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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Permanently provisional: An ethnographic analysis of responsive governance practices in and through meetings83
Coordinating monetary policy and macroprudential policy: Bureaucratic politics, regulatory intermediary, and bank lobbying76
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Fiscal easing in local governments facing potential merger: Visible in budgets or hidden in overruns?57
Coproduction of core and complementary tasks in times of service decline: Experimental evidence55
The impact of service separation on value: A longitudinal study of user and provider experiences in a mental health service51
Public management: A research overview. By TomEntwistle, London: Routledge. 2022. pp. 114. USD 25.59 (paperback) ISBN: 978103206403150
Collaborating with the competition? A study of interlocal partnership choices45
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks40
Meet all changes with constancy: The dynamic adaptation process of county governments in China40
Regional network‐building for complexity: A region‐oriented policy response to increasing and varied demands for older person care in the Netherlands39
Ignoring by complying: How public officials handle hybridity to pursue the goals of new public governance37
Are public spaces welcoming to all? A conjoint experiment on cultural representation and inclusionary practices in museums36
The effect of institutional support and relational capital on knowledge mobilization in public administration research35
Paths to trust: Explaining citizens' trust to experts and evidence‐informed policymaking during the COVID‐19 pandemic34
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). ISBN29
A replication of “the effects of making public service employees aware of their prosocial and societal impact”29
Ministerial Leadership: Practice, Performance and PowerBy LeightonAndrews, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 553 pp. £99.99 (hardcover); £79.50 (ebook). ISBN: 10 3031500075; ISBN:28
Correction to “Public value creation and appropriation mechanisms in public–private partnerships: How does it play a role?”28
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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. 25
Leveraging normative power in co‐production to redress power imbalances25
Losing control is not an option. Resource allocation to police oversight agencies in Western states24
Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions23
Anticipated administrative burdens: How proximity to upcoming compulsory meetings affect welfare recipients' experiences of administrative burden22
Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation?22
Population analysis of organizational innovation and learning21
How to extend pilot innovation in public services: A case of children's social care innovation21
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Integrating Formal and Relational Contracting: The Link Between Network Structure and Contract Design in Interlocal Collaboration Agreements21
New opportunities for institutional analysis in public administration research21
Does bureaucratic representation enhance overall organizational accountability in policing?21
“Success” in policy piloting: Process, programs, and politics20
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A review of classical thoughts on contemporary public administration in developing countries19
Auditing, the State and Democracy in a “New” Machine Age of Digitalization: The UK Supreme Audit Institution18
Representative bureaucracy in property assessment appeals administration: A group level analysis18
“Let's organize”: The organizational basis for stable public governance18
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Achieving collaborative innovation by controlling or leveraging network complexities through complexity leadership18
Personnel governance of corporatized public services: Effects of executive resources and corporation forms on turnover17
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Public Perceptions of the Administrative Values Tradeoff: Bureaucratic and Democratic Ethos17
A long road: Patterns and prospects for social equity, diversity, and inclusion in public administration17
Symbolic Bureaucratic Representation and Client Cooperation: Experimental Insights From Four Daily Public Service Scenarios in China16
Measuring civil service politicization with career data: Backstage and frontstage political experience of top civil servants in the German ministerial administration16
How does ethnic diversity shape the design of intergovernmental fiscal relations? Evidence from China16
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Professional development leadership in turbulent times: Public administration symposium: Robust politics and governance in turbulent times15
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A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics15
Can Cross‐Sector Collaboration Contribute to Boundaries Reshaping of Digital Government Platforms? Empirical Evidence Based on Machine Learning and Text Analysis15
Metagovernance of co‐creation in city–university partnerships: How to avoid being stuck in the middle?15
Why do public agencies seek accountability? The role of audiences15
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Performance appraisal justice and employees' work engagement in the public sector: Making the most of performance appraisal design14
Overlooking the front line: Impacts of front‐line worker inclusion on implementation and outcomes of collaborative innovation14
Organizing e‐participation: Challenges stemming from the multiplicity of actors13
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Reversing Government Reforms: Radical Change or Adaptive Adjustments?13
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How legal scholars facilitate tax avoidance: Case study on the power of tax consultancy firms13
Rebel with a cause: The effects of leadership encouragement and psychological safety on professionals' prosocial rulebreaking behavior13
Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times12
Civil servant tactics for realizing transition tasks understanding the microdynamics of transformative government12
Exploring the foundational origins of public service motivation through the lens of behavioral genetics12
From big data to higher bureaucratic capacity: Poverty alleviation in China12
Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more12
Credible signaling to promote local compliance: Evidence from China's multiwave inspection of environmental protection11
Legislative influence on administrative decision making in Pennsylvania's Abandoned and Orphan Well Plugging Program11
All you need is … a network: The rise of interpretive public administration11
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Member duality and policy tourism: Learning in interlocal policy networks11
Emotional labor and employee outcomes: A meta‐analysis11
Policy advocacy of nongovernmental organizations in China: A quasi‐replication of Zhan and Tang (2013, 2016)10
Opening the “black box” of public administration: The need for interpretive research10
Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value10
The association between public managers' type of education and prioritizing core service provision and communication10
“One, none, and a hundred thousand” recipes for a robust response to turbulence10
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
Corporatization and political ideology: The case of hospitals in Spain10
Administrative intensity and local resident satisfaction in Victorian local government10
Robust emergency management: The role of institutional trust in organized volunteers9
How rediscovering nodality can improve democratic governance in a digital world9
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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 clients9
What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy9
Hambleton, Robin. Cities and communities beyond Covid‐19. Great Britain: Bristol University Press. 2020. pp. 177. ISBN: 97815292158549
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What matters the most in curbing early COVID‐19 mortality? A cross‐country necessary condition analysis9
Seeing the nudge from the trees: The 4S framework for evaluating nudges9
Corporatization in local government: Promoting cultural differentiation and hybridity?8
Robust crisis communication in turbulent times: Conceptualization and empirical evidence from the United States8
What does the evidence tell us about merit principles and government performance?8
Fifty years as the fourth pillar of public administration: A polycentric extension of the social equity framework8
How personnel allocation affects performance: Evidence from Brazil's federal protected areas agency8
Buying green in U.S. local government: Internal commitment and responsiveness to external pressures8
Citizens' Inclusion in Public Services: A Systematic Review of the Public Administration Literature and Reflection on Future Research Avenues8
Organizational stability and resocialization in public administrations: Theory and evidence from Norwegian civil servants (1986–2016)8
Emergency management through enduring collaborative networks: Lessons on phases and levels7
Styles of regulatory discretion: A comparative analysis of the British and Israeli education legislation7
Public accountability and auditing: Why and when do state auditors conduct broad audits?7
Comparing public servants' behavior in South Korea and the United States: How emotional labor moderates the relationship between organizational commitment and job performance7
Does increasing auditors' independence lead to more forceful public auditing? A study of a Canadian internal audit reform7
A review of classical thoughts on contemporary public administration in developing countries7
Contextual recipes for adopting private control and trust in public–private partnership governance7
How does diversity affect public organizational performance? A meta‐analysis7
Algorithms in the public sector. Why context matters7
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance?7
Representative bureaucracy and the policy environment: Gender representation in Forty‐Four countries7
Does political ideology still matter? A meta‐analysis of government contracting decisions7
Between a rock and a hard place: Balancing the duties of political responsiveness and legality in the civil service6
The effect of human versus automated interaction on willingness to participate in government programs: The role of representation6
Making nonpunitive accountability matter: Exploring behavioral effects of nonpunitive accountability in a conjoint experiment6
Designing for adaptation: Static and dynamic robustness in policy‐making6
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Exploring collaboration dynamics and representation in environmental justice councils6
Editing Public Administration6
Management accounting in public service decision making. Malcolm J.Prowle. Routledge, 2021, 262 pp., ISBN: 978‐1‐138‐36616‐9 (hbk), 978‐1‐138‐36617‐6 (pbk), 978‐0‐429‐43046‐6 (ebk)6
Predicting executive vacancies: An organizational approach6
At the pleasure of the crown: The politics of bureaucratic appointments, by ChristopherCooper. University of British Colombia Press, Vancouver. 2020. 133 pp. $32.95 (paperback)6
Are public sector accounts trusted? Exploring the verdict of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in the United Kingdom6
Larger, Not Leaner? Agencification and the Size of the Administrative Overhead in Local Governments5
Seeding the cloud: Consultancy services in the nascent field of cyber capacity building5
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: 978‐1‐138‐182445
Learning to govern: A typology of ministerial learning styles5
When do societal stakeholders matter for agency‐CEOs? The role of stakeholder arrangements and social media attention5
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management: A Primer. By RobertAgranoff, AlekseyKolpakov, New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 322. ISBN: 97810033857695
A recipe for success? The importance of perceptions of goal agreement in cross‐sector collaboration5
Key values for democratic governance innovation: Two traditions and a synthesis5
The administrative burden of doing business with the government: Learning and compliance costs in Business‐Government interactions5
A framework for analyzing organizational culture among politicians: Exploring implications for participatory governance schemes5
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 co5
Herbert Simon's Legacy for Public Administration5
The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency5
Potter, Rachel Augustine. Bending the rules: Procedural politicking in the bureaucracy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2019, 244 pages5
Human resource management as a tool to control corruption: Evidence from Mexican municipal governments4
Aggressions and associations: How workplace violence affects what public employees think of citizens4
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Cognitive Biases in Street‐Level Resolutions: The Case of Multiple Claims in Tax Disputes4
Administrative characteristics and timing of governments' crisis responses: A global study of early reactions to COVID‐194
How young adults explain their intention to participate in online direct citizen participation4
Evaluating collaborative institutions by segregation and homophily in policy networks4
Institutions, interests, and policy support: Experimental evidence from China4
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 Socia4
Exploring the Combinatorial Effects of Collaborative Factors Leading to Higher Degree of Co‐Production4
Fostering employee innovation: Linking person–organization fit to innovative behavior through knowledge sharing and reward perception4
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) 97810322617754
Toward a positive theory of public participation in government: Variations in New York City's participatory budgeting4
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 inde4
Human resources information systems: a guide for public administrators. Valcik, N. A., Sabharwal, M., Benavides, T. J. (2021). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland4
Applying an intersectional understanding of extra work behavior and emotional exhaustion in local public service4
COVID‐19‐induced governance transformation: How external shocks may spur cross‐organizational collaboration and trust‐based management4
Strategies for dealing with policy ambiguities4
Understanding the organizational learning culture—Innovative behavior relation in local government: The roles of knowledge sharing and job autonomy4
The curious public administrator. By WiliamHatcher, New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 90. ISBN: 978‐1‐032‐66850‐54
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Unveiling environmental justice through open government data: Work in progress for most US states3
The gradual corporatization of transport infrastructure: The Danish case3
Putting the international in Public Administration: An International Quarterly. A historical review of 1992–20223
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Cutback management strategies and citizen evaluation of government3
Corruption in social relations: Bribe‐taking, corruptibility, and corruption risks3
Keep going on: A qualitative comparative analysis on the durability of solidarity initiatives during and after crisis3
The power struggles of executives and legislators in a kingship budget setting: The role of informal and formal power3
A replication of “unconscious bias in citizens' evaluations of public sector performance”3
Chasing Digitalization: Understanding Control and Dispersion of Digitalization in Public Sector Organizations3
Involuntary backsourcing in the public sector: From conflict to collaboration3
Citizen Acceptance of Co‐Designed Public Sector Innovation3
Dissecting multiple accountabilities: A problem of multiple forums or of conflicting demands?3
Target‐setting, political incentives, and the tricky trade‐off between economic development and environmental protection3
Voice, responsiveness, and alternative policy venues: An analysis of citizen complaints against the local government to the national Ombudsman3
Collaboration and public policy: Agency in the pursuit of public purpose. By H.Sullivan, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐09585‐6.3
Citizen involvement in public policy: Does it matter how much is at stake?3
Who loves input controls? What happened to “outputs not inputs” in UK Public Financial Management, and why?3
Participatory Budgeting for Social Equity: A Comparative Analysis3
Celebrating the centennial anniversary of Public Administration3
Toward amicro‐levelperspective of organizational publicness: Felt organizational publicness in the eyes of state government employees3
Do monetary or nonmonetary incentives promote citizens' use of a government crowdsourcing: A case of the City of Omaha's 311‐type of crowdsourcing platform3
Working through the fog of a pandemic: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in times of crises3
Shaping influence in governance networks: The role of motivations and information exchange3
An exploration of citizens' professionalism in coproducing social care services3
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