{"title":"The impact of public discourse on local representatives’ amalgamation preferences","authors":"Thomas Margel Myksvoll, Troy Saghaug Broderstad","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2024.2302604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2302604","url":null,"abstract":"Municipal amalgamation reforms have taken place across democratic regimes since the 1960s. While much focus has been devoted to such reforms’ causes and effects, less attention has been on public d...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139470665","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":"The contested politics of de-privatisation and the shifting terrain of the local state: the case of the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany","authors":"Franziska Christina Paul","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2023.2298292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2023.2298292","url":null,"abstract":"The trend towards de-privatisation has reshaped the role of local governments and their delivery of public services across the world. Local de-privatisation encompasses the twin processes of remuni...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139409757","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":"Party politics and the effectiveness of local climate change policy frameworks: green influence from the sidelines","authors":"Liam Clegg","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2023.2292662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2023.2292662","url":null,"abstract":"Are national-level party political drivers of climate change performance reproduced locally? Here, I explore whether Greens’ ability to influence climate commitment nationally via legislative prese...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138561030","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}
Tomas Kostelecky, Josef Bernard, Zdenka Mansfeldova, Renata Mikesova
{"title":"From an alternative to a dominant form of local political actors? Independent candidates in the Czech local elections in 2010–2018","authors":"Tomas Kostelecky, Josef Bernard, Zdenka Mansfeldova, Renata Mikesova","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2023.2291111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2023.2291111","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to contribute to the debate on the rise of independents in local politics and the underlying factors driving this trend in Europe by investigating the situation in Czechia, a post...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138519339","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":"Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort","authors":"Maria Antonieta Collazos-Ortiz, Arjan H. Schakel","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2023.2282565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2023.2282565","url":null,"abstract":"The term ‘paradox of the plenty’ was coined to describe an often-found inverse relationship between royalty revenue and economic development. The main causal mechanism is thought to be a substituti...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138519337","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":"Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach","authors":"Rhys Andrews, Malcolm J. Beynon, Frank Baafi","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2023.2289609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2023.2289609","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to empirically examine whether alternative combinations of economic and institutional conditions influence access to sanitation, drinking water and electricity services in Ghana usi...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138519333","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":"Using social media for supporting engagement in the public sector: a systematic literature review","authors":"Marco Contri, Silvia Fissi, Elena Gori","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2023.2288942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2023.2288942","url":null,"abstract":"Citizen engagement in all public activities is the hallmark of any democracy, as it contributes to increasing public accountability, strengthening the legitimacy of political processes and thus enh...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138519338","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":"Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan","authors":"Mildred E. Warner, Paige M. Kelly","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2023.2288708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2023.2288708","url":null,"abstract":"Will a legacy of fiscal stress limit local governments’ willingness to make equity-focused investments even in the context of the relative surplus that American Rescue Plan funds provide for local ...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138519336","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":"Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland","authors":"Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2023.2279954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2023.2279954","url":null,"abstract":"This paper adopts a transaction costs (TCs) approach towards analysing the transactions of local governments in the service sector. The objective of the paper is to expand the analysis of the TCs c...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515484","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":"Jacks of all trades, masters of none? Multiple-mandate holding and trust in local government","authors":"Fredrik Malmberg, Thomas Karv","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2023.2282564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2023.2282564","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple-mandate holding, i.e., the holding of more than one directly elected mandate simultaneously on different government tiers, is a controversial practice with potential consequences on politi...","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515483","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}