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This title examines the capacity of contemporary governments to act upon and address the pressing problems of our time. It highlights four basic administrative capacities that matter for governance and considers the way in which states have addressed particular governance challenges.

Review of: Making Waves: Traveling Musics in Hawai'i, Asia, and the Pacific, Frederick Lau and Christine R. Yano (eds) (2018)
Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 228 pp.,
ISBN 978 0 82487 376 9 (hbk), US$80.00

Review of: Charles Brasch: Journals 1958–1973, selected, annotated and introduced by Peter Simpson (2018)
Dunedin: Otago University Press, 694 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 98853 114 4 (hbk), NZ$59.95

Review of: New Zealand Jazz Life, Norman Meehan and Tony Whincup (photographs) (2016)
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 240 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 77656 092 9 (pbk), NZ$40.00

Searching for tradition in New Zealand music is itself now a tradition, one that began in earnest with Douglas Lilburn's famous talk given at the Cambridge Summer School of Music in January 1946. At that time, the seminal talk had no title. It was only forty years later that Lilburn gave it the name A Search for a Tradition, when music historian John Mansfield Thomson edited it for publication.

The financial crisis is widely said to have exposed shortcomings in the EU's capacities to address transboundary threats. National and EU regulatory regimes were left exposed, member states engaged in ill-coordinated actions, and the eventual responses raised questions about the redistributional consequences of European integration. Subsequently, the refugee crisis also highlighted shortcomings in transboundary crisis management, especially as member state positions diverged radically and solidarity was in short supply. One traditional part of the EU's raison d'être has been the coordination of member states in the face of cross-boundary challenges (see Boin and Lodge 2015: 19). It might even be said that crises and the perception of member state 'boundary loss' have been central drivers in encouraging the growing importance of European governance. However, since the financial crisis, there are growing questions whether the EU is well-equipped to deal with the kind of major societal challenges that transboundary crises represent. Indeed, the EU has been criticised for being the source of rather than the solution to transboundary crises. TransCrisis research was motivated by the interest in exploring the presence and limits of transboundary crisis capacities across EU institutions and across EU-member state relations. TransCrisis research occurred at a time of growing perception of vulnerability and uncertainty, whether it was due to global crises (the financial and refugee crises), geopolitical changes or an increasing perception that the traditional tools of managing crises had become themselves potential sources of crisis. This 'new normal' has also been characterised by a distinct political context, namely one of renationalised electoral politics, highly dispersed administrative systems and tensions between addressing short- and long-term policy goals. In particular, TransCrisis research was guided by one overarching question: How can political leaders in the EU multi-level governance system exercise ...

AbstractWhat have been the effects of coalition government on the British regulatory state? This article argues that the politics of regulation have been largely about a continuation of existing patterns, namely volatile stability rather than more far‐reaching change. The British regulatory state continues to be defined by boundary conflicts between the world of 'politics' and 'regulation', by conflicting calls for centralisation and decentralised autonomy, and by tensions between the wish to 'reduce' regulation and the realisation of inherent complexities.