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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Beyond co‐production: Value creation and public services92
Target‐setting, political incentives, and the tricky trade‐off between economic development and environmental protection56
Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses55
The future of public administration research: An editor's perspective53
Burdens, Sludge, Ordeals, Red tape, Oh My!: A User's Guide to the Study of Frictions45
A long road: Patterns and prospects for social equity, diversity, and inclusion in public administration42
Street‐level bureaucrats and policy entrepreneurship: When implementers challenge policy design37
Distinguishing the street‐level policy entrepreneur35
Reflecting on over 100 years of public administration education33
Assessing public value failure in government adoption of artificial intelligence33
Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe31
Emotional labor and employee outcomes: A meta‐analysis31
The fragmentation of public administration: Differentiated and decentered governance in the (dis)United Kingdom29
The public sector and co‐creation in turbulent times: A systematic literature review on robust governance in the COVID‐19 emergency28
Integrating citizen deliberation into climate governance: Lessons on robust design from six climate assemblies25
CO‐DESIGN‐ing a morecontext‐based, pluralistic, and participatory future for public administration25
Designing for adaptation: Static and dynamic robustness in policy‐making23
How local governments prioritize multiple conflicting goals: Beyond the sole‐goal perspective23
Public sector creativity as the origin of public sector innovation: A taxonomy and future research agenda23
Social workers as street‐level policy entrepreneurs22
A replication of “Representative bureaucracy and the willingness to coproduce”22
Working through the fog of a pandemic: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in times of crises21
A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics20
The costs of corporatization: Analysing the effects of forms of governance20
Political opportunism and transaction costs in contractual choice of public–private partnerships20
Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value20
Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times20
Gender‐responsive budgeting: A budget reform to address gender inequity20
Street‐level bureaucrats as policy entrepreneurs: Action strategies for flexible community governance in China19
Machine coding of policy texts with the Institutional Grammar19
The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency18
Institutional Grammar 2.0: A specification for encoding and analyzing institutional design18
The management consultancy effect: Demand inflation and its consequences in the sourcing of external knowledge18
Robust crisis communication in turbulent times: Conceptualization and empirical evidence from the United States18
Effects of local government social media use on citizen compliance during a crisis: Evidence from the COVID‐19 crisis in China17
“I have learned my lesson”: How clients' trust betrayals shape the future ways in which street‐level bureaucrats cope with their clients17
How bureaucrats shape political decisions: The role of policy information17
Consultancies in public administration17
Distributed leadership and performance‐related employee outcomes in public sector organizations17
Toward a positive theory of public participation in government: Variations in New York City's participatory budgeting16
Institutional design for a complex commons: Variations in the design of credible commitments and the provision of public goods16
Thinking outside the box, improvisation, and fast learning: Designing policy robustness to deal with what cannot be foreseen15
Contextual recipes for adopting private control and trust in public–private partnership governance15
Dealing with multiple principals in at arm's length organizations: A qualitative study of Dutch municipally owned corporations15
COVID‐19‐induced governance transformation: How external shocks may spur cross‐organizational collaboration and trust‐based management15
Network structures and network effects across management and policy contexts: A systematic review14
All you need is … a network: The rise of interpretive public administration14
Corporatization of public services13
Robust emergency management: The role of institutional trust in organized volunteers13
Robust governance for the long term and the heat of the moment: Temporal strategies for coping with dual crises12
Putting the international in Public Administration: An International Quarterly. A historical review of 1992–202212
Representative bureaucracy and the policy environment: Gender representation in Forty‐Four countries12
Exploring the foundational origins of public service motivation through the lens of behavioral genetics12
A replication of “an experimental test of the expectancy‐disconfirmation theory of citizen satisfaction”12
Talk or type? The effect of digital interfaces on citizens' satisfaction with standardized public services12
Policy preferences in response to negative economic prospects of COVID‐19: A survey‐experiment among local politicians in four European countries12
The politics of FinTech: Technology, regulation, and disruption in UK and German retail banking12
Professional expertise in policy advisory systems: How administrators and consultants built behavioral insights in Danish public agencies12
Corporatization and political ideology: The case of hospitals in Spain11
Personnel governance of corporatized public services: Effects of executive resources and corporation forms on turnover11
Seeking the spotlight: How reputational considerations shape the European Court of Auditor's shifting account‐holding role11
A replication of “Contracting out: For What? With Whom?”11
Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more11
Professional development leadership in turbulent times: Public administration symposium: Robust politics and governance in turbulent times10
Trust, but verify? Understanding citizen attitudes toward evidence‐informed policy making10
Coordinating monetary policy and macroprudential policy: Bureaucratic politics, regulatory intermediary, and bank lobbying10
Financial reporting transparency, citizens' understanding, and public participation: A survey experiment study10
Engaging stakeholders on TikTok: A multi‐level social media analysis of nonprofit Microvlogging10
Ideas and crisis in policy and administration: Existing links and research frontiers10
Service quality and the optimum number of members in intermunicipal cooperation: The case of emergency primary care services in Norway10
On the character of the new entrepreneurial National Health Service in England: Reforming health care from within?10
Remapping the European agenda‐setting landscape9
Public value creation and appropriation mechanisms in public–private partnerships: How does it play a role?9
The corporatization of healthcare organizations internationally: A scoping review of processes, impacts, and mediators9
Population analysis of organizational innovation and learning9
Collaborating with the competition? A study of interlocal partnership choices9
Voice, responsiveness, and alternative policy venues: An analysis of citizen complaints against the local government to the national Ombudsman9
Public crowdsourcing: Analyzing the role of government feedback on civic digital platforms9
How does diversity affect public organizational performance? A meta‐analysis9
A micro‐process model of institutional complexity in public hybrid organizations: Construal of identity threats and mitigation strategies9
From “business‐like” to businesses: Agencification, corporatization, and civil service reform under the Thatcher administration9
Dissecting multiple accountabilities: A problem of multiple forums or of conflicting demands?9
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 communication9
“Let's organize”: The organizational basis for stable public governance9
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks9
When the cat is away: How institutional autonomy, low salience, and issue complexity shape administrative action8
Sustaining statehood: A comparative analysis of vertical policy‐process integration in Denmark and Italy8
Comparing public servants' behavior in South Korea and the United States: How emotional labor moderates the relationship between organizational commitment and job performance8
Effects of representative bureaucracy on perceived performance and fairness: Experimental evidence from South Asia8
Understanding the organizational learning culture—Innovative behavior relation in local government: The roles of knowledge sharing and job autonomy8
Intra‐provincial fiscal decentralization, relative wealth, and healthcare efficiency: Empirical evidence from China8
Unveiling environmental justice through open government data: Work in progress for most US states8
Only hearing what they want to hear: Assessing when and why performance information triggers intentions to coproduce8
Corporatization in local government: Promoting cultural differentiation and hybridity?8
What does the evidence tell us about merit principles and government performance?8
The administrative burden of doing business with the government: Learning and compliance costs in Business‐Government interactions8
Street‐levelbureaucrats' emotional intelligence and its relation with their performance8
When bureaucratic expertise comes under attack8
What has become of the audit explosion? Analyzing trends in oversight activities in the Canadian government8
“Success” in policy piloting: Process, programs, and politics8
Anticipated administrative burdens: How proximity to upcoming compulsory meetings affect welfare recipients' experiences of administrative burden7
Key values for democratic governance innovation: Two traditions and a synthesis7
Human resource management as a tool to control corruption: Evidence from Mexican municipal governments7
Making information silent: How opacity takes root in local governments?7
Corruption in social relations: Bribe‐taking, corruptibility, and corruption risks7
What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy7
Evaluating collaborative institutions by segregation and homophily in policy networks6
What matters the most in curbing early COVID‐19 mortality? A cross‐country necessary condition analysis6
Neutralized, enhanced, tokenistic: The influence of formal employment of service‐users on processes of co‐production6
Promoting Citizens' willingness to participate in coproduction in public service through information frames6
The effectiveness of network administrative organizations in governing interjurisdictional natural resources6
Algorithms in the public sector. Why context matters6
Dramaturgy and crisis management: A third act6
The impact of bounded subadditivity on administrative behaviour among public and private workers6
From big data to higher bureaucratic capacity: Poverty alleviation in China6
Institutionalization or interaction: Which organizational factors help community‐based initiatives acquire government support?6
Between spin doctor and information provider: Conceptualizing communication professionals in government ministries6
Broadcasting good news and learning from bad news: Experimental evidence on public managers' performance information use6
A new era for Public Administration6
Collaborative gaming: When principals and agents agree to game the system6
Whole‐of‐government and joined‐up government: A systematic literature review6
Exploring rule‐following identity at the frontline: The roles of general self‐efficacy, gender, and attitude toward clients6
Governance reform, decentralization, and teamwork in public service delivery: Evidence from theHonduranhealth sector6
Organizing e‐participation: Challenges stemming from the multiplicity of actors5
Advantages of feeling appreciated: An examination of how receipt of gratitude influences the linkages betweenPSMand behaviour5
Fifty years as the fourth pillar of public administration: A polycentric extension of the social equity framework5
Change leadership and change embeddedness in public organizations: Connecting macrolevel reform to microlevel implementation5
Can gender‐responsive budgeting change how governments budget?: Lessons from the case of Ecuador5
The effect of human versus automated interaction on willingness to participate in government programs: The role of representation5
Global scientific production, international cooperation, and knowledge evolution of public administration5
Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions5
Creating a public service topology: Mapping public service motivation, public service ethos, and public service values5
Why create government corporations? An examination of the determinants of corporatization in the Canadian public sector5
Effective horizon management in transnational administration: Bespoke and box‐ticking consultancies in anti‐money laundering5
A long and winding road: 25 years as editor5
Institutions, interests, and policy support: Experimental evidence from China5
Administrative characteristics and timing of governments' crisis responses: A global study of early reactions to COVID‐195
Interpreting performance information: Motivated reasoning or unbiased comprehension? A replication and extension5
A framework for analyzing organizational culture among politicians: Exploring implications for participatory governance schemes4
The a priori of public leadership: Social attributions to public and private leaders in different performance contexts4
Citizen involvement in public policy: Does it matter how much is at stake?4
Cutback management strategies and citizen evaluation of government4
A behavioral view on responsibility attribution in multi‐level governance: Upward and downward responsibility attribution in response to performance below aspirations4
Who loves input controls? What happened to “outputs not inputs” in UK Public Financial Management, and why?4
Achieving collaborative innovation by controlling or leveraging network complexities through complexity leadership4
Actor roles in co‐production—Introducing intermediaries: Findings from a systematic literature review4
Paths to trust: Explaining citizens' trust to experts and evidence‐informed policymaking during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Fiscal easing in local governments facing potential merger: Visible in budgets or hidden in overruns?4
Finding a mission in bureaucracies: How authentic leadership and red tape interact4
How legal scholars facilitate tax avoidance: Case study on the power of tax consultancy firms4
Overlooking the front line: Impacts of front‐line worker inclusion on implementation and outcomes of collaborative innovation4
Cream‐skimming at the frontline: The role of administrative literacy4
Strategies for dealing with policy ambiguities4
Buying green in U.S. local government: Internal commitment and responsiveness to external pressures4
Public assessments of ministerial leadership in times of national crisis: The case of the pandemic crisis4
Keep going on: A qualitative comparative analysis on the durability of solidarity initiatives during and after crisis4
Winds of change: How street‐level bureaucrats actively represent minority clients by influencing majority clients—The context of LGB Israeli teachers4
Editing Public Administration4
Why do public agencies seek accountability? The role of audiences4
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance?4
Seeing the nudge from the trees: The 4S framework for evaluating nudges4
‘There's something about sustainability’: The discursive dynamics of policy reform3
A replication of “exploring and explaining contracting out: Patterns among the American states”3
Does bureaucratic representation enhance overall organizational accountability in policing?3
A comparative study of governance changes on the perceptions of accountability in Fire and Rescue Services in England3
Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery3
How rediscovering nodality can improve democratic governance in a digital world3
Regional network‐building for complexity: A region‐oriented policy response to increasing and varied demands for older person care in the Netherlands3
Can details depoliticize? An examination of the formalization strategy3
Usability of transparency portals: Examination of perceptions of journalists as information seekers3
An exploration of citizens' professionalism in coproducing social care services3
Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation?3
Between a rock and a hard place: Balancing the duties of political responsiveness and legality in the civil service3
New opportunities for institutional analysis in public administration research3
“One, none, and a hundred thousand” recipes for a robust response to turbulence3
Seeding the cloud: Consultancy services in the nascent field of cyber capacity building3
Enabling boundary spanners in public–private collaboration: The impact of support and role autonomy on reducing role stress3
Managing crises as if no one is watching? Governance dilemmas from a public perspective3
Enforcement officials' coping strategies in a changing regulatory environment3
Are public sector accounts trusted? Exploring the verdict of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in the United Kingdom3
Commercializing nonprofit organizations? Evidence from the Chinese nonprofit sector3
Organizational commitment in public servants through civic engagement3
Who should we pay more? Exploring the influence of pay for elected officials and bureaucrats on organizational performance in South African local government3
Administrative intensity and local resident satisfaction in Victorian local government3
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