Book reviews

Australian Books

Raymond O'Dea, Principles of Wage Determination in Commonwealth Arbitration, West Publishing Corporation, Sydney, 1969, pp. 300, $9.50.

A. H. Boxer, Experts in Asia: An Inquiry into Australian Technical Assistance, A.N.U. Press, Canberra, 1969, pp. 180, $6.00.

Malcolm Mackerras, DL.P. Preference Distribution 1958–1969, Occasional Monograph No. 3, Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, 1970, pp. 69 + ii, 75c. Cheques payable to Sydney Monographs.

D. W. Rawson and Suzanne Wrightson, A Handbook of Australian Trade Unions and Employees’ Associations, Occasional Paper No. 5, Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 1970, pp. 114, $1.50.

P. H. Partridge, W. F. Connell, S. W. Cohen, Social Science for the Secondary School, Ian Novak, Sydney, 1969, pp. 132, $2.70.

Non‐Australian Books

A. Robinson, et al., Black Studies in the University: a Symposium, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1969, pp. 231, $6.95.

G. Christenson (ed.), The Future of the University, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1969, pp. 292, $2.70.

J. Jeffery Auer (ed.), The Rhetoric of Our Times, Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, New York, 1969, pp. 493 + xv, $5.20.

P. J. Eldridge, The Politics of Foreign Aid in India, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969, pp. 289, $8.90.     

REEVALUATING THE ‘PROCOMPETITIVE’ EFFECTS OF HMOs: A SPATIAL EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH*

ABSTRACT. .The growth of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) commonly has been viewed as a “procompetitive” change in the structure of the health care delivery system. Because HMOs collect a prepaid fee from subscribers, they serve a dual role as insurers and providers of health care. While HMOs may have competed directly with conventional insurance plans, their effect in health care markets is potentially quite different. A multisector spatial equilibrium model, which incorporates the optimizing behavior of consumers, independent fee-for-service(FFS)providers, and a centralized HMO, is used to explore the effects of an exogenous shift in market structure away from FFS delivery toward the provision of seivices by the HMO. As more physicians are diverted from FFS practice to enter the HMO, both the HMO membership fee and prices in the FFS sector tend to rise. This pattern is consistent with empirical trends in the United States during the 1980s where, despite the rapid growth in HMOs and other forms of prepaid care, both FFS prices and HMO membership fees have risen sharply.     

Book reviews

Australian Politics

Eric Aarons, What's Left? Memoirs of an Australian Communist (Ringwood, Melbourne: Penguin, 1993)pp.260. $14.95 ISBN 014 015704 2.

Andrew Hede, Scott Prasser and Mark Neylan (eds), Keeping Them Honest: Democratic Reform in Queensland (St Luda: University of Queensland Press, 1992) pp.312. $17.95 ISBN 0 7022 24871.

Richard Lucy, The Australian Form of Government: Models in Dispute (Melbourne: Macmillan, second edn. 1993) pp.386. $34.95 ISBN 0 73291294 6.

Phillip Mendes, The New Left, The Jews and the Vietnam War, 1965–1972 (North Caulfleld: Lazare Press, 1993) pp.236. $n.p. ISBN 0 64613389 6.

Audrey Oldfleld, Woman Suffrage in Australia: Gift or Struggle? (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1992) pp.263. $29.95 ISBN 0 521436117.

Derek Parker, The Courtesans: The Press Gallery in the Hawke Era (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991)pp.203. $16.95 ISBN 0 04 442343 8.

Comparative and International Politics

Elise Boulding (ed.), New Agendas for Peace Research: Conflict andSecurity Reexamined (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 1992) pp.199. $US35.00 ISBN 15587 290 5.

T.M. Boyce, Infrastructure and Security: Problems of Development in the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 93 (Canberra: Canberra Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, RSPacS, Australian National University, 1992) pp.231. $23.00 ISBN 0 7315 1417 3.

John F.N. Bradley, Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution: A Political Analysis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992) pp.139. $US29.59 ISBN 0 88033 242 5.

Nigel Swain, Hungary: The Rise and Fall of Feasible Socialism (London: Verso, 1992) pp.264. $45.00 ISBN 0 86091569 7.

David Butler and Austin Ranney (eds), Electioneering: A Comparative Study of Continuity and Change (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992) pp.294. $80.00 ISBN 0 19 827375 4.

Joseph A. Camilleri and Jim Falk, The End of Sovereignty: The Politics of a Shrinking and Fragmenting World (Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1992) pp.297. $n.p. ISBN 185228 032 0.

Helena Catt, Paul Harris and Nigel S. Roberts, Voter's Choice: Electoral Chance in New Zealand (Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press, 1992) pp.143. $n.p. ISBN 086469 147

John Davis, Exchange (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1992) pp.100. $27.95 ISBN 033515583 9.

Gilbert R. Winham, The Evolution of International Trade Agreements (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992) pp.155. $Canl5.95 ISBN 0 8020 7691 2.

Patrick Dunleavy, Helen Margett and Stuart Weir, Replaying the 1992 General Election: How Britain Would Have Voted Under Alternative Electoral Systems. LSE Public Policy Paper No. 3 (London: Public Policy Group, London School of Economics, 1992) pp.20. £5.00 ISBN 085 328147 5.

Werner Feld, The Future of European Security and Defence Policy (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1993) pp.177. $n.p. ISBN 155587 353 7.

Gary P. Freeman and James Jupp(eds), Nations of Immigrants: Australia, the United States and International Migration (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992) pp.250. $24.95 ISBN 019 553483 2.

Peter Godwin and IanHancock, Rhodesians Never Die (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) pp.400. $130.00 ISBN 019 820365 9.

Colin S. Gray, House of Cards: Why Arms Control Must Fail (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992) pp.242. $n.p. ISBN 0 8014 2703 7.

Richard Higgott and J.L. Richardson (eds), International Relations: Global and Australian Perspectives on an Evolving Discipline (Canberra: Australian National University, 1991) pp.479. $n.p. ISBN 0 7315 1284 7.

Steve Hoadley, The South Pacific Foreign Affairs Handbook (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, in association with the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 1992) pp.258. $19.95 ISBN 186373 176 8.

Andrew Hurrell and Benedict Kingsbury (eds), The International Politics of the Environment (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992) pp.492. $34.95 ISBN 019 827778 4.

Robin Jeffrey, Politics, Women and Well‐being?: How Kerela became ‘a model’ (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1992) pp.285. $89.95 ISBN 0 333 54808 6.

Paul Keal(ed.), Ethics and Foreign Policy (Sydney: Allen & Unwin/ANU, 1992) pp.259. $24.95 ISBN 186373 396 5.

Sebastian Mallaby, After Apartheid (London: Faber and Faber, 1992) pp.210. $40.00 ISBN 0 57116560 5.

Philip Mattar, The Mufti of Jerusalem (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988) pp.191. $US17.00 ISBN 023106463 2.

Baruch Kimmerllng and Joel S. Migdal, Palestinians: The Making of a People (New York: The Free Press, 1993) pp396. $n.p. ISBN 0 02 9173213.

Ian McNeill, To Long Tan: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War 1950–1966 (Canberra: Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial, 1993) pp.614. $49.95 ISBN 186373 282 9.

Alison Dundes Renteln, International Human Rights: Universalism versus Relativism (London: Sage Publications, 1990) pp.205. £13.95 ISBN 0 8039 3506 4.

Eric Rolls, Sojourners: The Epic Story of China's Centuries‐old Relationship with Australia (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1992) pp.531. $49.95 ISBN 0 7022 24782.

Chlh‐yu Shin, China's Just World: The Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy (Boulder and London: Lynnc Rienner, 1993) pp.223. $US37.00 ISBN 155587 350 2.

Rachel Walker, Six Years that Shook the World: Perestroika—The Impossible Project (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1993) pp312. $35.00 ISBN 0 719032873.

Political Theory and Methodology

Richard Bellamy, Liberalism and Modern Society: An Historical Argument (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992) pp310. $39.95 ISBN 0 7456 0533 8.

Chilla Bulbeck, Social Sciences in Australia: An Introduction (Marrickville: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993) pp.494. $34.95 ISBN 0 72951260 6.

Robert E. Goodin, Motivating Political Morality (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1992) pp.201. $34.95 ISBN 1 55786 247 8.

Preston King (ed.), Thomas Hobbes. Critical Assessments, 4vols (London and New York: Routledge, 1993) $n.p. ISBN 0 415 02004 2.

Chandran Kukathas and Philip Pettit, Rawls: A Theory of Justice, and Its Critics (London: Polity, 1990) pp.169. $32.95 ISBN 0 7456 0282 7.

Michael J. Lacey and Knud Haakonssen (eds), A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics, and Law—1791 and 1991 (Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Cambridge University Press, 1991) pp.474. $99.00 ISBN 0 52141637 X.

Gene Outka and John P. Reeder Jr. (eds), Prospects for a Common Morality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993) pp.254. $34.95 ISBN 0 69102093 0.

Elisabeth Porter, Women and Moral Identity (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991) pp.223. $22.95 ISBN 004 442332 2.

Alan Ryan (ed.), Justice: Oxford Readings in Politics and Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) pp.200. $28.95 ISBN 019 878038 9.

Peter Vallentyne (ed.), Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) pp.339. $39.95 ISBN 0 52139815 0.

Teaching in Higher Education

Paul Ramsden, Learning to Teach in Higher Education (London: Routledge, 1992) pp.290. £12.99 ISBN 0 415 06415 5.

Video Review

Frank RJjavec (director), Exile and The Kingdom (Lindfield, Sydney: Film Australia, 1993). Co‐produced by Rljavec and Aboriginal people from Injibandi/Ngaluma Tribes, Western Australia (screened recently by the ABC). $164.95.