OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Insti is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of new public management on the quality of public services	92
An agenda for the study of Public Administration in Developing Countries	45
“Promotion tournament 2.0”: Why local cadres expand health‐care provision in China	29
(Un)principled principals, (un)principled agents: The differential effects of managerial civil service reforms on corruption in developing and OECD countries	22
Information, power, and location: World Bank staff decentralization and aid project success	21
Bringing political science back into public administration research	20
Government information disclosure and citizen coproduction during COVID‐19 in China	18
The polity of implementation: Organizational and institutional arrangements in policy implementation	18
Information capacity and social order: The local politics of information integration in China	18
Is impartiality enough? Government impartiality and citizens' perceptions of public service quality	18
When new public management fails: Infrastructure public–private partnerships and political constraints in developing and transitional economies	17
Understanding Felt Accountability	17
Can campaign‐style enforcement work: When and how? Evidence from straw burning control in China	17
Narratives of digital sovereignty in German political discourse	17
Taking the bite out of administrative burdens: How beneficiaries of a Mexican social program ease administrative burdens in street‐level interactions	16
Understanding self‐regulation for political control and policymaking: Effects of governance mechanisms on accountability	15
Kingdon's multiple streams approach in new political contexts: Consolidation, configuration, and new findings	15
The extra‐legal governance of corruption: Tracing the organization of corruption in public procurement	15
Countering fragmentation, taking back the state, or partisan agenda‐setting? Explaining policy integration and administrative coordination reforms	14
Within the shadow of hierarchy: The role of hierarchical interventions in environmental collaborative governance	14
Policy venue preference and relative trust in government in federal systems	13
Understanding evolving public motivational practices: An institutional analysis	13
The role of agencification in achieving value‐for‐money in public spending	13
The technocratic tendencies of economists in government bureaucracy	12
Exploring political personalities: The micro‐foundation of local policy innovation in China	12

Unimplementable by design? Understanding (non‐)compliance with International Monetary Fund policy conditionality	12
Political and administrative control of expert groups—A mixed‐methods study	12
Public sector corruption and perceived government performance in transition	12
Goats or wolves? Private sector managers in the public sector	11
Why do nondemocratic regimes promote e‐participation? The case of Moscow's active citizen online voting platform	11
Citizen political knowledge and accountability: Survey evidence on devolution in Kenya	10
Innovation, voice, and hierarchy in the public sector: Evidence from Ghana's civil service	10
Legitimacy crises and the temporal dynamics of bureaucratic representation	10
Collaborative public sector innovation: An analysis of Italy, Japan, and Turkey	10
Elite bargains and policy priorities in authoritarian regimes: Agenda setting in China under Xi Jinping and Hu Jintao	10
Coordination inside government administrations: Lessons from the EU Commission	10
“What isn't in the files, isn't in the world”: Understanding state ignorance of irregular migration in Germany and the United Kingdom	10
Of democratic governance and revenue: Participatory institutions and tax generation in Brazil	10
Regional spillover into third‐order European elections	9
Acting out or playing along: A typology of citizens' low trust responses to public organizations	9
Trust‐based corruption networks: A comparative analysis of two municipal governments	9
On democratic intelligence and failure: The vice and virtue of incrementalism under political fragmentation and policy accumulation	9
Proximity and distance: Think tanks handling the independence paradox	9
Agencies in the news? Public agencies' media evaluations in a low‐trust context	8
Foreign aid projects and trust in political institutions	8
Professional ecologies in European sustainable finance	8
The political cost of public–private partnerships: Theory and evidence from Colombian infrastructure development	8
Policy diffusion through leadership transfer networks: Direct or indirect connections?	8
The imperative of state capacity in public health crisis: Asia's early COVID‐19 policy responses	8
Private management of public networks? Unpacking the relationship between network management strategies in infrastructure implementation	8
Sex, gender, and promotion in executive office: Cabinet careers in the world of Westminster	8
Competition and service quality: Evidence from Swedish residential care homes	8
Institutional vulnerability and trust in public agencies: Views from both sides of the street	8
The territorial architecture of government	8
Resisting public monitoring in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from local environmental litigation in China	7
Interacting institutional logics in policy implementation	7
Representative bureaucracy, role congruence, and Kenya's gender quota	7
Corruption experiences and attitudes to political, interpersonal, and domestic violence	7
Economic globalization and decentralization: A centrifugal or centripetal relationship?	7
Beyond street‐level procedural justice: Social construction, policy shift, and ethnic disparities in confidence in government institutions	7
Transnational governance in motion: Regional development banks, power politics, and the rise and fall of South America's infrastructure integration	7
Cabinet size and governance in Sub‐Saharan Africa	6
Public administration and political science: Can this marriage be saved?	6
Authoritarian innovations in labor governance: The case of Cambodia	6
Explaining interest group litigation in Europe: Evidence from the comparative interest group survey	6
Critical thoughts about critical mass in representative bureaucracy: A theoretical exploration and empirical illustration	6
Willingness to pay taxes through mutual trust: The effect of fairness, governability,tax‐enforcementand outsourcing on local tax collection rates	6
Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change	6
Conflict and salience as drivers of corporate lobbying? An elite survey experiment	6
Termination, aggregation, or replacement? A competing risks approach to agency transitions	6
Court performance and citizen attitudes toward fighting corruption	5
Ethnic identity and local government responsiveness in Taiwan	5
The godfather provides: Enduring corruption and organizational hierarchy in the Kenyan police service	5
Interests over institutions: Political‐economic constraints on public debt management in developing countries	5
Can social welfare buy mass loyalty?	5

International court curbing in Geneva: Lessons from the paralysis of the WTO Appellate Body	5
Reversing delegation? Politicization, de‐delegation, and non‐majoritarian institutions	5
Beyond consultocracy and servants of power: Explaining the role of consultants in policy formulation	5
Information exchange in governance networks—Who brokers across political divides?	5
Institutional proximity and judicial corruption: A spatial approach	5
The politics of government reorganization inWestern Europe	5
National policy piloting as steering at a distance: The perspective of local implementers	5
Navigating welfare regimes in divided societies: Diversity and the quality of service delivery in Lebanon	5
Serving quarreling masters: Frontline workers and policy implementation under pressure	5
A shift in paradigm? Collaborative public administration in the context of national digitalization strategies	5
Democracy, public debt transparency, and sovereign creditworthiness	4
How politicians see their relationship with top bureaucrats: Revisiting classical images	4
It takes a village to build illegality: Minorities' noncompliance as manifestation of distrust	4
Place matters: Analyzing the roots of political distrust and Brexit narratives at a local level	4
Fatal remedies. How dealing with policy conflict can backfire in a context of trust‐erosion	4
Messaging about corruption: The power of social norms	4
Separation of powers, opposition strength, and chief executives' strategy	4
Compliance with government policies during emergencies: Trust, participation and protective actions	4
Infrastructural state capacity in the digital age: What drives the performance of COVID‐19 tracing apps?	4
Do governments keep their promises? An analysis of speeches from the throne	4
Hungry for power? Regional elites and the architecture of government	4
Money down the drain: Corruption and water service quality in Africa	4
Central bank independence in Latin America: Politicization and de‐delegation	4
Does voluntary cooperation in member state implementation require top‐down steering? The case of regional policy in Switzerland	4
Bureaucratic locus of control	4
From quiet to noisy politics: Varieties of European reactions to 5G and Huawei	4
Keeping control of regulation? Domestic constraints on the creation of independent authorities in emerging and developing economies	4
Is there anything Left? The politics of social spending in new democracies	4
Condemned to complexity? Growing state activity and complex policy systems	4
The Belgian mental health reform: When a combination of soft instruments hampers structural change	4
Help your neighbor, help yourself: The drivers of European Union's climate cooperation in trans‐governmental networks with its neighbors	4
Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance	4
Divided loyalties? The role of national IO staff in aid‐funded procurement	4
Collaborative governance platforms and outcomes: An analysis of Clean Cities coalitions	4