This dissertation examines the spread of Tax and Expenditure Limitations (TELs) and their effects on government outcomes. TELs are statutory and constitutional restraints on a government's fiscal decision-making. While TELs come in various forms, one of the most prevalent is a s…
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This thesis spans the first half of the 20th Century, charting the progress and challenges of the voluntary hospital system in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. The voluntary hospitals were the key sites of acute medical care for the working-classes from their foundations in the l…
This dissertation consists of three essays examining and analyzing Michigan property assessment practices. The first essay estimates the property assessment expenditure function for Michigan local government (townships and cities) using panel data with 1,310 governmental units f…
Since 1979 the UK has experienced the most decisive break in the providing style and underlying principles of welfare provision since 1944 to 1948, or perhaps ever. This thesis provides an historical overview of the succession of Acts in regards to state education, health and ho…
This research explores the role of cities in energy transitions using heat networks as a case study. Drawing on both discursive institutional and socio-technical transitions literature the interaction of discourses, ideas and institutions are analysed in relation to heat network…
When Tony Blair's New Labour administration took control in 1997, it sought to establish a programme of organizational, performance, and democratic reform. Initially badged as the modernizing government programme, it was later developed in the Best Value regime for local governm…
This study examines the question of whether subjective attitudes to climate change play a significant part in the determination of local authorities’ policy and actions on climate change mitigation; whether the personal views of council members and officers about climate change,…
This study assesses the extent to which employees and users of public services can develop collaborative partnerships that promote person-centred services within institutions. Both citizen and worker participation are currently advocated as a means to develop public services, ye…
This thesis explores the capacity of local government to influence intergovernmental organizations’ policy frameworks during the formulation and implementation of their instruments and policies. It provides empirical insights into the decision making and implementation of intern…
In the last thirty years, European local authorities have played a pro-active role in the realm of sustainable development, taking part in several European initiatives and projects and setting up municipal networks. The latter, which connect cities scattered across Member States…
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are becoming increasing relevant in policy making and governance activities. However, the broad effects of digital governance have not been adequately conceptualised; conflicting assumptions vary from rather optimistic accounts o…
This research contributes to the debate about the impacts of ICTs on the business of local government. It conceptualises the city as a site of local governance where ICTs have an impact on the social, political and economic complexities. Indeed, the starting point of this resear…
This thesis examines the electoral performance of minor parties in English local government from 1973 to 2008, a period that has seen a sharp increase in the numbers of candidates from such parties. Beginning with an overall assessment of the extent to which candidates from mino…
Between the excitement of national championships and the protests for justice, college towns are expressive communities that have something to offer a wide range of citizens. Relationships between institutions of higher education and the local governments within which they resid…
This academic study focuses the living space of the urban poor in İzmir through the Yeşildere region. Gecekondu areas in Turkey have emerged in 1950s with the immigration of people from rural to the city who migrate for reasons such as job, education and health care to meet the …
This study aims to understand the determinants of Zimbabwe’s economic policies on socio-economic development from 1980 to 2015. Since independence, a number of economic policies have been developed and achievement of policy objectives has been varied. It is the purpose of this s…
This study is an ethnographic exploration of the Pakistani state as it implemented a number of reforms aimed at achieving conditions of good-governance and development. Based on fieldwork conducted from January to December 2006 in Islamabad city and district Kohat of the North W…