Local Government Studies

2014 - 2025

Current editor(s): Helen Hancock

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Volume 40, issue 5, 2014

Are Independent Councillors Really Conservatives in Disguise? pp. 647-669

Colin Copus and Melvin Wingfield

Roadworks Ahead? Addressing Fraud, Corruption and Conflict of Interest in English Local Government pp. 670-686

Alan Doig

The Great Survivor: The Persistence and Resilience of English Local Government pp. 687-704

Peter John

The Effects of Media and their Logic on Legitimacy Sources within Local Governance Networks: A Three-Case Comparative Study pp. 705-728

Iris Korthagen and Ingmar Van Meerkerk

Housing and Council Tax Benefits Administration in England: A Long-Term Perspective on the Performance of the Local Government Delivery System pp. 729-744

Peter Murphy, Kirsten Greenhalgh and Martin Jones

Do Electoral Risks Moderate the Effect of Partisan and Electoral Cycles on Debt-Financed Local Spending? pp. 745-765

José-manuel Prado-Lorenzo, Isabel-maría García-Sánchez and Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros

What Drives Intermediate Local Governments’ Spending Efficiency: The Case of French Départements pp. 766-790

Stefan Seifert and Maria Nieswand

‘It’s Not Like Never-the-Twain-Shall-Meet’: Politician–Staff Relationship Structures in Local Government pp. 791-808

Nathan Stocker and Michelle Thompson-Fawcett

Facilitative Mayors in Complex Environments: Why Political Will Matters pp. 809-829

Filipe Teles

Patrick Diamond, Governing Britain: power, politics and the Prime Minister pp. 830-831

George Jones

Régis Dandoy, Jérémy Dodeigne, Geoffroy Matagne and Min Reuchamps (eds), Les élections communales de 2012 en Wallonie pp. 831-833

Caroline Van Wynsberghe

Volume 40, issue 4, 2014

Women’s Participation in Communal Activities in Rural Bangladesh pp. 495-517

Zerina Akkas

Local News Media and Voter Turnout pp. 518-532

Martin Baekgaard, Carsten Jensen, Peter B. Mortensen and Søren Serritzlew

Strategic Commissioning in the UK: Service Improvement Cycle or Just Going Round in Circles? pp. 533-559

Tony Bovaird, Ian Briggs and Martin Willis

Joining it up? Health and Wellbeing Boards in English Local Governance: Evidence from Clinical Commissioning Groups and Shadow Health and Wellbeing Boards pp. 560-580

Anna Coleman, Kath Checkland, Julia Segar, Imelda McDermott, Stephen Harrison and Stephen Peckham

Elected Mayors: Leading Locally? pp. 581-599

John Fenwick and Howard Elcock

E-Government Strategies in Spanish Local Governments pp. 600-620

Jose Manuel Ruano de la Fuente

Can We Feel Their Presence? A New Framework for Investigating Minor Parties in English Local Government pp. 621-641

Luke Sloan

Faïz Gallouj, Luis Rubalcaba and Paul Windrum, Public–Private Innovation Networks in Services pp. 642-644

Catherine Mangan

Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid, The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management pp. 644-646

Ewan Ferlie

Volume 40, issue 3, 2014

Editorial pp. 337-338

Catherine Durose and Liz Richardson

Pulling the Strings: An Analysis of Informal Local Power Structures in Three Dutch Cities pp. 339-355

Marcel Boogers

The Role of Organisational Culture in the Merger of English Local Authorities into a Single Unitary Authority pp. 356-379

Colin Cresswell, Jonathan Moizer and Jonathan Lean

What Should We Do? Public Attitudes about How Local Government Officials Should Confront Fiscal Stress pp. 380-402

Richard Elling, Kelly Krawczyk and Jered Carr

Market-Oriented Urban Planning – Constraining Citizen Participation pp. 403-428

Gro Sandkjaer Hanssen and Eva Irene Falleth

Diffusion of Personalised Services among Dutch Municipalities: Evolving Channels of Persuasion pp. 429-450

Vincent Homburg, Andres Dijkshoorn and Marcel Thaens

Being Strategic in Partnership – Interpreting Local Knowledge of Modern Local Government pp. 451-472

Peter Matthews

Integrating Policies, Plans and Programmes in Local Government: An Exploration from a Spatial Planning Perspective pp. 473-493

Mark Smith