Public Administration Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Public Administration Review is 8. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics174
Information for Contributors120
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics73
Getting Your Foot in the Door: The Impact of Public Sector Fellowships on Career Trajectories69
Scholarly hypocrisy or apostasy in public administration: Preaching to the choir, or to an empty room?68
Who benefits from work‐life programs? Lessons in gender and race from OPM's Federal Work‐Life Survey67
(De)Centering Whiteness through community dialogues about safety problems and solutions67
Public Encounters and Government Chatbots: When Servers Talk to Citizens59
The deformation of democracy in the United States: When does bureaucratic “neutral competence” rise to complicity?58
‘Feeling out’ the rules: A psychological process theory of red tape55
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics55
How much damage can a politicized public service do? Lessons from Australia55
Social equity in the data era: A systematic literature review of data‐driven public service research54
Raising Expectations: The War We Must Fight to Prevent One53
Issue Information48
Celebrating 85 Years47
Information for Contributors44
Navigating Rivalry and Insight: Bureaucratic Behaviors in Decentralized Regulatory Systems42
Some Parents Survive and Some Don't: The Army and the Family as “Greedy Institutions”38
Same product, different price: Experimental evidence on the transaction cost expenditures of selling to governments and firms38
Is There a Glass Cliff in Local Government Management? Examining the Hiring and Departure of Women34
Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?33
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics32
A compliance—integrity framework for ethics management: An empirical analysis of local government practice32
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics31
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
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 enforcement28
Representative bureaucracy and organizational attractiveness: An experimental study of symbolic representation of the US and UK police28
Enriching Transactional Leadership with Public Values27
Issue Information27
Bureaucratic prioritizing among clients in the eyes of the public: Experimental evidence from three countries27
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: 978–026204578027
Performance and Innovation in the Public Sector: Managing for Results, Third Edition. By Evan M.Berman and ImaneHijal‐Moghrabi, New York and London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group, 2023. 238 pp. $27
Bureaucratic professionalization and cabinet management: How civil servants in presidential democracies are treated differently26
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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 (hardcov26
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); 26
What can postcolonial theory contribute to the study of social equity?26
Handbook on Measuring Governance. By PeterTriantafillou and Jenny M.Lewis (eds.), Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 330 pp. $250 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐80220‐063‐826
Building and Maintaining Trust “Even When Things Aren't Going Well”: Meta‐Regulation Through an Explicit Psychological Contract26
In Search of Social Equity in Public Administration: Race, Gender, and Some “Class”‐ey New Ideas25
Intergovernmental cooperation and joint purchasing agreements: Do governments free‐ride?25
Diffusion of Complex Governance Arrangements: State Approaches to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence24
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
How scholars can support government analytics: Combining employee surveys with more administrative data sources towards a better understanding of how government functions24
Death of the public servant. By Daniel A.Rosemond, Brisbane: Limelight Publishing. 2022. pp. 262. $17.95. ISBN 10: 1471668673ISBN 13: 978147166867823
Risk aversion and public sector employment23
What explains variation in representation in the public sector? Predicting the presence of female officers in U.S. College Police Departments23
Does public sector performance information impact stakeholders? Evidence from a meta‐analysis23
Rhetoric Versus Reality? A Comparative Study of Public and Non‐Public Sector Employees' Perceptions of Discrimination23
Race in representative bureaucracy theory: A problematizing review21
Collaboration in crisis: Utilizing the SOS program, an at‐home COVID‐19 vaccine administration initiative, to demonstrate best practices in emergency management collaboration21
Benefit and hidden cost of organizational support for telework amid the COVID‐19 pandemic on public employees' job satisfaction and retention intention21
Leadership in the public sector: A meta‐analysis of styles, outcomes, contexts, and methods19
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
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
Taxing Language: Do Interpreting Fees Affect Immigrant Healthcare Usage? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design19
Issue Information19
Health in citizen‐state interactions: How physical and mental health problems shape experiences of administrative burden and reduce take‐up19
How Public Officials Perceive Algorithmic Discretion: A Study of Status Quo Bias in Policing19
The Administrative Presidency and PK‐12 Education Policy: Student Rights and Oversight During the Trump and Biden Era18
Governance by artifacts: Theory and evidence on materiality of administrative burdens18
Editorial: A journal update and note of appreciation18
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).18
Celebrating 85 Years18
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
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Revisiting the academic–practitioner divide: Evidence from computational social science and corpus linguistics18
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: 978‐1‐032‐18182‐018
Celebrating 84 Years18
In search of the collaborative advantage of public‐private partnerships: A comparative analysis of Dutch transport infrastructure projects17
The State of Public Administration in Nigeria17
Populism and Political Appointments16
Competence in virtual communication: Remote transformational leadership16
Managing cyberattacks in wartime: The case of Ukraine16
Nursery City Innovation: ACELLFramework16
Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments16
Information for Contributors16
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
Political time in public bureaucracies: Explaining variation of structural duration in European governments15
Social equity in federal contracting during emergencies: A portfolio management perspective15
Street‐level discretion, personal motives, and social embeddedness within public service ecosystems15
Evidence and Policy‐Making: An Organizational Approach15
Influence of external authorities on collaborative frictions15
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Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens' expectations toward public services15
From performance to morality: How politicians frame bureaucracy, its organizations, and public sector employees15
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Inconvenient truths about logistic regression and the remedy of marginal effects14
Risk and Crisis Management in the Public Sector, 3rd Edition. By Lynn T.Drennan, AdinaDudau, AllanMcConnell, and AlastairStark, London: Routledge, 2024. 292 pp. $54.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐243414
Celebrating 82 Years14
Liberal democratic accountability standards and public administration14
Building global public administration knowledge: Leveraging the power of collaboration14
The power of protest on policing: Black Lives Matter protest and civilian evaluation of the police14
Information for Contributors14
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
The performance function in local government: Does location impact performance data use?14
Nonprofits in policy advocacy their strategies and stories. By SheldonGen, Amy ConleyWright, Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. XXVIII, pp. 238. $34.99 (so14
Issue Information13
Harnessing the evolutionary advantage of emergent performance management regimes: Strengthening accountability for challenges of modern public administration and governance13
The Impact of Demographic Composition of Social Networks on Perceived Inclusion in the Workplace13
A tiered pathway toward sustainability: The role of public administrators in advancing social equity in U.S. local governments13
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
The nexus between emergency management, public health, and equity: Responding to crisis, and mitigating future hazards13
Organizational and Individual Factors of Evidence Informed Policy Making in Public Organizations13
Representative bureaucracy and family planning service delivery in Tanzania13
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Does revenue‐motivated policing alter who receives traffic citations? Evidence from driver race and income in Indiana13
US state government privatization: Implications for social equity and inequality?12
Buying from Local Providers: The Role of Governance Preferences in Assessing Performance Information12
Strategic program management: Performance accountability driving use in national governments12
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics12
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics12
Does she belong here? Women in leadership positions and organizational performance in gendered institutions12
Information for Contributors12
Administrative exclusion in the infrastructure‐level bureaucracy: The case of the Dutch daycare benefit scandal12
The Origins and Intellectual Structure of the Deep State Literature12
The Moderating Role of Workplace Autonomy on Corruption Control Strategies: Evidence From 33 South Korean Ministries12
Regulatory offsetting in advanced democracies12
Social inequity in administrative burdens: Evidence from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)12
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics12
Equity in government contracting: Analyzing the performance of small disadvantaged businesses11
The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding11
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
No country for model minorities: Evidence of discrimination against Asian noncitizen immigrants in the U.S. nursing home market11
“We're not there to lead”: Professional roles and responsibilities in “citizen‐led” co‐production11
How does performance management affect social equity? Evidence from New York City public schools11
Can public‐private innovation partnerships improve public services? Evidence from a synthetic control approach11
Institutional factors driving citizen perceptions of AI in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing11
Evacuation behavior of households facing compound hurricane‐pandemic threats10
Mind the gap: Strategies from California on navigating access to public hearings10
Celebrating 84 Years10
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
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Celebrating 83 Years10
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Managing my shame: Investigating the effects of organizational identity threat and public service motivation on exemplification9
The ontology, origin, and impact of divisive public sector rules: A meta‐narrative review of the red tape and administrative burden literatures9
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In search of the silver‐lining: Police officers' attributions and responses to stakeholder critique9
Trust, power, and organizational routines: Exploring government's intentional tactics to renew relationships with nonprofits serving historically marginalized communities9
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Frontline employees' responses to citizens' communication of administrative burdens9
Information for Contributors9
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
Swooshed: How Nike and the City of New York could potentially change the landscape of city branding through apparel licensing agreements9
Bending the arc of nonprofit leadership toward justice: Impacts of racial representation and organizational publicness on diversifying executive leadership9
Justice in Black and Brown: The impact of political control and representative bureaucracy on street level outcomes9
How to systematically analyze co‐production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co‐production9
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics9
Administrative Burden in Higher Education: Race, Criminal Records, and Street‐Level Bureaucrats in College Admissions9
Celebrating 85 Years8
Unpacking the Influence of Policy Advice Using Citation Network Analysis8
Public Administration Country Study: Kazakhstan—Post‐Soviet Legacy, Modernisation, and Hybridity8
Frontline Workers and Civic Tech: Bridging the Responsiveness Gap in Digital Client Encounters8
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
Citizen Centricity in Public Policy Making: Approaches, Mechanisms, and Beyond. By NaciKarkin and VolkanGöçoğlu, Cham: Springer Cham, 2025. 172 pp. €119.99 (hardcover); €96.29 (electronic). 8
Crowdsourced data in public administration research: A review and look to the future8
Holding out for a hero: Linking hiring duration and managerial fit8
First impressions: An analysis of professional stereotypes and their impact on sector attraction8
A meta‐analysis of the state and local government borrowing costs8
Citizen‐Centric Approaches to AI in Government Programs: Lessons From Experimental Studies8
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