Edited by Wyn P. Grant, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK

• Contents: AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Overviews and Theoretical Perspectives1. S. Wilks (1986), ‘Government-Industry Relations: A Review Article’ 2. M. Wright (1988), ‘Policy Community, Policy Network and Comparative Industrial Policies’3. M.M. Atkinson and W.D. Coleman (1989), ‘Strong States and Weak States; Sectoral Policy Networks in Advanced Capitalist Economies’4. J.A. Hart (1992), ‘The Effects of State-Societal Arrangements on International Competitiveness; Steel, Motor Vehicles and Semiconductors in the United States, Japan and Western Europe’Part II Industrial Policies in European Countries5. Nick Crafts (1991), ‘Reversing Relative Economic Decline? The 1980s in Historical Perspective’6. C. Deubner (1984), ‘Change and Internationalization in Industry: Toward a Sectoral Interpretation of West German Politics’7. S. Wilks (1984), ‘The Practice of the Theory of Industrial Adaptation in Britain and West Germany’8. K. Morgan and D. Webber (1986), ‘Divergent Paths: Political Strategies for Telecommunications in Britain, France and West Germany’Part III The United States9. W.E. Hudson (1985), ‘The Feasibility of a Comprehensive U.S. Industrial Policy’10. R.D. Norton (1986), ‘Industrial Policy and American Renewal’11. P. Eisinger (1990), ‘Do the American States Do Industrial Policy?’12. R.B. Reich (1990), ‘Who Is Us?’Part IV Japan And The East Asian NICs13. E. S. Krauss (1992), ‘Political Economy: Policymaking and Industrial Policy in Japan’14. R. Boyd (1989), ‘The Political Mechanics of Consensus in the Industrial Policy Process: The Shipbuilding Industry in the Face of Crisis, 1973–1978’15. R. Sarathy (1989), ‘The Interplay of Industrial Policy and International Strategy: Japan’s Machine Tool Industry’16. H. Kitschelt (1991), ‘Industrial Governance Structures, Innovation Strategies, and the Case of Japan: Sectoral or Cross-National Comparative Analysis?’17. Y.-H. Chu (1989), ‘State Structure and Economic Adjustment of the East Asian Newly Industrializing Countries’18. R. Wade (1992), ‘Review Article: East Asia’s Economic Success: Conflicting Perspective, Partial Insights, Shaky Evidence’Part V The European Community19. P.A. Geroski (1989), ‘European Industrial Policy and Industrial Policy in Europe’20. M. Sharpe (1987), ‘Europe: Collaboration in the High Technology Sectors’21. J. Peterson (1991), ‘Technology Policy in Europe: Explaining the Framework Programme and Eureka in Theory and Practice’22. W. Sandholtz (1992), ‘ESPRIT and the Politics of International Collective Action’Name Index