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. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments	25
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency	24
Unlocking the potentials of Information and Communication Technology on citizen participation in Tanzania local government authorities: the citizen’s perspectives	21
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach	20
It’s all in the details: comparing and explaining variation in the ‘policy specificity’ of sub-city climate activities	19
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities	18
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local	17
Unfolding the relationship between regional resilience and policy instruments: the case of Brexit and enterprise zones in the UK	17
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model	16
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message	13
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle	12
Political resistance, representation, and identity during English local government re-organisation: a micro-case study	11
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors	10
The scope of active labour market policies in local labour market programmes in Swedish municipalities – driven by needs or values?	10
Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization	9
Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers	9
Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators?	9
Arenas of conflict? How local integration infrastructures and multi-level dynamics shape the space for conflict and cooperation at the local level in Austria	9
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics	8
The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours	8
Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China	8
Dynamics of social media adoption in Chinese municipalities for environmental governance	8
The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities	8
The text complexity of local government annual reports	8
Managing inclusive co-creation processes in a superdiverse neighborhood: drivers of inclusion in the case of Rotterdam	8

Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China	8
Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan	7
Does confidence in local governments moderate drought-induced migration? Empirical evidence from India	7
The institutional and personal drivers of council scrutiny. A survey analysis of Dutch local government	7
Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis	7
The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation	7
Safety, trust, and the role of co-production in combating violence: local government-community relations in the Arab minority in Israel	7
Partisan politics, economic hardship, and full-time day care for children in German cities	7
Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States	7
Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland	6
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils	6
The responses of government officials to questions from local councillors: analysis from a blame avoidance perspective	6
Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China	6
Gerrymandering to survive: an explanation of the political conditions that shaped mayors’ decisions over an amalgamation process in Portugal	6
How cities can transform democracy	6
The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems	5
Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US	5
Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas	5
Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands	5
Negotiating migrant integration in times of crisis in small municipalities in Germany	5
What to do with the outputs from public participation? Conceptualising and explaining responsiveness of civil servants	5
Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities	5
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China	5
Councillors’ intentions to seek re-election in a gender-balanced local government system: evidence from Iceland	5
Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations	5
Exploring the impact of EU funding on the local governance of migrant integration: the rise of project-driven governance	4
COVID-19 pandemic and local executive-opposition institutional relations: a survey analysis	4
Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation	4
From online trolls to ‘Slut Shaming’: understanding the role of incivility and gender abuse in local government	4
Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities	4
Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance	4
Governing cities: politics and policy	4
The gendered nature of ethnic minority candidate nomination: An analysis of the moderating role of district diversity, party affiliation and ethnic minorities’ visibility	4
The size of the size effect. The impact of splits of municipalities on the performance of local governments in Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland	4
Mayors as local leaders - a systematic literature review on European mayor research	4
Twitter communication in times of crisis: how do German local governments use and frame social media messages and how do citizens react to them?	4
Diverse roles and perceptions of public officials and NGOs in local citizens’ assemblies – A comparative analysis of the cases of Poland and Hungary	4
Costs and outcomes of collaborative relationships: interlocal collaboration effects on green job creation in Florida Metropolitan Areas	4