The development of climate change policy in cities has been closely tied to the efforts of
particular individuals, policy entrepreneurs. However, there is still much we do not know …

Economic development at the municipal level often necessitates that local governments
make trade-offs between firm-and locality-based strategies. In recent decades, economic …

Local government innovations occur within environments characterized by high service‐
need complexity and risk. The question of how broader environmental conditions influence …

Grocery food sales taxes (or grocery taxes) in the United States are applied in the form of a
state and/or county tax. To investigate how local governments establish these grocery taxes …

The literature on interlocal sustainability has acknowledged that the resources and authority
of state governments influence the collaborative sustainability policy actions of local …

For decades, the world's largest and most globally significant cities have been pledging to
tackle climate change, resilience, sustainable development and social injustices through a …

Local governmental efforts to achieve greater sustainability have come to play a prominent
role within urbanized regions. Despite the prominence of collaboration and collective action …

Local government managers face fundamental, value conflicts when they engage urban
land use issues. Despite the planet's ongoing urbanization, managerial influence on land …

Competition among local governments for business investment and residents is a key
feature of metropolitan governance scholarship. Despite the excellent work exploring …

Political fragmentation has been conceptualized as a phenomenon which increases
competition for mobile citizens and jobs between local governments within the same region …