BOOK REVIEWS

Index of Book Reviews (sorted by year reviewed/title)

2006

Civil Service Reform in the States: Personnel Policy and Politics at the Subnational Level

Edited by J. Edward Kellough and Lloyd G. Nigro, eds. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006)

Reviewed by Richard Blake

2005

High-Performance Government

Edited by Robert Klitgaard & Paul Light (Rand Corporation, 2005)

Reviewed by A.C. Hyde

Cities and the Creative Class

Richard Florida (New York: Routledge, 2005)

Reviewed by Deniz Z. Leuenberger

2004

Attack on the Federal Government Workplace— Views from Within

Oman, Ray C. (International Journal of Public Administration, 2003)

Review by Sandra F. Mobley

Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn?

Irene S. Rubin ( Chatham House Publishers, January 2003)

Review by David Allen Hines

Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector

Steven Goldsmith and William D. Eggers (Brookings Institution Press, 2004)

Review by Kenneth D. Mitchell

Restoring Fiscal Sanity—How to Balance the Budget

Alice M. Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill (Brookings Institution Press, 2004)

Review by A.C. Hyde

The Innovators Solution

Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2003)

Review by Kenneth D, Mitchell

The Price of Government, Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis

David Osborne and Peter Hutchinson (Basic Books, 2004)

Review by Brian Cox

2003

False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas are Bad for Business

James Hoopes (Persus Publishing, 2003)

Review by Ken Mitchell

For the People: Can We Fix Public Service

John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye (Brookings Institution Press, 2003)

Review by Hyong Yi

Jennifer Government

Max Barry (Doubleday, New York, 2003)
Reviewed by Hyong Yi

May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy

Andrew Zimbalist (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003)

Reviewed by James Spaulding

The Company of the Future
Francis Cairncross (Harvard Business School Press, 2002)
Reviewed by A. C. Hyde

The Public Administration Theory Primer

H. George Frederickson and Kevin B. Smith (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003)

Review by Frank E. Scott

Urgent Business for America: Revitalizing the Federal Government for the 21st Century

National Commission on the Public Service (January 2003)

Reviewed by Marissa Kuhn

What Management Is

Joan Magretta and Nan Stone (Free Press, May 2002)

Reviewed by John Parham Jr.

2002

Quicker, Better, Cheaper? Managing Performance in American Government

Edited by Dull Forsythe (Rockefeller Institute Press: Albany)

Reviewed by Hyong Yi

Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity

Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe (Jossey Bass, 2002)

Reviewed by A. C. Hyde

The Heart of Change, Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

John P Kottev and Dan S. Cohen (Harvard Business School Press: Boston MA, 2002)

Reviewed by Elishia Krauss

The Free Market Innovation Machine

Bauntol, Willianz L. Bauntol (Princeton University Press: 2002)

Reviewed by A. C. Hyde

Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age

Elaine Ciulla Kamarck and Joseph S. Nye (The Brookings Institution Press, 2002)

Reviewed by A. C. Hyde