Political determinants in the strategic planning formulation of smart initiatives Alcaide Muñoz, Laura Rodríguez Bolívar, Manuel Pedro Alcaide Muñoz, Cristina Strategic planning Political attributes Smart cities Smart initiatives The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by financial support from the Centre of Andalusian Studies (PR137/19), Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (RTI2018-095344-A100) and Regional Government of Andalusia, Spain (research project numbers P20_00314 and B-SEJ-556-UGR20). Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Granada / CBUA. Governments increasingly promote the adoption of smart initiatives based on the intensive use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to face urban challenges and improve the quality of life of citizens. Multiple styles of smart initiatives have been developed, depending on the government leadership, the level of participation, collaboration, and involvement of stakeholders and institutions in public decision-taking processes. In this respect, this paper identifies patterns of public strategies in their strategic planning approaches focused on political attributes, analysing 1635 smart initiatives disclosed on internet by 12 Spanish Smart Cities. Findings reveals that formal strategic planning is mainly performed in Smart Cities with conservative and coalition governments and where the predominant scope of strategy is global. 2023-01-31T07:57:06Z 2023-01-31T07:57:06Z 2023-01-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Alcaide Muñoz, L., Rodríguez Bolívar, M.P. and Alcaide Muñoz, C. (2023). Political determinants in the strategic planning formulation of smart initiatives. Government Information Quarterly, 40(1), 101776 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/79456 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2022.101776 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier