{"title":"The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems","authors":"Yunseung Kim, Jiseul Kim","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2024.2361757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2361757","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the impact of federal funding on local spending for water and wastewater infrastructure (hereafter ‘W&WI’) in Nebraska. The recent deterioration of W&WI creates potential risks ...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas","authors":"Ron Shani, Yaniv Reingewertz, Eran Vigoda-Gadot","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2024.2369784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2369784","url":null,"abstract":"Countries reap numerous benefits from maintaining rural communities. Those advantages, however, come at a cost. We examine the additional costs of public services in rural areas in Israel by consid...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141588600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers","authors":"Emma Martien Branderhorst, Erna Ruijer","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2024.2363368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2363368","url":null,"abstract":"Local governments across the world are adopting new digital technologies to improve their services and to create public value. These new digital technologies challenge traditional forms of leadersh...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What lies beneath these creatures of the state: understanding the death of specialised governments in the U.S.","authors":"Christopher B. Goodman, Suzanne M. Leland","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2024.2360559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2360559","url":null,"abstract":"After analysing 40 years of census data on U.S. local government change, this study finds that the dissolution of special districts (specialised governments) or ‘exits’ in U.S. counties are largely...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local passion and national apathy: investigating the phenomenon of selective voting behaviour","authors":"Jakub Lysek","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2024.2341234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2341234","url":null,"abstract":"Although there is a substantial difference in turnout between local and national elections, a significant number of citizens are locally mobilised yet they do not vote in national elections. While ...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140578942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers","authors":"Marte Winsvold, Bjarte Folkestad","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2024.2332634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2332634","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how politicians’ perceptions of media coverage are influenced by their emergence as winners or losers of political battles. Based on a survey of 3,378 Norwegian councillors re...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140578960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services","authors":"Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel, Eoin Reeves","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2024.2331561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2331561","url":null,"abstract":"Remunicipalisation of local public services has attracted the interest of scholars from different fields of the social sciences in recent years. Whereas earlier studies into this phenomenon were do...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140578947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation","authors":"Colin Knox, Paul Carmichael","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2024.2338240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2338240","url":null,"abstract":"In 2015, a reformed local government system was introduced in Northern Ireland following a lengthy period of review. In the new dispensation, great emphasis is placed on the concept of partnership,...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140578963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding freedom of information requests: predictors of request for public information to municipalities in Chile","authors":"José Hernández-Bonivento, Francisco Moller","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2024.2337656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2337656","url":null,"abstract":"Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA) have been adopted in many countries to promote state transparency, engage citizens in public affairs, and fo ster public accountability. However, FOIA impflementa...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140579079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political and financial factors motivating privatisation, its reverse and corporatisation of municipal waste collection","authors":"Raymond Gradus, Elbert Dijkgraaf, Tjerk Budding","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2024.2330647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2330647","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses different modes of provision for household waste collection and changes in that by Dutch municipalities in the period between 1998 and 2018. Based on a transition matrix, the sh...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140172873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}