Sub-national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been politicized in the US.
Survival analysis was run on when stay-at-home orders were enacted and lifted across US …

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

During the covid-19 pandemic, basic income pilot programs spread across US cities like the
novel coronavirus itself. The policy of no-strings-attached cash transfers marks a potentially …

This study aims to investigate how local governments strategically respond to fiscal controls
imposed by state governments. Specifically, we explore the effects of state fiscal …

Why are cities acting against inequality? We attribute the growth of municipal economic
policy to multi-city urban policy entrepreneurship networks. These networks combine …

Urban theorists offer varying explanations for why communities use austerity policies that
limit or cut government. We develop a synthesis of political-economic and institutional …

Many affordable housing policies are the domain of local governments. While subnational
housing policies can be used to increase racial and economic segregation, they can also …

In recent years, labor and civil rights groups have successfully pushed for local regulation
raising the minimum wage, creating new parenting and sick leave policies, and broadening …

Work is a structural determinant of health. As local governments have taken the lead on
implementing workers' rights policies, state governments have increasingly been using …

What factors explain the divergence between returns to labour and overall productivity
across US counties? We model the role of power at the subnational state level: Republican …