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Editorial

• Getting the vote out    

Features

• E-democracy
  Will the Internet cure voter apathy? Hazel Duffy investigates.
• Health equality in an unequal world
  The NHS may be national but it is far from uniform. Hilary Graham, Claire Rayner and Brian Jarman explore the issues.
• As seen on TV - the quiet death of the Commons
  The Chamber is no longer our centre of national debate. Simon Hoggart takes a look at the impact of broadcasting on the Commons.     

Opinion

• Urban policy: towards a new spatial architecture?
  Why some urban areas do better than others. Michael Parkinson     

Profile

• Sir Steve Robson - Delivering supply-side reform   

Concept of the moment

• What is evidence-based policy?   

Research News

• Technology, time and customer expectations
• Unions put a spoke in the managerial wheel
• Self-employment: handle with care
• The good news on mergers
• Competing in high skill sectors
• The politics of business taxation in Europe
• The long and the short of it
• How the unskilled face an unequal struggle to learn
• Popular capitalism and the regional divide
• Do teams work?  

News in brief

• A selection of new ESRC-funded research