Local Government Studies

2014 - 2025

Current editor(s): Helen Hancock

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Volume 51, issue 2, 2025

Local passion and national apathy: investigating the phenomenon of selective voting behaviour pp. 203-228

Jakub Lysek

Political competition and representation in municipal councils pp. 229-260

Christophe Lévêque

Unlocking pathways in constrained local governance: exploring paradiplomacy under competitive-disharmony through the case of Istanbul pp. 261-282

Ahmet Cemal Ertürk and Nur Sinem Kourou

Perceived local government performance and people’s life satisfaction: the role of trust in local government and political participation pp. 283-316

Na Li and Mang He

Issue prioritisation decisions by local politicians: the role of order effects and justification requirements pp. 317-343

Amandine Lerusse

Independents in local politics – voter turnout, competitiveness, and party-system effects pp. 344-364

Josef Bernard, Tomáš Kostelecký, Zdenka Mansfeldová and Renáta Mikešová

Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands pp. 365-393

Rick L. van Well

The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours pp. 394-413

Peter Spáč and Lenka Hrbková

Why philanthropic foundations collaborate with city governments: an exploration of three English cities pp. 414-436

Ruth Puttick

Volume 51, issue 1, 2025

Using social media for supporting engagement in the public sector: a systematic literature review pp. 1-23

Marco Contri, Silvia Fissi and Elena Gori

Digital co-creation in urban mobility planning: what motivates people to participate? pp. 24-49

Marie Kluge, Jannis Kachel and Michèle Knodt

Understanding freedom of information requests: predictors of request for public information to municipalities in Chile pp. 50-68

José Hernández-Bonivento and Francisco Moller

When blame avoidance meets transparency: local governments’ bandwagon strategy in environmental information disclosure in China pp. 69-89

Shaowei Chen, Kai Jia and Kwan Nok Chan

The impact of public discourse on local representatives’ amalgamation preferences pp. 90-111

Thomas Margel Myksvoll and Troy Saghaug Broderstad

Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers pp. 112-132

Marte Winsvold and Bjarte Folkestad

Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation pp. 133-155

Colin Knox and Paul Carmichael

Veto and versatile: understanding the local implementation of environmental policies in China pp. 156-177

Jinke Liu and Xinming Deng

Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach pp. 178-201

Rhys Andrews, Malcolm J. Beynon and Frank Baafi

Volume 50, issue 6, 2024

Fifty years of local government studies: evolution, internationalisation, and the future of the field pp. 967-979

Claudia Avellaneda, Germà Bel, Catherine Durose, Peter Eckersley, Marc Esteve and Seulki Lee

Meeting the critical challenge: re-tooling and re-founding defences of local democratic institutions pp. 980-988

Neil Barnett

Addressing the elephant in the room: what’s the local in local government studies? pp. 989-997

Arianna Giovannini and Steven Griggs

Rethinking the ‘local state’ and local capacity pp. 998-1007

Madeleine Pill

The challenges of mainstreaming local government pp. 1008-1017

Mark Sandford

The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local pp. 1018-1027

Nils Stockmann

Reflections on three decades of digital transformation in local governments pp. 1028-1040

Mila Gasco Hernandez

Adapting to climate change: the ultimate challenge for the next half-century of local government? pp. 1041-1051

Peter Eckersley and Marta Olazabal

Democratic innovations: is the local scale (still) the ideal laboratory for democracy? pp. 1052-1061

Roberto Falanga

More open, more democratic or better at hiding? Two decades of local government transparency in the UK pp. 1062-1073

Ben Worthy and Megan Waugh

Making a difference? Attracting new generations into local government pp. 1074-1083

Catherine Mangan, Catherine Needham, Dave McKenna and Jason Lowther

The struggle for linking strategic and front-line outcomes in local government service delivery pp. 1084-1093

Joyce Liddle and Steven Parker

Navigating local fiscal sustainability: topics and challenges pp. 1094-1104

Pengju Zhang and Hai (David) Guo

The ‘Great Survivor’ lives on? Resilience, austerity and devolution in English local government pp. 1105-1117

Tom Arnold and Matthew George McKenna

Change? Decay? Promise? Fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK pp. 1118-1128

Bethany Rex and Clive Gray

Accountability from the periphery to the centre of the local government research agenda pp. 1129-1142

André Carlos Busanelli Aquino

International collaboration in local government studies: a bibliometric analysis pp. 1143-1152

Yijia Jing, Wenxue Fan, Meijun Liu and Jingyuan Xu

Towards a more globally inclusive academic discussion on local government: is more attention to Asian countries the answer? pp. 1153-1165

Qi Bian, Luning Xin and Yanwei Li

The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message pp. 1166-1181

Amir Hefetz and Marianna Sebő

A practitioner-led research agenda for local government pp. 1182-1190

Andrew Walker and Gregory Stride

Volume 50, issue 5, 2024

Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations pp. 807-826

Dag Ingvar Jacobsen

From an alternative to a dominant form of local political actors? Independent candidates in the Czech local elections in 2010–2018 pp. 827-849

Tomas Kostelecky, Josef Bernard, Zdenka Mansfeldova and Renata Mikesova

The gendered nature of ethnic minority candidate nomination: An analysis of the moderating role of district diversity, party affiliation and ethnic minorities’ visibility pp. 850-870

Sigrid Van Trappen, Robin Devroe and Bram Wauters

Jacks of all trades, masters of none? Multiple-mandate holding and trust in local government pp. 871-892

Fredrik Malmberg and Thomas Karv

The connotation, cause, and reform path of institutional transaction costs: a grounded theory analysis pp. 893-914

Zhaoteng Zeng and Xiao Yu

The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model pp. 915-938

Søren Kjær Foged, Kurt Houlberg, Jacob Ladenburg and Jeppe Elholm Madsen

Horizontal and vertical interactions in local fiscal slack: a spatial analysis of local governments in New York state pp. 939-964

Jongmin Shon and Sunjoo Kwak

Correction pp. 965-965

The Editors

Volume 50, issue 4, 2024

Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services pp. 663-676

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Eoin Reeves

Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US pp. 677-695

Mildred E. Warner

The contested politics of de-privatisation and the shifting terrain of the local state: the case of the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany pp. 696-717

Franziska Christina Paul

Political and financial factors motivating privatisation, its reverse and corporatisation of municipal waste collection pp. 718-740

Raymond Gradus, Elbert Dijkgraaf and Tjerk Budding

Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland pp. 741-762

Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska

Why and how often do authorities remunicipalise urban public transport? The case of France pp. 763-785

Christian Desmaris and Didier Van de Velde

Remunicipalization of water services in France and inter-municipal cooperation: who’s at the helm? pp. 786-805

Alexandre Mayol and Stephane Saussier

Volume 50, issue 3, 2024

An institutional and transaction cost analysis for the efficiency of water service in Brazilian local government consortia pp. 475-497

Hugo Consciência Silvestre, Rui Cunha Marques, Brian Dollery and Aldenisio Moraes Correia

Facilitating citizen participation in marginalised neighbourhoods: selective empowerment in between vulnerability and active citizenship pp. 498-520

Simone van de Wetering

Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China pp. 521-544

Jiyue Guo, Daniel Del Barrio Álvarez, Jingfeng Yuan and Hironori Kato

Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments pp. 545-572

Liese Berkvens, A. Roets, T. Haesevoets and B. Verschuere

Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan pp. 573-595

Mildred E. Warner and Paige M. Kelly

Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort pp. 596-616

Maria Antonieta Collazos-Ortiz and Arjan H. Schakel

Determinants of internal migration to smaller cities: local public goods, job opportunities, and lifecycle stages pp. 617-642

Hemin Choi

Party politics and the effectiveness of local climate change policy frameworks: green influence from the sidelines pp. 643-662

Liam Clegg

Volume 50, issue 2, 2024

The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities pp. 287-306

Alejandro Salazar-Adams

Costs and outcomes of collaborative relationships: interlocal collaboration effects on green job creation in Florida Metropolitan Areas pp. 307-328

Chang-Gyu Kwak and Richard Feiock

Politicisation at the local political level within representative and participative institutions: the example of a poor Montreal borough pp. 329-351

Caroline Patsias and Sylvie Patsias

Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China pp. 352-374

Min Wang

The impact of the central government’s intervention on local democracy pp. 375-404

Itai Beeri

Miles’ law in Finnish municipalities: where decision-makers stand depends on where they sit pp. 405-426

Linnéa Henriksson and Henrik Serup Christensen

From online trolls to ‘Slut Shaming’: understanding the role of incivility and gender abuse in local government pp. 427-450

Andrea Carson, Gosia Mikolajczak, Leah Ruppanner and Emily Foley

Is a powerful but corrupt public manager more trustworthy? Lessons from the case of rural local government in Bangladesh pp. 451-474

Md Shahriar Islam, Abu Hossain Muhammad Ahsan and Rifat Mahmud

Volume 50, issue 1, 2024

Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities pp. 1-27

Laura Ryser, Greg Halseth and Sean Markey

Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators? pp. 28-47

Pierre Donatella and David Karlsson

Are newcomers financially responsible? Evidence from close elections in Brazilian Municipalities pp. 48-86

Henrique Hott and Naercio Menezes-Filho

The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation pp. 87-108

Amanda Rutherford and Cullen C. Merritt

Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle pp. 109-127

Siobhan Daly, Rachael Chapman and Andreja Pegan

Scrutinising council scrutiny: from theoretical black box to analytical toolbox1 pp. 128-149

Tom Verhelst and Klaartje Peters

Unlocking politicians’ potential: what fosters purposeful use of performance information in support of voice? pp. 150-173

Sebastian Desmidt and Kenn Meyfroodt

Empowering local citizens: assessing the inclusiveness of a digital democratic innovation for co-creating a Voting Advice Application pp. 174-203

Giada Gianola, Dominik Wyss, André Bächtiger and Marlène Gerber

The competing impact of network politics and hamula (clan) politics on perceived network performance: the case of minority networks pp. 204-229

Ashwaq Mondey and Itai Beeri

Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics pp. 230-260

Huanming Wang, Xiaoyun Sun and Yu Shi

The Europeanisation of gender equality at the municipal level: insights from the Republic of Cyprus pp. 261-285

Andreas Kirlappos