Book reviews

Australian politics

David Corbett, Australian Public Sector Management (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1992) pp.280. $24.95 ISBN 1 86373 312 4.

Chris James, Chris Jones and Andrew Norton (eds.), A Defence of Economic Rationalism (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993) pp.194. $19.95 ISBN 186 3735348.

James Jupp and Marie Kabala (eds), The Politics of Australian Immigration (Carlton, Vic: Bureau of Immigration Research, 1993) pp.302. $n.p. ISBN 9 780644 272933.

H.P. Lee and George Winterton (eds), Australian Constitutional Perspectives (Sydney: The Law Book Company, 1992) pp.347. $55.00 ISBN 0 455 21085 3.

Ian McAllister, Political Behaviour: Citizens, Parties and Elites in Australia (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1993) pp.308. $24.99 ISBN 0 582 86987 0.

Stephen Mills, The Hawke Years: The Story from Inside (Penguin, 1993) pp.330. $19.95 ISBN 0 670 84563 9.

P. Molr and H. Eijkman (eds), Policing Australia: Old Issues; New Perspectives (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1992) pp.391. $34.95 ISBN 0 7329 0390 4.

Jocelyn Pixley, Citizenship and Employment: Investigating Post‐Industrial Options (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp.339. $29.95 ISBN 0 521 44615 5.

S. Nicholas Samuel and Desh B. Gupta, Issues in Applied Economics: An Australian Text (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1993) pp.247. $26.95 ISBN 0 7329 2019 1.

M. Sawer and M. Simms (eds), A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, 2nd edition (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993) pp.345. $22.95 ISBN 1 86373 169 5.

Comparative and international politics

Tsuneo Akaha and Frank Langdon (eds), Japan in the Posthegemonic World (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1993) pp.295. $US17.95 ISBN 1 55587 385 5.

Michael R. Beschloss and Strobe Talbott, At the Highest Level: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War (London: Little, Brown, 1993) pp.498. $40.00 ISBN 0 316 90523 2.

John Coates, Suppressing Insurgency: An Analysis of the Malayan Emergency, 1948–54 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992) pp.223. $US45.00 ISBN 0 8133 1436 4

Rafe de Crespigny, China This Century (Hong Kong, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) pp.353. $19.95 ISBN 0 19 585164 1.

Geoffrey K. Fry, Reforming the Civil Service: The Fulton Committee on the British Home Civil Service, 1977–1968 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993) pp.296. £45.00 ISBN 0 7486 0412 X.

Leslie Holmes, The End of Communist Power. Anti‐corruption campaigns and legitimation crisis (Cambridge: Polity, 1993) pp.358. $13.95 ISBN 0 7456 0580 X.

Joel Krieger (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (London: Oxford University Press, 1993) pp.1056. $59.95 ISBN 0 19 505934 4.

Brij V. Lal, Broken Waves: A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992) pp.404. $US38.00 ISBN 0 8248 1418 5.

Malcolm McKinnon, Independence and Foreign Policy: New Zealand in the World Since 1935 (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993) pp.329. $29.95 ISBN 1 86940 070 4.

Marina Ottaway, South Africa: The Struggle for a New Order (Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1993).pp.250. $US34.95 ISBN 0 1857 6716 1.

Bob Tucker and Bruce Scott (eds), South Africa: Prospects for a Successful Transition (Kenwyn, South Africa: Juta & Co, 1992). pp.314. $n.p. ISBN 0 7021 2920 8.

Richard B. Spence and Linda L. Nelson (eds), Scholar, Patriot, Mentor: Historical Essays in Honor of Dimitrije Djordjevic (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1992) pp.422. $US51.00 ISBN 0 8803 217 4.

Carol M. Swain, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1993) pp.275. $US37.50 ISBN 0 674 07615 X.

Katherine Tate, From Protest to Politics: The New Black Voters in American Elections (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1993) pp.221. $32.50 ISBN 0 674 32538 9.

Howard Williams, Moorhead Wright and Tony Evans, A Reader in International Relations and Political Theory (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993) pp. 334. $39.95 ISBN 0 335 15667 3.

Political theory and methodology

F.G. Bailey, The Kingdom of Individuals: An Essay on Self‐Respect and Social Obligation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993) pp.231. $US15–35 ISBN 0 8014 8078 7.

Alan Carling, Social Division (London: Verso, 1991) pp.442. $45.00 ISBN 0 86091 506 9.

James W. Ceaser, Liberal Democracy and Political Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) pp.242 $29.00 ISBN 0 8018 4511 4.

Eva Etzioni‐Halevy, The Elite Connection: Problems and Potential of Western Democracy (Cambridge: Polity, 1993) pp.239. $39.95 ISBN 0 7456 1068 4.

Shaun Hargeaves Heap, Martin Hollis, Bruce Lyons, Robert Sugden and Albert Weale, The Theory of Choice (Blackwell: Oxford, 1992) pp. 398. $49.00 ISBN 0 63118322 1.

Bonnie Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993) pp.269. $US17.95 ISBN 0 8014 8072 8.

Paul Patton (ed.), Nietzsche, Feminism and Political Theory (London: Allen & Unwin, 1993) pp.258. $24.95 ISBN 186373 445 7.     

The inherent malleability of heritage: creating China’s beautiful villages

The Beautiful Villages policy is a major policy initiative to secure the socio-economic and environmental development of China. Tracking the development of this policy at a local level reveals the intricacies of policy-making, the extent of local autonomy, and the ways in which rural development is delivered. Contained within this is an examination of the evolving role of heritage within a policy framework that primarily focuses on the natural environment. This article traces the ways in which heritage became a component of this policy in one village in Zhejiang Province. It examines how the value of heritage was gradually realised by government officials and villagers, and how the concept of ecology was broadened to include built heritage, which ensures that funds can be accessed to stimulate rural development. In so doing the article investigates the concept of adaptive governance advanced by Sebastian Heilmann and Elizabeth Perry in the context of the inherent malleability of heritage as both a concept and a process. Focusing on the ways in which institutions recognise and then mobilise heritage to secure instrumental goals enables us to examine the inherent malleability of heritage and how this is aligned to meet specific policy goals in China, as it is around the world.     

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.     

ICBMs and the Environment: Assessments at a Base in Kazakhstan

A paper by two U.S. scientists explores the environmental/health hazard posed by abandoned missile launch sites and control facilities (dismantled by 1998 as part of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program) at an ICBM base in north-central Kazakhstan. It summarizes the findings of Environmental Site Assessment Reports based on a program of water and soil sampling at the sites, with a particular focus on testing for the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, various toxic metals, and radiation. The study is important in that it documents levels of contamination (and describes abatement measures) at a former Soviet missile base. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: H50, 110, Q20, 7 figures, 10 references.     

The sources of communitarianism on the American left: Pluralism, republicanism, and participatory democracy

This article considers the nature of communitarian thought in late twentieth century Anglo-American political philosophy. It argues that communitarianism arose out of a critique of modernist theories of justice such as that of John Rawls shared by a group of writers committed to idealist principles that emphasised narrative approaches to the study of political thought, the importance of historical context, and popular participation in political life. It then focuses on one particular American strand of communitarian thought, exemplified by the work of Michael Walzer and Michael Sandel, which draws on a tradition of radical democracy and, in so doing, helps both to create and to transform a new American republicanism. An important connection between Walzer and Sandel is that they share the view that egalitarian politics must draw on shared traditions of social criticism rather than on the abstract individualism that they associate with Rawls. A key difference is that Walzer's vision of American life is pluralist and enthusiastic about difference, whereas Sandel's is republican and concerned above all with fostering civic virtue and identification with the state and political community.