The geography of corporate philanthropy in the United Kingdom 3 – 24
H Hurd, C Mason, S Pinch
Metropolitan government in Amsterdam and Eindhoven: a tale of two cities 25 – 50
J Van der Veer
The agri-environment regulation EU 2078/ 92: the role of the European Commission in policy shaping and setting 51 – 68
A Jones, J R A Clark
Crisis and dysfunction of spatial development and management in Taiwan 69 – 84
T- L Chou
Geographies of justice: preschool-childcare provision and the conceptualisation of social justice 85 – 104
S L Holloway
Potentials for East - West integration: the case of foreign direct investment 105 – 120
M van Geenhuizen, P Nijkamp
Restructuring, democracy, and geography in New Zealand 127 – 153
N Lewis, W Moran
Integrated regional policy: lessons from Switzerland 155 – 172
A Thierstein, U K Egger
Local policymaking under fiscal centralism in the Netherlands: consequences for local environmental policy 173 – 189
J G Groenendijk
Voluntary corporate environmental initiatives: a typology and preliminary investigation 191 – 209
S Labatt, V W Maclaren
The determinants of municipal debt policy: a pooled time-series analysis 211 – 224
R A Cropf, G D Wendel
Development, dependency, and devolution: the anomalous political economy of communist and postcommunist societies 225 – 246
S E Hanson
Referees 1997 254
The siting problem of NIMBY facilities: cost -- benefit analysis and auction mechanisms 255 – 264
E Quah, K C Tan
Business Link, strong ties, and the walls of silence: small and medium-sized enterprises and external business-service expertise 265 – 280
J R Bryson, P W Daniels
Democratization, economic liberalization, and transformational slump: a cross-sectional analysis of twenty-one postcommunist countries 281 – 306
P Dostál
Urban economic policy networks in Britain and France: a sociometric approach 307 – 322
P John
Macroeconomic control of subcentral governments: experience from the USA and Scandinavia 323 – 340
J Blom-Hansen
The sulfur dioxide allowance-trading program in the USA: recent developments and lessons to be learned 341 – 361
B Hansjürgens
The principles of the 'New Competition': an empirical assessment of Ireland's position 363 – 372
S Roper
The changing role of the development plan in managing spatial change 379 – 394
A Hull, G Vigar
Private tenants and 'perverse incentives' in the housing benefit scheme 395 – 409
P A Kemp, P McLaverty
Local finance in Portugal: recent proposals and consequences for urban management 411 – 421
C N Silva
Urban sustainability: problems facing the 'local' approach to carbon-reduction strategies 423 – 432
D McEvoy, D C Gibbs, J W S Longhurst
Barriers to technology transfer: local impediments in Oxfordshire 433 – 448
H Lawton Smith
Localism in the NHS quasi-market 449 – 462
M Exworthy
Interrelationships between key actors in local economic development 463 – 481
C Wong
The urban implications of the developing European high-speed-train network 483 – 497
L van den Berg, P M J Pol
Gender-neutral automobile-insurance rates: have they made a difference? 505 – 516
A J Stanislawski, K J Meier
The three faces of synthesis: bringing together quantitative findings in the field of transport and environmental policy 517 – 528
K J Button
Planning and pollution: an unusual perspective on central - local relations 529 – 542
P Scott, C Miller, C Wood
Improvements, by using a new set of data, to the English Standard Spending Assessments: the 1991 Census of Population samples of anonymised records 543 – 558
C Gardiner
Not-so-new public management and the denial of geography: Ontario health-care reform in the 1990s 559 – 572
N T Hanlon, M W Rosenberg
The effectiveness of active labour-market policies: latest evidence from the National Development Programme 573 – 589
D R Fletcher
Chambers of commerce and local development in France: problems and constraints 591 – 604
S Waters
Planning cooperation and transboundary regionalism: implementing policies for European border regions in the German - Polish context 605 – 624
J W Scott
Reviews 625 – 630
Guest editorial
Theme issue: Regional and subregional income and growth
Guest editor: G Clarke
The geography of earnings and incomes in the 1990s: an overview 633 – 647
A E Green
Economic performance across the UK regions: convergence or divergence? 649 – 658
J L Evans, E J Pentecost
Social polarisation and inequality in London: the earnings evidence, 1979 - 95 659 – 680
C Hamnett, D Cross
Modelling local and small-area income distributions in Scotland 681 – 706
G Bramley, S Lancaster
Modelling regional changes in US household income and wealth: a research agenda 707 – 722
S B Caldwell, G P Clarke, L A Keister
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The US Acid Rain Program: design, performance, and assessment 723 – 734
G T Svendsen
Institutional capacity building in a strategic policy vacuum: the case of the Korean company LG in South Wales 735 – 755
N A Phelps, M Tewdwr-Jones
Competition, regulation, and the privatisation of British Rail 757 – 768
R Gibb, J Shaw, C Charlton
Book reviews index 781 – 782
