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Book Review: Anne Tiernan, Power Without Responsibility: Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007. $34.95. x + 283 pp. ISBN 978 0 868 40981 8

of what the critical, Kriegelian historiography of communism refers to as the articulation between the ‘teleological’ dimension of communist parties (the irrevocable structural, organizational and ideological ties between these parties and Moscow) and their ‘societal’ dimension (their integration into and interaction with their social surroundings). Such articulation is found implicitly in Raymond’s evocation of various historical episodes, such as the PCF’s legalistic strategy at the Liberation, which was indeed fully congruent with Stalin’s instructions, but overall the analysis would have been enhanced by an explicit exploitation of this two-dimensional model. For example, the discussion of the PCF’s tactics to torpedo the Union of the Left in 1977, or attempt to secretly undermine Mitterrand’s victory prospects in the second round of the 1981 presidential election, fails to suggest that these tactics were largely influenced by the Soviet leadership, who openly supported Giscard d’Estaing and distrusted Mitterrand, whom they saw as being too Atlanticist. Overall, therefore, the specialist reader might come away from this book feeling frustrated by its relative lack of originality and its systematic underplaying of the ‘teleological’ dimension of the PCF. Let it also be said, however, that this detailed and elegantly-written study provides a scholarly synthesis of some of the key debates in contemporary French politics which will be extremely useful to advanced students of history, politics or French studies.