The authors' concern is with the relationship between household income and property value, within the context of the debate about the fairness of council tax-the property-based system of local taxation in England. Although located within this particular debate, the fundamental issue of the...

G<sc>reen</sc> A. E. and O<sc>rton</sc> M. Policy innovation in a fragmented and complex multilevel governance context: worklessness and the City Strategy in Great Britain, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper examines whether innovative policy development within fragmented and complex multilevel governance frameworks...

Even before the onset of economic downturn in 2008-9, UK policy on employment, work and welfare had reached an impasse, with little evidence of new ideas, either in relation to the final years of New Labour or the Coalition Government, as to how to tackle deeply entrenched problems beyond...

The authors’ concern is with the relationship between household income and property value, within the context of the debate about the fairness of council tax—the property-based system of local taxation in England. Although located within this particular debate, the fundamental issue of the...

The concern of this article is with action at the local level to combat racial inequality in employment. It draws on the authors' evaluation of the 'West Midlands Common Standard', an innovative policy introduced by a consortium of West Midlands councils to ensure their contractors have, and...

This article examines the 'fit'; between policy development regarding gender inequality in employment at sub-regional and national (UK) level, in particular focusing on the experience of women. Drawing on research undertaken in Coventry and Warwickshire, the article explores the question of how...