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Competing for Quality—a Manager's Guide to Market Testing By Lynton Barker (Longman, Harlow, 1993). £38.50. ISBN 0 582 23688 6.
The Role of Chief Executives in Local Government By Janice Morphet (Longman, Harlow, 1993), pp. vi + 245. £29.95.