This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...

In this paper we examine how Finnish municipalities' expenditures depend on the share of citizens with foreign background out of the total population. Empirical analyses make use of Finnish panel data from 295 municipalities and 202 migrant nationalities for the period 1987- 2018. It turns out...

New Labour's third White Paper promised the revitalization of local government after ten years of control freakery. It does not, however, live up to the promise of a ‘new localism' (Stoker and Wilson, 2004). The tenor of the paper is moralizing and prescriptive, claims to a new approach belied...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji hubungan karakteristik Parlemen (komposisi, ukuran, struktur kepemimpinan, pengalaman, dan latar belakang, status, dan ukuran pemerintah daerah) dengan kinerja pemerintah daerah di Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan 197 pemerintah daerah sebagai sampel...