Local Government Studies

2014 - 2025

Current editor(s): Helen Hancock

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Volume 48, issue 6, 2022

Special issue: city network activism and the governance of migration pp. 1017-1026

Anouk Flamant, Aude-Claire Fourot and Aisling Healy

Migration-related city networks: a global overview pp. 1027-1047

Thomas Lacroix

Transnational city networks and their contributions to norm-generation in international law: the case of migration pp. 1048-1069

Elif Durmus and Barbara Oomen

City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world: the Intercultural Cities programme of the council of Europe pp. 1070-1090

Bob W. White

Characterising two German city networks: the interplay of internal structure, issue orientation and outreach strategies pp. 1091-1112

Christiane Heimann, Danielle Gluns and Hannes Schammann

‘We as leaders of major European cities’ – how Eurocities works to influence EU migration and integration policies pp. 1113-1131

Dirk Gebhardt and Simon Güntner

Making sense of trajectories of participation in European city networks on migration: insights from the cases of Turin (Italy) and Saint-Etienne (France) pp. 1132-1151

Tiziana Caponio and Anthony Clément

French participation in transnational migration networks: understanding city (dis)involvement and “passivism” pp. 1152-1174

Aude-Claire Fourot, Aisling Healy and Anouk Flamant

Volume 48, issue 5, 2022

What shapes the flypaper effect? The role of the political environment in the budget process pp. 793-820

Vicente Rios, Miriam Hortas-Rico and Pedro Pascual

Can better financial conditions lead to more fiscal transparency? Evidence from municipalities in California pp. 821-841

Hyewon Kang and Gang Chen

Identifying interactions between size effects in New South Wales local government pp. 842-863

Caillan Fellows, Brian Dollery and Rc Marques

Uncovering the effect of local government debt brakes in Germany using synthetic controls pp. 864-886

Steffen Zabler

Absorbing the shock of austerity: the experience of local government workers at the front line pp. 887-906

Annette Hastings and Maria Gannon

Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK pp. 907-928

Neil Barnett, Steven Griggs, Stephen Hall and David Howarth

The local government response to austerity in a small devolved country: the case of Wales pp. 929-950

Emma Taylor-Collins and James Downe

Municipal size and local democracy: understanding the trade-off between participation and contestation in Latin America pp. 951-972

Karel Kouba and Tomas Dosek

Platforms as distinctive realms and the role of policy discretion: a cross-platform assessment of citizen engagement with Dutch municipalities through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram pp. 973-994

Bram Faber

Participatory governance and local government responsiveness: evidence from participation in politics on television in China pp. 995-1016

Yukun Wang, Yu Qi and Gao Chen

Volume 48, issue 4, 2022

Defining local economies beyond their boundaries pp. 579-603

Jacob Salder

In search of the optimal size for local government: an assessment of economies of scale in local government in Croatia pp. 604-627

Antonija Buljan, Sandra Švaljek and Milan Deskar-Škrbić

Measuring the effect of performance management in local economic development policy: the case of tax increment finance districts in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex pp. 628-654

Jeremy L. Hall, Geiguen Shin and Christopher E. Bartels

Value creation in public procurement of innovation: a case of engaging start-ups by a local government pp. 655-679

Alireza Talebi, Davar Rezania and George Bragues

Local politicians’ preferences in public procurement: ideological or strategic reasoning? pp. 680-703

Amandine Lerusse and Steven Van de Walle

What happens when municipalities run corporations? Empirical evidence from 290 Swedish municipalities pp. 704-727

Andreas Bergh, Gissur Ó Erlingsson and Emanuel Wittberg

Explaining municipalities’ (alternative) service delivery modes over time. The importance of coercive pressures pp. 728-748

David Vos and Joris Voets

Fiscal effects of interlocal collaboration: evidence from Nebraska counties pp. 749-770

Sungho Park, Yunseung Kim, Carol Ebdon and Craig Maher

Metropolitan governance and environmental outcomes: does inter-municipal cooperation make a difference? pp. 771-791

Victor Osei Kwadwo and Tatiana Skripka

Volume 48, issue 3, 2022

How institutional designs condition perceived local political leadership pp. 341-366

Jacob Torfing, Tina Øllgaard Bentzen and Marte Slagsvold Winsvold

Service outsourcing, pricing, and the engagement of citizen groups pp. 514-533

Ian R. Hodgkinson

Parties courting Muslim voters in Belgium’s local elections: electoral incentives and ideological tensions pp. 525-545

Kathleen M. Dowley

Does financial disclosure matter? GASB 45 and municipal borrowing costs pp. 534-555

Jinhai Yu

How do local actors interpret, enact and contest policy? An analysis of local government responses to meeting the needs of Syrian refugees in Turkey pp. 546-569

Vivien Lowndes and Rabia Karakaya Polat

Extending upper echelon theory to top managers’ characteristics, management practice, and quality of public service in local government pp. 556-577

Jungin Kim

The rise and fall (?) of public-private partnerships in Israel’s local government pp. 570-589

Eran Razin, Anna Hazan and Osnat Elron

Entrepreneurial activities of local governments in their investment attractiveness context – evidence from Poland pp. 590-614

Małgorzata Godlewska and Tomasz Pilewicz

Encounters with the organisation: how local civil servants experience and handle tensions in public engagement pp. 615-639

Wieke Blijleven and Merlijn van Hulst

Cycles in a cycle: investment expenditures and their composition during the political budgetary cycle pp. 640-671

Łukasz Olejnik

Volume 48, issue 2, 2022

Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis pp. 179-190

Tomas Bergström, Sabine Kuhlmann, Martin Laffin and Ellen Wayenberg

From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain’s intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 191-210

Carmen Navarro and Francisco Velasco

The United Kingdom and the pandemic: problems of central control and coordination pp. 211-231

Patrick Diamond and Martin Laffin

Vertical and horizontal intergovernmental relations during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis: experience from the extremely fragmented CEE countries pp. 232-250

Petr Jüptner and Daniel Klimovský

French inter-governmental relations during the Covid-19 crisis: between hyper-centralism and local horizontal cooperation pp. 251-270

Céline du Boys, Marius Bertolucci and Robert Fouchet

The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position pp. 271-290

Ellen Wayenberg, Sandra L. Resodihardjo, Joris Voets, Marieke Van Genugten, Bram Van Haelter and Inke Torfs

Between lockdown and calm down. Comparing the COVID-19 responses of Norway and Sweden pp. 291-311

Jostein Askim and Tomas Bergström

Multi-level responses to COVID-19: crisis coordination in Germany from an intergovernmental perspective pp. 312-334

Sabine Kuhlmann and Jochen Franzke

Cities and communities beyond COVID-19: How local leadership can change our future for the better pp. 335-338

Lorraine Johnston

Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges pp. 338-340

Andrew Walker

Volume 48, issue 1, 2022

A systematic review of the literature on determinants of public managers' attitudes toward public participation pp. 1-22

Koen Migchelbrink and Steven Van de Walle

Citizen participation in the smart city: findings from an international comparative study pp. 23-47

Erico Przeybilovicz, Maria Alexandra Cunha, Stan Geertman, Charles Leleux, Ank Michels, Zsuzsanna Tomor, C. William R. Webster and Albert Meijer

Disseminating and collecting information: municipalities’ communicative practices and deliberative capacities pp. 48-67

André Baltz

Delimiting citizen participation: how Israeli mayors get the most out of the process pp. 68-86

Moshe Dror and Amos Zehavi

Harnessing the power of dialogue: examining the impact of facebook content on citizens’ engagement pp. 87-106

Georgios Lappas, Amalia Triantafillidou and Anastasia Kani

Implementing local participatory institutions: evidence from the Chilean communes pp. 107-128

Rodolfo Disi Pavlic and Edgar Rebolledo Toro

Who talks and who listens? A qualitative analysis of citizen dialogues in rural Sweden pp. 129-149

Pontus Lund, Gustav Lidén and Sara Nyhlén

Beneficiaries and cost bearers: evidence on political clientelism from Hungary pp. 150-177

Tamás Vasvári