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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Unlocking the potentials of Information and Communication Technology on citizen participation in Tanzania local government authorities: the citizen’s perspectives	26
Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges	25
Local civil society organisations’ appreciation of different local policy decision-making instruments	23
The university within, of and for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local	21
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	17
Access to basic infrastructure services in Ghanaian local government: a contextual approach	17
Unfolding the relationship between regional resilience and policy instruments: the case of Brexit and enterprise zones in the UK	15
Special issue on comparative intergovernmental relations and the pandemic: how European devolved governments responded to a public health crisis	14
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle	12
The relationship between market capacity and local governments’ choice of voucher model	12
Political resistance, representation, and identity during English local government re-organisation: a micro-case study	12
The politics of third actors: strategies used by public participation professionals in their interactions with public forum sponsors	12
The use of quantitative methods in local government studies: a review and a conclusive message	11
City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world: the Intercultural Cities programme of the council of Europe	10
Local politicians’ perceptions of financial conditions – do they align with financial indicators?	9
The text complexity of local government annual reports	9
Digital leadership in local government: an empirical study of Dutch city managers	9
Stimulating civic behavior? The paradoxes of incentivising self-organization	9
Vertical fiscal imbalance and public health in China	8
Dynamics of social media adoption in Chinese municipalities for environmental governance	8
Passive cooperation or active coproduction? Grassroots NGOs’ strategies in interactions with government in crisis management in Chengdu, China	8
Managing inclusive co-creation processes in a superdiverse neighborhood: drivers of inclusion in the case of Rotterdam	7
The Belgian and Dutch response to COVID-19: change and stability in the mayors’ position	6
The influence of organisational and staff characteristics on local governments’ efficiency: the case of Mexican municipalities	6

Commercial investment in public–private partnerships: the impact of government characteristics	6
Factors affecting relief aid policy of local governments – electoral competitiveness, fiscal capacity, and severity of crisis	6
Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator: the role of expert public servants in interactive governance	6
The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation	6
Proceed with caution: US local governments and the American Rescue Plan	6
The role of gender in shaping mayoral grant-seeking behaviours	6
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils	5
How cities can transform democracy	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
Cities and communities beyond COVID-19: How local leadership can change our future for the better	5
Gerrymandering to survive: an explanation of the political conditions that shaped mayors’ decisions over an amalgamation process in Portugal	5
Partisan politics, economic hardship, and full-time day care for children in German cities	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
Can environmental regulations change the environmental behaviour of local leaders and enterprises? Evidence using the accountability audit of natural resources in China	5
Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities	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 institutional and personal drivers of council scrutiny. A survey analysis of Dutch local government	5
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments	5
Characterising strategic collaboration of large Swiss municipalities	5
The limits of framing effects: citizen perceptions of councilor compensation	5
Political fragmentation and “The purple zone”: how party fragmentation affects political–administrative relations	5
Negotiating migrant integration in times of crisis in small municipalities in Germany	5
Monitoring costs in local service provision. Comparing contract forms in Poland	5
Relations between local councillors and executive boards: conceptualisations, explanations and empirical evidence from the Netherlands	4
Dog fouling and potholes: understanding the role of coproducing ‘citizen sensors’ in local governance	4
Far-from-sight and expensive: additional costs of public services in rural areas	4
Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities	4
Influence of managerial ability on the re-election of municipal political parties	4
Exploring the impact of EU funding on the local governance of migrant integration: the rise of project-driven governance	4
State-led pilot innovation upscaling? A tale of the Sanming healthcare reform in China	4
Councillors’ intentions to seek re-election in a gender-balanced local government system: evidence from Iceland	4