Local Government Studies

2014 - 2025

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Volume 42, issue 6, 2016

Gender and the experiences of local elected members – a focus on Wales pp. 867-884

Catherine Farrell and Sarah Titcombe

Women’s political representation and transparency in local governance pp. 885-906

Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves Araujo and Francisca Tejedo-Romero

Thinking about the ‘Local’ of Local Government: a Brief History of Invention and Reinvention pp. 907-915

Allan Cochrane

Local governance and learning: in search of a conceptual framework pp. 916-937

Robert Rządca and Marta Strumińska-Kutra

Territorial changes and changing identities: how spatial identities are used in the up-scaling of local government in the Netherlands pp. 938-957

Kees Terlouw

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) in local services: risk-sharing and private delivery of water services in Spain pp. 958-979

Samuel Carpintero and Ole Helby Petersen

The cost efficiency of water utilities: when does public ownership matter? pp. 980-1003

Silvia Pazzi, Emili Tortosa-Ausina, Meryem Duygun and Simona Zambelli

Governance of a public sector joint venture: the control challenges of dominated owners pp. 1004-1023

Marthe Liss Holum

Recasting Leadership Reform in Australian Local Government: A Typology from Political Theory pp. 1024-1046

Bligh Grant, Brian Dollery and Michael Kortt

Reframing the role of Australian mayors: an update and rejoinder to Grant, Dollery and Kortt (2016) pp. 1047-1059

Graham Sansom

Mario Diani, The cement of civil society: studying networks in localities pp. 1060-1062

Peter Matthews

Volume 42, issue 5, 2016

Erratum pp. iii-iii

The Editors

Examining media markets’ influence on the diffusion of antismoking legislation in US counties pp. 665-688

Joshua L. Mitchell

Is there still collusion in the Dutch waste collection market? pp. 689-697

Raymond Gradus, Elbert Dijkgraaf and Martijn Schoute

Building the next model for intervention and turnaround in poorly performing local authorities in England pp. 698-716

Peter Murphy and Martin Jones

Intermunicipal cooperation, municipal amalgamation and the price of credit pp. 717-738

Maarten A. Allers and Bernard van Ommeren

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Public Procurement Performance Management Systems in Local Governments pp. 739-761

Andrea Stefano Patrucco, Davide Luzzini and Stefano Ronchi

Community resilience: a policy tool for local government? pp. 762-784

Deborah Platts-Fowler and David Robinson

The effects of fiscal decentralisation on the strength of political budget cycles in local expenditure pp. 785-820

Monika Köppl Turyna, Grzegorz Kula, Agata Balmas and Kamila Waclawska

Spending and cutting are two different worlds: experimental evidence from Danish local councils pp. 821-841

Kurt Houlberg, Asmus Leth Olsen and Lene Holm Pedersen

Going online. Does ICT enabled-participation engage the young in local governance? pp. 842-862

Peter Thijssen and Wouter Van Dooren

Timothy P. R. Weaver, Blazing the neoliberal trail: urban political development in the United States and the United Kingdom pp. 863-865

Graham Sansom

Volume 42, issue 4, 2016

Russia’s local government in the process of authoritarian regime transformation: incentives for the survival of local democracy pp. 507-526

Grigorii V. Golosov, Kristina Gushchina and Pavel Kononenko

The communicative policy maker revisited: public administration in a twenty-first century cultural-choice framework pp. 527-535

Amir Hefetz

Variants of transparency: an analysis of the English Local Government Transparency Code 2015 pp. 536-556

Abdullah Abid Oztoprak and Erna Ruijer

The ‘shared workplace’ agenda in Northern Ireland: lessons from local government pp. 557-578

Gary Brown and Michael Cole

Declining partisan representation at the sub-national level: assessing and explaining the strengthening of local lists in Italian municipalities (1995–2014) pp. 579-597

Davide Vampa

Why do voters forgive corrupt mayors? Implicit exchange, credibility of information and clean alternatives pp. 598-615

Jordi Muñoz, Eva Anduiza and Aina Gallego

The impact of associational life on trust in local institutions: a comparison of 57 Swiss municipalities pp. 616-636

Markus Freitag and Maya Ackermann

Public services and local government: the end of the principle of ‘funding following duties’ pp. 637-656

Mark Sandford

Agustina Giraudy, Democrats and autocrats: pathways of subnational undemocratic regime continuity within democratic countries pp. 657-659

Olimpija Hristova Zaevska

Catherine Durose and Liz Richardson, Designing public policy for co-production: theory, practice and change pp. 659-661

Caitlin McMullin

Paul Joyce, John Bryson and Marc Holzer, Developments in Strategic and Public Management: Studies in the US and Europe pp. 661-663

Richard Kerley

Volume 42, issue 3, 2016

Addendum pp. iii-iii

The Editors

Local governance under the Conservatives: super-austerity, devolution and the ‘smarter state’ pp. 357-375

Vivien Lowndes and Alison Gardner

Local government reforms: between multifunction and single-purpose organisations pp. 376-384

Hellmut Wollmann

Measuring horizontal fiscal imbalance: the case of Italian municipalities pp. 385-419

Giuseppe Di Liddo, Ernesto Longobardi and Francesco Porcelli

From public to mixed ownership in local public services provision: an empirical analysis pp. 420-440

Margherita Boggio

Scale economies in local public administration pp. 441-463

Jacob Bikker and Daan van der Linde

Is local authority procurement supporting SMEs? An analysis of practice in English local authorities pp. 464-484

Kim Loader

W.B. Gallie, T.H. Marshall and the contested concepts of fairness and citizenship: examining the parameters of debate in Newport City Council’s Fairness Commission and citizens’ views on fairness pp. 485-505

Steven R. Smith

Volume 42, issue 2, 2016

From Competition to Collaboration: Intergovernmental Economic Development Policy Networks pp. 171-188

Youngmi Lee

Intergovernmental Grants and Public Expenditures: Evidence from a Survey Experiment pp. 189-207

Martin Baekgaard and Marie Kjaergaard

Political Representation and Geographical Bias in Amalgamated Local Governments pp. 208-227

Morten Jakobsen and Ulrik Kjaer

Municipal Mergers in New Zealand: An Empirical Analysis of the Proposed Amalgamation of Hawke’s Bay Councils pp. 228-247

Michael A. Kortt, Brian Dollery and Joseph Drew

What’s in a Name? Assessing the Performance of Local Government Classification Systems pp. 248-266

Joseph Drew and Brian Dollery

Urban Regeneration Policy from the Integrated Urban Development Model in the European Union: an Analytical Approach Based on the Study of Spanish Cities pp. 267-286

María Ángeles Huete Garcia, Rafael Merinero Rodríguez and Rocío Muñoz Moreno

Financial and Political Factors Motivating the Privatisation of Municipal Water Services pp. 287-308

José Luis Zafra-Gómez, Antonio Manuel López-Hernández, Ana María Plata-Díaz and Juan Carlos Garrido-Rodríguez

The Effect of Formal and Informal Contracting Mechanisms on Implementation Performance in the U.S. Federalist System pp. 309-331

Jessica N. Terman and Richard C. Feiock

Does Public Spending Improve Citizens’ Quality of Life? An Analysis of Municipalities’ Leisure Supply pp. 332-350

Elisabetta Mafrolla and Eugenio D’Amico

Nicholas Daly, The demographic imagination and the nineteenth-century city: Paris, London, New York pp. 351-352

George Jones

Robin Hambleton, Leading the inclusive city: place-based innovation for a bounded planet pp. 352-354

Paul Bunyan

Chris Himsworth, The European Charter of Local Self-Government: a treaty for local democracy pp. 354-355

Andrew Coulson

Volume 42, issue 1, 2016

Did the Big Stick Work? An Empirical Assessment of Scale Economies and the Queensland Forced Amalgamation Program pp. 1-14

Joseph Drew, Michael A. Kortt and Brian Dollery

Does Size Still Matter? An Empirical Analysis of the Effectiveness of Victorian Local Authorities pp. 15-28

Joseph Drew and Brian Dollery

Risk Factors and Drivers of Financial Sustainability in Local Government: An Empirical Study pp. 29-51

Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, Andrés Navarro Galera, Laura Alcaide Muñoz and María Deseada López Subirés

Austere State Strategies: Regenerating for Recovery and the Resignification of Regeneration pp. 52-74

Lee Pugalis

Combining Citizen Participation and Expert Analysis: A Wild, Wild Horses Problem in British Columbia pp. 75-96

Michael Brydon and Aidan Vining

Divergence in Community Participation Policy: Analysing Localism and Community Empowerment Using a Theory of Change Approach pp. 97-118

Steve Rolfe

Shaping Political Preferences: Information Effects in Political-Administrative Systems pp. 119-138

Jens Blom-Hansen, Martin Baekgaard and Søren Serritzlew

Rewards and Consequences: Redistricting on the Chicago City Council pp. 139-163

Matthew A. Shapiro and Daniel Bliss

Romain Pasquier, Regional Governance and Power in France: The Dynamics of Political Space pp. 164-165

Joyce Liddle

Edited by Stephen Jivraj and Ludi Simpson, Ethnic Identity and Inequalities in Britain pp. 165-167

Asif Afridi

Ewan Ferlie and Edoardo Ongaro, Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations: Concepts, Schools and Contemporary Issues pp. 167-170

Paul Joyce