| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Local Governance under the Coalition Government: Austerity, Localism and the ‘Big Society’ | Local Government Studies | 2012 | 308 |
| 2 | Examining Citizen Participation: Local Participatory Policy Making and Democracy | Local Government Studies | 2010 | 296 |
| 3 | Why do local governments privatise public services? A survey of empirical studies | Local Government Studies | 2007 | 222 |
| 4 | The Determinants of Local Government's Financial Transparency | Local Government Studies | 2011 | 177 |
| 5 | Beyond the market versus planning dichotomy: Understanding privatisation and its reverse in US cities | Local Government Studies | 2007 | 164 |
| 6 | Local Government Reforms in Great Britain, Sweden, Germany and France: Between Multi-Function and Single-Purpose Organisations | Local Government Studies | 2004 | 159 |
| 7 | Like a Horse and Carriage or a Fish on a Bicycle: How Well do Local Partnerships and Public Participation go Together? | Local Government Studies | 2004 | 130 |
| 8 | The efficiency and effectiveness of municipally owned corporations: a systematic review | Local Government Studies | 2017 | 129 |
| 9 | Local governance under the Conservatives: super-austerity, devolution and the ‘smarter state’ | Local Government Studies | 2016 | 128 |
| 10 | Transformational Government? The role of information technology in delivering citizen-centric local public services | Local Government Studies | 2007 | 123 |
| 11 | Social Media and Local Government: Citizenship, Consumption and Democracy | Local Government Studies | 2014 | 120 |
| 12 | Public Sector Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Case Studies from Local Government | Local Government Studies | 2002 | 117 |
| 13 | An Empirical Typology of Local Government Systems in Eastern Europe | Local Government Studies | 2014 | 100 |
| 14 | Risk Factors and Drivers of Financial Sustainability in Local Government: An Empirical Study | Local Government Studies | 2016 | 99 |
| 15 | Collusion in the Dutch waste collection market | Local Government Studies | 2007 | 98 |
| 16 | Local service delivery choices in Portugal: A political transaction costs framework | Local Government Studies | 2007 | 98 |
| 17 | Measuring the efficiency of Spanish municipal refuse collection services | Local Government Studies | 2000 | 92 |
| 18 | Determinants of Online Reporting of Accounting Information by Spanish Local Government Authorities | Local Government Studies | 2010 | 91 |
| 19 | Budget Transparency in Local Governments: An Empirical Analysis | Local Government Studies | 2013 | 91 |
| 20 | Local Government and the Arts | Local Government Studies | 2002 | 90 |
| 21 | If Territorial Fragmentation is a Problem, is Amalgamation a Solution? An East European Perspective | Local Government Studies | 2010 | 86 |
| 22 | Joint Planning across the Health/Social Services Boundary since 1946 | Local Government Studies | 2003 | 84 |
| 23 | Partial Privatisation in Local Services Delivery: An Empirical Analysis of the Choice of Mixed Firms | Local Government Studies | 2010 | 84 |
| 24 | What have we learned from the last three decades of empirical studies on factors driving local privatisation? | Local Government Studies | 2017 | 84 |
| 25 | Why Do Municipalities Cooperate to Provide Local Public Services? An Empirical Analysis | Local Government Studies | 2013 | 83 |
| 26 | Trust and contract completeness in the public sector | Local Government Studies | 2007 | 82 |
| 27 | The concept of resilience: a bibliometric analysis of the emergency and disaster management literature | Local Government Studies | 2019 | 81 |
| 28 | ‘What's in it for women?’ The motivations, expectations and experiences of female local councillors in montreal, Canada and Hull, England | Local Government Studies | 2000 | 78 |
| 29 | Central Control over Local Government - A Western European Comparison | Local Government Studies | 2002 | 78 |
| 30 | From Guided Democracy to Multi-Level Governance: Trends in Central-Local Relations in the Nordic Countries | Local Government Studies | 2002 | 77 |
| 31 | Understanding Local Political Leadership: Constitutions, Contexts and Capabilities | Local Government Studies | 2004 | 76 |
| 32 | Political leadership in the new urban governance: Britain and France compared | Local Government Studies | 1999 | 74 |
| 33 | The Rise of the Resilient Local Authority? | Local Government Studies | 2012 | 74 |
| 34 | Municipal Service Delivery: The Role of Transaction Costs in the Choice between Alternative Governance Mechanisms | Local Government Studies | 2012 | 73 |
| 35 | Amalgamation Impacts on Local Public Expenditures in Sweden | Local Government Studies | 2015 | 73 |
| 36 | Intermunicipal cooperation, public spending and service levels | Local Government Studies | 2018 | 73 |
| 37 | Local Government Reforms in (Seven) European Countries: Between Convergent and Divergent, Conflicting and Complementary Developments | Local Government Studies | 2012 | 72 |
| 38 | An empirical survey of frontier efficiency measurement techniques in local government | Local Government Studies | 2000 | 71 |
| 39 | Endogenous Determinants for Renegotiating Concessions: Evidence from Local Infrastructure | Local Government Studies | 2013 | 70 |
| 40 | Participatory Governance: Hope or Danger for Democracy? A Case Study of Local Agenda 21 | Local Government Studies | 2009 | 65 |
| 41 | Using Twitter for Dialogic Communication: Local Government Strategies in the European Union | Local Government Studies | 2015 | 62 |
| 42 | Political participation and municipal population size: A meta-study | Local Government Studies | 2017 | 62 |
| 43 | Did the Big Stick Work? An Empirical Assessment of Scale Economies and the Queensland Forced Amalgamation Program | Local Government Studies | 2016 | 61 |
| 44 | Electronic Local Government and the Modernisation Agenda: Progress and Prospects for Public Service Improvement | Local Government Studies | 2004 | 60 |
| 45 | Citizens’ Initiatives: How Local Governments Fill their Facilitative Role | Local Government Studies | 2012 | 59 |
| 46 | Austerity, rationing and inequity: trends in children’s and young peoples’ services expenditure in England between 2010 and 2015 | Local Government Studies | 2018 | 58 |
| 47 | The Evaluation of Institutional Reforms at Sub-national Government Levels: A Still Neglected Research Agenda | Local Government Studies | 2011 | 57 |
| 48 | Remapping the State: Inter-Municipal Cooperation through Corporatisation and Public-Private Governance Structures | Local Government Studies | 2013 | 57 |
| 49 | A Conceptual and Practical Framework of Measuring Performance of Local Authorities in Financial Terms: Analysing the Case of Israel | Local Government Studies | 2002 | 56 |
| 50 | Management Discretion and Political Interference in Municipal Enterprises. Evidence from Italian Utilities | Local Government Studies | 2013 | 56 |
