Editorial
The political economy and regional implications of energy policy in Britain in the 1990s 3 – 28
David Sadler
Defying neoliberal convergence: Austria's successful supply-side corporatism in the 1990s 29 – 44
Reinhard Heinisch
Competitive bidding in urban regeneration: stimulus or disillusionment for the losers? 45 – 63
Peter Taylor, Ivan Turok, Annette Hastings
The dilemmas of interregional institutional learning 65 – 84
Robert Hassink, Arnoud Lagendijk
An econometric analysis of local fiscal response to revenue sharing in Turkey 85 – 101
Isa Sagbas
Cost – benefit analysis and environmental policymaking 103 – 118
Nick Hanley
Public demand for medicines, price regulation, and government - industry relationships in Spain 119 – 134
Rosa Nonell, Joan-Ramon Borrell
Community economic development in urban and regional regeneration: unfolding potential or justifiable scepticism? 135 – 155
Paul Lawless
Reviews 157 – 158
McManus on Pearce, Barbier: Blueprint for a sustainable economy
Theme issue: Fiscal federalism in fragmented states
Guest editor: Richard M Bird
Guest editorial
Fiscal arrangements for maintaining an effective state in Canada 163 – 187
Richard M Bird, François Vaillancourt
The role of intergovernmental finance in achieving diversity and cohesion: the case of Spain 189 – 206
Antoni Castells
Intergovernmental fiscal relations in fragmented societies -- the case of Switzerland 207 – 222
Thomas P Stauffer
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Public policy and population distribution: developing appropriate indicators of settlement patterns 223 – 248
Mike Coombes, Simon Raybould
Forests of consumption: postproductivism, postmaterialism, and the postindustrial forest 249 – 268
A S Mather
Rescaling and regional governance: the English Regional Development Agencies and the environment 269 – 288
David Gibbs, Andrew E G Jonas
Partnerships, power, and scale in rural governance 289 – 310
Bill Edwards, Mark Goodwin, Simon Pemberton, Michael Woods
Reviews 311 – 314
Menzies on Brown, Pratt (Eds): Dangerous offenders: punishment and social order
Mason on Lawton Smith: Technology transfer and industrial change in Europe
Briassoulis on Bramwell, Lane (Eds): Tourism, collaboration and partnerships: politics, practice and sustainability
Referees 2000 315
Theme issue: SME policy developments
Papers from the ISBE Annual Conference
The implications of EU accession for Polish SMEs 317 – 333
David Smallbone, Bogdan Piasecki, Anna Rogut
Institutional barriers to enterprise support: an empirical study 335 – 353
Shailendra Vyakarnam, Richard Adams
Chief executive officers and nonexecutive directors: their relationships in small companies 355 – 372
David Deakins, Eileen O'Neill, Patrick Mileham
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The British Child Support Agency: did American origins bring failure? 373 – 389
David P Dolowitz
Linking coalitions to policy output: the case of local government in Norway 391 – 411
Pål E Martinussen, Per Arnt Pettersen
Strategic management of government-sponsored R&D portfolios 413 – 442
Barry Bozeman, Juan Rogers
Bribing the grantee: asymmetric information and the enforcement of local minimum-provision levels through grants-in-aid 443 – 460
Tom Van Puyenbroeck
Financing school-based education in England: poverty, examination results, and expenditure 461 – 471
Anne West, Hazel Pennell, Tony Travers, Robert West
Reviews 473 – 474
Meligrana on Hall: Cities in civilization: culture, innovation, and urban order
Theme issue: Participation, representation, and deliberation in environmental policy
Guest editor: Clive Spash
Editorial
Representing people, representing nature, representing the world 483 – 500
John O'Neill
Deliberation and inclusion: vehicles for increasing trust in UK public governance? 501 – 513
Dan Bloomfield, Kevin Collins, Charlotte Fry, Richard Munton
What are we gaining from stakeholder involvement? Observations from environmental planning in the Great Lakes 515 – 527
Thomas C Beierle, David M Konisky
A novel approach to the appraisal of technological risk: a multicriteria mapping study of a genetically modified crop 529 – 555
Andy Stirling, Sue Mayer
Citizens' juries: an aid to environmental valuation? 557 – 566
Wendy Kenyon, Nick Hanley, Ceara Nevin
Environmental valuation analysis, public deliberation, and their pragmatic syntheses: a critical appraisal 567 – 585
Simon Niemeyer, Clive L Spash
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Modelling the local impacts of national social policies: a spatial microsimulation approach 587 – 606
Dimitris Ballas, Graham P Clarke
The fiscal manipulation of a decentralized public sector: macroeconomic policy in Denmark 607 – 623
Jens Blom-Hansen, Thomas Pallesen
Reviews 625 – 632
Woods on Grant: Pressure groups and British politics
Jacobs on Stewart: The nature of British local government
Jhaveri on Mol, Sonnenfeld (Eds): Ecological modernisation around the world: perspectives and critical debates
Benneworth on Ludlam, Smith (Eds): New Labour in government
Theme issue: Property, rights, and fairness
Guest editor: Roderick J Lawrence
Guest editorial
Claiming legitimacy: analysing conflict in the environmental policy process 637 – 650
Bhaskar Vira
Property-rights regimes over biological resources 651 – 664
Philippe Cullet
Environmental resources, property regimes, and efficiency 665 – 680
Arild Vatn
Ownership of environmental values and opportunity costs 681 – 693
Jon C Lovett
Property, care, and environment 695 – 711
John O'Neill
Ecological conflicts and valuation: mangroves versus shrimps in the late 1990s 713 – 728
Joan Martinez-Alier
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Tackling the participation of the unemployed in paid informal work: a critical evaluation of the deterrence approach 729 – 749
Colin C Williams
Whither partnership governance in Northern Ireland? 751 – 770
Jonathan Greer
The territorial redistributive power of the EU budget: empirical evidence at national and regional levels 771 – 790
Marta Espasa
'Not in my city': local governments and homelessness policies in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Region 791 – 815
Robin Law
Taking care of business: aftercare and the state -- multinational enterprise nexus in Wales 817 – 832
Nicholas A Phelps, Cris Fuller
Embedding inward investment through workforce development: experiences in Wales 833 – 848
Robert Huggins
Location trends for foreign direct investment in East Central Europe 849 – 880
David Turnock
Verifying environmental cleanup: lessons from the Baltic Sea Joint Comprehensive Environmental Action Programme 881 – 901
Matthew R Auer, Eve Nilenders
Neighbourhood regeneration and New Labour's third way 903 – 926
Steven Tiesdell, Philip Allmendinger