Local Government Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Local Government Studies is 3. 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
Who talks and who listens? A qualitative analysis of citizen dialogues in rural Sweden14
Public service accountability: rekindling a debate14
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
The institutional and personal drivers of council scrutiny. A survey analysis of Dutch local government4
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
Exploring the impact of EU funding on the local governance of migrant integration: the rise of project-driven governance3
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
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