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Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China
Xiaolin Wu, Wen Qin & Yanwei Li
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Addressing the elephant in the room: what’s the local in local government studies?
Arianna Giovannini & Steven Griggs
Published online: 01 Jun 2024
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What lies beneath these creatures of the state: understanding the death of specialised governments in the U.S.
Christopher B. Goodman & Suzanne M. Leland
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands
Elina Jonitz, Maria Schiller & Peter Scholten
Published online: 21 May 2024
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Why philanthropic foundations collaborate with city governments: an exploration of three English cities
Ruth Puttick
Published online: 21 May 2024
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Perceived local government performance and people’s life satisfaction: the role of trust in local government and political participation
Na Li & Mang He
Published online: 08 May 2024
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Political competition and representation in municipal councils
Christophe Lévêque
Published online: 07 May 2024
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The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours
Peter Spáč & Lenka Hrbková
Published online: 06 May 2024
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Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands
Rick L. van Well
Published online: 04 May 2024
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Independents in local politics – voter turnout, competitiveness, and party-system effects
Josef Bernard, Tomáš Kostelecký, Zdenka Mansfeldová & Renáta Mikešová
Published online: 02 May 2024
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Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China
Liangliang Liu, Meixuan Che & Wenqing Zhang
Published online: 01 May 2024
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Local passion and national apathy: investigating the phenomenon of selective voting behaviour
Jakub Lysek
Published online: 14 Apr 2024
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Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers
Marte Winsvold & Bjarte Folkestad
Published online: 10 Apr 2024
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Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services
Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel & Eoin Reeves
Published online: 07 Apr 2024
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Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation
Colin Knox & Paul Carmichael
Published online: 03 Apr 2024
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Understanding freedom of information requests: predictors of request for public information to municipalities in Chile
José Hernández-Bonivento & Francisco Moller
Published online: 02 Apr 2024
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Political and financial factors motivating privatisation, its reverse and corporatisation of municipal waste collection
Raymond Gradus, Elbert Dijkgraaf & Tjerk Budding
Published online: 20 Mar 2024
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When blame avoidance meets transparency: local governments’ bandwagon strategy in environmental information disclosure in China
Shaowei Chen, Kai Jia & Kwan Nok Chan
Published online: 14 Mar 2024
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Why and how often do authorities remunicipalise urban public transport? The case of France
Christian Desmaris & Didier Van de Velde
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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Digital co-creation in urban mobility planning: what motivates people to participate?
Marie Kluge, Jannis Kachel & Michèle Knodt
Published online: 12 Feb 2024
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Published online: 06 Feb 2024
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The impact of public discourse on local representatives’ amalgamation preferences
Thomas Margel Myksvoll & Troy Saghaug Broderstad
Published online: 14 Jan 2024
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The contested politics of de-privatisation and the shifting terrain of the local state: the case of the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany
Franziska Christina Paul
Published online: 07 Jan 2024
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Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach
Rhys Andrews, Malcolm J. Beynon & Frank Baafi
Published online: 06 Dec 2023
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From an alternative to a dominant form of local political actors? Independent candidates in the Czech local elections in 2010–2018
Tomas Kostelecky, Josef Bernard, Zdenka Mansfeldova & Renata Mikesova
Published online: 06 Dec 2023
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Using social media for supporting engagement in the public sector: a systematic literature review
Marco Contri, Silvia Fissi & Elena Gori
Published online: 29 Nov 2023
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Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland
Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Jacks of all trades, masters of none? Multiple-mandate holding and trust in local government
Fredrik Malmberg & Thomas Karv
Published online: 16 Nov 2023
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The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model
Søren Kjær Foged, Kurt Houlberg, Jacob Ladenburg & Jeppe Elholm Madsen
Published online: 19 Oct 2023
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Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations
Dag Ingvar Jacobsen
Published online: 02 Oct 2023
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Horizontal and vertical interactions in local fiscal slack: a spatial analysis of local governments in New York state
Jongmin Shon & Sunjoo Kwak
Published online: 22 Sep 2023
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Remunicipalization of water services in France and inter-municipal cooperation: who’s at the helm?
Alexandre Mayol & Stéphane Saussier
Published online: 24 Aug 2023
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The connotation, cause, and reform path of institutional transaction costs: a grounded theory analysis
Zhaoteng Zeng & Xiao Yu
Published online: 26 Jul 2023
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The gendered nature of ethnic minority candidate nomination: An analysis of the moderating role of district diversity, party affiliation and ethnic minorities’ visibility
Sigrid Van Trappen, Robin Devroe & Bram Wauters
Published online: 23 Jul 2023
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Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US
Mildred E. Warner
Published online: 04 Jan 2023
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