Book reviews

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Parties and Democracy: Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States. By Ian Budge and Hans Keman. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp.xii + 243. £27.50 (hardback). Uncommon Democracies: The One‐Party Dominant Regimes. Edited by T.J. Pempel. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp.xi + 371. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paperback). Contemporary Political Culture: Politics in a Postmodern Age. Edited by John R. Gibbons. London: Sage Publications, 1989. Pp.258. £27.50 (hardback); £10.95 (paperback). The West European Party System. Edited by Peter Mair. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1990. Pp.xi + 364. £30.00 (hardback); £8.95(paperback). Alternatives in European Security. Edited by MICHAEL Rändle and PAUL Rogers. Aldershot: Gower, 1990. Pp.vii + 175. £29.50 (hardback). Between the Blocs: Problems and Prospects for Europe's Neutral and Nonaligned States. Edited by Joseph Kruzel and Michael H. Haltzel. Cambridge‐Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp.ix + 323. £25.00 (hardback). Understanding the European Communities. By William Nicoll and Trevor C. Salmon. Hemel Hempstead: Phillip Allan, 1990. Pp.x + 264. £35 (hardback); £9.95 (paperback). Organising Western Europe. By Clive Archer. Sevenoaks: Edward Arnold, 1990. Pp.xii + 182. £10.95. An Awkward Partner: Britain in the European Community. By Stephen George. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp.x + 224. £25 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback). Local Politics and Participation in Britain and France. By Albert Mabileau and others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp.xii + 272. £30.00. The New Centralism: Britain Out of Step in Europe? Edited by Colin Crouch and David Marquand. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp.xi + 149. £9.95 (paperback). The Political Theory of Swedish Social Democracy. By Tim Tilton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp.x + 298, £35.00. A Contemporary History of Austria. By Melanie Sully. London: Routledge, 1990. Pp.xiv + 179. £30.00. Scottish Nationalism at the Crossroads, By Roger Levy. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1990. Pp.x + 154. £8.75 (paperback). Under Siege, Ulster Unionism and the Anglo‐Irish Agreement. By ARTHUR Aughey. London: C. Hurst, 1989. Pp.219. £9.95. Northern Ireland in the European Community: An Economic and Political Analysis. By Arthur Aughey, Paul Hainsworth and Martin J. Trimble. Belfast: Policy Research Institute, 1989. Pp.157.