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During union election campaigns, one of the more challenging rules for managers to follow is the prohibition against making promises. Faced with union organizers making all sorts of wild promises about the future, managers want to respond in kind. However, to do so is objectionable election conduct and can amount to an unfair labor practice.

Securing adequate military burden-sharing has been a major failure of America's NATO policy. The Kosovo War showed that, 50 years after NATO's founding, European alliance members still cannot defeat even a military midget on their own. Continuing transatlantic military imbalances drain from the US valuable resources, threaten to embroil America in numerous conflicts that do not affect important US interests, & undermine American public support for US-European security cooperation. Only a significantly more detached US approach to European security -- reflecting NATO's recent acknowledgement that US & European interests are not always identical -- can produce equitable burden-sharing. Adapted from the source document.

In this analysis, the authors argue that reorganizations symbolize a chief executive's attempt to dominate the bureaucracy. Using the Senior Executive Service as a case study, it is contended that executive reorganizations are pervasive rites of presidential politics and civil service reform is a myth on which this rite is based. Unlike other students of the subject, Vogelsang-Coombs and Cum mins do not share the view that the bureaucracy problem can be solved. Reorganizations change the form, but not necessarily the underlying political reality, of public administration.

'The Promise Keepers: Politics and Promises' by Bryan W. Brickner is reviewed.