LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES

Resilience policy in practice — Surveying the role of community based organisations in local disaster management

Perceptions of disaster resilience in four Texas coastal communities

Don’t push too hard. Examining the managerial behaviours of local authorities in collaborative networks with nonprofit organisations

Merging county administrations – cross-national evidence of fiscal and political effects

Population size or population density? An empirical examination of scale economies in South Australian local government, 2015/16

How far to nudge? Assessing behavioural public policy

Strengthening the local representative system: the importance of electoral and non-electoral representation

Exploiting the common pool or looking to the future? A study of free-riding leading up to the 2007 municipal amalgamations in Denmark

Practitioners’ perspectives on in-house versus arm’s-length structures of local economic development delivery in Ontario, Canada

Maintaining the status quo: understanding local use of resilience strategies to address earthquake risk in Oklahoma

Organisational choices in public procurement: what can public management learn from the private sector?

Dynamic-opportunistic behaviour in local government contracting-out decisions during the electoral cycle

Local territorial reform and regional spending efficiency

The role of local government in rural communities: culture-based development strategies

Knowledge, policymaking and learning for European cities and regions

Questioning performance measurement: metrics, organizations and power

Interlocal collaboration and local climate protection

Fiscal and political determinants of local government involvement in public-private partnership (PPP)

Does democratic local governance facilitate local economic development? Evidence from Bangladesh

Boundary-spanning strategies for aligning institutional logics: a typology

Residential taxable value recovery in coastal Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina

David and Goliath in the poll booth: group size, political power and voter turnout

Revitalizing Local Government Performance Management: Further Dissecting the Role of Socioeconomic Status and Social Mobilization Policy

Coming out of the shadow? Studies of local governments in Central and Eastern Europe in European academic research

Who votes for mayor? Evidence from midsized American cities

The impact of revenue diversification on municipal debts: comparing short-term and long-term debt levels

Do the illegal and legal rents of politicians affect municipal election outcomes? Empirical evidence

The politics of scale in policy: scalecraft and education governance

Policy problems and policy design

Breaking up a partnership to build a competitive market in Denmark’s ambulance service: how can studies of contract reversals learn from the sociology of markets?

Voter turnout and municipal amalgamations—evidence from Denmark

Special issue on municipal amalgamations: guest editors’ introduction

Local emergency management special issue: guest editors’ introduction

Performance goals in public management and policy: the nature and implications of goal ambiguity

Local politics in an international context: a linguistic analysis of community resiliency in Memphis, TN

Local emergency management special issue: a foreword by Dr Barry Quirk CBE

Towards a framework for measuring local government return on investment in arts and cultural development

Promoting neoliberal ideology in Finnish rural community development: the creation of new moral actors

Local government’s disaster management capacity and disaster resilience

In participatory budgeting we trust? Fairness, tactics and (in)accessibility in participatory governance

Do citizens hold mayors accountable for local conditions? Evidence from Italian municipalities

Kill it to save it: an autopsy of capitalism’s triumph over democracy

Auckland, New Zealand – fair game for central party politics

Mayors as a variable in typologies of local governments: a case study of the Czech Republic

Political board’s contribution to strategic management: a case study

E-participation in smart cities: technologies and models of governance for citizen engagement