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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges	25
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments	22
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency	21
Unlocking the potentials of Information and Communication Technology on citizen participation in Tanzania local government authorities: the citizen’s perspectives	21
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local	18
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities	16
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach	16
Unfolding the relationship between regional resilience and policy instruments: the case of Brexit and enterprise zones in the UK	14
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis	13
Uncovering the effect of local government debt brakes in Germany using synthetic controls	12
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model	11
Public service accountability: rekindling a debate	11
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message	10
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors	10
Who talks and who listens? A qualitative analysis of citizen dialogues in rural Sweden	9
City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world: the Intercultural Cities programme of the council of Europe	9
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle	9
Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers	9
Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization	8
Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators?	8
Dynamics of social media adoption in Chinese municipalities for environmental governance	8
Managing inclusive co-creation processes in a superdiverse neighborhood: drivers of inclusion in the case of Rotterdam	7
The text complexity of local government annual reports	7
Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China	6
The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours	6

Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics	6
Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China	6
Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator: the role of expert public servants in interactive governance	6
The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities	5
Partisan politics, economic hardship, and full-time day care for children in German cities	5
The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation	5
How cities can transform democracy	5
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments	5
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils	5
Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan	5
The institutional and personal drivers of council scrutiny. A survey analysis of Dutch local government	5
Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK	5
Negotiating migrant integration in times of crisis in small municipalities in Germany	5
Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis	5
The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation	5
The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position	5
Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States	5
Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China	5
Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland	4
Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US	4
The responses of government officials to questions from local councillors: analysis from a blame avoidance perspective	4
Characterising strategic collaboration of large Swiss municipalities	4
What to do with the outputs from public participation? Conceptualising and explaining responsiveness of civil servants	4
Gerrymandering to survive: an explanation of the political conditions that shaped mayors’ decisions over an amalgamation process in Portugal	4
Identifying interactions between size effects in New South Wales local government	4
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China	4
The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems	4
Cities and communities beyond COVID-19: How local leadership can change our future for the better	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?	3
Are the normative rationales of local autonomy related to democratic legitimacy justified? Evidence from 57 countries in Europe and beyond (1990–2020)	3
Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations	3
Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas	3
Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance	3
COVID-19 pandemic and local executive-opposition institutional relations: a survey analysis	3
Diverse roles and perceptions of public officials and NGOs in local citizens’ assemblies – A comparative analysis of the cases of Poland and Hungary	3
Politicisation at the local political level within representative and participative institutions: the example of a poor Montreal borough	3
Costs and outcomes of collaborative relationships: interlocal collaboration effects on green job creation in Florida Metropolitan Areas	3
State-led pilot innovation upscaling? A tale of the Sanming healthcare reform in China	3
Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities	3
Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities	3
Why such a different choice of tools? Analysing recent local government reforms in Denmark and Norway	3
Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation	3
The impact of rational and political factors on performance measurement and its utilisation: analysis of municipal governments from Mississippi	3
Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands	3
Exploring the impact of EU funding on the local governance of migrant integration: the rise of project-driven governance	3
Influence of managerial ability on the re-election of municipal political parties	3
Factors influencing the structure of municipal taxation. Special reference to political corruption	3
The political dynamics of carbon emissions: evidence from Chinese firms	2
Kittens are Evil II: little heresies in public policy	2
The gendered nature of ethnic minority candidate nomination: An analysis of the moderating role of district diversity, party affiliation and ethnic minorities’ visibility	2

From online trolls to ‘Slut Shaming’: understanding the role of incivility and gender abuse in local government	2
Facilitating citizen participation in marginalised neighbourhoods: selective empowerment in between vulnerability and active citizenship	2
The varied impact of direct democracy on local housing policies: unravelling the role of socioeconomic context	2
Signalling compliance: an explanation of the intermittent green policy implementation gap in China	2
Is a powerful but corrupt public manager more trustworthy? Lessons from the case of rural local government in Bangladesh	2
Veto and versatile: understanding the local implementation of environmental policies in China	2
The size of the size effect. The impact of splits of municipalities on the performance of local governments in Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland	2
Governing cities: politics and policy	2
Reelected mayors and local fiscal policy outcomes. Are incumbent mayors more competent compared to newly elected ones?	2
Local authorities doing it for themselves: austerity, the direct provision of housing and changing central-local relations in England	2
Digital coproduction in Seoul: the case of Seoul’s government and citizen-led platforms	2
An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia	2
Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services	2
Increasing public participation and influence in local decision-making to address social determinants of health: a systematic review examining initiatives and theories	2
Localisation of politics and local electoral participation	2
The impact of inter-municipal land use plans on social segregation: first lessons from the French experience	2
The struggle for linking strategic and front-line outcomes in local government service delivery	2
Addressing the elephant in the room: what’s the local in local government studies?	2
Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers	2
Change? Decay? Promise? Fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK	1
Rethinking the ‘local state’ and local capacity	1
The local government response to austerity in a small devolved country: the case of Wales	1
International collaboration in local government studies: a bibliometric analysis	1
Political competition and representation in municipal councils	1
Enabling civic initiatives: frontline workers as democratic professionals in Amsterdam	1
Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort	1
Making local democracy work during the pandemic – analyses of online and onsite city council meetings in Sweden	1
Local coalition formation: Municipal level decisions (not) to govern with the Sweden Democrats	1
Environmental inter-local collaboration under meta-governance: the trade-off between collective and selective benefits	1
The challenges of mainstreaming local government	1
Making a difference? Attracting new generations into local government	1
From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain’s intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The ‘Great Survivor’ lives on? Resilience, austerity and devolution in English local government	1
Franchise extensions and second-order contests: evidence from German local elections	1
Correction	1
Vigilantism and the transition to local democratic elections	1
The longitudinal link between institutional and community trust in a local context - findings from a Swedish panel study	1
Why philanthropic foundations collaborate with city governments: an exploration of three English cities	1
Local government procurement in English regions: organisations, collaborations and mechanisms	1
Measuring performance concerning air and noise pollution: a comparison of Madrid’s official data and results from a citizen survey	1
From single-issue to sustained Influence: factors driving the endurance of local political parties	1
Fifty years of local government studies: evolution, internationalisation, and the future of the field	1
Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries	1
Municipal revenue over-budgeting: a dynamic analysis of its determinants	1
Twice as effective: business environment, SME owners’ satisfaction, and local government revenue performance	1
Officials’ hometown connections and interprovincial trade in China: based on the perspective of hometown favoritism	1
Empowering local citizens: assessing the inclusiveness of a digital democratic innovation for co-creating a Voting Advice Application	1
Back to the future? An analysis of party influence on electricity grid remunicipalisation in Germany	1
Why and how often do authorities remunicipalise urban public transport? The case of France	1
Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands	1
The impact of public discourse on local representatives’ amalgamation preferences	1
Reasons political parties lose their representatives. Combining party death and party failure	1