Meeting the critical challenge: re-tooling and re-founding defences of local democratic institutions

2024-9-16

Officials’ hometown connections and interprovincial trade in China: based on the perspective of hometown favoritism

2024-9-16

Local preferences for the adoption and modification of climate policy instruments under a radical left government: unveiling the impact and legacy of Barcelona in Common

2024-9-8

The longitudinal link between institutional and community trust in a local context - findings from a Swedish panel study

2024-9-8

Unravelling the multi-level governance of Ukrainian refugee reception in Italy: a focus on small and medium-sized cities

2024-9-8

Does ambition work? The effectiveness of local climate pledges in China

2024-8-29

<i>Is buying cheaper than sharing?</i> A study of the effect stand-alone contracting out versus public co-production has on cost in Norwegian local auditing services

2024-8-22

Local potentials for achieving sustainable development goals: qualitative evidence from local governments in Türkiye

2024-8-4

Veto and versatile: understanding the local implementation of environmental policies in China

2024-7-27

Party politics across levels of governance: relational dynamics of immigrant integration policy making in Belgian cities

2024-7-26

Local coalition formation: <i>Municipal level decisions (not) to govern with the Sweden Democrats</i>

2024-7-22

The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency

2024-7-19

Truth and illusion: can a transparency reform contribute to accountable taxing behaviour?

2024-7-19

Are the normative rationales of local autonomy related to democratic legitimacy justified? Evidence from 57 countries in Europe and beyond (1990–2020)

2024-7-17

The entrepreneurial orientation of special district governments: a study of public entrepreneurship in local governments in Tennessee

2024-7-12

Unlocking pathways in constrained local governance: exploring paradiplomacy under competitive-disharmony through the case of Istanbul

2024-7-10

Twice as effective: business environment, SME owners’ satisfaction, and local government revenue performance

2024-7-10

Issue prioritisation decisions by local politicians: the role of order effects and justification requirements

2024-7-8

Rethinking the ‘local state’ and local capacity

2024-7-8

The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems

2024-6-27

Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas

2024-6-22

Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers

2024-6-19

Religion and the city: local governments as the flag holders of freedom from religion in Israel

2024-6-13

Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China

2024-6-3

Addressing the elephant in the room: what’s <i>the local</i> in local government studies?

2024-6-1

What lies beneath these creatures of the state: understanding the death of specialised governments in the U.S.

2024-5-28

Why philanthropic foundations collaborate with city governments: an exploration of three English cities

2024-5-21

Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands

2024-5-21

Perceived local government performance and people’s life satisfaction: the role of trust in local government and political participation

2024-5-8

Political competition and representation in municipal councils

2024-5-7

The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours

2024-5-6

Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands

2024-5-4

Independents in local politics – voter turnout, competitiveness, and party-system effects

2024-5-2

Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China

2024-5-1

Local passion and national apathy: investigating the phenomenon of selective voting behaviour

2024-4-14

Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers

2024-4-10

Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services

2024-4-7

Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation

2024-4-3

Understanding freedom of information requests: predictors of request for public information to municipalities in Chile

2024-4-2

Political and financial factors motivating privatisation, its reverse and corporatisation of municipal waste collection

2024-3-20

When blame avoidance meets transparency: local governments’ bandwagon strategy in environmental information disclosure in China

2024-3-14

Why and how often do authorities remunicipalise urban public transport? The case of France

2024-3-11

Digital co-creation in urban mobility planning: what motivates people to participate?

2024-2-12

Correction

2024-2-6

The impact of public discourse on local representatives’ amalgamation preferences

2024-1-14

The contested politics of de-privatisation and the shifting terrain of the local state: the case of the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany

2024-1-7

Party politics and the effectiveness of local climate change policy frameworks: green influence from the sidelines

2023-12-9

Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach

2023-12-6

From an alternative to a dominant form of local political actors? Independent candidates in the Czech local elections in 2010–2018

2023-12-6

Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort

2023-12-6