OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Administration is 9. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond co‐production: Value creation and public services	83
Target‐setting, political incentives, and the tricky trade‐off between economic development and environmental protection	51
Policy instruments at work: A meta‐analysis of their applications	49
The future of public administration research: An editor's perspective	48
Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses	42
Burdens, Sludge, Ordeals, Red tape, Oh My!: A User's Guide to the Study of Frictions	41
Public servant stereotypes: It is not (at) all about being lazy, greedy and corrupt	39
A long road: Patterns and prospects for social equity, diversity, and inclusion in public administration	36
Policy design and public support for carbon tax: Evidence from a 2018 US national online survey experiment	36
Street‐level bureaucrats and policy entrepreneurship: When implementers challenge policy design	35
Distinguishing the street‐level policy entrepreneur	32
Reflecting on over 100 years of public administration education	31
Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe	29
Assessing public value failure in government adoption of artificial intelligence	28
Corruption consolidation in local governments: A grounded analytical framework	24
CO‐DESIGN‐ing a more context‐based, pluralistic, and participatory future for public administration	23
Emotional labor and employee outcomes: A meta‐analysis	23
Question order bias revisited: A split‐ballot experiment on satisfaction with public services among experienced and professional users	22
Social workers as street‐level policy entrepreneurs	22
Integrating citizen deliberation into climate governance: Lessons on robust design from six climate assemblies	21
The public sector and co‐creation in turbulent times: A systematic literature review on robust governance in the COVID‐19 emergency	21
Working through the fog of a pandemic: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in times of crises	20
Designing for adaptation: Static and dynamic robustness in policy‐making	20
Intersectionality and equity: Dynamic bureaucratic representation in higher education	20
Multilevel reinforcing dynamics: Global climate governance and European renewable energy policy	19

The costs of corporatization: Analysing the effects of forms of governance	19
The fragmentation of public administration: Differentiated and decentered governance in the (dis)United Kingdom	19
A replication of “Representative bureaucracy and the willingness to coproduce”	19
Political opportunism and transaction costs in contractual choice of public–private partnerships	18
Street‐level bureaucrats as policy entrepreneurs: Action strategies for flexible community governance in China	18
How local governments prioritize multiple conflicting goals: Beyond the sole‐goal perspective	18
Gender‐responsive budgeting: A budget reform to address gender inequity	18
A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics	17
Public sector creativity as the origin of public sector innovation: A taxonomy and future research agenda	17
Gaming the system: Responses to dissatisfaction with public services beyond exit and voice	17
Machine coding of policy texts with the Institutional Grammar	17
How to implement policy: Coping with ambiguity and uncertainty	17
Toward a positive theory of public participation in government: Variations in New York City's participatory budgeting	16
The management consultancy effect: Demand inflation and its consequences in the sourcing of external knowledge	16
Robust crisis communication in turbulent times: Conceptualization and empirical evidence from the United States	16
Consultancies in public administration	16
Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value	16
How bureaucrats shape political decisions: The role of policy information	15
Institutional Grammar 2.0: A specification for encoding and analyzing institutional design	15
Distributed leadership and performance‐related employee outcomes in public sector organizations	15
The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency	15
Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times	15
“I have learned my lesson”: How clients' trust betrayals shape the future ways in which street‐level bureaucrats cope with their clients	15
Effects of local government social media use on citizen compliance during a crisis: Evidence from the COVID‐19 crisis in China	14
Institutional design for a complex commons: Variations in the design of credible commitments and the provision of public goods	14
Dealing with multiple principals in at arm's length organizations: A qualitative study of Dutch municipally owned corporations	14
When does transparency improve public services? Street‐level discretion, information, and targeting	13
Contextual recipes for adopting private control and trust in public–private partnership governance	13
Representative bureaucracy and impartial policing	13
Dancing on a tightrope: The reputation management of local governments in response to public protests in China	13
Exploring the foundational origins of public service motivation through the lens of behavioral genetics	12
All you need is … a network: The rise of interpretive public administration	12
Thinking outside the box, improvisation, and fast learning: Designing policy robustness to deal with what cannot be foreseen	12
Need, justice and central–local relations: The case of social assistance in China	12
The webs of belief around ‘evidence’ in legislatures: The case of select committees in the UK House of Commons	12
Policy preferences in response to negative economic prospects of COVID‐19: A survey‐experiment among local politicians in four European countries	11
Managing policy‐making in the local climate governance landscape: The role of network administrative organizations and member cities	11
Professional expertise in policy advisory systems: How administrators and consultants built behavioral insights in Danish public agencies	11
Corporatization and political ideology: The case of hospitals in Spain	11
Corporatization of public services	11
The politics of FinTech: Technology, regulation, and disruption in UK and German retail banking	11
Representative bureaucracy and the policy environment: Gender representation in Forty‐Four countries	11
Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more	11
Putting the international in Public Administration: An International Quarterly. A historical review of 1992–2022	11
Talk or type? The effect of digital interfaces on citizens' satisfaction with standardized public services	11
Network structures and network effects across management and policy contexts: A systematic review	10
A replication of “Contracting out: For What? With Whom?”	10
Seeking the spotlight: How reputational considerations shape the European Court of Auditor's shifting account‐holding role	10
Personnel governance of corporatized public services: Effects of executive resources and corporation forms on turnover	10
Ideas and crisis in policy and administration: Existing links and research frontiers	10

Linking political and bureaucratic representation: Does minority representation on city councils affect the outcomes of street‐level service?	10
Robust emergency management: The role of institutional trust in organized volunteers	10
Robust governance for the long term and the heat of the moment: Temporal strategies for coping with dual crises	9
A replication of “an experimental test of the expectancy‐disconfirmation theory of citizen satisfaction”	9
Service quality and the optimum number of members in intermunicipal cooperation: The case of emergency primary care services in Norway	9
On the character of the new entrepreneurial National Health Service in England: Reforming health care from within?	9
Remapping the European agenda‐setting landscape	9
How does diversity affect public organizational performance? A meta‐analysis	9
Duopoly, court politics and the Danish core executive	9
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks	9
Professional development leadership in turbulent times: Public administration symposium: Robust politics and governance in turbulent times	9
Financial reporting transparency, citizens' understanding, and public participation: A survey experiment study	9
Bureaucratic responsiveness in times of political crisis: The case of presidential impeachment	9