OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Local Government Studies is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Is a powerful but corrupt public manager more trustworthy? Lessons from the case of rural local government in Bangladesh	41
When blame avoidance meets transparency: local governments’ bandwagon strategy in environmental information disclosure in China	34
Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers	21
Unlocking pathways in constrained local governance: exploring paradiplomacy under competitive-disharmony through the case of Istanbul	21
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils	19
Governance challenges of different institutional logics and modes of organising: a Norwegian case study of municipal water supply	19
Partisan politics, economic hardship, and full-time day care for children in German cities	18
The institutional and personal drivers of council scrutiny. A survey analysis of Dutch local government	17
The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation	16
Perceived local government performance and people’s life satisfaction: the role of trust in local government and political participation	11
Political budget cycles at the municipal level in Slovakia: between structural dependence and electoral exhibitionism	11
Special issue: city network activism and the governance of migration	11
Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges	10
The clear model as a predictor of candidacy for council membership	9
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency	9
The impact of inter-municipal land use plans on social segregation: first lessons from the French experience	9
Australian adaptation of UK dealmaking: towards state rescaling?	9
An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia	8
The longitudinal link between institutional and community trust in a local context - findings from a Swedish panel study	8
The economic costs of voucher markets for public service provision	8
Guest editors’ introduction: the impact of ageing and demographic change on local government	7
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments	7
Does ambition work? The effectiveness of local climate pledges in China	7
Back to the future? An analysis of party influence on electricity grid remunicipalisation in Germany	6
Is buying cheaper than sharing? A study of the effect stand-alone contracting out versus public co-production has on cost in Norwegian local auditing services	6

Examining the fiscal impact of tax and expenditure limitations on municipal governments: a rule design approach	5
What happens when municipalities run corporations? Empirical evidence from 290 Swedish municipalities	5
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments	5
Adapting to climate change: the ultimate challenge for the next half-century of local government?	5
Addressing the elephant in the room: what’s the local in local government studies?	5
Party politics across levels of governance: relational dynamics of immigrant integration policy making in Belgian cities	5
The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation	5
Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States	5
Local responses to European Integration: patterns of Europe-related activities of German local governments	5
Facilitators as culture change workers: advancing public participation and deliberation in local governance	5
The re-election of corrupt mayors: context, relational leadership and level of corruption	4
Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK	4
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local	4
Municipal revenue over-budgeting: a dynamic analysis of its determinants	4
The struggle for linking strategic and front-line outcomes in local government service delivery	4
Leading local government: the role of directly elected mayors	3
Characterising strategic collaboration of large Swiss municipalities	3
The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems	3
Unravelling the multi-level governance of Ukrainian refugee reception in Italy: a focus on small and medium-sized cities	3
Municipal entrepreneurship support policies: convergence or divergence?	3
Dutch municipal elections 1998-2018: what explains the electoral success of local parties?	3
Twice as effective: business environment, SME owners’ satisfaction, and local government revenue performance	3
How cities can transform democracy	3
Local government performance: promoting trust in local government and reducing trust gap	3
Identifying interactions between size effects in New South Wales local government	3
The connotation, cause, and reform path of institutional transaction costs: a grounded theory analysis	3
Franchise extensions and second-order contests: evidence from German local elections	3
City sextons: tales from municipal leaders	3
Negotiating migrant integration in times of crisis in small municipalities in Germany	3
Independents in local politics – voter turnout, competitiveness, and party-system effects	3
Gerrymandering to survive: an explanation of the political conditions that shaped mayors’ decisions over an amalgamation process in Portugal	3
Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China	3
Consultative referendums and democracy - assessing the short-term effects on political support of a referendum on a municipal merger	2
Political competition and representation in municipal councils	2
Influence of managerial ability on the re-election of municipal political parties	2
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities	2
Signalling compliance: an explanation of the intermittent green policy implementation gap in China	2
Correction	2
Cities and communities beyond COVID-19: How local leadership can change our future for the better	2
Uncovering the effect of local government debt brakes in Germany using synthetic controls	2
Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands	2
State-led pilot innovation upscaling? A tale of the Sanming healthcare reform in China	2
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis	2
International collaboration in local government studies: a bibliometric analysis	2
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach	2
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China	2
Who talks and who listens? A qualitative analysis of citizen dialogues in rural Sweden	2
Territorial reforms, mobilisation, and political trust: a case study from Norway	2
Public service accountability: rekindling a debate	2
Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland	2

What to do with the outputs from public participation? Conceptualising and explaining responsiveness of civil servants	2
Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US	2
What lies beneath these creatures of the state: understanding the death of specialised governments in the U.S.	2
The paradox of organizational complexity in urban development: boundary spanners’ handling of citizen proposals	1
“I’m paid to do other things”: Complementary co-production tasks for professionals	1
Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries	1
Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers	1
Effects of intergovernmental revenue on local government draw on fiscal reserves: evidence from COVID-19 fiscal stress	1
The ‘Great Survivor’ lives on? Resilience, austerity and devolution in English local government	1
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors	1
The impact of the central government’s intervention on local democracy	1
Democratic innovations: is the local scale (still) the ideal laboratory for democracy?	1
‘Co-production on the inside’ – public professionals negotiating interaction between municipal actors and local citizens	1
Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations	1
Local potentials for achieving sustainable development goals: qualitative evidence from local governments in Türkiye	1
Understanding freedom of information requests: predictors of request for public information to municipalities in Chile	1
Between realism and revolt: governing cities in the crisis of neoliberal globalism	1
The contested politics of de-privatisation and the shifting terrain of the local state: the case of the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany	1
Exploring the impact of EU funding on the local governance of migrant integration: the rise of project-driven governance	1
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle	1
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message	1
When cities lobby: how local governments compete for power in state politics	1
Local preferences for the adoption and modification of climate policy instruments under a radical left government: unveiling the impact and legacy of Barcelona in Common	1
Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities	1
Through the prism of cognition: exploration of local political leaders’ behaviour during incented voluntary municipal amalgamation	1
Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities	1
Who is responsible for migrant integration? Contextual political drivers of governance actors’ responsibility frames in small and medium European localities	1
Re-election prospects in the local contest in Slovakia: discussing influencing roles of socio-economic conditions of the electorate and municipal finances	1
Truth and illusion: can a transparency reform contribute to accountable taxing behaviour?	1
Rethinking the ‘local state’ and local capacity	1
From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain’s intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Determinants of internal migration to smaller cities: local public goods, job opportunities, and lifecycle stages	1
Reflections on three decades of digital transformation in local governments	1
An institutional and transaction cost analysis for the efficiency of water service in Brazilian local government consortia	1
Correction	1
Local passion and national apathy: investigating the phenomenon of selective voting behaviour	1
Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas	1
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model	1
City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world: the Intercultural Cities programme of the council of Europe	1
The local government response to austerity in a small devolved country: the case of Wales	1