"Editors' choice" archives 

Each time a new issue of Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy is published, the editors choose one paper which they feel deserves particular attention. Below are listed the papers which have been selected since the feature was introduced in March 2008.

Volume 31(2) Overeducation and externalities in the EU: the combined moderating influence of migration and gender  (2013)
Vassilis Tselios
Volume 31(1) Evaluating the impact of different training methods on SME business performance (2013)
Paul Jones, Malcolm Beynon, David Pickernell, Gary Packham

Volume 30(6) Mitigating conflict and violence in African cities (2012)
Sean Fox, Jo Beall
Volume 30(5) Is there a link between globalization and governance? (2012)
Roberto Ezcurra
Volume 30(4) The transnational regime complex for climate change (2012)
Kenneth W Abbott
Volume 30(3) Growing grassroots innovations: exploring the role of community-based initiatives in governing sustainable energy transitions (2012)
Gill Seyfang, Alex Haxeltine
Volume 30(2) Urban sustainability, conflict management, and the geographies of postpoliticism: a case study of Taipei (2012)
Mike Raco, Wen-I Lin
Volume 30(1) Devolution, institutions, and organisations: changing models of regional development agencies (2012)
Mike Danson, Greg Lloyd

Volume 29(6) Do local policy networks deter the race to the bottom in environmental regulation? The case of South Korea (2011)
Doo-Rae Kim
Volume 29(5) Hearing but not listening? A participatory assessment of public participation in planning (2011)
Elisabeth Conrad, Louis F Cassar, Mike Christie, Ioan Fazey
Volume 29(4) A survey of tax compliance costs of Flemish SMEs: magnitude and determinants (2011)
Bilitis Schoonjans, Philippe Van Cauwenberge, Catherine Reekmans, Gudrun Simoens
Volume 29(3) Sharing the gains of local economic growth: race-to-the-top versus race-to-the-bottom economic development (2011)
Stephan J Goetz, Mark D Partridge, Dan S Rickman, Shibalee Majumdar
Volume 29(2) Does fiscal decentralisation strengthen social capital? Cross-country evidence and the experiences of Brazil and Indonesia (2011)
Luiz de Mello
Volume 29(1) Are innovative regions more unequal? Evidence from Europe (2011)
Neil Lee

Volume 28(6) Stopping the unstoppable? A discursive-institutionalist analysis of renewable transport fuel policy (2010)
James Palmer
Volume 28(5) Meta-analyses of labour-market impacts of immigration: key conclusions and policy implications (2010)
Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot
Volume 28(4) What factors influence the behaviour of nonprofit organisations? The example of the continuing training sector in France (2010)
Franck Bailly, Karine Chapelle
Volume 28(3) Does devolution lead to regional inequalities in welfare activities? (2010)
Joan Costa-Font
Volume 28(2) The role of tax incentives in capital investment and R&D decisions (2010)
Francis Chittenden, Mohsen Derregia
Volume 28(1) Choosing between service fees and budget funding to pay for local services: empirical evidence from Spain (2010)
Germà Bel, Antonio Miralles
Transparency to what end? Governing by disclosure through the biosafety clearing house (2010)
Aarti Gupta

Volume 27(6) Delivering employability in a vanguard ‘active’ welfare state: the case of Greater Copenhagen in Denmark (2009)
Colin Lindsay, Mikkel Mailand
Volume 27(5) Cross-border metropolitan integration in Europe: the case of Luxembourg, Basel, and Geneva (2009)
Christophe Sohn, Bernard Reitel, Olivier Walther
Volume 27(4) A new era of federal involvement in regional economic development? The case of the WIRED initiative (2009)
Henry Renski
Volume 27(3) Divergence or convergence? Devolution and transport policy in the United Kingdom (2009)
Jon Shaw, Danny MacKinnon, Iain Docherty
Volume 27(2) Perceptions and experience of employment regulation in UK small tax firms (2009)
Sara Carter, Colin Mason, Stephen Tagg
Volume 27(1) Converging agendas? Energy and climate change policies in the UK (2009)
Heather Lovell, Harriet Bulkeley, Susan Owens

Volume 26(6) ‘Wicked’, ‘messy’, and ‘clumsy’: long-term frameworks for sustainability (2008)
Bob Frame
Volume 26(5) Knowledge flows, spatial strategy making, and the roles of academics (2008)
Patsy Healey
Volume 26(4) Transportation: the bottleneck of regional competitiveness in Toronto (2008)
Roger Keil, Douglas Young
Volume 26(3) Analysing the impact of Objective 1 funding in Europe: a review (2008)
Peter Gripaios, Paul Bishop, Trevor Hart, Eric McVittie
Volume 26(2) The territorial governance of the shadow economy (2008)
Luigi Burroni, Colin Crouch