Book reviews

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Delivering Public Services in Western Europe: Sharing Western European Experience of Para‐Government Organisation. Edited by C. Hood and G.F. Schuppert, London: Sage, 1987. Pp.xii + 268. £25.00 (hardback). Local Authorities and New Technology: The European Dimension. Edited By Kenneth Dyson. London: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp.175. £25.00 (hardback). Managing Public Organisations: Lessons from Contemporary European Experience. Edited by Jan Kooiman and Kjell A. Eliassen. London: Sage Publications Limited, 1987. Pp.261. £25.00 (hardback). Business Interests, Organisational Developments and Private Interest Government: An International Comparative Study of the Food Processing Industry. Edited by Wyn Grant. (European University Institute, Series C [Political and Social Sciences] 8). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1987. Pp.viii + 232. DM93 (hardback). The Politicisation of Business. Edited by M.C.P.M. Van Schendelen and R.J. Jackson. New York: Croom Helm, 1987. Pp.185. £27.50 (hardback). Improving Public Management. By L. Metcalfe and S. Richards. London: Sage Publications, 1987. Pp.x + 243. £19.95 (hardback). The Growth and Efficiency of Public Spending. By M.S. Levitt and M.A.S. Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp.xi + 201. £22.50 (hardback). The State and the City. By Ted Robert Gurr and Desmond S. King. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1987. Pp.x + 242. £25.00 (hardback), £7.95 (paperback). Local Government Finance: International Perspectives. Edited by Ronan Paddison and Stephen Bailey. London: Routledge, 1988. Pp.iv + 267. £30.00 Central and Local Relations: A Comparative Analysis of West European Unitary States. Edited by Edward C. Page and Michael J. Goldsmith. London: Sage Publications, 1987. Pp. viii + 180. £25.00. Beyond Westminster and Whitehall: the Sub‐Central Governments of Britain. By R.A.W. Rhodes. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. Pp.xx + 459. £40.00 (hardback), £14.95 (paperback). Western European Adjustment to Structural Economic Problems. By Marie‐Josée Drouin, Maurice Ernst and Jimmy W. Wheeler. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America for the Hudson Institute, 1987. Pp.xxii + 259. $14.75 Political Stability and Neo‐Corporatism: Corporatist Integration and Societal Cleavages in Western Europe. Edited by Ilja Scholten. London: Sage, 1987. Pp.276. £27.50; £10.95 (paperback). The Politics Of Deindustrialisation: The Contraction Of The West European Shipbuilding Industry. By Bo Strath. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1987. Pp.295. £27.50 Political Parties: Electoral Change and Structural Response. Edited by Alan Ware. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987 Pp.281. £25.00 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback). World Atlas of Elections: Voting Patterns in 39 Democracies. By Dick Leonard and Richard Natkiel. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987. Pp.176. £45.00 (hardback). Citizens, Parties and the State. By Alan Ware. Oxford: Polity Press, 1988. Pp.282. £25.00. Social Class In Modem Britain. By Gordon Marshall, Howard Newby, David Rose and Carolyn Vogler. London: Hutchinson, 1988. Pp.xv + 314. £25.00 (hardback). The Economist Pocket Guide to the European Community. By Dick Leonard. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp.xiii + 210. £15.00. European Political Cooperation. Towards a Framework of Supranational Diplomacy? By Panayiotis Ifestos. Aldershot: Avebury (Gower Publishing), 1987. Pp.xxiii + 635. £35.00. Customs Unions and Trade Conflicts. The Enlargement of the European Community. By G.N. Yannopoulos. London: Routledge, 1988. Pp.184. £25.00. Aspects of European Integration ‐ A View of the European Community and the Nordic Countries. By Preben Almdal. Odense University Press 1986. Pp.108. Approaching the Channel Tunnel. Edited by Clive H. Church. University Association for Contemporary European Studies, 1987. Pp.76. £3.00. The British Government and the European Community since 1984. By Stephen George. University Association for Contemporary European Studies, 1987. Pp.75. £1.80. The Politics of Steel: Western Europe and the Steel Industry in the Crisis Years (1974–1984). Edited by Yves Meny and Vincent Wright. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter and Co. 1987. Pp.811. DM298. A Nation Dividing?: The Electoral Map of Great Britain 1979–87. By R.J. Johnston, C.J. Pattie and J.G. Allsopp. London and New York: Longman/Wiley, 1988. Pp.379 + xiv. £9.95 The House of Lords. By Donald Shell. Deddington, Oxford: Philip Allan, 1988. Pp.231. £34.50 (hardback), £14.95 (paperback). The French Socialist Party: The Emergence of a Party of Government. By D.S. Bell and Byron Criddle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, second edition, 1988. Pp.329. £30.00. La Sfida Verde ‐ II Movimento Ecologista in Italia. Edited by R. Biorcio and G. Lodi. Padua: Liviana Editrice, 1988. Moral Monopoly. The Catholic Church in Modern Irish Society. By T. Inglis. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. Pp.xi + 251. £7.95.