Book reviews

• Published in: Local government studies 1998, Vol.24 (2), p.94-117
• Main Authors: Harloe, Michael, Tooze, Hannah, Reilly, Adrian, Norton, Alan, Stewart, John, Devas, Nick, Pennyfather, R.T., Davis, Howard, Wall, Andrew, Westcott, Brian, Cochrane, Allan
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0300-3930; 1743-9388
• DOI: 10.1080/03003939808433912

City for the 21st Century? Globalisation, Planning and Urban Change in Contemporary Britain. By Martin Boddy, Christine Lambert and Dawn Snape. Bristol: The Policy Press, 1997. Pp.x + 352. £16.95 pb. Trade Associations in Britain and Germany: Responding to Internationalisation and the European Union. Edited by Robert J. Bennett. London: Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society Report, 1997. £12.00 Participation and Policy-Making in the European Union. Edited by Helen Wallace and Alasdair R. Young. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. £35.00. Policy Networks and European Structural Funds. Edited by Hubert Heinelt and Randall Smith. Aldershot: Avebury, 1996. Pp.321. £40.00 hb. Décentraliser en France et en Norvège. Edited by V. Hoffman-Martinot and F. Kjellberg. CERVL: Les Editions Pedone, 1996. Pp.289 The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions are Efficient. By Donald Wittman. Pp.193. University of Chicago Press, 1995. £23.95 hb; £14.25 pb. People, Politics, Policies and Plans: The City Planning Process in Contemporary Britain. By Ted Kitchen. London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 1997. Pp.240. £16.95 pb. Transport Concepts in European Cities. By Tim Pharoah and Dieter Apel. Avebury Studies in Green Research, Ashgate Publishing Group, March 1996. Pp.291. £45.00 hb. Public Works Administration: Current Public Policy Perspectives. Edited by Lucy Brewer. Sage, 1997. Pp.363. £39.95 hb. The Faith of the Managers - When Management Becomes Religion. By Stephen Pattison. Cassell, 1997. £14.99 pb. Managing People in the Public Services. By David Farnham, Sylvia Horton and others. Macmillan, 1996. Pp.399. £47.50 hb; £15.99 pb. Social Policy: A Conceptual and Theoretical Introduction. Edited by Michael Lavalette and Alan Pratt. Sage, 1997. Pp.vii + 274. £39.99 hb; £12.99 pb.