Book reviews

• Published in: Journal of legislative studies 1999, Vol.5 (1), p.152-162
• Main Authors: Ágh, Attila, McSweeney, Dean, Davis, Frank L., Karasimeonov, Georgi, Owens, John E., Shephard, Mark, Foley, Michael, Widfeldt, Anders, McAllister, Ian
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1357-2334; 1743-9337
• DOI: 10.1080/13572339908420587

Coalition Government, Subnational Style: Multiparty Politics in Europe's Regional Parliaments by William M. Downs. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Pp.xx + 316. $50 hb ISBN 0 8142 0747 2, $19.95 pb ISBN 0 8142 0748 0. The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution? by Linda Killian. Oxford: Westview Press, 1998. Pp.xvi + 463. £21.50. ISBN 0 8133 9951 3. Outside Lobbying: Public Opinion and Interest Group Strategies by Ken Kollman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp.xiv + 215. £42.50 hb. ISBN 0 691 01740 9, £14.95 pb ISBN 0 691 01741 7. Creating Parliamentary Government: The Transition to Democracy in Bulgaria by Albert P. Melone. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Pp.xxi + 323. $45.95 hb ISBN 0 8142 0769 3, $20.95 pb ISBN 0 8142 0770 7. Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress by Nicol C. Rae. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. Pp.xiv + 225. $62.95 hb ISBN 0 7656 0128 1, $21.95 pb ISBN 0 7656 0129 X. The European Perspective: Transnational Party Groups in the 1989-1994 European Parliament by Tapio Raunio. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 1997. Pp.xiii + 212. £40 ISBN 1 85521 988 3. Presidential-Congressional Relations: Policy and Time Approaches by Steven A. Shull. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 178. £29.50 ISBN 0 472 10832 8. Trying to Make Democracy Work: The Nordic Parliaments and the European Union edited by Matti Wiberg. Stockholm: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and Gidlunds Förlag, 1997. Pp.124. No price given pb ISBN 91 7844 266 4. Minor Parties ... Major Players? The Senate, the Minor Parties and the 1993 Budget by Liz Young. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service for the Department of the Parliamentary Library, 1997. Pp.xviii + 146. No price given pb ISBN 0644 49588X. Four Weddings, a Funeral and a Family Reunion: Ethnicity and Representation in Australian Federal Politics by Gianni Zappala. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service for the Department of the Parliamentary Library, 1997. Pp.xvii + 214. No price given pb ISBN 0644 513322.