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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How Do Leaders Influence Innovation and Creativity in Employees? The Mediating Role of Intrinsic Motivation	44
How-to Bureaucracy: A Concept of Citizens’ Administrative Literacy	42
Racial Bias: A Buried Cornerstone of the Administrative State	27
Working Within a System of Administrative Burden: How Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Perceptions Shape Access to the Promise of Higher Education	27
Nonprofit-Government Relations in Authoritarian China: A Review and Synthesis of the Chinese Literature	25
Network Governance in Action: Functions and Practices to Foster Collaborative Environments	22
Taking a COVID-19 Vaccine or Not? Do Trust in Government and Trust in Experts Help Us to Understand Vaccination Intention?	21
Does Participatory Budgeting Alter Public Spending? Evidence From New York City	20
Does Co-Production Lead to the Creation of Public Value? Balancing the Dimensions of Public Value Creation in Urban Mobility Planning	18
Public–Private Collaboration Led by Private Organizations in Combating Crises: Evidence From China’s Fighting Against COVID-19	17
Two-Way Risk Communication, Public Value Consensus, and Citizens’ Policy Compliance Willingness About COVID-19: Multilevel Analysis Based on a Nudge View	16
Transformational Leadership and Project Success: A Mediating Role of Public Service Motivation	16
Vision, Voice, and Technology: Is There a Global “Open Government” Trend?	16
Social Accountability Between Consensus and Confrontation: Developing a Theoretical Framework for Societal Accountability Relationships of Public Sector Organizations	15
Policy Learning, Policy Failure, and the Mitigation of Policy Risks: Re-Thinking the Lessons of Policy Success and Failure	15
Deliberation and Policy-Making: Three Ways to Think About Minipublics’ Consequences	15
Personal or Party Roots of Civil Service Patronage? Ministerial Change Effects on the Appointments of Top Civil Servants	15
The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas	14
Behavioural Insights Teams (BITs) and Policy Change: An Exploration of Impact, Location, and Temporality of Policy Advice	13
The Role of Collaboration in Complying With COVID-19 Health Protective Behaviors: A Cross-National Study	13
Public Value Is Unknowable; Public Authority Makes Every Government Decision a Wicked Problem	13
‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible	13
Are State-Owned Enterprises Good Citizens in Environmental Governance? Evidence From the Control of Air Pollution in China	13
Fostering Public Sector Employees’ Innovative Behavior: The Roles of Servant Leadership, Public Service Motivation, and Learning Goal Orientation	12
The Contingent Value of Political Connections on Donations to Chinese Foundations: Exploring the Moderating Role of Transparency	12

From Neighbors to Partners: The Adoption of Interlocal Government Collaboration in the United States, 1977–2007	11
Racialized Emotional Labor: An Unseen Burden in the Public Sector	11
Horizontal, Vertical, and Hybrid: An Empirical Look at the Forms of Accountability	11
Institutional Injustice: How Public Administration Has Fostered and Can Ameliorate Racial Disparities	10
When Deaths Are Dehumanized: Deathcare During COVID-19 as a Public Value Failure	10
Enacting Accountability Under Populist Pressures: Theorizing the Relationship Between Anti-Elite Rhetoric and Public Accountability	10
Social Goals in the Theory of the Firm: A Systems Theory View	10
Red Tape, Rule Legitimacy, and Public Service Motivation: Experimental Evidence From Korean Citizens	10
Predicting Organizational Mortality: How Financial Management Matters	9
Local Autonomy in Temporary Organizations: The Case of Smart City Pilots	9
Working Toward Network Governance: Local Actors’ Strategies for Navigating Tensions in Localized Health Care Governance	9
To Market or Demarket? Public-Sector Branding of Cannabis in Canada	9
Municipal Pathways in Response to COVID-19: A Strategic Management Perspective on Local Public Administration Resilience	9
Phenomenology in Public Administration: Bridging the Theory–Practice Gap	9
Death by a Thousand 10-Minute Tasks: Workarounds and Noncompliance in University Research Administration	9
The Iterative Process of Legitimacy-Building in Hybrid Organizations	9
Policy Learning and Adaptation in governance; a Co-evolutionary Perspective	9
Examining Public Organization Communication Misalignments During COVID-19 Through the Lens of Higher Education	9
Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments: A New Pragmatist Approach	8
Theorizing Status Distance: Rethinking the Micro Theories of Representation and Diversity in Public Organizations	8
Competition and Collaboration in the Nonprofit Sector: Identifying the Potential for Cognitive Dissonance	8
Who Participates in Public Participation? The Exclusionary Effects of Inclusionary Efforts	8
Coordination Effectiveness During Public Health Emergencies: An Institutional Collective Action Framework	8
Perceptions of the Frontline Craft: Assessing Value Convergence Between Policy Makers, Managers, and Street-Level Professionals in the Prison Sector	7
Understanding Emergency Preparedness in Public Agencies: The Key Role of Managerial Perceptions	7
Walking on Thin Ice: How and Why Frontline Officers Cope With Managerialism, Accountability, and Risk in Probation Services	7
Developing the Public Participation Field: The Role of Independent Bodies for Public Participation	7
Corporate-Led Environmental Governance: A Theoretical Model	7
Public Value is Knowable, Public Value Creation is Not	7
Participation Requests: A Democratic Innovation to Unlock the Door of Public Services?	7
Neurodiversity in (Not Only) Public Organizations: An Untapped Opportunity?	7
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	7
Interactive Learning and Governance Transformation for Securing Blue Justice for Small-Scale Fisheries	7
Making People Matter: Moving Toward a Humanity-Based Public Administration	7
Promoting Ethics Management Strategies in the Public Sector: Rules, Values, and Inclusion in Sweden	6
Side-Effects of Representation: Measuring the Impact of Representative Hiring on Employment Discrimination Complaints	6
Designing Performance Systems in Anticipation of Unintended Consequences: Experiences and Lessons From the Compstat-Based Performance Regime in NYPD	6
Public–Nonprofit Collaboration in Homeless Services: Are Nonprofit-Led Networks More Effective in Winning Federal Funding?	6
A Framework for Governance Capacity: A Broad Perspective on Steering Efforts in Society	6
The Relationship Between Islamic Work Ethic and Public Service Motivation	6
Actions for Queering American Public Administration	6
The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out): A Survey Experiment	6
Understanding the Spirit of the Sectors: Exploring Identity in a New Era of Organizing	6
Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies	6
Local Governance Platforms: Roles and Relations of City Governments, Citizens, and Businesses	6
Co-creating Democratic Legitimacy: Potentials and Pitfalls	6
Bureaucracies Under Judicial Control? Relational Discretion in the Implementation of Immigration Detention in Swiss Cantons	6
The Cloud of Unknowing: Time for Value-ing Gerunds	6
Social Services in Ethnically Mixed Cities: Street-Level Bureaucracy at the Crossroads of Ethno-National Conflict	6
The Nodality Disconnect of Data-Driven Government	6

Managerialism and Its Consequences for Professional Identity: A Comparative Analysis of GPs and Secondary School Teachers	5
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices	5
The Rise of a New Public Bureaucracy in New Zealand?	5
A Good Servant But a Poor Master: The Side Effects of Numbers and Metrics	5
Commentaries on “Public Value is Unknowable”: Valuing the Dimensions of Public Choices	5
The Sequence of Isomorphism—: The Temporal Diffusion Patterns of Quality Management in Higher Education Institutions and Hospitals	5
Administration of Community Participation in Small-Scale Projects: Brownfield Remediation in Los Angeles	4
Fostering Civil Society Through Community Empowerment: An Extended Case of the Sichuan Earthquake in China	4
Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships for Public Service Provision Through Democratically Accountable Practices	4
Theoretical Perspectives on Bureaucrats: A Quest for Democratic Agents	4
How Do Government Grants Affect Nonprofit Financial Effectiveness? The Mediation Role of Process Accountability	4
Volunteer Use as a Service Delivery Alternative: The Case of Law Enforcement Agencies	4
Disentangling the Myth of Nonprofit–Government Relations in China	4
Incorporating Public Values Through Multiple Accountability: A Case Study on Quality Regulation of Emergency Care in the Netherlands by an Independent Regulatory Agency	4
Conditional Nature of Policy as a Stabilizing Force: Erin’s Law and Teacher Child Abuse Reporting Practices	4
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	4
Administrative Neutrality in the Wake of Trumpism	4
Project and Process Management of Public-Private Partnerships: Managerial Tensions and Coping Strategies	4
The Effects of Diverse Feedback Dynamics on Performance Improvement: A Typology of Performance Feedback Signals	4
Which Clients Inspire or Reduce the Trust of Street-Level Bureaucrats?	4
Street-Level Actors, Migrants, and Gender: Dealing With Divergent Perspectives	3
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	3
Reactivity and the Dialectics of Performance Measurement: Micropolitics Between Agency and Compliance	3
Whose Public Virtue? Exploring Freedom of Information Efficacy and Support	3
Exploring Media-Covered Accountability of Public Agencies	3
Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola	3
Confidence in Merit-Based Public Administration in the Context of Right-Wing Authoritarian Populism	3
Co-creation: A New Pathway for Solving Dysfunctionalities in Governance Systems?	3
Can Anyone Implement the Law? The Discourse and Practice of Externalizing Legal Authority	3
Community Diversity and Donor Control: An Empirical Analysis of Contributions to Donor-Advised Funds at Community Foundations	3
Some Optimism About Public Governance	3
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	3
Serving Multiple Masters? Public Managers’ Role Perceptions in Participatory Budgeting	3
The Closer, the Better? Comparing Advisory Councils at Different Government Levels	3
Assessing Organizational Role and Perceptions of Programmatic Success in Policy Implementation	3
Transparency Versus Populism	3
Learn and Adapt, or Perish: The Case of the F35 Lightning II	2
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	2
Relationality as a Lens for Policy Analysis: Preserving Harmony in a Triangular Cooperation Project to Strengthen Gender Mainstreaming in Fiji	2
Strategic Orientation and Relationship Building Among Dyads in Complex Public Management Networks: Perspectives From State Asthma Coalitions	2
COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in Decentralized Spain: How Governance and Public Policies Influence Working Conditions and Organizational Responses to the Crisis	2
Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration	2
Does Targeting Always Mean Retrenchment? Housing Assistance “Exceptionalism” in the Canadian Welfare 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
Remodeling Street-Level Workers With Quasi-Markets: Comparing Ireland’s Mixed Economy of Welfare-to-Work	2
Preparing Blacks and Latinx for Workforce 2000: Unfulfilled Promises and Lost Opportunities	2
Corruption, Democracy, and Privately Financed Infrastructure	2
Do Business-Backed Think Tanks Represent Class Interests? The Co-evolution of Policy Learning and Economic Elites in the Canadian Knowledge Regime	2
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	2
Target Groups on the Mainline: A Theoretical Framework of Policy Layering and Learning Disparity	2
Exploring Managerial Attitudes Toward Various Participation Mechanisms in Response to Citizen Satisfaction Signals on Public Service Quality	2
How Public Managers Make Tradeoffs Regarding Lives: Evidence From a Flood Planning Survey Experiment	2
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	2
Beyond Weber and Kafka: Conceptualizing a Critical Realist Model of Bureaucracy	2
“Whatever It Takes”: Danger, Necessity, and Realism in American Public Policy	2
Response to commentaries: Public Authority: Paradox, Process, and Palindrome	2
Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel	2
The Last 20 Years of Empirical Research on Government Utilization of Academic Social Science Research: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review	2
Towards Interactive Governance: Embedding Citizen Participation in Local Government	2
The Relationship Between Local Public Policies for Economic Development and Entrepreneurial Presence: The Italian Case	2
Can the State Take the Burden? Implementation of Policies to Increase Elderly Enrollment in SNAP	2
Playing Offense: How Athletes are Impacting a Changing Administrative State	2
Application of Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety to Interorganizational Conflicts in Nonprofit Organizations	2
From Bureaucratic Discipline to Self-Actualization: Using Marx and Foucault to Critique the Demand for Better Work Rather Than Less Work	2
Between the Public and the Private Interest: The Interrelationship of Intermediary Roles of Environmental Nonprofits in Coastal Resilience	2