• Policy networks in Britain - a critique of existing approaches, David Marsh and R.A.W. Rhodes; the agricultural policy community maintaining a closed relationship, Martin Smith; the health service policy community - professionals pre-eminent or under challenge?, Gerald Wiston; the civil nuclear network in Britain, Michael Saward; sea defences - a professionalized network?, Caroline Cunningham; policy networks and issue networks - the politics of smoking, Melvyn Read; the case of food and health and the use of network analysis, Michael Mills; youth employment policy 1970-1990 - towards the exclusion of the trade unions, David Marsh; international monetary relations, policy networks and the Labour Government's policy of non-devaluation, 1964-1967, Rob Stones; the European technology community - policy networks in a supranational setting, John Peterson; policy communities and issue networks - beyond typology, David Marsh and R.A.W. Rhodes.

`This volume makes an important and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature on policy networks and policy communities in central and local government ... the editors' opening and concluding chapters provide, in turn, an excecllent, reflective introduction to the policy networks literature and a thoroughly competent analysis of the preceding case study material.'Public Policy Network