Public Administration Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Administration Review is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fighting COVID‐19 with Agility, Transparency, and Participation: Wicked Policy Problems and New Governance Challenges283
Balancing Governance Capacity and Legitimacy: How the Norwegian Government Handled the COVID‐19 Crisis as a High Performer229
Social Vulnerability and Equity: The Disproportionate Impact of COVID‐19210
Social Distancing during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Who Are the Present and Future Noncompliers?155
Disaster Resiliency of U.S. Local Governments: Insights to Strengthen Local Response and Recovery from the COVID‐19 Pandemic127
States Divided: The Implications of American Federalism for COVID‐19125
Fiscal Responses to COVID‐19: Evidence from Local Governments and Nonprofits109
Coproducing Responses to COVID‐19 with Community‐Based Organizations: Lessons from Zhejiang Province, China102
Accountable Artificial Intelligence: Holding Algorithms to Account102
European Coronationalism? A Hot Spot Governing a Pandemic Crisis98
Social Equity and COVID‐19: The Case of African Americans96
Fighting COVID‐19 through Government Initiatives and Collaborative Governance: The Taiwan Experience93
The Effects of Governmental and Individual Predictors on COVID‐19 Protective Behaviors in China: A Path Analysis Model84
Responding to COVID‐19 through Surveys of Public Servants84
Unprecedented Challenges, Familiar Paradoxes: COVID‐19 and Governance in a New Normal State of Risks84
Crisis Decision‐Making on a Global Scale: Transition from Cognition to Collective Action under Threat of COVID‐1981
Agile: A New Way of Governing74
Coproduction during and after the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Will It Last?71
Australian Quarantine Policy: From Centralization to Coordination with Mid‐Pandemic COVID‐19 Shifts70
Smart Technology and the Emergence of Algorithmic Bureaucracy: Artificial Intelligence in UK Local Authorities67
Can Public Leadership Increase Public Service Motivation and Job Performance?59
The Transaction Costs of Government Responses to the COVID‐19 Emergency in Latin America56
Target Interactions and Target Aspiration Level Adaptation: How Do Government Leaders Tackle the “Environment‐Economy” Nexus?56
Being a Public Manager in Times of Crisis: The Art of Managing Stakeholders, Political Masters, and Collaborative Networks54
Value Creation in the Public Service Ecosystem: An Integrative Framework53
The Expectancy‐Disconfirmation Model and Citizen Satisfaction with Public Services: A Meta‐analysis and an Agenda for Best Practice53
Nonprofit Service Continuity and Responses in the Pandemic: Disruptions, Ambiguity, Innovation, and Challenges53
Just or Unjust? How Ideological Beliefs Shape Street‐Level Bureaucrats’ Perceptions of Administrative Burden49
Government Openness and Public Trust: The Mediating Role of Democratic Capacity48
Red Tape, Organizational Performance, and Employee Outcomes: Meta‐analysis, Meta‐regression, and Research Agenda48
Staging Science: Authoritativeness and Fragility of Models and Measurement in the COVID‐19 Crisis47
Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Race: The Limits of Symbolic Representation46
A Guide to Benchmarking COVID‐19 Performance Data46
How Can Local Governments Address Pandemic Inequities?46
A Systematic Literature Review of Empirical Research on the Impacts of e‐Government: A Public Value Perspective45
Do Street‐Level Bureaucrats Discriminate Based on Religion? A Large‐Scale Correspondence Experiment among American Public School Principals44
Algorithmization of Bureaucratic Organizations: Using a Practice Lens to Study How Context Shapes Predictive Policing Systems42
How Do Citizens Assess Street‐Level Bureaucrats’ Warmth and Competence? A Typology and Test41
How Well Do They Manage a Crisis? The Government's Effectiveness During the COVID‐19 Pandemic41
Is Representation Enough? Racial Disparities in Levels of Force and Arrests by Police41
Organizational Reputation in the Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review40
The Relevance and Operations of Political Trust in the COVID‐19 Pandemic39
Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Impacts of Technology‐Enabled Coproduction on Equity in Public Service Delivery39
The Third and Fatal Shock: How Pandemic Killed the Millennial Paradigm37
How Bureaucratic Representation Affects Public Organizational Performance: A Meta‐Analysis37
An Empirical Assessment of the Intrusiveness and Reasonableness of Emerging Work Surveillance Technologies in the Public Sector37
Service Design and Citizen Satisfaction with E‐Government Services: A Multidimensional Perspective36
Equity in Public Services: A Systematic Literature Review36
Pragmatic Municipalism: U.S. Local Government Responses to Fiscal Stress36
Can Leadership Training Improve Organizational Effectiveness? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on Transformational and Transactional Leadership35
Hybrid Coordination for Coping with the Medical Surge from the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Paired Assistance Programs in China33
Toward a Public Administration Theory of Felt Accountability33
Platform Government in the Era of Smart Technology32
The Limits of Social Media for Public Administration Research and Practice32
What Drives Successful Administrative Performance during Crises? Lessons from Refugee Migration and the Covid‐19 Pandemic31
Policy Design for COVID‐19: Worldwide Evidence on the Efficacies of Early Mask Mandates and Other Policy Interventions31
The Effect of Health and Economic Costs on Governments’ Policy Responses to COVID‐19 Crisis under Incomplete Information31
Sustainability Synergies or Silos? The Opportunity Costs of Local Government Organizational Capabilities30
Inclusivity in Online Platforms: Recruitment Strategies for Improving Participation of Diverse Sociodemographic Groups30
Successful Strategic Plan Implementation in Public Organizations: Connecting People, Process, and Plan (3Ps)30
Street‐Level Bureaucrats’ Social Value Orientation On and Off Duty30
Institutional Collective Action During COVID‐19: Lessons in Local Economic Development29
Designing to Debias: Measuring and Reducing Public Managers’ Anchoring Bias29
Getting a Grip on the Performance of Collaborations: Examining Collaborative Performance Regimes and Collaborative Performance Summits29
Framing a Needed Discourse on Health Disparities and Social Inequities: Drawing Lessons from a Pandemic28
Managing Mass Fatalities during COVID‐19: Lessons for Promoting Community Resilience during Global Pandemics28
How qualitative research methods can be leveraged to strengthen mixed methods research in public policy and public administration?27
Nudging Public Employees Through Descriptive Social Norms in Healthcare Organizations26
Creaming among Caseworkers: Effects of Client Competence and Client Motivation on Caseworkers’ Willingness to Help26
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Networks for Addressing Public Problems: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study26
Explaining Why the Computer Says No: Algorithmic Transparency Affects the Perceived Trustworthiness of Automated Decision‐Making26
Employer Branding and Recruitment: Social Media Field Experiments Targeting Future Public Employees25
Network of Networks: Preliminary Lessons from the Antwerp Port Authority on Crisis Management and Network Governance to Deal with the COVID‐19 Pandemic25
Reputation‐Sourced Authority and the Prospect of Unchecked Bureaucratic Power25
Repairing the State: Policy Repair in the Frontline Bureaucracy24
A Meta‐Analysis of the Government Performance—Trust Link: Taking Cultural and Methodological Factors into Account24
Representative Bureaucracy Theory and the Implicit Embrace of Whiteness and Masculinity24
Education and Public Service Motivation: A Longitudinal Study of High School Graduates24
State Executive Orders: Nuance in Restrictions, Revealing Suspensions, and Decisions to Enforce24
Different Processes, Different Outcomes? Assessing the Individual‐Level Impacts of Public Participation22
Health in citizen‐state interactions: How physical and mental health problems shape experiences of administrative burden and reduce take‐up22
“It Was Actually Pretty Easy”: COVID‐19 Compliance Cost Reductions in the WIC Program22
Sector Bias and the Credibility of Performance Information: An Experimental Study of Elder Care Provision21
Collaborative Innovation in Labor Market Inclusion21
What Is Behavioral Public Administration Good for?20
Employees’ Change Support in the Public Sector—A Multi‐Time Field Study Examining the Formation of Intentions and Behaviors20
Performance Management Meets Red Tape: Bounded Rationality, Negativity Bias, and Resource Dependence19
Dysfunction by Design: Trumpism as Administrative Doctrine19
Comparative Studies in Public Administration: Intellectual Challenges and Alternative Perspectives19
Collective Bargaining during Times of Crisis: Recommendations from the COVID‐19 Pandemic19
Discretion of the Future: Conceptualizing Everyday Acts of Collective Creativity at the Street‐Level18
Personality and Public Administration: Policymaker Tolerance of Administrative Burdens in Welfare Services18
Beyond social equity: Talking social justice in public administration18
Navigating Complexity in a Global Pandemic: The Effects of COVID‐19 on Children and Young People with Disability and Their Families in Australia18
Mitigating Psychological Costs—The Role of Citizens’ Administrative Literacy and Social Capital18
Management of Multiple Accountabilities Through Setting Priorities: Evidence from a Cross‐National Conjoint Experiment18
The effect of administrative burden on state safety‐net participation: Evidence from food assistance, cash assistance, and Medicaid18
Balancing Trade‐Offs between Policy Responsiveness and Effectiveness: The Impact of Vertical Policy‐Process Integration on Policy Accumulation18
Public Management for Populists: Trump's Schedule F Executive Order and the Future of the Civil Service18
Connecting with New Partners in COVID‐19 Response17
Reckoning With Race and Gender in Public Administration and Public Policy: A Substantive Social Equity Turn17
Racial Discrimination and Street‐Level Managers: Performance, Publicness, and Group Bias17
Putting Big Data to Work in Government: The Case of the United States Border Patrol16
High‐Stakes Administrative Discretion: What Drives Body‐Worn Camera Activations?16
Who Joins a Forum—And Who Does Not?—Evaluating Drivers of Forum Participation in Polycentric Governance Systems16
Beyond a Numbers Game? Impact of Diversity and Inclusion on the Perception of Organizational Justice16
Social‐Psychological Context Moderates Incentives to Co‐produce: Evidence from a Large‐Scale Survey Experiment on Park Upkeep in an Urban Setting16
Motivated to Serve: A Regulatory Perspective on Public Service Motivation and Organizational Citizenship Behavior15
Branding as a Public Governance Strategy: A Q Methodological Analysis of How Companies React to Place Branding Strategies14
Your Competitive Side Is Calling: An Analysis of Florida Contract Performance14
What Determines Where Public Investment Goes? Regional Governance and the Role of Institutional Rules and Power14
A New Era and New Concepts in the Study of Race in Public Administration14
Who Should We Count as Citizens? Categorizing People in Public Administration Research14
Social equity in the data era: A systematic literature review of data‐driven public service research14
The Adoption of Robotics by Government Agencies: Evidence from Crime Labs14
Reimagining race and gender in public administration and public policy: Insights from an interdisciplinary systematic review14
The Demise of the Overhead Myth: Administrative Capacity and Financial Sustainability in Nonprofit Nursing Homes14
P‐Hacking, P‐Curves, and the PSM–Performance Relationship: Is There Evidential Value?14
Path‐Dependent Public Servants: Comparing the Influence of Traditions on Administrative Behavior in Developing Asia13
The ontology, origin, and impact of divisive public sector rules: A meta‐narrative review of the red tape and administrative burden literatures13
Defining social equity in emergency management: A critical first step in the nexus13
In Search of Social Equity in Public Administration: Race, Gender, and Some “Class”‐ey New Ideas13
Should We Defend the Administrative State?13
An Improvised Patchwork: Success and Failure in Cybersecurity Policy for Critical Infrastructure13
Can Public Healthcare Afford Marketization? Market Principles, Mechanisms, and Effects in Five Health Systems13
Municipal Structure Matters: Evidence from Government Fiscal Performance12
How Can Servant Leaders Foster Public Employees’ Service‐Oriented Behaviors? A Multilevel Multisource Study in Canadian Libraries12
Comparative Public Administration in a Globalized World: Moving Beyond Standard Assumptions Toward Increased Understanding12
Rethinking Loyalty and Competence in Presidential Appointments12
Weaponization of Wokeness: The Theater of Management and Implications for Public Administration12
The American State Administrators Project: A New 50‐State, 50‐Year Data Resource for Scholars12
Social Public Purchasing: Addressing a Critical Void in Public Purchasing Research12
Bureaucratic discretion, social equity, and the administrative legitimacy dilemma: Complications of New Public Service12
Making Every Vote Count: The Important Role of Managerial Capacity in Achieving Better Election Administration Outcomes12
Socioeconomic Status and Public Sector Worker Stereotypes: Results from a Representative Survey12
Entrepreneurship in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors12
Tools of Control? Comparing Congressional and Presidential Performance Management Reforms12
Global Reflection, Conceptual Exploration, and Evidentiary Assimilation: COVID‐19 Viewpoint Symposium Introduction11
Participatory Transparency in Kenya: Toward an Engaged Budgeting Model of Local Governance11
Leadership in the public sector: A meta‐analysis of styles, outcomes, contexts, and methods11
The Motivations for the Adoption of Management Innovation by Local Governments and its Performance Effects11
Interacting Capacities: The Indirect National Contribution to Subnational Service Provision11
How Do Disadvantaged Groups Seek Information About Public Services? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Communication Technologies11
Crowdsourcing and COVID‐19: How Public Administrations Mobilize Crowds to Find Solutions to Problems Posed by the Pandemic11
Should We Change the Way We Think About Market Performance When It Comes to Quasi‐Markets? A New Framework for Evaluating Public Service Markets11
Pandemic Planning in the United States: An Examination of COVID‐19 Data11
Exposing the Unfinished Business of Building Public Administration in Late Democracies: Lessons from the COVID‐19 Response in Brazil11
Interrogating hegemonic embraces: Representative bureaucracy, methodological Whiteness, and non‐West exclusions11
Your Money, Your Life, or Your Freedom? A Discrete‐Choice Experiment on Trade‐Offs During a Public Health Crisis11
The Timing of Managerial Responses to Fiscal Stress10
Property Tax Information and Support for School Bond Referenda: Experimental Evidence10
The Racialized Dimensions of Contemporary Immigration and Border Enforcement Policies and Practices10
The power of protest on policing: Black Lives Matter protest and civilian evaluation of the police10
At the Juncture of Administrative Evil and Administrative Racism: The Obstacles and Opportunities for Public Administrators in the United States to Uphold Civil Rights in the Twenty‐First Century10
Administrative exclusion in the infrastructure‐level bureaucracy: The case of the Dutch daycare benefit scandal10
Learning from Local Government Research Partnerships in a Fragmented Political Setting10
Remember the Foundation, Keep the Faith, Find What Works, and Focus on the Future10
Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments9
Spillover Effects of Minority Representation on Majority Bureaucrats’ Behavioral Change9
Managing bureaucratic reputation in the face of crises: An experimental examination of the effect of strategic communication9
Crisis of the Union: Public Management and Leadership in an Era of Discontent9
‘Just like I thought’: Street‐level bureaucrats trust AI recommendations if they confirm their professional judgment9
In the Semi‐Shadow of the Global West: Moroccan zawāyā as Good Public Administration9
“We've Cared for the Dead since We Started Caring”: COVID‐19 and Our Relationship to Public and Private Deathcare9
Intersectionality and Social Welfare: Avoidance and Unequal Treatment among Transgender Women of Color9
Toward a Multiplex Network Theory of Interlocal Service Contracting9
Nonprofit Density and Distributional Equity in Public Service Provision: Exploring Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Public Park Access across U.S. Cities9
Introducing the Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators: A New Global Dataset on Public Sector Employment and Compensation8
LGBTQ+ Civil Rights: Local Government Efforts in a Volatile Era8
The Effect of Administrative Burden on Farmers’ Perceptions of Cross‐Compliance‐Based Direct Payment Policy8
Strategic Decision Making and Implementation in Public Organizations in the Gulf Cooperation Council: The Role of Procedural Rationality8
A Brave New World? Confronting the Challenges of a World in Shambles8
Cyber Security Responsibilization: An Evaluation of the Intervention Approaches Adopted by the Five Eyes Countries and China8
Managerial Practice and Diversity Climate: The Roles of Workplace Voice, Centralization, and Teamwork8
The End of Evidence‐Based Everything at the Close of the Global Chapter: Plotting the Next Step on the Spiral8
What's In It For Us? Benevolence, National Security, and Digital Surveillance8
What can postcolonial theory contribute to the study of social equity?8
Social inclusion, social exclusion, and the role of leaders in avoiding—or promoting—societal collapse8
Antecedents and consequences of servant leadership in local governance: Evidence from three case studies7
Representing Personal and Professional Identities in Policing: Sources of Strength and Conflict7
Facing the Giant: A Framework to Undo Sex‐Based Discrimination in Academia7
Public Preferences for Disaster Federalism: Comparing Public Risk Management Preferences Across Levels of Government and Hazards7
Joint effects of shared and transformational leadership on performance in street‐level bureaucracies: Evidence from the educational sector7
Do More Options Always Benefit the Users of Public Services? An Experimental Study of School Choice, Performance, and Satisfaction7
Helping or Hurting? The Efficacy of Municipal Bankruptcy7
The Robustness of National Agency Governance in Integrated Administrative Systems: Evidence from a large‐scale study7
Choose your collaborators wisely: Addressing interdependent tasks through collaboration in responding to wildfire disasters7
How to systematically analyze co‐production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co‐production7
Invisible Populations and the #MeToo Movement7
Bureaucratic Representation, Accountability, and Democracy: A Qualitative Study of Indigenous Bureaucrats in Australia and Canada7
Intergovernmental Representation at Different Levels of Government: The Effect of Gender Representation7
What counts as evidence for policy? An analysis of policy actors' perceptions7
Public Branding and Marketing: Theoretical and Practical Developments7
Does the Stringency of State Tax and Expenditure Limitations Discourage Political Manipulation in Fiscal Reserves?7
Evolving Motivation in Public Service: AThree‐PhaseLongitudinal Examination of Public Service Motivation, Work Values, and Academic Studies Among Israeli Students7
When Local Governments Request Access to Data: Power and Coordination Mechanisms across Stakeholders7
Discretion in Traffic Stops: The Influence of Budget Cuts on Traffic Citations6
Compassion, Bureaucrat Bashing, and Public Administration6
Bureaucratic overburdening in advanced democracies6
What makes public employees want to leave their job? A meta‐analysis of turnover intention predictors among public sector employees6
How Do Public Managers Learn from Performance Information? Experimental Evidence on Problem Focus, Innovative Search, and Change6
Resource Publicness Matters in Organizational Perceptions6
Auditor or Adviser? Auditor (In)Dependence and Its Impact on Financial Management6
The Perceived Fairness of Active Representation: Evidence From a Survey Experiment6
Variations on a Theme of Resignation: Idling by, Backpedaling, or Driving Forward?6
When Illusion Met Illusion: How Interacting Biases Affect (Dis)trust within Coopetitive Policy Networks6
Epistemic decolonization of public policy pedagogy and scholarship6
Intermunicipal cooperation, integration forms, and vertical and horizontal effects in Japan6
Unknowns, Black Swans, and Bounded Rationality in Public Organizations6
The Effect of the EU‐Brand on Citizens’ Trust in Policies: Replicating an Experiment6
Poverty, Policy, and Federal Administrative Discourse: Are Bureaucrats Speaking Equitable Antipoverty Policy Designs into Existence?6
Local Government Volunteer Use: A Resource Dependence and Transaction Costs Explanation6
Regulatory Capture's Self‐Serving Application6
Contract Renewal in Urban Water Services, Incumbent Advantage, and Market Concentration6
State Fiscal Constraints and Local Responses: Evidence from the Property Tax Limit Overrides in Massachusetts6
Managing Public Museums Appropriately and Consequentially: The Distinctiveness and Diversity of Leading Organizations6
Follow the Leader? Leader Succession and Staff Attitudes in Public Sector Organizations6
Expanding the Reach of Representativeness, Discretion, and Collaboration: The Unrealized Potential of Public Administration Research in Atrocity Prevention6
The Intersectionality of Deservingness for State Support6
Local institutions and public service outsourcing: Managerial professionalism, mayoral strength, and electoral rules6
The nexus of public administration, public policy, and nonprofit studies: An empirical mapping of research topics and knowledge integration6
Core values for ideal civil servants: Service‐oriented, responsive and dedicated6
Justice in Black and Brown: The impact of political control and representative bureaucracy on street level outcomes6
Job Vacancy and Organizational Performance: Are Senior Managers or Street‐Level Bureaucrats Missed Most?6
Bending the arc of nonprofit leadership toward justice: Impacts of racial representation and organizational publicness on diversifying executive leadership6
Buying from Local Providers: The Role of Governance Preferences in Assessing Performance Information6
Decision‐Makers’ Generation of Policy Solutions amidst Negative Performance: Invention or Rigidity?6
Trust in public performance information: The effect of data accessibility and data source6
Public Administration for a New Season: Reflecting on Neglected Rural Concerns5
Beyond the Turtle Approach: Women in the Public Sector5
Civil Rights, Social Equity, and Census 20205
Quantitative intersectionality: Imperatives and opportunities for advancing social equity5
The Role of Gender in Government and Nonprofit Workplaces: An Experimental Analysis of Rule Compliance and Supervisor Trust5
Elevating the Case for Leadership Development Programs: Return on Investment Evaluations5
Softening Performance's Pitfalls by Integrating Context and Capacity: A Government Competitiveness Framework5
Governance: Struggle and Strife—Or Synergy and Success—In the Trans‐COVID Era5
Bureaucratic response to performance information: how mandatory information disclosure affects environmental inspections5
The impact of social impact bond financing5
Politics, Competence, and Performance: Evidence from the US State Budget Agencies5
Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants5
The Cost of Representation: Insurance Status, Gender, and Cardiac Outcomes in Emergency Department Care5
Can public‐private innovation partnerships improve public services? Evidence from a synthetic control approach5
Trust, power, and organizational routines: Exploring government's intentional tactics to renew relationships with nonprofits serving historically marginalized communities4
Is stress among street‐level bureaucrats associated with experiences of administrative burden among clients? A multilevel study of the Danish unemployment sector4
Social equity and LGBTQ populations in African public administration: A macro‐ and micro‐approach4
Through the Editor's Lens: Understanding the Editorial Role Through Metaphor4
Structural Advocacy Organizations and Intersectional Outcomes: Effects of Women's Police Stations on Female Homicides4
Public Service in the Pandemic Era: A COVID Commentary4
Fiscal Slack, Rule Constraints, and Government Corruption4
Understanding the Role of Public Management and Organizational Stability in an Uncertain Environment: Evidence from Korean Public Corporations4
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