Converging on competitiveness: garbage cans and the new global economy 1 – 18
David J Sousa
Recommendations for negotiated agreements 19 – 37
Kirsten Hansen, Katja Sander Johannsen, Anders Larsen
Improving information for Regional Development Agencies' strategies and policies: using microdata from the United Kingdom's 2001 Census of Population 39 – 55
Chris Gardiner
The Private Finance Initiative and public sector finance 57 – 74
Rob Ball, Maryanne Heafey, David King
Rethinking Lowi's constituent policy: governance policy and direct democracy 75 – 93
Caroline J Tolbert
Federalism and metropolitan governance in cross-national perspective: the case of urban sprawl 95 – 112
Jefferey M Sellers
D'accord or discord? New institutionalism, concordance, and the European Union Agriculture Council 113 – 129
Alun Jones, Julian Clark
Local sourcing by multinational enterprise plants: evidence from the UK regions and the implications for policy 131 – 149
Mike Crone
Reviews 151 – 158
Chorianopoulos on Miller, Dickson, Stoker: Models of local governance: public opinion and political theory in Britain
Miron on King, Oxley: Housing: who decides?
Pardo on Donald, Rees (Eds): Reinterpreting revolution in twentieth-century Europe
Neo on Gleeson, Low (Eds): Governing for the environment: global problems, ethics and democracy
Psycharis on Rodríguez-Pose: Dynamics of regional growth of Europe: social and political factors
Kerkelä on Chandler: Energy and environment in the transition economies: between cold war and global warming
Theme issue: Small firm policy
Papers from the ISBE Annual Conference
Guest editor: William Keogh
Guest editorial
Small business policy in the United Kingdom: the inheritance of the Small Business Service and implications for its future effectiveness 163 – 177
James Curran, David J Storey
Street-level technocracy in UK small business support: Business Links, personal business advisers, and the Small Business Service 179 – 194
Kevin Mole
Targeted support for high-growth start-ups: some policy issues 195 – 209
David Smallbone, Robert Baldock, Steven Burgess
The relationship between training and small business performance: an analysis of the Barclays Bank Small Firms Training Loans Scheme 211 – 233
Stuart Fraser, David Storey, Julian Frankish, Richard Roberts
Ethnic minority business policy in the era of the Small Business Service 235 – 249
Monder Ram, David Smallbone
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The cost of local government structural reorganisation in Great Britain during the 1990s 251 – 262
Michael Chisholm
Should cities help their citizens to adopt ICTs? On ICT-adoption policies in European cities 263 – 279
Leo van den Berg, Willem van Winden
Public - private partnerships as catalysts for community-based water infrastructure development: the Border WaterWorks program in Texas and New Mexico colonias 281 – 295
Maria Carmen Lemos, Diane Austin, Robert Merideth, Robert G Varady
The steady advance of Wal-Mart across Europe and changing government attitudes towards planning and competition 297 – 309
Alan Hallsworth, David Evers
Reviews 311 – 316
Savage on Angel, Rock (Eds): Asia's clean revolution: industry, growth and the environment
Palavicini Corona on Goss: Making local governance work: networks, relationships and the management of change
Barnett on Smith (Ed.): The daily globe: environmental change, the public and the media
Jenkins on Weale, Pridham, Cini, Konstadakopulos, Porter, Flynn: Environmental governance in Europe: an ever closer ecological union?
Decentralisation, enablement, and local governance in low-income countries 317 – 340
A H J (Bert) Helmsing
Spending efficiency of international financing institutions: determinants of efficiency and a research design 341 – 355
Horst Zimmermann, Thilo Pahl
From grassroots movement to state-coordinated market strategy: the transformation of organic agriculture in China 357 – 373
Paul Thiers
The facilitation and formalisation of small business networks: evidence from the North East of England 375 – 391
Lutz Laschewski, Jeremy Phillipson, Matthew Gorton
Promoting regional economic growth in Greece by investing in public infrastructure 393 – 419
Antonis Rovolis, Nigel Spence
Geographical scale, the attribution of credit/blame, local economic circumstances, and retrospective economic voting in Great Britain 1997: an extension of the model 421 – 438
Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie
The 'voice' approach of trade associations: support for SMEs accessing a research institute 439 – 454
Hiro Izushi
Regulating public bodies: the case of direct service organisations in British local government 455 – 470
Rachel Ashworth, George A Boyne, Neil McGarvey, Richard M Walker
Reviews 471 – 472
Benneworth on Heffernan: New Labour and Thatcherism: political change in Britain
Referees 2001 473 – 474
Theme issue: Contemporary urban problems and population health
Guest editors: James R Dunn, Mark W Rosenberg
Guest editorial
Discrimination and the political economy of environmental inequality 477 – 496
Rachel A Morello-Frosch
Housing policy, poverty, and culture: 'discounting' decisions among Pacific peoples in Auckland, New Zealand 497 – 516
Tarin Cheer, Robin Kearns, Laurence Murphy
Is urban regeneration good for health? Perceptions and theories of the health impacts of urban change 517 – 534
Sarah Curtis, Ben Cave, Adam Coutts
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The legal basis of European Union policy: the case of environmental policy 535 – 553
Eivind Hovden
Constructing the practice of 'spatial planning': a national spatial planning framework for Wales 555 – 572
Neil Harris, Alan Hooper, Kevin Bishop
Reinventing government? Explaining management reform at the Hong Kong Housing Authority 573 – 592
Richard M Walker, Ling Hin Li
Social participation, institutional change, and land property in the building up of sustainability: a case study of land-use conflict in Tenerife (Canary Islands) 593 – 612
Federico Aguilera-Klink, Juan Sánchez-García
The 'employability gap': long-term unemployment and barriers to work in buoyant labour markets 613 – 628
Ronald W McQuaid, Colin Lindsay
Reviews 629 – 632
Ikeme on Neumayer: Greening trade and investment: environmental protection without protectionism
Holl on Felsenstein, McQuaid, McCann, Shefer (Eds): Public investment and regional economic development
Alevizakos on Weber: Swords into Dow shares: governing the decline of the military industrial complex
On regional systems of innovation: illustrations from the West Midlands 633 – 654
Mark S Freel
Regional allocation of Structural Funds in the European Union 655 – 677
Carlos Gil, Pedro Pascual, Manuel Rapún
Determinants of environmental clean-up in Estonia 679 – 698
Matthew R Auer, Anto Raukas
Environmental regulation of land use and public compensation: principles, and Swiss and Australian examples 699 – 716
Irmi Seidl, Clement A Tisdell, Steve Harrison
Task forces and the organisation of economic development: the case of the North East region of England 717 – 739
Andy Pike
Danger ahead? The impact of fear of crime on people's recreational use of nonmotorised shared-use routes 741 – 756
Neil Ravenscroft, David Uzzell, Rachel Leach
The Police Act and the recruitment of offenders: towards the limits of social exclusion? 757 – 773
Del Roy Fletcher
Spatial-economic investment policy and urban regeneration in the Netherlands 775 – 790
Hugo Priemus
Theme issue: Size and democracy
Guest editors: Michael Goldsmith, Lawrence Rose
Guest editorial
Size and political trust: evidence from Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom 793 – 812
Bas Denters
Size and direct democracy at the local level: the case of Switzerland 813 – 828
Andreas Ladner
Municipal size and local nonelectoral participation: findings from Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway 829 – 851
Lawrence E Rose
Size and electoral participation in local elections 853 – 869
Annie Gaardsted Frandsen
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Rationality as social justice and the spatial-distributional analysis of risk 871 – 888
Raul P Lejano, Bill Piazza, Douglas Houston
Local autonomy versus central control during transition: explaining local policy outputs in
Trevor L Brown
Localising welfare-to-work? Territorial flexibility and the New Deal for Young People 911 – 932
Corinne Nativel, Peter Sunley, Ron Martin
Reviews 933 – 936
Arsel on Stott, Sullivan (Eds): Political ecology: science, myth and power
Miorelli on Graziano: Lobbying, pluralism and democracy
Clayton on Bailey: Constitution for a future country
