{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.02286689419795222, 'fraction_numerical': 0.005460750853242321, 'mean_word_length': 4.981632653061224, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Ethnic Soldiers: State Security in Divided Societies Cynthia H. Enloe Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980, pp. iv, 276

study. It covers 48 countries. Moreover, instead of being the product of one author, the present volume has different authors for each country covered and usually the author is an academic from the country he is describing. This means there is much greater uneveness in the Rowat book, both in the range of the contributions but also in their general quality. Another difference is the mode of exposition. Leemans' book is organized around themes and not countries whereas Rowat's compendium is organized around both. Rowat and his colleagues also achieve a much wider coverage of the different institutional forms of reorganization. For example, there are separate sections on metropolitan areas, regions, as well as lower-tier units so that to some extent it becomes a replacement for Miss Hauck-Walsh's cross-national study of metropolitan area reorganization, The Urban Challenge to Government (New York: Praeger, 1969), as well as Leemans'. Not everyone will be satisfied with the book's coverage of countries, but there can be little doubt that as fair a spread has been achieved as is normally possible in such international collaborative efforts. Moreover, a welcome feature of the book, not always shared by comparative studies, are four general essays which summarize developments under the following heads: metropolitan areas, regions, developed countries, and developing countries. All four are worthy and adequate, but they may lack enough sparkle for some tastes. The book ends with a set of sound, but again hardly startling conclusions by the editor. In it he raises some of the primordial questions associated with local government reorganization, including the dilemma facing developing countries as to whether a strong local government undermines the process of national integration; how do we define the influence area of a city; should a local boundary follow existing local loyalties or will it create them, and so forth. This essay also contains an important plea for the evolution of some method that will enable us to measure the relative power of a local government system vis-a-vis senior government. Let us hope someone responds. Canadians may be interested to note that Professor Rowat has not, like some editors of comparable volumes, put his own country in the backseat. They will see with no doubt a peculiarly Canadian mixture of justification and embarrassment that the section on "North America" begins with a Canadian essay and has three Canadian contributions to one American. This invaluable and informative book must be included in every university library and on the shelves of all local government specialists. But at 600 or so pages it cannot be easily secreted about the person; nor is it recommended for bedtime reading unless there is a small winch available.