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Local Government Studies
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First established in 1975, Local Government Studies is the leading journal for the study of local politics, policy, public administration and management and governance https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/flgs20
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Local Government Studies @lgstudies.bsky.social · Jan 13
This special issue marks 50 yrs of Local Government Studies. It is #openaccess. With guest editors @profcatdurose.bsky.social & @peckersley.bsky.social, the authors explore the evolution of #localgovernment research over half a century & look to emerging trends

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50 years of LGS: The past, present, and future of local government studies. Volume 50, Issue 6 of Local Government Studies
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📢 🆕 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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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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February 6, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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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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Volume 52, Issue 1 of Local Government Studies
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February 4, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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📢 🆕 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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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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February 4, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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📢 🆕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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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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January 26, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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📢🆕 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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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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January 15, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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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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January 9, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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📢 🆕 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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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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December 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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@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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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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November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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.
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 ...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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📢 🆕 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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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...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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📢 🆕 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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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,…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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📢 🆕 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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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...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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📢 🆕 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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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...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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📢 🆕 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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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...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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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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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...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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📢🆕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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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...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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📢 🆕 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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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...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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📢🆕 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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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...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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📢 🆕 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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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....
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October 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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📢🆕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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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...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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📢🆕 in Local Government Studies journal, 'From single-issue to sustained Influence: factors driving the endurance of local political parties' by Felicia Andreassen, Gissur Ó Erlingsson & Susanne Wallman Lundåsen #openaccess

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From single-issue to sustained Influence: factors driving the endurance of local political parties
This study aims to advance the understanding of new political party longevity by examining an overlooked phenomenon: challengers formed exclusively to run for local elections (‘local parties’, ‘loc...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies: 'Managing inclusive co-creation processes in a superdiverse neighborhood: drivers of inclusion in the case of Rotterdam' from authors Warda Belabas, Ingmar van Meerkerk and Thomas van den Kieboom. #openaccess

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Managing inclusive co-creation processes in a superdiverse neighborhood: drivers of inclusion in the case of Rotterdam
This study responds to the call in the literature for more attention to examine the inclusive nature of co-creation processes. It explores the dynamic nature of inclusion within co-creation process...
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September 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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📢 🆕 in LGS Journal: 'Politician–manager relationship, procurement decisions & corruption risk in local governments' from authors Riccardo Mussari, Fabio Monteduro, Simona Caramia & Veronica Allegrini from the Department of Business & Law, Siena University in Italy.

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Politician–manager relationship, procurement decisions, and corruption risk in local governments
This study combines agency and patronage theories to explore how the nature of local governing bodies – elected politicians or centrally appointed commissioners – influences managerial decisions an...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Unlocking the potentials of Information and Communication Technology on citizen participation in Tanzania local government authorities: the citizen’s perspectives' from authors
Nicholaus Ngowi, Gasper Kissoka & Parestico Pastory

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Unlocking the potentials of Information and Communication Technology on citizen participation in Tanzania local government authorities: the citizen’s perspectives
Globally, ICT use is considered vital for citizen participation in local governance. However, the impacts of ICT use on citizen participation in local governance of developing countries like Tanzan...
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September 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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📢 🆕 NEW in LGS: 'Twitter communication in times of crisis: how do German local governments frame social media messages and how do citizens react?' Hannes Lampe & Dominik Vogel explore how different message framings affect citizen responses: #openaccess
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Twitter communication in times of crisis: how do German local governments use and frame social media messages and how do citizens react to them?
This study examines how local governments use social media during crises and how citizens respond to their communication. Focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic, we analyse over 50,000 social media post...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM