Local Government Studies

2014 - 2025

Current editor(s): Helen Hancock

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Volume 47, issue 6, 2021

Public value governance meets social commons: community anchor organisations as catalysts for public service reform and social change? pp. 887-909

James Henderson, Oliver Escobar and Philip Revell

Village poverty governance and the subjective well-being of households in central and western rural China pp. 910-930

Qiuqian Zhao and Xianli Xia

Health and wellbeing boards as theatres of accountability: a dramaturgical analysis pp. 931-950

Shelina Visram, David J. Hunter, Neil Perkins, Lee Adams, Rachael Finn, Jennifer Gosling and Amanda Forrest

The sources of municipalities’ innovation in the management of weather disaster risks, their relationships, and their antecedents pp. 951-970

Kaddour Mehiriz

With or against their region? Multiple-mandate holders in the Swiss parliament, 1985–2018 pp. 971-992

Rahel Freiburghaus, Alexander Arens and Sean Mueller

Untangling blame and responsibility for service delivery and local governance performance: testing a grounded social accountability approach in Tanzania pp. 993-1013

Anna Mdee and Andrew Mushi

Who is at the table? Civic engagement in small town housing decision-making pp. 1014-1036

Ebunoluwa Odeyemi and Kimberly Skobba

Between realism and revolt: governing cities in the crisis of neoliberal globalism pp. 1037-1039

Mark Sandford

Public service accountability: rekindling a debate pp. 1039-1041

Rob Wilson

Volume 47, issue 5, 2021

The anatomy of choice: an analysis of the determinants of local service delivery in Poland pp. 685-711

Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska, Julita Łukomska and António F. Tavares

Let’s party! The impact of local festivities on the incumbent’s electoral support pp. 712-734

Marc Guinjoan and Toni Rodon

Making a difference in the community: local civic engagement efficacy among immigrants and refugees in King County, Washington pp. 735-758

Dan Ziebarth

The interplay between private and public governments: the relationship between homeowner associations and municipal finance pp. 759-783

Shaoming Cheng and Hai (David) Guo

Impact of politicians’ salaries and their dedication regime on the efficiency of municipal public services pp. 784-807

Bernardino Benito, Pedro-José Martínez-Córdoba and María-Dolores Guillamón

Local governments’ responses to the fiscal stress label: the case of New York pp. 808-835

Il Hwan Chung and Daniel Williams

The effects of high-quality financial reporting on municipal bond ratings: evidence from US local governments pp. 836-858

Jinsol Park, Hakyeon Lee, J. S. Butler and Dwight Denison

The governance games of citizens and stakeholders’ engagement: longitudinal narratives pp. 859-885

Lisa Källström, Sara Mauro, Alessandro Sancino and Giuseppe Grossi

Volume 47, issue 4, 2021

Do boundary consolidations alter the relationship between politicians and voters? The case of municipal mergers in Japan pp. 519-545

Kyohei Yamada and Kiichiro Arai

Why some local governments choose not to free-ride when undergoing boundary reform: a study of two merger cases in Poland pp. 546-567

Paweł Swianiewicz and Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska

Inter-municipal cooperation in administrative tasks – the role of population dynamics and elections pp. 568-592

Ivo Bischoff and Eva Wolfschütz

Assessing the intensity of cooperation: a study of joint delegation of municipal functions to inter-municipal associations pp. 593-615

Pedro J. Camões, António Tavares and Filipe Teles

Do the networks of inter-municipal cooperation enhance local government performance? pp. 616-636

Taishi Muraoka and Claudia N. Avellaneda

Limits of Europeanisation at the municipal level: evidence from the Republic of Cyprus pp. 637-656

Andreas Kirlappos

Risky business? Analysing the challenges and opportunities of Brexit on English local government pp. 657-678

Amelia Hadfield and Christian Turner

Leading local government: the role of directly elected mayors pp. 679-681

David Sweeting

City sextons: tales from municipal leaders pp. 681-683

Ian C. Elliott

Volume 47, issue 3, 2021

Guest editors’ introduction: the impact of ageing and demographic change on local government pp. 355-363

Rhys Andrews and Brian Dollery

Population ageing and local governments: Does engagement with the local community change over the lifecycle? pp. 364-385

Luiz de Mello

Age based service demands in Canada: municipal responsibility and financing pp. 386-404

Harry Kitchen

The impact of demographic trends on local government financial reserves: evidence from England pp. 405-428

Dennis de Widt

How Finland copes with an ageing population: adjusting structures and equalising the financial capabilities of local governments pp. 429-452

Pekka Valkama and Lasse Oulasvirta

Successfully navigating the fiscal challenges of the age of the aged: municipal government in Japan pp. 453-474

Masato Miyazaki and Joseph Drew

Ageing as a determinant of local government performance: myth or reality? the Portuguese experience pp. 475-497

Diogo Cunha Ferreira, Paulo Caldas and Rc Marques

Serving an ageing population: collaboration is key pp. 498-517

Mildred E. Warner and Xue Zhang

Volume 47, issue 2, 2021

Mayors as a variable in typologies of local governments: a case study of the Czech Republic pp. 167-185

Jan Čopík, Radek Kopřiva and Jaroslav Čmejrek

Delivering electoral integrity under pressure: local government, electoral administration, and the 2016 Brexit referendum pp. 186-207

Toby S. James and Alistair Clark

Does decentralising public procurement affect the quality of governance? Evidence from local government in Europe pp. 208-233

Andreas Kyriacou and Oriol Roca-Sagalés

Pragmatic municipalism or austerity urbanism? Understanding local government responses to fiscal stress pp. 234-252

Yunji Kim and Mildred E. Warner

Delivering public services through social media in European local governments. An interpretative framework using semantic algorithms pp. 253-275

J. Ignacio Criado and Julian Villodre

Knowledge co-production promoting policy change in time of decentralisation: a comparison of two cases from Brussels pp. 276-295

Paola Coletti and Nicola Francesco Dotti

The consequences of specialised governance on spending and expansion of public transit pp. 296-311

Christopher Goodman, Suzanne Leland and Olga Smirnova

You’ll never rule alone: how football clubs and party membership affect coalition formation pp. 312-330

Michael Škvrňák

No Uber, no tourists? Public attitudes toward municipal regulation of the sharing economy pp. 331-346

Jennifer M Connolly

Close ties in European local governance: linking state and society pp. 347-349

Daniel Rasch

Rescaling urban governance: planning, localism and institutional change pp. 349-351

Paul Cowie

The resurgence of parish council powers in England pp. 351-353

Joyce Liddle

Volume 47, issue 1, 2021

Guest editors’ introduction: Comparing local elections and voting in Europe: lower rank, different kind… or missing link? pp. 1-10

Adam Gendźwiłł and Kristof Steyvers

Mind the gap, please! Pinpointing the influence of municipal size on local electoral participation pp. 11-30

Adam Gendźwiłł and Ulrik Kjaer

Polity size and voter turnout revisited: micro-level evidence from 14 countries of Central and Eastern Europe pp. 31-53

Maciej A. Górecki and Adam Gendźwiłł

Assessing multi-level congruence in voting in comparative perspective: Introducing the municipal level pp. 54-78

Silvia Bolgherini, Selena Grimaldi and Aldo Paparo

The effects of electoral reform on party campaigns, voters and party systems at the local level: from single member plurality to the single transferable vote in Scotland pp. 79-99

Alistair Clark

Nationalisation of local party systems in Belgium (1976-2018): the combined effects of municipality size and parliamentary parties’ dominance pp. 100-125

Jeremy Dodeigne, Caroline Close and Ferdinand Teuber

Various faces of localised voting in Sweden pp. 126-144

Anders Lidström

A gender-generation gap in political representation? The contingent impact of preference voting in Norwegian municipal elections pp. 145-165

Signe Bock Segaard and Jo Saglie