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Issue 1

Sclerosis, convergence, and taxes: determinants of growth among the US states 1 – 11
D W Rasmussen, T W Zuehlke

Explaining the growth of social benefits in advanced capitalist countries, 1960 - 80 13 – 28
V A Mahler

President Carter's comprehensive national urban policy: achievements and lessons learned 29 – 40
F J James

Tax reform, revenue windfalls, and elderly taxpayers 41 – 52
J R Gist

Education as an economic development resource 53 – 68
E W Hill, H M Rock

Gains and losses from the changes in the system of grants paid to English local authorities 69 – 86
D N King

Transforming rural local government: Zimbabwe's postindependence experience 87 – 110
A H J Helmsing

Reviews 111 – 122

Issue 2

Government spending, policy outputs, and policy outcomes: health policy in Yugoslavia 123 – 138
C Clark

A style of economic regulation, France 1969 - 86: a comparison between France and West Germany 139 – 148
H Dumez, A Jeunemaître

The elderly, economic dependency, and local government revenues and expenditures 149 – 165
M W Rosenberg, E G Moore

Modelling interactions between economic development and environmental change: a policy life-cycle interpretation 167 – 178
F Brouwer, P Nijkamp

Collective order and economic coordination in industrial agglomerations: the technopoles of Southern California 179 – 193
A J Scott, A S Paul

Measuring the benefits of water quality improvement in municipal water use: the case of Lake Biwa 195 – 201
K Hagihara, Y Hagihara

Determinants of the growth of transfers in the United Kingdom: a causal analysis 203 – 216
R Levaggi

Intergovernmental social transfers and the welfare state: menace or promise? 217 – 232
D E Ashford

The incidence of business rates on household income in the United Kingdom, 1979 233 – 238
D Mair

Reviews 239 – 240

Issue 3

Neighborhood rehabilitation and policy transfer 241 – 250
P R Dommel

Enterprise zones: 1. Investment and job creation of state government programs in the United States of America 251 – 267
R A Erickson, S W Friedman

Thatcherism -- one nation or two? An exploration of British political attitudes in the 1980s 269 – 282
C J Pattie, R J Johnston

Local fiscal variables and intrametropolitan firm location: regression evidence from the United States and research suggestions 283 – 296
R W Wassmer

Regional discontinuities of planning objectives in the Republic of the Marshall Islands 297 – 314
L J Gorenflo

The individual travel-cost method and the value of recreation: the case of the Montgomery and Lancaster Canals 315 – 326
K G Willis, G D Garrod

Deregulation of domestic passenger air transport services in the United Kingdom, 1980 - 89: a case study of Northern Ireland 327 – 346
B J Graham

Private investment in rental housing 347 – 357
P Dent, J Doling

Reviews 359 – 362

Issue 4

Enterprise zones: 2. A comparative analysis of zone performance and state government policies 363 – 378
R A Erickson, S W Friedman

Consensus and dissension among contemporary environmental activists: preservationists and conservationists in the US and Canadian context 379 – 393
B S Steel, M A E Steger, N P Lovrich, J C Pierce

Agenda setting and the rise and fall of policy issues: the case of criminal victimization of the elderly 395 – 415
F L Cook, W G Skogan

Government land preservation and communication policies in fast-growing counties of the United States of America 417 – 426
M R Greenberg, F J Popper

Regional policy and national politics in Britain 427 – 438
I R Gordon

Unfair housing subsidy and public housing in Hong Kong 439 – 454
A G O Yeh

Regional distribution of industry and the role of the state in Greece 455 – 476
L Labrianidis, N Papamichos

Political ideology and housing policy in modern China 477 – 487
G-C Lim, M-H Lee

Reviews 489 – 492

Indexes 493 – 495