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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics160
Information for Contributors103
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics68
How much damage can a politicized public service do? Lessons from Australia64
The deformation of democracy in the United States: When does bureaucratic “neutral competence” rise to complicity?63
(De)Centering Whiteness through community dialogues about safety problems and solutions62
Scholarly hypocrisy or apostasy in public administration: Preaching to the choir, or to an empty room?61
Who benefits from work‐life programs? Lessons in gender and race from OPM's Federal Work‐Life Survey53
‘Feeling out’ the rules: A psychological process theory of red tape53
Public Encounters and Government Chatbots: When Servers Talk to Citizens50
Getting Your Foot in the Door: The Impact of Public Sector Fellowships on Career Trajectories49
Raising Expectations: The War We Must Fight to Prevent One47
Social equity in the data era: A systematic literature review of data‐driven public service research47
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Information for Contributors41
Celebrating 85 Years41
Representative bureaucracy and organizational attractiveness: An experimental study of symbolic representation of the US and UK police37
Same product, different price: Experimental evidence on the transaction cost expenditures of selling to governments and firms36
Is There a Glass Cliff in Local Government Management? Examining the Hiring and Departure of Women34
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics32
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics30
Bureaucratic prioritizing among clients in the eyes of the public: Experimental evidence from three countries29
The Asian American experience in the federal workforce: How employees navigate the complexities of racialization29
Passive representation: The effect of affirmative action bans on female representation in law enforcement29
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: 978‐1‐50‐954399‐129
Some Parents Survive and Some Don't: The Army and the Family as “Greedy Institutions”28
Enriching Transactional Leadership with Public Values26
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Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?26
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: 978–026204578026
A compliance—integrity framework for ethics management: An empirical analysis of local government practice26
Bureaucratic professionalization and cabinet management: How civil servants in presidential democracies are treated differently26
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); 25
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
Handbook on Measuring Governance. By PeterTriantafillou and Jenny M.Lewis (eds.), Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 330 pp. $250 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐80220‐063‐824
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Taxing Language: Do Interpreting Fees Affect Immigrant Healthcare Usage? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design24
Race in representative bureaucracy theory: A problematizing review23
What can postcolonial theory contribute to the study of social equity?23
Building and Maintaining Trust “Even When Things Aren't Going Well”: Meta‐Regulation Through an Explicit Psychological Contract23
Diffusion of Complex Governance Arrangements: State Approaches to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence22
In Search of Social Equity in Public Administration: Race, Gender, and Some “Class”‐ey New Ideas22
How scholars can support government analytics: Combining employee surveys with more administrative data sources towards a better understanding of how government functions22
Leadership in the public sector: A meta‐analysis of styles, outcomes, contexts, and methods22
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)21
Intergovernmental cooperation and joint purchasing agreements: Do governments free‐ride?21
How Public Officials Perceive Algorithmic Discretion: A Study of Status Quo Bias in Policing21
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
What explains variation in representation in the public sector? Predicting the presence of female officers in U.S. College Police Departments20
Collaboration in crisis: Utilizing the SOS program, an at‐home COVID‐19 vaccine administration initiative, to demonstrate best practices in emergency management collaboration20
Health in citizen‐state interactions: How physical and mental health problems shape experiences of administrative burden and reduce take‐up19
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
Benefit and hidden cost of organizational support for telework amid the COVID‐19 pandemic on public employees' job satisfaction and retention intention19
Celebrating 84 Years19
Risk aversion and public sector employment19
Futures for the Public Sector. By G.Bouckaert, A.Hondeghem, T.Steen, and S.Van de Walle (eds), Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2025. ISBN: 978‐9‐46‐270450‐319
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Editorial: A journal update and note of appreciation18
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
Celebrating 85 Years17
Populism and Political Appointments17
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
The State of Public Administration in Nigeria17
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).16
Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments16
In search of the collaborative advantage of public‐private partnerships: A comparative analysis of Dutch transport infrastructure projects16
Governance by artifacts: Theory and evidence on materiality of administrative burdens16
Revisiting the academic–practitioner divide: Evidence from computational social science and corpus linguistics16
The Administrative Presidency and PK‐12 Education Policy: Student Rights and Oversight During the Trump and Biden Era15
Nursery City Innovation: ACELLFramework15
The performance function in local government: Does location impact performance data use?15
Influence of external authorities on collaborative frictions15
Competence in virtual communication: Remote transformational leadership15
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Street‐level discretion, personal motives, and social embeddedness within public service ecosystems15
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
Information for Contributors15
Managing cyberattacks in wartime: The case of Ukraine15
The power of protest on policing: Black Lives Matter protest and civilian evaluation of the police15
Bureaucratic Representation, Accountability, and Democracy: A Qualitative Study of Indigenous Bureaucrats in Australia and Canada14
Connecting the composition of collaborative governance structure to community‐level performance in homeless services14
Liberal democratic accountability standards and public administration14
Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens' expectations toward public services14
Political time in public bureaucracies: Explaining variation of structural duration in European governments14
Evidence and Policy‐Making: An Organizational Approach14
Social equity in federal contracting during emergencies: A portfolio management perspective14
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From performance to morality: How politicians frame bureaucracy, its organizations, and public sector employees14
Inconvenient truths about logistic regression and the remedy of marginal effects13
Information for Contributors13
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
Does revenue‐motivated policing alter who receives traffic citations? Evidence from driver race and income in Indiana13
Building global public administration knowledge: Leveraging the power of collaboration13
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
Strategic program management: Performance accountability driving use in national governments13
Harnessing the evolutionary advantage of emergent performance management regimes: Strengthening accountability for challenges of modern public administration and governance13
Celebrating 82 Years13
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Representative bureaucracy and family planning service delivery in Tanzania13
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The Origins and Intellectual Structure of the Deep State Literature12
Motivated to Serve: A Regulatory Perspective on Public Service Motivation and Organizational Citizenship Behavior12
Social inequity in administrative burdens: Evidence from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)12
A tiered pathway toward sustainability: The role of public administrators in advancing social equity in U.S. local governments12
The Impact of Demographic Composition of Social Networks on Perceived Inclusion in the Workplace12
The nexus between emergency management, public health, and equity: Responding to crisis, and mitigating future hazards12
Administrative exclusion in the infrastructure‐level bureaucracy: The case of the Dutch daycare benefit scandal12
Organizational and Individual Factors of Evidence Informed Policy Making in Public Organizations12
Information for Contributors11
US state government privatization: Implications for social equity and inequality?11
Can public‐private innovation partnerships improve public services? Evidence from a synthetic control approach11
How does performance management affect social equity? Evidence from New York City public schools11
Evacuation behavior of households facing compound hurricane‐pandemic threats11
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
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics11
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics11
Regulatory offsetting in advanced democracies11
Does collective citizen input impact government service provision? Evidence from SeeClickFix requests11
Evolving Motivation in Public Service: AThree‐PhaseLongitudinal Examination of Public Service Motivation, Work Values, and Academic Studies Among Israeli Students11
Does she belong here? Women in leadership positions and organizational performance in gendered institutions10
The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding10
“We're not there to lead”: Professional roles and responsibilities in “citizen‐led” co‐production10
Institutional factors driving citizen perceptions of AI in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing10
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 (hard10
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
Celebrating 83 Years10
Administrative Burden in Higher Education: Race, Criminal Records, and Street‐Level Bureaucrats in College Admissions9
Mind the gap: Strategies from California on navigating access to public hearings9
Celebrating 84 Years9
Managing my shame: Investigating the effects of organizational identity threat and public service motivation on exemplification9
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
Bending the arc of nonprofit leadership toward justice: Impacts of racial representation and organizational publicness on diversifying executive leadership9
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics9
Frontline employees' responses to citizens' communication of administrative burdens9
How to systematically analyze co‐production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co‐production9
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In search of the silver‐lining: Police officers' attributions and responses to stakeholder critique9
Swooshed: How Nike and the City of New York could potentially change the landscape of city branding through apparel licensing agreements9
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Holding out for a hero: Linking hiring duration and managerial fit8
The ontology, origin, and impact of divisive public sector rules: A meta‐narrative review of the red tape and administrative burden literatures8
First impressions: An analysis of professional stereotypes and their impact on sector attraction8
A meta‐analysis of the state and local government borrowing costs8
Justice in Black and Brown: The impact of political control and representative bureaucracy on street level outcomes8
Information for Contributors8
Celebrating 85 Years8
Crowdsourced data in public administration research: A review and look to the future8
Unpacking the Influence of Policy Advice Using Citation Network Analysis8
Beyond Simplification in Public Sector Accountability: Contradictions Between Principal‐Agent and Complexity Theories8
Trust, power, and organizational routines: Exploring government's intentional tactics to renew relationships with nonprofits serving historically marginalized communities8
Indian Preference and the status of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the federal service: Employment, earnings, authority, and perceptions of fairness8
Public Administration Country Study: Kazakhstan—Post‐Soviet Legacy, Modernisation, and Hybridity8
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics8
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
Using technology to reduce learning costs and improve program comprehension: Lessons from a survey experiment on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program7
A Window of Opportunity: Anti‐Corruption and Performance Data Quality Enhancement7
What is necessary for high employee engagement and satisfaction? A look at the best places to work in the Federal Government Index7
Liberté, Égalité, Crédibilité: An experimental study of citizens' perceptions of government responses to COVID‐19 in eight countries7
‘Just like I thought’: Street‐level bureaucrats trust AI recommendations if they confirm their professional judgment7
Institutional pressures and the prevalence of nonprofit sector support organizations7
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COVID‐19 emergency policies, financial security, and social equity: Worldwide evidence7
Why do some academic articles receive more citations from policy communities?7
Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants7
Celebrating 82 Years7
Mapping Rural Local Government Capacity for Climate Resilience Projects in the United States7
Concurrent disasters: Perceived administrative burdens and household coping capacities6
Public Managers and Wicked Problems of Advancing Social Equity6
Bridge over troubled waters? Experimental evidence into the influence of leadership on employees' collaborative engagement6
How can procurement create (sustainable) public value under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal?6
State‐level politicization of crisis communication on Twitter during COVID‐19: Conceptualization, measurement, and impacts6
Between nature and nurture: The genetic overlap between psychological attributes and selection into public service employment6
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics6
Animals in the study of public administration6
Public management frontiers in guaranteed income programs: Advancing implementation6
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
New Public Governance as a Hybrid: A Critical InterpretationBy LauraCataldi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 70pp. $22.00 (hardbook). ISBN: 978‐1‐00‐945403‐26
Systematic Review and Metasynthesis: Dissent and Guerrilla Government in Public Administration Research6
Are special districts strategic complements or strategic substitutes?6
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Bureaucratic discretion, social equity, and the administrative legitimacy dilemma: Complications of New Public Service6
A cognitive network perspective for public administration and policy6
Optimizing global governance through US–China dynamics: The interplay of conflict and cooperation in driving innovation and efficiency6
The End of Evidence‐Based Everything at the Close of the Global Chapter: Plotting the Next Step on the Spiral6
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Executive policymaking influence via the administrative apparatus5
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Social affordances of agile governance5
Trust, collaboration, and participation in governance: A Nordic perspective on public administrators' perceptions of citizen involvement5
How do polycentric governance systems adapt? The role of forums explored in Dutch metropolitan areas5
How Revenue Sources Impact Nonprofit Advocacy: Complementary, Supplementary, and Adversarial Policy Engagement5
The effect of administrative burden on state safety‐net participation: Evidence from food assistance, cash assistance, and Medicaid5
We didn't start the fire…but it sure is getting warm5
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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
Building community resilience through cross‐sector partnerships and interdisciplinary research5
Impact of low‐performance signals on employee fraud in public organizations: Evidence from a pay‐for‐performance context5
Public values and sector service delivery preferences: Public preferences on contracting from simple to complex human services5
Does participation predict support for place brands? An analysis of the relationship between stakeholder involvement and brand citizenship behavior5
Celebrating 84 Years5
Great Gatsby and the Global SouthBy DidingSakri, AndySumner, Arief AnshoryYusuf, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 75 pp. $22.00 (paperback). ISBN 97810093827245
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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
Evaluating turnover intention as a proxy for behavior in the federal public service: Evidence from two surveys of senior civil servants5
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
Leading digital transformation: A narrative perspective5
Facing the human capital crisis: A systematic review and research agenda on recruitment and selection in the public sector5
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Coping practices and the spatial dimension of authority design4
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Job Vacancy and Organizational Performance: Are Senior Managers or Street‐Level Bureaucrats Missed Most?4
At their fingertips: What is the impact of online reporting of domestic violence?4
Is Trust in Local Government Influenced by the “Marketplace” of Choice?4
Maximizing social equity as a pillar of public administration: An examination of cannabis dispensary licensing in Pennsylvania4
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
Decree or democracy? State takeovers and local government financial outcomes4
Careers of women public managers: Career needs of women public managers across generations4
Employee Turnover Effects of the 2018–2019 United States Federal Government Shutdown4
Connecting founding and dissolution: A demographic study of the US nonprofit sector4
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: 97801976342954
Feminine leadership and juvenile justice outcomes: The Florida experience4
Reducing horizontal neglect in local government: The role of informal institutions4
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Moving from coproduction to commonization of digital public goods and services4
How citizens want to “see” the state: Exploring the relationship between transparency and public values4
The bureaucrat, the entrepreneur, and the networker: Developing and validating measurement scales for civil servants’ role perceptions4
Global topics, global reach: Welcome to PAR's newest editorial board members4
Hamas's October 7 Attack: Analysis of an “Antagonistic” Crisis4
Capital, administrative burden, and welfare participation: Evidence from the minimum living standard scheme in China4
Joint effects of shared and transformational leadership on performance in street‐level bureaucracies: Evidence from the educational sector4
Bureaucrats in Campaigns: Elections Increase Dysfunctional Behaviors Among Civil Servants4
Social inclusion, social exclusion, and the role of leaders in avoiding—or promoting—societal collapse4
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
Celebrating 82 Years4
Managerial Practice and Diversity Climate: The Roles of Workplace Voice, Centralization, and Teamwork4
From noise to knowledge: Improving evidentiary standards for program efficacy to better inform public policy and management decisions4
Does public managers' type of education affect performance in public organizations? A systematic review3
Assessing burden tolerance amid the Medicaid Great Unwinding3
Celebrating 84 Years3
The impact of terrorism on civil servants: Longitudinal evidence from the July 22, 2011 attack in Norway3
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
Evaluating use of evidence in U.S. state governments: A conjoint analysis3
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