Journal of Public Policy

1981 - 2024

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Volume 3, issue 4, 1983

Don't Toss Coins in Garbage Cans: A Prologue to Policy Design* pp. 345-367

John S. Dryzek

Appraising Selective Financial Assistance to Industry: A Review of Institutions and Methodologies in the United Kingdom, Sweden and West Germany pp. 369-395

R. M. Grant

Planning Systems and Policy Implementation pp. 397-418

Robin Hambleton

Center–Local Linkages: The Impact of Policy Planning Systems* pp. 419-434

Chris Skelcher, Bob Hinnings, Steve Leach and Stewart Ranson

P. M. Jackson The Political Economy of Bureaucracy, Philip Allen, 1982, 296pp., £12.50. - W. S. Pierce Bureaucratic Failure and Public Expenditure, Academic Press, 1981, $12.50 pp. 435-436

B. Guy Peters

Gerald E. Caiden and Heinrich Siedentopf Strategies for Administrative Reform, Lexington Books, 1982, 272pp., $37.50 pp. 436-437

Johan P. Olsen

Arnold J. Meltsner and Christopher Bellavita, The Policy Organisation, London: Sage, 1983, 253 pp. £9.75 pp. 438-439

R. A. W. Rhodes

Michacl J. Prince, Policy Advice and Organizational Survival: Policy Planning and Research Units in British Government, Gower, 1983, xi + 244 pp. £13.50 pp. 439-440

Geoffrey Hawker

Royal Institute of Public Administration, Management Information & Control in Whitehall, RIPA, 1983, 52 pp. £3.50 pp. 440-443

William Jenkins

J. D. Stewart, Local Government: The Conditions of Local Choice. Published for INLOGOV, University of Birmingham by George Allen & Unwin. 230 pp. £12.95 hardback, £5.95 paperback pp. 443-445

R. D. Jefferies

Royston Greenwood, Kieron Walsh, C. R. Hinings & Stewart Ranson, Patterns of Management in Local Government, Martin Robertson, 1980, 185 pp. £5.95 pp. 445-446

Douglas E. Ashford

Roger Friedland, Power and Crisis in the City, Macmillan, London, 1982. - Brian Elliott and David McCrone, The City, Macmillan, London, 1982 pp. 446-448

Mike Goldsmith

Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique and Groupement de Recherches Co-ordinées sur 1'Administration Locale, Annuaire des Collectivités Locales, 1982. Paris: Librairies Techniques, 902 pp pp. 448-449

Michael Keating

S. Weintraub, and M. Goodstein (eds), Reaganomics in the Stagflation Economy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982, 200 pp. £6.75 pp. 449-451

Diana Green

Karel Williams, John Williams and Dennis Thomas, Why are the British Bad at Manufacturing?, 1983, Routledge and Kegan Paul, xiii + 288 pp., paperback. £5.95 pp. 451-452

Wyn Grant

A. Robinson and C. T. Sandford, Tax Policy Making in the United Kingdom, London: Heinemann, 1983, xi + 256 pp. £15.00 pp. 452-454

Foel Barnett

Stewart MacPherson, Social Policy in the Third World, Wheatsheaf, 1982, 220 pp. £16.95 pp. 454-455

Malcolm Wallis

Y. Mény (ed.), Dix Ans de Regionalisation on Europe. Bilan et Perspectives 1970–1980, (Paris: Cujas1982), 336 pp. 90 French francs pp. 455-456

Michael Keating

Volume 3, issue 3, 1983

Understanding Local Government Responses to Fiscal Pressure: a Cross National Analysis pp. 245-263

Harold Wolman

Between Pluralism and Corporatism German Business Associations and the State* pp. 265-283

Wolfgang Streeck

The Influence of Financial Measures on UK Railway Policy pp. 285-300

Irvine Lapsley

Policy Change in Direct Government Responses to UK Unemployment pp. 301-330

Jeremy Moon

Social Policy - T. Wilson and D. J. Wilson (eds), The Political Economy of the Welfare State, Allen and Unwin, 1982, 240 pp, £15.95 hardback; £5.95 Paper pp. 335-336

Julian Le Grand

Jean-Jacques Rosa (ed.), The World Crisis in Social Security, Paris, Bonnel Editions, 1982, 238 pp, $9.95. - Carolyn L. Weaver The Crisis in Social Security, Duke Press Policy Studies, 1982, 249 pp, $36.75 pp. 336-339

Rudolf Klein

Policies to revitalise local economies - F. Stevens Redburn Terry F. Buss (eds), Public Policies for Distressed Communities, Lexington Books, 1982, 267 pp. £19.50 pp. 339-340

Michael Keating

Stuart M. Butler, Enterprise Zones: Greenlining the Inner Cities, Heinemann, 1982, 168 pp. £4.95 pp. 340-341

Michael Keating

French public policy - Stephen S. Cohen and Peter A. Gourevitch (eds), France in the Troubled World Economy, Butterworths, 1982, 199 pp. £18.50 pp. 341-344

Diana Green

Volume 3, issue 2, 1983

Don't Blame the Bureaucracy! pp. 149-168

H. Brinton Milward and Hal G. Rainey

Problems of Expedited Implementation: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve pp. 169-190

David Weimer

The Politics of Industrial Training in the United Kingdom* pp. 191-207

Malcolm Anderson and John Fairley Jurue

Flood Control Policy in China: The Policy Consequences of Natural Disasters pp. 209-231

Lester Ross

House of Commons, Third Report from the Treasury and Civil Service Committee: Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Civil Service London: HMSO, 1982; Vol. I, Report, xlix pp., £3.95, HC 236–I, 1981–2; Vol. II, Minutes of Evidence, 507 pp., £12.85, HC 236–II, 1981–2; Vol. III, Appendices, 210 pp., £7.65, HC 236–III, 1981–2 pp. 233-234

Geoffrey Hawker

Catherine Hakim, Secondary Analysis in Social Research: A Guide to Data Sources and Methods with Examples, Allen & Unwin, 1982, 202 pp. £5.95 pp. 234-235

W. L. Miller

David Coombes, Representative Government and Economic Power, Policy Studies Institute and Heinemann Educational Books, 1982 pp., £6.95 pp. 237-239

Jacques Leruez

Wyn Grant, The Political Economy of Industrial Policy, London: Butterworths, 1982, 160+xii pp., £15.00 pp. 240-241

Andrew Cox

Gerhard Lehmbruch and Philippe C. Schmitter (eds.), Patterns of Corporatist Policy-Making, Sage, 1982, 292 pp., £17.00(£7.95 pb.) pp. 241-242

Andrew Cox

Richard C. Rich (ed.), The Politics of Urban Public Services, Lexington: D.C. Heath, 1982, 249+xv pp., £19.00 pp. 242-243

Kenneth Newton

Charles Debbasch, L'Elysée Devoilée, Paris: A. Michel, 1982, 201 pp., 59 French francs pp. 243-244

Jack Hayward

Volume 3, issue 1, 1983

Industrial Policies in OECD Countries: An Overview pp. 1-11

David McKay and Wyn Grant

British Indutrial Policy: Structural Change, Policy Inertia pp. 13-28

Wyn Grant and Stephen Wilks

Industrial Policy and Non-policy in the United States pp. 29-48

David McKay

Danish Industrial Policy: Persistent Liberalism* pp. 49-61

Niels Chr. Sidenius

The Industrial Policy of Japan pp. 63-80

Jill Hills

Irish Industrial Policy: The Constraints and Opportunities of an Open Economy pp. 81-95

Brian Girvin

Regional Implications of Industrial Policy: The Italian Case* pp. 97-117

Riccardo Faini and Fabio Schiantarelli

Economic Success without an Industrial Strategy: Austria in the 1970s* pp. 119-130

Wolfgang C. Müller

French Planning and Industrial Policy pp. 131-148

Saul Estrin and Peter Holmes

Volume 2, issue 4, 1982

Two Cheers for the Welfare State: Public Opinion and Private Welfare* pp. 319-346

Peter Taylor-Gooby

Strike costs and public policy* pp. 347-363

Peter Enderwick

The Home Office and Race Relations Policy: Coordinator and Initiator?* pp. 365-378

Jaqi Nixon

Decision rules and regulatory reform pp. 379-394

Stephen H. Linder

Marketable Permits: What's all the Fuss About?* pp. 395-411

Robert Hahn

George W. Jones (ed.), New Approaches to the Study of Central-Local Relationships, Gower, £11; - R. A. W. Rhodes, Control and Power in Central-Local Government Relations, Gower, £11.50 pp. 413-417

Deil S. Wright

Jerome J. Hanus (ed.), The Nationalization of State Government, D. C. Heath, pp. 169+xiii pp. 417-419

Maurice Croisat

Amarjit Singh Sethi and Stuart J. Dimmock (eds.), Industrial Relations and Health Services, Croom Helm, £15.95, 370 pp pp. 419-421

P. B. Beaumont

Volume 2, issue 3, 1982

Inflationary Momentum and Stabilization Policy: A US Perspective pp. 193-215

William L. Hemphill

Towards a Craft of Energy Policy: Constraints upon and Opportunities for Strategic Planning in the US Department of Energy pp. 217-236

Gregory A. Daneke

Black Minority Participation in the USA and Britain pp. 237-262

Brian Jacobs

Organising for Health: The National Health Service in the United Kingdom pp. 263-300

David J. Hunter

Implementation Research — The Link Gone Missing pp. 301-308

Benny Hjern

Michael Dear and Allen J. Scott (eds.), Urbanisation and Urban Planning in Capitalist Societies, Methuen, 1981, 619 pp. £15 hardback; £7.50 paper. - Frank J. Popper, The Politics of Land Use Reform, University of Wisconsin Press, 1981, 309 pp. £13 hardback; £4.85 paper. - Ian Bracken, Urban Planning Methods: Research and Policy Analysis, Methuen, 1981, 400 pp. £18 hardback: £9.50 paper pp. 309-310

Michael Goldsmith

P. Hall (ed.), The Inner City in Context, Heinemann, 1981, 275 + ix pp., £5.50 pp. 310-313

Harold Wolman

Andrew D. Glassberg, Representation and Urban Community, Macmillan, 1981, 232 pp., £20.00 pp. 313-315

Steve Leach

Julian Le Grand, The Strategy of Equality: Redistribution and the Social Services, Allen and Unwin, 1982, 192 + xii pp., £4.95 pp. 315-316

David Donnison

Patricia Apps, A Theory of Inequality and Taxation, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 132 + x pp. £16.50 pp. 316-318

David Donnison

Volume 2, issue 2, 1982

Inequlity, the National Health Service and Health Policy* pp. 97-116

Alan Maynard and Anne Ludbrook

Growth by Exception: or The Vain Attempt to Impose Resource Scarcity on the Danish Public Sector pp. 117-144

Jørgen Grønnegård Christensen

The Policy Analysis-Critical Theory Affair: Wildavsky and Habermas as Bedfellows? pp. 145-164

John Forester

Harnessing the Guinness Effect* pp. 165-177

Bertil L. Hanson

Herbert Kaufman, The Administrative Behavior of Federal Bureau Chiefs, The Brookings Institution, 1981, 220 pp. $8.95 paperback pp. 179-181

Richard Rose

L. E. LynnJr and D. de F. Whitman, The President as Policymaker, Temple University Press, 1981, xiii and 351 pp., $19.95 cloth ($9.95 paper) pp. 181-182

G. W. Jones

Hans Gunter Hockerts, Sozialpolitische Entscheidungen im Nachkriegs-deutschland: Allierte und deutsche Sozialversicherungspolitik 1945 bis 1957. Stuttgart: Clett-Cotta, 1980, 463 pp., DM68 pp. 183-184

Arnold J. Heidenheimer

John Fraser, Italy. Society in Crisis/Society in Transformation, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, 307+vii pp., £10.95 pp. 184-185

Maurizio Ferrera

Peter R. Baehr & Bjorn Wittrock (eds.), Policy Analysis and Policy Innovation: Patterns, Problems and Potentials, Sage Modern Politics Series, Volume 5, Sage Publications, 1981, 238 pp., £15.50 hardcover (£7.50 paper) pp. 185-187

W. I. Jenkins

D. J. Palumbo and M. A. Harder (eds.), Implementing Public Policy, Lexington Books, 1981, xvii+169 pp., £12.50 pp. 187-188

Michael J. Hill

Dennis J. Palumbo, Stephen B. Fawcett and Paula Wright (eds.), Evaluating and Optimizing Public Policy, Lexington Books, 1981, 223+xv pp., £16.00 pp. 188-190

Brian W. Hogwood

Charles T. Goodsell (ed.), The Public Encounter, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 267+x pp., £22.50 pp. 190-191

Michael Hill

Nevil Johnson and Allan Cochrane, Economic Policy Making by Local Authorities in Britain and Western Europe, Allen and Unwin, 1981, 182+x pp pp. 191-192

David McKay

Volume 2, issue 1, 1982

The Pressman-Wildavsky Paradox: Four Addenda or Why Models Based on Probability Theory Can Predict Implementation Success and Suggest Useful Tactical Advice for Implementers pp. 1-21

Elinor R. Bowen

Evaluation and Problem Redefinition* pp. 23-30

David Dery

Crowding Out in the UK within an Optimal Control Framework* pp. 31-51

Philip Arestis and E. Karakitsos

Discounting Discounting* pp. 53-71

Robert E. Goodin

P. M. Jackson (ed.), Government Policy Initiatives 1979–80: Some Case Studies in Public Administration, Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1981, 253 pp., £3.80 (paper). - Joseph A. Pechman (ed.), Setting National Priorities: The 1982 Budget, The Brookings Institution, 1981, 275+xii pp., $19.95 ($7.95 paper) pp. 73-74

B. Guy Peters

Frank J. Thompson, Health Policy and the Bureaucracy: Politics and Implementation, MIT Press, 1981, 334pp., £15.50. - Christopher Ham, Policy-making in the National Health Service, Macmillan, 1981, 224pp. £18.00. - Michael Butts, Doreen Irving and Christopher Whitt, From Principles to Practice: A Commentary on Health Service Planning and Resource Allocation in England From 1970 to 1980, Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, London, 1981, 200pp., £8.50 pp. 74-77

Rudolf Klein

Robert Goodin, Manipulatory Politics, Yale University Press, 1980, 250+x pp., £11.80 pp. 77-79

W. J. M. Mackenzie

Adam Podgórecki and Christopher J. Whelan (eds.), Sociological Approaches to Law, Croom Helm, 1981, 256 pp., £12.95. - Bob Fryer, Alan Hunt, Doreen McBarnet, Bert Moorhouse (eds.), Law, State and Society, Croom Helm, 1981, 234 pp., £14.95 pp. 79-81

J. A. G. Griffith

G. Payne, R. Dingwall, J. Payne, M. Carter, Sociology and Social Research, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, 321 pp., £14.50 pp. 81-83

Peter Saunders

Mark Blaug, The Methodology of Economics: Or How Economists Explain, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 296 pp., £15.00 pp. 84-85

Peter Self

Christopher Hood and Maurice Wright (eds.), Big Government in Hard Times, Martin Robinson, 1981, 240 pp pp. 85-88

Charles H. Levine

Christopher Hood and Andrew Dunsire with the assistance of K. Suky Thomson, Bureaumetrics: the Quantitative Comparison of British Central Government Agencies, Gower, 1981, 312 + xiv pp., £15.00 pp. 88-90

R. A. W. Rhodes

Peter Szanton (ed.), Federal Reorganization: What Have We Learned?, Chatham House, 1981, 184 pp., $12.95 pp. 90-93

J. P. Olsen

R. C. Fried and F. F. Rabinovitz, Comparative Urban Politics: a Performance Approach, Prentice-Hall, 1980, 220 pp pp. 93-95

Patrick Dunleavy

Thomas R. Dye and Virginia Gray (eds.), The Determinants of Public Policy, Lexington Books, 1980, 227+vii pp., £14.00. - Warren J. Samuels and Larry L. Wade (eds.), Taxing and Spending Policy, Lexington Books, 1981, 189 +xvi pp., £13.50 pp. 95-96

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