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  1. The effect of administrative form and stability on cities’ use of greenhouse gas emissions inventories as a basis for mitigation
  2. Interlocal collaboration and local climate protection
  3. Regional Partnerships and Metropolitan Economic Development
  4. Making meaningful commitments: Accounting for variation in cities’ investments of staff and fiscal resources to sustainability
  5. Rapid Growth, Greater Selectivity, and Editorial Expansion
  6. Climate Protection and Energy Sustainability Policy in California Cities: What Have We Learned?
  7. Capturing Structural and Functional Diversity Through Institutional Analysis
  8. Third-Party Federalism: Using Local Governments (and Their Contractors) to Implement National Policy
  9. A Multilevel Governance and Growth Management
  10. The Administrative Organization of Sustainability Within Local Government
  11. Renewable Energy Politics: Policy Typologies, Policy Tools, and State Deployment of Renewables
  12. Improving Outcomes in Fiscal Federalism: Local Political Leadership and Administrative Capacity
  13. Continuity with Change
  14. Local Executives
  15. The Integrated City Sustainability Database
  16. Institutional Collective Action Issues in Nonprofit Self-Organized Collaboration
  17. Governing Local Sustainability
  18. The Adoption and Abandonment of Council-Manager Government
  19. The Institutional Collective Action Framework
  20. Dimensions of Economic Development and Growth Management Policy Choices
  21. The Roles of Regional Organizations for Interlocal Resource Exchange
  22. Is the World “Flat” or “Spiky”? Rethinking the Governance Implications of Globalization for Economic Development
  23. Administrators’ and Elected Officials’ Collaboration Networks: Selecting Partners to Reduce Risk in Economic Development
  24. Interorganizational Collaboration Networks in Economic Development Policy: An Exponential Random Graph Model Analysis*
  25. Forms of Government and Climate Change Policies in US Cities
  26. Municipal-owned utilities and demand side management
  27. Managing Multiplexity
  28. Intralocal Competition and Cooperation
  29. Policy Tool Interactions and the Adoption of State Renewable Portfolio Standards
  30. Competitors and Cooperators: A Micro-Level Analysis of Regional Economic Development Collaboration Networks
  31. Stability and Change in County Economic Development Organizations
  32. Politics, institutions and entrepreneurship: city decisions leading to inventoried GHG emissions
  33. Network Power and Militarized Conflicts
  34. Bargaining, Networks, and Management of Municipal Development Subsidies
  35. Overcoming the Barriers to Cooperation: Intergovernmental Service Agreements
  36. Transaction Cost, Exchange Embeddedness, and Interlocal Cooperation in Local Public Goods Supply
  37. Joint Ventures, Economic Development Policy, and the Role of Local Governing Institutions
  38. Collaboration Networks Among Local Elected Officials: Information, Commitment, and Risk Aversion
  39. Core-Peripheral Structure and Regional Governance: Implications of Paul Krugman’s New Economic Geography for Public Administration
  40. Transaction Cost Politics and Local Service Production
  41. The Application and Bargaining of Performance Agreements for Local Economic Development
  42. Direct Democracy Provisions and Local Government Fiscal Choices
  43. Governing U.S. Metropolitan Areas
  44. City Managers' Policy Leadership in Council-Manager Cities
  45. Nonprofits as Local Government Service Contractors
  46. Local Institutions and the Politics of Urban Growth
  47. City Adoption of Environmentally Sustainable Policies in California's Central Valley
  48. Institutional Collective Action and Economic Development Joint Ventures
  49. Understanding the Adoption and Timing of Economic Development Strategies in US Cities Using Innovation and Institutional Analysis
  50. County Limits
  51. Policy Instrument Choices for Growth Management and Land Use Regulation
  52. Turnover, Transaction Costs, and Time Horizons
  53. Turnover among City Managers: The Role of Political and Economic Change
  54. Metropolitan Governance and Institutional Collective Action
  55. Examining Local Government Service Delivery Arrangements Over Time
  56. Is the World “Flat” or “Spiky”? Rethinking the Governance Implications of Globalization for Economic Development
  57. Annexation
  58. Sustainable Development
  59. Public Versus Private Funding of Nonprofit Organizations: Implications for Collaboration
  60. Methods of Network Analysis
  61. Contracting and Sector Choice across Municipal Services
  62. Rational Choice and Regional Governance
  63. Introduction: Understanding the Relationships Between Nonprofit Organizations and Local Governments
  64. Structuring the Debate on Consolidation: A Response to Leland and Thurmaier
  65. Institutional Collective Action, Social Capital and Regional Development Partnership
  66. Factors Affecting Constitutional Choice: The Case of the Recall in Municipal Charters
  67. The Flypaper Effect Revisited: Intergovernmental Grants and Local Governance
  68. Politics, Institutions and Local Land-use Regulation
  69. Credible Commitment and Council-Manager Government: Implications for Policy Instrument Choices
  70. Governmental Uncertainty and Leadership Turnover: Influences on Contracting and Sector Choice for Local Services
  71. Sector choices for public service delivery The transaction cost implications of executive turnover
  72. Regulatory Reform and Urban Economic Development
  73. Who Becomes Involved in City-County Consolidation? Findings from County Officials in 25 Communities
  74. A Quasi-Market Framework for Development Competition
  75. Political Conflict, Fiscal Stress, and Administrative Turnover in American Cities
  76. State Annexation ‘Constraints’ and the Frequency of Nunicipal Annexation
  77. State Annexation "Constraints" and the Frequency of Municipal Annexation
  78. The Politics of Ideas and the Spread of Enterprise Zones. By Karen Mossberger. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000. 288p. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
  79. Assessing the Performance of Solid Waste Recycling Programs Over Time
  80. Incentives, Entrepreneurs, and Boundary Change
  81. Form of Government, Administrative Organization, and Local Economic Development Policy
  82. Regulatory reform, property rights, and economic development
  83. Review of Clarke and Gaile's The Work of Cities
  84. Economic Development Consequences of State Support for Higher Education
  85. Directing Benefits to Need: Evaluating the Distributive Consequences of Urban Economic Development
  86. Metropolitan Government and Economic Development
  87. Pollution Control in the United States: Evaluating the System
  88. Explaining the Tenure of Local Government Managers
  89. A Reassessment of City/County Consolidation: Economic Development Impacts
  90. Leadership Turnover, Transaction Costs, and External City Service Delivery
  91. Book Reviews
  92. Municipal recycling: an assessment of programmatic and contextual factors affecting program success
  93. Council Views Toward Targeting of Development Policy Benefits
  94. Political participation and city county consolidation: jacksonville-duval county
  95. Campaigns, Careerism, and Constituencies
  96. The Political Economy of Growth Management
  97. Accounting for State Economic Growth: A Production Function Approach
  98. Testing Competing Explanations for Policy Adoption: Municipal Solid Waste Recycling Programs
  99. Testing Competing Explanations for Policy Adoption: Municipal Solid Waste Recycling Programs
  100. The Consequences of Institutionalized Access for Economic Development Policy Making in U.S. Cities
  101. Testing Theories of State Hazardous Waste Regulation
  102. Book Reviews
  103. The Political Economy of State Environmental Regulation: The Distribution of Regulatory Burdens
  104. Development Policy Choice: Four Explanations for City Implementation of Economic Development Policies
  105. The Effects of Economic Development Policy on Local Economic Growth
  106. Can State Hazardous Waste Regulation Be Reconciled With Economic Development Policies?
  107. Environmental Regulation and Economic Development: the Movement of Chemical Production Among States
  108. Environmental Regulation and Economic Development: The Movement of Chemical Production among States
  109. THE ADOPTION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES BY LARGE CITIES: A TEST OF ECONOMIC, INTEREST GROUP, AND INSTITUTIONAL EXPLANATIONS
  110. PUBLIC PRESENCE AT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING: EFFECTS ON PROCESS AND DECISIONS IN FLORIDA
  111. The Implementation of Local Solid Waste Policies In Florida
  112. The Adoption of Economic Development Policies by State and Local Governments: A Review
  113. Support for Business in the Federal District Courts
  114. Book Reviews
  115. The Politics of State and City Administration. By Glen Abney and Thomas P. Lauth (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. xvi, 260 p. $10.95, cloth; $5.50, paper).
  116. MUNICIPAL REPRESENTATION, EXECUTIVE POWER, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY ACTIVITY
  117. The Political Economy of Urban Service Distribution: A Test of the Underclass Hypothesis
  118. The effects of urban socioeconomic and political context on support for business in the federal district courts
  119. Self-Organizing Governance of Institutional Collective Action Dilemmas: An Overview
  120. Self-Organizing Mechanisms for Mitigating Institutional Collective Action Dilemmas: An Assessment and Research Agenda
  121. Local Governments in the United States