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Book reviewed in this aticle: Understanding Social Policy By MICHAEL HILL. A Comparative Approach to Policy Analysis: Health Care Policy in Four Nations By HOWARD M. LEICHTER Poverty and Inequality in Common Market Countries By VIC GEORGE AND ROGER LAWSON Work Creation: International Experiences By MICHAEL P. JACKSON & VICTOR J.B. HANBY (eds.) Social Goals and Economic Perspectives By G.P. MARSHALL. The Economics of Women and Work By Alice H. Amsden (ed.) Public Spending Decisions: Growth and Restraint in the 1970s By MAURICE WRIGHT (ed.) Labour and Equality: A Fabian Study of Labour in Power 1974–79 By NICK BOSANQUET AND PETER TOWNSEND (eds.) Pricing the Social Services By KEN JUDGE (ed.) Education, Health and Housing: an Empirical Investigation of Resource Accessibility By ANDREW KIRBY. The Good City: A study of urban development and policy in Britain By D. DONNISON WITH P. SOTO. Housing and Residential Structure By KEITH BASSETT AND JOHN SHORT. Secondary Schools and the Welfare Network By DAPHNE JOHNSON et al Higher Education for All? By GORDON RODERICK AND MICHAEL STEPHENS (eds.) The Division in British Medicine By FRANK HONIGSBAUM. The Building Societies By MARTIN BODDY. Teamwork in the Personal Social Services and Health Care: British and American Perspectives By SUSAN LONSDALE, ADRIAN WEBB & T.L. BRIGGS (ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this aticle: Public Choice By DENNIS C. MUELLER. Caring for Strangers By DAVID WATSON. Planning for Welfare: Social Policy and the Expenditure Process By TIMOTHY A. BOOTH. Law, Justice and Social Policy By ROSALIND BROOKE. The Economics of Health By JOHN G. CULLIS & PETER A. WEST. Health in Danger: The Crisis in the N.H.S. By DAVID WIDGERY. Overseas Doctors in the National Health Service By DAVID J. SMITH. Community Hospitals and Rural Accessibility By R.M. HAYNES & C.G. BENTHAM. Methods of Financing Social Security: Their Economic and Social Effects By E.M. MURPHY et al. Financial Aid Through Social Work By MICHAEL P. JACKSON AND B. MICHAEL VALENCIA. Social Work and Money By MICHAEL HILL AND PETER LAING. Power, Authority and Responsibility in Social Services: Social Work in Area Teams By MALCOLM PAYNE. Allocating The Home Help Services By NEIL HOWELL, DUNCAN BOLDY, BARRY SMITH. Care of the Elderly Mentally Infirm By BARBARA GRAY & BERNARD ISAACS. Who Needs Housing? By JANE DARKE & ROY DARKE. Managing Difficult Tenants By GERRY POPPLESTONE & CHRIS PARIS. The British New Towns: A Programme without a Policy By MERYL ALDRIDCE.     

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Book reviewed in this aticle:
National Health Insurance and the Medical Profession in Britain, 1913–1939 By NORMAN R. EDER.
Issues in Social Policy By KATHLEEN JONES, JOHN BROWN AND JONATHAN BRADSHAW
Youth Unemployment and State Intervention By TERESA L. REES & PAUL ATKINSON (EDS).
Urban Economic Development: New Roles and Relationships BY KEN YOUNG & CHARLIE MASON (EDS)
Inner City Policy: A Partnership with the Voluntary Sector BY GWYNDAF WILLIAMS
The Prerogative of Asylumdom: Social, Cultural and Administrative Aspects of the Institutional Treatment of the Insane in Nineteenth-Century Britain By D. J. MELLETT
The Crisis of the Old Poor Law in England 1795–1834 By PETER DUNKLEY
The Politics of Town Planning By GORDON CHERRY
The Future of Council Housing By JOHN ENGLISH (ed.)
Social Work 2000: The Future of Social Work in a Changing Society By RONALD G. WALTON
The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others By ROBERT DINGWALL AND PHILIP LEWIS (EDS.)
The Home Office: Perspectives on Policy and Administration
Housing for the Elderly: Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America By LEONARD HEUMANN AND DUNCAN BOLDY
Housing Policy and Practice By PETER MALPASS AND ALAN MURIE.
Special Transport Services for Elderly and Disabled People By J. M. BAILEY AND A. D. LAYZELL
Health Care Policy: A Political Economy Approach By THEODORE R. MARMOR AND JON B. CHRISTIANSON.
Contemporary Education Policy By JOHN AHIER AND MICHAEL FLUDE (EDS.)     

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Book reviewed in this aticle: The Political Economy of the Welfare State By THOMAS WILSON AND DOROTHY J. WILSON. Corporatism and Welfare By ALAN CAWSON. Whither State Welfare? Policy and Implementation in the Personal Social Services 1979–80. By ADRIAN WEBB AND GERALD WISTOW. Culture of the Social Services By ANDREW KAKABADSE. Public Participation in Local Services By N. BOADEN et al. Don't Mourn for me … Organise: The Social and Political Uses of Voluntary Organisations By DAVID SCOTT. Economics and Social Policy By ALAN GORDON. Europe Against Poverty — The European Poverty Programme 1975–80 By JANE DENNETT et al. Health Policy in Britain By CHRISTOPHER HAM. Policy Making and Planning in the Health Sector By KENNETH LEE AND ANNE MILLS. Industrial Relations and Health Services By A. S. SETHI AND S. J. DIMMOCK (eds.) The Economics of Outpatient Clinic Location: the paediatrics case By J. G. CULLIS, S. HEASELL AND S. WELLER. The Economics of Unemployment in Britain By JOHN GREEDY (ed.) Workless By DENNIS MARSDEN. Discrimination and Disadvantage in Employment: The Experience of Black Workers By P. BRAHAM, E. RHODES AND M. PEARN (eds.) Unqualified and Underemployed: Handicapped Young People and the Labour Market By ALAN WALKER. Family Care of the Handicapped Elderly: Who Pays? By MURIEL NISSEL AND LUCY BONNERJEA. Capitalism and the Construction of Old Age By CHRIS PHILLIPSON. Policy Making for the Mentally Handicapped By GREGORY S. DONGES.     

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Book reviewed in this aticle:
Despite the Welfare State By MURIEL BROWN AND NICOLA MADGE.
Disadvantage and Education By Jo MORTIMORE AND TESSA BLACKSTONE.
Housing Inequality and Deprivation By ALAN MURIE.
Families in Britain By R. N. RAPOPORT, M. P. FOGARTY & R. RAPOPORT (EDS.)
Sex Differences in Britain Today By IVAN REID & EILEEN WORMALD (EDS.)
Gender, Class and Education By STEPHEN WALKER & LEN BARTON (EDS.)
Women's Welfare & Women's Rights By JANE LEWIS (ED).
Community Care: The Family, the State and Social Policy By ALAN WALKER (ED).
Working with People By ROBERT J. MAXWELL AND VICTOR MORRISON (EDS).
Alternative Unemployment: Special Employment Measures in Britain By DAVID METCALF.     

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Book reviewed in this aticle:
Judging Justice BY PHILIP PETTIT.
Social Need BY GILBERT SMITH.
Illusions of Equality BY DAVID E. COOPER.
Ideas and Intervention: Social Theory for Practice BY JOE BAILEY.
The Ignorance of Social Intervention BY DIGBY C. ANDERSON (ED.)
Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth Century Reform BY EDWARD BERKOWITZ AND KIM MCQUALD.
Policy Making in Social Security BY MARTHA DERTHICK.
Socialism, Social Welfare and The Soviet Union BY VIC GEORGE AND NICK MANNING.
The Shaping of the Swedish Health Service BY ARNOLD J. HEIDENHEIMER AND NILS ELVANDER (EDS.)
Welfare Politics in Australia: a Study in Policy Analysis BY ADAM GRAYCAR.
Poverty and Social Inequality in Wales BY GARETH REES AND TERESA L. REES.
Social Services in Scotland BY J. ENGLISH AND F.M. MARTIN (EDS.)
Social Work in Conflict By B. GLASTONBURY, D.M. COOPER & P. HAWKINS.
Caring for Separated Children BY R.A. PARKER (ED.)
Some of our Children BY M. CHAZAN et al
Handicapped Children in Residential Care BY ANN SHEARER.
The Family Fund BY JONATHON BRADSHAW.
The State, the Family and Education BY MIRIAM E. DAVID.
The Economics of Town and Country Planning BY K.G. WILLIS.
Stevenage Ltd. BY BOB MULLAN.
Housing and Social Justice BY GILL BURKE.     

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Book Reviewed in this article
Thatcherism and Social Policy By C. JONES AND J. STEVENSON (eds.)
Hard to Place: the outcome ofAdoption and Residential Care By JOHN TRISELIOTIS AND JAMES RUSSELL
Adoption and Fostering: Why and How By CAROLE R. SMITH
The Supportive Network. Coping with Old Age By G. CLARE WENGER
Domiciliary Services for the Elderly By LIAM CLARKE
Residential Care for the Elderly: Present Problems and Future Issues By HERBERT LAMING ET AL.
Ideas on Institutions, analysing the literature on long-term care and     

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Book Reviewed in this Article Children, Their Families and the Law — Working with the Children Act by Michael D. A. Freeman Mothers Surviving Child Sexual Abuse by Carol -Ann Hooper Social Work and Europe By Crescy Cannan , Lynne Berry and Karen Lyons Inter-Country Adoption By Michael and Heather Humphrey (Eds) The Education System Transformed By Clyde Chitty Beneath the Surface: Racial Harrassment By Barnor Hesse , Dhanwant K. Rai , Christine Bennett and Paul Mcgilchrist Black Politics in Britain Edited by Harry Goulbourne Probation: Politics, Policy and Practice by Tim May Quality and Regulation in Health Care by Robert Dingwall and Paul Fenn In Patients, Policies and Politics by John Butler Whose Standards? By Charlotte Williamson Exchange by John Davis Applied Research For Better Practice by Angela Everitt , Pauline Hardicker , Jane Littlewood and Audrey Mullender Social Research and Social Reform: Essays in Honour of A.H. Halsey by COLIN CROUCH and ANTHONY HEATH (eds)     

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Book Reviewed in this Article
Out of the Margins: Womens Studies in the Nineties By J. A aron and S. W alby (Eds)
Institutes and How to Survive them: Mental Health Training and Consultation — Selected Papers By R obin S kynner , edited by J. R. S chlapobersky
Managing to Discriminate By D avid L. C ollinson , D avid K nights and M argaret C ollinson
Social Work Education II: a Bibliography, 1977–1987. By LI, H ong -C han     

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Book Reviewed in this Article
Positive Discrimination, Social Justice, and Social Policy By J ohn E dwards
Case Management in Community Care By D avid C hallis and B leddyn D avies
Matching Resources to Needs in Community Care By B leddyn D avies and D avid C hallis
Understanding Child Abuse By D avid N. J ones , J ohn P ickett , M argaret R. O ates and P eter B arbor     

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Book Reviewed in this Article
Comparing Welfare States and their Futures By E lseødyen (ED.)
For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care By B radford H. G ray (ED.)
Chaallenge to the NHS: a study of comptition in American health care and the lessons for Britain By D avid G. G reen
Campaigning for the Poor: CPAG and the Politics of Welfare. By M ichael M c C arthy     

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Book Reviewed in This Articles How Organisations Measure Success By Neil Carter, Rudolf Klein and Patricia Day Book Reviewed in This Articles Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions: the Uses of Microsimulation Modelling. Vol. I Review and Recommendations. Vol.II Technical Papers. By Constance F. Citro and Eric A. Hanusherek (eds) Book Reviewed in This Articles Not for Profit, Not for Sale: the Challenge of Public Sector Management by Michael Starks Newbury Book Reviewed in This ArticlesOrganizations for Policy Analysis: Helping Government Think By Carol H. Weiss (ed) Book Reviewed in This Articles Working for Change: the Movement Against Domestic Violence By Heather McGregor and Andrew Hopkins Allen & Unwin, Sydney Book Reviewed in This Articles The Costs of Informal Care: Looking Inside the Household By Caroline Glendinning HMSO Book Reviewed in This Articles Negotiating Nothing: Police Decision Making in Disputes By Charles Kemp, Clive Norris and Nigel Fielding Avebury, Aldershot Book Reviewed in This Articles Children And Other Strangers By Ruth Szold Ginzberg Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick Book Reviewed in This Articles Gender, Power and Sexuality By Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace (eds) Book Reviewed in This Articles Social Welfare in Third World Development By Howard Jones Book Reviewed in This Articles Social Welfare in Latin America By John Dixon and Robert P. Scheurell (eds) Book Reviewed in This Articles Local Government in Europe By Richard Batley and Gerry Stoker (eds)     

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Book reviewed in this aticle:
Using the Social Sciences by A. B. CHERNS.
The Execution Process Vol. 1. Implementation in a Bureaucracy Vol. 2. Control in a Bureaucracy by ANDREW DUNSIRE.
The Reorganisation of British Local Government by JOHN DEARLOVE.
Introducing Social Policy by D. C. MARSH (ed.)
Over-Ruled on Welfare by RALPH HARRIS AND ARTHUR SELDON.
The Political Economy of the Welfare State by IAN GOUGH.
Economic Welfare in the Soviet Union by ALASTAIR MCAULEY.
The Welfare State in Sweden by DOROTHY WILSON.
Youth in Contemporary Society by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY (ed.)
Housing Improvement and Social Inequality by PAUL N. BALCHIN.
Not Much Improvement: Urban Renewal Policy in Birmingham by CHRIS PARIS AND BOB BLACKABY.
Jobs and Community Action by G. CRAIG, M. MAYO AND N. SHARMAN (EDS.)
Unmet Needs and the Delivery of Care by PAUL CHAPMAN.
Welfare Law and Policy: Studies in Teaching, Practice and Research by MARTIN PARTINGTON AND JEFFREY JOWELL, (eds.).
Perspective on Legal Aid: a Comparative Survey by F. H. Zemans, (ed.)     

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Book review in this Articles:
Negotiating Family Responsibilities By JANET FINCH & JENNIFER MASON
Ageing and Economic Welfare By PAUL JOHNSON & JANE FALKINGHAM
Time for Retirement: Comparative Studies of Early Exit from the Labour Force By MARTIN KOHLI, MARTIN REIN, ANNE-MARIE GUILLEMARD & HERMAN VAN GUNSTEREN (eds.)
Empowering the Elderly: Direct Consumer Funding of Care Services By WILLIAM LAING
Private Residential Care: the Admission Process and Reactions of the Public Sector By JUDITH PHILLIPS
The Abuse of Elderly People: a Handbook for Professionals By JACKI PRITCHARD
Carers: Research and Practice By JULIA TWIGG (ed.)
The Coming of Age in Europe SALLY GREENGROSS and others
When I'm Sixty-Four By SALLY HERNE
Social Policy in Europe: Latest Evolution and Perspectives for the Future By B. GREVE (ed.)
Poverty and the Adequacy of Social Security in the EC: A Comparative Analysis By H. DELEECK, K. VAN DEN BOSCH & L. DE LATHOUWER     

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Book reviewed in this aticle:
Images of Welfare By PETER GOLDING AND SUE MIDDLETON.
Professional Power and Social Welfare By PAUL WILDING.
The Strategy of Equality: Redistribution and the Social Services By JULIAN LE GRAND.
The Inspector General: Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick and Social Reform 1783–1802 By OLIVER MACDONAGH.
The Home Office 1848–1914: From Clerks to Bureaucrats By JILL PELLEW.
Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families By J. A. BANKS.
Children, School and Society in Nineteenth Century England By ANNE DIGBY AND PETER SEARBY (eds)
English Education, Social Change and War, 1911–20 By GEOFFREY SHERINGTON.
The Administrative "Revolution" in Whitehall By G. K. FRY.
Quangos in Britain: Government and the Networks of Public Policy Making By ANTHONY BARKER (ed.)
Social Welfare Law By DAVID PEARL AND KEVIN GRAY.
The Abuse of Power: Civil Liberties in the United Kingdom By PATRICIA HEWITT.
Disability: Legislation and Practice By DUNCAN GUTHRIE (ed.)
Current Trends in British Gerontology By REX TAYLOR AND ANNE GILMORE.
Retirement Policy: The Next 50 Years By MICHAEL FOGARTY (ed.)
The Inner City in Context By PETER HALL (ed.)
The Uses of Social Research: Social Investigation in Public Policy Making By MARTIN BULMER.
Sociology and Social Research By GEOFF PAYNE et al.
Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare By E. J. MISHAN.
Values in Social Policy: Nine Contradictions By JEAN HARDY.     

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Books reviewed:
I an H olliday and P aul W ilding (eds.), Welfare Capitalism in East Asia: Social Policy in the Tiger Economies.
M. R amesh (ed.), Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia: Education, Health, Housing and Income Maintenance.
K wong-leung T ang and C hack-kie W ong (eds.), Poverty Monitoring and Alleviation in East Asia.
D ong-myeon S hin (ed.), Social and Economic Policies in Korea: Ideas, Networks and Linkages.
P. D wyer , Understanding Social Citizenship: Themes and Perspectives for Policy and Practice.
G. L ewis (eds.), Citizenship: Personal Lives and Social Policy.
S. B ecker and A. B ryman (eds.), Understanding Research for Social Policy and Practice: Themes, Methods and Approaches.
H artley D ean (ed.), The Ethics of Welfare: Human Rights, Dependency and Responsibility.
I an G ough and G eof W ood , with A rmando B arrientos , P hilippa B evan , P eter D avis and G raham R oom , Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Social Policy in Development Contexts.     

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Book review in this Article Hard Times: The Prospects for European Social Policy By Peter Townsend Can the Welfare State Compete? By Alfred Pfaller, Ian Gough, and Goran Therborn Social Welfare in Socialist Countries By John Dixon and David Macarov Trapped in Poverty? By Bill Jordan, Simon James, Helen Kay and Marcus Redley Routledge Introduction to Social Administration in Britain by Muriel Brown and Sarah Payne Unwin Hyman The Politics of Local Government by Gerry Stoker Macmillan Public Policy under Thatcher By Stephen P. Savage and Lynton Robins Whom God Hath Joined Together: the Work of Marriage Guidance By Jane Lewis, David Clarke and David Morgan Prisoners' Children: What Are The Issues? By Roger Shaw Maternity Rights in Britain: Report on the Experience of Women and Employers By Susan McRae Policy Evaluating Health Services' Effectiveness By Anthony St Leger, Harold Schneiden and Joanna Is British Food Bad for You? By Vincent Marks Structures of Control in Health Management By Rob Flynn Alternative Medicine in Britain By Mike Saks Science, Ideology and the Media By Ronald Fletcher     

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Books reviewed:
P. M alpass , Housing and the Welfare State: The Development of Housing Policy in Britain.
G. B ramley , M. M unro and H. P awson , Key Issues in Housing: Policies and Markets in 21st-Century Britain.
D. C lapham , The Meaning of Housing: A Pathways Approach.
R ob B aggott , Health and Health Care in Britain (3rd edition).
C hristopher H am , Health Policy in Britain (5th edition).
R. B aggott , J. A llsop and K. J ones , Speaking for Patients and Carers: Health Consumer Groups and the Policy Process.
J ohn H ills , Inequality and the State
R ichard B. S plane , George Davidson: Social Policy and Public Policy Exemplar     

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Book reviewed in this aticle: States of Welfare: Comparative Analysis in Social Policy By Joan Higgins Social Theory and Social Welfare By Peter Taylor -Gooby and Jennifer Dale . Towards Socialist Welfare Work By S. Bolger et al. The Right to Welfare and Other Essays By T. H. Marshall . Tribunal Representation: The Role of Advice and Advocacy Services By Roger Lawrence . Social Measurement and Social Indicators: Issues of Policy and Theory By Michael Carley . Automatic Poverty By Bill Jordan . Wealth, Income and Inequality (Second edition) By A. B. Atkinson (ed.). Voluntary Social Services By Norman Johnson . Voluntary and Statutory Collaboration: Rhetoric or Reality? By Diana Leat , Gerry Smolka , Judith Unell . Social Services Area Teams By Phyllida Parsloe . Intake Teams By Joanna Buckle . Occupational Survival: The Case of the Local Authority Social Worker By Carole Satyamurti . Social Work and General Medical Practice: Collaboration or Conflict? By June Huntingdon . Going Local: Neighbourhood Social Services By Roger Hadley and Morag Mc Grath (ed.). Community Groups in Action: Case Studies and Analysis By Hugh Butcher et al. The Impact of Ageing: Strategies for care By David Hobman (ed.). Old People's Homes and the Production of Welfare By Bleddyn Davies and Martin Knapp Old Age Homes By Roger Clough .     

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Book Reviewed in this article Support Networks in a Caring Community Edited by J. A. YODER, J. M. L. JONKER AND R. A. B. LEAPER “Who Needs Care?” By J. PACKMAN., J. RANDALL AND B. JACQUES “Who Needs Care?” By J. PACKMAN., J. RANDALL AND B. JACQUES “Lost in Care” By S. MILLHAM, R. BULLOCK, K. HOSIE AND M. HAAK Sunbelt City? By MARTIN BODDY, JOHN LOVERING AND KEITH BASSETT The City in Transition By WILLIAM LEVER AND CHRIS MOORE The London Employment Problem By NICK BUCK, IAN GORDON AND KEN YOUNG WITH JOHN ERMISCH AND LIZ MILLS Social Work: a Christian Perspective Edited by TERRY PHILPOT