Public Administration Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Public Administration Review is 7. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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
Issue Information46
Celebrating 85 Years46
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
Some Parents Survive and Some Don't: The Army and the Family as “Greedy Institutions”40
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics40
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
Same product, different price: Experimental evidence on the transaction cost expenditures of selling to governments and firms34
Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?34
Enriching Transactional Leadership with Public Values34
A compliance—integrity framework for ethics management: An empirical analysis of local government practice32
Passive representation: The effect of affirmative action bans on female representation in law enforcement32
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
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
How Public Officials Perceive Algorithmic Discretion: A Study of Status Quo Bias in Policing28
Risk aversion and public sector employment26
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics25
Building and Maintaining Trust “Even When Things Aren't Going Well”: Meta‐Regulation Through an Explicit Psychological Contract25
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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Collaboration in crisis: Utilizing the SOS program, an at‐home COVID‐19 vaccine administration initiative, to demonstrate best practices in emergency management collaboration24
How scholars can support government analytics: Combining employee surveys with more administrative data sources towards a better understanding of how government functions23
Benefit and hidden cost of organizational support for telework amid the COVID‐19 pandemic on public employees' job satisfaction and retention intention23
Race in representative bureaucracy theory: A problematizing review22
What can postcolonial theory contribute to the study of social equity?22
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
Death of the public servant. By Daniel A.Rosemond, Brisbane: Limelight Publishing. 2022. pp. 262. $17.95. ISBN 10: 1471668673ISBN 13: 978147166867820
Does public sector performance information impact stakeholders? Evidence from a meta‐analysis20
Taxing Language: Do Interpreting Fees Affect Immigrant Healthcare Usage? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design19
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
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
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
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
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
Nursery City Innovation: ACELLFramework16
Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments16
Celebrating 85 Years16
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
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
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
The performance function in local government: Does location impact performance data use?14
Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens' expectations toward public services14
From performance to morality: How politicians frame bureaucracy, its organizations, and public sector employees13
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
Liberal democratic accountability standards and public administration13
Celebrating 82 Years13
The nexus between emergency management, public health, and equity: Responding to crisis, and mitigating future hazards13
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Street‐level discretion, personal motives, and social embeddedness within public service ecosystems13
Inconvenient truths about logistic regression and the remedy of marginal effects13
Issue Information13
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). ISBN12
Issue Information12
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
Issue Information12
Representative bureaucracy and family planning service delivery in Tanzania12
Organizational and Individual Factors of Evidence Informed Policy Making in Public Organizations12
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
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
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
The Moderating Role of Workplace Autonomy on Corruption Control Strategies: Evidence From 33 South Korean Ministries10
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
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
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
‘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
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A meta‐analysis of the state and local government borrowing costs7
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