OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Administration & Society 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning and Adaptation in Polycentric Transport Governance: The Case of the Dutch Brabant Accessibility Agenda	51
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	33
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	24
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	23
Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	21
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	18
To Obey or not to Obey? The Role of Trust in Non-pharmaceutical Interventions	18
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	18
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	17
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	16
The Innovative Implications of Smart Working in a Post-pandemic Era: A Model of Smart Working Satisfaction in Public Sector Organizations	16
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	16
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	14
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	14
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	14
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	12
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	12
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	11
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	11
Public-Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector and Sustainability: Managerial Insights from a Systematic Literature Review	11
Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	11
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	11
Does Citizen Sector-based Preference Relate to Citizen Satisfaction with Public Service Organizations?	10
The Unionization of State Government Employees and the Cost of State Government: Re-Evaluating an Evolving Relationship	10
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	10

The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	10
Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks	10
A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients	10
Leveraging the VUCA Paradigm: A SWOT-Based Strategy for Sustainable Healthcare	9
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	9
Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making	8
Can Female Representation Reduce Corruption? A Meta-Analysis	8
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	7
Integrated Ecosystem Approaches to Social Entrepreneurship Development in Hong Kong	7
CEO Turnover and Openness of Decision-making Processes in the Post-succession Phase: Exploring a Threat-rigidity Perspective	7
COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments	7
The Challenge of Balancing Innovation and Tradition in the Public Sector: The Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Digital Transformation	7
Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin	7
Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola	7
Ending the Transformation before the Goal is Fulfilled: The Case of Head Start	7
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	6
Chevron Deference and the Loper Bright Decision: Deference, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State	6
Administrative Friction: A Conceptual Model for Understanding and Anticipating Policy Implementation Failure	6
When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support	6
What if Action Defined Leadership?	6
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	6
The Europeanization of Anti-Corruption Policy: The Case of Spain	6
What Do We Know About Wicked Problems After Nearly 52 Years? Tracing the DNA of Wicked Problems through A Bibliometric Study	6
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	6
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	6
Local Government Accountability to Citizens as COVID-19 Took Hold: Sentiment Analysis of Tweets in Hispanic–American Countries	5
The Adequacy of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Assessment of Public Value: A Case Study from the Transportation Sector	5
Beyond Technocracy: Epistemic Justice in Dialogue with Postmodern Public Administration	5
Obeying Nobody: Public Service and the Ordinary Evil of Administration	5
Sector-Switching, Bureaucratic Reputation, and Citizen Evaluation of Performance: Evidence From a Large-Scale Experiment in India	5
Trapped in the Sandwich layer: How Does Administrative Burden Influence the Willingness of Street-Level Bureaucrats to Exercise Discretion?—A Survey Experimental Study	5
Assessing the Un-Assessable: How to Economically Assess Work Projects in Juvie?	5
Moving Toward More Inclusive Government Communication in an Era of Superdiversity	5
Miller Versus College of Policing: The Rise of a New Corporatism in British Politics	4
Government-Business Relations in Policymaking During the New Order Indonesia	4
The Institutionalization of Public Innovation: Evidence from Indonesia	4
Search and Rescue of Migrants in the Mediterranean by NGOs: Media Agenda-Setting, Legitimacy and Accounting for the Truth	4
COVID-19 Risk Perception and Support for COVID-19 Mitigation Measures among Local Government Officials in the U.S.: A Test of a Cultural Theory of Risk	4
Social Equity and Clientele Participation: A Cross-National Study of Immigrant Education	4
Determinants of Public Service Quality: An Exploratory Factor Analysis	4
Power of the Vague: How Vision Statements Have Mobilized Change in Two Swedish Cities	4
Lead Kindly Light: Neurodiversity, Autism, and Good Governance	4
The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts	4
A Model for Public Sector Reforms: The Case of the One-Stop-Shop ASAN Service in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan	4
In Search of Ethics Infrastructure in U.S. Local Governments: Building Blocks or Dead End?	4
Privileged Omissions: The Impact of Discriminatory Inaction	3
Action Without Certainty: The Knowability and Legitimacy of Public Value	3
Race in the Middle: Exploring the Impacts of Managerial Differences on Organizational Performance	3
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Behavioral Insights Group Rotterdam	3
Between the Public and the Private Interest: The Interrelationship of Intermediary Roles of Environmental Nonprofits in Coastal Resilience	3

Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted: Meta-Governance and Local Institutional Adaptation in the Implementation of the Smart Cities Mission India	3
“The New Red Tape: Agency Value Matching in a Post- Chevron World”	3
Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter?	3
Citizen Satisfaction and Traffic Police: Theoretical, Managerial, and Policy Implications of Using a Telegram Channel	3
Does Governance Matter in Educational Outcomes? A Panel Data Analysis of BRICS Nations	3
Chai Pride: Using LGBTQIA+ Jewish Identities to Understand Intersectionality in Public Administration	3
Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel	3
Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium	3
Coping Strategies and Policy Alienation Under Centralization and Performance Management: Evidence From a Survey of Quebec Homecare Workers	3
Digital Technologies in Public Administration Networks: Systematic Literature Review and Research Avenues	3
Does Local Government Competition Reduce Environmental Governance Performance? The Role of Public Value Conflict and Media Sentiment	3
A Reliance Typology of Collaborative Governance Platforms: Findings From a Comparative Study	3
The Role of Social Capital in the Performance of Public Administration	3
The Values of the Management of Value Conflict	3
Public Channels of Access and State-Citizen Encounters in the Namibian Tax System	2
Towards Interactive Governance: Embedding Citizen Participation in Local Government	2
Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? The Impact of Performance Rating on Public Service Motivation: Evidence From a Chinese Local Government	2
Exploring Niche Alteration in Nonprofit Organizations	2
How Do Government Grants Affect Nonprofit Financial Effectiveness? The Mediation Role of Process Accountability	2
Strategizing for Sustainable Development: How German Local Governments Use Ideas of Strategic Management for Implementing the 2030 Agenda	2
Building Municipal Trust: Corruption, Transparency, and Public Services in Chile	2
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?	2
“Although Burdened, Do We Need to Do More?” Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Poverty Alleviation Policy Implementation	2
Does National Culture Influence Global Policy Diffusion: Evidence From Gender Mainstreaming Policy Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	2
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices	2
A Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Voluntary Failure Theory: Toward a Future Research Agenda	2
COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in Decentralized Spain: How Governance and Public Policies Influence Working Conditions and Organizational Responses to the Crisis	2
Transformation of China’s Foreign Policy in the De-Globalization Phase: Seeking Balance Between Openness and Protection of National State Interests	2
Against the Odds: On the Arduous Production of Linking Social Capital in Local Refugee Reception	2
The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come?	2
Gender-Based Passive and Active Representation: Systematic Analysis of the Literature	2
Augmented Okun’s Law: Does Institutional Quality Shape the Unemployment-Growth Relationship? Insights From Developing and Emerging Economies	2
Prime Minister, Minister, or Something Else? Determinants of Patronage Appointments and Politicization of the Bureaucracy at the Senior Level in Turkey (2002–2018)	2
Acknowledging the Emergence of a New Logic: The Regulation of Healthcare in Brazil	2
Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration	2
Does User Involvement in Developing Public Sector Innovations Improve Outcomes? A Set-Theoretic Analysis of European Data	2
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Condition of Expertise	2
Playing Offense: How Athletes are Impacting a Changing Administrative State	2
Co-Evolution of Organizations in Infrastructure Planning: The Role of Communities of Practice as Windows for Collective Learning Across Project-Oriented Organizations	2
ESG Disclosure Among Municipal Owned Enterprises: Is It Different?	2
The Social Architecture of Collaborations in Four Watersheds: Convergence, Path Dependence, and the Collaborative Life-Cycle Framework	2