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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
To Obey or not to Obey? The Role of Trust in Non-pharmaceutical Interventions	44
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	37
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	35
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	31
Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	27
Learning and Adaptation in Polycentric Transport Governance: The Case of the Dutch Brabant Accessibility Agenda	27
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	22
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	22
The Innovative Implications of Smart Working in a Post-pandemic Era: A Model of Smart Working Satisfaction in Public Sector Organizations	20
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	20
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	19
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	19
Representative Bureaucracy, Institutional Support, and Clientele Need: The Case of Undocumented Students	17
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	17
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	17
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	16
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	16
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	15
Public-Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector and Sustainability: Managerial Insights from a Systematic Literature Review	14
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	13
Neurodiversity in (Not Only) Public Organizations: An Untapped Opportunity?	12
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	12
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	12
Does Citizen Sector-based Preference Relate to Citizen Satisfaction with Public Service Organizations?	11
Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks	11

Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	10
A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients	9
CEO Turnover and Openness of Decision-making Processes in the Post-succession Phase: Exploring a Threat-rigidity Perspective	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	9
‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible	9
Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	9
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	9
Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin	8
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	8
Ending the Transformation before the Goal is Fulfilled: The Case of Head Start	8
COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments	7
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	7
Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola	7
What if Action Defined Leadership?	7
The Challenge of Balancing Innovation and Tradition in the Public Sector: The Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Digital Transformation	7
A Framework for Governance Capacity: A Broad Perspective on Steering Efforts in Society	7
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	6
Corrigendum to “Does Targeting Always Mean Retrenchment? Housing Assistance “Exceptionalism” in the Canadian Welfare State”	6
When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support	6
Chevron Deference and the Loper Bright Decision: Deference, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State	6
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	6
Which Clients Inspire or Reduce the Trust of Street-Level Bureaucrats?	6
Local Government Accountability to Citizens as COVID-19 Took Hold: Sentiment Analysis of Tweets in Hispanic–American Countries	5
Moving Toward More Inclusive Government Communication in an Era of Superdiversity	5
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	5
Power of the Vague: How Vision Statements Have Mobilized Change in Two Swedish Cities	5
Social Equity and Clientele Participation: A Cross-National Study of Immigrant Education	5
Sector-Switching, Bureaucratic Reputation, and Citizen Evaluation of Performance: Evidence From a Large-Scale Experiment in India	5
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	5
The Iterative Process of Legitimacy-Building in Hybrid Organizations	5
The Adequacy of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Assessment of Public Value: A Case Study from the Transportation Sector	5
The Europeanization of Anti-Corruption Policy: The Case of Spain	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
Beyond Technocracy: Epistemic Justice in Dialogue with Postmodern Public Administration	5
Reimagining Otherness, Recreating the Public Space: Public Administration and the U.S.-Mexico Border	4
The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts	4
Privileged Omissions: The Impact of Discriminatory Inaction	4
In Search of Ethics Infrastructure in U.S. Local Governments: Building Blocks or Dead End?	4
Government-Business Relations in Policymaking During the New Order Indonesia	4
A Model for Public Sector Reforms: The Case of the One-Stop-Shop ASAN Service in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan	4
Privation of Inclusion: An Exploration of the Stealth and the Strategy that Sabotaged Racialized Public Servants’ Career Mobility in British Columbia, Canada	4
Determinants of Public Service Quality: An Exploratory Factor Analysis	4
The Institutionalization of Public Innovation: Evidence from Indonesia	4
Digital Technologies in Public Administration Networks: Systematic Literature Review and Research Avenues	3
A Reliance Typology of Collaborative Governance Platforms: Findings From a Comparative Study	3
Action Without Certainty: The Knowability and Legitimacy of Public Value	3
Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter?	3
“The New Red Tape: Agency Value Matching in a Post- Chevron World”	3
Does Local Government Competition Reduce Environmental Governance Performance? The Role of Public Value Conflict and Media Sentiment	3

Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted: Meta-Governance and Local Institutional Adaptation in the Implementation of the Smart Cities Mission India	3
Between the Public and the Private Interest: The Interrelationship of Intermediary Roles of Environmental Nonprofits in Coastal Resilience	3
Search and Rescue of Migrants in the Mediterranean by NGOs: Media Agenda-Setting, Legitimacy and Accounting for the Truth	3
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
Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel	3
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Behavioral Insights Group Rotterdam	3
Chai Pride: Using LGBTQIA+ Jewish Identities to Understand Intersectionality in Public Administration	3
Race in the Middle: Exploring the Impacts of Managerial Differences on Organizational Performance	3
Coping Strategies and Policy Alienation Under Centralization and Performance Management: Evidence From a Survey of Quebec Homecare Workers	3
The Values of the Management of Value Conflict	3
Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium	3
How Do Government Grants Affect Nonprofit Financial Effectiveness? The Mediation Role of Process Accountability	2
Augmented Okun’s Law: Does Institutional Quality Shape the Unemployment-Growth Relationship? Insights From Developing and Emerging Economies	2
Co-Evolution of Organizations in Infrastructure Planning: The Role of Communities of Practice as Windows for Collective Learning Across Project-Oriented Organizations	2
Against the Odds: On the Arduous Production of Linking Social Capital in Local Refugee Reception	2
Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration	2
Acknowledging the Emergence of a New Logic: The Regulation of Healthcare in Brazil	2
COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in Decentralized Spain: How Governance and Public Policies Influence Working Conditions and Organizational Responses to the Crisis	2
Building Municipal Trust: Corruption, Transparency, and Public Services in Chile	2
Transformation of China’s Foreign Policy in the De-Globalization Phase: Seeking Balance Between Openness and Protection of National State Interests	2
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Condition of Expertise	2
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?	2
Playing Offense: How Athletes are Impacting a Changing Administrative State	2
Co-creating Democratic Legitimacy: Potentials and Pitfalls	2
Public Channels of Access and State-Citizen Encounters in the Namibian Tax System	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
Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments: A New Pragmatist Approach	2
Strategizing for Sustainable Development: How German Local Governments Use Ideas of Strategic Management for Implementing the 2030 Agenda	2
The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come?	2
The Role of Social Capital in the Performance of Public Administration	2
“Although Burdened, Do We Need to Do More?” Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Poverty Alleviation Policy Implementation	2
A Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Voluntary Failure Theory: Toward a Future Research Agenda	2
Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? The Impact of Performance Rating on Public Service Motivation: Evidence From a Chinese Local Government	2
Does User Involvement in Developing Public Sector Innovations Improve Outcomes? A Set-Theoretic Analysis of European Data	2
Exploring Niche Alteration in Nonprofit Organizations	2