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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges	44
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments	25
The missing economies of density and south Australian local government efficiency	21
Fiscal impacts of electoral abstention: a study on the electorate biometric update in Brazilian municipalities	20
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local	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	16
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis	15
Uncovering the effect of local government debt brakes in Germany using synthetic controls	14
Public service accountability: rekindling a debate	12
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model	11
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
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
Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators?	9
Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers	9
Dynamics of social media adoption in Chinese municipalities for environmental governance	9
Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization	8
Characterising two German city networks: the interplay of internal structure, issue orientation and outreach strategies	8
The text complexity of local government annual reports	8
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics	7
Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China	7
Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator: the role of expert public servants in interactive governance	6

Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis	6
French inter-governmental relations during the Covid-19 crisis: between hyper-centralism and local horizontal cooperation	6
The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours	6
Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China	6
Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan	6
The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities	5
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils	5
The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position	5
How cities can transform democracy	5
The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation	5
The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation	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
Partisan politics, economic hardship, and full-time day care for children in German cities	5
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments	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
Gerrymandering to survive: an explanation of the political conditions that shaped mayors’ decisions over an amalgamation process in Portugal	4
Dutch municipal elections 1998-2018: what explains the electoral success of local parties?	4
The responses of government officials to questions from local councillors: analysis from a blame avoidance perspective	4
Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland	4
Characterising strategic collaboration of large Swiss municipalities	4
Pragmatic Municipalism: Privatization and Remunicipalisation in the US	4
Identifying interactions between size effects in New South Wales local government	4
What to do with the outputs from public participation? Conceptualising and explaining responsiveness of civil servants	4
The impact of intergovernmental fiscal tools on local service decision: the Nebraska case for water and wastewater systems	4
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China	4
Cities and communities beyond COVID-19: How local leadership can change our future for the better	4