OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Administration & Society is 6. 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
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	17
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	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
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	14
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	14
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	14
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	11
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
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
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
Leveraging the VUCA Paradigm: A SWOT-Based Strategy for Sustainable Healthcare	9
The Unionization of State Government Employees and the Cost of State Government: Re-Evaluating an Evolving Relationship	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
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
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
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
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