Public sector personnel management faces severe challenges. Different long-term
challenges contribute to a rising competition over the future workforce. This has sparked …

ABSTRACT The 2007–2008 Global Financial Crisis renewed interest in New Public
Management tools. Privatization and intermunicipal cooperation are the two most common …

This article updates cutback management theory and challenges austerity urbanism theory
by showing that local governments practice pragmatic municipalism—protecting services …

Drawing on the literature on public service co-production, we examine the individual-level
and local government-level factors associated with pro-environmental behaviours. Statistical …

Workforce diversity is a key objective of public personnel policies worldwide. We augment
this discourse by exploring the complementary and multifaceted concept of workforce …

Creating Aging-Friendly Communities (CAFC) examines the need to redesign America's
communities to respond to the realities of our rapidly aging society. The text focuses on the …

Public finance theories argue local governments should primarily use broad-based and
stable property taxes. However, the housing bust after the Great Recession challenges this …

As US society ages, pressures on local government planning and service delivery increase.
We conducted a national survey of 1474 US local governments in 2013 to measure the …

People moving from smaller to larger cities often do so in search of better economic
opportunities. But what motivates migration from larger to smaller cities, which are …

Local governments in the USA are facing increased levels of fiscal stress after the Great
Recession. We conducted a national survey in 2012 to assess differences in sources of …