Anniversary papers
Reflecting on editorial and publishing challenges: Government and Policy; the first 25 years 1 – 16
Robert Bennett
The governance of sustainable development: taking stock and looking forwards 17 – 33
Andrew Jordan
Contingent valuation design and data treatment: if you can’t shoot the messenger, change the message 34 – 53
Clive L Spash
From identity to the economy: analysing the evolution of the decentralisation discourse 54 – 72
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Richard Sandall
Tax policy in emerging countries 73 – 86
Richard M Bird, Eric M Zolt
Comparing local government systems across countries: conceptual and methodological challenges to building a field of comparative local government studies 87 – 103
Harold Wolman
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Theme issue: Challenging issues in local privatization
Guest editors: Germà Bel, Mildred Warner
Guest editorial
Institutional developments in the Dutch waste-collection market 110 – 126
Elbert Dijkgraaf, Raymond H J M Gradus
Changing modes of service delivery: how past choices structure future choices 127 – 143
Trevor L Brown, Matthew Potoski, David M Van Slyke
The restructuring of municipal services: a Canada – United States comparison 144 – 158
Robert Hebdon, Patrice Jalette
The link between service privatization and price distribution among consumer types: municipal water services in the Spanish region of Catalonia 159 – 172
Antonio Miralles
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Negotiating neoliberal environments in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada: restructuring of state – voluntary sector relations and disability organizations’ struggles to survive 173 – 190
Vera Chouinard, Valorie A Crooks
Biotechnology, sound science, and the Foreign Agricultural Service: a case study in neoliberal rollout 191 – 209
Jamey Essex
The challenge of devising public policy for high-tech, science-based, and knowledge-based communities: evidence from a life science and biotechnology community 210 – 228
Edward Kasabov
Learning process of Chinese urban planning: the case of Xiamen’s City Comprehensive Plan 229 – 242
Li Yu
Tackling the NEET generation and the ability of policy to generate a ‘NEET’ solution—evidence from the UK 243 – 259
Simon Pemberton
Domestic sourcing by foreign-owned subsidiaries 260 – 276
David Williams, Frank McDonald, Heinz J Tüselmann, Colin Turner
Reviews 277 – 286
Coutto on Yamin, Depledge: The international climate change regime: a guide to rules, institutions and procedures
Nijkamp on Morello: Time and temporality: research for a new culture of time
Chorianopoulos on Sakwa, Stevens (Eds): Contemporary Europe
Karlsson on Jones, Rice, Bago d’Uva, Balia: Applied health economics
Avineri on Van Geenhuizen, Reggiani, Rietveld (Eds): Policy analysis of transport networks
Edgington on Elger, Smith: Assembling work: remaking factory regimes in Japanese multinationals in Britain
Diaz Marroquin on Kwok (Ed.): Globalizing Taipei: the political economy of spatial development
Bauer on Saunier, Meganck: Dictionary and introduction to global environmental governance
Publisher's announcement
The editors and publishers are concerned about the length of time between receiving papers and their publication, and so this year we are increasing the number of pages in the journal by 20%. This issue contains a bonus of a further 103 pages, as this volume marks the completion of twenty-five years of the journal's publication and we are celebrating this milestone by publishing six specially written anniversary papers.
Theme issue: SME policy—recent developments
Including papers from the ISBE conference
Guest editor: David Brooksbank
Guest editorial
Gender and the use of business advice: evidence from firms in the Scottish service sector 292 – 314
Paul J A Robson, Sarah L Jack, Mark S Freel
Differential gains from Business Link support and advice: a treatment effects approach 315 – 334
Kevin Mole, Mark Hart, Stephen Roper, David Saal
Constructing female entrepreneurship policy in the UK: is the US a relevant benchmark? 335 – 351
Susan Marlow, Sara Carter, Eleanor Shaw
Ethnic-minority businesses in the UK: a review of research and policy developments 352 – 374
Monder Ram, Trevor Jones
SME policy support in Britain since the 1990s: what have we learnt? 375 – 397
Robert Bennett
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EU Cohesion policy and the role of the regions: investigating the influence of Structural Funds in the new member states 398 – 427
John Bachtler, Irene McMaster
Performance measurement in planning—towards a holistic view 428 – 454
Matthew Carmona, Louie Sieh
The territorial governance of the shadow economy 455 – 470
Luigi Burroni, Colin Crouch
Reviews 471 – 476
Savage on Redclift: Frontiers: histories of civil society and nature
Catz Reid on Bratt, Stone, Hartman (Eds): A right to housing: foundation for a new social agenda
Kelling on Stoll-Kleeman, Welp (Eds): Stakeholder dialogues in natural resources management: theory and practice
Blair on Jordan, Schout: The coordination of the European Union: exploring the capacities of networked governance
Editorial
Unpicking environmental policy integration with tales from waste management 481 – 498
Matthew Watson, Harriet Bulkeley, Ray Hudson
Analysing the impact of Objective 1 funding in Europe: a review 499 – 524
Peter Gripaios, Paul Bishop, Trevor Hart, Eric McVittie
Community participation: using social network analysis to improve developmental benefits 525 – 543
Nancy Holman
Vulnerability and capacity: explaining local commitment to climate-change policy 544 – 562
Sammy Zahran, Samuel D Brody, Arnold Vedlitz, Himanshu Grover, Caitlyn Miller
Tackling concentrations of worklessness: highlighting the limits of work-focused organisational cultures in the UK 563 – 582
Del Roy Fletcher
The role of discourse coalitions in planning for renewable energy: a case study of wind-energy deployment 583 – 600
Sarah Mander
The relationship between the capacity of the Spanish central government to retain tax-revenue shares and interregional inequality 601 – 613
Toni Mora
Public – private partnership: on the edge of project and process management. Insights from Dutch practice: the Sijtwende spatial development project 614 – 626
Jurian Edelenbos, Geert R Teisman
Governing agri-environmental schemes: lessons to be learned from the new institutional-economics approach 627 – 643
Marie-José Smits, Peter Driessen, Pieter Glasbergen
The new politics of urban housing 644 – 659
Alan Murie, Rob Rowlands
Reviews 660 – 666
van den Burg on Clarke, Newman, Smith, Vidler, Westmarland: Creating citizen-consumers: changing publics and changing public services
Scott on Bache, Jordan (Eds): The Europeanization of British politics
Gonzalez on Kraft, Kamieniecki: Business and environmental policy: corporate interests in the American political system
Chorafakis on Murman: Knowledge and competitive advantage: the coevolution of firms, technology and national institutions
Yarwood on Hillyard: The sociology of rural life
Staying competitive while subsidized: a governmental policy to reduce production of environmentally harmful products 667 – 677
Lars E Olsson, Tommy Gärling
A description and exploration of recent state-led smart-growth efforts 678 – 695
Michael Howell-Moroney
Community participation, rights, and responsibilities: the governmentality of sustainable development policy in Australia 696 – 711
Jennifer A Summerville, Barbara A Adkins, Gavin Kendall
Social multicriteria evaluation of conflict over rural electrification and solar energy in Spain 712 – 727
Giuseppe Munda, Daniela Russi
Transportation: the bottleneck of regional competitiveness in Toronto 728 – 751
Roger Keil, Douglas Young
Piping the politics of space: the engagement of scale in regional strategies of economic development 752 – 766
Anders Underthun
The limits of performance assessments of public bodies: external constraints in English local government 767 – 787
Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero, Dirk Haubrich, Iain McLean
Organizational environments and public-service failure: an empirical analysis 788 – 807
Rhys Andrews, George A Boyne
Are technology institutes a satisfactory tool for public intervention in the area of technology? A neoclassical and evolutionary evaluation 808 – 823
Andrés Barge-Gil, Aurelia Modrego-Rico
Polish special economic zones: idea versus practice 824 – 840
Krzysztof Gwosdz, Woyciech Jarczewski, Maciej Huculak, Krzysztof Wiederman
Evaluating the effectiveness of public participation efforts by environmental agencies: repermitting a smelter in El Paso, Texas, USA 841 – 856
Catherine Cunningham, John Tiefenbacher
