@LGStudies

The leading journal for the study of all things #localgov for over 50 years @INLOGOV. Also find us on LinkedIn and Bluesky.

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📢🆕 Call for abstracts for a new special issue on artificial intelligence and local government transformation. Deadline for abstracts 1st November. More info here 👇
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📣🆕NEW in Local Government Studies: 'Political attention and local development: evidence from provincial leaders’ inspection tours in China' from authors Jiankun Yang, Minghu Huang and Runqi Liu. doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

Political attention and local development: evidence from provincial leaders’ inspection tours in...

Official inspection tours represent a key mechanism of political attention allocation in China. Using manually coded data on provincial Party secretaries’ and governors’ tours across 271 prefecture...

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📣 🆕 NEW article in Local Government Studies: 'Two hats, one purse: does holding a dual mandate affect the attraction of grants?' by Benjamin Descamps and Carine Smolders doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

Two hats, one purse: does holding a dual mandate affect the attraction of grants?

This study examines whether the allocation of intergovernmental grants is associated with the presence of Members of Parliament (MPs), including those holding dual mandates at the local level as ma...

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📣 NEW! Call for abstracts for a special issue on artificial intelligence and local government transformation. Please email your abstracts to the guest editors, @LeeGeiller and Mila Gasco Hernandez by 1st November. More info below 👇
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📣🆕 NEW! Local Government Studies, Volume 52, Issue 5​, ​October 2026 is now available online, tandfonline.com/toc/flgs20/c…

Local Government Studies

Volume 52, Issue 5 of Local Government Studies

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📣 🆕 NEW research article in Local Government Studies: ‘Transparency talk among candidates for public office’ by Julia Trautendorfer, Cedric Antunes & Gregory Michener doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

Transparency talk among candidates for public office

How common are invocations and promises of transparency and open government among candidates for municipal office? What factors drive ‘transparency talk’, and does this ‘talk’ translate into the ‘w...

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📣 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies: 'Bridging or bonding? A two-mode network study in top-down and bottom-up inter-municipal environmental collaborations in China', by Lingyi Zhou and Hao Ren. doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

Bridging or bonding? A two-mode network study in top-down and bottom-up inter-municipal environme...

Inter-municipal collaborative networks can be initiated either voluntarily by local actors or mandated by superior authorities, yet little is known about how these initiation processes shape networ...

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Seulki Lee-Geiller, PhD@LeeGeillerSep 24
Mila and I are guest editing a special issue of @LGStudies on @AI and @LocalGovernment Transformation, focusing on institutional capacity, organizational change, and democratic practices in local government. 📅 Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 2026 🔗 Details: lnkd.in/gBGj-Qze
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📣 🆕 New in Local Government Studies: 'Partisanship within city limits: explaining employment policy outcomes in Danish municipalities' by Mads Peter Klindt, Rasmus Lind Ravn and Andrej Christian Lindholst. #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

Partisanship within city limits: explaining employment policy outcomes in Danish municipalities

Two opposing views are central to the literature on local politics. An older view holds that local policy outcomes are determined primarily by cities’ structural constraints. A newer view claims th...

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📣 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies: ‘Digital participation, government responses, and public satisfaction: evidence from environmental appeals in China’ from Anle Cheng doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

Digital participation, government responses, and public satisfaction: evidence from environmental...

Digital governance has reshaped state-society interactions by creating new channels for citizen engagement in environmental affairs. Using 23,655 environment-related message-reply pairs from the Pe...

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📣 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Can authoritarianism retain continuous local innovation? A perspective of innovation ecosystem' by Junxing Wang and Jiayue Wu doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

Can authoritarianism retain continuous local innovation? A perspective of innovation ecosystem

The ‘decline thesis’ posits that centralisation of power often signals a decline in local government innovation. Drawing on the innovation ecosystem theory, however, we move beyond this thesis to d...

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🆕 📣 NEW in Local Government Studies journal: 'The politics of local spending: municipal budget responses to federal election results' by Lorenzo Catalano and Kristof De Witte. doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

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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new article in @LGStudies: Electoral reform and party-system fragmentation: diminishing marginal effects and vote–seat conversion limits in Chile’s concurrent local elections doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…
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📣 NEW in Local Government Studies journal, 'The influence of descriptive representation on voting patterns: a study of age and gender dynamics' from Lorenzo Catalano, Panagiotis Iliopoulos and Kristof De Witte doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

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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📣 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Friends-and-neighbours voting in German local elections: who is affected by geographic proximity?' by Pierre Zissel #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

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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📣 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Inclusionary regimes, firm size, and housing approval by cities' by Agustin Leon Moreta. doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

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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📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Navigating the COVID-19 crisis: the financial resilience of Victorian local government' from authors Carolyn Thi Thanh Dung Tran, Michael A. Kortt and Brian Dollery #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

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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🎉I am very happy to share our new co-authored publication in @LGStudies, written together with @Catalano_Lrnz & @DeWitteK as part of @DemoTrans. Full paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… 🧵

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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📢 🆕 in Local Government Studies journal: 'Non-partisan lists and local fiscal discipline: common pool effects in Norwegian municipal coalitions' by David Sørli Nielsen #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

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

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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REPSAL@redsubnacionalMay 20
👇🏽👇🏽Nuevo artículo de nuestro miembro #EduardoMarques (junto a Ursula Dias Peres y Gabriela Fischer) sobre "What difference does politics make in municipal budgets? Evidence from Brazil🇧🇷", publicado en @LGStudies!
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📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: What difference does politics make in municipal budgets? Evidence from Brazil' from authors Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques, Ursula Dias Peres and Gabriela Fischer. doi.org/10.1080/03003930.202…

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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