Local Government Studies

2014 - 2024

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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 Stéphane 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 Augusto Campos Fernandez 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

Volume 49, issue 6, 2023

COVID-19 pandemic and local executive-opposition institutional relations: a survey analysis pp. 1157-1177

Luís de Sousa, Cláudia S. Costa and Filipe Grilo

Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis pp. 1178-1197

Seungwon Yu, Suhee Kim and Yeonwoo Sim

Effects of intergovernmental revenue on local government draw on fiscal reserves: evidence from COVID-19 fiscal stress pp. 1198-1217

Stephen Kwamena Aikins

Local authorities doing it for themselves: austerity, the direct provision of housing and changing central-local relations in England pp. 1218-1240

Ben Clifford and Janice Morphet

Australian adaptation of UK dealmaking: towards state rescaling? pp. 1241-1262

Madeleine Pill and Nicole Gurran

Local autonomy: unconditional elites and conditional publics pp. 1263-1284

Charles Breton, Jack Lucas and Zack Taylor

Can even still be uneven? The effect of quotas in Portuguese local governments pp. 1285-1311

Miguel Rodrigues

The career paths of the chief administrative officers of U.S. cities: a survey of city managers and content analysis of how they discuss their careers pp. 1312-1332

William Hatcher, Beth Rauhaus and Wesley L. Meares

Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities pp. 1333-1358

Luca Tangi, Marco Gaeta, Michele Benedetti, Luca Gastaldi and Giuliano Noci

Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States pp. 1359-1385

Ana-Maria Dimand and Shaoming Cheng

Measuring performance concerning air and noise pollution: a comparison of Madrid’s official data and results from a citizen survey pp. 1386-1409

Francisco Ferraioli and Xavier Ballart

Local responses to European Integration: patterns of Europe-related activities of German local governments pp. 1410-1433

Benjamin Gröbe, Stephan Grohs and Jan Porth

Volume 49, issue 5, 2023

Increasing public participation and influence in local decision-making to address social determinants of health: a systematic review examining initiatives and theories pp. 861-887

Susan Baxter, Amy Barnes, Caroline Lee, Rebecca Mead and Mark Clowes

Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization pp. 888-907

S. N. Blok, H. J. M. Fenger and M. W. van Buuren

Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance pp. 908-931

Peter Matthews, Alex Parsons, Elvis Nyanzu and Alasdair Rae

Effects of school forums on political development in early adolescence. A field experiment pp. 932-952

Aleš Kudrnáč, Eliška Vejchodská and Lenka Slavíková

The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation pp. 953-974

Dana McQuestin, Joseph Drew and Hirokuni Iiboshi

Through the prism of cognition: exploration of local political leaders’ behaviour during incented voluntary municipal amalgamation pp. 975-999

Veronika Vakulenko, Anatoli Bourmistrov and Giuseppe Grossi

The impact of inter-municipal land use plans on social segregation: first lessons from the French experience pp. 1000-1023

Katharina Schone

Environmental inter-local collaboration under meta-governance: the trade-off between collective and selective benefits pp. 1024-1044

Puyao Xing and Hua Xing

Political budget cycles at the municipal level in Slovakia: between structural dependence and electoral exhibitionism pp. 1045-1073

Lenka Maličká and Paulo Reis Mourao

Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities pp. 1074-1109

Giulia Giraldi Rocha Coelho, Henrique Augusto Campos Fernandez Hott and Sergio Naruhiko Sakurai

Scrutiny and policymaking in local councils: how parties use council tools pp. 1110-1134

Simon Otjes, Marijn Nagtzaam and Rick van Well

The text complexity of local government annual reports pp. 1135-1156

Philip T. Roundy, John M. Trussel and Stephan A. Davenport

Volume 49, issue 4, 2023

Introduction to the special issue: facilitating citizen engagement in interactive governance pp. 723-737

Laurence Bherer and Imrat Verhoeven

Facilitators as culture change workers: advancing public participation and deliberation in local governance pp. 738-758

Claire Bynner, Oliver Escobar and Sarah Weakley

The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors pp. 759-779

Laurence Bherer

“I’m paid to do other things”: Complementary co-production tasks for professionals pp. 780-800

Caitlin McMullin

‘Co-production on the inside’ – public professionals negotiating interaction between municipal actors and local citizens pp. 801-820

Annika Agger and Anne Tortzen

Enabling civic initiatives: frontline workers as democratic professionals in Amsterdam pp. 821-840

Imrat Verhoeven and Evelien Tonkens

Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator: the role of expert public servants in interactive governance pp. 841-860

Wieke Blijleven

Volume 49, issue 3, 2023

Local government policies on sexual and gender diversity in Spain. Experiences from Alt Empordà pp. 451-470

Jose Antonio Langarita, Jordi Mas Grau and Pilar Albertín

Governance challenges of different institutional logics and modes of organising: a Norwegian case study of municipal water supply pp. 471-491

Dag Magne Berge and Harald Torsteinsen

Signalling compliance: an explanation of the intermittent green policy implementation gap in China pp. 492-518

Jin Li

Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments pp. 519-543

Francisca Tejedo-Romero and Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves Araújo

An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia pp. 544-567

Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung Tran and Brian Dollery

Territorial reforms, mobilisation, and political trust: a case study from Norway pp. 568-589

Jonas Stein, Troy Saghaug Broderstad and Hilde Bjørnå

Are more affluent parents treated more favourably by elementary school principals? Socioeconomic discrimination among local Swedish public officials pp. 590-622

Jonas Larsson Taghizadeh

The economic costs of voucher markets for public service provision pp. 623-643

Søren Kjær Foged and Kurt Houlberg

Municipal revenue over-budgeting: a dynamic analysis of its determinants pp. 644-675

Susana Jorge, Pedro Cerqueira and Sofia Furtado

Examining the fiscal impact of tax and expenditure limitations on municipal governments: a rule design approach pp. 676-697

Sungho Park

Factors influencing the structure of municipal taxation. Special reference to political corruption pp. 698-722

Javier Cifuentes-Faura, Bernardino Benito and María-Dolores Guillamón López

Volume 49, issue 2, 2023

Shapers or schemers of collaborative governance: network management in England’s Local Enterprise Partnerships pp. 253-273

Kate Broadhurst, Nigel Berkeley and Jennifer Ferreira

Municipal entrepreneurship support policies: convergence or divergence? pp. 274-293

Maria Dodaro

When local political opportunity structures matter in political agency: the multipronged incorporation of Latinos in Chicago pp. 294-313

Estefania Cruz Lera

The paradox of organizational complexity in urban development: boundary spanners’ handling of citizen proposals pp. 314-333

Sissel Hovik and Inger Marie Stigen

The impact of rational and political factors on performance measurement and its utilisation: analysis of municipal governments from Mississippi pp. 334-354

Tamara Dimitrijevska-Markoski

Why such a different choice of tools? Analysing recent local government reforms in Denmark and Norway pp. 355-374

Signy Irene Vabo, Anne Lise Fimreite and Kurt Houlberg

State-led pilot innovation upscaling? A tale of the Sanming healthcare reform in China pp. 375-396

Yanwei Li and Yunpeng Song

Characterising strategic collaboration of large Swiss municipalities pp. 397-421

Lukas Baschung and Jérôme Heim

Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries pp. 422-445

Germà Bel, Ivo Bischoff, Sara Blåka, Mattia Casula, Jakub Lysek, Pawel Swianiewicz, António F. Tavares and Bart Voorn

Governing cities: politics and policy pp. 446-448

Jason Lowther

How cities can transform democracy pp. 448-450

Jonathan Davies

Volume 49, issue 1, 2023

The quality of local democracy: an institutional analysis pp. 1-29

Luís de Sousa, Nuno F. da Cruz and Daniel Fernandes

The public purse as a reelection lever: does it work in a corrupt political environment? The case of Honduras pp. 30-53

Lorenzo Estrada and Francisco Bastida

The clear model as a predictor of candidacy for council membership pp. 54-77

William Voorberg, Brenda Vermeeren and Arwin Van Buuren

Dutch municipal elections 1998-2018: what explains the electoral success of local parties? pp. 78-99

Raymond Gradus, Elbert Dijkgraaf and Tjerk Budding

Franchise extensions and second-order contests: evidence from German local elections pp. 100-119

Angelika Vetter, Achim Hildebrandt and Patrick Bernhagen

Localisation of politics and local electoral participation pp. 120-150

Marko Kukec

Consultative referendums and democracy - assessing the short-term effects on political support of a referendum on a municipal merger pp. 151-180

Thomas Karv, Kim Backström and Kim Strandberg

Influence of managerial ability on the re-election of municipal political parties pp. 181-203

Bernardino Benito, Pedro-José Martínez-Córdoba and Maria-Dolores Guillamón López

The re-election of corrupt mayors: context, relational leadership and level of corruption pp. 204-225

Roberta Troisi and Gaetano Alfano

Vigilantism and the transition to local democratic elections pp. 226-247

Blane Lewis

When cities lobby: how local governments compete for power in state politics pp. 248-250

Niva Golan-Nadir

Kittens are Evil II: little heresies in public policy pp. 250-252

David Adams