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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
When Deaths Are Dehumanized: Deathcare During COVID-19 as a Public Value Failure	53
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	32
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	30
Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	30
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	27
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	26
Cop Wisdom and the Democratic Consequences of Citizen–State Interactions	24
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	22
Learning and Adaptation in Polycentric Transport Governance: The Case of the Dutch Brabant Accessibility Agenda	21
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	19
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	19
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	19
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	18
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	17
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	17
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	17
Representative Bureaucracy, Institutional Support, and Clientele Need: The Case of Undocumented Students	16
Neurodiversity in (Not Only) Public Organizations: An Untapped Opportunity?	16
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	15
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	14
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	14
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	14
Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	13
Public-Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector and Sustainability: Managerial Insights from a Systematic Literature Review	13

Does Citizen Sector-based Preference Relate to Citizen Satisfaction with Public Service Organizations?	13
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	13
Beyond Weber and Kafka: Conceptualizing a Critical Realist Model of Bureaucracy	13
Making People Matter: Moving Toward a Humanity-Based Public Administration	12
Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks	12
Serving Multiple Masters? Public Managers’ Role Perceptions in Participatory Budgeting	11
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	11
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	11
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	10
A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients	10
‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible	10
Predicting Organizational Mortality: How Financial Management Matters	9
COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments	9
Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin	9
Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making	9
CEO Turnover and Openness of Decision-making Processes in the Post-succession Phase: Exploring a Threat-rigidity Perspective	9
Ending the Transformation before the Goal is Fulfilled: The Case of Head Start	9
Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola	8
A Framework for Governance Capacity: A Broad Perspective on Steering Efforts in Society	8
What if Action Defined Leadership?	8
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	8
The Challenge of Balancing Innovation and Tradition in the Public Sector: The Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Digital Transformation	8
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	7
Corrigendum to “Does Targeting Always Mean Retrenchment? Housing Assistance “Exceptionalism” in the Canadian Welfare State”	7
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	7
Theorizing Status Distance: Rethinking the Micro Theories of Representation and Diversity in Public Organizations	7
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	7
When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support	7
Which Clients Inspire or Reduce the Trust of Street-Level Bureaucrats?	7
Community Diversity and Donor Control: An Empirical Analysis of Contributions to Donor-Advised Funds at Community Foundations	7
Local Government Accountability to Citizens as COVID-19 Took Hold: Sentiment Analysis of Tweets in Hispanic–American Countries	6
The Iterative Process of Legitimacy-Building in Hybrid Organizations	6
Remodeling Street-Level Workers With Quasi-Markets: Comparing Ireland’s Mixed Economy of Welfare-to-Work	6
The Role of Collaboration in Complying With COVID-19 Health Protective Behaviors: A Cross-National Study	6
Moving Toward More Inclusive Government Communication in an Era of Superdiversity	6
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	6
The Adequacy of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Assessment of Public Value: A Case Study from the Transportation Sector	5
Government-Business Relations in Policymaking During the New Order Indonesia	5
Determinants of Public Service Quality: An Exploratory Factor Analysis	5
Social Equity and Clientele Participation: A Cross-National Study of Immigrant Education	5
Privileged Omissions: The Impact of Discriminatory Inaction	5
Power of the Vague: How Vision Statements Have Mobilized Change in Two Swedish Cities	5
The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts	5
In Search of Ethics Infrastructure in U.S. Local Governments: Building Blocks or Dead End?	5
The Institutionalization of Public Innovation: Evidence from Indonesia	5
Sector-Switching, Bureaucratic Reputation, and Citizen Evaluation of Performance: Evidence From a Large-Scale Experiment in India	5
Does Policy Influence Hollow Out Public Managers’ Political Neutrality?	4
Coping Strategies and Policy Alienation Under Centralization and Performance Management: Evidence From a Survey of Quebec Homecare Workers	4
Race in the Middle: Exploring the Impacts of Managerial Differences on Organizational Performance	4
Racialized Emotional Labor: An Unseen Burden in the Public Sector	4

Reimagining Otherness, Recreating the Public Space: Public Administration and the U.S.-Mexico Border	4
Does Governance Matter in Educational Outcomes? A Panel Data Analysis of BRICS Nations	4
Some Optimism About Public Governance	4
Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter?	4
Privation of Inclusion: An Exploration of the Stealth and the Strategy that Sabotaged Racialized Public Servants’ Career Mobility in British Columbia, Canada	4
Promoting Ethics Management Strategies in the Public Sector: Rules, Values, and Inclusion in Sweden	4
“The New Red Tape: Agency Value Matching in a Post-Chevron World”	4
The Values of the Management of Value Conflict	4
“Although Burdened, Do We Need to Do More?” Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Poverty Alleviation Policy Implementation	3
Exploring Managerial Attitudes Toward Various Participation Mechanisms in Response to Citizen Satisfaction Signals on Public Service Quality	3
Against the Odds: On the Arduous Production of Linking Social Capital in Local Refugee Reception	3
A Reliance Typology of Collaborative Governance Platforms: Findings From a Comparative Study	3
Chai Pride: Using LGBTQIA+ Jewish Identities to Understand Intersectionality in Public Administration	3
Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted: Meta-Governance and Local Institutional Adaptation in the Implementation of the Smart Cities Mission India	3
Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel	3
Street-Level Actors, Migrants, and Gender: Dealing With Divergent Perspectives	3
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Condition of Expertise	3
The Cloud of Unknowing: Time for Value-ing Gerunds	3
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Behavioral Insights Group Rotterdam	3
Does Local Government Competition Reduce Environmental Governance Performance? The Role of Public Value Conflict and Media Sentiment	3
Transformational Leadership and Project Success: A Mediating Role of Public Service Motivation	3
The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come?	3
Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration	3
How Do Government Grants Affect Nonprofit Financial Effectiveness? The Mediation Role of Process Accountability	3
Between the Public and the Private Interest: The Interrelationship of Intermediary Roles of Environmental Nonprofits in Coastal Resilience	3
Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium	3
Working Toward Network Governance: Local Actors’ Strategies for Navigating Tensions in Localized Health Care Governance	3
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?	3
Co-Evolution of Organizations in Infrastructure Planning: The Role of Communities of Practice as Windows for Collective Learning Across Project-Oriented Organizations	3
Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments: A New Pragmatist Approach	2
A Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Voluntary Failure Theory: Toward a Future Research Agenda	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
Fostering Public Sector Employees’ Innovative Behavior: The Roles of Servant Leadership, Public Service Motivation, and Learning Goal Orientation	2
Who Participates in Public Participation? The Exclusionary Effects of Inclusionary Efforts	2
Understanding Emergency Preparedness in Public Agencies: The Key Role of Managerial Perceptions	2
Exploring Niche Alteration in Nonprofit Organizations	2
Co-creating Democratic Legitimacy: Potentials and Pitfalls	2
Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? The Impact of Performance Rating on Public Service Motivation: Evidence From a Chinese Local Government	2
Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships for Public Service Provision Through Democratically Accountable Practices	2
The Importance of Similarity: How Gender Congruence Matters for the Impact of Leadership Training	2
Acknowledging the Emergence of a New Logic: The Regulation of Healthcare in Brazil	2
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices	2
A Good Servant But a Poor Master: The Side Effects of Numbers and Metrics	2
Does User Involvement in Developing Public Sector Innovations Improve Outcomes? A Set-Theoretic Analysis of European Data	2
Public Value Is Unknowable; Public Authority Makes Every Government Decision a Wicked Problem	2
Bureaucracies Under Judicial Control? Relational Discretion in the Implementation of Immigration Detention in Swiss Cantons	2
Playing Offense: How Athletes are Impacting a Changing Administrative State	2
E-Government Innovation Initiatives in Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review and a Research Agenda	2
Does National Culture Influence Global Policy Diffusion: Evidence From Gender Mainstreaming Policy Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	2
Network Governance in Action: Functions and Practices to Foster Collaborative Environments	2
Towards Interactive Governance: Embedding Citizen Participation in Local Government	2
COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in Decentralized Spain: How Governance and Public Policies Influence Working Conditions and Organizational Responses to the Crisis	2
Strategizing for Sustainable Development: How German Local Governments Use Ideas of Strategic Management for Implementing the 2030 Agenda	2