Local Government Studies

2014 - 2025

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Volume 43, issue 6, 2017

Corrigendum pp. iii-iii

The Editors

Examining citizen participation: local participatory policymaking and democracy revisited pp. 875-881

Ank Michels and Laurens De Graaf

Energy policy under austerity localism: what role for local authorities? pp. 882-902

Jonathan Morris, John Harrison, Andrea Genovese, Liam Goucher and S. C. L. Koh

How learning aggregates: a social network analysis of learning between Swedish municipalities pp. 903-926

Christopher Ansell, Martin Lundin and PerOla Öberg

An enterprising municipality? Municipalisation, corporatisation and the political economy of Birmingham City Council in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries pp. 927-945

Chris Skelcher

Financial management conservatism under constraints: tax and expenditure limits and local deficit financing during the Great Recession pp. 946-965

Lang (Kate) Yang

The metagovernance of English devolution pp. 966-991

Daniel Bailey and Matthew Wood

Governing environmental conflicts: A comparative analysis of ten protests against industrial facilities in urban China pp. 992-1013

Yanwei Li, Joop Koppenjan and Vincent Homburg

Local government, local legislation: municipal initiative in parliament from 1858–1872, by R.J.B. Morris, Abingdon, Routledge, 2017, 251 pp., £110 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-138-69611-2 pp. 1014-1016

Stephen Leach

Local government in Australia: history, theory and public policy, by Bligh Grant and Joseph Drew, Singapore, Springer, 2017, 445 pp., £112 (eBook), ISBN 9789811038679 pp. 1016-1017

Robyn Hollander

Directly elected mayors in urban governance: impact and practice, edited by David Sweeting, Bristol, Policy Press, Published 15 March 2017, 1+296 pp., £75.00 (hbk), ISBN: 978-14473027011 pp. 1018-1020

Bligh Grant

Local identities and politics: negotiating the old and the new, by Kees Terlouw, Routledge Focus, London, 2017, 139pp., £45 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-138-20925-1; £10.50 (ebk), ISBN 978-1-315-45753-6 pp. 1020-1023

Anssi Paasi

Volume 43, issue 5, 2017

Remembering Professor George Jones pp. 693-696

The Editors

Ten years after: revisiting the determinants of the adoption of municipal corporations for local service delivery pp. 697-706

António F. Tavares

Municipalities’ willingness to adopt process innovations: evidence for higher cost-efficiency pp. 707-730

Hannes W. Lampe

What a difference a Mayor makes. A case study of the Liverpool Mayoral model pp. 731-751

Nicola Headlam and Paul Hepburn

Political incentives and transaction costs of collaboration among US cities for economic development pp. 752-775

Christopher V. Hawkins

Trust in the leadership of governors and participatory governance in Tokyo Metropolitan Government pp. 776-797

Yu Noda

Central coercion or local autonomy? A comparative analysis of policy instrument choice in refugee settlement policies pp. 798-819

Vilde Hernes

The efficiency and effectiveness of municipally owned corporations: a systematic review pp. 820-841

Bart Voorn, Marieke L. van Genugten and Sandra van Thiel

Views of public health leaders in English local authorities – changing perspectives following the transfer of responsibilities from the National Health Service to local government pp. 842-863

Stephen Peckham, Erica Gadsby, Linda Jenkins, Anna Coleman, Donna Bramwell and Neil Perkins

Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros and Isabel Mária García-Sánchez, Local governments in the digital era. Looking for accountability pp. 864-866

Sanja Korac

Stefan Müller-Doohm (tr. Daniel Steuer), Habermas: a biography pp. 867-869

Peter Matthews

Fiona Spotswood, Beyond behaviour change: key issues, interdisciplinary approaches and future directions pp. 869-871

Jason Lowther

Gerry Stoker and Mark Evans, Evidence-based policy making in the social sciences: methods that matter pp. 871-873

Jason Lowther

Volume 43, issue 4, 2017

What have we learned from the last three decades of empirical studies on factors driving local privatisation? pp. 503-511

Germà Bel and Xavier Fageda

Re-politicisation as post-NPM response? Municipal companies in a Norwegian context pp. 512-532

Turid Moldenæs and Harald Torsteinsen

Inter-municipal cooperation, economies of scale and cost efficiency: an application of stochastic frontier analysis to Dutch municipal tax departments pp. 533-554

Thomas Niaounakis and Jos Blank

Territorial upscaling of local governments: a variable-oriented approach to explaining variance among Western European countries pp. 555-576

Jostein Askim, Jan Erling Klausen, Signy Irene Vabo and Karl Bjurstrøm

Inclusive local governance: normative proposals and political practices pp. 577-597

Jone Martínez-Palacios

New localism or fuzzy centralism: policymakers’ perceptions of public education and involvement in education pp. 598-620

Nivi Gal-Arieli, Itai Beeri, Eran Vigoda-Gadot and Amnon Reichman

Dealing with Austerity: a case of local resilience in Southern Europe pp. 621-644

Lluís Medir, Esther Pano, Alba Viñas and Jaume Magre

Local revenue structure under economic hardship: reliance on alternative revenue sources in California counties pp. 645-667

Sanghee Park

When revenues are not revenues: the influence of municipal governance on revenue recognition within Swedish municipal waste management pp. 668-689

Mattias Haraldsson

David Dewar and Warwick Funnell, A history of British National Audit: the pursuit of accountability pp. 690-691

Laurence Ferry

Volume 43, issue 3, 2017

Local government and the arts revisited pp. 315-322

Clive Gray

Co-producing safety in the local community: A Q-methodology study on the incentives of Belgian and Dutch members of neighbourhood watch schemes pp. 323-343

Carola van Eijk, Trui Steen and Bram Verschuere

‘The planners’ dream goes wrong?’ Questioning citizen-centred planning pp. 344-363

Alex Lord, Michael Mair, John Sturzaker and Paul Jones

Managing governance complexity and knowledge networks in transparency initiatives: the case of police open data pp. 364-387

Alex Ingrams

Bridging the accountability and transparency gap in inter-municipal collaboration pp. 388-407

Zachary Spicer

Political participation and municipal population size: A meta-study pp. 408-428

Pepijn van Houwelingen

State-local sales tax, spillover, and economic activity: examining county governments in the US pp. 429-450

Jongmin Shon

Adoption of comprehensive risk management in local government pp. 451-474

Lasse Oulasvirta and Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko

Estimating policy positions of local parties in elections with multi-vote ballots pp. 475-498

Dominic Nyhuis

Sabine Kuhlmann and Geert Bouckaert, Local public sector reforms in times of crisis – national trajectories and international comparisons pp. 499-501

Louise Skoog

Volume 43, issue 2, 2017

Editorial statement pp. 139-141

Germà Bel, Marc Esteve, Peter Matthews and Tamara Metze

Champions of local authority innovation revisited pp. 142-149

Dean Bartlett

Big change, little change? Punctuation, increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity pp. 150-169

Alison Gardner

Helpful local surtaxes? Florida and disadvantaged families pp. 170-193

Robert J. Eger, III, Bruce D. McDonald, III and D. Ryan Miller

Analysing credit risk in large local governments: an empirical study in Spain pp. 194-217

Juan Lara-Rubio, Salvador Rayo-Cantón, Andrés Navarro-Galera and Dionisio Buendia-Carrillo

Deliberative democracy in local governance: the impact of institutional design on legitimacy pp. 218-244

Birte Gundelach, Patricia Buser and Daniel Kübler

Freedom of information in local government: rhetoric or reality? pp. 245-273

Alejandro Saez-Martin, Carmen Caba-Perez and Antonio Lopez-Hernandez

The use of intergovernmental grants to municipalities for electoral purposes by subnational governments pp. 274-290

Kadour Mehiriz

Leading the way: the integral role of local government within a multisector partnership delivering a large infrastructure project in an Australian growth region pp. 291-314

Alison Ollerenshaw, Angela Murphy and Kelsey McDonald

Volume 43, issue 1, 2017

Swedish politicians’ preferences regarding the privatisation of elderly care pp. 1-21

Ming Guo and Sam Willner

Buying schools with social capital: how local response to state reform fosters education revenue inequality pp. 22-43

Jonathan Collins

A field experiment on ethnic discrimination among local Swedish public officials pp. 44-63

Per Adman and Hanna Jansson

Transformation in Philippine local government pp. 64-88

Mendiola Teng-Calleja, Ma. Regina M. Hechanova, Ramon Benedicto A. Alampay, Nico A. Canoy, Edna P. Franco and Erwin A. Alampay

Local elected administrators’ career characteristics and revenue diversification as a managerial strategy pp. 89-109

Jungbu Kim

How single-member districts are reinforcing local independents and strengthening mayors: on the electoral reform in Polish local government pp. 110-131

Adam Gendźwiłł and Tomasz Żółtak

Peter Somerville, Understanding community; politics, policy and practice (second edition) pp. 132-134

Steve Leach

Koen P. R. Bartels, Communicative capacity: public encounters in participatory theory and practice pp. 135-137

Peter Matthews

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors