Public Administration

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Administration is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Beyond co‐production: Value creation and public services73
Policy instruments at work: A meta‐analysis of their applications44
The future of public administration research: An editor's perspective44
Target‐setting, political incentives, and the tricky trade‐off between economic development and environmental protection44
Challenging the necessity of New Public Governance: Co‐production by third sector organizations under different models of public management43
Public servant stereotypes: It is not (at) all about being lazy, greedy and corrupt33
Burdens, Sludge, Ordeals, Red tape, Oh My!: A User's Guide to the Study of Frictions32
A long road: Patterns and prospects for social equity, diversity, and inclusion in public administration32
Policy design and public support for carbon tax: Evidence from a 2018 US national online survey experiment32
Distinguishing the street‐level policy entrepreneur31
Reflecting on over 100 years of public administration education29
Street‐level bureaucrats and policy entrepreneurship: When implementers challenge policy design29
Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses28
Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe25
Corruption consolidation in local governments: A grounded analytical framework22
Assessing public value failure in government adoption of artificial intelligence21
Strategic communication by regulatory agencies as a form of reputation management: A strategic agenda21
Social workers as street‐level policy entrepreneurs21
CO‐DESIGN‐ing a more context‐based, pluralistic, and participatory future for public administration21
Developing a short scale to assess public leadership20
Working through the fog of a pandemic: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in times of crises18
Intersectionality and equity: Dynamic bureaucratic representation in higher education18
A replication of “Representative bureaucracy and the willingness to coproduce”18
Integrating citizen deliberation into climate governance: Lessons on robust design from six climate assemblies17
Question order bias revisited: A split‐ballot experiment on satisfaction with public services among experienced and professional users17
Street‐level bureaucrats as policy entrepreneurs: Action strategies for flexible community governance in China17
Gaming the system: Responses to dissatisfaction with public services beyond exit and voice16
Emotional labor and employee outcomes: A meta‐analysis16
Gender‐responsive budgeting: A budget reform to address gender inequity16
The public sector and co‐creation in turbulent times: A systematic literature review on robust governance in the COVID‐19 emergency16
Multilevel reinforcing dynamics: Global climate governance and European renewable energy policy16
Political opportunism and transaction costs in contractual choice of public–private partnerships15
The costs of corporatization: Analysing the effects of forms of governance15
Designing for adaptation: Static and dynamic robustness in policy‐making15
The fragmentation of public administration: Differentiated and decentered governance in the (dis)United Kingdom15
Public sector creativity as the origin of public sector innovation: A taxonomy and future research agenda15
How local governments prioritize multiple conflicting goals: Beyond the sole‐goal perspective15
Machine coding of policy texts with the Institutional Grammar14
Institutional design for a complex commons: Variations in the design of credible commitments and the provision of public goods14
Toward a positive theory of public participation in government: Variations in New York City's participatory budgeting14
“I have learned my lesson”: How clients' trust betrayals shape the future ways in which street‐level bureaucrats cope with their clients14
Dismantling, disintegration or continuing stealthy integration in European Union environmental policy?13
Talking the talk, but not walking the walk: A comparison of self‐reported and observed prosocial behaviour13
How to implement policy: Coping with ambiguity and uncertainty13
Dancing on a tightrope: The reputation management of local governments in response to public protests in China13
Representative bureaucracy and impartial policing13
Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value13
A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics13
Institutional Grammar 2.0: A specification for encoding and analyzing institutional design13
Bubbling up or cascading down? Public servants, political advisers and politicization13
Consultancies in public administration12
Robust crisis communication in turbulent times: Conceptualization and empirical evidence from the United States12
Need, justice and central–local relations: The case of social assistance in China12
Distributed leadership and performance‐related employee outcomes in public sector organizations12
The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency12
How bureaucrats shape political decisions: The role of policy information12
When does transparency improve public services? Street‐level discretion, information, and targeting12
Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times11
The management consultancy effect: Demand inflation and its consequences in the sourcing of external knowledge11
Dealing with multiple principals in at arm's length organizations: A qualitative study of Dutch municipally owned corporations11
Managing policy‐making in the local climate governance landscape: The role of network administrative organizations and member cities11
Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more11
Marketization reforms and co‐production: Does ownership of service delivery structures and customer language matter?11
Policy preferences in response to negative economic prospects of COVID‐19: A survey‐experiment among local politicians in four European countries10
Professional expertise in policy advisory systems: How administrators and consultants built behavioral insights in Danish public agencies10
All you need is … a network: The rise of interpretive public administration10
Exploring the foundational origins of public service motivation through the lens of behavioral genetics10
Effects of local government social media use on citizen compliance during a crisis: Evidence from the COVID‐19 crisis in China10
The core executive and small states: Is coordination the primary challenge?10
Network structures and network effects across management and policy contexts: A systematic review10
Linking political and bureaucratic representation: Does minority representation on city councils affect the outcomes of street‐level service?10
Corporatization and political ideology: The case of hospitals in Spain10
The webs of belief around ‘evidence’ in legislatures: The case of select committees in the UK House of Commons9
Seeking the spotlight: How reputational considerations shape the European Court of Auditor's shifting account‐holding role9
Contracting personalization by results: Comparing marketization reforms in the UK and Australia9
Duopoly, court politics and the Danish core executive9
Remapping the European agenda‐setting landscape9
Talk or type? The effect of digital interfaces on citizens' satisfaction with standardized public services9
Keeping a watchful eye in times of turmoil? How repeated structural reform leads to more attention to political signals9
The politics of FinTech: Technology, regulation, and disruption in UK and German retail banking9
Contextual recipes for adopting private control and trust in public–private partnership governance9
Only hearing what they want to hear: Assessing when and why performance information triggers intentions to coproduce8
Voice, responsiveness, and alternative policy venues: An analysis of citizen complaints against the local government to the national Ombudsman8
A micro‐process model of institutional complexity in public hybrid organizations: Construal of identity threats and mitigation strategies8
Financial reporting transparency, citizens' understanding, and public participation: A survey experiment study8
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 communication8
Bureaucratic responsiveness in times of political crisis: The case of presidential impeachment8
Personnel governance of corporatized public services: Effects of executive resources and corporation forms on turnover8
Data sharing in small and medium US cities: The role of community characteristics8
Population analysis of organizational innovation and learning8
Representative bureaucracy and the policy environment: Gender representation in Forty‐Four countries8
Intra‐provincial fiscal decentralization, relative wealth, and healthcare efficiency: Empirical evidence from China8
Corporatization of public services7
The European Parliament's role as an informal EU agenda setter: The influence of own initiative reports7
How does diversity affect public organizational performance? A meta‐analysis7
Collaborating with the competition? A study of interlocal partnership choices7
A replication of “an experimental test of the expectancy‐disconfirmation theory of citizen satisfaction”7
Thinking outside the box, improvisation, and fast learning: Designing policy robustness to deal with what cannot be foreseen7
What does the evidence tell us about merit principles and government performance?7
From “business‐like” to businesses: Agencification, corporatization, and civil service reform under the Thatcher administration7
Professional development leadership in turbulent times: Public administration symposium: Robust politics and governance in turbulent times7
Putting the international in Public Administration: An International Quarterly. A historical review of 1992–20227
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks7
“Success” in policy piloting: Process, programs, and politics6
What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy6
Ideas and crisis in policy and administration: Existing links and research frontiers6
Exploring rule‐following identity at the frontline: The roles of general self‐efficacy, gender, and attitude toward clients6
Trust, but verify? Understanding citizen attitudes toward evidence‐informed policy making6
The corporatization of healthcare organizations internationally: A scoping review of processes, impacts, and mediators6
Dramaturgy and crisis management: A third act6
On the character of the new entrepreneurial National Health Service in England: Reforming health care from within?6
Reputation management by Chinese universities: Primary profile and comparative features6
Public crowdsourcing: Analyzing the role of government feedback on civic digital platforms6
Public value creation and appropriation mechanisms in public–private partnerships: How does it play a role?6
A replication of “Contracting out: For What? With Whom?”6
What has become of the audit explosion? Analyzing trends in oversight activities in the Canadian government6
Corporatization in local government: Promoting cultural differentiation and hybridity?6
COVID‐19‐induced governance transformation: How external shocks may spur cross‐organizational collaboration and trust‐based management6
Sustaining statehood: A comparative analysis of vertical policy‐process integration in Denmark and Italy6
Unveiling environmental justice through open government data: Work in progress for most US states6
Service quality and the optimum number of members in intermunicipal cooperation: The case of emergency primary care services in Norway6
Effects of representative bureaucracy on perceived performance and fairness: Experimental evidence from South Asia6
The dynamics of de‐delegation: A principal–agent explanation of the reversal of private authority in international sport governance5
“Let's organize”: The organizational basis for stable public governance5
Robust emergency management: The role of institutional trust in organized volunteers5
Creating a public service topology: Mapping public service motivation, public service ethos, and public service values5
The administrative burden of doing business with the government: Learning and compliance costs in Business‐Government interactions5
Corruption in social relations: Bribe‐taking, corruptibility, and corruption risks5
Advantages of feeling appreciated: An examination of how receipt of gratitude influences the linkages between PSM and behaviour5
Governance reform, decentralization, and teamwork in public service delivery: Evidence from the Honduran health sector5
A new era for Public Administration5
Coordinating monetary policy and macroprudential policy: Bureaucratic politics, regulatory intermediary, and bank lobbying5
Robust governance for the long term and the heat of the moment: Temporal strategies for coping with dual crises5
The effect of human versus automated interaction on willingness to participate in government programs: The role of representation5
What matters the most in curbing early COVID‐19 mortality? A cross‐country necessary condition analysis5
How does council–manager conflict affect managerial turnover intention? The role of job embeddedness and cooperative context5
Accountability and organizational performance in the public sector: Analysis of higher education institutions in Korea5
A framework for analyzing organizational culture among politicians: Exploring implications for participatory governance schemes4
The impact of bounded subadditivity on administrative behaviour among public and private workers4
Collaborative gaming: When principals and agents agree to game the system4
When bureaucratic expertise comes under attack4
A long and winding road: 25 years as editor4
Understanding the organizational learning culture—Innovative behavior relation in local government: The roles of knowledge sharing and job autonomy4
Administrative characteristics and timing of governments' crisis responses: A global study of early reactions to COVID‐194
Institutions, interests, and policy support: Experimental evidence from China4
The architecture of organizations as missed opportunity in political research4
Dissecting multiple accountabilities: A problem of multiple forums or of conflicting demands?4
Institutionalization or interaction: Which organizational factors help community‐based initiatives acquire government support?4
Between spin doctor and information provider: Conceptualizing communication professionals in government ministries4
Evaluating collaborative institutions by segregation and homophily in policy networks4
Broadcasting good news and learning from bad news: Experimental evidence on public managers' performance information use4
Human resource management as a tool to control corruption: Evidence from Mexican municipal governments4
Why create government corporations? An examination of the determinants of corporatization in the Canadian public sector4
Street‐level bureaucrats' emotional intelligence and its relation with their performance4
Why do public agencies seek accountability? The role of audiences4
Comparing public servants' behavior in South Korea and the United States: How emotional labor moderates the relationship between organizational commitment and job performance4
Anticipated administrative burdens: How proximity to upcoming compulsory meetings affect welfare recipients' experiences of administrative burden4
Fifty years as the fourth pillar of public administration: A polycentric extension of the social equity framework4
The effectiveness of network administrative organizations in governing interjurisdictional natural resources3
Who loves input controls? What happened to “outputs not inputs” in UK Public Financial Management, and why?3
Strategies for dealing with policy ambiguities3
Administrative intensity and local resident satisfaction in Victorian local government3
Making information silent: How opacity takes root in local governments?3
How legal scholars facilitate tax avoidance: Case study on the power of tax consultancy firms3
An exploration of citizens' professionalism in coproducing social care services3
Cutback management strategies and citizen evaluation of government3
Improving the performance of public organizations: Financial resources and the conditioning effect of clientele context3
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance?3
Global scientific production, international cooperation, and knowledge evolution of public administration3
Change leadership and change embeddedness in public organizations: Connecting macrolevel reform to microlevel implementation3
Seeding the cloud: Consultancy services in the nascent field of cyber capacity building3
Effective horizon management in transnational administration: Bespoke and box‐ticking consultancies in anti‐money laundering3
Editing Public Administration3
Whole‐of‐government and joined‐up government: A systematic literature review3
Policy design or organizational design: On the relevance of the study of public policy and administration3
Public assessments of ministerial leadership in times of national crisis: The case of the pandemic crisis3
Can gender‐responsive budgeting change how governments budget?: Lessons from the case of Ecuador.3
Key values for democratic governance innovation: Two traditions and a synthesis3
Organizing e‐participation: Challenges stemming from the multiplicity of actors3
Citizen involvement in public policy: Does it matter how much is at stake?3
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