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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges44
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments35
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency23
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local23
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities22
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach20
Unfolding the relationship between regional resilience and policy instruments: the case of Brexit and enterprise zones in the UK20
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis19
Uncovering the effect of local government debt brakes in Germany using synthetic controls17
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model14
Public service accountability: rekindling a debate14
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle14
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors13
Who talks and who listens? A qualitative analysis of citizen dialogues in rural Sweden13
City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world: the Intercultural Cities programme of the council of Europe11
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message11
The text complexity of local government annual reports9
Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers9
Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization9
Characterising two German city networks: the interplay of internal structure, issue orientation and outreach strategies9
Dynamics of social media adoption in Chinese municipalities for environmental governance9
Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China8
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 cooperation8
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics7
Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis7
Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China7
The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours7
Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator: the role of expert public servants in interactive governance6
The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position6
Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan6
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments5
Partisan politics, economic hardship, and full-time day care for children in German cities5
The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities5
Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK5
The institutional and personal drivers of council scrutiny. A survey analysis of Dutch local government5
Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States5
The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation5
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils5
The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation5
Gerrymandering to survive: an explanation of the political conditions that shaped mayors’ decisions over an amalgamation process in Portugal4
Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US4
Identifying interactions between size effects in New South Wales local government4
Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China4
What to do with the outputs from public participation? Conceptualising and explaining responsiveness of civil servants4
The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems4
How cities can transform democracy4
Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland4
Characterising strategic collaboration of large Swiss municipalities4
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 Germany4
Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands3
Cities and communities beyond COVID-19: How local leadership can change our future for the better3
Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas3
Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities3
The impact of rational and political factors on performance measurement and its utilisation: analysis of municipal governments from Mississippi3
Diverse roles and perceptions of public officials and NGOs in local citizens’ assemblies – A comparative analysis of the cases of Poland and Hungary3
Why such a different choice of tools? Analysing recent local government reforms in Denmark and Norway3
Influence of managerial ability on the re-election of municipal political parties3
Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities3
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China3
COVID-19 pandemic and local executive-opposition institutional relations: a survey analysis3
Factors influencing the structure of municipal taxation. Special reference to political corruption3
Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation3
Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations3
State-led pilot innovation upscaling? A tale of the Sanming healthcare reform in China3
Exploring the impact of EU funding on the local governance of migrant integration: the rise of project-driven governance3
Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance3
Costs and outcomes of collaborative relationships: interlocal collaboration effects on green job creation in Florida Metropolitan Areas3
Governing cities: politics and policy3
The size of the size effect. The impact of splits of municipalities on the performance of local governments in Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland3
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 China2
Twice as effective: business environment, SME owners’ satisfaction, and local government revenue performance2
Politicisation at the local political level within representative and participative institutions: the example of a poor Montreal borough2
Veto and versatile: understanding the local implementation of environmental policies in China2
Facilitating citizen participation in marginalised neighbourhoods: selective empowerment in between vulnerability and active citizenship2
Local authorities doing it for themselves: austerity, the direct provision of housing and changing central-local relations in England2
Is a powerful but corrupt public manager more trustworthy? Lessons from the case of rural local government in Bangladesh2
An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia2
Correction2
Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers2
The gendered nature of ethnic minority candidate nomination: An analysis of the moderating role of district diversity, party affiliation and ethnic minorities’ visibility2
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
The impact of inter-municipal land use plans on social segregation: first lessons from the French experience2
The struggle for linking strategic and front-line outcomes in local government service delivery2
International collaboration in local government studies: a bibliometric analysis2
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
Localisation of politics and local electoral participation2
The local government response to austerity in a small devolved country: the case of Wales1
City sextons: tales from municipal leaders1
Measuring performance concerning air and noise pollution: a comparison of Madrid’s official data and results from a citizen survey1
Reflections on three decades of digital transformation in local governments1
Unravelling the multi-level governance of Ukrainian refugee reception in Italy: a focus on small and medium-sized cities1
Facilitators as culture change workers: advancing public participation and deliberation in local governance1
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 favoritism1
Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands1
Reasons political parties lose their representatives. Combining party death and party failure1
Environmental inter-local collaboration under meta-governance: the trade-off between collective and selective benefits1
Change? Decay? Promise? Fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK1
Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries1
The ‘Great Survivor’ lives on? Resilience, austerity and devolution in English local government1
The impact of public discourse on local representatives’ amalgamation preferences1
Empowering local citizens: assessing the inclusiveness of a digital democratic innovation for co-creating a Voting Advice Application1
Local preferences for the adoption and modification of climate policy instruments under a radical left government: unveiling the impact and legacy of Barcelona in Common1
The re-election of corrupt mayors: context, relational leadership and level of corruption1
Back to the future? An analysis of party influence on electricity grid remunicipalisation in Germany1
The challenges of mainstreaming local government1
Why and how often do authorities remunicipalise urban public transport? The case of France1
Vigilantism and the transition to local democratic elections1
Making local democracy work during the pandemic – analyses of online and onsite city council meetings in Sweden1
Fifty years of local government studies: evolution, internationalisation, and the future of the field1
Making a difference? Attracting new generations into local government1
Municipal revenue over-budgeting: a dynamic analysis of its determinants1
Political competition and representation in municipal councils1
Franchise extensions and second-order contests: evidence from German local elections1
Rethinking the ‘local state’ and local capacity1
Local coalition formation: Municipal level decisions (not) to govern with the Sweden Democrats1
Correction1
Independents in local politics – voter turnout, competitiveness, and party-system effects1
The longitudinal link between institutional and community trust in a local context - findings from a Swedish panel study1
Migration-related city networks: a global overview1
Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort1
Enabling civic initiatives: frontline workers as democratic professionals in Amsterdam1
Local government procurement in English regions: organisations, collaborations and mechanisms1
Between lockdown and calm down. Comparing the COVID-19 responses of Norway and Sweden1
Why philanthropic foundations collaborate with city governments: an exploration of three English cities1
From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain’s intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic1
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