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     

Review Essay on Zero-Base Budgeting

House Committee on the Budget, Zero-Base Budget Legislation , 94th Congress, 2nd Session
Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Sunset Act of 1977 , 95th Congress, 1st Session
Senate Committee on Government Operations, Government Economy and Spending Reform Act of 1976 , 94th Congress, 2nd Session
Senate Committee on Government Operations, Compendium of Materials on Zero-Base Budgeting in the States , 94th Congress, 2nd Session     

Current trends in Nordic historical research

In this article the defining outlines of Icelandic defense policy are examined, initially by drawing parallels between requests in 1663 and 2003 for Icelandic participation in military measures, having as their source a supposed threat from the Middle East. In this synthetic approach, five pillars of Icelandic defense policy are suggested, among them protection from a greater power, i.e. the ‘borrowed sword’. The article concludes with a fictious response from the 17th century Icelandic Church Synod to a request by President Bush for Icelandic support of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.     

The agricultural potentialities of the Transvaal

During the past decade retail warehouses have become an important new element in the retail structure of many towns and cities. This paper outlines the character and geographical pattern of retail warehouse operations in Scotland and discusses some of the planning issues raised by these developments.