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Papers

(The median citation count of Local Government Studies is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency	30
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments	23
Women as teammates: Gender composition of village councils and policy outcomes in India	23
Unlocking the potentials of Information and Communication Technology on citizen participation in Tanzania local government authorities: the citizen’s perspectives	20
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach	18
Unfolding the relationship between regional resilience and policy instruments: the case of Brexit and enterprise zones in the UK	14
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities	14
It’s all in the details: comparing and explaining variation in the ‘policy specificity’ of sub-city climate activities	13
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
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle	12
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message	11
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors	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
Dynamics of social media adoption in Chinese municipalities for environmental governance	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
The scope of active labour market policies in local labour market programmes in Swedish municipalities – driven by needs or values?	10
Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators?	9
Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China	9
Navigating the COVID-19 crisis: the financial resilience of Victorian local government	9
The text complexity of local government annual reports	9
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics	9
Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis	8
Managing inclusive co-creation processes in a superdiverse neighborhood: drivers of inclusion in the case of Rotterdam	8

The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours	8
Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China	8
The politics of local spending: municipal budget responses to federal election results	8
Partisanship within city limits: explaining employment policy outcomes in Danish municipalities	7
Bottom-up innovation adoption of green public procurement in the United States	7
Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan	7
The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation	7
Partisan politics, economic hardship, and full-time day care for children in German cities	7
The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities	7
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils	7
Safety, trust, and the role of co-production in combating violence: local government-community relations in the Arab minority in Israel	7
Determinants of the formation process in public-private partnership projects in developing countries: evidence from China	6
The institutional and personal drivers of council scrutiny. A survey analysis of Dutch local government	6
How cities can transform democracy	6
Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland	6
Does confidence in local governments moderate drought-induced migration? Empirical evidence from India	6
Councillors’ intentions to seek re-election in a gender-balanced local government system: evidence from Iceland	5
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China	5
Negotiating migrant integration in times of crisis in small municipalities in Germany	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
The responses of government officials to questions from local councillors: analysis from a blame avoidance perspective	5
The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems	5
Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations	5
Gerrymandering to survive: an explanation of the political conditions that shaped mayors’ decisions over an amalgamation process in Portugal	5
Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands	5
Two hats, one purse: does holding a dual mandate affect the attraction of grants?	4
Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities	4
Mayors as local leaders - a systematic literature review on European mayor research	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
Diverse roles and perceptions of public officials and NGOs in local citizens’ assemblies – A comparative analysis of the cases of Poland and Hungary	4
Are the normative rationales of local autonomy related to democratic legitimacy justified? Evidence from 57 countries in Europe and beyond (1990–2020)	4
Costs and outcomes of collaborative relationships: interlocal collaboration effects on green job creation in Florida Metropolitan Areas	4
Exploring the impact of EU funding on the local governance of migrant integration: the rise of project-driven governance	4
Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas	4
Whole of community or battleground? Exploring actor relationships and migrant integration in small and medium-sized towns	4
From online trolls to ‘Slut Shaming’: understanding the role of incivility and gender abuse in local government	4
Kittens are Evil II: little heresies in public policy	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
COVID-19 pandemic and local executive-opposition institutional relations: a survey analysis	4
Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance	4
Local government in Northern Ireland: partnerships, minimalism and marginalisation	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
Politicisation at the local political level within representative and participative institutions: the example of a poor Montreal borough	4
Governing cities: politics and policy	4
International collaboration in local government studies: a bibliometric analysis	3
Political competition and representation in municipal councils	3
The political dynamics of carbon emissions: evidence from Chinese firms	3
Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services	3
Is a powerful but corrupt public manager more trustworthy? Lessons from the case of rural local government in Bangladesh	3

The struggle for linking strategic and front-line outcomes in local government service delivery	3
Twice as effective: business environment, SME owners’ satisfaction, and local government revenue performance	3
The ‘Great Survivor’ lives on? Resilience, austerity and devolution in English local government	3
Facilitating citizen participation in marginalised neighbourhoods: selective empowerment in between vulnerability and active citizenship	3
Digital coproduction in Seoul: the case of Seoul’s government and citizen-led platforms	3
Reelected mayors and local fiscal policy outcomes. Are incumbent mayors more competent compared to newly elected ones?	3
Correction	3
The varied impact of direct democracy on local housing policies: unravelling the role of socioeconomic context	3
Addressing the elephant in the room: what’s the local in local government studies?	3
Veto and versatile: understanding the local implementation of environmental policies in China	3
Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers	3
Local authorities’ policy responses to food insecurity in a crisis support context in the UK: a human rights analysis	3
Why philanthropic foundations collaborate with city governments: an exploration of three English cities	2
Back to the future? An analysis of party influence on electricity grid remunicipalisation in Germany	2
The longitudinal link between institutional and community trust in a local context - findings from a Swedish panel study	2
From information dissemination to environmental impact: the role of government microblogs in urban pollution mitigation	2
Local coalition formation: Municipal level decisions (not) to govern with the Sweden Democrats	2
Empowering local citizens: assessing the inclusiveness of a digital democratic innovation for co-creating a Voting Advice Application	2
Rethinking the ‘local state’ and local capacity	2
The ‘community’ concept in local government community plans: defining community in regional Australia	2
From single-issue to sustained Influence: factors driving the endurance of local political parties	2
Political attention and local development: evidence from provincial leaders’ inspection tours in China	2
Making a difference? Attracting new generations into local government	2
Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands	2
Local government procurement in English regions: organisations, collaborations and mechanisms	2
Shall we tango? Exploring the drivers of co-production in US local governments	2
Environmental inter-local collaboration under meta-governance: the trade-off between collective and selective benefits	2
Reasons political parties lose their representatives. Combining party death and party failure	2
The challenges of mainstreaming local government	2
Enabling civic initiatives: frontline workers as democratic professionals in Amsterdam	2
Why and how often do authorities remunicipalise urban public transport? The case of France	2
Facilitators as culture change workers: advancing public participation and deliberation in local governance	2
Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort	2
Making local democracy work during the pandemic – analyses of online and onsite city council meetings in Sweden	2
The impact of public discourse on local representatives’ amalgamation preferences	2
Fifty years of local government studies: evolution, internationalisation, and the future of the field	2
Change? Decay? Promise? Fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK	2
Officials’ hometown connections and interprovincial trade in China: based on the perspective of hometown favoritism	2