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 ...

📢 🆕 New research on government microblogs, voter turnout, reelected mayors, party death, politicians with day jobs, the outputs of public participation and more! Volume 52, Issue 2 of LGS journal is now available online. Many of the articles are #openaccess

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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…

Our article analysing the way Dutch (local) political parties die and/or loose all representatives has now been published in @lgstudies.bsky.social A summary can be found on this blog from @inlogov.bsky.social inlogov.com/2025/07/03/u... Full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

📢🆕New article in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Mayors as local leaders - a systematic literature review on European mayor research' by Anni Jäntti, Santeri Lajunen, Arto Haveri and Jenni Airaksinen #openaccess

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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’ ...

📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Does confidence in local governments moderate drought-induced migration? Empirical evidence from India'. Gauri Sreekumar and Sabuj Kumar Mandal #openaccess

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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 ...

📢 🆕 NEW article in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Women’s political leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of the City Council of Cali, Colombia'.

From Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz, Luis Carlos Ojeda-Oliveros and Santiago Rubio.

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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...

📢 🆕 'Safety, trust, and the role of co-production in combating violence: local government-community relations in the Arab minority in Israel' by Jawad Abu Younis, Anna Uster and Itai Beeri.

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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...

📢🆕in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Does government transparency really matter for citizens’ satisfaction to public service? Empirical evidence from China'. From authors, Shuang Ling, WenHao Zhang and XiaoZhou Liu

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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...

📢🆕in Local Government Studies journal: 'The Double-edged sword: China’s local government special bonds and county-level economic growth' by Huiwen Chen and Rongxue Jin from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

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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...

📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: 'In sync or out of tune? Investigating intraparty opinion homogeneity between national leaderships and local representatives' by Matthias Van Campenhout, Christophe Lesschaeve and Julie Sevenans.

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📢 Meet the researchers behind our upcoming London conference on 18th March!
We're excited to introduce the authors of our new report, Accelerating Local Climate Action, which will be presented at our in-person event. 🧵
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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...

📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies journal: 'Transparency in local government: exploring the impact of female leadership and political context' by Bruna Filipa Gonçalves Ribeiro, Miguel Ângelo Rodrigues and Francisca Tejedo-Romero

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Local Government Studies Volume 52, Issue 1 of Local Government Studies

New academic research on public sector innovation, Brexit & enterprise zones, local government Twitter use & blame avoidance amongst local government officers. Volume 52, Issue 1 of Local Government Studies is now available. Most articles are #openaccess

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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 ...

📢 🆕 in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Factors influencing accessible electronic service delivery in Chinese municipalities: a comparative analysis' by
Biao He & Vincent Homburg from the University of Tartu.

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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...

📢 🆕NEW article in LGS journal: 'It’s all in the details: comparing and explaining variation in the ‘policy specificity’ of sub-city climate activities' by Paul Tobin, Neil Carter, Joshua Barritt, Anna Sanders and James Jackson #openaccess

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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...

📢🆕 in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Arenas of conflict? How local integration infrastructures & multi-level dynamics shape the space for conflict and cooperation at the local level in Austria' by Albert Kraler & Isabella Skrivanek #OpenAccess

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📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: The scope of active labour market policies in local labour market programmes in Swedish municipalities – driven by needs or values? From authors Olov Hemmingsson and @gustavliden.bsky.social #openaccess

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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...

📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Institutional pressures and local climate policy isomorphism in Ireland' by Paul Wagner from @edinburghnapier.bsky.social

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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...

@jonastaghizadeh.bsky.social investigates class-based #inequality by focusing on #discrimination based on socio-economic status in his study of Swedish public officials. Are affluent parents treated more favourably by elementary school principals?
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The scope of active labour market policies in local labour market programmes in Swedish municipalities – driven by needs or values? This study takes its vantage point from the increasing decentralisation of welfare by examining the growing trend of welfare states implementing active labour market policies (ALMPs), with a focus ...

New study with Olov Hemmingsson in @lgstudies.bsky.social

This study sheds new light on the local politics of welfare decentralisation. Using a new dataset on Sweden’s municipal labour market initiatives, it investigates why some municipalities run extensive local labour market programmes.

Upturning the turnout voting upside down: the case of the Arab local government in Israel This study challenges the conventional assumption that high voter turnout signifies a well-functioning democracy and government legitimacy. In the case of Arab local elections in Israel, exceptiona...

📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal, ‘Upturning the turnout voting upside down: the case of the Arab local government in Israel’ from Mohammed Khalaile, Yousef Makladeh and Doron Navot #openaccess.

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Crisis management in cities: how politicians and public servants worked together during the Ukrainian refugee reception Dr. Nicolai De Wulf, Prof. Dr. Joris Voets When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, millions of people fled their homes seeking safety across Europe. In Belgium, cities such as Antwerp, Ghent,…

📢 🆕 blog post from Dr. Nicolai De Wulf and Prof. Dr. Joris Voets 'Crisis management in cities: how politicians and public servants worked together during the Ukrainian refugee reception', published by @inlogov.bsky.social (The Institute of Local Government Studies)

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The ‘community’ concept in local government community plans: defining community in regional Australia The concept of community is synonymous with local governance. It is relied upon to speak to populations and to define the values of a region. This paper draws on an analysis of non-metropolitan loc...

📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: Andrew Hickey and Sally Hourigan analyse local government community plans from Queensland, Australia to examine the ways that the community concept is rendered with functional meaning.

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Decentralisation and electoral participation: does fiscal independence affect voter turnout in local elections? After the third wave of democratisation, many countries underwent reforms of decentralisation to consider the heterogeneous preferences of voters across different localities. However, contrary to t...

📢 🆕 NEW article in Local Government Studies Journal: Eun Young Kim finds that decentralization without fiscal independence of local governments weakens the link between local governments and citizens

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Crisis management in cities: politico-administrative complementarity during the reception of Ukrainian refugees This study investigates politico-administrative relations across four key crisis management tasks: sense-making, decision-making and coordination, meaning-making and account-giving, and learning du...

📢 🆕 in LGS Journal: When crisis hits, politics and administration must work hand in hand. What can we learn from Flemish cities that built “emergency villages” for Ukrainian refugees? By Nicolai De Wulf & Joris Voets. Read the full article #LocalGovernment
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Regionalisation Nordic Style: Will Regions in Sweden Threaten Local Democracy? Governance in the Nordic countries has a highly local character. Most public services are provided by locally elected bodies that enjoy a high degree of autonomy in relation to political institutio...

Does regionalisation in the Nordic setting reduce the democratic quality of #governance in the area of health care? Not necessarily, according to this study by @uu-polisci.bsky.social's Paula Blomqvist and Patrik Bergman.
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Councillors’ intentions to seek re-election in a gender-balanced local government system: evidence from Iceland With few exceptions, women are underrepresented in local councils throughout the world. Moreover, female councillors have much higher turnover than their male counterparts, leaving political life q...

📢🆕in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Councillors’ intentions to seek re-election in a gender-balanced local government system: evidence from Iceland' from authors Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir and Hafsteinn Einarsson from the University of Iceland.

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Political resistance, representation, and identity during English local government re-organisation: a micro-case study This paper examines the political and identity-based consequences of the 2019 Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP), where three historic towns were mer...

📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies: ‘Political resistance, representation, and identity during English local government re-organisation: a micro-case study’ from Tabitha Baker and Ian Gwinn from Bournemouth University.

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Shall we tango? Exploring the drivers of co-production in US local governments Co-production requires two main actors: citizens and local governments. However, a significant portion of existing research has primarily examined co-production from the citizens’ perspective. Addr...

📢🆕 in Local Government Studies Journal. 'Shall we tango? Exploring the drivers of co-production in US local governments' From authors Donwe Choi, Jinsol Park and Sung-Wook Kwon.

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Attention please! Explaining local governments’ political attention for Europe As a result of the ongoing European integration process, the EU increasingly impacts local governments. However, how they respond to this differs: local governments ‘Europeanise’ in different ways....

📢 🆕 in Local Government Studies. 'Attention please! Explaining local governments’ political attention for Europe' by authors Pieter Zwaan, S. Elemans, S. André and M. van Genugten #openaccess

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The impact of city-county amalgamations on small administrative units: evidence from land transfer in China The attitude of small units is crucial to the success of city-county amalgamations. This paper focuses on the impact of amalgamations on small units from the perspective of land transfers. Based on...

📢🆕NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: ‘The impact of city-county amalgamations on small administrative units: evidence from land transfer in China' from authors Tao Zheng and Bindong Sun.

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