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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges	44
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments	35
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency	23
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local	23
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities	22
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach	20
Unfolding the relationship between regional resilience and policy instruments: the case of Brexit and enterprise zones in the UK	20
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis	19
Uncovering the effect of local government debt brakes in Germany using synthetic controls	17
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model	14
Public service accountability: rekindling a debate	14
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle	14
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors	13
Who talks and who listens? A qualitative analysis of citizen dialogues in rural Sweden	13
City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world: the Intercultural Cities programme of the council of Europe	11
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message	11
The text complexity of local government annual reports	9
Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers	9
Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization	9
Characterising two German city networks: the interplay of internal structure, issue orientation and outreach strategies	9
Dynamics of social media adoption in Chinese municipalities for environmental governance	9
Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China	8
Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators?	8
French inter-governmental relations during the Covid-19 crisis: between hyper-centralism and local horizontal cooperation	8
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics	7

Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis	7
Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China	7
The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours	7
Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator: the role of expert public servants in interactive governance	6
The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position	6
Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan	6
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments	5
Partisan politics, economic hardship, and full-time day care for children in German cities	5
The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities	5
Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK	5
The institutional and personal drivers of council scrutiny. A survey analysis of Dutch local government	5
Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States	5
The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation	5
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils	5
The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation	5
Gerrymandering to survive: an explanation of the political conditions that shaped mayors’ decisions over an amalgamation process in Portugal	4
Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US	4
Identifying interactions between size effects in New South Wales local government	4
Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China	4
What to do with the outputs from public participation? Conceptualising and explaining responsiveness of civil servants	4
The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems	4
How cities can transform democracy	4
Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland	4
Characterising strategic collaboration of large Swiss municipalities	4
Dutch municipal elections 1998-2018: what explains the electoral success of local parties?	4
Negotiating migrant integration in times of crisis in small municipalities in Germany	4
Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands	3
Cities and communities beyond COVID-19: How local leadership can change our future for the better	3
Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas	3
Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities	3
The impact of rational and political factors on performance measurement and its utilisation: analysis of municipal governments from Mississippi	3
Diverse roles and perceptions of public officials and NGOs in local citizens’ assemblies – A comparative analysis of the cases of Poland and Hungary	3
Why such a different choice of tools? Analysing recent local government reforms in Denmark and Norway	3
Influence of managerial ability on the re-election of municipal political parties	3
Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities	3
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China	3
COVID-19 pandemic and local executive-opposition institutional relations: a survey analysis	3
Factors influencing the structure of municipal taxation. Special reference to political corruption	3
Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation	3
Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations	3
State-led pilot innovation upscaling? A tale of the Sanming healthcare reform in China	3
Exploring the impact of EU funding on the local governance of migrant integration: the rise of project-driven governance	3
Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance	3
Costs and outcomes of collaborative relationships: interlocal collaboration effects on green job creation in Florida Metropolitan Areas	3
Governing cities: politics and policy	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
Addressing the elephant in the room: what’s the local in local government studies?	2
Signalling compliance: an explanation of the intermittent green policy implementation gap in China	2
Twice as effective: business environment, SME owners’ satisfaction, and local government revenue performance	2
Politicisation at the local political level within representative and participative institutions: the example of a poor Montreal borough	2

Veto and versatile: understanding the local implementation of environmental policies in China	2
Facilitating citizen participation in marginalised neighbourhoods: selective empowerment in between vulnerability and active citizenship	2
Local authorities doing it for themselves: austerity, the direct provision of housing and changing central-local relations in England	2
Is a powerful but corrupt public manager more trustworthy? Lessons from the case of rural local government in Bangladesh	2
An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia	2
Correction	2
Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers	2
The gendered nature of ethnic minority candidate nomination: An analysis of the moderating role of district diversity, party affiliation and ethnic minorities’ visibility	2
Increasing public participation and influence in local decision-making to address social determinants of health: a systematic review examining initiatives and theories	2
From online trolls to ‘Slut Shaming’: understanding the role of incivility and gender abuse in local government	2
The impact of inter-municipal land use plans on social segregation: first lessons from the French experience	2
The struggle for linking strategic and front-line outcomes in local government service delivery	2
International collaboration in local government studies: a bibliometric analysis	2
Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services	2
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 policy	2
Localisation of politics and local electoral participation	2
The local government response to austerity in a small devolved country: the case of Wales	1
City sextons: tales from municipal leaders	1
Measuring performance concerning air and noise pollution: a comparison of Madrid’s official data and results from a citizen survey	1
Reflections on three decades of digital transformation in local governments	1
Unravelling the multi-level governance of Ukrainian refugee reception in Italy: a focus on small and medium-sized cities	1
Facilitators as culture change workers: advancing public participation and deliberation in local governance	1
What lies beneath these creatures of the state: understanding the death of specialised governments in the U.S.	1
Officials’ hometown connections and interprovincial trade in China: based on the perspective of hometown favoritism	1
Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands	1
Reasons political parties lose their representatives. Combining party death and party failure	1
Environmental inter-local collaboration under meta-governance: the trade-off between collective and selective benefits	1
Change? Decay? Promise? Fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK	1
Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries	1
The ‘Great Survivor’ lives on? Resilience, austerity and devolution in English local government	1
The impact of public discourse on local representatives’ amalgamation preferences	1
Empowering local citizens: assessing the inclusiveness of a digital democratic innovation for co-creating a Voting Advice Application	1
Local preferences for the adoption and modification of climate policy instruments under a radical left government: unveiling the impact and legacy of Barcelona in Common	1
The re-election of corrupt mayors: context, relational leadership and level of corruption	1
Back to the future? An analysis of party influence on electricity grid remunicipalisation in Germany	1
The challenges of mainstreaming local government	1
Why and how often do authorities remunicipalise urban public transport? The case of France	1
Vigilantism and the transition to local democratic elections	1
Making local democracy work during the pandemic – analyses of online and onsite city council meetings in Sweden	1
Fifty years of local government studies: evolution, internationalisation, and the future of the field	1
Making a difference? Attracting new generations into local government	1
Municipal revenue over-budgeting: a dynamic analysis of its determinants	1
Political competition and representation in municipal councils	1
Franchise extensions and second-order contests: evidence from German local elections	1
Rethinking the ‘local state’ and local capacity	1
Local coalition formation: Municipal level decisions (not) to govern with the Sweden Democrats	1
Correction	1
Independents in local politics – voter turnout, competitiveness, and party-system effects	1
The longitudinal link between institutional and community trust in a local context - findings from a Swedish panel study	1
Migration-related city networks: a global overview	1
Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort	1
Enabling civic initiatives: frontline workers as democratic professionals in Amsterdam	1
Local government procurement in English regions: organisations, collaborations and mechanisms	1
Between lockdown and calm down. Comparing the COVID-19 responses of Norway and Sweden	1
Why philanthropic foundations collaborate with city governments: an exploration of three English cities	1
From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain’s intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic	1