Content
May 2015, Volume 41, Issue 3
- 470-488 Belfast beyond Violence: Flagging up a Challenge to Local Government?
by Roz Goldie & Joanne Murphy - 489-491 Rethinking Public Strategy Sean Lusk and Nick Birks Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ISBN 9781137377579 (HC), 9781137377562 (PB), 9781137377586 (EB)
by Edoardo Ongaro - 491-493 Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe: Causes, Characteristics and Consequences Joan Font, Donatella Porta, and Yves Sintomer (eds) London, Rowman and Littlefield International, 2014, ISBN 9781783480739 (HC), 9781783480746 (PB), 9781783480753 (EB)
by Joyce Liddle
March 2015, Volume 41, Issue 2
- 183-201 Parliaments in Disguise? How German Councillors perceive Local Councils
by Björn Egner - 202-219 Choosing Coalition Partners in Belgian Local Government
by Ellen Olislagers & Kristof Steyvers - 220-239 Evaluating and Theorising Committee Scrutiny: A UK Comparative Perspective
by Michael Cole & Laura McAllister - 240-259 Reintegration Failure and Outsourcing Upside: Organisation of Public Transport in Norway
by Merethe Dotterud Leiren - 260-279 Democratic Culture and Participatory Local Governance in Bangladesh
by Wahed WahedUzzaman & Quamrul Alam - 280-300 Making a Difference: Strategic Positioning in Municipal Reputation Building
by Arild Wæraas - 301-319 Multi-Level Governance as ‘Post-Constitutional’ Politics: Subnational Actors and the Swedish Constitution
by David Feltenius
January 2015, Volume 41, Issue 1
- 1-19 Managing Municipal Austerity: Mitigation of Social Risks
by Darinka Asenova & Stephen Bailey & Claire McCann - 20-43 Analysing Local Policy Agendas: How Dutch Municipal Executive Coalitions Allocate Attention
by Gerard Breeman & Peter Scholten & Arco Timmermans - 44-62 Enhancing Participation in Disadvantaged Urban Neighbourhoods
by Laurens de Graaf & Merlijn van Hulst & Ank Michels - 63-77 Amalgamation Impacts on Local Public Expenditures in Sweden
by Niklas Hanes - 78-99 Political Consensus and Fiscal Outcomes
by Kurt Houlberg & Lene Holm Pedersen - 100-118 What are the Local Political Costs of Centrally Determined Reforms of Local Government?
by Ulrik Kjaer & Robert Klemmensen - 119-136 The Contradictory Effects in Efficiency and Citizens’ Participation when Employing Geo-ICT Apps within Local Government
by Muhammad Kurniawan & Walter T. de Vries - 137-155 Buying Local Votes: The Effect of Individual Campaign Spending Under a Semi-Open PR System in the Belgian Local Elections
by Gert-Jan Put & Bart Maddens & Jef Smulders - 156-179 Do Local Government Reforms Result in Higher Levels of Trust in Local Politicians?
by Marit Reitan & Kari Gustafsson & Arild Blekesaune - 180-181 Symphony Hall: A Dream Realised
by Andrew Coulson - 181-182 Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement
by Colin Combe
September 2014, Volume 40, Issue 5
- 647-669 Are Independent Councillors Really Conservatives in Disguise?
by Colin Copus & Melvin Wingfield - 670-686 Roadworks Ahead? Addressing Fraud, Corruption and Conflict of Interest in English Local Government
by Alan Doig - 687-704 The Great Survivor: The Persistence and Resilience of English Local Government
by Peter John - 705-728 The Effects of Media and their Logic on Legitimacy Sources within Local Governance Networks: A Three-Case Comparative Study
by Iris Korthagen & Ingmar Van Meerkerk - 729-744 Housing and Council Tax Benefits Administration in England: A Long-Term Perspective on the Performance of the Local Government Delivery System
by Peter Murphy & Kirsten Greenhalgh & Martin Jones - 745-765 Do Electoral Risks Moderate the Effect of Partisan and Electoral Cycles on Debt-Financed Local Spending?
by José-manuel Prado-Lorenzo & Isabel-maría García-Sánchez & Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros - 766-790 What Drives Intermediate Local Governments’ Spending Efficiency: The Case of French Départements
by Stefan Seifert & Maria Nieswand - 791-808 ‘It’s Not Like Never-the-Twain-Shall-Meet’: Politician–Staff Relationship Structures in Local Government
by Nathan Stocker & Michelle Thompson-Fawcett - 809-829 Facilitative Mayors in Complex Environments: Why Political Will Matters
by Filipe Teles - 830-831 Patrick Diamond, Governing Britain: power, politics and the Prime Minister
by George Jones - 831-833 Régis Dandoy, Jérémy Dodeigne, Geoffroy Matagne and Min Reuchamps (eds), Les élections communales de 2012 en Wallonie
by Caroline Van Wynsberghe
July 2014, Volume 40, Issue 4
- 495-517 Women’s Participation in Communal Activities in Rural Bangladesh
by Zerina Akkas - 518-532 Local News Media and Voter Turnout
by Martin Baekgaard & Carsten Jensen & Peter B. Mortensen & Søren Serritzlew - 533-559 Strategic Commissioning in the UK: Service Improvement Cycle or Just Going Round in Circles?
by Tony Bovaird & Ian Briggs & Martin Willis - 560-580 Joining it up? Health and Wellbeing Boards in English Local Governance: Evidence from Clinical Commissioning Groups and Shadow Health and Wellbeing Boards
by Anna Coleman & Kath Checkland & Julia Segar & Imelda McDermott & Stephen Harrison & Stephen Peckham - 581-599 Elected Mayors: Leading Locally?
by John Fenwick & Howard Elcock - 600-620 E-Government Strategies in Spanish Local Governments
by Jose Manuel Ruano de la Fuente - 621-641 Can We Feel Their Presence? A New Framework for Investigating Minor Parties in English Local Government
by Luke Sloan - 642-644 Faïz Gallouj, Luis Rubalcaba and Paul Windrum, Public–Private Innovation Networks in Services
by Catherine Mangan - 644-646 Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid, The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management
by Ewan Ferlie
May 2014, Volume 40, Issue 3
- 337-338 Editorial
by Catherine Durose & Liz Richardson - 339-355 Pulling the Strings: An Analysis of Informal Local Power Structures in Three Dutch Cities
by Marcel Boogers - 356-379 The Role of Organisational Culture in the Merger of English Local Authorities into a Single Unitary Authority
by Colin Cresswell & Jonathan Moizer & Jonathan Lean - 380-402 What Should We Do? Public Attitudes about How Local Government Officials Should Confront Fiscal Stress
by Richard Elling & Kelly Krawczyk & Jered Carr - 403-428 Market-Oriented Urban Planning – Constraining Citizen Participation
by Gro Sandkjaer Hanssen & Eva Irene Falleth - 429-450 Diffusion of Personalised Services among Dutch Municipalities: Evolving Channels of Persuasion
by Vincent Homburg & Andres Dijkshoorn & Marcel Thaens - 451-472 Being Strategic in Partnership – Interpreting Local Knowledge of Modern Local Government
by Peter Matthews - 473-493 Integrating Policies, Plans and Programmes in Local Government: An Exploration from a Spatial Planning Perspective
by Mark Smith