Dr. Stephen Bell is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tasmania, Hobart. Recent books include Business-Government Relations in Australia (co-edited with J. Wanna) and Australian Manufacturing and the State: The Politics of Industry Policy in the Post-War Era. Brian Head was Associate Professor of Politics at Griffith University from 1986-1990 before taking up a senior policy position in the Queensland Cabinet Office. He has published widely on intergovernmental aspects of social and economic policy and public administration.