Most cited papers in Local Government Finance and Decentralization
What are the most cited papers in Local Government Finance and Decentralization?
The most cited paper in Local Government Finance and Decentralization is "A PUBLIC MANAGEMENT FOR ALL SEASONS?" (Christopher Hood, 1991), with 9,741 citations. Next come "Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogeneous Growth" (6,370) and "Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance." (4,813).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 733 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A PUBLIC MANAGEMENT FOR ALL SEASONS? Christopher Hood · Public Administration | Mar 1991 | 9,741 |
| 2 | Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogeneous Growth Robert J. Barro · Journal of Political Economy | Oct 1990 | 6,370 |
| 3 | Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Adriaan Schout, Douglas C. North · The Economic Journal | Nov 1991 | 4,813 |
| 4 | The “new public management” in the 1980s: Variations on a theme Christopher Hood · Accounting Organizations and Society | Feb 1995 | 3,812 |
| 5 | Political turnover and economic performance: the incentive role of personnel control in China Hongbin Li, Li‐An Zhou · Journal of Public Economics | 29 Sep 2004 | 3,725 |
| 6 | The Economics of Discrimination. David A. Collard, Gary S. Becker · The Economic Journal | Jun 1972 | 3,664 |
| 7 | An Essay on Fiscal Federalism Wallace E. Oates · Journal of Economic Literature | Sep 1999 | 3,405 |
| 8 | Governance as theory: five propositions Gerry Stoker · International Social Science Journal | Mar 1998 | 2,745 |
| 9 | The Fundamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development Chenggang Xu · Journal of Economic Literature | Dec 2011 | 2,676 |
| 10 | New Public Management Is Dead--Long Live Digital-Era Governance Patrick Dunleavy · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | 8 Sep 2005 | 2,571 |
| 11 | Chapter 6 Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson · Elsevier eBooks | 2005 | 2,457 |
| 12 | Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions Alberto Alesina, Reza Baqir, William Russell Easterly · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1999 | 2,369 |
| 13 | National Conference of State Legislatures Kellian Clink · Reference Reviews | 15 Feb 2011 | 2,321 |
| 14 | The Expansion of the Public Economy: A Comparative Analysis David Robertson Cameron · American Political Science Review | Dec 1978 | 2,103 |
| 15 | Counterspeculation, Auctions, and Competitive Sealed Tenders William S. Vickrey · The Journal of Finance | Mar 1961 | 1,923 |
| 16 | Defining digital transformation: Results from expert interviews Ines A. Mergel, Noella Edelmann, Nathalie Haug · Government Information Quarterly | 25 Jun 2019 | 1,866 |
| 17 | Decentralization of Governance and Development Pranab Bardhan · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Nov 2002 | 1,829 |
| 18 | Pigou, Tiebout, property taxation, and the underprovision of local public goods George R. Zodrow, Peter M. Mieszkowski · Journal of Urban Economics | May 1986 | 1,693 |
| 19 | Balanced-budget redistribution as the outcome of political competition Assar Lindbeck, J�rgen W. Weibull · Public Choice | 1987 | 1,660 |
| 20 | The composition of public expenditure and economic growth Shantayanan Devarajan, Vinaya Swaroop, Heng‐Fu Zou · Journal of Monetary Economics | Apr 1996 | 1,658 |
| 21 | Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia Benjamin Olken · Journal of Political Economy | Apr 2007 | 1,630 |
| 22 | Public Finance in Theory and Practice. A. R. Prest, Richard Abel Musgrave, Peggy B. Musgrave · The Economic Journal | Sep 1974 | 1,626 |
| 23 | The control of politicians: An economic model Robert J. Barro · Public Choice | Mar 1973 | 1,614 |
| 24 | An Economic Approach to Social Capital* Edward L. Glaeser, David Laibson, Bruce Sacerdote · The Economic Journal | Nov 2002 | 1,604 |
| 25 | Lectures in Public Economics. John Whalley, A. B. Atkinson, Joseph E. Stiglitz · Economica | Feb 1982 | 1,590 |
| 26 | Public Value Governance: Moving Beyond Traditional Public Administration and the New Public Management John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Laura Bloomberg · Public Administration Review | 12 Jun 2014 | 1,528 |
| 27 | HOW INSTITUTIONS EVOLVE Kathleen Thelen · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 3 Feb 2003 | 1,480 |
| 28 | On the Number and Size of Nations Alberto Alesina, Enrico Spolaore · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1997 | 1,466 |
| 29 | The Political Economy of Federalism John E. Chubb · American Political Science Review | Dec 1985 | 1,461 |
| 30 | Determinants of Internet skills, uses and outcomes. A systematic review of the second- and third-level digital divide Anique Scheerder, Alexander Johannes Aloysius Maria van Deursen, Jan A. G. M. van Dijk · Telematics and Informatics | 15 Jul 2017 | 1,445 |
| 31 | What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions Bo Rothstein, Jan Teorell · Governance | Apr 2008 | 1,442 |
| 32 | Does flattening government improve economic performance? Evidence from China Pei Li, Yi Lu, Wang Jin · Journal of Development Economics | 26 Jul 2016 | 1,433 |
| 33 | Chapter 48 Micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies Gilles Duranton, Diego Puga · Handbook of regional and urban economics | 2004 | 1,375 |
| 34 | Incumbent Behavior: Vote Seeking, Tax Setting and Yardstick Competition Timothy J. Besley, Anne C. Case | 1992 | 1,368 |
| 35 | The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion Charles R. Shipan, Craig Volden · American Journal of Political Science | 29 Sep 2008 | 1,362 |
| 36 | Federalism, Chinese Style: The Political Basis for Economic Success in China Gabriella R. Montinola, Yingyi Qian, Barry R. Weingast · World Politics | Oct 1995 | 1,354 |
| 37 | Decentralization and corruption: evidence across countries Raymond J. Fisman, Roberta V. Gatti · Journal of Public Economics | Mar 2002 | 1,337 |
| 38 | Governance Without Government? Rethinking Public Administration B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Apr 1998 | 1,319 |
| 39 | THE STRATEGY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT John H. Adler · Kyklos | Nov 1959 | 1,305 |
| 40 | Governance Matters VII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2007 Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2008 | 1,272 |
| 41 | What Is Governance? Francis Fukuyama · Governance | 3 Mar 2013 | 1,257 |
| 42 | Toward A Second-Generation Theory of Fiscal Federalism Wallace E. Oates · International Tax and Public Finance | 15 Jul 2005 | 1,241 |
| 43 | Budget spillovers and fiscal policy interdependence Anne C. Case, Harvey S. Rosen, James R. Hines · Journal of Public Economics | Oct 1993 | 1,238 |
| 44 | Ethnic diversity, social sanctions, and public goods in Kenya Edward A. Miguel, Mary Kay Gugerty · Journal of Public Economics | 9 Nov 2004 | 1,196 |
| 45 | Regional decentralization and fiscal incentives: Federalism, Chinese style Hehui Jin, Yingyi Qian, Barry R. Weingast · Journal of Public Economics | 26 Apr 2005 | 1,193 |
| 46 | Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Redistribute More Than Others Torben Iversen, David Soskice · American Political Science Review | May 2006 | 1,182 |
| 47 | The consequences of spatially differentiated water pollution regulation in China Zhao Chen, Matthew E. Kahn, Yu Liu et al. · Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Feb 2018 | 1,179 |
| 48 | A theory of interregional tax competition John Douglas Wilson · Journal of Urban Economics | May 1986 | 1,172 |
| 49 | The Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare. Alan Hamlin, Robert Sugden · The Economic Journal | Sep 1987 | 1,170 |
| 50 | Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: a political economy approach Timothy J. Besley, Stephen Coate · Journal of Public Economics | 10 Dec 2002 | 1,134 |
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