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The article reviews the book "Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil," by Lesley McAllister.

The article reviews two books about law and legal processes in local government including "Judicial Review Handbook," by Michael Fordham and "Administrative Law," by Steven J. Cann.

Whatever Happened to Local Government. By Allan Cochrane. Open University Press, 1993. Pp.150. £10.99 pb. The Welfare State in Britain. A Political History since 1945. By Michael Hill. Edward Elgar, 1993. Pp.188. £39.95 hb, £9.95 pb. Divisions of Welfare. A Critical Introduction to Comparative Social Policy. By Norman Ginsburg. Sage Publications, 1992. Pp.228. £10.95. Handbook of Public Services Management. Edited by Christopher Pollitt and Stephen Harrison. Blackwell, 1992. Pp.295. £50 hb. Managing Public Services: Competition and Decentralization. By Richard Common, Norman Flynn and Elizabeth Mellor. Butter‐worth Heinemann, 1993. Pp.152. £14.95 pb. Managing Value for Money in the Public Sector. By Jonathon G. Bates. Chapman and Hall, 1993. Pp. 251. £35 pb. Women Come of Age: Perspectives on the Lives of Older Women. Edited by Miriam Bernard and Kathy Meade. Edward Arnold, Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. Pp.196. £9.99 pb. EC Public Procurement: Law and Practice. By Lee Digings and John Bennett. Longman, 1992. Pp.783. £135 looseleaf. Politique Urbaine et Développement Local: Une comparaison franco‐britannique. By Patrick Le Gallès. Paris: Éditions Harmattan, 1993. FF.320. The Politics of Local Economic Policy: The Problems and Possibilities of Local Initiative. By Aram Eisenschitz and Jamie Gough. Macmillan, 1993. Pp.293. £45 hb, £14.99 pb. Enterprise and Human Resource Development: Local Capacity Building. By Robert Bennett and Andrew McCoshan. Paul Chapman, 1993. Pp.310. £39.95. More Than Bricks and Mortar? Tyne and Wear Development Corporation: A Mid‐Term Report. By Fred Robinson, Marty Lawrence and Keith Shaw. Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham, for the Baring foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, 1993. Pp.ii + 71. British Urban Policy and the Urban Development Corporations. Edited by Rob Imrie and Huw Thomas. London, Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd, 1993. Pp.216. £15.50 pb. London: A New Metropolitan Geography. Edited by Keith Hoggart and David R. Green. London: Edward Arnold, 1991. Pp.254. £40 hb, £14.99 pb. Regional Development in the 1990s: the British Isles in Transition. Edited by Peter Townroe and Ron Martin. For the Regional Studies Association. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1992. Pp.330. £22.50 pb. Housing Policy in the 1990s. Edited by Johnston Birchall. Routledge, London and New York; 1992. Pp.199. £37.50 hb, £12.99 pb. Housing Finance and Subsidies in Britain. Edited by Duncan Maclennan and Kenneth Gibb. Aldershot: Avebury, 1993. Pp. 218. £35. ’Off the Rocking Horse’. How Your Local Council Can Promote Your Health and Environment. By Peter Allen. London: Green Print; 1991. Pp.151. £8.99 pb. Compulsory Competitive Tendering in Local Government. An Annotated Bibliography By Austin McCartney et al. Earlsgate Press, Winter‐ingham, South Humberside: 1992. Pp.88 + indexes, £9.95. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Challenges to Local Government, Desmond King and Jon Pierre (eds), pp. 288, Sage Publications, 1990, £30.00 (hardback). Government and Information: The Law Relating to Access, Disclosure and Regulation, Patrick Birkinshaw, pp. 361 + xxxviii, Butterworths, 1990, £29.95 (paperback). Local Economic Policy, pp. 218, Mike Campbell (ed.), Cassell, 1990. Developing London's Docklands: Another Great Planning Disaster?, Sue Brownill, pp. 196, Paul Chapman Publishing, 1990, £10.95 (paperback). Inner City Regeneration: A Local Authority Perspective ‐ First Year Report of the CLES Monitoring Project on Urban Development Corporations, pp. 97, Centre for Local Economic Strategies, Alberton House, St Mary's Parsonage, Manchester M3 2WJ, 1990, £20. Government and Housing: Developments in Seven Countries, Willem van Vliet and Jan van Weesep (eds), pp. 293, Sage Publications, 1990, £15.75 (paperback). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Leisure and Urban Processes: Critical Studies of Leisure Policy in Western European Cities, Peter Bramham, Ian Henry, Hans Mommaas and Hugo van der Poel (eds.), Routledge, 1989, pp.320, £40.00. Local Economic Development in Britain and Germany, Robert Bennett, Gunter Krebs and Horst Zimmermann (eds), Anglo‐German Foundation (17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2LP), 1990, pp. 172, £9.00. Combating Long‐Term Employment: Local/EC Relations, Kenneth Dyson (ed.), Routledge, pp. x + 252, 1989, £35 (Hardback). The Local Government and Housing Act 1989, Text and Commentary by Andrew Arden and Caroline Hunter, Current Law Statutes Annotated Reprint, Sweet & Maxwell, 1990, pp. 407 + xxxv, £20.00 (paperback). Disabilities‐Training and Employment Issues: A Resource Guide, produced by OUTSET for the Local Government Training Board 1989, £65.00 to local authorities, £84.50 to registered charities, £130.00 to other organizations (LGTB Publications, Arndale House, Arndale Centre, Luton LU1 2TS) Local Democracy in Practice, Clive Martlew, Avebury, 1988, pp. 178, £22.50. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Local Government, The Law and the Constitution, Martin Loughlin, Local Government Legal Society Trust, March 1983, pp. 143, £3.50. Financing Regional Government: International Practices and their Relevance to the Third World, K.J. Davey, John Wiley, 1983, pp. 193, £12.95. Housing Law, A. Arden and M. Partington, Sweet and Maxwell, 1983, pp. 1184, £55 (hardback). The Government of Scotland: Patterns of Influence In Public Policy Making, Michael Keating and Arthur Midwinter, Mainstream Publishing, 1983, pp. 214, £9.95. From Policy to Practice, Martin Rein, Macmillan, 1983, pp. xv + 250, £18.00 hardback, £6.95 paperback. Comparative Public Policy: The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America, 2nd ed., A.J. Heidenheimer, H. Heclo and C. T. Adams, Macmillan, 1983, pp. 367, £15.00 hardback, £5.95 paperback. Policy and Politics in France: Living with Uncertainty, Douglas E. Ashford, Temple University Press, 1982, pp. 345, $29.95 hardback, $12.95 paperback. Policy Advice and Organizational Survival, Michael J. Prince, Gower, 1983, pp. 256, £13.50. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "Principles for Local Government Legislation: Lessons From the Commonwealth Pacific" by Graham Sansom.

The article reviews the book "The Private Finance Initiative and Local Government," by Stephen Cirell, John Bennett and Robert Hann.

The article reviews the book "Ombudsmen in the Public Sector," by Mary Seneviratne.

Reviews the book `The Journal of Legislative Studies,' edited by Philip Norton.