OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Local Government Studies is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating the outcomes of co-production in local government	34
Local governments and their arm’s length bodies	34
Pragmatic municipalism or austerity urbanism? Understanding local government responses to fiscal stress	25
Between lockdown and calm down. Comparing the COVID-19 responses of Norway and Sweden	24
Delivering public services through social media in European local governments. An interpretative framework using semantic algorithms	22
Multi-level responses to COVID-19: crisis coordination in Germany from an intergovernmental perspective	22
Contracting dynamics and unionisation: managing labour, contracts and markets	19
A systematic review of the literature on determinants of public managers' attitudes toward public participation	18
Migration-related city networks: a global overview	17
Citizen participation in the smart city: findings from an international comparative study	15
Serving an ageing population: collaboration is key	14
Vertical and horizontal intergovernmental relations during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis: experience from the extremely fragmented CEE countries	13
Humanitarian co-production in local government: the case of natural disaster volunteering in Japan	13
Cross-sector collaboration in times of crisis: findings from a study of the Funing tornado in China	12
Harnessing the power of dialogue: examining the impact of facebook content on citizens’ engagement	10
The leadership of place and people in the new English combined authorities	10
Local territorial reform and regional spending efficiency	9
Towards more digital cities? Change in technology use and perceptions across small and medium-sized US cities	9
Mind the gap, please! Pinpointing the influence of municipal size on local electoral participation	9
Do the networks of inter-municipal cooperation enhance local government performance?	8
What happens when municipalities run corporations? Empirical evidence from 290 Swedish municipalities	8
How do local actors interpret, enact and contest policy? An analysis of local government responses to meeting the needs of Syrian refugees in Turkey	8
French participation in transnational migration networks: understanding city (dis)involvement and “passivism”	8
Cutback management and path dependency: evidence from the two recent recessions	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

Assessing the intensity of cooperation: a study of joint delegation of municipal functions to inter-municipal associations	7
‘We as leaders of major European cities’ – how Eurocities works to influence EU migration and integration policies	7
Local politicians’ preferences in public procurement: ideological or strategic reasoning?	7
From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain’s intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Does decentralising public procurement affect the quality of governance? Evidence from local government in Europe	7
Why some local governments choose not to free-ride when undergoing boundary reform: a study of two merger cases in Poland	7
The governance games of citizens and stakeholders’ engagement: longitudinal narratives	7
Untangling blame and responsibility for service delivery and local governance performance: testing a grounded social accountability approach in Tanzania	6
Strengthening local political leadership through institutional design: how and why	6
Factors influencing the extent of local public spending through contracting-out and intermunicipal contracting in New York: focusing on institutional constraints, histories, and fiscal capacity	6
Governance challenges of different institutional logics and modes of organising: a Norwegian case study of municipal water supply	6
Guest editors’ introduction: Comparing local elections and voting in Europe: lower rank, different kind… or missing link?	6
Extending upper echelon theory to top managers’ characteristics, management practice, and quality of public service in local government	5
Indispensable, yet Invisible: Drinking water management as a local political issue in Swedish municipalities	5
Guest editors’ introduction: the power of now. Reimagining the future of local government through studies of ‘actually existing’ practice	5
Assessing multi-level congruence in voting in comparative perspective: Introducing the municipal level	5
Gender mainstreaming in Spain: policy instruments, influencing factors, and the role of local government	5
Polity size and voter turnout revisited: micro-level evidence from 14 countries of Central and Eastern Europe	5
Encounters with the organisation: how local civil servants experience and handle tensions in public engagement	5
How Finland copes with an ageing population: adjusting structures and equalising the financial capabilities of local governments	5
Impact of politicians’ salaries and their dedication regime on the efficiency of municipal public services	5
The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position	4
Delivering electoral integrity under pressure: local government, electoral administration, and the 2016 Brexit referendum	4
Successfully navigating the fiscal challenges of the age of the aged: municipal government in Japan	4
The impact of demographic trends on local government financial reserves: evidence from England	4
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis	4
Delimiting citizen participation: how Israeli mayors get the most out of the process	4
Inter-municipal cooperation in administrative tasks – the role of population dynamics and elections	4
Mayors as a variable in typologies of local governments: a case study of the Czech Republic	4
No Uber, no tourists? Public attitudes toward municipal regulation of the sharing economy	4
Beneficiaries and cost bearers: evidence on political clientelism from Hungary	4
Do boundary consolidations alter the relationship between politicians and voters? The case of municipal mergers in Japan	4
Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK	4
The attractiveness of local and national list labels: the role of socio-economic inequalities on the success of electoral lists	4
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	4
Local governments’ responses to the fiscal stress label: the case of New York	4
Electoral opportunism and water pricing with incomplete transfer of control rights	4
The re-election of corrupt mayors: context, relational leadership and level of corruption	4