.."..a very strong novel." HJ Literary critics. No sooner had Matt Holland and his family set foot in Swaziland to work on a government aid project when the South African military strafe the place looking for saboteurs. Matt gets caught up in the ensuing chaos by agreeing to act as a spy. Struggling with his own personal demons, his world spirals into a coup attempt and things get a whole lot worse after he embarks on an illicit affair. Will these events change him for the better or lessen his commitment to bringing about social change in the country? Will agents of the state bent on killing...

In this new edition of his classic reader, Michael Hill seeks to make the selected extracts reflect a more European outlook on the processess of policy-making and implementation. With reference to the third edition of his popular textbook, The Policy Process in the Modern State, Hill has maintained the thematic approach of the first edition, looking in turn at approaches to policy making in Europe, power, bureaucracy and the State, the rationality/incrememtalism debate, the role of organisational theory in policy implementation, street-level bureaucracy and discretion. Already praised as one...