Theme issue: Electric cars
Guest editorial
Manufacturing the electric vehicle: a window of technological opportunity for Southern California 835 – 862
C O Quandt
The electric vehicle industry and local economic development: prospects and policies for Southern California 863 – 875
A J Scott
The potential impacts of an electric vehicle manufacturing complex on the Los Angeles economy 877 – 905
G Wolff, D Rigby, D Gauthier, M Cenzatti
Electric vehicle manufacturing in Southern California: local versus regional environmental hazards 907 – 932
J A Roqué
Industrial policy in Southern California: the production of markets, technologies, and institutional support for electric vehicles 933 – 954
J Slifko, D L Rigby
Electric vehicle production and advanced-transportation systems: prospects for the development of an industrial district in Southern California 955 – 964
M Cenzatti
Governing urban finance: changing budgetary strategies in British local government 965 – 983
P L Pinch
The exact distribution of Moran's I 985 – 999
M Tiefelsdorf, B Boots
Rural poverty and the welfare state: a discursive transformation in Britain and the USA 1001 – 1016
P Cloke
Reviews 1017 – 1020