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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics131
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics103
Information for Contributors91
Dollars and Sense: Tax, Spend, and Satisfice87
Who benefits from work‐life programs? Lessons in gender and race from OPM's Federal Work‐Life Survey68
‘Feeling out’ the rules: A psychological process theory of red tape64
(De)Centering Whiteness through community dialogues about safety problems and solutions61
The deformation of democracy in the United States: When does bureaucratic “neutral competence” rise to complicity?58
Scholarly hypocrisy or apostasy in public administration: Preaching to the choir, or to an empty room?53
How much damage can a politicized public service do? Lessons from Australia52
Social equity in the data era: A systematic literature review of data‐driven public service research51
Celebrating 85 Years46
Issue Information46
The Asian American experience in the federal workforce: How employees navigate the complexities of racialization45
Information for Contributors43
Raising Expectations: The War We Must Fight to Prevent One41
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics40
Some Parents Survive and Some Don't: The Army and the Family as “Greedy Institutions”40
Can Public Healthcare Afford Marketization? Market Principles, Mechanisms, and Effects in Five Health Systems39
Is There a Glass Cliff in Local Government Management? Examining the Hiring and Departure of Women38
Bureaucratic prioritizing among clients in the eyes of the public: Experimental evidence from three countries37
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics36
Representative bureaucracy and organizational attractiveness: An experimental study of symbolic representation of the US and UK police35
Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?34
Enriching Transactional Leadership with Public Values34
Same product, different price: Experimental evidence on the transaction cost expenditures of selling to governments and firms34
Passive representation: The effect of affirmative action bans on female representation in law enforcement32
A compliance—integrity framework for ethics management: An empirical analysis of local government practice32
Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do About It, By Cass R.Sunstein (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021), 153 pp. Cost: $22.36 (hard cover), ISBN: 978–026204578029
Bureaucratic professionalization and cabinet management: How civil servants in presidential democracies are treated differently29
Issue Information29
Intergovernmental cooperation and joint purchasing agreements: Do governments free‐ride?29
How Public Officials Perceive Algorithmic Discretion: A Study of Status Quo Bias in Policing28
Risk aversion and public sector employment26
Building and Maintaining Trust “Even When Things Aren't Going Well”: Meta‐Regulation Through an Explicit Psychological Contract25
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics25
Collaboration in crisis: Utilizing the SOS program, an at‐home COVID‐19 vaccine administration initiative, to demonstrate best practices in emergency management collaboration24
Achieving social equity: From problems to solutions By M. E.Guy & S. A.McCandless (Eds.), Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh. 2020. pp. 194 $44.95 (paperback)24
James V. Koch and Richard J.Cebula, Runaway College Costs: How College Governing Boards Fail to Protect their Students (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). 238 pp. $39.95 (hardcov24
Diffusion of Complex Governance Arrangements: State Approaches to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence24
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Benefit and hidden cost of organizational support for telework amid the COVID‐19 pandemic on public employees' job satisfaction and retention intention23
How scholars can support government analytics: Combining employee surveys with more administrative data sources towards a better understanding of how government functions23
What can postcolonial theory contribute to the study of social equity?22
Race in representative bureaucracy theory: A problematizing review22
What explains variation in representation in the public sector? Predicting the presence of female officers in U.S. College Police Departments21
In Search of Social Equity in Public Administration: Race, Gender, and Some “Class”‐ey New Ideas21
Does public sector performance information impact stakeholders? Evidence from a meta‐analysis20
Death of the public servant. By Daniel A.Rosemond, Brisbane: Limelight Publishing. 2022. pp. 262. $17.95. ISBN 10: 1471668673ISBN 13: 978147166867820
Taxing Language: Do Interpreting Fees Affect Immigrant Healthcare Usage? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design19
Leadership in the public sector: A meta‐analysis of styles, outcomes, contexts, and methods18
Issue Information18
Governance by artifacts: Theory and evidence on materiality of administrative burdens18
Health in citizen‐state interactions: How physical and mental health problems shape experiences of administrative burden and reduce take‐up18
The three ages of government: From the person, to the group, to the world. By Jos C. N.Raadschelders, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2020. pp. 316. Paper: $29.95 Hardcover: $55. Also ava18
The Hidden Tier of Social Services. Frontline Workers' Provision of Informal Resources in the Public, Nonprofit and Private Sectors By EinatLavee, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp. 74. 17
Global risk management: The role of collective cognition in response to COVID‐19. By LouiseComfort, Mary LeeRhodes, New York and London: Routledge. 2022. pp. 291. ISBN: 978‐1‐032‐18182‐017
Celebrating 84 Years17
Editorial: A journal update and note of appreciation17
The Effect of the EU‐Brand on Citizens’ Trust in Policies: Replicating an Experiment17
The Administrative Presidency and PK‐12 Education Policy: Student Rights and Oversight During the Trump and Biden Era17
Nursery City Innovation: ACELLFramework16
Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments16
Celebrating 85 Years16
Revisiting the academic–practitioner divide: Evidence from computational social science and corpus linguistics16
In search of the collaborative advantage of public‐private partnerships: A comparative analysis of Dutch transport infrastructure projects16
Information for Contributors16
Managing cyberattacks in wartime: The case of Ukraine16
Competence in virtual communication: Remote transformational leadership16
Influence of external authorities on collaborative frictions15
Politics, Policy and Public Administration: Essays in Honour of Professor John Wanna. By AndrewPodger, MichaeldePercy, and SamVincent, eds. 2021. Acton, Australia. Australian National University Press15
Social equity in federal contracting during emergencies: A portfolio management perspective15
Political time in public bureaucracies: Explaining variation of structural duration in European governments15
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Learning from Local Government Research Partnerships in a Fragmented Political Setting15
The performance function in local government: Does location impact performance data use?14
Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens' expectations toward public services14
Bureaucratic Representation, Accountability, and Democracy: A Qualitative Study of Indigenous Bureaucrats in Australia and Canada14
Nudging Public Employees Through Descriptive Social Norms in Healthcare Organizations14
Connecting the composition of collaborative governance structure to community‐level performance in homeless services14
Building global public administration knowledge: Leveraging the power of collaboration14
Celebrating 82 Years13
The nexus between emergency management, public health, and equity: Responding to crisis, and mitigating future hazards13
From performance to morality: How politicians frame bureaucracy, its organizations, and public sector employees13
Inconvenient truths about logistic regression and the remedy of marginal effects13
Issue Information13
Information for Contributors13
Liberal democratic accountability standards and public administration13
The power of protest on policing: Black Lives Matter protest and civilian evaluation of the police13
Nonprofits in policy advocacy their strategies and stories. By SheldonGen, Amy ConleyWright, Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. XXVIII, pp. 238. $34.99 (so13
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Street‐level discretion, personal motives, and social embeddedness within public service ecosystems13
Issue Information12
Representative bureaucracy and family planning service delivery in Tanzania12
Organizational and Individual Factors of Evidence Informed Policy Making in Public Organizations12
The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty‐First Century. By AlasdairRoberts, Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2024. pp. 192. $24.95 CAD (paperback). ISBN12
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Harnessing the evolutionary advantage of emergent performance management regimes: Strengthening accountability for challenges of modern public administration and governance12
A tiered pathway toward sustainability: The role of public administrators in advancing social equity in U.S. local governments12
Does revenue‐motivated policing alter who receives traffic citations? Evidence from driver race and income in Indiana12
Motivated to Serve: A Regulatory Perspective on Public Service Motivation and Organizational Citizenship Behavior11
Issue Information11
US state government privatization: Implications for social equity and inequality?11
The Impact of Demographic Composition of Social Networks on Perceived Inclusion in the Workplace11
Strategic program management: Performance accountability driving use in national governments11
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics11
“We're not there to lead”: Professional roles and responsibilities in “citizen‐led” co‐production11
Information for Contributors11
Social inequity in administrative burdens: Evidence from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)11
Information for Contributors11
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics11
Evolving Motivation in Public Service: AThree‐PhaseLongitudinal Examination of Public Service Motivation, Work Values, and Academic Studies Among Israeli Students11
Administrative exclusion in the infrastructure‐level bureaucracy: The case of the Dutch daycare benefit scandal11
The Moderating Role of Workplace Autonomy on Corruption Control Strategies: Evidence From 33 South Korean Ministries10
Can public‐private innovation partnerships improve public services? Evidence from a synthetic control approach10
Evacuation behavior of households facing compound hurricane‐pandemic threats10
How does performance management affect social equity? Evidence from New York City public schools10
Public Preferences for Disaster Federalism: Comparing Public Risk Management Preferences Across Levels of Government and Hazards10
Does collective citizen input impact government service provision? Evidence from SeeClickFix requests10
Does she belong here? Women in leadership positions and organizational performance in gendered institutions10
Buying from Local Providers: The Role of Governance Preferences in Assessing Performance Information10
No country for model minorities: Evidence of discrimination against Asian noncitizen immigrants in the U.S. nursing home market10
Equity in government contracting: Analyzing the performance of small disadvantaged businesses10
Getting a Grip on the Performance of Collaborations: Examining Collaborative Performance Regimes and Collaborative Performance Summits10
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics10
Regulatory offsetting in advanced democracies10
The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding10
Institutional factors driving citizen perceptions of AI in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing10
Swooshed: How Nike and the City of New York could potentially change the landscape of city branding through apparel licensing agreements9
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics9
Managing my shame: Investigating the effects of organizational identity threat and public service motivation on exemplification9
Issue Information9
Celebrating 84 Years9
The reputational dividends of collaborating with a highly reputable agency: The case of interagency collaboration between the U.S. FDA and its domestic partner agencies9
Celebrating 83 Years9
In search of the silver‐lining: Police officers' attributions and responses to stakeholder critique9
The Motivations for the Adoption of Management Innovation by Local Governments and its Performance Effects9
Frontline employees' responses to citizens' communication of administrative burdens9
Bending the arc of nonprofit leadership toward justice: Impacts of racial representation and organizational publicness on diversifying executive leadership9
Resilience and the management of nonprofit organizations: A new paradigm. By Dennis R.Young, Elizabeth A. M.Searing, Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2022. pp. 167. $110 (hard9
Mind the gap: Strategies from California on navigating access to public hearings9
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Trust, power, and organizational routines: Exploring government's intentional tactics to renew relationships with nonprofits serving historically marginalized communities9
Regulatory Capture's Self‐Serving Application9
How to systematically analyze co‐production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co‐production8
Issue Information8
Toward a Public Administration Theory of Felt Accountability8
Information for Contributors8
The ontology, origin, and impact of divisive public sector rules: A meta‐narrative review of the red tape and administrative burden literatures8
Justice in Black and Brown: The impact of political control and representative bureaucracy on street level outcomes8
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A meta‐analysis of the state and local government borrowing costs7
‘Just like I thought’: Street‐level bureaucrats trust AI recommendations if they confirm their professional judgment7
Issue Information7
Indian Preference and the status of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the federal service: Employment, earnings, authority, and perceptions of fairness7
Crowdsourced data in public administration research: A review and look to the future7
Beyond Simplification in Public Sector Accountability: Contradictions Between Principal‐Agent and Complexity Theories7
Who Joins a Forum—And Who Does Not?—Evaluating Drivers of Forum Participation in Polycentric Governance Systems7
Hilton L. Root, Network Origins of the Global Economy: East Vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective | SpringerLink (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020). xxxi + 306 pp. USD 39.97
First impressions: An analysis of professional stereotypes and their impact on sector attraction7
Your Competitive Side Is Calling: An Analysis of Florida Contract Performance7
Holding out for a hero: Linking hiring duration and managerial fit7
COVID‐19 emergency policies, financial security, and social equity: Worldwide evidence7
Bureaucratic discretion, social equity, and the administrative legitimacy dilemma: Complications of New Public Service6
Animals in the study of public administration6
Why do some academic articles receive more citations from policy communities?6
Public management frontiers in guaranteed income programs: Advancing implementation6
Liberté, Égalité, Crédibilité: An experimental study of citizens' perceptions of government responses to COVID‐19 in eight countries6
Bridge over troubled waters? Experimental evidence into the influence of leadership on employees' collaborative engagement6
Using technology to reduce learning costs and improve program comprehension: Lessons from a survey experiment on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program6
Concurrent disasters: Perceived administrative burdens and household coping capacities6
Celebrating 82 Years6
Annabelle Lever and Andrei Poama, The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy (New York, NY: Routledge, 2018). 560 pp.; $145.03 (Hardcover), ISBN: 9781138201279.6
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics6
Institutional pressures and the prevalence of nonprofit sector support organizations6
Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants6
What is necessary for high employee engagement and satisfaction? A look at the best places to work in the Federal Government Index6
Social affordances of agile governance5
Trust, collaboration, and participation in governance: A Nordic perspective on public administrators' perceptions of citizen involvement5
State‐level politicization of crisis communication on Twitter during COVID‐19: Conceptualization, measurement, and impacts5
A cognitive network perspective for public administration and policy5
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The End of Evidence‐Based Everything at the Close of the Global Chapter: Plotting the Next Step on the Spiral5
Evaluating turnover intention as a proxy for behavior in the federal public service: Evidence from two surveys of senior civil servants5
New Public Governance as a Hybrid: A Critical InterpretationBy LauraCataldi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 70pp. $22.00 (hardbook). ISBN: 978‐1‐00‐945403‐25
How to “Run” the Many Moving Parts In and Around Democratic Government? NissimCohen, Policy Entrepreneurship at the Street Level(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 895
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Effective public administration strategies for global “new normal”. By Perfecto G.AquinoJr., Revenio C.JalagatJr. (Eds.), Singapore: Springer Books. 2022. pp. 243. $169.99 (ebook) December. ISBN: 978‐5
Between nature and nurture: The genetic overlap between psychological attributes and selection into public service employment5
How can procurement create (sustainable) public value under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal?5
Building community resilience through cross‐sector partnerships and interdisciplinary research5
Helping or Hurting? The Efficacy of Municipal Bankruptcy5
Are special districts strategic complements or strategic substitutes?5
Steven L.Yaffee, Beyond Polarization: Public Process and the Unlikely Story of California's Marine Protected Areas (Washington: Island Press, 2020). 1–485 pp. ISBN: 97816428308285
Optimizing global governance through US–China dynamics: The interplay of conflict and cooperation in driving innovation and efficiency5
The effect of administrative burden on state safety‐net participation: Evidence from food assistance, cash assistance, and Medicaid4
Facing the human capital crisis: A systematic review and research agenda on recruitment and selection in the public sector4
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Maximizing social equity as a pillar of public administration: An examination of cannabis dispensary licensing in Pennsylvania4
We didn't start the fire…but it sure is getting warm4
How do polycentric governance systems adapt? The role of forums explored in Dutch metropolitan areas4
Public values and sector service delivery preferences: Public preferences on contracting from simple to complex human services4
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Impact of low‐performance signals on employee fraud in public organizations: Evidence from a pay‐for‐performance context4
Judgment of Volunteer Competence among Service Professionals: Stereotypes or Skills?4
James L.Perry, ed., Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty‐First Century (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). 312 pp. $69.954
Celebrating 82 Years4
Information for Contributors4
“It Was Actually Pretty Easy”: COVID‐19 Compliance Cost Reductions in the WIC Program4
Leading digital transformation: A narrative perspective4
Does participation predict support for place brands? An analysis of the relationship between stakeholder involvement and brand citizenship behavior4
Executive policymaking influence via the administrative apparatus4
Deborah Stone, Counting: How we Use Numbers to Decide What Matters (New York: Liveright, 2021). 312 pp. $26,95 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978‐1‐63149‐592‐24
Social inclusion, social exclusion, and the role of leaders in avoiding—or promoting—societal collapse4
Joint effects of shared and transformational leadership on performance in street‐level bureaucracies: Evidence from the educational sector4
Celebrating 84 Years4
Celebrating 81 Years4
Reducing horizontal neglect in local government: The role of informal institutions3
Feminine leadership and juvenile justice outcomes: The Florida experience3
Managerial Practice and Diversity Climate: The Roles of Workplace Voice, Centralization, and Teamwork3
Coping practices and the spatial dimension of authority design3
Working as equals: Relational egalitarianism and the workplace. By Julian DavidJonker, Grant J.Rozeboom (Eds.), New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 272. £71.00 (hardback). ISBN: 97801976342953
From noise to knowledge: Improving evidentiary standards for program efficacy to better inform public policy and management decisions3
Moving from coproduction to commonization of digital public goods and services3
How citizens want to “see” the state: Exploring the relationship between transparency and public values3
Is Trust in Local Government Influenced by the “Marketplace” of Choice?3
Global topics, global reach: Welcome to PAR's newest editorial board members3
Adaptive organizational network response in a crisis: The case of five European airports during theCOVID‐19 pandemic3
Connecting founding and dissolution: A demographic study of the US nonprofit sector3
Careers of women public managers: Career needs of women public managers across generations3
How Can Servant Leaders Foster Public Employees’ Service‐Oriented Behaviors? A Multilevel Multisource Study in Canadian Libraries3
Decree or democracy? State takeovers and local government financial outcomes3
Great Gatsby and the Global SouthBy DidingSakri, AndySumner, Arief AnshoryYusuf, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 75 pp. $22.00 (paperback). ISBN 97810093827243
Citizens' perceptions of the legitimacy of independent agencies: The effects of expertise‐based and reputation‐sourced authority3
At their fingertips: What is the impact of online reporting of domestic violence?3
The bureaucrat, the entrepreneur, and the networker: Developing and validating measurement scales for civil servants’ role perceptions3
Governor's political affiliation and stringent COVID‐19 policy2
Crowdsourcing and COVID‐19: How Public Administrations Mobilize Crowds to Find Solutions to Problems Posed by the Pandemic2
The Socio‐Political Context of Citizen Activism: An International Comparative Perspective2
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The Impact of Professor Allan Rosenbaum: Global Champion of Public Administration, Field‐Builder, Teacher, and Friend2
Black Women in the Military: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Correlates of Sexual Harassment2
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Ash Carter, Inside the Five‐Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon (New York: Dutton, 2019). 463 pp. $30.00 (Hardcover) ISBN: 978‐152472
What counts as evidence for policy? An analysis of policy actors' perceptions2
The impact of terrorism on civil servants: Longitudinal evidence from the July 22, 2011 attack in Norway2
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