Local Government Studies

2014 - 2025

Current editor(s): Helen Hancock

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Volume 46, issue 6, 2020

Governance networks and local economic development policy during the Great Recession in the US pp. 847-864

Twyla Blackmond Larnell

Gender mainstreaming in Spain: policy instruments, influencing factors, and the role of local government pp. 865-887

Paula Otero-Hermida and Ramón Bouzas Lorenzo

Local territorial reform and regional spending efficiency pp. 888-910

Antonio Afonso and Ana Venâncio

Patterns of civil society organisations’ attempts to influence local politicians and local civil servants pp. 911-933

Susanne Wallman Lundåsen

Does cultural policy matter? Political orientations, cultural management models, and the results of public cultural action in Barcelona and Valencia pp. 934-958

Joaquim Rius-Ulldemolins and Ricardo Klein

Humanitarian co-production in local government: the case of natural disaster volunteering in Japan pp. 959-978

Brian Dollery, Yukio Kinoshita and Keiichi Yamazaki

Revenue volatility and forecast errors: evidence from Korean local governments pp. 979-994

Tae-Ho Lee and Sunjoo Kwak

The leadership of place and people in the new English combined authorities pp. 995-1014

Jane Roberts

Electoral opportunism and water pricing with incomplete transfer of control rights pp. 1015-1038

Andres Picazo-Tadeo, Francisco González-Gómez and Marta Suárez-Varela

Public governance paradigms: competing and co-existing pp. 1039-1041

Katarzyna Lakoma

Why isn’t government policy more preventive? pp. 1041-1043

Madeleine Pill

Volume 46, issue 5, 2020

The expansion of the public sector in federalism: a comparative analysis of a macro level governing structure and government size pp. 673-692

Yu Shi

Changes in the dimensions of political competition in Europe and their impact on citizens’ engagement via Facebook pp. 693-715

Juana Alonso-Cañadas, Alejandro Sáez-Martín and Carmen Caba-Pérez

Economic resilience after the Great Recession: an examination of unreserved fund balance in Michigan counties pp. 716-733

Shu Wang and Eric Scorsone

A comprehensive model for the evaluation of standard expenditure needs and standard level of local services pp. 734-762

Francesco Porcelli and Francesco Vidoli

The attractiveness of local and national list labels: the role of socio-economic inequalities on the success of electoral lists pp. 763-779

Jeremy Dodeigne, Vincent Jacquet and Min Reuchamps

Two-dimensional legislative conflict: unique implications for the effectiveness of local councils pp. 780-799

Meng Yuan and Scot Schraufnagel

Indispensable, yet Invisible: Drinking water management as a local political issue in Swedish municipalities pp. 800-819

Anna Bendz and Åsa Boholm

Towards more digital cities? Change in technology use and perceptions across small and medium-sized US cities pp. 820-845

Mary K. Feeney, Federica Fusi, Leonor Camarena and Fengxiu Zhang

Volume 46, issue 4, 2020

Guest editors’ introduction: the power of now. Reimagining the future of local government through studies of ‘actually existing’ practice pp. 505-523

Neil Barnett, Steven Griggs and Helen Sullivan

In and beyond local government: making up new spaces of governance pp. 524-541

Allan Cochrane

The everyday local state? Opening up and closing down informality in local governance pp. 542-563

Madeleine Pill and Valeria Guarneros-Meza

The role of the councillor and the work of meeting pp. 564-582

Richard Freeman

Local government and practice ontologies: agency, resistance and sector speaks in homelessness services pp. 583-603

Rachael Dobson

English local government and the local trap pp. 604-621

Neil Barnett

Uncovering the aspirations to be a leading local government: a content analysis approach pp. 622-640

Naomi Aoki

The impact of revenue autonomy on the composition of local public spending: evidence from Poland pp. 641-665

Joanna Siwinska-Gorzelak, Grażyna Bukowska and Piotr Wójcik

Cities and regions in crisis. The political economy of sub-national economic development pp. 666-668

Steven Griggs

Repowering cities: governing climate change mitigation in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto pp. 668-671

Anna Ozolina

Volume 46, issue 3, 2020

Municipality size, political efficacy and political participation: a systematic review pp. 331-350

Joshua McDonnell

Local government projectification in practice – a multiple institutional logic perspective pp. 351-370

Mats Fred

Municipal population size and the benefits of inter-municipal cooperation: panel data evidence from Japan pp. 371-393

Hiroki Baba and Yasushi Asami

How do mayors get elected? The causal effects of pre-electoral coalitions on mayoral election outcomes in Indonesia pp. 394-413

Blane Lewis

Voting in the rain: the impact of rain on participation in open-air assemblies pp. 414-435

Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen and Marlène Gerber

Economies of scale and Brazilian local government expenditure: evidence from the State of Paraná pp. 436-458

Luan Vinicius Bernardelli, Michael A. Kortt and Brian Dollery

Cross-sector collaboration in times of crisis: findings from a study of the Funing tornado in China pp. 459-482

Yana Lu and Yanwei Li

Strengthening local political leadership through institutional design: how and why pp. 483-504

Tina Øllgaard Bentzen, Christian Lo and Marte Winsvold

Volume 46, issue 2, 2020

Evaluating the outcomes of co-production in local government pp. 169-185

Jacob Brix, Hanne Kathrine Krogstrup and Nanna Moeller Mortensen

Which museums to fund? Examining local government decision-making in austerity pp. 186-205

Bethany Rex

Factors influencing the extent of local public spending through contracting-out and intermunicipal contracting in New York: focusing on institutional constraints, histories, and fiscal capacity pp. 206-227

Shihyun Noh and Ji Hyung Park

Contracting dynamics and unionisation: managing labour, contracts and markets pp. 228-252

Mildred E. Warner and Amir Hefetz

Cutback management in Canadian cities pp. 253-277

Robert Heuton and John Strate

Cutback management and path dependency: evidence from the two recent recessions pp. 278-305

Youngsung Kim and Gang Chen

The bottom-up approach: essential to an apprehension of local autonomy and local governance in the case of Switzerland pp. 306-325

Nicolas Keuffer and Katia Horber-Papazian

Public enterprise and local place: new perspectives on theory and practice pp. 326-327

Jim Chandler

Crossing boundaries in public policy and management, tackling the critical challenges pp. 327-329

Catherine Mangan

Volume 46, issue 1, 2020

Local governments and their arm’s length bodies pp. 1-21

Marieke Van Genugten, Sandra Van Thiel and Bart Voorn

Responsibility attribution for corruption scandals pp. 22-43

Sergi Ferrer

The determinants of fiscal transparency in Chinese city-level governments pp. 44-67

Shuo Sun and Rhys Andrews

Is cooperation cost reducing? An analysis of public–public partnerships and inter-municipal cooperation in Brazilian local government pp. 68-90

Hugo Consciência Silvestre, Rc Marques, Brian Dollery and Aldenísio Moraes Correia

Going Local. Voting for independent local Parties in the Netherlands 1986-2010 pp. 91-115

Simon Otjes

Local government advocacy in the ‘suburban age’: an institutionalist interpretation of Melbourne’s evolving sub-metropolitan regional structures pp. 116-138

Steven R. Henderson

Public administrators in interactive democracy: a multi-paradigmatic approach pp. 139-162

Eva Sørensen and Tina Bentzen

The Routledge handbook of international local government pp. 163-165

Jochen Franzke

Troublemakers: the construction of ‘troubled families’ as a social problem pp. 165-168

Charlotte Pell