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November 2020, Volume 46, Issue 6
- 979-994 Revenue volatility and forecast errors: evidence from Korean local governments
by Tae-Ho Lee & Sunjoo Kwak - 995-1014 The leadership of place and people in the new English combined authorities
by Jane Roberts - 1015-1038 Electoral opportunism and water pricing with incomplete transfer of control rights
by Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo & Francisco González-Gómez & Marta Suárez-Varela - 1039-1041 Public governance paradigms: competing and co-existing
by Katarzyna Lakoma - 1041-1043 Why isn’t government policy more preventive?
by Madeleine Pill
September 2020, Volume 46, Issue 5
- 673-692 The expansion of the public sector in federalism: a comparative analysis of a macro level governing structure and government size
by Yu Shi - 693-715 Changes in the dimensions of political competition in Europe and their impact on citizens’ engagement via Facebook
by Juana Alonso-Cañadas & Alejandro Sáez-Martín & Carmen Caba-Pérez - 716-733 Economic resilience after the Great Recession: an examination of unreserved fund balance in Michigan counties
by Shu Wang & Eric Scorsone - 734-762 A comprehensive model for the evaluation of standard expenditure needs and standard level of local services
by Francesco Porcelli & Francesco Vidoli - 763-779 The attractiveness of local and national list labels: the role of socio-economic inequalities on the success of electoral lists
by Jeremy Dodeigne & Vincent Jacquet & Min Reuchamps - 780-799 Two-dimensional legislative conflict: unique implications for the effectiveness of local councils
by Meng Yuan & Scot Schraufnagel - 800-819 Indispensable, yet Invisible: Drinking water management as a local political issue in Swedish municipalities
by Anna Bendz & Åsa Boholm - 820-845 Towards more digital cities? Change in technology use and perceptions across small and medium-sized US cities
by Mary K. Feeney & Federica Fusi & Leonor Camarena & Fengxiu Zhang
July 2020, Volume 46, Issue 4
- 505-523 Guest editors’ introduction: the power of now. Reimagining the future of local government through studies of ‘actually existing’ practice
by Neil Barnett & Steven Griggs & Helen Sullivan - 524-541 In and beyond local government: making up new spaces of governance
by Allan Cochrane - 542-563 The everyday local state? Opening up and closing down informality in local governance
by Madeleine Pill & Valeria Guarneros-Meza - 564-582 The role of the councillor and the work of meeting
by Richard Freeman - 583-603 Local government and practice ontologies: agency, resistance and sector speaks in homelessness services
by Rachael Dobson - 604-621 English local government and the local trap
by Neil Barnett - 622-640 Uncovering the aspirations to be a leading local government: a content analysis approach
by Naomi Aoki - 641-665 The impact of revenue autonomy on the composition of local public spending: evidence from Poland
by Joanna Siwińska-Gorzelak & Grażyna Bukowska & Piotr Wójcik - 666-668 Cities and regions in crisis. The political economy of sub-national economic development
by Steven Griggs - 668-671 Repowering cities: governing climate change mitigation in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto
by Anna Ozolina
May 2020, Volume 46, Issue 3
- 331-350 Municipality size, political efficacy and political participation: a systematic review
by Joshua McDonnell - 351-370 Local government projectification in practice – a multiple institutional logic perspective
by Mats Fred - 371-393 Municipal population size and the benefits of inter-municipal cooperation: panel data evidence from Japan
by Hiroki Baba & Yasushi Asami - 394-413 How do mayors get elected? The causal effects of pre-electoral coalitions on mayoral election outcomes in Indonesia
by Blane D. Lewis - 414-435 Voting in the rain: the impact of rain on participation in open-air assemblies
by Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen & Marlène Gerber - 436-458 Economies of scale and Brazilian local government expenditure: evidence from the State of Paraná
by Luan Vinicius Bernardelli & Michael A. Kortt & Brian Dollery - 459-482 Cross-sector collaboration in times of crisis: findings from a study of the Funing tornado in China
by Yana Lu & Yanwei Li - 483-504 Strengthening local political leadership through institutional design: how and why
by Tina Øllgaard Bentzen & Christian Lo & Marte Winsvold
March 2020, Volume 46, Issue 2
- 169-185 Evaluating the outcomes of co-production in local government
by Jacob Brix & Hanne Kathrine Krogstrup & Nanna Moeller Mortensen - 186-205 Which museums to fund? Examining local government decision-making in austerity
by Bethany Rex - 206-227 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
by Shihyun Noh & Ji Hyung Park - 228-252 Contracting dynamics and unionisation: managing labour, contracts and markets
by Mildred E. Warner & Amir Hefetz - 253-277 Cutback management in Canadian cities
by Robert Heuton & John Strate - 278-305 Cutback management and path dependency: evidence from the two recent recessions
by Youngsung Kim & Gang Chen - 306-325 The bottom-up approach: essential to an apprehension of local autonomy and local governance in the case of Switzerland
by Nicolas Keuffer & Katia Horber-Papazian - 326-327 Public enterprise and local place: new perspectives on theory and practice
by Jim Chandler - 327-329 Crossing boundaries in public policy and management, tackling the critical challenges
by Catherine Mangan
January 2020, Volume 46, Issue 1
- 1-21 Local governments and their arm’s length bodies
by Marieke Van Genugten & Sandra Van Thiel & Bart Voorn - 22-43 Responsibility attribution for corruption scandals
by Sergi Ferrer - 44-67 The determinants of fiscal transparency in Chinese city-level governments
by Shuo Sun & Rhys Andrews - 68-90 Is cooperation cost reducing? An analysis of public–public partnerships and inter-municipal cooperation in Brazilian local government
by Hugo Consciência Silvestre & Rui Cunha Marques & Brian Dollery & Aldenísio Moraes Correia - 91-115 Going Local. Voting for independent local Parties in the Netherlands 1986-2010
by Simon Otjes - 116-138 Local government advocacy in the ‘suburban age’: an institutionalist interpretation of Melbourne’s evolving sub-metropolitan regional structures
by Steven R. Henderson - 139-162 Public administrators in interactive democracy: a multi-paradigmatic approach
by Eva Sørensen & Tina Bentzen - 163-165 The Routledge handbook of international local government
by Jochen Franzke - 165-168 Troublemakers: the construction of ‘troubled families’ as a social problem
by Charlotte Pell
November 2019, Volume 45, Issue 6
- 777-802 Interlocal collaboration and local climate protection
by Jisun Youm & Richard C. Feiock - 803-826 Local government’s disaster management capacity and disaster resilience
by Dae Woong Lee - 827-847 Does democratic local governance facilitate local economic development? Evidence from Bangladesh
by Monzur Hossain & Paritosh Kumar Roy - 848-868 The role of local government in rural communities: culture-based development strategies
by Mikaela Vasstrøm & Roger Normann - 869-892 Revitalizing Local Government Performance Management: Further Dissecting the Role of Socioeconomic Status and Social Mobilization Policy
by Ganesh Prasad Pandeya & Tatsuo Oyama - 893-912 Promoting neoliberal ideology in Finnish rural community development: the creation of new moral actors
by Hanna-Mari Husu & Kaisu Kumpulainen - 913-936 Practitioners’ perspectives on in-house versus arm’s-length structures of local economic development delivery in Ontario, Canada
by Adrian Buttazzoni & Godwin Arku & Evan Cleave - 937-956 Breaking up a partnership to build a competitive market in Denmark’s ambulance service: how can studies of contract reversals learn from the sociology of markets?
by Sarah Wadmann & Iben Emilie Christensen & Jakob Kjellberg & Carsten Greve - 957-976 Fiscal and political determinants of local government involvement in public-private partnership (PPP)
by Agnieszka Kopańska & Roman Asinski - 977-1000 Organisational choices in public procurement: what can public management learn from the private sector?
by Andrea S. Patrucco & Antonella Moretto & Stefano Ronchi & Davide Luzzini - 1001-1020 In participatory budgeting we trust? Fairness, tactics and (in)accessibility in participatory governance
by Catherine Wilkinson & Jo Briggs & Karen Salt & John Vines & Emma Flynn - 1021-1028 Extreme cities: the peril and promise of urban life in the age of climate change
by Kit England - 1023-1026 The politics of scale in policy: scalecraft and education governance
by Hayley Henderson - 1026-1028 E-participation in smart cities: technologies and models of governance for citizen engagement
by Zhang Qing
September 2019, Volume 45, Issue 5
- 603-610 Special issue on municipal amalgamations: guest editors’ introduction
by Yaniv Reingewertz & Soren Serritzlew - 611-631 Merging county administrations – cross-national evidence of fiscal and political effects
by Sebastian Blesse & Felix Roesel - 632-653 Population size or population density? An empirical examination of scale economies in South Australian local government, 2015/16
by Carolyn Tran & Michael Kortt & Brian Dollery - 654-675 Why voluntary municipal merger projects fail: evidence from popular votes in Switzerland
by Michael Andrea Strebel - 676-696 Exploiting the common pool or looking to the future? A study of free-riding leading up to the 2007 municipal amalgamations in Denmark
by Sune Welling Hansen - 697-723 Voter turnout and municipal amalgamations—evidence from Denmark
by Yosef Bhatti & Kasper M. Hansen - 724-747 David and Goliath in the poll booth: group size, political power and voter turnout
by Peter Bönisch & Benny Geys & Claus Michelsen - 748-767 Rhetoric in municipal amalgamations: a comparative analysis
by Joseph Drew & Eran Razin & Rhys Andrews - 768-769 The UK’s changing democracy: the 2018 democratic audit
by Tom Caygill - 769-772 Questioning performance measurement: metrics, organizations and power
by Melissa Hawkins - 772-775 Whose government is it? The renewal of state-citizen cooperation
by Tom Entwistle
July 2019, Volume 45, Issue 4
- 453-480 Community engagement in Australian local governments: a closer look and strategic implications
by Helen E. Christensen & Dana McQuestin - 481-503 Can the cultural environment affect governmental transparency on sustainability? Useful measures for policy makers and practitioners
by Mercedes Ruiz-Lozano & Andrés Navarro-Galera & Pilar Tirado-Valencia & Araceli De Los Ríos-Berjillos - 504-525 Reputation reform strategies in local government: investigating Denmark and Norway
by Åshild Skjegstad Lockert & Hilde Bjørnå & Kristian H. Haugen & Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen - 526-545 Who votes for mayor? Evidence from midsized American cities
by Austin M. Aldag - 546-568 Do the illegal and legal rents of politicians affect municipal election outcomes? Empirical evidence
by Bernardino Benito & María-Dolores Guillamón & Ana-María Ríos & Francisco Bastida - 569-592 Auckland, New Zealand – fair game for central party politics
by Karen Webster & Andy Asquith & Maheswaren Rohan & Andrew Cardow & Mandisi Majavu - 593-595 Governing climate change: polycentricity in action?
by Paul Tobin - 595-597 Power and capacity in urban climate governance: Germany and England compared
by Tomas Maltby - 597-599 Knowledge, policymaking and learning for European cities and regions
by Philipp Trein - 599-602 Performance goals in public management and policy: the nature and implications of goal ambiguity
by Thomas Elston
May 2019, Volume 45, Issue 3
- 293-301 Local emergency management special issue: guest editors’ introduction
by Gina Yannitell Reinhardt & Lex Drennan - 302-307 Local emergency management special issue: a foreword by Dr Barry Quirk CBE
by Barry Quirk - 308-327 The concept of resilience: a bibliometric analysis of the emergency and disaster management literature
by Fatih Demiroz & Thomas W. Haase - 328-349 Resilience policy in practice — Surveying the role of community based organisations in local disaster management
by Lex Drennan & Lochlan Morrissey - 350-371 Local politics in an international context: a linguistic analysis of community resiliency in Memphis, TN
by Leah Cathryn Windsor & Andrew J. Hampton & James Grayson Cupit & Alistair James Windsor - 372-393 Residential taxable value recovery in coastal Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina
by Skip Krueger & Julie Winkler & Ronald L. Schumann - 394-412 Using community education interventions to build resilience and avert crises: how accidental dwelling fires decreased in Essex County, UK
by Gina Yannitell Reinhardt & Kakia Chatsiou - 413-432 Perceptions of disaster resilience in four Texas coastal communities
by Kirby Goidel & Jennifer A. Horney & Paul M. Kellstedt & Emily Sullivan & Stephanie E. V. Brown - 433-452 Maintaining the status quo: understanding local use of resilience strategies to address earthquake risk in Oklahoma
by Ray HsienHo Chang & Alex Greer & Haley Murphy & Hao-Che (Tristan) Wu & Steven Melton
March 2019, Volume 45, Issue 2
- 153-174 Coming out of the shadow? Studies of local governments in Central and Eastern Europe in European academic research
by Pawel Swianiewicz & Anna Kurniewicz - 175-195 Dynamic-opportunistic behaviour in local government contracting-out decisions during the electoral cycle
by Emilio J. de la Higuera-Molina & Ana M. Plata-Díaz & Antonio M. López-Hernández & José L. Zafra-Gómez - 196-218 Strengthening the local representative system: the importance of electoral and non-electoral representation
by Hester M. van de Bovenkamp & Hans Vollaard - 219-240 Boundary-spanning strategies for aligning institutional logics: a typology
by José Nederhand & Martijn Van Der Steen & Mark Van Twist - 241-261 The impact of revenue diversification on municipal debts: comparing short-term and long-term debt levels
by Jongmin Shon & Junghack Kim - 262-280 Towards a framework for measuring local government return on investment in arts and cultural development
by Trudie Walters & Lisa Chandler & Stephen Clark - 281-283 Reimagining the future public service workforce
by Ian C. Elliott - 283-286 How far to nudge? Assessing behavioural public policy
by Sarah Ball - 286-287 How far to nudge? Assessing behavioural public policy
by Jason Lowther - 288-290 How language works in politics
by Mark Sandford - 290-292 Kill it to save it: an autopsy of capitalism’s triumph over democracy
by Jason Lowther
January 2019, Volume 45, Issue 1
- 1-23 Territorial reforms in Europe: effects on administrative performance and democratic participation
by Falk Ebinger & Sabine Kuhlmann & Joerg Bogumil - 24-42 Do citizens hold mayors accountable for local conditions? Evidence from Italian municipalities
by Giorgio Di Pietro - 43-63 Political board’s contribution to strategic management: a case study
by Roy Liff - 64-100 Evaluating local government performance in times of crisis
by Isabel Narbón-Perpiñá & Maria Balaguer-Coll & Emili Tortosa-Ausina - 101-123 Managing revenue collection outsourcing in Tanzania’s local government authorities: a case study of Iringa Municipal Council
by Michael Greyson Mgonja & Japhace Poncian - 124-145 Don’t push too hard. Examining the managerial behaviours of local authorities in collaborative networks with nonprofit organisations
by Anna Uster & Itai Beeri & Dana Vashdi - 146-147 Handbook of policy formulation
by Jason Lowther - 147-149 Policy problems and policy design
by Nick Turnbull - 149-152 Substance not spin: an insider’s view of success and failure in government
by Jason Lowther
November 2018, Volume 44, Issue 6
- 745-765 How does intergovernmental fiscal environment affect general fund balances of major American cities?
by Yonghong Wu & Yu Shi - 766-787 How best to open up local democracy? A randomised experiment to encourage contested elections and greater representativeness in English parish councils
by Matt Ryan & Gerry Stoker & Peter John & Alice Moseley & Oliver James & Liz Richardson & Matia Vannoni - 788-806 Querying the resilient local authority: the question of ‘resilience for whom?’
by Amanda Fitzgerald - 807-825 Grassroots democracy and local government in Northern Syria: the case of democratic confederalism
by Nathalie Colasanti & Rocco Frondizi & Joyce Liddle & Marco Meneguzzo - 826-847 Is regional government-governance nexus delivering on social sustainability promises? Empirical evidence from Moranbah in Australia
by Marita Basson & Henriette van Rensburg & Michael Cuthill & Michael O. Erdiaw-Kwasie - 848-873 Level of services, spatial dependence and allocative efficiency in local governments
by Francesco Vidoli & Elisa Fusco - 874-893 Collaborative leadership and financial sustainability in local government
by Jungin Kim - 894-896 Political leaders and changing local democracy: the European mayor
by Rachel Wall - 896-899 Handbook of social policy evaluation
by Jason Lowther - 899-901 Fiscal decentralization and local finance in developing countries
by Kojo Oduro
September 2018, Volume 44, Issue 5
- 601-623 Organisational culture and strategic change in Australian local governments
by Salha Alshumrani & Rahat Munir & Kevin Baird - 624-648 Does it matter ‘who governs?’ Governance networks, local economic development policies, and the Great Recession
by Twyla Blackmond Larnell - 649-669 Advocating within and outside the shadow of hierarchy: local government responses to Melbourne’s outer suburban deficits
by Steven R. Henderson - 670-696 Decentralised governance and empowerment of county governments in China: betting on the weak or the strong?
by Yong Fan & Yan Wu & Alfred M. Wu & Wei Wang - 697-718 Assessing electronic service delivery in municipalities: determinants and financial consequences of e-government implementation
by Tjerk Budding & Bram Faber & Raymond Gradus - 719-738 Cultural policy, local government and museums: an Australian perspective
by Helena Robinson - 739-741 Who stole the town hall? The end of local government as we know it
by Whyeda Gill-Mclure - 741-744 Social policy review 29: analysis and debate in social policy 2017
by Jason Lowther
July 2018, Volume 44, Issue 4
- 443-464 Analysing managerial perceptions of when and how to structure public involvement in public-private partnerships
by Eric J. Boyer & Juan D. Rogers & David M. Van Slyke - 465-491 How do municipal amalgamations affect turnout in local elections? Insights from the 2015 municipal reform in the Austrian state of Styria
by Reinhard Heinisch & Thomas Lehner & Armin Mühlböck & Christian H. Schimpf - 492-511 Silos as barriers to public sector climate adaptation and preparedness: insights from road closures in Norway
by Merethe Dotterud Leiren & Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen - 512-530 Effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout
by Simon Lapointe & Tuukka Saarimaa & Janne Tukiainen - 531-551 An empirical assessment of local autonomy and special district finance in the US
by Yu Shi - 552-576 Town twinning and political support
by Markus Tausendpfund & Lisa Schäfer - 577-600 Sustainability reporting by Australian local government authorities
by Md Moazzem Hossain
May 2018, Volume 44, Issue 3
- 305-328 Pushed by national politics or pulled by localism? Voting for independent local parties in the Netherlands
by Simon Otjes - 329-349 The use of local direct democracy in the Czech Republic: how NIMBY disputes drive protest behaviour
by Tomáš Dvořák - 350-370 Cooperation, not cost savings: explaining duration of shared service agreements
by Austin M. Aldag & Mildred Warner - 371-390 Drivers and barriers of inter-municipal cooperation in health services – the Norwegian case
by Bjørnulf Arntsen & Dag Olaf Torjesen & Tor-Ivar Karlsen - 391-415 Austerity, rationing and inequity: trends in children’s and young peoples’ services expenditure in England between 2010 and 2015
by Calum J. R. Webb & Paul Bywaters - 416-435 ‘Faulty’ fiscal illusion: examining the relationship between revenue diversification and tax burden in major US cities across the economic cycle
by Yu Shi & Jie Tao - 436-438 ‘Joined-up’ local governments? Restructuring and reorganising internal management
by Averill Campion - 438-441 Kittens are evil: Little heresies in public policy
by Emily St Denny
March 2018, Volume 44, Issue 2
- 173-182 Beyond privatisation and cost savings: alternatives for local government reform
by Germà Bel & Robert Hebdon & Mildred Warner - 183-203 What happens after a local referendum? The effect of direct democratic decision-making on protest intentions
by Anna Kern - 204-228 Mayoral scalar strategies and the role of the central state after the financial crisis
by Oliver Dlabac - 229-254 Metropolitan challenges and reform pressures across Europe – the perspectives of city mayors
by Oliver Dlabac & Lluís Medir & Mariona Tomàs & Marta Lackowska - 255-274 Adjustments in municipal fiscal crises. Are they different according to the gender of the mayor?
by Roberto Cabaleiro Casal & Enrique Buch Gómez - 275-296 The relationship between competition and efficiency of waste-collection services in the Czech Republic
by Jan Pavel & Jan Slavík - 297-298 Local government in England: centralisation, autonomy and control, by Colin Copus, Mark Roberts and Rachel Wall, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 206 pp., £59.99 (hardback), £47.99 (eBook), ISBN 978-1-137-26417-6 (hardback); 978-1-137-26418-3 (eBook)
by Peter Eckersley - 299-301 Centralisation, devolution and the future of local government in England, by Steve Leach, John Stewart and George Jones, Abingdon, Routledge, 2017, 180 pp., £120.00 (hardback), £32.99 (paperback), £32.99 (eBook), ISBN 97811387222373 (hardback), 9781138222380 (paperback); 9781315407944 (eBook)
by Chris Game - 301-303 Centralisation, devolution and the future of local government in England, by Steve Leach, John Stewart and George Jones, Abingdon, Routledge, 2017, 180 pp., £120.00 (hardback), £32.99 (paperback), £32.99 (eBook), ISBN 97811387222373 (hardback), 9781138222380 (paperback); 9781315407944 (eBook)
by Tony Smith
January 2018, Volume 44, Issue 1
- 1-1 Erratum
by The Editors - 1-1 Corrigendum
by The Editors - 1-10 If territorial fragmentation is a problem, is amalgamation a solution? – Ten years later
by Pawel Swianiewicz - 11-21 Privatisation, contracting-out and inter-municipal cooperation: new developments in local public service delivery
by Germà Bel & Raymond Gradus - 22-43 Inter-municipal cooperation in the case of spillovers: evidence from Western German municipalities
by Christian Bergholz - 44-63 Can alternative service delivery save cities after the Great Recession? Barriers to privatisation and cooperation
by Yunji Kim - 64-85 Contracting out local road and park services: economic effects and their strategic, contractual and competitive conditions
by Andrej Christian Lindholst & Ole Helby Petersen & Kurt Houlberg - 86-104 The effects of market concentration on costs of local public services: empirical evidence from Dutch waste collection
by Raymond Gradus & Martijn Schoute & Elbert Dijkgraaf - 105-126 Internal factors of intermunicipal cooperation: what matters most and why?
by Jana Soukopová & Gabriela Vaceková - 127-150 Intermunicipal cooperation, public spending and service levels
by Maarten A. Allers & J.A. de Greef - 151-171 Does intermunicipal cooperation increase efficiency? A conditional metafrontier approach for the Hessian wastewater sector
by Frédéric Blaeschke & Peter Haug
November 2017, Volume 43, Issue 6
- 1-1 Corrigendum
by The Editors - 875-881 Examining citizen participation: local participatory policymaking and democracy revisited
by Ank Michels & Laurens De Graaf - 882-902 Energy policy under austerity localism: what role for local authorities?
by Jonathan Morris & John Harrison & Andrea Genovese & Liam Goucher & S. C. L. Koh - 903-926 How learning aggregates: a social network analysis of learning between Swedish municipalities
by Christopher Ansell & Martin Lundin & PerOla Öberg - 927-945 An enterprising municipality? Municipalisation, corporatisation and the political economy of Birmingham City Council in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries
by Chris Skelcher - 946-965 Financial management conservatism under constraints: tax and expenditure limits and local deficit financing during the Great Recession
by Lang (Kate) Yang - 966-991 The metagovernance of English devolution
by Daniel Bailey & Matthew Wood - 992-1013 Governing environmental conflicts: A comparative analysis of ten protests against industrial facilities in urban China
by Yanwei Li & Joop Koppenjan & Vincent Homburg - 1014-1016 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
by Stephen Leach - 1016-1017 Local government in Australia: history, theory and public policy, by Bligh Grant and Joseph Drew, Singapore, Springer, 2017, 445 pp., £112 (eBook), ISBN 9789811038679
by Robyn Hollander - 1018-1020 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
by Bligh Grant - 1020-1023 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
by Anssi Paasi
September 2017, Volume 43, Issue 5
- 693-696 Remembering Professor George Jones
by The Editors - 697-706 Ten years after: revisiting the determinants of the adoption of municipal corporations for local service delivery
by António F. Tavares - 707-730 Municipalities’ willingness to adopt process innovations: evidence for higher cost-efficiency
by Hannes W. Lampe - 731-751 What a difference a Mayor makes. A case study of the Liverpool Mayoral model
by Nicola Headlam & Paul Hepburn - 752-775 Political incentives and transaction costs of collaboration among US cities for economic development
by Christopher V. Hawkins - 776-797 Trust in the leadership of governors and participatory governance in Tokyo Metropolitan Government
by Yu Noda - 798-819 Central coercion or local autonomy? A comparative analysis of policy instrument choice in refugee settlement policies
by Vilde Hernes - 820-841 The efficiency and effectiveness of municipally owned corporations: a systematic review
by Bart Voorn & Marieke L. van Genugten & Sandra van Thiel - 842-863 Views of public health leaders in English local authorities – changing perspectives following the transfer of responsibilities from the National Health Service to local government
by Stephen Peckham & Erica Gadsby & Linda Jenkins & Anna Coleman & Donna Bramwell & Neil Perkins - 864-866 Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros and Isabel Mária García-Sánchez, Local governments in the digital era. Looking for accountability
by Sanja Korac - 867-869 Stefan Müller-Doohm (tr. Daniel Steuer), Habermas: a biography
by Peter Matthews - 869-871 Fiona Spotswood, Beyond behaviour change: key issues, interdisciplinary approaches and future directions
by Jason Lowther - 871-873 Gerry Stoker and Mark Evans, Evidence-based policy making in the social sciences: methods that matter
by Jason Lowther
July 2017, Volume 43, Issue 4
- 503-511 What have we learned from the last three decades of empirical studies on factors driving local privatisation?
by Germà Bel & Xavier Fageda - 512-532 Re-politicisation as post-NPM response? Municipal companies in a Norwegian context
by Turid Moldenæs & Harald Torsteinsen - 533-554 Inter-municipal cooperation, economies of scale and cost efficiency: an application of stochastic frontier analysis to Dutch municipal tax departments
by Thomas Niaounakis & Jos Blank - 555-576 Territorial upscaling of local governments: a variable-oriented approach to explaining variance among Western European countries
by Jostein Askim & Jan Erling Klausen & Signy Irene Vabo & Karl Bjurstrøm - 577-597 Inclusive local governance: normative proposals and political practices
by Jone Martínez-Palacios - 598-620 New localism or fuzzy centralism: policymakers’ perceptions of public education and involvement in education
by Nivi Gal-Arieli & Itai Beeri & Eran Vigoda-Gadot & Amnon Reichman - 621-644 Dealing with Austerity: a case of local resilience in Southern Europe
by Lluís Medir & Esther Pano & Alba Viñas & Jaume Magre