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Papers

(The median citation count of Local Government Studies is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Unlocking the potentials of Information and Communication Technology on citizen participation in Tanzania local government authorities: the citizen’s perspectives	29
Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges	25
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency	21
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments	21
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach	18
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities	17
Unfolding the relationship between regional resilience and policy instruments: the case of Brexit and enterprise zones in the UK	15
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis	14
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model	13
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local	13
Political resistance, representation, and identity during English local government re-organisation: a micro-case study	12
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors	12
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message	12
City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world: the Intercultural Cities programme of the council of Europe	10
The text complexity of local government annual reports	9
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle	9
Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators?	9
Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers	9
Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization	8
Dynamics of social media adoption in Chinese municipalities for environmental governance	8
Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China	8
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics	7
Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator: the role of expert public servants in interactive governance	7
Managing inclusive co-creation processes in a superdiverse neighborhood: drivers of inclusion in the case of Rotterdam	7
The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours	7

Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China	7
Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan	6
The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position	6
Partisan politics, economic hardship, and full-time day care for children in German cities	6
Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis	6
The institutional and personal drivers of council scrutiny. A survey analysis of Dutch local government	6
The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities	6
The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation	6
The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation	6
Negotiating migrant integration in times of crisis in small municipalities in Germany	5
Cities and communities beyond COVID-19: How local leadership can change our future for the better	5
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils	5
Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China	5
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China	5
Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US	5
Gerrymandering to survive: an explanation of the political conditions that shaped mayors’ decisions over an amalgamation process in Portugal	5
The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems	5
Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States	5
Characterising strategic collaboration of large Swiss municipalities	5
The responses of government officials to questions from local councillors: analysis from a blame avoidance perspective	5
Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland	5
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments	5
How cities can transform democracy	5
What to do with the outputs from public participation? Conceptualising and explaining responsiveness of civil servants	5
Influence of managerial ability on the re-election of municipal political parties	4
Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands	4
Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities	4
Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities	4
Councillors’ intentions to seek re-election in a gender-balanced local government system: evidence from Iceland	4
Exploring the impact of EU funding on the local governance of migrant integration: the rise of project-driven governance	4
Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations	4
Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas	4
Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance	4
Diverse roles and perceptions of public officials and NGOs in local citizens’ assemblies – A comparative analysis of the cases of Poland and Hungary	3
Are the normative rationales of local autonomy related to democratic legitimacy justified? Evidence from 57 countries in Europe and beyond (1990–2020)	3
Facilitating citizen participation in marginalised neighbourhoods: selective empowerment in between vulnerability and active citizenship	3
Local authorities doing it for themselves: austerity, the direct provision of housing and changing central-local relations in England	3
Politicisation at the local political level within representative and participative institutions: the example of a poor Montreal borough	3
The gendered nature of ethnic minority candidate nomination: An analysis of the moderating role of district diversity, party affiliation and ethnic minorities’ visibility	3
Twitter communication in times of crisis: how do German local governments use and frame social media messages and how do citizens react to them?	3
The size of the size effect. The impact of splits of municipalities on the performance of local governments in Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland	3
Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation	3
Kittens are Evil II: little heresies in public policy	3
Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services	3
Increasing public participation and influence in local decision-making to address social determinants of health: a systematic review examining initiatives and theories	3
Why such a different choice of tools? Analysing recent local government reforms in Denmark and Norway	3
COVID-19 pandemic and local executive-opposition institutional relations: a survey analysis	3
From online trolls to ‘Slut Shaming’: understanding the role of incivility and gender abuse in local government	3
Governing cities: politics and policy	3
Reelected mayors and local fiscal policy outcomes. Are incumbent mayors more competent compared to newly elected ones?	3

Veto and versatile: understanding the local implementation of environmental policies in China	3
Localisation of politics and local electoral participation	3
Costs and outcomes of collaborative relationships: interlocal collaboration effects on green job creation in Florida Metropolitan Areas	3
Factors influencing the structure of municipal taxation. Special reference to political corruption	3
Rethinking the ‘local state’ and local capacity	2
Vigilantism and the transition to local democratic elections	2
The impact of inter-municipal land use plans on social segregation: first lessons from the French experience	2
Shall we tango? Exploring the drivers of co-production in US local governments	2
International collaboration in local government studies: a bibliometric analysis	2
The ‘community’ concept in local government community plans: defining community in regional Australia	2
Digital coproduction in Seoul: the case of Seoul’s government and citizen-led platforms	2
The varied impact of direct democracy on local housing policies: unravelling the role of socioeconomic context	2
The ‘Great Survivor’ lives on? Resilience, austerity and devolution in English local government	2
From single-issue to sustained Influence: factors driving the endurance of local political parties	2
Measuring performance concerning air and noise pollution: a comparison of Madrid’s official data and results from a citizen survey	2
Reasons political parties lose their representatives. Combining party death and party failure	2
Twice as effective: business environment, SME owners’ satisfaction, and local government revenue performance	2
Fifty years of local government studies: evolution, internationalisation, and the future of the field	2
Correction	2
From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain’s intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The political dynamics of carbon emissions: evidence from Chinese firms	2
Addressing the elephant in the room: what’s the local in local government studies?	2
Is a powerful but corrupt public manager more trustworthy? Lessons from the case of rural local government in Bangladesh	2
Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries	2
Empowering local citizens: assessing the inclusiveness of a digital democratic innovation for co-creating a Voting Advice Application	2
Officials’ hometown connections and interprovincial trade in China: based on the perspective of hometown favoritism	2
Municipal revenue over-budgeting: a dynamic analysis of its determinants	2
Change? Decay? Promise? Fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK	2
The struggle for linking strategic and front-line outcomes in local government service delivery	2
The challenges of mainstreaming local government	2
An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia	2
Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers	2
Political competition and representation in municipal councils	2