Local Government Studies

Papers
(The H4-Index of Local Government Studies is 11. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges44
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments25
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency21
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local20
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities20
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach18
Unfolding the relationship between regional resilience and policy instruments: the case of Brexit and enterprise zones in the UK16
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis15
Uncovering the effect of local government debt brakes in Germany using synthetic controls14
Public service accountability: rekindling a debate12
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message11
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors11
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model11
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