The politics of local spending: municipal budget responses to federal election results

Rising support for radical-right parties has reshaped public discourse, yet little is known about whether electoral signals resonate across government tiers. Using two decades of data from 299 Flem...

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The influence of descriptive representation on voting patterns: a study of age and gender dynamics

Polarised political landscapes have amplified identity-based narratives, emphasising traits like race, gender, and ethnicity. This article contributes to debates on representation by examining whet...

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Friends-and-neighbours voting in German local elections: who is affected by geographic proximity?

This study investigates localist voting in local executive elections, focusing on how candidate profiles and contextual factors shape friends-and-neighbours voting (FNV). Building on the FNV concep...

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Inclusionary regimes, firm size, and housing approval by cities

Municipal permitting is a procedural tool that city officials can use to facilitate housing development. City officials control housing permitting in their jurisdiction, but state law ultimately de...

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Navigating the COVID-19 crisis: the financial resilience of Victorian local government

Extensive research has examined municipal resilience to external shocks; however, quantitative assessments of financial resilience based on performance remain limited. This paper addresses this gap...

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The influence of descriptive representation on voting patterns: a study of age and gender dynamics

Polarised political landscapes have amplified identity-based narratives, emphasising traits like race, gender, and ethnicity. This article contributes to debates on representation by examining whet...

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Non-partisan lists and local fiscal discipline: common pool effects in Norwegian municipal coalitions

This study investigates the impact of non-partisan lists on fiscal discipline in Norwegian municipalities, using new data on actual coalition agreements in three election periods (2008–2019). Unlik...

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Intergovernmental transfers and fiscal performance: evidence from Brazil

This study examines the impact of intergovernmental transfers, particularly the Municipal Participation Fund (FPM), on municipal fiscal performance in Brazil, with a focus on per capita current exp...

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What difference does politics make in municipal budgets? Evidence from Brazil

How much does local politics shape public spending? Despite extensive research on federalism and local governance, existing studies primarily focus on fiscal constraints and municipal characteristi...

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Local authorities’ policy responses to food insecurity in a crisis support context in the UK: a human rights analysis

Under international human rights law (IHRL), local governments complement the national government in undertaking their human rights obligations. Regarding the right to food, local authorities in th...

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What contributes to an attractive local political office? Evidence from municipal council elections in Switzerland

Federal democracies rely on active local political participation, yet both anecdotal and empirical evidence from Western democracies highlight increasing challenges in recruiting municipal candidat...

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Between agent and governor: local officials’ selective implementation of religious policies in China

Under the ‘decentralized’ or ‘fragmented’ authoritarian governing structure, China’s local officials have long enjoyed leeway in implementing central policies in their areas of jurisdiction. Specif...

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Investigating the multi-dimensional civic engagement in community-building: a study on local crime prevention groups in South Australia

Civic engagement is a crucial sociological indicator for the sustainable success of public policies, yet prior work often treats it as one dimensional. This study examines civic engagement through ...

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Unsuccessful Political Parties. Exploring and Combining Party Death and Party Failure

Julien van Ostaaijen and Sander Jennissen ‘I am fed up. It was interesting, fascinating, and frustrating. As a small faction it is difficult to be on top of everything and I noticed that I became l…

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Mayors as local leaders - a systematic literature review on European mayor research

This article presents a systematic literature review on European research on the mayoral model as a local management system. As our research strategy, we utilised the PRISMA guidelines and research...

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Does confidence in local governments moderate drought-induced migration? Empirical evidence from India

We examine whether confidence in local governments reduces the intensity of drought-induced migration. Since confidence in government stems from the assurance of support, it may reduce households’ ...

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Women’s political leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of the City Council of Cali, Colombia

This article examines changes in women’s local level political leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic based on political oversight proposals approved by the City Council of Cali, Colombia between ...

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Safety, trust, and the role of co-production in combating violence: local government-community relations in the Arab minority in Israel

This study examines the relationship between satisfaction with local safety services and trust in local government among the Arab minority in Israel. A survey of 201 residents from Sakhnin and Arra...

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Does government transparency really matter for citizens’ satisfaction to public service? Empirical evidence from China

This study utilises data from the 2017-2021 China Social Survey (CSS) to explore the impact of various forms of government transparency on public service satisfaction. The findings reveal that both...

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The Double-edged sword: China’s local government special bonds and county-level economic growth

The burgeoning issue of local government debt has emerged as a pivotal factor influencing the trajectory of sustainable economic growth in China. Using a novel county-level panel data spanning from...

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In sync or out of tune? Investigating intraparty opinion homogeneity between national leaderships and local representatives

Homogeneity of opinions is important for the cohesion and unity of political parties. While most research focused on homogeneity at the national level, we argue that opinion homogeneity between nat...

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Transparency in local government: exploring the impact of female leadership and political context

Transparency is crucial for good governance and the prevention of maladministration. Since 2013, the Municipal Transparency Index – Portugal has assessed the transparency of local governments based...

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Local Government Studies

Volume 52, Issue 1 of Local Government Studies

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Factors influencing accessible electronic service delivery in Chinese municipalities: a comparative analysis

As digital transformation accelerates, the Chinese national government has introduced policy initiatives urging local governments to provide accessible electronic services for digitally vulnerable ...

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It’s all in the details: comparing and explaining variation in the ‘policy specificity’ of sub-city climate activities

Comparative analyses of policy datasets enable explanations of variation, but not all policy activities are extensive enough to be assessed through the established ‘policy intensity’ approach. We i...

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Arenas of conflict? How local integration infrastructures and multi-level dynamics shape the space for conflict and cooperation at the local level in Austria

The 2015 ‘migration and refugee crisis’ had a major impact on national level politics, media and policy debates in Austria. This article explores how the conflictual politics of refugee reception a...

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Institutional pressures and local climate policy isomorphism in Ireland

Coercive, mimetic and normative pressures contribute to the tendency for local authorities operating in the same institutional environment to develop increasingly similar policies. This article use...

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Are more affluent parents treated more favourably by elementary school principals? Socioeconomic discrimination among local Swedish public officials

This article argues that previous public administration and political science research might have missed important class-based inequalities by primarily focusing on ethnic discrimination among publ...

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