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Facilitating citizen engagement in interactive governance
Volume 49, Issue 4, 2023 pages 723-860
City network activism and the governance of migration
Volume 48, Issue 6, 2022 pages 1017-1174
Special issue on intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis
Volume 48, Issue 2, 2022 pages 179-340
Special issue on The Impact of Ageing and Demographic Decline on Local Government
Volume 47, Issue 3, 2021 pages 355-517
Special issue on comparing local elections and voting in Europe
Volume 47, Issue 1, 2021 pages 1-165
Symposium: Back to the present: towards an ethos of municipal pragmatism in UK local government
Volume 46, Issue 4, 2020 pages 505-671
Municipal Amalgamations
Volume 45, Issue 5, 2019 pages 603-775
Local Disaster Management
Volume 45, Issue 3, 2019 pages 293-452
Special issue on privatization, contracting-out and inter-municipal cooperation: new developments in local public service delivery
Volume 44, Issue 1, 2018 pages 1-1
Trends in the Governance of Education in the UK
Volume 40, Issue 6, 2014 pages x-1002
Special Issue on the Role Perception and Behaviour of Municipal Councillors in the Changing Context of Local Democracy
Volume 39, Issue 5, 2013 pages 631-737
Public-Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services
Volume 39, Issue 3, 2013 pages 303-459
Special Issue on Evaluating Functional and Territorial Reforms in European Countries
Volume 37, Issue 5, 2011 pages 475-575
Territorial Reform and Consolidation in Europe
Volume 36, Issue 2, 2010 pages 181-311
New Network Modes of Nordic Local Governance
Volume 35, Issue 5, 2009 pages 501-614
Regeneration Management and Globalisation
Volume 35, Issue 3, 2009 pages 289-384
Local Political Leadership
Volume 34, Issue 2, 2008 pages 127-298
Local Government Reform: Privatisation and Public – Private Collaboration
Volume 33, Issue 4, 2007 pages 503-629
Local Government in Central and Eastern Europe
Volume 32, Issue 5, 2006 pages 537-695
The New Government of London
Volume 32, Issue 3, 2006 pages 211-382
Public Service Improvement: Policies, progress and prospects
Volume 31, Issue 5, 2005 pages 527-700
Renewing Local Democracy? The Modernisation Agenda in British Local Government
Volume 25, Issue 4, 1999 pages 1-ebi
Managing Local Services: From CCT to Best Value
Volume 25, Issue 2, 1999 pages 1-ebi
Local Government Reorganisation: The Review and its Aftermath
Volume 23, Issue 3, 1997 pages 1-ebi
Quangos and Local Government: A Changing World
Volume 22, Issue 2, 1996 pages 1-ebi
Financing European Local Governments
Volume 18, Issue 4, 1992 pages 1-ebi
The Political Executive: Politicians and Management in European Local Government
Volume 18, Issue 1, 1992 pages 1-ebi
Impact of the Abolition of Metropolitan County Councils
Volume 16, Issue 3, 1990 pages 1-ebi
The Education Reform Bill
Volume 14, Issue 1, 1988 pages 1-ebi
What is Happening to Local Government?
Volume 11, Issue 6, 1985 pages 1-ebi

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Forthcoming special issue marking 50 years of LGS: The past, present and future of local government studies

Local Government Studies will celebrate its half-century in 2024. To mark this milestone, the journal will publish a special issue at the end of 2024, edited by Catherine Durose (Chair of the Editorial Board) and Peter Eckersley (Managing Editor). Alongside a full-length lead article by the current Editorial team, we will feature short (2500 to 3500-word) pieces that speak to the theme of a half-century of LGS. Contributions will pick up on key aspects of change and continuity within Local Government Studies as a journal and the field more broadly. As well as looking back, the special issue will feature contributions that look forward and beyond the current scope of the journal.