| Community engagement in Australian local governments: A closer look and strategic implications HE Christensen, D McQuestin Local government studies 45 (4), 453-480, 2019 | 30 | 2019 |
| Do municipal mergers improve technical efficiency? An empirical analysis of the 2008 Queensland municipal merger program D McQuestin, J Drew, B Dollery Australian Journal of Public Administration 77 (3), 442-455, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
| Good to share? The pecuniary implications of moving to shared service production for local government services J Drew, D McQuestin, BE Dollery Public Administration 97 (1), 132-146, 2019 | 20 | 2019 |
| Do amalgamations make a difference? What we can learn from evaluating the policy success of a large scale forced amalgamation of local government D McQuestin, J Drew, M Miyazaki Public Administration Quarterly 45 (3), 278-298, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
| Did amalgamation make local government more fit for the future? J Drew, D McQuestin, B Dollery Australian journal of public administration 81 (2), 383-398, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
| Is a problem shared a problem halved? Shared services and municipal efficiency D McQuestin, J Drew Australian Journal of Public Administration 78 (2), 265-280, 2019 | 7 | 2019 |
| The association between budget inaccuracy and technical efficiency in Australian local government D McQuestin, M Noguchi, J Drew Public money & management 42 (4), 251-261, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
| The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation D McQuestin, J Drew, H Iiboshi Local government studies 49 (5), 953-974, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
| The Price of Populism: The Association between Directly Elected Mayors and Unit Expenditure in Local Government. D McQuestin, J Drew Lex Localis-Journal of Local Self-Government 16 (4), 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| No panacea: Rate-capping in South Australian local government B Dollery, D McQuestin Economic Analysis and Policy 56, 79-85, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Worth the wait: The impact of government funding on hospital emergency waiting times D McQuestin, M Noguchi Health policy 124 (12), 1340-1344, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
| Fiscal outcomes arising from amalgamation: more complex than merely economies of scale J Drew, D McQuestin, B Dollery Public Management Review, 1-19, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
| Is ‘more’better? Testing the assumption that larger local governments are more sustainable J Drew, M Miyazaki, D McQuestin Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Financial Sustainability and Local Government Reform DK McQuestin PQDT-Global, 2021 | | 2021 |
| The Association between Budget Inaccuracy and Technical Efficiency in Australian Local Government J Drew, D McQuestin | | 2020 |
| The Price of Populism: Directly Elected Mayors and Expenditure in Local Government J Drew, D McQuestin Lex Localis-Journal of Local Self-Government, 2018 | | 2018 |
| The Pecuniary Implications of Municipal Shared Service Arrangements DK McQuestin | | |
Joseph DrewProfessor of Local Government Economics, University of NewcastleVerified email at newcastle.edu.au
