Journal of Public Policy

1981 - 2024

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Volume 1, issue 4, 1981

Undesigned Consequences of Purposive Legislative Action: Alternatives to Implementation* pp. 413-431

Lewis Anthony Dexter

The Determinants of Program Success and Failure pp. 433-464

Harold Wolman

Macroeconomic Policy Rules Versus Discretion: Some Analytical Issues pp. 465-479

Stuart Sayer

Analysing Public Expenditure: (2) Operating Purposes and Statistical Design pp. 481-499

Harold Copeman

Housing Policy: Towards a Public Choice Perspective pp. 501-522

Martin Ricketts

Carol H. Weiss with Michael J. Bucuvalas, Social Science Research and Decision Making, Columbia University Press, 1980, $28.10 pp. 523-524

W. I. Jenkins

Douglas E. Ashford, Policy and Politics in Britain: The Limits of Consensus, Basil Blackwell, 1981 (Temple University Press, 1980), 330 pp., £12.00 (£4.95 paperback) pp. 525-526

Jacques Leruez

F. M. Zweig and K. E. Marvin (eds.), Educating Policymakers for Evaluation, London and Beverly Hills, Sage, 1981, 160 pp., £9.35 (£4.70 paperback) pp. 527-528

G. W. Jones

G. Rhodes, Inspectorates in Brithh Government: Law Enforcement and Standards of Efficiency, Allen and Unwin, 1981, 281 + xiii pp., £15.00 pp. 528-529

Michael Goldsmith

SirCharles Carter (ed.), Industrial Policy and Innovation, Heinemann Educational Books, 1981, 241 + viii pp., £14.50 (£6.50 paper); Roy Rothwell and Walter Zegveld, Industrial Innovation and Public Policy, Frances Pinter, 1981, 251 pp., £13.50 pp. 529-531

Wyn Grant

Jean G. Padioleau, Quand la France s'enferre. La politique sidérurgique de la France depuis 1945, Presses Universitaires de France (collection ‘Sociologies’), 1981, 232 pp pp. 531-533

Bernard Cazes

Volume 1, issue 3, 1981

Analysing Public Expenditure: (I) Planning, Control and Price pp. 289-306

Harold Copeman

Entrepreneurship and Government Policy: The Case of the Housing Market* pp. 307-332

Mary K. Farmer and Ray Barrell

Promoting the Industries of the Future: The Search for an Industrial Strategy in Britain and France pp. 333-351

Diana Green

Applied Social Research? The Use and Non-use of Empirical Social Inquiry by British and American Governmental Commissions.* pp. 353-380

Martin Bulmer

Inappropriate Comparisons as a Basis for Policy: Two Recent Examples from the Social Experiments* pp. 381-399

Gary Burtless and David Greenberg

Policy and Practice: The Experience of Government, Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1980, 103 pp. £5.50 pp. 401-402

Nelson W. Polsby

Vito Tanzi, Inflation and the Personal Income Tax: An International Perspective, Cambridge University Press, xii + 176 pp. £12.50 pp. 402-404

Cedric Sandford

Richard Coughlin, Ideology, Public Opinion and Welfare Policy, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1980. 195 pp. $4.95 pp. 404-406

Alan Lewis

Donald C. Rowat (ed.), International Handbook on Local Government Reorganization: Contemporary Developments, Aldwich Press, 1980, 626 pp. £27.50 pp. 406-409

Francesco Kjellberg

Peter J. S. Dunnett, The Decline of the British Motor Industry, Croom Helm, 1980, 201 pp. £10.95 pp. 409-410

Brian W. Hogwood

N. J. D. Lucas, Energy in France: Planning, Politics and Policy, Europa Publications, 1979, 220 pp. £15.00 pp. 411-411

Jack Hayward

Volume 1, issue 2, 1981

Theorizing About the Growth of Government: A Research Assessment* pp. 157-220

Patrick D. Larkey, Chandler Stolp and Mark Winer

Territory and Public Employment: A General Model and British Evidence* pp. 221-250

Richard Parry

Technical Information and Policy Choice: The Case of the Resource Recovery Nondecision pp. 251-267

Barry Bozeman and J. Lisle Bozeman

Philip G. Cerny and Martin A. Schain (eds.), French Politics and Public Policy, F. Pinter, 1980, 300 pp., £12.50 hardback (Methuen University paperback £4.50) pp. 269-270

J. E. S. Hayward

John Maynard Keynes, Collected Writings, Vol. XXV, Activities 1940–1944, Shaping the Post-War World: The Clearing Union. Editor Donald Moggridge, Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 522 pp pp. 270-272

Alan A. Tait

Richard Rose, Do Parties Make a Difference?, Macmillan, 1980, 176 pp. £15.00 pp. 272-274

L. J. Sharpe

Lennart J. Lundqvist, The Hare and the Tortoise: Clean Air Policy in the United States and Sweden, The University of Michigan Press, 1980, 236 pp., $15 pp. 274-276

J. J. Richardson

Kenneth Newton, Balancing the Books: Financial Problems of Local Government in Western Europe, Sage, 1980, 218 pp., £12.50 (paperback £6.25) pp. 276-279

Alberta Sbragia

Douglas Ashford (ed.), Financing Urban Government in the Welfare State, Croom Helm, 1980, £11.95 pp. 279-282

Harold Wolman

Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan, The Power to Tax, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980, 231 pp., £10.50 pp. 282-283

Alan A. Tait

Walter Williams, The Implementation Perspective: A Guide for Managing Social Service Delivery Programs, University of California Press, 1980, 147 pp., $11.95 (paperback $3.95) pp. 283-284

Andrew Dunsire

Doug McEachern, A Class against Itself: Power in the Nationalisation of the British Steel Industry, Cambridge University Press, 1980, ix + 229 pp., £12.50 pp. 284-286

John Foster

Alison Ravetz, Remaking Cities, Croom Helm, 1980, 375 pp., £14.95 pp. 286-287

David Donnison

Volume 1, issue 1, 1981

What if Anything is Wrong with Big Government?* pp. 5-36

Richard Rose

Electoral Cycles, Budget Controls and Public Expenditure* pp. 37-59

James Alt and K. Alec Chrystal

Professionalism and Political Conflict: A Developmental Model* pp. 61-93

Frederick Wirt

Iron Triangles, Woolly Corporatism and Elastic Nets: Images of the Policy Process* pp. 95-123

A. Grant Jordan

Rationality in Writing: Linear and Curvilinear pp. 125-140

Aaron Wildavsky

Marshall W. Meyer, Change in Public Bureaucracies, Cambridge University Press, 1980, ix + 251 pp. £12.50 pp. 147-148

Andrew Dunsire

Frederick C. Mosher, The GAO: The Quest for Accountability in American Government, Westview Press, 1979, pp. 387. $24.00 ($12.00 paperback). - Erasmus H. Kloman (ed.), Cases in Accountability: The Work of the GAO, Westview Press, 1979, 254 pp. $15.00 ($7.50 paperback) pp. 148-150

Ann Robinson

Samuel H. Barnes, Max Kaase, et al. Political Action: Mass Participation in Five Western Democracies, Sage, 1979, 640 pp. £15.50 pp. 150-152

John H. Whyte

L. J. Sharpe (ed.), Decentralist trends in Western democracies, Sage, 1980, 314 pp. £12.50 (£6.25 paperback) pp. 152-154

P. J. Madgwick

Patrick Dunleavy, Urban Political AnalysisMacmillan, 1980, 196 pp, £4.95 pp. 154-155

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