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760‐1940 Philip Scranton (ed.), The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940's to the 1970's Stephen Haycox, Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska Kathleen Ann Pickering, Lakota Culture, World Economy Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), OECD Territorial Reviews: Hungary Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), OECD Territorial Reviews: Italy Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), OECD Territorial Reviews: Bergamo, Italy Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), OECD Territorial Reviews: Teruel, Spain Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), OECD Territorial Reviews: The Valencian Central Districts, Spain Jaakko Suvantola, Tourist's Experience of Place