Editorial
Continuity, autonomy, and peripheralisation: the anatomy of the centre's race statecraft in England 129 – 148
J Bulpitt
The forgotten dimension of central – local relations: theorising the 'regional state' 149 – 162
P Saunders
A reappraisal of public choice theory of intergovernmental relations 163 – 174
D H McKay
Centralisation and decentralisation: a framework for comparative analysis 175 – 186
E Page, M J Goldsmith
Costing inpatient health care in Britain: a review of methods 187 – 198
P G L Forte
Distributional impacts of government policies in Switzerland 199 – 214
R E Leu, R L Frey
Job generation among independent West German manufacturing firms 1974 – 1980—evidence from four regions 215 – 234
C J Hull
Budgeting in a newly established agency: the first twenty years of the United States Civil Rights Commission 235 – 242
A T Cowart, F D Gilliam Jr
Reviews 243 – 252
