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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	27
Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	25
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	20
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	19
To Obey or not to Obey? The Role of Trust in Non-pharmaceutical Interventions	19
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	18
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	17
The Innovative Implications of Smart Working in a Post-pandemic Era: A Model of Smart Working Satisfaction in Public Sector Organizations	16
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	15
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	14
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	14
Building Trust With Trust? A Qualitative, Exploratory Study of Implementing a Trust Reform in a Norwegian Municipality	14
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	13
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	13
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	12
Public-Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector and Sustainability: Managerial Insights from a Systematic Literature Review	12
Can Female Representation Reduce Corruption? A Meta-Analysis	11
Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	11
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	11
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	11
Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks	10
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	10
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	9
Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making	8

CEO Turnover and Openness of Decision-making Processes in the Post-succession Phase: Exploring a Threat-rigidity Perspective	8
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	8
A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients	8
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	8
Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin	8
Leveraging the VUCA Paradigm: A SWOT-Based Strategy for Sustainable Healthcare	8
What if Action Defined Leadership?	7
Ending the Transformation before the Goal is Fulfilled: The Case of Head Start	7
The Challenge of Balancing Innovation and Tradition in the Public Sector: The Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Digital Transformation	7
Integrated Ecosystem Approaches to Social Entrepreneurship Development in Hong Kong	7
COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments	7
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	6
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	6
Institutional Resilience in South Asia: The Role of Governance, Preparedness, and Accountability	6
The Europeanization of Anti-Corruption Policy: The Case of Spain	6
Administrative Friction: A Conceptual Model for Understanding and Anticipating Policy Implementation Failure	6
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	6
What Do We Know About Wicked Problems After Nearly 52 Years? Tracing the DNA of Wicked Problems through A Bibliometric Study	6
Chevron Deference and the Loper Bright Decision: Deference, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State	6
Assessing the Un-Assessable: How to Economically Assess Work Projects in Juvie?	5
Beyond Technocracy: Epistemic Justice in Dialogue with Postmodern Public Administration	5
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
When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support	5
Obeying Nobody: Public Service and the Ordinary Evil of Administration	5
Social Equity and Clientele Participation: A Cross-National Study of Immigrant Education	4
Moving Toward More Inclusive Government Communication in an Era of Superdiversity	4
Government-Business Relations in Policymaking During the New Order Indonesia	4
Sector-Switching, Bureaucratic Reputation, and Citizen Evaluation of Performance: Evidence From a Large-Scale Experiment in India	4
Determinants of Public Service Quality: An Exploratory Factor Analysis	4
A Model for Public Sector Reforms: The Case of the One-Stop-Shop ASAN Service in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan	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
Trapped in the Sandwich layer: How Does Administrative Burden Influence the Willingness of Street-Level Bureaucrats to Exercise Discretion?—A Survey Experimental Study	4
Miller Versus College of Policing: The Rise of a New Corporatism in British Politics	4
Sense of Community’s Impact on Philanthropic and Civic Behaviors	4
Does Governance Matter in Educational Outcomes? A Panel Data Analysis of BRICS Nations	3
Citizen Satisfaction and Traffic Police: Theoretical, Managerial, and Policy Implications of Using a Telegram Channel	3
The Moderating Influence of Institutional Capacity on the Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powered E-Government Services	3
Search and Rescue of Migrants in the Mediterranean by NGOs: Media Agenda-Setting, Legitimacy and Accounting for the Truth	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
Gender-Based Passive and Active Representation: Systematic Analysis of the Literature	3
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Behavioral Insights Group Rotterdam	3
The Values of the Management of Value Conflict	3
Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel	3
The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts	3
Lead Kindly Light: Neurodiversity, Autism, and Good Governance	3
Action Without Certainty: The Knowability and Legitimacy of Public Value	3
“The New Red Tape: Agency Value Matching in a Post- Chevron World”	3
The Role of Social Capital in the Performance of Public Administration	3

A Reliance Typology of Collaborative Governance Platforms: Findings From a Comparative Study	3
Does Local Government Competition Reduce Environmental Governance Performance? The Role of Public Value Conflict and Media Sentiment	3
The Institutionalization of Public Innovation: Evidence from Indonesia	3
In Search of Ethics Infrastructure in U.S. Local Governments: Building Blocks or Dead End?	3
Privileged Omissions: The Impact of Discriminatory Inaction	3
Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter?	3
Race in the Middle: Exploring the Impacts of Managerial Differences on Organizational Performance	3
Chai Pride: Using LGBTQIA+ Jewish Identities to Understand Intersectionality in Public Administration	3
Transformation of China’s Foreign Policy in the De-Globalization Phase: Seeking Balance Between Openness and Protection of National State Interests	2
Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration	2
The Social Architecture of Collaborations in Four Watersheds: Convergence, Path Dependence, and the Collaborative Life-Cycle Framework	2
Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted: Meta-Governance and Local Institutional Adaptation in the Implementation of the Smart Cities Mission India	2
Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? The Impact of Performance Rating on Public Service Motivation: Evidence From a Chinese Local Government	2
“Although Burdened, Do We Need to Do More?” Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Poverty Alleviation Policy Implementation	2
Towards Interactive Governance: Embedding Citizen Participation in Local Government	2
Collaborative Interaction as a Pathway to Realized Publicness: Examining the Transformation of Open Space Policy	2
Strategizing for Sustainable Development: How German Local Governments Use Ideas of Strategic Management for Implementing the 2030 Agenda	2
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Condition of Expertise	2
The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come?	2
Does User Involvement in Developing Public Sector Innovations Improve Outcomes? A Set-Theoretic Analysis of European Data	2
Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium	2
Public Channels of Access and State-Citizen Encounters in the Namibian Tax System	2
Against the Odds: On the Arduous Production of Linking Social Capital in Local Refugee Reception	2
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices	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
Building Municipal Trust: Corruption, Transparency, and Public Services in Chile	2
Augmented Okun’s Law: Does Institutional Quality Shape the Unemployment-Growth Relationship? Insights From Developing and Emerging Economies	2
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?	2
COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in Decentralized Spain: How Governance and Public Policies Influence Working Conditions and Organizational Responses to the Crisis	2
ESG Disclosure Among Municipal Owned Enterprises: Is It Different?	2
Exploring Niche Alteration in Nonprofit Organizations	2
Does National Culture Influence Global Policy Diffusion: Evidence From Gender Mainstreaming Policy Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	2
A Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Voluntary Failure Theory: Toward a Future Research Agenda	2