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 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
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
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	19
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	18
“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
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	17
Neurodiversity in (Not Only) Public Organizations: An Untapped Opportunity?	16
Representative Bureaucracy, Institutional Support, and Clientele Need: The Case of Undocumented Students	16
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	15
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	14
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	14
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	14
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
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
Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks	12
Making People Matter: Moving Toward a Humanity-Based Public Administration	12
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	11
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
‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible	10
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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