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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	48
Learning and Adaptation in Polycentric Transport Governance: The Case of the Dutch Brabant Accessibility Agenda	30
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	24
Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	23
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	21
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	17
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	17
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	16
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	16
To Obey or not to Obey? The Role of Trust in Non-pharmaceutical Interventions	16
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	16
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	15
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	14
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	14
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	14
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	11
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	11
The Innovative Implications of Smart Working in a Post-pandemic Era: A Model of Smart Working Satisfaction in Public Sector Organizations	11
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	11
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	10
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	10
Does Citizen Sector-based Preference Relate to Citizen Satisfaction with Public Service Organizations?	10
Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	10
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	10
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	10

Public-Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector and Sustainability: Managerial Insights from a Systematic Literature Review	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
The Unionization of State Government Employees and the Cost of State Government: Re-Evaluating an Evolving Relationship	9
Leveraging the VUCA Paradigm: A SWOT-Based Strategy for Sustainable Healthcare	9
Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin	8
CEO Turnover and Openness of Decision-making Processes in the Post-succession Phase: Exploring a Threat-rigidity Perspective	8
Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making	7
COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments	7
Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola	7
Integrated Ecosystem Approaches to Social Entrepreneurship Development in Hong Kong	7
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	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
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	6
When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support	6
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	6
What Do We Know About Wicked Problems After Nearly 52 Years? Tracing the DNA of Wicked Problems through A Bibliometric Study	6
What if Action Defined Leadership?	6
The Europeanization of Anti-Corruption Policy: The Case of Spain	6
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	6
Chevron Deference and the Loper Bright Decision: Deference, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State	6
Local Government Accountability to Citizens as COVID-19 Took Hold: Sentiment Analysis of Tweets in Hispanic–American Countries	6
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	6
Obeying Nobody: Public Service and the Ordinary Evil of Administration	5
Beyond Technocracy: Epistemic Justice in Dialogue with Postmodern Public Administration	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
Sector-Switching, Bureaucratic Reputation, and Citizen Evaluation of Performance: Evidence From a Large-Scale Experiment in India	5
Moving Toward More Inclusive Government Communication in an Era of Superdiversity	5
The Adequacy of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Assessment of Public Value: A Case Study from the Transportation Sector	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	4
The Institutionalization of Public Innovation: Evidence from Indonesia	4
Power of the Vague: How Vision Statements Have Mobilized Change in Two Swedish Cities	4
Search and Rescue of Migrants in the Mediterranean by NGOs: Media Agenda-Setting, Legitimacy and Accounting for the Truth	4
Social Equity and Clientele Participation: A Cross-National Study of Immigrant Education	4
Government-Business Relations in Policymaking During the New Order Indonesia	4
Miller Versus College of Policing: The Rise of a New Corporatism in British Politics	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
Determinants of Public Service Quality: An Exploratory Factor Analysis	4
In Search of Ethics Infrastructure in U.S. Local Governments: Building Blocks or Dead End?	4
A Model for Public Sector Reforms: The Case of the One-Stop-Shop ASAN Service in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan	4
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
Privileged Omissions: The Impact of Discriminatory Inaction	3
“The New Red Tape: Agency Value Matching in a Post- Chevron World”	3
Race in the Middle: Exploring the Impacts of Managerial Differences on Organizational Performance	3
Citizen Satisfaction and Traffic Police: Theoretical, Managerial, and Policy Implications of Using a Telegram Channel	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

Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter?	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
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
Gender-Based Passive and Active Representation: Systematic Analysis of the Literature	3
Digital Technologies in Public Administration Networks: Systematic Literature Review and Research Avenues	3
Does Governance Matter in Educational Outcomes? A Panel Data Analysis of BRICS Nations	3
Action Without Certainty: The Knowability and Legitimacy of Public Value	3
Does Local Government Competition Reduce Environmental Governance Performance? The Role of Public Value Conflict and Media Sentiment	3
The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come?	2
Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium	2
Strategizing for Sustainable Development: How German Local Governments Use Ideas of Strategic Management for Implementing the 2030 Agenda	2
Does National Culture Influence Global Policy Diffusion: Evidence From Gender Mainstreaming Policy Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	2
Public Channels of Access and State-Citizen Encounters in the Namibian Tax System	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
“Although Burdened, Do We Need to Do More?” Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Poverty Alleviation Policy Implementation	2
ESG Disclosure Among Municipal Owned Enterprises: Is It Different?	2
Co-Evolution of Organizations in Infrastructure Planning: The Role of Communities of Practice as Windows for Collective Learning Across Project-Oriented Organizations	2
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?	2
Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration	2
E-Government Innovation Initiatives in Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review and a Research Agenda	2
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices	2
How Do Government Grants Affect Nonprofit Financial Effectiveness? The Mediation Role of Process Accountability	2
Exploring Niche Alteration in Nonprofit Organizations	2
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Condition of Expertise	2
Augmented Okun’s Law: Does Institutional Quality Shape the Unemployment-Growth Relationship? Insights From Developing and Emerging Economies	2
Building Municipal Trust: Corruption, Transparency, and Public Services in Chile	2
Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted: Meta-Governance and Local Institutional Adaptation in the Implementation of the Smart Cities Mission India	2
Playing Offense: How Athletes are Impacting a Changing Administrative State	2
Towards Interactive Governance: Embedding Citizen Participation in Local Government	2
A Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Voluntary Failure Theory: Toward a Future Research Agenda	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
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