Article by Javier Fuenzalida and colleagues in Review of Public Personnel Administration on red tape and burnout risk in public service. Using a survey experiment with 354 school principals n Chile, the authors provide evidence that red tape foments burnout risks. More red tape increases emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a sense of low personal accomplishment, while cutting red tape reduces emotional exhaustion.

Introduction written by Thomas Elston and colleagues to a special edition of the Journal of Economic Policy Reform on the drivers and effects of inter-municipal cooperation. Two or more local governments jointly providing public services across their jurisdictions is increasingly common, and the article reviews the current evidence base on this phenomenon.

Article in Public Administration by Thomas Elston and Germà Bel on reforms to local government that include both privatisation and co-operation between municipalities. The research disentangles and evaluates the effects of these two aspects, using the case of solid waste collection in Catalonia.