The utility of the UK pollution panels in achieving integrated pollution control 1 – 12
C Wood
Regional governance in the United States: for whom? 13 – 26
R L Morrill
The military industrial firm, economic control, and local development 27 – 38
N Ettlinger, J R Crump
A model of educational outcomes at local authority level, with implications for local expenditure needs 39 – 58
G Bramley
Specialty costs for health service planning: model-based approaches to estimation 59 – 80
P G L Forte, A G Wilson
Integrated pollution-control in the United Kingdom: prospects and problems 81 – 91
S Owens
Distributional effects of open-ended matching grants 93 – 96
E Jonsson
Allocational effects of reducing a state grant to local governments 97 – 101
E Jonsson
Reviews 103 – 118
Guest editorial
High-technology theories and public policy 121 – 152
C Thompson
High-technology industry and regional development in Britain: the case of the Cambridge phenomenon 153 – 172
D E Keeble
Technology parks and their contribution to the development of technology-oriented complexes in Australia 173 – 192
R A Joseph
Venture capital investment in minority business enterprise: an evaluation of MESBIC investment preferences 193 – 204
R B McNaughton, M B Green
Patterns of preference for venture capital investment in the United States of America, 1970 - 85 205 – 222
M B Green
Does high technology polarize the work force? 223 – 241
T Klak
Reviews 243 – 244
Local tax equalisation in England: an empirical analysis 245 – 259
G A Boyne
Shaping a racially divided society: state housing policy in South Africa, 1920 - 50 261 – 272
S Parnell
Local government allocation of labour and the grant system: an applied model analysis of local government behaviour in Norway 273 – 284
J Rattsø
Grant systems and vulnerability to fiscal stress: a comparative study of Danish and North American local government 285 – 299
P E Mouritzen, B J Narver
Institutional design and central - locking strategies: introducing the new block grants system in Norway 301 – 312
N Aarsaether
Local authority responses to grants: different types of response and equilibrium 313 – 320
M M Barrow
Social security spending in the United Kingdom: bridging the north - south economic divide 321 – 340
R Walker, M Huby
Privatisation versus poll tax: a public choice analysis of the popularity of two Thatcher 'flagships' 341 – 351
J G Gibson, P A Watt
Swiss federalism: problems of interdependence and the role of the cantons 353 – 359
S Bieri
Reviews 361 – 370
Guest editorial
Optimal decentralization -- a conceptual approach to the reform of German federalism 375 – 383
D Biehl
Fiscal equalization between states in West Germany 385 – 393
H Zimmermann
Regional planning 395 – 402
B Dietrichs
Regional economic policy within the framework of cooperative federalism 403 – 409
P Klemmer
Entrepreneurs in America: are they really a different breed? 411 – 422
R D Bingham, J E Melkers
Polish local government in transition 423 – 444
J Regulski
Federal expenditure-to-revenue ratios in the United States of America, 1971 - 85: an exploration of spatial equity under the 'new federalism' 445 – 470
C Thompson
Multidimensionality in state policy and programs: a critique of pluralist state theory 471 – 474
T Klak
State and society: some reflections on theory and theory-building 475 – 482
G-C Lim
Reviews 483 – 488
Indexes 489 – 492
