Local Government Studies, Volume 45, Issue 5 (2019)

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Municipal Amalgamations

Editorial

Editorial
Special issue on municipal amalgamations: guest editors’ introduction
Yaniv Reingewertz & Soren Serritzlew
Pages: 603-610
Published online: 07 Aug 2019
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Merging county administrations – cross-national evidence of fiscal and political effects
Sebastian Blesse & Felix Roesel
Pages: 611-631
Published online: 23 Jul 2018
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Population size or population density? An empirical examination of scale economies in South Australian local government, 2015/16
Carolyn Tran, Michael Kortt & Brian Dollery
Pages: 632-653
Published online: 20 Jul 2018
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Why voluntary municipal merger projects fail: evidence from popular votes in Switzerland
Michael Andrea Strebel
Pages: 654-675
Published online: 05 Mar 2019
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Exploiting the common pool or looking to the future? A study of free-riding leading up to the 2007 municipal amalgamations in Denmark
Sune Welling Hansen
Pages: 676-696
Published online: 14 Mar 2019
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Voter turnout and municipal amalgamations—evidence from Denmark
Yosef Bhatti & Kasper M. Hansen
Pages: 697-723
Published online: 08 Jan 2019
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David and Goliath in the poll booth: group size, political power and voter turnout
Peter Bönisch, Benny Geys & Claus Michelsen
Pages: 724-747
Published online: 24 Aug 2018
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Rhetoric in municipal amalgamations: a comparative analysis
Joseph Drew, Eran Razin & Rhys Andrews
Pages: 748-767
Published online: 13 Oct 2018
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The UK’s changing democracy: the 2018 democratic audit
edited by Patrick Dunleavy, Alice Park and Ros Taylor, London, Ubiquity Press (London School of Economics), 2018, 522 pp., £23.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-909890-44-2
Tom Caygill
Pages: 768-769
Published online: 16 Jul 2019
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Questioning performance measurement: metrics, organizations and power
by Guy Redden, London, Sage, 2019, 152 pp., £45 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1526461858, £16.79 (ebook), ISBN 9781526462879
Melissa Hawkins
Pages: 769-772
Published online: 18 Jul 2019
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Whose government is it? The renewal of state-citizen cooperation
edited by Henry Tam, Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2019, 280 pp., £74.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1529200980, £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1529200935, £24.99 (ebook), ISBN 978-1529200959
Tom Entwistle
Pages: 772-775
Published online: 17 Jul 2019
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