The Inner Functioning of Local Governance Networks in Centralized Countries: A ‘Brave New World’?

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors,

Glad to hear you are in good health. Regarding scientific work, there must be a major revision as part of improving the quality of the manuscript. I channeled 7 points of constructive comments. You can highlight them in the attached article. Any changes and revisions, must be adjusted based on the recommendations suggested by the reviewers. Waiting for improvement from you and colleagues.

Best wishes,

Anonymous reviewer

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

We would like to thank the reviewers and the editors for the interesting and helpful comments made to our article. The article was revised taking those comments into consideration. The changes made to the original manuscript are explained in the following tables.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors

I greatly appreciate the subject of the article and congratulate the authors for the idea and the scientific contribution to the exploration of the field. However, during the course of the material, I could not open/see the information/data within the tables and figures, which is why I request the authors to send them.

Author Response

We would like to thank the reviewers and the editors for the interesting and helpful comments made to our article. The article was revised taking those comments into consideration. The changes made to the original manuscript are explained in the following tables.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear Authors,

I have read with great interest your document and I think it has the potential to contribute to scholarship.

However, content, arguments and discussion of findings can not be taken for granted. Please, take the time to clearly explain your purposes, notions/concepts you want to explore further.

 

Also, please refer to the Guidelines for Authors, there are some issues you will be able to solve by taking into consideration this Journal section.

 

To completely access my comments/suggestions please refer to the revised version of the manuscript.

 

Regards,

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

We would like to thank the reviewers and the editors for the interesting and helpful comments made to our article. The article was revised taking those comments into consideration. The changes made to the original manuscript are explained in the following tables.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 4 Report

To further improve the text, I suggest the following changes in the manuscript.
Abstract: Abstract should be written in concise. I would suggest listing only some of the most important results to justify the implications and conclusions of the study.
The background of an introduction should be revised accordingly.
The introduction is very good. It doesn't reflect the goal; please rewrite it again, it is suggested to include some latest reference. 
Objectives of this study must be included at end of introduction part. 
I highly recommended to authors, if possible, please modify the figure with good quality images. 
The economic intuition behind the results are missing. The author/s should revise the discussion part. The result should be supported with recent studies.
What is contribution of this work to existing literature? 
It has been observed that the authors have used old references and ignored the latest studies. So it is suggested to add recent references. Please check reference section some references are missing.The policy implications also required elaboration. The implications should go along with the results and the course of action should be discussed in this part. In some places, some grammatical errors are found that need to be fixed.

Author Response

We would like to thank the reviewers and the editors for the interesting and helpful comments made to our article. The article was revised taking those comments into consideration. The changes made to the original manuscript are explained in the following tables.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors,

You and colleagues have made corrections professionally. All revisions were also constructively highlighted. For this reason, I agree to the revised text that is attached for further review by the editorial board to proceed to the publication stage process.

Best wishes,

Anonymous reviewer

Author Response

We would like to thank the reviewers and the editors for the interesting and helpful comments made to our article. The article was revised taking those comments into consideration. The changes made to the original manuscript are explained in the following table.

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear Authors,

 

I invite you to make one more effort in order to publish your manuscript (methods!)

 

Please refer to the revised version of the document.

 

Regards

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

We would like to thank the reviewers and the editors for the interesting and helpful comments made to our article. The article was revised taking those comments into consideration. The changes made to the original manuscript are explained in the following table.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 4 Report

accept

Author Response

Thank you. Further revisions were included, as requested by other Reviewers. 

We would like to thank the reviewers and the editors for the interesting and helpful comments made to our article.