Local Government Studies

Scottish public service reform is one example of an emerging international vision for state-convened public value governance. Scottish Government focus on community empowerment has legitimised discussions of community-led approaches and offers cautious policy support for community anchor organisations. In this context, community studies scholars and community sector continue to reflect critically on complex relations between state and community, with some exploring a social commons as a distinctive aspiration for democratic governance. In this paper, our participatory research with six community anchor exemplars and wider stakeholders provides empirical material to support discussion, interpretation and analysis at 'the frontier' of these visions of governance. We consider the potential for anchors to offer collaborative leadership to facilitate cross-sector partnership and participation and agonistic leadership to provide countervailing, constructive challenge to the state. We conclude by advancing a research agenda to explore further community sector leadership at times of increasing social and ecological crisis.

James Henderson

Oliver Escobar

Philip Revell

Public value governance meets social commons: community anchor organisations as catalysts for public service reform and social change?

公共价值治理与社会共有资源：社区锚定组织能否成为公共服务改革与社会变革的催化剂？

This article investigates reputation reform in Norwegian and Danish local government and whether they have the same strategy content depending on the degree of administrative involvement and municipality size. Political and administrative actors are likely to cultivate different types of reputation strategies (place or organisational reputation), which explicitly embrace the potentially diverging interests cultivated by the two types of actors. We use a comparative design and quantitative method with an empirical ambition to explore local government reputation strategies in two national contexts. We find that local government responses to reputation reform depend on the size of the municipality and the type of actors involved; the larger the municipality, the more the administration is involved. And the more that administrative actors are involved, the more the strategies target organisational reputation. The country-specific factors do not appear to be the most important determinants for reputation reform strategies.

Åshild Skjegstad Lockert

Hilde Bjørnå

Kristian H. Haugen

Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen

Reputation reform strategies in local government: investigating Denmark and Norway

地方政府声誉改革策略：丹麦与挪威的调查研究

Claudia Avellaneda

Germà Bel

Catherine Durose

Peter Eckersley

Marc Esteve

Seulki Lee

Fifty years of local government studies: evolution, internationalisation, and the future of the field

地方政府研究五十年：演变、国际化与未来展望

In times of increased financial constraints and ageing population, politicians must make difficult trade-off decisions that challenge their legitimacy in the eyes of the public. This is not least the case at local level where policy issues tend to be more immediate and comprehensible to individuals than policy decisions at the national level. Analysing originally collected responses from over 800 Swedish local politicians through free-text questions, we examine the perspectives of those responsible for making difficult trade-off decisions, as well as their strategies for generating public acceptance. Our findings show that politicians are prepared to make difficult trade-offs, but also that they expect the public to do their part by engaging in constructive dialogue and accepting reasonable justifications. The study thereby provides a practice-based understanding of the considerations of local politicians that can inform contemporary debates on democratic representation and the role of citizens in political decision-making.

Peter Esaiasson

Jenny de Fine Licht

Walking a mile in their shoes —How local politicians reason about trade-off decisions

设身处地——地方政治家如何权衡决策

Lenka Maličká

Paulo Reis Mourao

Re-election prospects in the local contest in Slovakia: discussing influencing roles of socio-economic conditions of the electorate and municipal finances

斯洛伐克地方选举中的连任前景：探讨选民社会经济状况和市政财政的影响作用

Paweł Swianiewicz

Julita Łukomska

Dubravka Jurlina Alibegović

Desislava Kalcheva

The size of the size effect. The impact of splits of municipalities on the performance of local governments in Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland

规模效应的规模。市政分拆对保加利亚、克罗地亚和波兰地方政府绩效的影响

Thorsten Reppert

Back to the future? An analysis of party influence on electricity grid remunicipalisation in Germany

回到未来？德国电力电网再国有化中政党影响分析

Michael Škvrňák

No coalition is an island: how pre-electoral coalitions at the national-level shape local elections

没有联盟是孤岛：国家层面选举前联盟如何塑造地方选举

Abbreviation	Local Gov. Stud.
Journal Impact	2.30
Quartiles(Global)	REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING(Q3)

ISSN	0300-3930, 1743-9388
h-index	54

Publication Information	Publisher: Routledge，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1975，Proportion of original research papers: 97.73%，Self Citation Rate:9.50%， Gold OA Rate: 30.20%

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Public value governance meets social commons: community anchor organisations as catalysts for public service reform and social change?

Reputation reform strategies in local government: investigating Denmark and Norway

Fifty years of local government studies: evolution, internationalisation, and the future of the field

Walking a mile in their shoes —How local politicians reason about trade-off decisions

Re-election prospects in the local contest in Slovakia: discussing influencing roles of socio-economic conditions of the electorate and municipal finances

Walking a mile in their shoes —How local politicians reason about trade-off decisions

Re-election prospects in the local contest in Slovakia: discussing influencing roles of socio-economic conditions of the electorate and municipal finances

The size of the size effect. The impact of splits of municipalities on the performance of local governments in Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland

Back to the future? An analysis of party influence on electricity grid remunicipalisation in Germany

No coalition is an island: how pre-electoral coalitions at the national-level shape local elections