OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Local Government Studies is 3. 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
Unlocking pathways in constrained local governance: exploring paradiplomacy under competitive-disharmony through the case of Istanbul	21
Does the media seem more hostile to losers? Media bias perceptions among politicians in the wake of Norwegian municipal mergers	21
Governance challenges of different institutional logics and modes of organising: a Norwegian case study of municipal water supply	19
Analysing public sector innovation in local governments. an empirical assessment of Spanish city councils	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
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
Perceived local government performance and people’s life satisfaction: the role of trust in local government and political participation	11
Local government in Europe: new perspectives and democratic challenges	10
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
The clear model as a predictor of candidacy for council membership	9
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
An empirical analysis of the impact of administrative intensity on the operational efficiency of the Victoria state local government system in Australia	8
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
Guest editors’ introduction: the impact of ageing and demographic change on local government	7
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
Back to the future? An analysis of party influence on electricity grid remunicipalisation in Germany	6

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
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
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
The re-election of corrupt mayors: context, relational leadership and level of corruption	4
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
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