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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	27
Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	25
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	20
To Obey or not to Obey? The Role of Trust in Non-pharmaceutical Interventions	19
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	19
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	18
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	17
The Innovative Implications of Smart Working in a Post-pandemic Era: A Model of Smart Working Satisfaction in Public Sector Organizations	16
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	15
Building Trust With Trust? A Qualitative, Exploratory Study of Implementing a Trust Reform in a Norwegian Municipality	14
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	14
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	14
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	13
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	13
Public-Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector and Sustainability: Managerial Insights from a Systematic Literature Review	12
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	12
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	11
Can Female Representation Reduce Corruption? A Meta-Analysis	11
Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	11
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	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
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	10
The Unionization of State Government Employees and the Cost of State Government: Re-Evaluating an Evolving Relationship	9
Leveraging the VUCA Paradigm: A SWOT-Based Strategy for Sustainable Healthcare	8

Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making	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	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 Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	8
Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin	8
COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments	7
What if Action Defined Leadership?	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
Integrated Ecosystem Approaches to Social Entrepreneurship Development in Hong Kong	7
What Do We Know About Wicked Problems After Nearly 52 Years? Tracing the DNA of Wicked Problems through A Bibliometric Study	6
Chevron Deference and the Loper Bright Decision: Deference, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State	6
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	6
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	6
Institutional Resilience in South Asia: The Role of Governance, Preparedness, and Accountability	6
The Europeanization of Anti-Corruption Policy: The Case of Spain	6
Administrative Friction: A Conceptual Model for Understanding and Anticipating Policy Implementation Failure	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	5
Obeying Nobody: Public Service and the Ordinary Evil of Administration	5
Assessing the Un-Assessable: How to Economically Assess Work Projects in Juvie?	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
The Adequacy of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Assessment of Public Value: A Case Study from the Transportation Sector	5