Public Administration Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Administration Review is 1. 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
Accountable Artificial Intelligence: Holding Algorithms to Account143
Value Creation in the Public Service Ecosystem: An Integrative Framework93
Smart Technology and the Emergence of Algorithmic Bureaucracy: Artificial Intelligence in UK Local Authorities84
The Expectancy‐Disconfirmation Model and Citizen Satisfaction with Public Services: A Meta‐analysis and an Agenda for Best Practice72
A Systematic Literature Review of Empirical Research on the Impacts of e‐Government: A Public Value Perspective72
Just or Unjust? How Ideological Beliefs Shape Street‐Level Bureaucrats’ Perceptions of Administrative Burden71
Algorithmization of Bureaucratic Organizations: Using a Practice Lens to Study How Context Shapes Predictive Policing Systems58
Red Tape, Organizational Performance, and Employee Outcomes: Meta‐analysis, Meta‐regression, and Research Agenda58
Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Race: The Limits of Symbolic Representation53
Organizational Reputation in the Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review47
Platform Government in the Era of Smart Technology46
The Relevance and Operations of Political Trust in the COVID‐19 Pandemic46
Toward a Public Administration Theory of Felt Accountability45
Can Leadership Training Improve Organizational Effectiveness? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on Transformational and Transactional Leadership45
Equity in Public Services: A Systematic Literature Review45
How Well Do They Manage a Crisis? The Government's Effectiveness During the COVID‐19 Pandemic44
Explaining Why the Computer Says No: Algorithmic Transparency Affects the Perceived Trustworthiness of Automated Decision‐Making41
How Bureaucratic Representation Affects Public Organizational Performance: AMeta‐Analysis40
Policy Design for COVID‐19: Worldwide Evidence on the Efficacies of Early Mask Mandates and Other Policy Interventions37
How qualitative research methods can be leveraged to strengthen mixed methods research in public policy and public administration?37
A Meta‐Analysis of the Government Performance—Trust Link: Taking Cultural and Methodological Factors into Account35
Nudging Public Employees Through Descriptive Social Norms in Healthcare Organizations33
Getting a Grip on the Performance of Collaborations: Examining Collaborative Performance Regimes and Collaborative Performance Summits32
The Effect of Health and Economic Costs on Governments’ Policy Responses to COVID‐19 Crisis under Incomplete Information32
Health in citizen‐state interactions: How physical and mental health problems shape experiences of administrative burden and reduce take‐up32
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Networks for Addressing Public Problems: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study31
Repairing the State: Policy Repair in the Frontline Bureaucracy30
Representative Bureaucracy Theory and the Implicit Embrace of Whiteness and Masculinity29
Social equity in the data era: A systematic literature review of data‐driven public service research29
Sector Bias and the Credibility of Performance Information: An Experimental Study of Elder Care Provision29
Beyond a Numbers Game? Impact of Diversity and Inclusion on the Perception of Organizational Justice28
Personality and Public Administration: Policymaker Tolerance of Administrative Burdens in Welfare Services27
Mitigating Psychological Costs—The Role of Citizens’ Administrative Literacy and Social Capital26
“It Was Actually Pretty Easy”: COVID‐19 Compliance Cost Reductions in the WIC Program26
The effect of administrative burden on state safety‐net participation: Evidence from food assistance, cash assistance, and Medicaid26
Employer Branding and Recruitment: Social Media Field Experiments Targeting Future Public Employees25
Management of Multiple Accountabilities Through Setting Priorities: Evidence from aCross‐NationalConjoint Experiment25
Putting Big Data to Work in Government: The Case of the United States Border Patrol24
Racial Discrimination and Street‐Level Managers: Performance, Publicness, and Group Bias24
Collaborative Innovation in Labor Market Inclusion23
Public Management for Populists: Trump's Schedule F Executive Order and the Future of the Civil Service23
Leadership in the public sector: A meta‐analysis of styles, outcomes, contexts, and methods23
Beyond social equity: Talking social justice in public administration23
Dysfunction by Design: Trumpism as Administrative Doctrine22
Discretion of the Future: Conceptualizing Everyday Acts of Collective Creativity at the Street‐Level22
Navigating Complexity in a Global Pandemic: The Effects of COVID‐19 on Children and Young People with Disability and Their Families in Australia22
Comparative Studies in Public Administration: Intellectual Challenges and Alternative Perspectives22
Social Public Purchasing: Addressing a Critical Void in Public Purchasing Research20
The ontology, origin, and impact of divisive public sector rules: A meta‐narrative review of the red tape and administrative burden literatures20
Bureaucratic discretion, social equity, and the administrative legitimacy dilemma: Complications of New Public Service20
Reckoning With Race and Gender in Public Administration and Public Policy: A Substantive Social Equity Turn20
Weaponization of Wokeness: The Theater of Management and Implications for Public Administration20
Motivated to Serve: A Regulatory Perspective on Public Service Motivation and Organizational Citizenship Behavior19
Social‐Psychological Context Moderates Incentives to Co‐produce: Evidence from a Large‐Scale Survey Experiment on Park Upkeep in an Urban Setting19
Your Competitive Side Is Calling: An Analysis of Florida Contract Performance18
High‐Stakes Administrative Discretion: What Drives Body‐Worn Camera Activations?18
Who Joins a Forum—And Who Does Not?—Evaluating Drivers of Forum Participation in Polycentric Governance Systems18
‘Just like I thought’: Street‐level bureaucrats trust AI recommendations if they confirm their professional judgment17
Administrative exclusion in the infrastructure‐level bureaucracy: The case of the Dutch daycare benefit scandal17
A New Era and New Concepts in the Study of Race in Public Administration16
What makes public employees want to leave their job? A meta‐analysis of turnover intention predictors among public sector employees16
The Adoption of Robotics by Government Agencies: Evidence from Crime Labs15
Reimagining race and gender in public administration and public policy: Insights from an interdisciplinary systematic review15
Can Public Healthcare Afford Marketization? Market Principles, Mechanisms, and Effects in Five Health Systems15
Defining social equity in emergency management: A critical first step in the nexus15
An Improvised Patchwork: Success and Failure in Cybersecurity Policy for Critical Infrastructure15
How Can Servant Leaders Foster Public Employees’ Service‐Oriented Behaviors? A Multilevel Multisource Study in Canadian Libraries15
How Do Disadvantaged Groups Seek Information About Public Services? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Communication Technologies15
In Search of Social Equity in Public Administration: Race, Gender, and Some “Class”‐ey New Ideas15
Nonprofit Density and Distributional Equity in Public Service Provision: Exploring Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Public Park Access across U.S. Cities14
The Motivations for the Adoption of Management Innovation by Local Governments and its Performance Effects14
Comparative Public Administration in a Globalized World: Moving Beyond Standard Assumptions Toward Increased Understanding14
The American State Administrators Project: A New 50‐State, 50‐Year Data Resource for Scholars14
Interrogating hegemonic embraces: Representative bureaucracy, methodological Whiteness, and non‐West exclusions13
Managerial Practice and Diversity Climate: The Roles of Workplace Voice, Centralization, and Teamwork13
Pandemic Planning in the United States: An Examination ofCOVID‐19 Data13
Socioeconomic Status and Public Sector Worker Stereotypes: Results from a Representative Survey13
Should We Change the Way We Think About Market Performance When It Comes to Quasi‐Markets? A New Framework for Evaluating Public Service Markets13
Crowdsourcing and COVID‐19: How Public Administrations Mobilize Crowds to Find Solutions to Problems Posed by the Pandemic13
Your Money, Your Life, or Your Freedom? A Discrete‐Choice Experiment on Trade‐Offs During a Public Health Crisis13
The power of protest on policing: Black Lives Matter protest and civilian evaluation of the police12
The Effect of Administrative Burden on Farmers’ Perceptions of Cross‐Compliance‐Based Direct Payment Policy12
Exposing the Unfinished Business of Building Public Administration in Late Democracies: Lessons from the COVID‐19 Response in Brazil12
How to systematically analyze co‐production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co‐production12
Representing Personal and Professional Identities in Policing: Sources of Strength and Conflict11
Managing bureaucratic reputation in the face of crises: An experimental examination of the effect of strategic communication11
Learning from Local Government Research Partnerships in a Fragmented Political Setting11
Intersectionality and Social Welfare: Avoidance and Unequal Treatment among Transgender Women of Color11
The Racialized Dimensions of Contemporary Immigration and Border Enforcement Policies and Practices11
The Timing of Managerial Responses to Fiscal Stress11
What's In It For Us? Benevolence, National Security, and Digital Surveillance11
Social inclusion, social exclusion, and the role of leaders in avoiding—or promoting—societal collapse11
Toward a Multiplex Network Theory of Interlocal Service Contracting11
Strategic Decision Making and Implementation in Public Organizations in the Gulf Cooperation Council: The Role of Procedural Rationality11
Core values for ideal civil servants: Service‐oriented, responsive and dedicated10
Spillover Effects of Minority Representation on Majority Bureaucrats’ Behavioral Change10
How Do Public Managers Learn from Performance Information? Experimental Evidence on Problem Focus, Innovative Search, and Change10
Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments10
Evolving Motivation in Public Service: AThree‐PhaseLongitudinal Examination of Public Service Motivation, Work Values, and Academic Studies Among Israeli Students10
Epistemic decolonization of public policy pedagogy and scholarship9
Beyond hollowing out: Public sector managers and the use of external management consultants9
Bureaucratic overburdening in advanced democracies9
Antecedents and consequences of servant leadership in local governance: Evidence from three case studies9
Introducing the Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators: A New Global Dataset on Public Sector Employment and Compensation9
Resource Publicness Matters in Organizational Perceptions9
Is stress among street‐level bureaucrats associated with experiences of administrative burden among clients? A multilevel study of the Danish unemployment sector9
Trust in public performance information: The effect of data accessibility and data source9
When Illusion Met Illusion: How Interacting Biases Affect (Dis)trust within Coopetitive Policy Networks9
The End of Evidence‐Based Everything at the Close of the Global Chapter: Plotting the Next Step on the Spiral9
A Brave New World? Confronting the Challenges of a World in Shambles9
What can postcolonial theory contribute to the study of social equity?9
The ambidextrous leadership‐innovative work behavior relationship in the public sector: The mediating role of psychological ownership9
Joint effects of shared and transformational leadership on performance in street‐level bureaucracies: Evidence from the educational sector9
In the Semi‐Shadow of the Global West: Moroccan zawāyā as Good Public Administration9
Bureaucratic Representation, Accountability, and Democracy: A Qualitative Study of Indigenous Bureaucrats in Australia and Canada9
Legitimate public participation: A Q methodology on the views of politicians9
Intergovernmental Representation at Different Levels of Government: The Effect of Gender Representation9
Public Branding and Marketing: Theoretical and Practical Developments9
Buying from Local Providers: The Role of Governance Preferences in Assessing Performance Information9
Writing impactful reviews to rejuvenate public administration: A framework and recommendations8
What counts as evidence for policy? An analysis of policy actors' perceptions8
The Perceived Fairness of Active Representation: Evidence From a Survey Experiment8
Bureaucratic response to performance information: how mandatory information disclosure affects environmental inspections8
The impact of social impact bond financing8
Helping or Hurting? The Efficacy of Municipal Bankruptcy8
Justice in Black and Brown: The impact of political control and representative bureaucracy on street level outcomes8
Choose your collaborators wisely: Addressing interdependent tasks through collaboration in responding to wildfire disasters8
Decision‐Makers’ Generation of Policy Solutions amidst Negative Performance: Invention or Rigidity?8
The Intersectionality of Deservingness for State Support8
The nexus of public administration, public policy, and nonprofit studies: An empirical mapping of research topics and knowledge integration8
Bending the arc of nonprofit leadership toward justice: Impacts of racial representation and organizational publicness on diversifying executive leadership8
Managing Public Museums Appropriately and Consequentially: The Distinctiveness and Diversity of Leading Organizations8
Portfolio management: A new direction in public sector strategic management research and practice7
Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants7
Liberté, Égalité, Crédibilité: An experimental study of citizens' perceptions of government responses to COVID‐19 in eight countries7
Public Preferences for Disaster Federalism: Comparing Public Risk Management Preferences Across Levels of Government and Hazards7
Connecting the composition of collaborative governance structure to community‐level performance in homeless services7
Telework in public organizations: A systematic review and research agenda7
Race in representative bureaucracy theory: A problematizing review7
Defining and Measuring Coproduction: Deriving Lessons from Practicing Local Government Managers7
How can procurement create (sustainable) public value under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal?7
Top managers in public organizations: A systematic literature review and future research directions7
Regulatory Capture's Self‐Serving Application7
Trust, power, and organizational routines: Exploring government's intentional tactics to renew relationships with nonprofits serving historically marginalized communities6
Quantitative intersectionality: Imperatives and opportunities for advancing social equity6
Variations on a Theme of Resignation: Idling by, Backpedaling, or Driving Forward?6
Does participation predict support for place brands? An analysis of the relationship between stakeholder involvement and brand citizenship behavior6
Bounded Rationality, Satisficing, Artificial Intelligence, and Decision‐Making in Public Organizations: The Contributions of Herbert Simon6
Local institutions and public service outsourcing: Managerial professionalism, mayoral strength, and electoral rules6
Unknowns, Black Swans, and Bounded Rationality in Public Organizations6
The Effect of the EU‐Brand on Citizens’ Trust in Policies: Replicating an Experiment6
Embracing dynamic tensions: Peacekeeping as a balancing act of complexity6
If it ain't broke, don't fix it: When collaborative public management becomes collaborative excess6
Goal achievement in municipal strategic planning: The role of executives' background and political context6
Can public‐private innovation partnerships improve public services? Evidence from a synthetic control approach6
The Impact of Demographic Composition of Social Networks on Perceived Inclusion in the Workplace6
The Role of Gender in Government and Nonprofit Workplaces: An Experimental Analysis of Rule Compliance and Supervisor Trust6
Searching for inclusive artificial intelligence for social good: Participatory governance and policy recommendations for making AI more inclusive and benign for society6
Competence in virtual communication: Remote transformational leadership6
High time for a higher‐level look at high‐technology: Plotting a course for managing government information in an age of governance6
Job Vacancy and Organizational Performance: Are Senior Managers or Street‐Level Bureaucrats Missed Most?6
Understanding the Role of Public Management and Organizational Stability in an Uncertain Environment: Evidence from Korean Public Corporations6
Structural Advocacy Organizations and Intersectional Outcomes: Effects of Women's Police Stations on Female Homicides6
Everyday administrative burdens and inequality6
Compassion, Bureaucrat Bashing, and Public Administration6
Intermunicipal cooperation, integration forms, and vertical and horizontal effects in Japan6
Contracting out public participation to external consultants: Observations on epistemic justice6
Local Government Volunteer Use: A Resource Dependence and Transaction Costs Explanation6
Information use in public administration and policy decision‐making: A research synthesis5
The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding5
The Cost of Representation: Insurance Status, Gender, and Cardiac Outcomes in Emergency Department Care5
A tiered pathway toward sustainability: The role of public administrators in advancing social equity in U.S. local governments5
Theories and theorizing in public administration: A systematic review5
What is necessary for high employee engagement and satisfaction? A look at the best places to work in the Federal Government Index5
Same product, different price: Experimental evidence on the transaction cost expenditures of selling to governments and firms5
From noise to knowledge: Improving evidentiary standards for program efficacy to better inform public policy and management decisions5
Public Service in the Pandemic Era: A COVID Commentary5
Careers of women public managers: Career needs of women public managers across generations5
How does performance management affect social equity? Evidence from New York City public schools5
Facing the human capital crisis: A systematic review and research agenda on recruitment and selection in the public sector5
Social affordances of agile governance5
Inequity after death: Exploring the equitable utilization of FEMA's COVID‐19 funeral assistance funds5
In search of the collaborative advantage of public‐private partnerships: A comparative analysis of Dutch transport infrastructure projects5
Does granting managerial autonomy in exchange for accountability mitigate gaming?5
Representative bureaucracy and organizational attractiveness: An experimental study of symbolic representation of the US and UK police5
Scholarly hypocrisy or apostasy in public administration: Preaching to the choir, or to an empty room?5
Does performance information receive political attention?5
Institutional factors driving citizen perceptions of AI in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing5
Public Administration for a New Season: Reflecting on Neglected Rural Concerns5
Softening Performance's Pitfalls by Integrating Context and Capacity: A Government Competitiveness Framework5
Modes of network governance revisited: Assessing their prevalence, promises, and limitations in the literature5
Governance: Struggle and Strife—Or Synergy and Success—In the Trans‐COVID Era5
It's about time! Temporal dynamics and longitudinal research designs in public administration5
A new acquisition model for the next disaster: Overcoming disaster federalism issues through effective utilization of the Strategic National Stockpile4
Evaluating the impact of different spatial linkages on forum outcome interdependencies in polycentric systems4
Collaboration in crisis: Utilizing the SOS program, an at‐home COVID‐19 vaccine administration initiative, to demonstrate best practices in emergency management collaboration4
Through the Editor's Lens: Understanding the Editorial Role Through Metaphor4
How much damage can a politicized public service do? Lessons from Australia4
Social equity and LGBTQ populations in African public administration: A macro‐ and micro‐approach4
Fancy seeing you here…again: Uncovering individual‐level panel data in repeated cross‐sectional surveys4
Empowering the Female City Manager to Succeed: What Role Does Mentoring Play in the Personal Development and Preparation of Women for this Leadership Position?4
Revisiting the academic–practitioner divide: Evidence from computational social science and corpus linguistics4
Concurrent disasters: Perceived administrative burdens and household coping capacities4
Urban resilience, digital technologies, and the economic recovery of a city from the pandemic4
The reputational dividends of collaborating with a highly reputable agency: The case of interagency collaboration between the U.S. FDA and its domestic partner agencies4
Procedural Rationality in Westminster Systems: HowDe‐SeparationAffects the Decision Premise4
U.S. Immigrant Integration Policy in Light of the COVID‐19 Pandemic4
Disasters and social vulnerability determinants of federal subsidiarity assistance4
Understanding the micro‐foundations of administrative corruption in the public sector: Findings from a systematic literature review4
Not too narrow, not too broad: Linking span of control, leadership behavior, and employee job satisfaction in public organizations4
Overcoming neutrality as an organizational learning impediment4
Coping practices and the spatial dimension of authority design4
Policy entrepreneurs and individuals: Influence and behavior in pandemic response4
Varieties of welfare markets from a street‐level perspective: Comparing long‐term care services in Germany and Israel4
Leading digital transformation: A narrative perspective4
Building community resilience through cross‐sector partnerships and interdisciplinary research4
State‐level politicization of crisis communication on Twitter during COVID‐19: Conceptualization, measurement, and impacts3
A Basic Technique for Guiding Evidence‐Informed Problem Solving3
Incentives and effort in the public and private sector3
Effectiveness, efficiency, and equity tradeoffs in public programs: A citizen experiment3
The limited impact of reference groups' symbolic gender representation on willingness to coproduce3
To the summit and beyond: Tracing the process and impact of collaborative performance summits3
Raising Expectations: The War We Must Fight to Prevent One3
It's not merely about the content: How rules are communicated matters to administrative burden3
Maximizing social equity as a pillar of public administration: An examination of cannabis dispensary licensing in Pennsylvania3
Does revenue‐motivated policing alter who receives traffic citations? Evidence from driver race and income in Indiana3
Political time in public bureaucracies: Explaining variation of structural duration in European governments3
Between nature and nurture: The genetic overlap between psychological attributes and selection into public service employment3
Expanding the political market framework to explain executive decision‐making during the COVID‐19 crisis3
Black Women in the Military: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Correlates of Sexual Harassment3
Does public managers' type of education affect performance in public organizations? A systematic review3
What explains variation in representation in the public sector? Predicting the presence of female officers in U.S. College Police Departments3
Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?3
Blockchains for emergency and crisis management3
“We're not there to lead”: Professional roles and responsibilities in “citizen‐led” co‐production3
Social inequity in administrative burdens: Evidence from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)3
Trust, collaboration, and participation in governance: A Nordic perspective on public administrators' perceptions of citizen involvement3
Examining factors associated with emergency managers' collaborative planning with health departments prior to and during the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Animals in the study of public administration3
Environmental and Organizational Antecedents of Plural Sourcing of Public Services3
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Diffusion of Complex Governance Arrangements: State Approaches to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence3
Frontline employees' responses to citizens' communication of administrative burdens3
The erosion of the administrative state under President Trump: Citizens' pushback against individual and institutional racism3
Evacuation behavior of households facing compound hurricane‐pandemic threats3
Elevating subjective individual experience in public policy and public administration: Reflections on red tape, administrative burden, and sludge3
US state government privatization: Implications for social equity and inequality?2
Decree or democracy? State takeovers and local government financial outcomes2
Judgment of Volunteer Competence among Service Professionals: Stereotypes or Skills?2
Dollars and Sense: Tax, Spend, and Satisfice2
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