Volume 12 Number 2 April 1999
Contents
Articles
Quangos - What's in a Name? Defining Quangos from a Comparative Perspective
Carsten Greve, Matthew Flinders and Sandra van Thiel
Ideas, Inheritances, and the Dynamics of Budgetary Change
Eric M. Patashnik
Discretion and Politicization in EU Competition Policy: The Case of
Merger Control
Lee McGowan and Michelle Cini
Country Report
The Bureaucrat Who Fell Under a Bus: Ministerial Responsibility, Executive
Agencies and the Derek Lewis Affair in Britain
Charles Polidano
Book Reviews
Colin Campbell, The US Presidency in Crisis: A Comparative Perspective
(Norman C. Thomas); Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, Privacy on the Line:
The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (Colin J. Bennett); B. Guy Peters,
The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models) Peter Bogason); Jelle Visser
and Anton Hemerijck, 'A Dutch Miracle,' Job Growth, Welfare Reform and
Corporatism in the Netherlands (Erik Jones); Jan L. van Zanden, The Economic
History of the Netherlands, 1914-1995: A Small Open Economy in the 'Long'
20th Century (Erik Jones); Lei Delsen and Eelke de Jonge, eds., The German
and Dutch Economies: Who Follows Whom? (Erik Jones); Dennis Kavanagh, The
Reordering of British Politics: Politics after Thatcher (Donley T. Studlar)
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