OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Multi-level responses to COVID-19: crisis coordination in Germany from an intergovernmental perspective	43
Citizen participation in the smart city: findings from an international comparative study	40
Between lockdown and calm down. Comparing the COVID-19 responses of Norway and Sweden	32
A systematic review of the literature on determinants of public managers' attitudes toward public participation	28
Migration-related city networks: a global overview	27
Vertical and horizontal intergovernmental relations during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis: experience from the extremely fragmented CEE countries	17
Harnessing the power of dialogue: examining the impact of facebook content on citizens’ engagement	17
The United Kingdom and the pandemic: problems of central control and coordination	16
What happens when municipalities run corporations? Empirical evidence from 290 Swedish municipalities	16
Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US	14
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis	14
Assessing the intensity of cooperation: a study of joint delegation of municipal functions to inter-municipal associations	13
From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain’s intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic	13
How Finland copes with an ageing population: adjusting structures and equalising the financial capabilities of local governments	12
‘We as leaders of major European cities’ – how Eurocities works to influence EU migration and integration policies	10
Governance challenges of different institutional logics and modes of organising: a Norwegian case study of municipal water supply	10
Guest editors’ introduction: Comparing local elections and voting in Europe: lower rank, different kind… or missing link?	10
Untangling blame and responsibility for service delivery and local governance performance: testing a grounded social accountability approach in Tanzania	10
Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries	10
Extending upper echelon theory to top managers’ characteristics, management practice, and quality of public service in local government	9
The re-election of corrupt mayors: context, relational leadership and level of corruption	9
Do the networks of inter-municipal cooperation enhance local government performance?	9
French participation in transnational migration networks: understanding city (dis)involvement and “passivism”	9
Entrepreneurial activities of local governments in their investment attractiveness context – evidence from Poland	9
French inter-governmental relations during the Covid-19 crisis: between hyper-centralism and local horizontal cooperation	8

The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position	8
Local politicians’ preferences in public procurement: ideological or strategic reasoning?	8
Scrutiny and policymaking in local councils: how parties use council tools	8
Territorial reforms, mobilisation, and political trust: a case study from Norway	8
Encounters with the organisation: how local civil servants experience and handle tensions in public engagement	7
Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK	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
The quality of local democracy: an institutional analysis	7
Municipal size and local democracy: understanding the trade-off between participation and contestation in Latin America	6
Transnational city networks and their contributions to norm-generation in international law: the case of migration	6
Increasing public participation and influence in local decision-making to address social determinants of health: a systematic review examining initiatives and theories	6
Factors influencing the structure of municipal taxation. Special reference to political corruption	6
Dutch municipal elections 1998-2018: what explains the electoral success of local parties?	5
Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators?	5
Why such a different choice of tools? Analysing recent local government reforms in Denmark and Norway	5
Who is at the table? Civic engagement in small town housing decision-making	5
Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States	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 impact of demographic trends on local government financial reserves: evidence from England	5
Who talks and who listens? A qualitative analysis of citizen dialogues in rural Sweden	5
Local government policies on sexual and gender diversity in Spain. Experiences from Alt Empordà	5
The paradox of organizational complexity in urban development: boundary spanners’ handling of citizen proposals	5
The local government response to austerity in a small devolved country: the case of Wales	5
Absorbing the shock of austerity: the experience of local government workers at the front line	4
Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization	4
‘Co-production on the inside’ – public professionals negotiating interaction between municipal actors and local citizens	4
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics	4
Metropolitan governance and environmental outcomes: does inter-municipal cooperation make a difference?	4
Disseminating and collecting information: municipalities’ communicative practices and deliberative capacities	4
Measuring the effect of performance management in local economic development policy: the case of tax increment finance districts in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex	4
In search of the optimal size for local government: an assessment of economies of scale in local government in Croatia	4
Successfully navigating the fiscal challenges of the age of the aged: municipal government in Japan	4
“I’m paid to do other things”: Complementary co-production tasks for professionals	4
Are more affluent parents treated more favourably by elementary school principals? Socioeconomic discrimination among local Swedish public officials	3
Cycles in a cycle: investment expenditures and their composition during the political budgetary cycle	3
Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China	3
The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation	3
Special issue: city network activism and the governance of migration	3
Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance	3
City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world: the Intercultural Cities programme of the council of Europe	3
Consultative referendums and democracy - assessing the short-term effects on political support of a referendum on a municipal merger	3
Signalling compliance: an explanation of the intermittent green policy implementation gap in China	3
Ageing as a determinant of local government performance: myth or reality? the Portuguese experience	3
Local authorities doing it for themselves: austerity, the direct provision of housing and changing central-local relations in England	3
The impact of rational and political factors on performance measurement and its utilisation: analysis of municipal governments from Mississippi	3
Through the prism of cognition: exploration of local political leaders’ behaviour during incented voluntary municipal amalgamation	3
State-led pilot innovation upscaling? A tale of the Sanming healthcare reform in China	3
Municipal entrepreneurship support policies: convergence or divergence?	3
When blame avoidance meets transparency: local governments’ bandwagon strategy in environmental information disclosure in China	3
Explaining municipalities’ (alternative) service delivery modes over time. The importance of coercive pressures	3