Theme issue: New structures of local governance
Guest editors: Brian Smith, Ján Buček
Guest editorial
New approaches to local democracy: direct democracy, participation and the ‘third sector’ 3 – 16
Ján Buček, Brian Smith
The impact of local government organization on development and disparities—a comparative perspective 17 – 31
Eran Razin
Local government systems: from historic divergence towards convergence? Great Britain, France, and Germany as comparative cases in point 33 – 55
Hellmut Wollmann
Sublocal decentralisation—the case of Slovak big cities 57 – 78
Ján Buček
The concept of an ‘enabling’ local authority 79 – 94
Brian Smith
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Policy networks and advocacy coalitions: explaining policy change and stability in UK industrial pollution policy? 95 – 114
Adrian Smith
Issue publics, mass publics, and agenda setting: environmentalism and economics in presidential elections 115 – 126
Mark J Wattier, Raymond Tatalovich
Urban planning, hazardous installations, and blight: an evaluation of responses to hazard – development conflict 127 – 143
Gordon Walker
Public choice theory and the politics of urban containment: voter-centred versus special-interest explanations 145 – 162
Mark Pennington
Balancing concentration and dispersion? Public policy and urban structure in Toronto 163 – 189
Pierre Filion
The regulator – regulated relationship and environmental protection: perceptions in small and medium-sized enterprises 191 – 206
Judith Petts
Local authority provision versus club provision 207 – 223
David N King, Yue Ma
Persistent structures in a turbulent world: the division of labor in the German chemical industry 225 – 247
Harald Bathelt
Reviews 249 – 250
Wójcik on Lonsdale: The UK equity gap: the failure of government policy since 1945
Referees 1999 251
Editorial
Local authority size in theory and practice 255 – 270
David N King, Yue Ma
Changes in St Petersburg’s industrial belt after land privatization 271 – 283
Marie Howland, Anna M Katkhanova
State licence, local settlements, and the politics of ‘branding’ the city 285 – 300
Kevin G Ward
Technology, innovation, and regional economic development in the state of Victoria 301 – 319
Martin Boddy
The design and implementation of an international trading scheme for greenhouse gas emissions 321 – 337
ZhongXiang Zhang
Beauty and the beast? BP’s and Exxon’s positions on global climate change 339 – 354
Ian H Rowlands
Law, legal services, and the postcommunist transition in Germany’s New Bundesländer 355 – 370
Mark Blacksell, Karl Martin Born, Michael Bohlander
Reviews 371 – 378
Nunes Silva on McConnell: The politics and policy of local taxation in Britain
Hanlon on Knight, Joseph (Eds): Restructuring societies: insights from the social sciences
Mitchneck on Smith: The post-Soviet states, mapping the politics of transition
Dunn on Drache, Sullivan (Eds): Health reform: public success, private failure
Unwin on Gilbert, Helleiner (Eds): Nation-states and money: the past, present and future of national currencies
Is the New Deal for Transport really better for everyone? The social policy implications of the UK 1998 White Paper on transport 379 – 392
Meg Huby, Nick Burkitt
The economic impacts of LULUs 393 – 407
Terance J Rephann
Developing expertise in small and medium-sized enterprises: an evaluation of consultancy support 409 – 427
Ivan Turok, Mike Raco
In search of ethnic entrepreneurship opportunities in the city: a comparative policy study 429 – 451
Hadewijch van Delft, Cees Gorter, Peter Nijkamp
Urban grassroots nongovernmental organizations in Bombay: a suggested typology 453 – 468
Vandana Desai, Ian Preston
Local-level influences on environmental policy implementation in Eastern Europe: a theoretical framework and a Hungarian case study 469 – 485
Christopher G Pickvance
Reinventing authority: embedded knowledge networks and the new global finance 487 – 502
Timothy J Sinclair
Reviews 503 – 504
Awanyo on Chazan, Lewis, Mortimer, Rothchild, Stedman: Politics and society in contemporary Africa (third edition)
J J on Schraeder: African politics and society: a mosaic in transformation
Culture, communication, and the information problem in contingent valuation surveys: a case study of a Wildlife Enhancement Scheme 505 – 524
Jacquelin Burgess, Judy Clark, Carolyn Harrison
New fragmentations and new cooperations in the Turkish bourgeoisie 525 – 544
Murat Cokgezen
Taxe professionnelle as an exportable local tax 545 – 553
Rémy Prud’homme
Voluntary agreements and the incentives for innovation 555 – 573
Kjell Sunnevåg
The environmental regulation of privatized industry in Poland 575 – 592
David P Angel, Halina Brown, Roman Broszkiewicz, Slawomir Wronski
Making sense of sustainable development: politicians, professionals, and policies in local planning 593 – 607
Gareth E Bruff, Adrian P Wood
The Sustainable Transport Study for Aberdeen: a pioneering attempt at a ‘multimodal study’ 609 – 627
William Walton, John Farrington
Reviews 629 – 630
Barlow on Gouldson, Roberts (Eds): Integrating environment and economy: strategies for local and regional government
The state – society relation: the case of an antipoverty policy 631 – 650
Raju J Das
Different paths to success—the growth of the electronics sector in Ireland and Israel 651 – 665
Stephen Roper, Amnon Frenkel
Monetary shocks and the asymmetric adjustment of UK regional output 667 – 680
Mark J Holmes
Improving land compensation procedures via GIS and hedonic pricing 681 – 696
Iain R Lake, Andrew A Lovett, Ian J Bateman, Brett H Day
Designing learning networks in peripheral regions: comparison of two models 697 – 710
Hiro Izushi, Dylan Henderson
Spatial dimensions and institutional uncertainties of planning and the ‘new regionalism’ 711 – 726
Philip Allmendinger, Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Discourse coalitions and the Australian climate change policy network 727 – 748
Harriet Bulkeley
Transformation of the welfare states after World War 2: the cases of Portugal and Denmark 749 – 771
Frank Hansen, Carlos Nunes Silva
Reviews 773 – 776
Anand on Gamble, Marsh, Tant (Eds): Marxism and social science
Chandler on Self: Rolling back the market: economic dogma and political choice
Bennett on Huggins: The business of networks: inter-firm interaction, institutional policy and the TEC experiment
