Local Government Studies, Volume 41, Issue 6 (2015)

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Biased Budgeting in the Public Sector: Evidence from Italian Local Governments
Eugenio Anessi-Pessina & Mariafrancesca Sicilia
Pages: 819-840
Published online: 25 Mar 2015
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Councillor’s Dilemma between Strong Mayors and Citizens’ Needs
Sonia Bussu
Pages: 841-860
Published online: 17 Apr 2015
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Abolishing the Audit Commission: Framing, Discourse Coalitions and Administrative Reform
Katherine Tonkiss & Chris Skelcher
Pages: 861-880
Published online: 29 May 2015
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Social Capital and the Number of Governments within a County: A Potential Problem with Social Capital
Matthew Moore & Nicholas Recker
Pages: 881-897
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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How Second Order Are Local Elections? Voting Motives and Party Preferences in Belgian Municipal Elections
Sofie Marien, Ruth Dassonneville & Marc Hooghe
Pages: 898-916
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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Local Political Decision-Making: A Case of Rationality or Appropriateness?
Jens Nilsson
Pages: 917-936
Published online: 08 Jun 2015
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Theorising European Integration of Local Government – Insights from the Fusion Approach
Marius Guderjan
Pages: 937-955
Published online: 22 Jun 2015
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The Economic and Political Impacts of Top-Down Territorial Reforms: The Case of Sub-City Governments
António F. Tavares & Miguel Rodrigues
Pages: 956-976
Published online: 24 Jun 2015
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Welfare Loss with Municipal Amalgamations and the Willingness-to-Pay for the Municipality Name
Nils Soguel & Julie Silberstein
Pages: 977-996
Published online: 10 Jul 2015
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The Impact of the Housing Bubble on the Growth of Municipal Debt: Evidence from Spain
Bernardino Benito, Cristina Vicente & Francisco Bastida
Pages: 997-1016
Published online: 13 Jul 2015
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Negotiating Cohesion, Inequality and Change: Uncomfortable Positions in Local Government, by Hannah Jones, Bristol, Policy Press. 2013, ISBN 9781447310037
Ted Cantle
Pages: 1017-1019
Published online: 20 Jun 2014
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Achieving Ethical Competence for Public Service Leadership, by Terry L. Cooper & Donald C. Menzel (eds), Armonk, NY, M.E Sharpe, 2013, ISBN: 978-0-7656-3246-3
Mirza Ahmad
Pages: 1019-1020
Published online: 05 Jun 2014
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Complex Contracting, Trevor L. Brown, Matthew Potoski & David M. Van Slyke, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1107038622
J Gordon Murray
Pages: 1020-1022
Published online: 02 Jun 2014
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