Pub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2361757
Yunseung Kim, Jiseul Kim
This study examines the impact of federal funding on local spending for water and wastewater infrastructure (hereafter ‘W&WI’) in Nebraska. The recent deterioration of W&WI creates potential risks ...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-22DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2369784
Ron Shani, Yaniv Reingewertz, Eran Vigoda-Gadot
Countries reap numerous benefits from maintaining rural communities. Those advantages, however, come at a cost. We examine the additional costs of public services in rural areas in Israel by consid...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2363368
Emma Martien Branderhorst, Erna Ruijer
Local governments across the world are adopting new digital technologies to improve their services and to create public value. These new digital technologies challenge traditional forms of leadersh...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2360559
Christopher B. Goodman, Suzanne M. Leland
After analysing 40 years of census data on U.S. local government change, this study finds that the dissolution of special districts (specialised governments) or ‘exits’ in U.S. counties are largely...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2341234
Jakub Lysek
Although there is a substantial difference in turnout between local and national elections, a significant number of citizens are locally mobilised yet they do not vote in national elections. While ...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2332634
Marte Winsvold, Bjarte Folkestad
This article examines how politicians’ perceptions of media coverage are influenced by their emergence as winners or losers of political battles. Based on a survey of 3,378 Norwegian councillors re...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-07DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2331561
Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel, Eoin Reeves
Remunicipalisation of local public services has attracted the interest of scholars from different fields of the social sciences in recent years. Whereas earlier studies into this phenomenon were do...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2338240
Colin Knox, Paul Carmichael
In 2015, a reformed local government system was introduced in Northern Ireland following a lengthy period of review. In the new dispensation, great emphasis is placed on the concept of partnership,...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2337656
José Hernández-Bonivento, Francisco Moller
Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA) have been adopted in many countries to promote state transparency, engage citizens in public affairs, and fo ster public accountability. However, FOIA impflementa...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2024.2330647
Raymond Gradus, Elbert Dijkgraaf, Tjerk Budding
This paper analyses different modes of provision for household waste collection and changes in that by Dutch municipalities in the period between 1998 and 2018. Based on a transition matrix, the sh...
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