The analysis of social media data promises significant new ways of knowing publics, but an understanding of the value of social media analytics for different organizations in practice is only just emerging. Drawing on research conducted with two city councils in the UK, this article examines the current and potential use of social media analytics in local government. We outline a range of purpo...

Motivate, Innovate, Celebrate: an innovative shared governance model through the establishment of continuous quality improvement (CQI) councils was implemented across the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC). The model leverages agent-specific knowledge at the point of care and provides a structure aimed at building human resources capacity and sustaining enhancements to quality and safe care d...

In this study we revisit the question of black representation on city councils and school boards using a novel substantive and methodological approach and longitudinal data for a sample of over 300 boards and councils. Conceptualizing black representation as a two-stage process, we fit Mullahy’s hurdle Poisson models to explain whether and to what extent blacks achieve representation in local l...

The use of Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) to monitor the performance of 148 English local authorities (unitary and two-tier) between 2002 and 2008, and reward good performers with lower central intervention was a unique policy experiment. Taking advantage from the English assessment procedure this paper studies, both theoretically and empirically, two issues: 1) the relationship bet...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to measure the technical and scale efficiency of the domestic waste management function in 103 New South Wales' local governments. After allowance is made for nondiscretionary environmental factors which may affect the provision of these local public services, such as congestion and the inability to operate machinery in densely-populated urban areas, comp...

The 2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in the UK had a significant impact on the economic and social well-being of rural communities. This paper examines the FMD pages of four local government websites in Northern England: Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland and North Yorkshire County Councils. Each county was badly affected by FMD. The contents of the FMD webpages are analysed and compared...

Despite non-recognition by state authorities, informal councils (Tamil: ur panchayats) are known to comprehensively govern the fishing villages of the Coromandel Coast, Tamil Nadu, India. These councils take charge of an amalgam of village affairs, including the management of fisheries in adjacent sea territories, the resolution of disputes, and interlocution with outside parties. In summary, t...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To present a formula for equity adjusted years of life saved (EYLS). DESIGN A mailed questionnaire. The survey participants were given a scenario describing a trade off between a health maximization programme and a programme that is less efficient, but eliminates social inequalities. SETTING Swedish politicians responsible for health care in the county councils. PARTICIPAN...

This study examines the effects of ethnic minority populations and income inequalities on COVID-19 excess mortality within English local councils. We demonstrate empirically that councils with large high-income exhibit higher during first wave pandemic. further show association between a population high is manifested significantly more in larger inequalities. Our findings call for immediate act...