OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Multi-level responses to COVID-19: crisis coordination in Germany from an intergovernmental perspective	33
Between lockdown and calm down. Comparing the COVID-19 responses of Norway and Sweden	31
A systematic review of the literature on determinants of public managers' attitudes toward public participation	23
Citizen participation in the smart city: findings from an international comparative study	22
Migration-related city networks: a global overview	19
Serving an ageing population: collaboration is key	15
Harnessing the power of dialogue: examining the impact of facebook content on citizens’ engagement	15
Vertical and horizontal intergovernmental relations during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis: experience from the extremely fragmented CEE countries	14
What happens when municipalities run corporations? Empirical evidence from 290 Swedish municipalities	14
How do local actors interpret, enact and contest policy? An analysis of local government responses to meeting the needs of Syrian refugees in Turkey	12
Mind the gap, please! Pinpointing the influence of municipal size on local electoral participation	11
How Finland copes with an ageing population: adjusting structures and equalising the financial capabilities of local governments	10
Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US	10
Assessing the intensity of cooperation: a study of joint delegation of municipal functions to inter-municipal associations	10
The governance games of citizens and stakeholders’ engagement: longitudinal narratives	10
From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain’s intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Guest editors’ introduction: Comparing local elections and voting in Europe: lower rank, different kind… or missing link?	9
Inter-municipal cooperation in administrative tasks – the role of population dynamics and elections	8
French participation in transnational migration networks: understanding city (dis)involvement and “passivism”	8
Do the networks of inter-municipal cooperation enhance local government performance?	8
Guest editors’ introduction: the power of now. Reimagining the future of local government through studies of ‘actually existing’ practice	8
Local politicians’ preferences in public procurement: ideological or strategic reasoning?	7
The re-election of corrupt mayors: context, relational leadership and level of corruption	7
‘We as leaders of major European cities’ – how Eurocities works to influence EU migration and integration policies	7
Territorial reforms, mobilisation, and political trust: a case study from Norway	7

Polity size and voter turnout revisited: micro-level evidence from 14 countries of Central and Eastern Europe	7
Extending upper echelon theory to top managers’ characteristics, management practice, and quality of public service in local government	7
Making sense of trajectories of participation in European city networks on migration: insights from the cases of Turin (Italy) and Saint-Etienne (France)	7
Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries	7
Governance challenges of different institutional logics and modes of organising: a Norwegian case study of municipal water supply	7
Assessing multi-level congruence in voting in comparative perspective: Introducing the municipal level	7
Untangling blame and responsibility for service delivery and local governance performance: testing a grounded social accountability approach in Tanzania	6
Increasing public participation and influence in local decision-making to address social determinants of health: a systematic review examining initiatives and theories	6
Local governments’ responses to the fiscal stress label: the case of New York	6
Do boundary consolidations alter the relationship between politicians and voters? The case of municipal mergers in Japan	6
The United Kingdom and the pandemic: problems of central control and coordination	6
Scrutiny and policymaking in local councils: how parties use council tools	6
Beneficiaries and cost bearers: evidence on political clientelism from Hungary	6
Encounters with the organisation: how local civil servants experience and handle tensions in public engagement	6
Why some local governments choose not to free-ride when undergoing boundary reform: a study of two merger cases in Poland	6
Electoral opportunism and water pricing with incomplete transfer of control rights	6
Nationalisation of local party systems in Belgium (1976-2018): the combined effects of municipality size and parliamentary parties’ dominance	5
A gender-generation gap in political representation? The contingent impact of preference voting in Norwegian municipal elections	5
The paradox of organizational complexity in urban development: boundary spanners’ handling of citizen proposals	5
Impact of politicians’ salaries and their dedication regime on the efficiency of municipal public services	5
Why such a different choice of tools? Analysing recent local government reforms in Denmark and Norway	5
Platforms as distinctive realms and the role of policy discretion: a cross-platform assessment of citizen engagement with Dutch municipalities through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram	5
The anatomy of choice: an analysis of the determinants of local service delivery in Poland	5
The quality of local democracy: an institutional analysis	4
The impact of demographic trends on local government financial reserves: evidence from England	4
“I’m paid to do other things”: Complementary co-production tasks for professionals	4
Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK	4
How institutional designs condition perceived local political leadership	4
Municipal size and local democracy: understanding the trade-off between participation and contestation in Latin America	4
Factors influencing the structure of municipal taxation. Special reference to political corruption	4
Who talks and who listens? A qualitative analysis of citizen dialogues in rural Sweden	4
Who is at the table? Civic engagement in small town housing decision-making	4
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis	4
Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States	4
French inter-governmental relations during the Covid-19 crisis: between hyper-centralism and local horizontal cooperation	4
Disseminating and collecting information: municipalities’ communicative practices and deliberative capacities	4
Successfully navigating the fiscal challenges of the age of the aged: municipal government in Japan	4
Entrepreneurial activities of local governments in their investment attractiveness context – evidence from Poland	4
No Uber, no tourists? Public attitudes toward municipal regulation of the sharing economy	4
Delimiting citizen participation: how Israeli mayors get the most out of the process	4
The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position	4
Transnational city networks and their contributions to norm-generation in international law: the case of migration	4
Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization	4
Explaining municipalities’ (alternative) service delivery modes over time. The importance of coercive pressures	3
Measuring the effect of performance management in local economic development policy: the case of tax increment finance districts in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex	3
The rise and fall (?) of public-private partnerships in Israel’s local government	3
The effects of high-quality financial reporting on municipal bond ratings: evidence from US local governments	3
Are more affluent parents treated more favourably by elementary school principals? Socioeconomic discrimination among local Swedish public officials	3
Through the prism of cognition: exploration of local political leaders’ behaviour during incented voluntary municipal amalgamation	3
Cycles in a cycle: investment expenditures and their composition during the political budgetary cycle	3

Ageing as a determinant of local government performance: myth or reality? the Portuguese experience	3
Local government policies on sexual and gender diversity in Spain. Experiences from Alt Empordà	3
Metropolitan governance and environmental outcomes: does inter-municipal cooperation make a difference?	3
Consultative referendums and democracy - assessing the short-term effects on political support of a referendum on a municipal merger	3
‘Co-production on the inside’ – public professionals negotiating interaction between municipal actors and local citizens	3
Local autonomy: unconditional elites and conditional publics	2
Dutch municipal elections 1998-2018: what explains the electoral success of local parties?	2
Enabling civic initiatives: frontline workers as democratic professionals in Amsterdam	2
English local government and the local trap	2
The effects of electoral reform on party campaigns, voters and party systems at the local level: from single member plurality to the single transferable vote in Scotland	2
Does financial disclosure matter? GASB 45 and municipal borrowing costs	2
With or against their region? Multiple-mandate holders in the Swiss parliament, 1985–2018	2
The consequences of specialised governance on spending and expansion of public transit	2
City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world: the Intercultural Cities programme of the council of Europe	2
Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator: the role of expert public servants in interactive governance	2
In search of the optimal size for local government: an assessment of economies of scale in local government in Croatia	2
Signalling compliance: an explanation of the intermittent green policy implementation gap in China	2
Absorbing the shock of austerity: the experience of local government workers at the front line	2
Limits of Europeanisation at the municipal level: evidence from the Republic of Cyprus	2
The competing impact of network politics and hamula (clan) politics on perceived network performance: the case of minority networks	2
Public value governance meets social commons: community anchor organisations as catalysts for public service reform and social change?	2
The public purse as a reelection lever: does it work in a corrupt political environment? The case of Honduras	2
State-led pilot innovation upscaling? A tale of the Sanming healthcare reform in China	2
The local government response to austerity in a small devolved country: the case of Wales	2
Health and wellbeing boards as theatres of accountability: a dramaturgical analysis	2
Population ageing and local governments: Does engagement with the local community change over the lifecycle?	2
Various faces of localised voting in Sweden	2
Village poverty governance and the subjective well-being of households in central and western rural China	2
Special issue: city network activism and the governance of migration	2
Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance	2
The impact of rational and political factors on performance measurement and its utilisation: analysis of municipal governments from Mississippi	2
Uncovering the effect of local government debt brakes in Germany using synthetic controls	2
Value creation in public procurement of innovation: a case of engaging start-ups by a local government	1
Measuring performance concerning air and noise pollution: a comparison of Madrid’s official data and results from a citizen survey	1
What shapes the flypaper effect? The role of the political environment in the budget process	1
Shapers or schemers of collaborative governance: network management in England’s Local Enterprise Partnerships	1
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors	1
Making a difference in the community: local civic engagement efficacy among immigrants and refugees in King County, Washington	1
Identifying interactions between size effects in New South Wales local government	1
Local responses to European Integration: patterns of Europe-related activities of German local governments	1
Guest editors’ introduction: the impact of ageing and demographic change on local government	1
Local authorities doing it for themselves: austerity, the direct provision of housing and changing central-local relations in England	1
Australian adaptation of UK dealmaking: towards state rescaling?	1
The interplay between private and public governments: the relationship between homeowner associations and municipal finance	1
Unlocking politicians’ potential: what fosters purposeful use of performance information in support of voice?	1
Remunicipalization of water services in France and inter-municipal cooperation: who’s at the helm?	1
The career paths of the chief administrative officers of U.S. cities: a survey of city managers and content analysis of how they discuss their careers	1
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle	1
Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities	1
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China	1
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities	1
Facilitators as culture change workers: advancing public participation and deliberation in local governance	1
The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation	1
Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis	1
Service outsourcing, pricing, and the engagement of citizen groups	1
Miles’ law in Finnish municipalities: where decision-makers stand depends on where they sit	1
Defining local economies beyond their boundaries	1
From online trolls to ‘Slut Shaming’: understanding the role of incivility and gender abuse in local government	1
Characterising two German city networks: the interplay of internal structure, issue orientation and outreach strategies	1
Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities	1
An institutional and transaction cost analysis for the efficiency of water service in Brazilian local government consortia	1
Municipal entrepreneurship support policies: convergence or divergence?	1
Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China	1
Let’s party! The impact of local festivities on the incumbent’s electoral support	1
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments	1
Facilitating citizen participation in marginalised neighbourhoods: selective empowerment in between vulnerability and active citizenship	1
The economic costs of voucher markets for public service provision	1