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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency	27
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments	21
Unlocking the potentials of Information and Communication Technology on citizen participation in Tanzania local government authorities: the citizen’s perspectives	20
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities	19
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach	19
Unfolding the relationship between regional resilience and policy instruments: the case of Brexit and enterprise zones in the UK	18
It’s all in the details: comparing and explaining variation in the ‘policy specificity’ of sub-city climate activities	17
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local	13
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model	12
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors	12
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle	12
The scope of active labour market policies in local labour market programmes in Swedish municipalities – driven by needs or values?	11
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message	11
Arenas of conflict? How local integration infrastructures and multi-level dynamics shape the space for conflict and cooperation at the local level in Austria	10
Political resistance, representation, and identity during English local government re-organisation: a micro-case study	10
Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers	10
Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators?	9
Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization	9
The text complexity of local government annual reports	9
Dynamics of social media adoption in Chinese municipalities for environmental governance	9
The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours	8
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics	8
Managing inclusive co-creation processes in a superdiverse neighborhood: drivers of inclusion in the case of Rotterdam	8
Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China	8
The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities	8

Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China	8
Navigating the COVID-19 crisis: the financial resilience of Victorian local government	8
Partisan politics, economic hardship, and full-time day care for children in German cities	7
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils	7
Does confidence in local governments moderate drought-induced migration? Empirical evidence from India	7
The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation	7
Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis	7
Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan	7
Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland	6
Safety, trust, and the role of co-production in combating violence: local government-community relations in the Arab minority in Israel	6
How cities can transform democracy	6
Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States	6
Gerrymandering to survive: an explanation of the political conditions that shaped mayors’ decisions over an amalgamation process in Portugal	6
The institutional and personal drivers of council scrutiny. A survey analysis of Dutch local government	6
Negotiating migrant integration in times of crisis in small municipalities in Germany	5
The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems	5
Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China	5
Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US	5
What to do with the outputs from public participation? Conceptualising and explaining responsiveness of civil servants	5
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China	5
The responses of government officials to questions from local councillors: analysis from a blame avoidance perspective	5
Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance	4
Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations	4
Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas	4
Are the normative rationales of local autonomy related to democratic legitimacy justified? Evidence from 57 countries in Europe and beyond (1990–2020)	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
Politicisation at the local political level within representative and participative institutions: the example of a poor Montreal borough	4
Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities	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
Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation	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
The size of the size effect. The impact of splits of municipalities on the performance of local governments in Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland	4
COVID-19 pandemic and local executive-opposition institutional relations: a survey analysis	4
Exploring the impact of EU funding on the local governance of migrant integration: the rise of project-driven governance	4
Councillors’ intentions to seek re-election in a gender-balanced local government system: evidence from Iceland	4
Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands	4
Governing cities: politics and policy	4
From online trolls to ‘Slut Shaming’: understanding the role of incivility and gender abuse in local government	4
Costs and outcomes of collaborative relationships: interlocal collaboration effects on green job creation in Florida Metropolitan Areas	4