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July 2018, Volume 44, Issue 4
- 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 - 645-667 Local revenue structure under economic hardship: reliance on alternative revenue sources in California counties
by Sanghee Park - 668-689 When revenues are not revenues: the influence of municipal governance on revenue recognition within Swedish municipal waste management
by Mattias Haraldsson - 690-691 David Dewar and Warwick Funnell, A history of British National Audit: the pursuit of accountability
by Laurence Ferry
May 2017, Volume 43, Issue 3
- 315-322 Local government and the arts revisited
by Clive Gray - 323-343 Co-producing safety in the local community: A Q-methodology study on the incentives of Belgian and Dutch members of neighbourhood watch schemes
by Carola van Eijk & Trui Steen & Bram Verschuere - 344-363 ‘The planners’ dream goes wrong?’ Questioning citizen-centred planning
by Alex Lord & Michael Mair & John Sturzaker & Paul Jones - 364-387 Managing governance complexity and knowledge networks in transparency initiatives: the case of police open data
by Alex Ingrams - 388-407 Bridging the accountability and transparency gap in inter-municipal collaboration
by Zachary Spicer - 408-428 Political participation and municipal population size: A meta-study
by Pepijn van Houwelingen - 429-450 State-local sales tax, spillover, and economic activity: examining county governments in the US
by Jongmin Shon - 451-474 Adoption of comprehensive risk management in local government
by Lasse Oulasvirta & Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko - 475-498 Estimating policy positions of local parties in elections with multi-vote ballots
by Dominic Nyhuis - 499-501 Sabine Kuhlmann and Geert Bouckaert, Local public sector reforms in times of crisis – national trajectories and international comparisons
by Louise Skoog
March 2017, Volume 43, Issue 2
- 139-141 Editorial statement
by Germà Bel & Marc Esteve & Peter Matthews & Tamara Metze - 142-149 Champions of local authority innovation revisited
by Dean Bartlett - 150-169 Big change, little change? Punctuation, increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity
by Alison Gardner - 170-193 Helpful local surtaxes? Florida and disadvantaged families
by Robert J. Eger, III & Bruce D. McDonald, III & D. Ryan Miller - 194-217 Analysing credit risk in large local governments: an empirical study in Spain
by Juan Lara-Rubio & Salvador Rayo-Cantón & Andrés Navarro-Galera & Dionisio Buendia-Carrillo - 218-244 Deliberative democracy in local governance: the impact of institutional design on legitimacy
by Birte Gundelach & Patricia Buser & Daniel Kübler - 245-273 Freedom of information in local government: rhetoric or reality?
by Alejandro Saez-Martin & Carmen Caba-Perez & Antonio Lopez-Hernandez - 274-290 The use of intergovernmental grants to municipalities for electoral purposes by subnational governments
by Kadour Mehiriz - 291-314 Leading the way: the integral role of local government within a multisector partnership delivering a large infrastructure project in an Australian growth region
by Alison Ollerenshaw & Angela Murphy & Kelsey McDonald
January 2017, Volume 43, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial Board
by The Editors - 1-21 Swedish politicians’ preferences regarding the privatisation of elderly care
by Ming Guo & Sam Willner - 22-43 Buying schools with social capital: how local response to state reform fosters education revenue inequality
by Jonathan Collins - 44-63 A field experiment on ethnic discrimination among local Swedish public officials
by Per Adman & Hanna Jansson - 64-88 Transformation in Philippine local government
by Mendiola Teng-Calleja & Ma. Regina M. Hechanova & Ramon Benedicto A. Alampay & Nico A. Canoy & Edna P. Franco & Erwin A. Alampay - 89-109 Local elected administrators’ career characteristics and revenue diversification as a managerial strategy
by Jungbu Kim - 110-131 How single-member districts are reinforcing local independents and strengthening mayors: on the electoral reform in Polish local government
by Adam Gendźwiłł & Tomasz Żółtak - 132-134 Peter Somerville, Understanding community; politics, policy and practice (second edition)
by Steve Leach - 135-137 Koen P. R. Bartels, Communicative capacity: public encounters in participatory theory and practice
by Peter Matthews
November 2016, Volume 42, Issue 6
- 867-884 Gender and the experiences of local elected members – a focus on Wales
by Catherine Farrell & Sarah Titcombe - 885-906 Women’s political representation and transparency in local governance
by Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves Araujo & Francisca Tejedo-Romero - 907-915 Thinking about the ‘Local’ of Local Government: a Brief History of Invention and Reinvention
by Allan Cochrane - 916-937 Local governance and learning: in search of a conceptual framework
by Robert Rządca & Marta Strumińska-Kutra - 938-957 Territorial changes and changing identities: how spatial identities are used in the up-scaling of local government in the Netherlands
by Kees Terlouw - 958-979 Public–private partnerships (PPPs) in local services: risk-sharing and private delivery of water services in Spain
by Samuel Carpintero & Ole Helby Petersen - 980-1003 The cost efficiency of water utilities: when does public ownership matter?
by Silvia Pazzi & Emili Tortosa-Ausina & Meryem Duygun & Simona Zambelli - 1004-1023 Governance of a public sector joint venture: the control challenges of dominated owners
by Marthe Liss Holum - 1024-1046 Recasting Leadership Reform in Australian Local Government: A Typology from Political Theory
by Bligh Grant & Brian Dollery & Michael Kortt - 1047-1059 Reframing the role of Australian mayors: an update and rejoinder to Grant, Dollery and Kortt (2016)
by Graham Sansom - 1060-1062 Mario Diani, The cement of civil society: studying networks in localities
by Peter Matthews
September 2016, Volume 42, Issue 5
- 1-1 Erratum
by The Editors - 665-688 Examining media markets’ influence on the diffusion of antismoking legislation in US counties
by Joshua L. Mitchell - 689-697 Is there still collusion in the Dutch waste collection market?
by Raymond Gradus & Elbert Dijkgraaf & Martijn Schoute - 698-716 Building the next model for intervention and turnaround in poorly performing local authorities in England
by Peter Murphy & Martin Jones - 717-738 Intermunicipal cooperation, municipal amalgamation and the price of credit
by Maarten A. Allers & Bernard van Ommeren - 739-761 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Public Procurement Performance Management Systems in Local Governments
by Andrea Stefano Patrucco & Davide Luzzini & Stefano Ronchi - 762-784 Community resilience: a policy tool for local government?
by Deborah Platts-Fowler & David Robinson - 785-820 The effects of fiscal decentralisation on the strength of political budget cycles in local expenditure
by Monika Köppl Turyna & Grzegorz Kula & Agata Balmas & Kamila Waclawska - 821-841 Spending and cutting are two different worlds: experimental evidence from Danish local councils
by Kurt Houlberg & Asmus Leth Olsen & Lene Holm Pedersen - 842-862 Going online. Does ICT enabled-participation engage the young in local governance?
by Peter Thijssen & Wouter Van Dooren - 863-865 Timothy P. R. Weaver, Blazing the neoliberal trail: urban political development in the United States and the United Kingdom
by Graham Sansom
July 2016, Volume 42, Issue 4
- 507-526 Russia’s local government in the process of authoritarian regime transformation: incentives for the survival of local democracy
by Grigorii V. Golosov & Kristina Gushchina & Pavel Kononenko - 527-535 The communicative policy maker revisited: public administration in a twenty-first century cultural-choice framework
by Amir Hefetz - 536-556 Variants of transparency: an analysis of the English Local Government Transparency Code 2015
by Abdullah Abid Oztoprak & Erna Ruijer - 557-578 The ‘shared workplace’ agenda in Northern Ireland: lessons from local government
by Gary Brown & Michael Cole - 579-597 Declining partisan representation at the sub-national level: assessing and explaining the strengthening of local lists in Italian municipalities (1995–2014)
by Davide Vampa - 598-615 Why do voters forgive corrupt mayors? Implicit exchange, credibility of information and clean alternatives
by Jordi Muñoz & Eva Anduiza & Aina Gallego - 616-636 The impact of associational life on trust in local institutions: a comparison of 57 Swiss municipalities
by Markus Freitag & Maya Ackermann - 637-656 Public services and local government: the end of the principle of ‘funding following duties’
by Mark Sandford - 657-659 Agustina Giraudy, Democrats and autocrats: pathways of subnational undemocratic regime continuity within democratic countries
by Olimpija Hristova Zaevska - 659-661 Catherine Durose and Liz Richardson, Designing public policy for co-production: theory, practice and change
by Caitlin McMullin - 661-663 Paul Joyce, John Bryson and Marc Holzer, Developments in Strategic and Public Management: Studies in the US and Europe
by Richard Kerley
May 2016, Volume 42, Issue 3
- 1-1 Addendum
by The Editors - 357-375 Local governance under the Conservatives: super-austerity, devolution and the ‘smarter state’
by Vivien Lowndes & Alison Gardner - 376-384 Local government reforms: between multifunction and single-purpose organisations
by Hellmut Wollmann - 385-419 Measuring horizontal fiscal imbalance: the case of Italian municipalities
by Giuseppe Di Liddo & Ernesto Longobardi & Francesco Porcelli - 420-440 From public to mixed ownership in local public services provision: an empirical analysis
by Margherita Boggio - 441-463 Scale economies in local public administration
by Jacob Bikker & Daan van der Linde - 464-484 Is local authority procurement supporting SMEs? An analysis of practice in English local authorities
by Kim Loader - 485-505 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
by Steven R. Smith
March 2016, Volume 42, Issue 2
- 171-188 From Competition to Collaboration: Intergovernmental Economic Development Policy Networks
by Youngmi Lee - 189-207 Intergovernmental Grants and Public Expenditures: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
by Martin Baekgaard & Marie Kjaergaard - 208-227 Political Representation and Geographical Bias in Amalgamated Local Governments
by Morten Jakobsen & Ulrik Kjaer - 228-247 Municipal Mergers in New Zealand: An Empirical Analysis of the Proposed Amalgamation of Hawke’s Bay Councils
by Michael A. Kortt & Brian Dollery & Joseph Drew - 248-266 What’s in a Name? Assessing the Performance of Local Government Classification Systems
by Joseph Drew & Brian Dollery - 267-286 Urban Regeneration Policy from the Integrated Urban Development Model in the European Union: an Analytical Approach Based on the Study of Spanish Cities
by María Ángeles Huete Garcia & Rafael Merinero Rodríguez & Rocío Muñoz Moreno - 287-308 Financial and Political Factors Motivating the Privatisation of Municipal Water Services
by José Luis Zafra-Gómez & Antonio Manuel López-Hernández & Ana María Plata-Díaz & Juan Carlos Garrido-Rodríguez - 309-331 The Effect of Formal and Informal Contracting Mechanisms on Implementation Performance in the U.S. Federalist System
by Jessica N. Terman & Richard C. Feiock - 332-350 Does Public Spending Improve Citizens’ Quality of Life? An Analysis of Municipalities’ Leisure Supply
by Elisabetta Mafrolla & Eugenio D’Amico - 351-352 Nicholas Daly, The demographic imagination and the nineteenth-century city: Paris, London, New York
by George Jones - 352-354 Robin Hambleton, Leading the inclusive city: place-based innovation for a bounded planet
by Paul Bunyan - 354-355 Chris Himsworth, The European Charter of Local Self-Government: a treaty for local democracy
by Andrew Coulson
January 2016, Volume 42, Issue 1
- 1-14 Did the Big Stick Work? An Empirical Assessment of Scale Economies and the Queensland Forced Amalgamation Program
by Joseph Drew & Michael A. Kortt & Brian Dollery - 15-28 Does Size Still Matter? An Empirical Analysis of the Effectiveness of Victorian Local Authorities
by Joseph Drew & Brian Dollery - 29-51 Risk Factors and Drivers of Financial Sustainability in Local Government: An Empirical Study
by Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar & Andrés Navarro Galera & Laura Alcaide Muñoz & María Deseada López Subirés - 52-74 Austere State Strategies: Regenerating for Recovery and the Resignification of Regeneration
by Lee Pugalis - 75-96 Combining Citizen Participation and Expert Analysis: A Wild, Wild Horses Problem in British Columbia
by Michael Brydon & Aidan R. Vining - 97-118 Divergence in Community Participation Policy: Analysing Localism and Community Empowerment Using a Theory of Change Approach
by Steve Rolfe - 119-138 Shaping Political Preferences: Information Effects in Political-Administrative Systems
by Jens Blom-Hansen & Martin Baekgaard & Søren Serritzlew - 139-163 Rewards and Consequences: Redistricting on the Chicago City Council
by Matthew A. Shapiro & Daniel Bliss - 164-165 Romain Pasquier, Regional Governance and Power in France: The Dynamics of Political Space
by Joyce Liddle - 165-167 Edited by Stephen Jivraj and Ludi Simpson, Ethnic Identity and Inequalities in Britain
by Asif Afridi - 167-170 Ewan Ferlie and Edoardo Ongaro, Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations: Concepts, Schools and Contemporary Issues
by Paul Joyce
November 2015, Volume 41, Issue 6
- 819-840 Biased Budgeting in the Public Sector: Evidence from Italian Local Governments
by Eugenio Anessi-Pessina & Mariafrancesca Sicilia - 841-860 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Councillor’s Dilemma between Strong Mayors and Citizens’ Needs
by Sonia Bussu - 861-880 Abolishing the Audit Commission: Framing, Discourse Coalitions and Administrative Reform
by Katherine Tonkiss & Chris Skelcher - 881-897 Social Capital and the Number of Governments within a County: A Potential Problem with Social Capital
by Matthew Moore & Nicholas Recker - 898-916 How Second Order Are Local Elections? Voting Motives and Party Preferences in Belgian Municipal Elections
by Sofie Marien & Ruth Dassonneville & Marc Hooghe - 917-936 Local Political Decision-Making: A Case of Rationality or Appropriateness?
by Jens Nilsson - 937-955 Theorising European Integration of Local Government – Insights from the Fusion Approach
by Marius Guderjan - 956-976 The Economic and Political Impacts of Top-Down Territorial Reforms: The Case of Sub-City Governments
by António F. Tavares & Miguel Rodrigues - 977-996 Welfare Loss with Municipal Amalgamations and the Willingness-to-Pay for the Municipality Name
by Nils Soguel & Julie Silberstein - 997-1016 The Impact of the Housing Bubble on the Growth of Municipal Debt: Evidence from Spain
by Bernardino Benito & Cristina Vicente & Francisco Bastida - 1017-1019 Negotiating Cohesion, Inequality and Change: Uncomfortable Positions in Local Government, by Hannah Jones, Bristol, Policy Press. 2013, ISBN 9781447310037
by Ted Cantle - 1019-1020 Achieving Ethical Competence for Public Service Leadership, by Terry L. Cooper & Donald C. Menzel (eds), Armonk, NY, M.E Sharpe, 2013, ISBN: 978-0-7656-3246-3
by Mirza Ahmad - 1020-1022 Complex Contracting, Trevor L. Brown, Matthew Potoski & David M. Van Slyke, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1107038622
by J Gordon Murray
September 2015, Volume 41, Issue 5
- 653-672 Democratic anchorage and performance: Comparing two network approaches to land-use and transport-system development
by Anders Tønnesen - 673-694 Grass-Root Organisations, Intergovernmental Collaboration, and Emergency Preparedness: An Institutional Collective Action Approach
by Simon A. Andrew & Kyujin Jung & Xiangyu Li - 695-712 Framing Gov2.0: A Q-Methodological Study of Practitioners’ and Local Politicians’ Opinions
by Tom Barrance - 713-734 Councillors in Context: The Impact of Place upon Elected Representatives
by Michael Thrasher & Galina Borisyuk & Mary Shears & Colin Rallings - 735-754 Income Inequality and Redistributive Spending: Evidence from Panel Data of Texas Counties
by Kwang Bin Bae - 755-773 Local Politics Online: The Influence of Presumed Influence on Local Politicians’ Online Communication Activities in Germany
by Uli Bernhard & Marco Dohle - 774-793 Political Fragmentation and Fiscal Status: Evidence from Municipalities in Israel
by Yaniv Reingewertz - 794-813 Contracting for Energy Efficiency: The Diffusion of Novel Contracting Practices at Local Government Level
by Sarah M.L. Krøtel - 814-815 Stephen Wearne and Keith White-Hunt, Managing the Urgent and Unexpected: Twelve Project Cases and a Commentary
by Richard Kerley - 815-817 Julian Dobson, How to Save Our Town Centres: A Radical Agenda for the Future of High Streets
by Scott Dickinson
July 2015, Volume 41, Issue 4
- 495-515 A Comparison of Impact of Management on Local Government Employee Outcomes in US and Australia
by Yvonne Brunetto & Stephen Teo & Rodney Farr-Wharton & Dennis Lambries & Patrick Gillett & William Tomes - 516-533 The Centre Decides and the Local Pays: Mandates and Politics in Local Government Financial Management in China
by Yongmao Fan - 534-552 The Flypaper Effect: Do Political Institutions Affect Danish Local Governments’ Response to Intergovernmental Grants?
by Marie Kjaergaard - 553-570 The Legacy of the Northern Way?
by Joyce Liddle & Christianne Ormston - 571-581 Symposium Introduction: Local Responses to ‘Austerity’
by Nick Bailey & Glen Bramley & Annette Hastings - 582-600 The Limits to Resilience? The Impact of Local Government Spending Cuts in London
by Amanda Fitzgerald & Ruth Lupton - 601-621 Coping with the Cuts? The Management of the Worst Financial Settlement in Living Memory
by Annette Hastings & Nick Bailey & Maria Gannon & Kirsten Besemer & Glen Bramley - 622-644 Recession, Austerity and the ‘Great Risk Shift’: Local Government and Household Impacts and Responses in Bristol and Liverpool
by Patricia Kennett & Gerwyn Jones & Richard Meegan & Jacqui Croft - 645-647 Katherine Tonkiss, Migration and Identity in a Post-National World
by Phillip Cole - 647-648 Richard Carr, One Nation Britain: History, the Progressive Tradition, and Practical Ideas for Today’s Politicians
by George Jones - 648-650 Richard C. Box, Public Service Values
by Anne-Marie Reynaers - 650-652 Peter Macfadyen, Flatpack Democracy: A DIY Guide to Creating Independent Politics
by Steve Leach
May 2015, Volume 41, Issue 3
- 321-338 Multi-Agency Protocols as a Mechanism to Improve Partnerships in Public Services
by Axel Kaehne - 339-361 Does the Mayor’s Party Brand Matter? The Prospect of Statewide Parties’ Policy in Local Government
by Bjørn Ervik - 362-378 Regenerating the City: People, Politics, Power and the Public Sphere
by Paul Bunyan - 379-400 PPP Procurement in Ireland: An Analysis of Tendering Periods
by Eoin Reeves & Donal Palcic & Darragh Flannery - 401-420 A Framework to Measure the Financial Performance of Local Governments
by Gerard Turley & Geraldine Robbins & Stephen McNena - 421-444 Using Twitter for Dialogic Communication: Local Government Strategies in the European Union
by Alejandro Sáez Martín & Arturo Haro de Rosario & María Del Carmen Caba Pérez - 445-469 Determinants of E-Democracy Adoption in Turkish Municipalities: An Analysis for Spatial Diffusion Effect
by Mehmet Zahid Sobaci & Kadir Y. Eryigit