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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics146
Information for Contributors88
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics61
(De)Centering Whiteness through community dialogues about safety problems and solutions59
Public Encounters and Government Chatbots: When Servers Talk to Citizens59
Scholarly hypocrisy or apostasy in public administration: Preaching to the choir, or to an empty room?54
Getting Your Foot in the Door: The Impact of Public Sector Fellowships on Career Trajectories52
‘Feeling out’ the rules: A psychological process theory of red tape52
How much damage can a politicized public service do? Lessons from Australia49
Social equity in the data era: A systematic literature review of data‐driven public service research49
The deformation of democracy in the United States: When does bureaucratic “neutral competence” rise to complicity?48
Who benefits from work‐life programs? Lessons in gender and race from OPM's Federal Work‐Life Survey46
Issue Information45
Celebrating 85 Years43
Information for Contributors42
Raising Expectations: The War We Must Fight to Prevent One38
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics38
Is There a Glass Cliff in Local Government Management? Examining the Hiring and Departure of Women37
Enriching Transactional Leadership with Public Values36
Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?36
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics35
Representative bureaucracy and organizational attractiveness: An experimental study of symbolic representation of the US and UK police35
Same product, different price: Experimental evidence on the transaction cost expenditures of selling to governments and firms33
Passive representation: The effect of affirmative action bans on female representation in law enforcement30
Some Parents Survive and Some Don't: The Army and the Family as “Greedy Institutions”29
A compliance—integrity framework for ethics management: An empirical analysis of local government practice28
The Culture of Democracy. By BinXu, New Jersey: Polity Press, 2022. 200 pp. $59.04 (hardcover); $8.14 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐954398‐4; ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐954399‐127
The Asian American experience in the federal workforce: How employees navigate the complexities of racialization26
Bureaucratic prioritizing among clients in the eyes of the public: Experimental evidence from three countries26
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: 978–026204578025
Bureaucratic professionalization and cabinet management: How civil servants in presidential democracies are treated differently25
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Diffusion of Complex Governance Arrangements: State Approaches to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence24
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Collaboration in crisis: Utilizing the SOS program, an at‐home COVID‐19 vaccine administration initiative, to demonstrate best practices in emergency management collaboration24
In Search of Social Equity in Public Administration: Race, Gender, and Some “Class”‐ey New Ideas24
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
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)23
Death of the public servant. By Daniel A.Rosemond, Brisbane: Limelight Publishing. 2022. pp. 262. $17.95. ISBN 10: 1471668673ISBN 13: 978147166867823
What explains variation in representation in the public sector? Predicting the presence of female officers in U.S. College Police Departments23
What can postcolonial theory contribute to the study of social equity?22
Building and Maintaining Trust “Even When Things Aren't Going Well”: Meta‐Regulation Through an Explicit Psychological Contract22
Handbook on Measuring Governance. By PeterTriantafillou and Jenny M.Lewis (eds.), Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 330 pp. $250 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐80220‐063‐822
Managing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Public Service Organizations: A Liberatory Justice Approach. By RashmiChordiya and MeghnaSabharwal, New York: Routledge, 2024. 338 pp. $51.99 (paperback); 22
Does public sector performance information impact stakeholders? Evidence from a meta‐analysis22
Race in representative bureaucracy theory: A problematizing review22
How scholars can support government analytics: Combining employee surveys with more administrative data sources towards a better understanding of how government functions21
How Public Officials Perceive Algorithmic Discretion: A Study of Status Quo Bias in Policing21
Taxing Language: Do Interpreting Fees Affect Immigrant Healthcare Usage? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design21
Risk aversion and public sector employment21
Health in citizen‐state interactions: How physical and mental health problems shape experiences of administrative burden and reduce take‐up20
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 ava20
Leadership in the public sector: A meta‐analysis of styles, outcomes, contexts, and methods20
Intergovernmental cooperation and joint purchasing agreements: Do governments free‐ride?20
Benefit and hidden cost of organizational support for telework amid the COVID‐19 pandemic on public employees' job satisfaction and retention intention20
The Administrative Presidency and PK‐12 Education Policy: Student Rights and Oversight During the Trump and Biden Era19
Editorial: A journal update and note of appreciation19
Celebrating 84 Years19
Organizational Culture and Social Equity: An Experiential Guide. By StephanieDolamore and AngelaKline (eds.), New York: Routledge, 2023. 146 pp. $55.99 (paperback); $190.00 (hardback); $50.39 (ebook).19
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: 978‐1‐032‐18182‐019
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Celebrating 85 Years19
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. 19
In search of the collaborative advantage of public‐private partnerships: A comparative analysis of Dutch transport infrastructure projects18
Competence in virtual communication: Remote transformational leadership17
Populism and Political Appointments17
Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments17
Revisiting the academic–practitioner divide: Evidence from computational social science and corpus linguistics17
Managing cyberattacks in wartime: The case of Ukraine17
Nursery City Innovation: ACELLFramework16
The State of Public Administration in Nigeria16
Information for Contributors16
Governance by artifacts: Theory and evidence on materiality of administrative burdens16
From performance to morality: How politicians frame bureaucracy, its organizations, and public sector employees15
Building global public administration knowledge: Leveraging the power of collaboration15
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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
Connecting the composition of collaborative governance structure to community‐level performance in homeless services15
Influence of external authorities on collaborative frictions15
The performance function in local government: Does location impact performance data use?15
Inconvenient truths about logistic regression and the remedy of marginal effects14
Social equity in federal contracting during emergencies: A portfolio management perspective14
Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens' expectations toward public services14
The power of protest on policing: Black Lives Matter protest and civilian evaluation of the police14
Liberal democratic accountability standards and public administration14
Bureaucratic Representation, Accountability, and Democracy: A Qualitative Study of Indigenous Bureaucrats in Australia and Canada14
Political time in public bureaucracies: Explaining variation of structural duration in European governments14
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Information for Contributors13
A tiered pathway toward sustainability: The role of public administrators in advancing social equity in U.S. local governments13
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
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). ISBN13
Celebrating 82 Years13
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The Impact of Demographic Composition of Social Networks on Perceived Inclusion in the Workplace12
Motivated to Serve: A Regulatory Perspective on Public Service Motivation and Organizational Citizenship Behavior12
Organizational and Individual Factors of Evidence Informed Policy Making in Public Organizations12
Strategic program management: Performance accountability driving use in national governments12
Representative bureaucracy and family planning service delivery in Tanzania12
Social inequity in administrative burdens: Evidence from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)12
Administrative exclusion in the infrastructure‐level bureaucracy: The case of the Dutch daycare benefit scandal12
Harnessing the evolutionary advantage of emergent performance management regimes: Strengthening accountability for challenges of modern public administration and governance12
The nexus between emergency management, public health, and equity: Responding to crisis, and mitigating future hazards12
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Does revenue‐motivated policing alter who receives traffic citations? Evidence from driver race and income in Indiana12
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Does she belong here? Women in leadership positions and organizational performance in gendered institutions11
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics11
Does collective citizen input impact government service provision? Evidence from SeeClickFix requests11
Information for Contributors11
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics11
Institutional factors driving citizen perceptions of AI in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing11
Public Preferences for Disaster Federalism: Comparing Public Risk Management Preferences Across Levels of Government and Hazards11
Evolving Motivation in Public Service: AThree‐PhaseLongitudinal Examination of Public Service Motivation, Work Values, and Academic Studies Among Israeli Students11
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics11
Buying from Local Providers: The Role of Governance Preferences in Assessing Performance Information11
The Moderating Role of Workplace Autonomy on Corruption Control Strategies: Evidence From 33 South Korean Ministries11
Evacuation behavior of households facing compound hurricane‐pandemic threats11
Equity in government contracting: Analyzing the performance of small disadvantaged businesses11
No country for model minorities: Evidence of discrimination against Asian noncitizen immigrants in the U.S. nursing home market10
Can public‐private innovation partnerships improve public services? Evidence from a synthetic control approach10
Swooshed: How Nike and the City of New York could potentially change the landscape of city branding through apparel licensing agreements10
US state government privatization: Implications for social equity and inequality?10
“We're not there to lead”: Professional roles and responsibilities in “citizen‐led” co‐production10
The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding10
Celebrating 83 Years10
How does performance management affect social equity? Evidence from New York City public schools10
Regulatory offsetting in advanced democracies10
Mind the gap: Strategies from California on navigating access to public hearings10
How to systematically analyze co‐production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co‐production9
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
Celebrating 84 Years9
Managing my shame: Investigating the effects of organizational identity threat and public service motivation on exemplification9
Justice in Black and Brown: The impact of political control and representative bureaucracy on street level outcomes9
Trust, power, and organizational routines: Exploring government's intentional tactics to renew relationships with nonprofits serving historically marginalized communities9
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics9
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The ontology, origin, and impact of divisive public sector rules: A meta‐narrative review of the red tape and administrative burden literatures9
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
Frontline employees' responses to citizens' communication of administrative burdens9
In search of the silver‐lining: Police officers' attributions and responses to stakeholder critique9
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Crowdsourced data in public administration research: A review and look to the future8
Beyond Simplification in Public Sector Accountability: Contradictions Between Principal‐Agent and Complexity Theories8
Unpacking the Influence of Policy Advice Using Citation Network Analysis8
Who Joins a Forum—And Who Does Not?—Evaluating Drivers of Forum Participation in Polycentric Governance Systems8
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Holding out for a hero: Linking hiring duration and managerial fit8
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A meta‐analysis of the state and local government borrowing costs8
Indian Preference and the status of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the federal service: Employment, earnings, authority, and perceptions of fairness8
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 39.98
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics8
Your Competitive Side Is Calling: An Analysis of Florida Contract Performance8
First impressions: An analysis of professional stereotypes and their impact on sector attraction8
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Celebrating 85 Years7
Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants7
Public management frontiers in guaranteed income programs: Advancing implementation7
Celebrating 82 Years7
Animals in the study of public administration7
Public Managers and Wicked Problems of Advancing Social Equity7
‘Just like I thought’: Street‐level bureaucrats trust AI recommendations if they confirm their professional judgment7
What is necessary for high employee engagement and satisfaction? A look at the best places to work in the Federal Government Index7
Bridge over troubled waters? Experimental evidence into the influence of leadership on employees' collaborative engagement7
Liberté, Égalité, Crédibilité: An experimental study of citizens' perceptions of government responses to COVID‐19 in eight countries7
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics6
Evaluating turnover intention as a proxy for behavior in the federal public service: Evidence from two surveys of senior civil servants6
Why do some academic articles receive more citations from policy communities?6
COVID‐19 emergency policies, financial security, and social equity: Worldwide evidence6
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: 97816428308286
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Bureaucratic discretion, social equity, and the administrative legitimacy dilemma: Complications of New Public Service6
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: 978‐6
Using technology to reduce learning costs and improve program comprehension: Lessons from a survey experiment on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program6
Mapping Rural Local Government Capacity for Climate Resilience Projects in the United States6
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State‐level politicization of crisis communication on Twitter during COVID‐19: Conceptualization, measurement, and impacts6
Concurrent disasters: Perceived administrative burdens and household coping capacities6
A cognitive network perspective for public administration and policy6
Institutional pressures and the prevalence of nonprofit sector support organizations6
Systematic Review and Metasynthesis: Dissent and Guerrilla Government in Public Administration Research5
Social affordances of agile governance5
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
The End of Evidence‐Based Everything at the Close of the Global Chapter: Plotting the Next Step on the Spiral5
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How Revenue Sources Impact Nonprofit Advocacy: Complementary, Supplementary, and Adversarial Policy Engagement5
Public values and sector service delivery preferences: Public preferences on contracting from simple to complex human services5
Leading digital transformation: A narrative perspective5
Trust, collaboration, and participation in governance: A Nordic perspective on public administrators' perceptions of citizen involvement5
Are special districts strategic complements or strategic substitutes?5
Optimizing global governance through US–China dynamics: The interplay of conflict and cooperation in driving innovation and efficiency5
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
Deborah Stone, Counting: How we Use Numbers to Decide What Matters (New York: Liveright, 2021). 312 pp. $26,95 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978‐1‐63149‐592‐25
Does participation predict support for place brands? An analysis of the relationship between stakeholder involvement and brand citizenship behavior5
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Between nature and nurture: The genetic overlap between psychological attributes and selection into public service employment5
Building community resilience through cross‐sector partnerships and interdisciplinary research5
How can procurement create (sustainable) public value under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal?5
How do polycentric governance systems adapt? The role of forums explored in Dutch metropolitan areas5
Impact of low‐performance signals on employee fraud in public organizations: Evidence from a pay‐for‐performance context5
The effect of administrative burden on state safety‐net participation: Evidence from food assistance, cash assistance, and Medicaid5
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Maximizing social equity as a pillar of public administration: An examination of cannabis dispensary licensing in Pennsylvania4
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Moving from coproduction to commonization of digital public goods and services4
Executive policymaking influence via the administrative apparatus4
We didn't start the fire…but it sure is getting warm4
How citizens want to “see” the state: Exploring the relationship between transparency and public values4
Careers of women public managers: Career needs of women public managers across generations4
How Can Servant Leaders Foster Public Employees’ Service‐Oriented Behaviors? A Multilevel Multisource Study in Canadian Libraries4
Joint effects of shared and transformational leadership on performance in street‐level bureaucracies: Evidence from the educational sector4
Great Gatsby and the Global SouthBy DidingSakri, AndySumner, Arief AnshoryYusuf, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 75 pp. $22.00 (paperback). ISBN 97810093827244
Celebrating 82 Years4
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Facing the human capital crisis: A systematic review and research agenda on recruitment and selection in the public sector4
“It Was Actually Pretty Easy”: COVID‐19 Compliance Cost Reductions in the WIC Program4
Public Administration in the New Reality. By AlikhanBaimenov and PanosLiverakos (eds.), Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 340 pp. ISBN: 978‐9‐81‐963844‐4 (hardcover); 978‐9‐81‐963847‐5 (softcover);4
Judgment of Volunteer Competence among Service Professionals: Stereotypes or Skills?4
Decree or democracy? State takeovers and local government financial outcomes4
Reducing horizontal neglect in local government: The role of informal institutions4
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
Social inclusion, social exclusion, and the role of leaders in avoiding—or promoting—societal collapse4
Celebrating 84 Years4
The bureaucrat, the entrepreneur, and the networker: Developing and validating measurement scales for civil servants’ role perceptions4
Managerial Practice and Diversity Climate: The Roles of Workplace Voice, Centralization, and Teamwork4
Is Trust in Local Government Influenced by the “Marketplace” of Choice?4
Feminine leadership and juvenile justice outcomes: The Florida experience4
The Socio‐Political Context of Citizen Activism: An International Comparative Perspective3
Celebrating 84 Years3
Predict and surveil: Data, discretion, and the future of policing. By BrayneS, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2020. pp. 288. $29.95 (hard cover). ISBN: 97801906840993
Black Women in the Military: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Correlates of Sexual Harassment3
Coping practices and the spatial dimension of authority design3
The Oxford handbook of governance and public management for social policy. By Karen J.Baehler, Washington: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 1064. $29.09 (soft cover), $144.92 (hardcover). pISBN3
Where power and scholarship collide: Gender and coauthorship in public administration research3
Street‐Level Public Servants Case Studies for a New Generation of Public Administration. By Sara R.Rinfret (Eds). New York: Routledge. 2024. p. 220, Paperback $48.95 paperback edition, $170.00 Hardbac3
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Hamas's October 7 Attack: Analysis of an “Antagonistic” Crisis3
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics3
The Impact of Professor Allan Rosenbaum: Global Champion of Public Administration, Field‐Builder, Teacher, and Friend3
The impact of terrorism on civil servants: Longitudinal evidence from the July 22, 2011 attack in Norway3
Total reward preferences in the recruitment and retention of county chief administrative officers: Applying a push/pull theory of motivation3
Embracing dynamic tensions: Peacekeeping as a balancing act of complexity3
AndrewKleine, City on the Line: How Baltimore Transformed Its Budget to Beat the Great Recession and Deliver Outcomes(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). 279p. 3
Does public managers' type of education affect performance in public organizations? A systematic review3
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