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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Does National Culture Influence Global Policy Diffusion: Evidence From Gender Mainstreaming Policy Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	69
Fostering Public Sector Employees’ Innovative Behavior: The Roles of Servant Leadership, Public Service Motivation, and Learning Goal Orientation	62
Examining Public Organization Communication Misalignments During COVID-19 Through the Lens of Higher Education	50
Prime Minister, Minister, or Something Else? Determinants of Patronage Appointments and Politicization of the Bureaucracy at the Senior Level in Turkey (2002–2018)	28
Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter?	28
A Good Servant But a Poor Master: The Side Effects of Numbers and Metrics	27
Public Channels of Access and State-Citizen Encounters in the Namibian Tax System	25
Public–Private Collaboration Led by Private Organizations in Combating Crises: Evidence From China’s Fighting Against COVID-19	24
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	23
Ending Faculty Sexual Misconduct in Academia: An Open Letter From Women of Public Affairs Education	22
A Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Voluntary Failure Theory: Toward a Future Research Agenda	22
A Framework for Governance Capacity: A Broad Perspective on Steering Efforts in Society	20
Final Report on Volume 53	19
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	18
Some Optimism About Public Governance	18
Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies	17
Towards Interactive Governance: Embedding Citizen Participation in Local Government	16
Promoting Public Compliance through Information Disclosure: Effect of Disclosing Confirmed Cases’ Personal Information on Public Mobility during the COVID-19 Outbreak	16
When Deaths Are Dehumanized: Deathcare During COVID-19 as a Public Value Failure	15
Transparency Versus Populism	15
Professional Associations as Networks: How Informal Networking Characterizes Inter-Agency Collaboration from a Social Psychology Perspective	14
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	14
E-Government Innovation Initiatives in Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review and a Research Agenda	14
Race in the Middle: Exploring the Impacts of Managerial Differences on Organizational Performance	13
What if Action Defined Leadership?	13

Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	13
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	13
Acknowledging the Emergence of a New Logic: The Regulation of Healthcare in Brazil	12
Cop Wisdom and the Democratic Consequences of Citizen–State Interactions	12
Democracy at Risk: The Public Employee Freedom of Speech Crisis	12
Learning and Adaptation in Polycentric Transport Governance: The Case of the Dutch Brabant Accessibility Agenda	11
Network Governance in Action: Functions and Practices to Foster Collaborative Environments	11
Community Diversity and Donor Control: An Empirical Analysis of Contributions to Donor-Advised Funds at Community Foundations	11
Personnel Control and Local Officials’ Attention to Economic Development: Evidence from China	11
Bringing Religion into Public Value Theory and Practice: Rationale and Perspectives	10
Why Trust Weighs More? Investigating the Endogenous Relationship Between Trust and Perceived Institutional Effectiveness	10
Working Within a System of Administrative Burden: How Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Perceptions Shape Access to the Promise of Higher Education	10
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	10
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices	10
The Importance of Similarity: How Gender Congruence Matters for the Impact of Leadership Training	10
The Nodality Disconnect of Data-Driven Government	10
Exploring Media-Covered Accountability of Public Agencies	10
Who Participates in Public Participation? The Exclusionary Effects of Inclusionary Efforts	10
Racialized Emotional Labor: An Unseen Burden in the Public Sector	9
The Political Embeddedness of Voluntary Action: The Case of Local Philanthropic COVID-19 Relief Funds	9
Epistemic Governance in the Context of Crisis: A Complexity-informed Approach	9
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	9
The Last 20 Years of Empirical Research on Government Utilization of Academic Social Science Research: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review	9
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	9
The Political Economic Sources of Policy Non-design, Policy Accumulation, and Decay in Policy Capacity	8
Social Services in Ethnically Mixed Cities: Street-Level Bureaucracy at the Crossroads of Ethno-National Conflict	8
Working Toward Network Governance: Local Actors’ Strategies for Navigating Tensions in Localized Health Care Governance	8
Understanding the Spirit of the Sectors: Exploring Identity in a New Era of Organizing	8
Theorizing Status Distance: Rethinking the Micro Theories of Representation and Diversity in Public Organizations	8
Show Me the Numbers: Bureaucratic Use of Data in the Policy Making Process	7
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	7
The Values of the Management of Value Conflict	7
Theoretical Perspectives on Bureaucrats: A Quest for Democratic Agents	7
On the Roots of Epistemological Sexism and its Impact on Public Administration Scholarship and Praxis	7
Representative Bureaucracy, Institutional Support, and Clientele Need: The Case of Undocumented Students	6
Transformational Leadership and Project Success: A Mediating Role of Public Service Motivation	6
The Sequence of Isomorphism—: The Temporal Diffusion Patterns of Quality Management in Higher Education Institutions and Hospitals	6
Does Local Government Competition Reduce Environmental Governance Performance? The Role of Public Value Conflict and Media Sentiment	6
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	6
Social Identity and Cooperative Behavior by Public Administrators	6
Which Clients Inspire or Reduce the Trust of Street-Level Bureaucrats?	6
Bibliometric Analysis of Academic Papers Citing Dunleavy et al.’s (2006) “New Public Management Is Dead—Long Live Digital-Era Governance”: Identifying Research Clusters and Future Research Agendas	6
Opposites But Similar? Technocracy and Populism in Contemporary European Democracies	6
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	6
Relationality as a Lens for Policy Analysis: Preserving Harmony in a Triangular Cooperation Project to Strengthen Gender Mainstreaming in Fiji	6
Harnessing the Power of Words to Address the COVID-19 Crisis	5
Do Business-Backed Think Tanks Represent Class Interests? The Co-evolution of Policy Learning and Economic Elites in the Canadian Knowledge Regime	5
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	5
The Innovative Implications of Smart Working in a Post-pandemic Era: A Model of Smart Working Satisfaction in Public Sector Organizations	5
Community Policing: Misunderstanding and Misapplication Following Police Shootings	5

Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	5
Conditional Nature of Policy as a Stabilizing Force: Erin’s Law and Teacher Child Abuse Reporting Practices	5
Corrigendum to “Does Targeting Always Mean Retrenchment? Housing Assistance “Exceptionalism” in the Canadian Welfare State”	5
How-to Bureaucracy: A Concept of Citizens’ Administrative Literacy	5
Whose Public Virtue? Exploring Freedom of Information Efficacy and Support	5
Professional Development Leadership: Scale Development and Validation	5
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	5
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	4
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	4
Adapting Global Administrative Reforms to Local Contexts within Developing Countries: Insights into the Blue Ocean Strategy	4
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	4
From Access Challenges (as Data) to Methodological Insights: Enhancing Qualitative Inquiries in Public Administration Research	4
Policy Learning, Policy Failure, and the Mitigation of Policy Risks: Re-Thinking the Lessons of Policy Success and Failure	4
Competing Public Values Amidst Fiscal Crisis: The Case of State Takeover System in Michigan	4
Administrative Neutrality in the Wake of Trumpism	4
Can Anyone Implement the Law? The Discourse and Practice of Externalizing Legal Authority	4
Reactivity and the Dialectics of Performance Measurement: Micropolitics Between Agency and Compliance	4
Municipal Pathways in Response to COVID-19: A Strategic Management Perspective on Local Public Administration Resilience	4
A Reliance Typology of Collaborative Governance Platforms: Findings From a Comparative Study	4
Tackling Persistent, Boundary-Spanning Problems Through Collaborative Innovation: Lessons From the Clean Sweep Initiative in Buffalo, NY	4
Response to commentaries: Public Authority: Paradox, Process, and Palindrome	4
What’s the Hold Up? The FDA’s Delayed Implementation of Menu-Labeling Policy	3
Between the Public and the Private Interest: The Interrelationship of Intermediary Roles of Environmental Nonprofits in Coastal Resilience	3
Neurodiversity in (Not Only) Public Organizations: An Untapped Opportunity?	3
Enacting Accountability Under Populist Pressures: Theorizing the Relationship Between Anti-Elite Rhetoric and Public Accountability	3
You Get What You Pay for: An Analysis of Public Contracts for Engineering Services	3
When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support	3
Chai Pride: Using LGBTQIA+ Jewish Identities to Understand Intersectionality in Public Administration	3
How Does Paternalistic Leadership Enhance Civil Servants’ Public Service Motivation? The Mediating Mechanism of Trust in Leader	3
Accountability Pressure and Intraorganizational Dynamics in Japan’s Public Procurement	3
New Paths for Public Governance: Literature Review, Content Analysis, and Proposed Conceptual Framework for an Integrative View	3
Competition and Collaboration in the Nonprofit Sector: Identifying the Potential for Cognitive Dissonance	3
Public-Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector and Sustainability: Managerial Insights from a Systematic Literature Review	3
Learn and Adapt, or Perish: The Case of the F35 Lightning II	3
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	3
Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium	3
Orchestrating Sustainability: Government Platforms for Material Circulation	3
Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel	3
Representative Bureaucracy, Age-Friendly Planning, and the Role of Gender, Public Engagement, and Professional Management	3
Assessing Organizational Role and Perceptions of Programmatic Success in Policy Implementation	3
Red Tape, Rule Legitimacy, and Public Service Motivation: Experimental Evidence From Korean Citizens	3
Preparing Blacks and Latinx for Workforce 2000: Unfulfilled Promises and Lost Opportunities	3
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	3
Moving Toward More Inclusive Government Communication in an Era of Superdiversity	2
Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted: Meta-Governance and Local Institutional Adaptation in the Implementation of the Smart Cities Mission India	2
Serving Multiple Masters? Public Managers’ Role Perceptions in Participatory Budgeting	2
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	2
A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients	2
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	2
Exploring Citizen Initiated Contacts and the Role of Local Councilors in Problem Resolution: Evidence From Pakistan	2
Policy Learning and Adaptation in governance; a Co-evolutionary Perspective	2
The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come?	2
Remodeling Street-Level Workers With Quasi-Markets: Comparing Ireland’s Mixed Economy of Welfare-to-Work	2
Administrative Performance and Administrative Power: Complexities, Conflicts, and Consequences	2
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	2
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Behavioral Insights Group Rotterdam	2
Local Autonomy in Temporary Organizations: The Case of Smart City Pilots	2
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?	2
Two-Way Risk Communication, Public Value Consensus, and Citizens’ Policy Compliance Willingness About COVID-19: Multilevel Analysis Based on a Nudge View	2