OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Administration is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond co‐production: Value creation and public services	76
Policy instruments at work: A meta‐analysis of their applications	46
The future of public administration research: An editor's perspective	45
Target‐setting, political incentives, and the tricky trade‐off between economic development and environmental protection	44
Challenging the necessity of New Public Governance: Co‐production by third sector organizations under different models of public management	43
Burdens, Sludge, Ordeals, Red tape, Oh My!: A User's Guide to the Study of Frictions	38
Public servant stereotypes: It is not (at) all about being lazy, greedy and corrupt	35
Policy design and public support for carbon tax: Evidence from a 2018 US national online survey experiment	35
Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses	33
Street‐level bureaucrats and policy entrepreneurship: When implementers challenge policy design	32
Distinguishing the street‐level policy entrepreneur	32
A long road: Patterns and prospects for social equity, diversity, and inclusion in public administration	32
Reflecting on over 100 years of public administration education	31
Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe	27
Assessing public value failure in government adoption of artificial intelligence	23
Corruption consolidation in local governments: A grounded analytical framework	22
CO‐DESIGN‐ing a more context‐based, pluralistic, and participatory future for public administration	21
Social workers as street‐level policy entrepreneurs	21
Working through the fog of a pandemic: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in times of crises	20
Question order bias revisited: A split‐ballot experiment on satisfaction with public services among experienced and professional users	20
A replication of “Representative bureaucracy and the willingness to coproduce”	19
Intersectionality and equity: Dynamic bureaucratic representation in higher education	18
Integrating citizen deliberation into climate governance: Lessons on robust design from six climate assemblies	18
Street‐level bureaucrats as policy entrepreneurs: Action strategies for flexible community governance in China	18
Emotional labor and employee outcomes: A meta‐analysis	17

Gender‐responsive budgeting: A budget reform to address gender inequity	17
Designing for adaptation: Static and dynamic robustness in policy‐making	17
Multilevel reinforcing dynamics: Global climate governance and European renewable energy policy	17
The public sector and co‐creation in turbulent times: A systematic literature review on robust governance in the COVID‐19 emergency	17
The costs of corporatization: Analysing the effects of forms of governance	17
Gaming the system: Responses to dissatisfaction with public services beyond exit and voice	16
Political opportunism and transaction costs in contractual choice of public–private partnerships	16
How to implement policy: Coping with ambiguity and uncertainty	15
The fragmentation of public administration: Differentiated and decentered governance in the (dis)United Kingdom	15
Public sector creativity as the origin of public sector innovation: A taxonomy and future research agenda	15
How local governments prioritize multiple conflicting goals: Beyond the sole‐goal perspective	15
A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics	15
Distributed leadership and performance‐related employee outcomes in public sector organizations	14
“I have learned my lesson”: How clients' trust betrayals shape the future ways in which street‐level bureaucrats cope with their clients	14
Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value	14
Machine coding of policy texts with the Institutional Grammar	14
Robust crisis communication in turbulent times: Conceptualization and empirical evidence from the United States	14
Toward a positive theory of public participation in government: Variations in New York City's participatory budgeting	14
How bureaucrats shape political decisions: The role of policy information	14
Institutional Grammar 2.0: A specification for encoding and analyzing institutional design	14
Institutional design for a complex commons: Variations in the design of credible commitments and the provision of public goods	14
Dancing on a tightrope: The reputation management of local governments in response to public protests in China	13
The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency	13
Representative bureaucracy and impartial policing	13
The management consultancy effect: Demand inflation and its consequences in the sourcing of external knowledge	13
Dealing with multiple principals in at arm's length organizations: A qualitative study of Dutch municipally owned corporations	12
Consultancies in public administration	12
Need, justice and central–local relations: The case of social assistance in China	12
When does transparency improve public services? Street‐level discretion, information, and targeting	12
Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times	12
Marketization reforms and co‐production: Does ownership of service delivery structures and customer language matter?	12
Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more	11
Corporatization and political ideology: The case of hospitals in Spain	11
Managing policy‐making in the local climate governance landscape: The role of network administrative organizations and member cities	11
The webs of belief around ‘evidence’ in legislatures: The case of select committees in the UK House of Commons	11
Effects of local government social media use on citizen compliance during a crisis: Evidence from the COVID‐19 crisis in China	11
All you need is … a network: The rise of interpretive public administration	11
Thinking outside the box, improvisation, and fast learning: Designing policy robustness to deal with what cannot be foreseen	10
Network structures and network effects across management and policy contexts: A systematic review	10
Policy preferences in response to negative economic prospects of COVID‐19: A survey‐experiment among local politicians in four European countries	10
Contextual recipes for adopting private control and trust in public–private partnership governance	10
Professional expertise in policy advisory systems: How administrators and consultants built behavioral insights in Danish public agencies	10
Exploring the foundational origins of public service motivation through the lens of behavioral genetics	10
Linking political and bureaucratic representation: Does minority representation on city councils affect the outcomes of street‐level service?	10
Personnel governance of corporatized public services: Effects of executive resources and corporation forms on turnover	10
Talk or type? The effect of digital interfaces on citizens' satisfaction with standardized public services	10
Corporatization of public services	10
The core executive and small states: Is coordination the primary challenge?	10
Remapping the European agenda‐setting landscape	9
A replication of “Contracting out: For What? With Whom?”	9

Professional development leadership in turbulent times: Public administration symposium: Robust politics and governance in turbulent times	9
Representative bureaucracy and the policy environment: Gender representation in Forty‐Four countries	9
Seeking the spotlight: How reputational considerations shape the European Court of Auditor's shifting account‐holding role	9
The politics of FinTech: Technology, regulation, and disruption in UK and German retail banking	9
Duopoly, court politics and the Danish core executive	9
Only hearing what they want to hear: Assessing when and why performance information triggers intentions to coproduce	8
COVID‐19‐induced governance transformation: How external shocks may spur cross‐organizational collaboration and trust‐based management	8
A micro‐process model of institutional complexity in public hybrid organizations: Construal of identity threats and mitigation strategies	8
Voice, responsiveness, and alternative policy venues: An analysis of citizen complaints against the local government to the national Ombudsman	8
The European Parliament's role as an informal EU agenda setter: The influence of own initiative reports	8
The corporatization of healthcare organizations internationally: A scoping review of processes, impacts, and mediators	8
Effects of representative bureaucracy on perceived performance and fairness: Experimental evidence from South Asia	8
“Success” in policy piloting: Process, programs, and politics	8
Bureaucratic responsiveness in times of political crisis: The case of presidential impeachment	8
Collaborating with the competition? A study of interlocal partnership choices	8
Data sharing in small and medium US cities: The role of community characteristics	8
Service quality and the optimum number of members in intermunicipal cooperation: The case of emergency primary care services in Norway	8
Putting the international in Public Administration: An International Quarterly. A historical review of 1992–2022	8
Population analysis of organizational innovation and learning	8
Intra‐provincial fiscal decentralization, relative wealth, and healthcare efficiency: Empirical evidence from China	8
Do organizational differences matter for the use of social media by public organizations? A computational analysis of the way the German police use Twitter for external communication	8
How does diversity affect public organizational performance? A meta‐analysis	8
Financial reporting transparency, citizens' understanding, and public participation: A survey experiment study	8