Public Administration

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Administration 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Implementing city sustainability: overcoming administrative silos to achieve functional collective action, Rachel M.Krause and Christopher V.Hawkins, Temple University Press, 2021, 269 pages92
Making information silent: How opacity takes root in local governments?62
An (in)effective tax and expenditure limit (TEL): Why county governments do not utilize their maximum allotted property tax rate61
Legislative influence on administrative decision making in Pennsylvania's Abandoned and Orphan Well Plugging Program53
Credible signaling to promote local compliance: Evidence from China's multiwave inspection of environmental protection49
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A recipe for success? The importance of perceptions of goal agreement in cross‐sector collaboration37
Permanently provisional: An ethnographic analysis of responsive governance practices in and through meetings33
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management: A Primer. By RobertAgranoff, AlekseyKolpakov, New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 322. ISBN: 978100338576933
Public Employees' whistleblowing intention: Explanation by an adapted theory of planned behavior31
How international are public administration journals? An analysis of the persistent Anglo‐American dominance in public administration journals30
Embracing the ambiguity: Tracing climate response diversity in urban water management30
Meet all changes with constancy: The dynamic adaptation process of county governments in China29
Handbook on gender and public administration. By P.Shields, N.Elias (Eds.), Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2022. pp. 434. 280.00 USD for print, 65.00 USD for ebook, ISBN: 9781789904734, 178990428
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Title in English: Introduction to public management: A citizen‐centered state [Original title: Introducción a la gestión pública, un estado al servicio de la ciudadanía]. Mario Waissbluth in co24
Seeding the cloud: Consultancy services in the nascent field of cyber capacity building24
Larger, Not Leaner? Agencification and the Size of the Administrative Overhead in Local Governments23
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Influences on e‐governance in Africa: A study of economic, political, and infrastructural dynamics22
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Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks21
Regional network‐building for complexity: A region‐oriented policy response to increasing and varied demands for older person care in the Netherlands21
Accountability as a function of power relationships in public governance networks20
Fiscal easing in local governments facing potential merger: Visible in budgets or hidden in overruns?19
Entrepreneurial leadership and innovation in the public sector: The role of causal‐ and effectual‐logic processes19
Interpreting performance information: Motivated reasoning or unbiased comprehension? A replication and extension18
Patient capital and no net loss: Applying institutional theory to understand publicly‐owned mitigation banking in an urban context at a United States port18
Why do politicians perceive the same financial conditions differently?18
Reflecting on over 100 years of public administration education18
Towards inclusive public administration systems: Public budgeting from the perspective of critical race theory17
Coproduction of core and complementary tasks in times of service decline: Experimental evidence17
Key values for democratic governance innovation: Two traditions and a synthesis17
Are public spaces welcoming to all? A conjoint experiment on cultural representation and inclusionary practices in museums17
Coordinating monetary policy and macroprudential policy: Bureaucratic politics, regulatory intermediary, and bank lobbying17
The impact of service separation on value: A longitudinal study of user and provider experiences in a mental health service16
The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency15
From “business‐like” to businesses: Agencification, corporatization, and civil service reform under the Thatcher administration15
Why create government corporations? An examination of the determinants of corporatization in the Canadian public sector15
Can gender‐responsive budgeting change how governments budget?: Lessons from the case of Ecuador15
Collaborating with the competition? A study of interlocal partnership choices14
All you need is … a network: The rise of interpretive public administration14
The effects of contractual and relational governance on public‐private partnership sustainability13
Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value13
A replication of “Representative bureaucracy and the willingness to coproduce”13
Ignoring by complying: How public officials handle hybridity to pursue the goals of new public governance12
Public management: A research overview. By TomEntwistle, London: Routledge. 2022. pp. 114. USD 25.59 (paperback) ISBN: 978103206403112
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The administrative burden of doing business with the government: Learning and compliance costs in Business‐Government interactions12
Member duality and policy tourism: Learning in interlocal policy networks12
Which job attributes attract individuals high in public service motivation and self‐efficacy to a public service job?12
Who should we pay more? Exploring the influence of pay for elected officials and bureaucrats on organizational performance in South African local government12
Skeptic, enthusiast, guarantor or believer? Public managers' perception of participatory budgeting12
Work safety regulation in China: the CCP's fatality quota system. Gao Jie, Routledge: Routledge Contemporary China Series, (2022). 247 pp., $US160 (hard cover), ISBN: 978‐1‐138‐1824412
Herbert Simon's Legacy for Public Administration12
Learning to govern: A typology of ministerial learning styles12
By DavidCoen, AlexanderKatsaitis, MatiaVannoni. New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. Business lobbying in the European Union. pp. 240. ISBN: 978019958975311
Potter, Rachel Augustine. Bending the rules: Procedural politicking in the bureaucracy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2019, 244 pages11
What motivates users to report service‐related issues? A study on coproduction in a smart public service11
The effect of institutional support and relational capital on knowledge mobilization in public administration research11
When do societal stakeholders matter for agency‐CEOs? The role of stakeholder arrangements and social media attention11
When the cat is away: How institutional autonomy, low salience, and issue complexity shape administrative action11
Human resource management as a tool to control corruption: Evidence from Mexican municipal governments10
Public Service Motivation and Public Opinion: Examining Antecedents and Attitudes (Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration), Piatak, Jaclyn and Holt, Stephen, Cambridge: Cambridge University P10
Beyond co‐production: Value creation and public services10
Leader empowering and upper echelons decision‐making: How and when does top managers' empowering leadership promote decision‐making speed and comprehensiveness in public organizations?10
Hope the high road leads us home again: A review of American administrative capacity: Decline, decay, and resilience10
Seeing the water: Three great books for contemporary public administration10
COVID‐19‐induced governance transformation: How external shocks may spur cross‐organizational collaboration and trust‐based management10
Managing technical reputation: Regulatory agencies and evidential work in risk assessment10
Correction to “Public value creation and appropriation mechanisms in public–private partnerships: How does it play a role?”9
Examining attitudes toward public participation across sectors: An experimental study of food assistance9
Change leadership and change embeddedness in public organizations: Connecting macrolevel reform to microlevel implementation9
A Polyphonic Debate on Social Equity Budgeting9
Policy advocacy of nongovernmental organizations in China: A quasi‐replication of Zhan and Tang (2013, 2016)9
Aggressions and associations: How workplace violence affects what public employees think of citizens9
The a priori of public leadership: Social attributions to public and private leaders in different performance contexts9
A new era for Public Administration9
Street‐level bureaucrats as policy entrepreneurs: Action strategies for flexible community governance in China9
Leveraging normative power in co‐production to redress power imbalances9
Intra‐provincial fiscal decentralization, relative wealth, and healthcare efficiency: Empirical evidence from China8
A framework for analyzing organizational culture among politicians: Exploring implications for participatory governance schemes8
The association between public managers' type of education and prioritizing core service provision and communication8
Corporatization and political ideology: The case of hospitals in Spain8
“One, none, and a hundred thousand” recipes for a robust response to turbulence8
Building Resilient Communities by Fostering Social Equity in Public Administration: Analyzing the Influence of Social Capital on COVID‐19 Vaccination Rates in Communities With Varying Socia8
On the character of the new entrepreneurial National Health Service in England: Reforming health care from within?8
What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy8
Engaging stakeholders on TikTok: A multi‐level social media analysis of nonprofit Microvlogging8
Deservingness at the frontline: How health‐related responsibility cues affect sanctioning and prioritization of citizens8
Exploring the Combinatorial Effects of Collaborative Factors Leading to Higher Degree of Co‐Production8
What matters the most in curbing early COVID‐19 mortality? A cross‐country necessary condition analysis7
A replication of “the effects of making public service employees aware of their prosocial and societal impact”7
Administrative intensity and local resident satisfaction in Victorian local government7
Human resources information systems: a guide for public administrators. Valcik, N. A., Sabharwal, M., Benavides, T. J. (2021). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland7
Creating a public service topology: Mapping public service motivation, public service ethos, and public service values7
Robust emergency management: The role of institutional trust in organized volunteers7
Public assessments of ministerial leadership in times of national crisis: The case of the pandemic crisis7
Population analysis of organizational innovation and learning6
Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation?6
Opening the “black box” of public administration: The need for interpretive research6
The way the money goes: The fiscal constitution and public spending in the UK. By ChristopherHood, MaiaKing, IainMcLean, Barbara MariaPiotrowska. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 6
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Spending allocations during low and high fiscal stress: Priority setters and spending advocates in Danish municipalities, 2008–20156
Seeing the nudge from the trees: The 4S framework for evaluating nudges6
How rediscovering nodality can improve democratic governance in a digital world6
Paths to trust: Explaining citizens' trust to experts and evidence‐informed policymaking during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Applying an intersectional understanding of extra work behavior and emotional exhaustion in local public service6
Government statistical agencies and the politics of credibility6
Global scientific production, international cooperation, and knowledge evolution of public administration6
Does bureaucratic representation enhance overall organizational accountability in policing?6
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Government analytics: From the information age to the digital age By Daniel Rogger, Christian Schuster. Washington, DC: World Bank Publications. 2023. pp. 760. ISBN: 97814648195756
How governments borrow: Partisan politics, constrained institutions, and sovereign debt in emerging markets. By BenCormier, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 192. £90.00 (hbk). ISBN6
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“I have learned my lesson”: How clients' trust betrayals shape the future ways in which street‐level bureaucrats cope with their clients5
Governing the pandemic: The politics of navigating a mega‐crisisArjenBoin, AllanMcConnell & Paul't HartPalgrave Macmillan, ebook, 20215
How personnel allocation affects performance: Evidence from Brazil's federal protected areas agency5
Hambleton, Robin. Cities and communities beyond Covid‐19. Great Britain: Bristol University Press. 2020. pp. 177. ISBN: 97815292158545
Robust crisis communication in turbulent times: Conceptualization and empirical evidence from the United States5
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Organizational stability and resocialization in public administrations: Theory and evidence from Norwegian civil servants (1986–2016)5
Third‐Party Governance: Using Third Parties to Deliver Governmental Goods and ServicesBy Jessica N.Terman, New York, NY: Routledge, 2024. 209. $51.99 (paperback). ISBN (print) 97810322617755
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Enforcement officials' coping strategies in a changing regulatory environment5
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“Success” in policy piloting: Process, programs, and politics4
How to extend pilot innovation in public services: A case of children's social care innovation4
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Buying green in U.S. local government: Internal commitment and responsiveness to external pressures4
New opportunities for institutional analysis in public administration research4
Losing control is not an option. Resource allocation to police oversight agencies in Western states4
Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions4
Cognitive Biases in Street‐Level Resolutions: The Case of Multiple Claims in Tax Disputes4
What does the evidence tell us about merit principles and government performance?4
Hong Kong professional services and the belt and road initiative: Challenges for co‐evolving sustainability. By Li, L. C., Mo, P. L. L. (Eds.), Milton: Taylor & Francis. 2023. pp. 1‐266 ISBN: 97804
Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery4
Commercializing nonprofit organizations? Evidence from the Chinese nonprofit sector4
Municipal fiscal stress, bankruptcies, and other financial emergencies. By TatyanaGuzman, NataliaErmasova, New York: Routledge. 2022. pp. 310. ISBN: 97810323493814
Breaking up male‐dominated collusive arrangements: Women's representation in bureaucracy and corruption4
Corporatization in local government: Promoting cultural differentiation and hybridity?4
Broadcasting good news and learning from bad news: Experimental evidence on public managers' performance information use4
Algorithmic formalization: Impacts on administrative processes4
Institutional Grammar 2.0: A specification for encoding and analyzing institutional design4
Dramaturgy and crisis management: A third act4
Evaluating collaborative institutions by segregation and homophily in policy networks4
Fifty years as the fourth pillar of public administration: A polycentric extension of the social equity framework4
Fostering employee innovation: Linking person–organization fit to innovative behavior through knowledge sharing and reward perception4
Understanding the organizational learning culture—Innovative behavior relation in local government: The roles of knowledge sharing and job autonomy4
Strategies for dealing with policy ambiguities3
Oversharing: The downside of data sharing in local government3
Integrating Formal and Relational Contracting: The Link Between Network Structure and Contract Design in Interlocal Collaboration Agreements3
Distributed leadership and performance‐related employee outcomes in public sector organizations3
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Neoliberalism and banking crisis bailouts: Distant enemies or warring neighbors?3
Anticipated administrative burdens: How proximity to upcoming compulsory meetings affect welfare recipients' experiences of administrative burden3
Actor roles in co‐production—Introducing intermediaries: Findings from a systematic literature review3
Citizens' Inclusion in Public Services: A Systematic Review of the Public Administration Literature and Reflection on Future Research Avenues3
Public accountability and auditing: Why and when do state auditors conduct broad audits?3
A review of classical thoughts on contemporary public administration in developing countries3
Social Equity in Municipally Owned Corporations: Do Women in the Boardroom Make a Difference to the Gender Pay Gap?3
Public Perceptions of the Administrative Values Tradeoff: Bureaucratic and Democratic Ethos3
Gender‐responsive budgeting: A budget reform to address gender inequity3
Institutions, interests, and policy support: Experimental evidence from China3
How local governments prioritize multiple conflicting goals: Beyond the sole‐goal perspective3
Administrative characteristics and timing of governments' crisis responses: A global study of early reactions to COVID‐193
The future of public administration research: An editor's perspective3
A review of classical thoughts on contemporary public administration in developing countries3
Algorithms in the public sector. Why context matters3
Where you are matters: Network position, designed network, and central government agency termination3
Toward a positive theory of public participation in government: Variations in New York City's participatory budgeting3
Bureaucratic redundancy and administrative burden: Evidence from public‐private partnerships (PPPs) in China2
The corporatization of healthcare organizations internationally: A scoping review of processes, impacts, and mediators2
John Stewart: A personal appreciation2
Critical Perspectives on Public Systems Management in India Through the Lens of District Administration, Amar K. J. R.Nayak and Ram KumarKakaniRoutledge: New York/London, 2021, 325 pp. (including inde2
Getting what you expect: How civil servant stereotypes affect citizen satisfaction and perceived performance2
Efficiencies of and Motivations for Contracting Out in the Public Sector: The Case of Social Services in Spain2
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance?2
Personnel governance of corporatized public services: Effects of executive resources and corporation forms on turnover2
Does public officials' risk preference differ in self versus public decision‐making? It depends on decision framing and bet size2
Contextual recipes for adopting private control and trust in public–private partnership governance2
Cream‐skimming at the frontline: The role of administrative literacy2
Toward amicro‐levelperspective of organizational publicness: Felt organizational publicness in the eyes of state government employees2
Governance reform, decentralization, and teamwork in public service delivery: Evidence from theHonduranhealth sector2
Representative bureaucracy and the policy environment: Gender representation in Forty‐Four countries2
Does political ideology still matter? A meta‐analysis of government contracting decisions2
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Does leadership gender representativeness improve policy outcomes? Evidence from local governments in China2
Financial reporting transparency, citizens' understanding, and public participation: A survey experiment study2
Representative bureaucracy in property assessment appeals administration: A group level analysis2
Political opportunism and transaction costs in contractual choice of public–private partnerships2
Government emergency budgeting and disaster impact: Evidence from China2
Usability of transparency portals: Examination of perceptions of journalists as information seekers2
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Executive order: Bureaucratic management and the limits of presidential power. By AndrewRudalevige, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2021. pp. 303. £80.00 (hbk).ISBN: 97806911943562
Emergency management through enduring collaborative networks: Lessons on phases and levels2
Service quality and the optimum number of members in intermunicipal cooperation: The case of emergency primary care services in Norway2
The curious public administrator. By WiliamHatcher, New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 90. ISBN: 978‐1‐032‐66850‐52
Assessing public value failure in government adoption of artificial intelligence2
Styles of regulatory discretion: A comparative analysis of the British and Israeli education legislation2
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