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September 2024, Volume 50, Issue 5
- 807-826 Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations
by Dag Ingvar Jacobsen - 827-849 From an alternative to a dominant form of local political actors? Independent candidates in the Czech local elections in 2010–2018
by Tomas Kostelecky & Josef Bernard & Zdenka Mansfeldova & Renata Mikesova - 850-870 The gendered nature of ethnic minority candidate nomination: An analysis of the moderating role of district diversity, party affiliation and ethnic minorities’ visibility
by Sigrid Van Trappen & Robin Devroe & Bram Wauters - 871-892 Jacks of all trades, masters of none? Multiple-mandate holding and trust in local government
by Fredrik Malmberg & Thomas Karv - 893-914 The connotation, cause, and reform path of institutional transaction costs: a grounded theory analysis
by Zhaoteng Zeng & Xiao Yu - 915-938 The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model
by Søren Kjær Foged & Kurt Houlberg & Jacob Ladenburg & Jeppe Elholm Madsen - 939-964 Horizontal and vertical interactions in local fiscal slack: a spatial analysis of local governments in New York state
by Jongmin Shon & Sunjoo Kwak - 965-965 Correction
by The Editors
July 2024, Volume 50, Issue 4
- 663-676 Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services
by Daniel Albalate & Germà Bel & Eoin Reeves - 677-695 Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US
by Mildred E. Warner - 696-717 The contested politics of de-privatisation and the shifting terrain of the local state: the case of the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany
by Franziska Christina Paul - 718-740 Political and financial factors motivating privatisation, its reverse and corporatisation of municipal waste collection
by Raymond Gradus & Elbert Dijkgraaf & Tjerk Budding - 741-762 Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland
by Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska - 763-785 Why and how often do authorities remunicipalise urban public transport? The case of France
by Christian Desmaris & Didier Van de Velde - 786-805 Remunicipalization of water services in France and inter-municipal cooperation: who’s at the helm?
by Alexandre Mayol & Stéphane Saussier
May 2024, Volume 50, Issue 3
- 475-497 An institutional and transaction cost analysis for the efficiency of water service in Brazilian local government consortia
by Hugo Consciência Silvestre & Rui Cunha Marques & Brian Dollery & Aldenisio Moraes Correia - 498-520 Facilitating citizen participation in marginalised neighbourhoods: selective empowerment in between vulnerability and active citizenship
by Simone van de Wetering - 521-544 Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China
by Jiyue Guo & Daniel Del Barrio Álvarez & Jingfeng Yuan & Hironori Kato - 545-572 Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments
by Liese Berkvens & A. Roets & T. Haesevoets & B. Verschuere - 573-595 Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan
by Mildred E. Warner & Paige M. Kelly - 596-616 Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort
by Maria Antonieta Collazos-Ortiz & Arjan H. Schakel - 617-642 Determinants of internal migration to smaller cities: local public goods, job opportunities, and lifecycle stages
by Hemin Choi - 643-662 Party politics and the effectiveness of local climate change policy frameworks: green influence from the sidelines
by Liam Clegg
March 2024, Volume 50, Issue 2
- 287-306 The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities
by Alejandro Salazar-Adams - 307-328 Costs and outcomes of collaborative relationships: interlocal collaboration effects on green job creation in Florida Metropolitan Areas
by Chang-Gyu Kwak & Richard Feiock - 329-351 Politicisation at the local political level within representative and participative institutions: the example of a poor Montreal borough
by Caroline Patsias & Sylvie Patsias - 352-374 Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China
by Min Wang - 375-404 The impact of the central government’s intervention on local democracy
by Itai Beeri - 405-426 Miles’ law in Finnish municipalities: where decision-makers stand depends on where they sit
by Linnéa Henriksson & Henrik Serup Christensen - 427-450 From online trolls to ‘Slut Shaming’: understanding the role of incivility and gender abuse in local government
by Andrea Carson & Gosia Mikolajczak & Leah Ruppanner & Emily Foley - 451-474 Is a powerful but corrupt public manager more trustworthy? Lessons from the case of rural local government in Bangladesh
by Md Shahriar Islam & Abu Hossain Muhammad Ahsan & Rifat Mahmud
January 2024, Volume 50, Issue 1
- 1-27 Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities
by Laura Ryser & Greg Halseth & Sean Markey - 28-47 Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators?
by Pierre Donatella & David Karlsson - 48-86 Are newcomers financially responsible? Evidence from close elections in Brazilian Municipalities
by Henrique Augusto Campos Fernandez Hott & Naercio Menezes-Filho - 87-108 The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation
by Amanda Rutherford & Cullen C. Merritt - 109-127 Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle
by Siobhan Daly & Rachael Chapman & Andreja Pegan - 128-149 Scrutinising council scrutiny: from theoretical black box to analytical toolbox1
by Tom Verhelst & Klaartje Peters - 150-173 Unlocking politicians’ potential: what fosters purposeful use of performance information in support of voice?
by Sebastian Desmidt & Kenn Meyfroodt - 174-203 Empowering local citizens: assessing the inclusiveness of a digital democratic innovation for co-creating a Voting Advice Application
by Giada Gianola & Dominik Wyss & André Bächtiger & Marlène Gerber - 204-229 The competing impact of network politics and hamula (clan) politics on perceived network performance: the case of minority networks
by Ashwaq Mondey & Itai Beeri - 230-260 Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics
by Huanming Wang & Xiaoyun Sun & Yu Shi - 261-285 The Europeanisation of gender equality at the municipal level: insights from the Republic of Cyprus
by Andreas Kirlappos
November 2023, Volume 49, Issue 6
- 1157-1177 COVID-19 pandemic and local executive-opposition institutional relations: a survey analysis
by Luís de Sousa & Cláudia S. Costa & Filipe Grilo - 1178-1197 Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis
by Seungwon Yu & Suhee Kim & Yeonwoo Sim - 1198-1217 Effects of intergovernmental revenue on local government draw on fiscal reserves: evidence from COVID-19 fiscal stress
by Stephen Kwamena Aikins - 1218-1240 Local authorities doing it for themselves: austerity, the direct provision of housing and changing central-local relations in England
by Ben Clifford & Janice Morphet - 1241-1262 Australian adaptation of UK dealmaking: towards state rescaling?
by Madeleine Pill & Nicole Gurran - 1263-1284 Local autonomy: unconditional elites and conditional publics
by Charles Breton & Jack Lucas & Zack Taylor - 1285-1311 Can even still be uneven? The effect of quotas in Portuguese local governments
by Miguel Rodrigues - 1312-1332 The career paths of the chief administrative officers of U.S. cities: a survey of city managers and content analysis of how they discuss their careers
by William Hatcher & Beth Rauhaus & Wesley L. Meares - 1333-1358 Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities
by Luca Tangi & Marco Gaeta & Michele Benedetti & Luca Gastaldi & Giuliano Noci - 1359-1385 Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States
by Ana-Maria Dimand & Shaoming Cheng - 1386-1409 Measuring performance concerning air and noise pollution: a comparison of Madrid’s official data and results from a citizen survey
by Francisco Ferraioli & Xavier Ballart - 1410-1433 Local responses to European Integration: patterns of Europe-related activities of German local governments
by Benjamin Gröbe & Stephan Grohs & Jan Porth
September 2023, Volume 49, Issue 5
- 861-887 Increasing public participation and influence in local decision-making to address social determinants of health: a systematic review examining initiatives and theories
by Susan Baxter & Amy Barnes & Caroline Lee & Rebecca Mead & Mark Clowes - 888-907 Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization
by S. N. Blok & H. J. M. Fenger & M. W. van Buuren - 908-931 Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance
by Peter Matthews & Alex Parsons & Elvis Nyanzu & Alasdair Rae - 932-952 Effects of school forums on political development in early adolescence. A field experiment
by Aleš Kudrnáč & Eliška Vejchodská & Lenka Slavíková - 953-974 The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation
by Dana McQuestin & Joseph Drew & Hirokuni Iiboshi - 975-999 Through the prism of cognition: exploration of local political leaders’ behaviour during incented voluntary municipal amalgamation
by Veronika Vakulenko & Anatoli Bourmistrov & Giuseppe Grossi - 1000-1023 The impact of inter-municipal land use plans on social segregation: first lessons from the French experience
by Katharina Schone - 1024-1044 Environmental inter-local collaboration under meta-governance: the trade-off between collective and selective benefits
by Puyao Xing & Hua Xing - 1045-1073 Political budget cycles at the municipal level in Slovakia: between structural dependence and electoral exhibitionism
by Lenka Maličká & Paulo Reis Mourao - 1074-1109 Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities
by Giulia Giraldi Rocha Coelho & Henrique Augusto Campos Fernandez Hott & Sergio Naruhiko Sakurai - 1110-1134 Scrutiny and policymaking in local councils: how parties use council tools
by Simon Otjes & Marijn Nagtzaam & Rick van Well - 1135-1156 The text complexity of local government annual reports
by Philip T. Roundy & John M. Trussel & Stephan A. Davenport
July 2023, Volume 49, Issue 4
- 723-737 Introduction to the special issue: facilitating citizen engagement in interactive governance
by Laurence Bherer & Imrat Verhoeven - 738-758 Facilitators as culture change workers: advancing public participation and deliberation in local governance
by Claire Bynner & Oliver Escobar & Sarah Weakley - 759-779 The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors
by Laurence Bherer - 780-800 “I’m paid to do other things”: Complementary co-production tasks for professionals
by Caitlin McMullin - 801-820 ‘Co-production on the inside’ – public professionals negotiating interaction between municipal actors and local citizens
by Annika Agger & Anne Tortzen - 821-840 Enabling civic initiatives: frontline workers as democratic professionals in Amsterdam
by Imrat Verhoeven & Evelien Tonkens - 841-860 Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator: the role of expert public servants in interactive governance
by Wieke Blijleven
May 2023, Volume 49, Issue 3
- 451-470 Local government policies on sexual and gender diversity in Spain. Experiences from Alt Empordà
by Jose Antonio Langarita & Jordi Mas Grau & Pilar Albertín - 471-491 Governance challenges of different institutional logics and modes of organising: a Norwegian case study of municipal water supply
by Dag Magne Berge & Harald Torsteinsen - 492-518 Signalling compliance: an explanation of the intermittent green policy implementation gap in China
by Jin Li - 519-543 Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments
by Francisca Tejedo-Romero & Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves Araújo - 544-567 An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia
by Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung Tran & Brian Dollery - 568-589 Territorial reforms, mobilisation, and political trust: a case study from Norway
by Jonas Stein & Troy Saghaug Broderstad & Hilde Bjørnå - 590-622 Are more affluent parents treated more favourably by elementary school principals? Socioeconomic discrimination among local Swedish public officials
by Jonas Larsson Taghizadeh - 623-643 The economic costs of voucher markets for public service provision
by Søren Kjær Foged & Kurt Houlberg - 644-675 Municipal revenue over-budgeting: a dynamic analysis of its determinants
by Susana Jorge & Pedro Cerqueira & Sofia Furtado - 676-697 Examining the fiscal impact of tax and expenditure limitations on municipal governments: a rule design approach
by Sungho Park - 698-722 Factors influencing the structure of municipal taxation. Special reference to political corruption
by Javier Cifuentes-Faura & Bernardino Benito López & María-Dolores Guillamón López
March 2023, Volume 49, Issue 2
- 253-273 Shapers or schemers of collaborative governance: network management in England’s Local Enterprise Partnerships
by Kate Broadhurst & Nigel Berkeley & Jennifer Ferreira - 274-293 Municipal entrepreneurship support policies: convergence or divergence?
by Maria Dodaro - 294-313 When local political opportunity structures matter in political agency: the multipronged incorporation of Latinos in Chicago
by Estefania Cruz Lera - 314-333 The paradox of organizational complexity in urban development: boundary spanners’ handling of citizen proposals
by Sissel Hovik & Inger Marie Stigen - 334-354 The impact of rational and political factors on performance measurement and its utilisation: analysis of municipal governments from Mississippi
by Tamara Dimitrijevska-Markoski - 355-374 Why such a different choice of tools? Analysing recent local government reforms in Denmark and Norway
by Signy Irene Vabo & Anne Lise Fimreite & Kurt Houlberg - 375-396 State-led pilot innovation upscaling? A tale of the Sanming healthcare reform in China
by Yanwei Li & Yunpeng Song - 397-421 Characterising strategic collaboration of large Swiss municipalities
by Lukas Baschung & Jérôme Heim - 422-445 Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries
by Germà Bel & Ivo Bischoff & Sara Blåka & Mattia Casula & Jakub Lysek & Pawel Swianiewicz & António F. Tavares & Bart Voorn - 446-448 Governing cities: politics and policy
by Jason Lowther - 448-450 How cities can transform democracy
by Jonathan Davies
January 2023, Volume 49, Issue 1
- 1-29 The quality of local democracy: an institutional analysis
by Luís de Sousa & Nuno F. da Cruz & Daniel Fernandes - 30-53 The public purse as a reelection lever: does it work in a corrupt political environment? The case of Honduras
by Lorenzo Estrada & Francisco Bastida - 54-77 The clear model as a predictor of candidacy for council membership
by William Voorberg & Brenda Vermeeren & Arwin Van Buuren - 78-99 Dutch municipal elections 1998-2018: what explains the electoral success of local parties?
by Raymond Gradus & Elbert Dijkgraaf & Tjerk Budding - 100-119 Franchise extensions and second-order contests: evidence from German local elections
by Angelika Vetter & Achim Hildebrandt & Patrick Bernhagen - 120-150 Localisation of politics and local electoral participation
by Marko Kukec - 151-180 Consultative referendums and democracy - assessing the short-term effects on political support of a referendum on a municipal merger
by Thomas Karv & Kim Backström & Kim Strandberg - 181-203 Influence of managerial ability on the re-election of municipal political parties
by Bernardino Benito & Pedro-José Martínez-Córdoba & Maria-Dolores Guillamón López - 204-225 The re-election of corrupt mayors: context, relational leadership and level of corruption
by Roberta Troisi & Gaetano Alfano - 226-247 Vigilantism and the transition to local democratic elections
by Blane D. Lewis - 248-250 When cities lobby: how local governments compete for power in state politics
by Niva Golan-Nadir - 250-252 Kittens are Evil II: little heresies in public policy
by David Adams
November 2022, Volume 48, Issue 6
- 1017-1026 Special issue: city network activism and the governance of migration
by Anouk Flamant & Aude-Claire Fourot & Aisling Healy - 1027-1047 Migration-related city networks: a global overview
by Thomas Lacroix - 1048-1069 Transnational city networks and their contributions to norm-generation in international law: the case of migration
by Elif Durmus & Barbara Oomen - 1070-1090 City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world: the Intercultural Cities programme of the council of Europe
by Bob W. White - 1091-1112 Characterising two German city networks: the interplay of internal structure, issue orientation and outreach strategies
by Christiane Heimann & Danielle Gluns & Hannes Schammann - 1113-1131 ‘We as leaders of major European cities’ – how Eurocities works to influence EU migration and integration policies
by Dirk Gebhardt & Simon Güntner - 1132-1151 Making sense of trajectories of participation in European city networks on migration: insights from the cases of Turin (Italy) and Saint-Etienne (France)
by Tiziana Caponio & Anthony Clément - 1152-1174 French participation in transnational migration networks: understanding city (dis)involvement and “passivism”
by Aude-Claire Fourot & Aisling Healy & Anouk Flamant
September 2022, Volume 48, Issue 5
- 793-820 What shapes the flypaper effect? The role of the political environment in the budget process
by Vicente Rios & Miriam Hortas-Rico & Pedro Pascual - 821-841 Can better financial conditions lead to more fiscal transparency? Evidence from municipalities in California
by Hyewon Kang & Gang Chen - 842-863 Identifying interactions between size effects in New South Wales local government
by Caillan Fellows & Brian Dollery & Rui Marques - 864-886 Uncovering the effect of local government debt brakes in Germany using synthetic controls
by Steffen Zabler - 887-906 Absorbing the shock of austerity: the experience of local government workers at the front line
by Annette Hastings & Maria Gannon - 907-928 Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK
by Neil Barnett & Steven Griggs & Stephen Hall & David Howarth - 929-950 The local government response to austerity in a small devolved country: the case of Wales
by Emma Taylor-Collins & James Downe - 951-972 Municipal size and local democracy: understanding the trade-off between participation and contestation in Latin America
by Karel Kouba & Tomas Dosek - 973-994 Platforms as distinctive realms and the role of policy discretion: a cross-platform assessment of citizen engagement with Dutch municipalities through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram
by Bram Faber - 995-1016 Participatory governance and local government responsiveness: evidence from participation in politics on television in China
by Yukun Wang & Yu Qi & Gao Chen
July 2022, Volume 48, Issue 4
- 579-603 Defining local economies beyond their boundaries
by Jacob Salder - 604-627 In search of the optimal size for local government: an assessment of economies of scale in local government in Croatia
by Antonija Buljan & Sandra Švaljek & Milan Deskar-Škrbić - 628-654 Measuring the effect of performance management in local economic development policy: the case of tax increment finance districts in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex
by Jeremy L. Hall & Geiguen Shin & Christopher E. Bartels - 655-679 Value creation in public procurement of innovation: a case of engaging start-ups by a local government
by Alireza Talebi & Davar Rezania & George Bragues - 680-703 Local politicians’ preferences in public procurement: ideological or strategic reasoning?
by Amandine Lerusse & Steven Van de Walle - 704-727 What happens when municipalities run corporations? Empirical evidence from 290 Swedish municipalities
by Andreas Bergh & Gissur Ó Erlingsson & Emanuel Wittberg - 728-748 Explaining municipalities’ (alternative) service delivery modes over time. The importance of coercive pressures
by David Vos & Joris Voets - 749-770 Fiscal effects of interlocal collaboration: evidence from Nebraska counties
by Sungho Park & Yunseung Kim & Carol Ebdon & Craig Maher - 771-791 Metropolitan governance and environmental outcomes: does inter-municipal cooperation make a difference?
by Victor Osei Kwadwo & Tatiana Skripka
May 2022, Volume 48, Issue 3
- 341-366 How institutional designs condition perceived local political leadership
by Jacob Torfing & Tina Øllgaard Bentzen & Marte Slagsvold Winsvold - 514-533 Service outsourcing, pricing, and the engagement of citizen groups
by Ian R. Hodgkinson - 525-545 Parties courting Muslim voters in Belgium’s local elections: electoral incentives and ideological tensions
by Kathleen M. Dowley - 534-555 Does financial disclosure matter? GASB 45 and municipal borrowing costs
by Jinhai Yu - 546-569 How do local actors interpret, enact and contest policy? An analysis of local government responses to meeting the needs of Syrian refugees in Turkey
by Vivien Lowndes & Rabia Karakaya Polat - 556-577 Extending upper echelon theory to top managers’ characteristics, management practice, and quality of public service in local government
by Jungin Kim - 570-589 The rise and fall (?) of public-private partnerships in Israel’s local government
by Eran Razin & Anna Hazan & Osnat Elron - 590-614 Entrepreneurial activities of local governments in their investment attractiveness context – evidence from Poland
by Małgorzata Godlewska & Tomasz Pilewicz - 615-639 Encounters with the organisation: how local civil servants experience and handle tensions in public engagement
by Wieke Blijleven & Merlijn van Hulst - 640-671 Cycles in a cycle: investment expenditures and their composition during the political budgetary cycle
by Łukasz Wiktor Olejnik
March 2022, Volume 48, Issue 2
- 179-190 Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis
by Tomas Bergström & Sabine Kuhlmann & Martin Laffin & Ellen Wayenberg - 191-210 From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain’s intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic
by Carmen Navarro & Francisco Velasco - 211-231 The United Kingdom and the pandemic: problems of central control and coordination
by Patrick Diamond & Martin Laffin - 232-250 Vertical and horizontal intergovernmental relations during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis: experience from the extremely fragmented CEE countries
by Petr Jüptner & Daniel Klimovský - 251-270 French inter-governmental relations during the Covid-19 crisis: between hyper-centralism and local horizontal cooperation
by Céline du Boys & Marius Bertolucci & Robert Fouchet - 271-290 The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position
by Ellen Wayenberg & Sandra L. Resodihardjo & Joris Voets & Marieke Van Genugten & Bram Van Haelter & Inke Torfs - 291-311 Between lockdown and calm down. Comparing the COVID-19 responses of Norway and Sweden
by Jostein Askim & Tomas Bergström - 312-334 Multi-level responses to COVID-19: crisis coordination in Germany from an intergovernmental perspective
by Sabine Kuhlmann & Jochen Franzke - 335-338 Cities and communities beyond COVID-19: How local leadership can change our future for the better
by Lorraine Johnston - 338-340 Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges
by Andrew Walker
January 2022, Volume 48, Issue 1
- 1-22 A systematic review of the literature on determinants of public managers' attitudes toward public participation
by Koen Migchelbrink & Steven Van de Walle - 23-47 Citizen participation in the smart city: findings from an international comparative study
by Erico Przeybilovicz & Maria Alexandra Cunha & Stan Geertman & Charles Leleux & Ank Michels & Zsuzsanna Tomor & C. William R. Webster & Albert Meijer - 48-67 Disseminating and collecting information: municipalities’ communicative practices and deliberative capacities
by André Baltz - 68-86 Delimiting citizen participation: how Israeli mayors get the most out of the process
by Moshe Dror & Amos Zehavi - 87-106 Harnessing the power of dialogue: examining the impact of facebook content on citizens’ engagement
by Georgios Lappas & Amalia Triantafillidou & Anastasia Kani - 107-128 Implementing local participatory institutions: evidence from the Chilean communes
by Rodolfo Disi Pavlic & Edgar Rebolledo Toro - 129-149 Who talks and who listens? A qualitative analysis of citizen dialogues in rural Sweden
by Pontus Lund & Gustav Lidén & Sara Nyhlén - 150-177 Beneficiaries and cost bearers: evidence on political clientelism from Hungary
by Tamás Vasvári
November 2021, Volume 47, Issue 6
- 887-909 Public value governance meets social commons: community anchor organisations as catalysts for public service reform and social change?
by James Henderson & Oliver Escobar & Philip Revell - 910-930 Village poverty governance and the subjective well-being of households in central and western rural China
by Qiuqian Zhao & Xianli Xia - 931-950 Health and wellbeing boards as theatres of accountability: a dramaturgical analysis
by Shelina Visram & David J. Hunter & Neil Perkins & Lee Adams & Rachael Finn & Jennifer Gosling & Amanda Forrest - 951-970 The sources of municipalities’ innovation in the management of weather disaster risks, their relationships, and their antecedents
by Kaddour Mehiriz - 971-992 With or against their region? Multiple-mandate holders in the Swiss parliament, 1985–2018
by Rahel Freiburghaus & Alexander Arens & Sean Mueller - 993-1013 Untangling blame and responsibility for service delivery and local governance performance: testing a grounded social accountability approach in Tanzania
by Anna Mdee & Andrew Mushi - 1014-1036 Who is at the table? Civic engagement in small town housing decision-making
by Ebunoluwa Odeyemi & Kimberly Skobba - 1037-1039 Between realism and revolt: governing cities in the crisis of neoliberal globalism
by Mark Sandford - 1039-1041 Public service accountability: rekindling a debate
by Rob Wilson
September 2021, Volume 47, Issue 5
- 685-711 The anatomy of choice: an analysis of the determinants of local service delivery in Poland
by Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska & Julita Łukomska & António F. Tavares - 712-734 Let’s party! The impact of local festivities on the incumbent’s electoral support
by Marc Guinjoan & Toni Rodon - 735-758 Making a difference in the community: local civic engagement efficacy among immigrants and refugees in King County, Washington
by Dan Ziebarth - 759-783 The interplay between private and public governments: the relationship between homeowner associations and municipal finance
by Shaoming Cheng & Hai (David) Guo - 784-807 Impact of politicians’ salaries and their dedication regime on the efficiency of municipal public services
by Bernardino Benito & Pedro-José Martínez-Córdoba & María-Dolores Guillamón - 808-835 Local governments’ responses to the fiscal stress label: the case of New York
by Il Hwan Chung & Daniel Williams - 836-858 The effects of high-quality financial reporting on municipal bond ratings: evidence from US local governments
by Jinsol Park & Hakyeon Lee & J. S. Butler & Dwight Denison - 859-885 The governance games of citizens and stakeholders’ engagement: longitudinal narratives
by Lisa Källström & Sara Mauro & Alessandro Sancino & Giuseppe Grossi
July 2021, Volume 47, Issue 4
- 519-545 Do boundary consolidations alter the relationship between politicians and voters? The case of municipal mergers in Japan
by Kyohei Yamada & Kiichiro Arai - 546-567 Why some local governments choose not to free-ride when undergoing boundary reform: a study of two merger cases in Poland
by Paweł Swianiewicz & Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska - 568-592 Inter-municipal cooperation in administrative tasks – the role of population dynamics and elections
by Ivo Bischoff & Eva Wolfschütz - 593-615 Assessing the intensity of cooperation: a study of joint delegation of municipal functions to inter-municipal associations
by Pedro J. Camões & António Tavares & Filipe Teles - 616-636 Do the networks of inter-municipal cooperation enhance local government performance?
by Taishi Muraoka & Claudia N. Avellaneda - 637-656 Limits of Europeanisation at the municipal level: evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
by Andreas Kirlappos - 657-678 Risky business? Analysing the challenges and opportunities of Brexit on English local government
by Amelia Hadfield & Christian Turner - 679-681 Leading local government: the role of directly elected mayors
by David Sweeting - 681-683 City sextons: tales from municipal leaders
by Ian C. Elliott
May 2021, Volume 47, Issue 3
- 355-363 Guest editors’ introduction: the impact of ageing and demographic change on local government
by Rhys Andrews & Brian Dollery - 364-385 Population ageing and local governments: Does engagement with the local community change over the lifecycle?
by Luiz de Mello - 386-404 Age based service demands in Canada: municipal responsibility and financing
by Harry Kitchen - 405-428 The impact of demographic trends on local government financial reserves: evidence from England
by Dennis de Widt - 429-452 How Finland copes with an ageing population: adjusting structures and equalising the financial capabilities of local governments
by Pekka Valkama & Lasse Oulasvirta - 453-474 Successfully navigating the fiscal challenges of the age of the aged: municipal government in Japan
by Masato Miyazaki & Joseph Drew - 475-497 Ageing as a determinant of local government performance: myth or reality? the Portuguese experience
by Diogo Cunha Ferreira & Paulo Caldas & Rui Cunha Marques - 498-517 Serving an ageing population: collaboration is key
by Mildred E. Warner & Xue Zhang
March 2021, Volume 47, Issue 2
- 167-185 Mayors as a variable in typologies of local governments: a case study of the Czech Republic
by Jan Čopík & Radek Kopřiva & Jaroslav Čmejrek - 186-207 Delivering electoral integrity under pressure: local government, electoral administration, and the 2016 Brexit referendum
by Toby S. James & Alistair Clark - 208-233 Does decentralising public procurement affect the quality of governance? Evidence from local government in Europe
by Andreas P. Kyriacou & Oriol Roca-Sagalés