OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Administration & Society is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
To Obey or not to Obey? The Role of Trust in Non-pharmaceutical Interventions	37
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	35
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	32
Learning and Adaptation in Polycentric Transport Governance: The Case of the Dutch Brabant Accessibility Agenda	29
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	28
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	22
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	21
Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	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
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	17
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	17
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	17
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	15
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	14
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	14
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	13
Public-Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector and Sustainability: Managerial Insights from a Systematic Literature Review	12
Neurodiversity in (Not Only) Public Organizations: An Untapped Opportunity?	12
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	11
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	11
Does Citizen Sector-based Preference Relate to Citizen Satisfaction with Public Service Organizations?	10
Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks	10
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	10
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	9

Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	9
‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible	9
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	9
Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	9
Ending the Transformation before the Goal is Fulfilled: The Case of Head Start	8
Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making	8
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	8
CEO Turnover and Openness of Decision-making Processes in the Post-succession Phase: Exploring a Threat-rigidity Perspective	8
Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin	8
A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients	8
The Challenge of Balancing Innovation and Tradition in the Public Sector: The Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Digital Transformation	7
What if Action Defined Leadership?	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
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	6
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	6
Chevron Deference and the Loper Bright Decision: Deference, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State	6
A Framework for Governance Capacity: A Broad Perspective on Steering Efforts in Society	6
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	5
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	5
Beyond Technocracy: Epistemic Justice in Dialogue with Postmodern Public Administration	5
Local Government Accountability to Citizens as COVID-19 Took Hold: Sentiment Analysis of Tweets in Hispanic–American Countries	5
Sector-Switching, Bureaucratic Reputation, and Citizen Evaluation of Performance: Evidence From a Large-Scale Experiment in India	5
Social Equity and Clientele Participation: A Cross-National Study of Immigrant Education	5
The Europeanization of Anti-Corruption Policy: The Case of Spain	5
The Adequacy of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Assessment of Public Value: A Case Study from the Transportation Sector	5
Moving Toward More Inclusive Government Communication in an Era of Superdiversity	5