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Governor Lady: The Life and Times of Nellie Tayloe Ross by Teva J. Scheer

19/02/2007
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Naomi Caiden

Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age by Alasdair Roberts

19/02/2007
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Doris Graber

Power Switch: Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century by G. Bruce Doern, Monica Gattinger; The Politics of Regulation: Institutions and Regulatory Reforms for the Age of Governance by Jacint Jordana, David Levi-Faur; Regulation in the States by Paul Teske; Games and Public Administration: The Law and Economics of Regulation and Licensing by Georg Von Wangenheim

19/02/2007
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Anne M. Khademian

Mayors and the Challenge of Urban Leadership by Richard M. Flanagan; The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life by Fred Siegel; The Prince of Providence: The Rise and Fall of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor by Mike Stanton; Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy by J. Phillip Thompson

19/02/2007
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by James H. Svara

Global Public Management: Cases and Comments edited by Kathe Callahan, Dorothy F. Olshfski, Erwin Schwella; The World We Could Win: Administering Global Governance edited by Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi; International Development Governance edited by Ahmed Shafiqul Huque, Habib Zafarullah

19/02/2007
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Donald E. Klingner

Policy into Action: Implementation Research and Welfare Reform edited by Mary Clare Lennon, Thomas Corbett; How Management Matters: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform by Norma M. Riccucci

19/02/2007
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Mark Bovens

Reducing Poverty, Building Peace by Coralie Bryant, Christina Kappaz; The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Bono

19/02/2007
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Jamil E. Jreisat

The Democratic Century by Seymour Martin Lipset, Jason M. Lakin; Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life by Theda Skocpol

25/09/2006
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Amitai Etzioni

A New World Order by Anne-Marie Slaughter; Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics by Michael Barnett, Martha Finnemore; Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector by Stephen Goldsmith, William D. Eggers; System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics by Donald F. Kettl; Why Policy Issue Networks Matter: The Advanced Technology Program and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership by Paul M. Hallacher

25/09/2006
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Chester A. Newland

Mary P. Follett: Creating Democracy, Transforming Management by Joan C. Tonn

25/09/2006
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Camilla Stivers

The Battle for Social Security: From FDR's Vision to Bush's Gamble by Nancy J. Altman; Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security by Edward D. Berkowitz

25/09/2006
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by J. Theodore Anagnoson

High-Performance Government: Structure, Leadership, Incentives edited by Robert Klitgaard, Paul C. Light

19/06/2006
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Gerald E. Caiden

Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government by Robert H. Nelson; Planning World Cities: Globalization and Urban Politics by Peter Newman, Andy Thornley

19/06/2006
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Greg Andranovich

The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis by David Osborne, Peter Hutchinson

19/06/2006
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by Allan D. Wallis

Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs

19/06/2006
Public Administration Review
Reviewed by David Lampe