Local Government Studies

Papers
(The H4-Index of Local Government Studies is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency27
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments21
Unlocking the potentials of Information and Communication Technology on citizen participation in Tanzania local government authorities: the citizen’s perspectives20
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach19
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities19
Unfolding the relationship between regional resilience and policy instruments: the case of Brexit and enterprise zones in the UK18
It’s all in the details: comparing and explaining variation in the ‘policy specificity’ of sub-city climate activities17
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local13
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model12
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors12
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle12
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message11
The scope of active labour market policies in local labour market programmes in Swedish municipalities – driven by needs or values?11
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