Local Government Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Local Government Studies is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency44
Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges34
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local22
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments22
Municipal entrepreneurship support policies: convergence or divergence?22
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities19
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis19
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach19
Unfolding the relationship between regional resilience and policy instruments: the case of Brexit and enterprise zones in the UK17
Public service accountability: rekindling a debate14
Who talks and who listens? A qualitative analysis of citizen dialogues in rural Sweden14
Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers13
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 Newcastle11
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model9
Uncovering the effect of local government debt brakes in Germany using synthetic controls9
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message9
Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization9
City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world: the Intercultural Cities programme of the council of Europe9
Characterising two German city networks: the interplay of internal structure, issue orientation and outreach strategies8
The text complexity of local government annual reports8
Dynamics of social media adoption in Chinese municipalities for environmental governance8
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics7
Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China7
Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators?7
Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China7
French inter-governmental relations during the Covid-19 crisis: between hyper-centralism and local horizontal cooperation6
The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours6
Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States5
Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator: the role of expert public servants in interactive governance5
The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities5
The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation5
Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan5
Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis5
Partisan politics, economic hardship, and full-time day care for children in German cities5
The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation5
The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position5
Characterising strategic collaboration of large Swiss municipalities4
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments4
How cities can transform democracy4
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils4
Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK4
The institutional and personal drivers of council scrutiny. A survey analysis of Dutch local government4
Negotiating migrant integration in times of crisis in small municipalities in Germany3
Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland3
Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US3
Gerrymandering to survive: an explanation of the political conditions that shaped mayors’ decisions over an amalgamation process in Portugal3
Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas3
Cities and communities beyond COVID-19: How local leadership can change our future for the better3
Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities3
What to do with the outputs from public participation? Conceptualising and explaining responsiveness of civil servants3
Dutch municipal elections 1998-2018: what explains the electoral success of local parties?3
Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China3
Influence of managerial ability on the re-election of municipal political parties3
Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations3
Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities3
Identifying interactions between size effects in New South Wales local government3
The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems3
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China3
State-led pilot innovation upscaling? A tale of the Sanming healthcare reform in China3
Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands3
Exploring the impact of EU funding on the local governance of migrant integration: the rise of project-driven governance3
Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services2
Are the normative rationales of local autonomy related to democratic legitimacy justified? Evidence from 57 countries in Europe and beyond (1990–2020)2
Kittens are Evil II: little heresies in public policy2
Factors influencing the structure of municipal taxation. Special reference to political corruption2
The impact of rational and political factors on performance measurement and its utilisation: analysis of municipal governments from Mississippi2
Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance2
Politicisation at the local political level within representative and participative institutions: the example of a poor Montreal borough2
Local authorities doing it for themselves: austerity, the direct provision of housing and changing central-local relations in England2
Increasing public participation and influence in local decision-making to address social determinants of health: a systematic review examining initiatives and theories2
From online trolls to ‘Slut Shaming’: understanding the role of incivility and gender abuse in local government2
Why such a different choice of tools? Analysing recent local government reforms in Denmark and Norway2
Costs and outcomes of collaborative relationships: interlocal collaboration effects on green job creation in Florida Metropolitan Areas2
Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation2
The size of the size effect. The impact of splits of municipalities on the performance of local governments in Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland2
Localisation of politics and local electoral participation2
The gendered nature of ethnic minority candidate nomination: An analysis of the moderating role of district diversity, party affiliation and ethnic minorities’ visibility2
Governing cities: politics and policy2
COVID-19 pandemic and local executive-opposition institutional relations: a survey analysis2
Diverse roles and perceptions of public officials and NGOs in local citizens’ assemblies – A comparative analysis of the cases of Poland and Hungary2
Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers1
The local government response to austerity in a small devolved country: the case of Wales1
Vigilantism and the transition to local democratic elections1
Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands1
Why and how often do authorities remunicipalise urban public transport? The case of France1
Between lockdown and calm down. Comparing the COVID-19 responses of Norway and Sweden1
Enabling civic initiatives: frontline workers as democratic professionals in Amsterdam1
Signalling compliance: an explanation of the intermittent green policy implementation gap in China1
Fifty years of local government studies: evolution, internationalisation, and the future of the field1
Migration-related city networks: a global overview1
The ‘Great Survivor’ lives on? Resilience, austerity and devolution in English local government1
Environmental inter-local collaboration under meta-governance: the trade-off between collective and selective benefits1
Rethinking the ‘local state’ and local capacity1
The impact of inter-municipal land use plans on social segregation: first lessons from the French experience1
The clear model as a predictor of candidacy for council membership1
Facilitating citizen participation in marginalised neighbourhoods: selective empowerment in between vulnerability and active citizenship1
Franchise extensions and second-order contests: evidence from German local elections1
Empowering local citizens: assessing the inclusiveness of a digital democratic innovation for co-creating a Voting Advice Application1
Making local democracy work during the pandemic – analyses of online and onsite city council meetings in Sweden1
The impact of public discourse on local representatives’ amalgamation preferences1
Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries1
Measuring performance concerning air and noise pollution: a comparison of Madrid’s official data and results from a citizen survey1
Correction1
Officials’ hometown connections and interprovincial trade in China: based on the perspective of hometown favoritism1
Political competition and representation in municipal councils1
Municipal revenue over-budgeting: a dynamic analysis of its determinants1
Addressing the elephant in the room: what’s the local in local government studies?1
An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia1
Veto and versatile: understanding the local implementation of environmental policies in China1
From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain’s intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic1
Why philanthropic foundations collaborate with city governments: an exploration of three English cities1
Local government procurement in English regions: organisations, collaborations and mechanisms1
Local coalition formation: Municipal level decisions (not) to govern with the Sweden Democrats1
The struggle for linking strategic and front-line outcomes in local government service delivery1
The challenges of mainstreaming local government1
Making a difference? Attracting new generations into local government1
International collaboration in local government studies: a bibliometric analysis1
Change? Decay? Promise? Fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK1
City sextons: tales from municipal leaders1
Twice as effective: business environment, SME owners’ satisfaction, and local government revenue performance1
Is a powerful but corrupt public manager more trustworthy? Lessons from the case of rural local government in Bangladesh1
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