Book reviews

The Politics of Uncertainty: The Consequences of Minority Rule in an English County,Andrew Blowers, Open University, (Faculty of Social Science Working Paper No.3), 1986, pp.26, £2.50.Is There Life After Hanging? A Study of Three County Councils,Neil Carter, Bath Social Policy Paper No. 11, pp.72, University of Bath, 1986, £2.75.Green Belts: Conflict Mediation in the Urban Fringe,Martin J. Elson, Heinemann, 1986, pp.304, £22.50.Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action: The Production and Negotiation of the Built Environment,J.R. Short, S. Fleming and S. Witt, Rout-ledge & Kegan Paul, 1986, pp.313, £25.00.Decentralization and Change in Contemporary France,Michael Keating and Paul Hainsworth, Gower, pp.143, £17.50.Centralization and Decentralization in England and France,Stephen Garrish, University of Bristol, School for Advanced Urban Studies, 1986, pp.160, £5.95.Decentralization in the South Pacific: Local Provincial and State Government in Twenty Countries,P. Larmour and R. Qalo (eds), University of the South Pacific, 1985, pp.393.