The Scottish Government's Budget for 2024-25 takes place at a time of particular uncertainty about the future funding environment. UK government spending plans both for the coming year and for later years seem likely to be topped up, but when and by how much is unclear. The current UK government...

How much does the Scottish Government spend on higher education, and what challenges does it face on university funding and living cost support?

The Scottish Government's Budget for 2024-25 takes place at a time of particular uncertainty about the future funding environment. UK government spending plans both for the coming year and for later years seem likely to be topped up, but when and by how much is unclear. The current UK government...

In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly "see" - let alone recognise and explain-variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses...

"The Tiebout model is one of our most important theories of local government. It is also one of the most controversial. Current debate over the Tiebout model revolves around the apparent disparity between results of macro- and micro-level empirical studies. While macro-level evidence shows...

In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly "see" - let alone recognise and explain-variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses...