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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond co‐production: Value creation and public services	92
Target‐setting, political incentives, and the tricky trade‐off between economic development and environmental protection	56
Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses	55
The future of public administration research: An editor's perspective	53
Burdens, Sludge, Ordeals, Red tape, Oh My!: A User's Guide to the Study of Frictions	45
A long road: Patterns and prospects for social equity, diversity, and inclusion in public administration	42
Street‐level bureaucrats and policy entrepreneurship: When implementers challenge policy design	37
Corruption consolidation in local governments: A grounded analytical framework	35
Distinguishing the street‐level policy entrepreneur	35
Assessing public value failure in government adoption of artificial intelligence	33
Reflecting on over 100 years of public administration education	33
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	31
Emotional labor and employee outcomes: A meta‐analysis	31
The fragmentation of public administration: Differentiated and decentered governance in the (dis)United Kingdom	29
The public sector and co‐creation in turbulent times: A systematic literature review on robust governance in the COVID‐19 emergency	27
Integrating citizen deliberation into climate governance: Lessons on robust design from six climate assemblies	25
CO‐DESIGN‐ing a morecontext‐based, pluralistic, and participatory future for public administration	25
Designing for adaptation: Static and dynamic robustness in policy‐making	23
How local governments prioritize multiple conflicting goals: Beyond the sole‐goal perspective	23
Social workers as street‐level policy entrepreneurs	22
A replication of “Representative bureaucracy and the willingness to coproduce”	22
How to implement policy: Coping with ambiguity and uncertainty	21
Working through the fog of a pandemic: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in times of crises	21
A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics	20
Gender‐responsive budgeting: A budget reform to address gender inequity	20

Public sector creativity as the origin of public sector innovation: A taxonomy and future research agenda	20
Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value	20
Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times	20
Political opportunism and transaction costs in contractual choice of public–private partnerships	20
The costs of corporatization: Analysing the effects of forms of governance	19
Street‐level bureaucrats as policy entrepreneurs: Action strategies for flexible community governance in China	19
Machine coding of policy texts with the Institutional Grammar	19
The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency	18
Institutional Grammar 2.0: A specification for encoding and analyzing institutional design	18
The management consultancy effect: Demand inflation and its consequences in the sourcing of external knowledge	18
Robust crisis communication in turbulent times: Conceptualization and empirical evidence from the United States	18
Effects of local government social media use on citizen compliance during a crisis: Evidence from the COVID‐19 crisis in China	17
“I have learned my lesson”: How clients' trust betrayals shape the future ways in which street‐level bureaucrats cope with their clients	17
How bureaucrats shape political decisions: The role of policy information	17
Consultancies in public administration	17
Distributed leadership and performance‐related employee outcomes in public sector organizations	17
Toward a positive theory of public participation in government: Variations in New York City's participatory budgeting	16
Institutional design for a complex commons: Variations in the design of credible commitments and the provision of public goods	16
Thinking outside the box, improvisation, and fast learning: Designing policy robustness to deal with what cannot be foreseen	15
Contextual recipes for adopting private control and trust in public–private partnership governance	15
COVID‐19‐induced governance transformation: How external shocks may spur cross‐organizational collaboration and trust‐based management	15
Dancing on a tightrope: The reputation management of local governments in response to public protests in China	15
Network structures and network effects across management and policy contexts: A systematic review	14
All you need is … a network: The rise of interpretive public administration	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	14
Robust emergency management: The role of institutional trust in organized volunteers	13
Exploring the foundational origins of public service motivation through the lens of behavioral genetics	12
The politics of FinTech: Technology, regulation, and disruption in UK and German retail banking	12
Putting the international in Public Administration: An International Quarterly. A historical review of 1992–2022	12
Corporatization of public services	12
Policy preferences in response to negative economic prospects of COVID‐19: A survey‐experiment among local politicians in four European countries	12
Professional expertise in policy advisory systems: How administrators and consultants built behavioral insights in Danish public agencies	12
Representative bureaucracy and the policy environment: Gender representation in Forty‐Four countries	12
Robust governance for the long term and the heat of the moment: Temporal strategies for coping with dual crises	12
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 services	12
Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more	11
Corporatization and political ideology: The case of hospitals in Spain	11
Personnel governance of corporatized public services: Effects of executive resources and corporation forms on turnover	11
Seeking the spotlight: How reputational considerations shape the European Court of Auditor's shifting account‐holding role	11
A replication of “Contracting out: For What? With Whom?”	11
Ideas and crisis in policy and administration: Existing links and research frontiers	10
Service quality and the optimum number of members in intermunicipal cooperation: The case of emergency primary care services in Norway	10
Engaging stakeholders on TikTok: A multi‐level social media analysis of nonprofit Microvlogging	10
Professional development leadership in turbulent times: Public administration symposium: Robust politics and governance in turbulent times	10
Trust, but verify? Understanding citizen attitudes toward evidence‐informed policy making	10
Coordinating monetary policy and macroprudential policy: Bureaucratic politics, regulatory intermediary, and bank lobbying	10
Financial reporting transparency, citizens' understanding, and public participation: A survey experiment study	10
Bureaucratic responsiveness in times of political crisis: The case of presidential impeachment	10

Dissecting multiple accountabilities: A problem of multiple forums or of conflicting demands?	9
Public crowdsourcing: Analyzing the role of government feedback on civic digital platforms	9
How does diversity affect public organizational performance? A meta‐analysis	9
On the character of the new entrepreneurial National Health Service in England: Reforming health care from within?	9
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks	9
Voice, responsiveness, and alternative policy venues: An analysis of citizen complaints against the local government to the national Ombudsman	9
Remapping the European agenda‐setting landscape	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 communication	9
“Let's organize”: The organizational basis for stable public governance	9
A micro‐process model of institutional complexity in public hybrid organizations: Construal of identity threats and mitigation strategies	9
Collaborating with the competition? A study of interlocal partnership choices	9
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 mediators	9
Population analysis of organizational innovation and learning	9
From “business‐like” to businesses: Agencification, corporatization, and civil service reform under the Thatcher administration	9