OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Review of Administrative Sciences is 2. 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
Tracing divergence in crisis governance: responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Germany and Sweden compared	70
Two routes to precarious success: Australia, New Zealand, COVID-19 and the politics of crisis governance	38
The journey of participatory budgeting: a systematic literature review and future research directions	28
Opportunity management of the COVID-19 pandemic: testing the crisis from a global perspective	26
Understanding the evolution of open government data research: towards open data sustainability and smartness	23
High-stakes crisis management in the Low Countries: Comparing government responses to COVID-19	22
A comparative study of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and Japan: political nexus triad and policy responses	20
Governing healthcare in India: a policy capacity perspective	18
Government technological capacity and public–private partnerships regarding digital service delivery: evidence from Chinese cities	17
Understanding drivers of illiberal entrenchment at critical junctures: institutional responses to COVID-19 in Hungary and Poland	17
Gender budgeting in public financial management: a literature review and research agenda	16
Country, sector and method effects in studying remunicipalization: a meta-analysis	15
The politics of crisis management by regional and international organizations in fighting against a global pandemic: the member states at a crossroads	15
Urban platforms as a mode of governance	15
Seeking opportunities from crisis? China’s governance responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Building administrative capacity for development: limits and prospects	14
Intergovernmental veto points in crisis management: Italy and Spain facing the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Do transparency mechanisms reduce government corruption? A meta-analysis	13
A cascade of exclusion: administrative burdens and access to citizenship in the case of Argentina’s National Identity Document	13
Drivers of service delivery modes in Dutch local government: an analysis over time and across domains	13
Public governance, agility and pandemics: a case study of the UK response to COVID-19	13
Delegating diplomacy: rhetoric across agents in the United Nations General Assembly	12
Re-municipalization of local public services: incidence, causes and prospects	12
The influence of team members’ motivation and leaders’ behaviour on scientific knowledge sharing in universities	12
Towards accounting harmonization in Europe: a multinational survey among budget experts	11

Government choice between contract termination and contract expiration in re-municipalization: a case of historical recurrence?	11
Discursive framing and organizational venues: mechanisms of artificial intelligence policy adoption	11
Participatory budgeting and government efficiency: evidence from municipal governments in South Korea	11
Innovative work behaviors and networking across government	11
How do international bureaucrats affect policy outputs? Studying administrative influence strategies in international organizations	9
Increasing the cost of participation: red tape and public officials’ attitudes toward public participation	9
Corruption and the quality of transportation infrastructure: evidence from the US states	8
How a participatory process with inclusive structural design allocates resources toward poor neighborhoods: the case of participatory budgeting in Seoul, South Korea	8
Does process matter more for predicting trust in government? Participation, performance, and process, in local government in Japan	8
Between life and death: organizational change in central state bureaucracies in cross-national comparison	8
Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions: a systematic review of the literature	8
Explaining sentiment shifts in UN system annual reporting: a longitudinal comparison of UNHCR, UNRWA and IOM	8
Sustainable development goals in public administrations: Enabling conditions in local governments	8
How citizens’ dissatisfaction with street-level bureaucrats’ exercise of discretion leads to the alternative supply of public services: the case of Israeli marriage registrars	7
Impact of Asian cultural values upon leadership roles and styles	7
Changing civil servants’ behaviour concerning the opening of governmental data: evaluating the effect of a game by comparing civil servants’ intentions before and after a game intervention	7
Building administrative capacity under developmental states in Chile and Singapore: a comparative perspective	7
Policy recommendations of international bureaucracies: the importance of country-specificity	7
Staff recruitment and geographical representation in international organizations	7
International bureaucracy and the United Nations system: introduction	7
The relationship between public service employees’ personal resources and psychological well-being	7
Digitization and urban governance: The city as a reflection of its data infrastructure	7
Technology symbolization: political mechanism of local e-government adoption and implementation	7
Policy capacity matters for capacity development: comparing teacher in-service training and career advancement in basic education systems of India and China	6
Government spending and economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa region	6
External control mechanisms and red tape: testing the roles of external audit and evaluation on red tape in quasi-governmental organizations	6
Quality of governance and political support in China, Japan, and South Korea	6
Rationale and process transparency do not reduce perceived red tape: evidence from a survey experiment	6
Lessons from public administration for global governance: Conclusions of the special issue on “International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System.”	6
From the participatory turn of administrations to the bureaucratisation of participatory democracy: study based on the French case	5
Exploring e-maturity in Italian local governments: empirical results from a three-step latent class analysis	5
Exploration of the technocratic mentality among European civil servants	5
The relationship between fiscal decentralization and trust in government: evidence from the South Korean case	5
Organizational commitment across different institutional settings: how perceived procedural constraints frustrate self-sacrifice	5
Coopetition in a merger process: Regulators and management of coopetitive tensions	5
International public administration on the tip of the tongue: language as a feature of representative bureaucracy in the Economic Community of West African States	5
The unsustainable political economy of investor–state dispute settlement mechanisms¹	5
The effect of pay for performance on work attitudes in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors: A panel study from South Korea	5
Interconnected bureaucracies? Comparing online and offline networks during global climate negotiations	5
Perceived organizational support in public and nonprofit organizations: Systematic review and directions for future research	4
Introducing a digital tool for sustainability impact assessments within the German Federal Government: A neo-institutional perspective	4
What brings contracting back in-house? A synthesis of international evidence	4
Successful remunicipalization processes in Italian waste management: Triggers, key success factors, and results	4
The role of Post-New Public Management in shaping innovation: the case of a public hospital	4
Public–private partnership in a smart city: A curious case in Japan	4
Administrative delegation revisited: Experimental evidence on the behavioural consequences of public service motivation and risk aversion	4
Social value in public enterprises from the perspective of Creating Shared Value (CSV): The case of the Korea Expressway Corporation	4
The information phase of accountability: The role of management boards in European Union agencies	4
Government research institutes in the Italian policy advisory system	4
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium	4

The digital communication tools and citizens' relationship with local governments: a comparison of Georgian and Polish cities	4
Political trust in a multilevel polity: patterns of differentiation among more and less politically sophisticated citizens	4
Transparency and the efficiency of multi-actor decision-making processes: an empirical analysis of 244 decisions in the European Union	4
An employee perspective of human resource development practices in the public sector: the role of organizational and supervisor support	3
Getting integrative urban regeneration strategies done: Insights from Antwerp and Gothenburg	3
Public trust in the Chinese government and life satisfaction during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Relational dimensions, motivation and knowledge-sharing in healthcare: a perspective from relational models theory	3
Changes in public service motivation: Can public administration education help cultivate it?	3
Smart criminal justice: Phenomena and normative requirements	3
Public service bargains and non-partisan ministerial advisors: servants of two masters	3
A meta-analysis of how the culture and technical development level influence citizens’ adoption of m-government	3
Preparing public health at the front lines: effectiveness of training received by environmental health inspectors in the Caribbean	3
Stakeholder engagement and the future of Irish public–private partnerships	3
Understanding the impact of mandatory accrual accounting on management practices: interpretation of Japanese local governments’ behavior	3
Local public innovation: an analysis of its perceived impacts on public performance	3
Strategic alignment of open government initiatives in Andalusia	3
How can subnational governments develop and deliver distinctive policy agendas?	3
What determines public affairs researchers’ motivations for policy impact? Results from an exploratory study	3
A stakeholder perspective on public sector innovation: Linking the target groups of innovations to the inclusion of stakeholder ideas	3
Governance capacity and regulatory enforcement: street-level organizations in Beijing’s food safety reform	3
Administrative convergence in the United Nations system? Patterns of administrative reform in four United Nations organizations over time	2
Local government’s response to dissatisfaction with centralized policies: the “do-it-yourself” approach	2
Happiness in developing countries: can government competitiveness substitute for formal institutions?	2
Agencification revisited: trends in consolidation of central government administration in Europe	2
“Money is not an issue!”: Hospital CFOs’ narratives about handling a sudden shift in managerial focus	2
Policy advice utilization in Belgian ministerial cabinets: the contingent importance of internal and external sources of advice	2
Analysis of the perception of digital government and artificial intelligence in the public sector in Jalisco, Mexico	2
The relevance of budget transparency for development	2
Marketization in a statist-corporatist nonprofit sector: the case of Hong Kong	2
The top-heavy shape of authoritarian bureaucracy: evidence from Russia and China	2
Does psychological empowerment condition the impact of public service motivation on perceived organizational performance? Evidence from the US federal government	2
Access to drinking water in sub-Saharan Africa: does the developmental state doctrine matter?	2
Public governance tensions: a managerial artefacts-based view	2
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design	2
Hidden pressure: the effects of politicians on projects of collaborative innovation	2
Governance and public policies: Support for women entrepreneurs in France and England?	2