OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Public Administration and Development is 1. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban renewal as policy innovation in China: From growth stimulation to sustainable development	40
The COVID‐19 pandemic: Time for a universal basic income?	29
Recontextualizing street‐level bureaucracy in the developing world	24
Cross the river by feeling the stones: How did nonlocal grassroots nonprofits overcome administrative barriers to provide quick responses to COVID‐19?	13
Policy improvisation: How frontline workers cope with public service gaps in developing countries—The case of Mexico's Prospera program	12
All‐of‐government response to the COVID‐19 pandemic: The case of Vietnam	11
Public administration, context and innovation: A framework of analysis	11
The impact of public sector accounting reform on corruption: Causal evidence from subnational Indonesia	11
Street‐level bureaucrats in a relational state: The case of Bougainville	10
The institutionalization and effectiveness of transnational policy transfer: The China–Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park as a case study	9
When street‐level implementation meets systemic corruption	9
Can service providing NGOs build democracy? Five contingent features	9
Discretion on the frontlines of the implementation of the Ghana School Feeding Programme: Street‐Level Bureaucrats adapting to austerity in northern Ghana	8
Localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals in an emerging nation	8
How does policy innovation diffuse among Chinese local governments? A qualitative comparative analysis of River Chief Innovation	8
‘Post‐NPM’ by force or fiat? A comparison of administrative reform trajectories in Brazil and Mexico¹	8
Civil society and democratization: The role of service‐providing organizations amid closing civic spaces	7
Do visiting monks give better sermons? “Street‐level bureaucrats from higher‐up” in targeted poverty alleviation in China	7
Local response to the COVID‐19 pandemic: The case of Nepal	7
Fifty years of capacity building: Taking stock and moving research forward¹	7
Decentralized governance and collective action dilemma: Sub‐national governments' responses to COVID‐19 in China	7
Open government and the right to information: Implications for transparency and accountability in Asia	7
The politicization of civil service recruitment and promotion in Vietnam	7
Isomorphic dynamics in national action plans on antimicrobial resistance	7
Entrepreneurship‐driven public management reforms in Southeast Asia: Critical implications for public accountability	6

The forms of decommodification and (de)familisation measures during COVID‐19: What is the impact on female's welfare?	6
New developments at Public Administration and Development	6
Context and innovation in traditional bureaucracies: A Hong Kong study	6
Public service ethics, values and spirituality in developing and transitional countries: Challenges and opportunities	5
The role of local governments in South Korea's COVID‐19 response	5
Interpreting lived experiences: The dilemmas of public sector leaders	5
Decentralization: A handicap in fighting the COVID‐19 pandemic? The response of the regional governments in Spain	5
“Fairness” in an unequal society: Welfare workers, labor inspectors and the embedded moralities of street‐level bureaucracy in Argentina	5
Social conflict on the front lines of reform: Institutional activism and girls' education in rural India	5
Subnational government responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: Expectations, realities and lessons for the future	4
Capturing South Africa's developmental state: State‐society relations and responses to state capture	4
A glimpse of light in darkness: Performance‐based accountability in Bangladesh public administration	4
Relationship between public sector reforms and culture: The implementation of NPM‐related performance management reforms in a collectivist and risk averse culture	4
Accountability and transparency in emerging countries: Governance, democratic currents and change	4
From women for women: The role of social media in online nonprofit activities during Wuhan lockdown	4
Fiscal decentralization, intergovernmental mobility, and the innovativeness of local governments' policy response in COVID‐19: Evidence from China	4
Pre‐requisites for infrastructure public‐private partnerships in oil‐exporting countries: The case of Saudi Arabia	4
Domestic resource mobilisation strategies of national non‐governmental organisations in Ghana	4
Barriers to transparency in Bhutan's public administration: A new typology of opacity	3
Perceptions of bribery in Papua New Guinea’s public sector: Agency and structural influences	3
A note on pursuing work on street‐level bureaucracy in developing and transitional countries	3
The impacts of marketization on international aid: Transforming relationships among USAID vendors	2
Fiscal self‐sufficiency, debt policy, and long‐term sustainability in China's emerging local bond market	2
Hybridisation of institutional logics and civil society organisations' advocacy in Kenya	2
Land market misallocation, regional integration, and economic growth: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Region, China	2
What we hoped for and what we achieved: Tax performance of Semi‐Autonomous Revenue Authorities in sub‐Saharan Africa	2
Revisiting the role of civic organizations in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan: Confidence, membership, and democratic practice	2
The case for metagovernance: The promises and pitfalls of multisectoral nutrition service delivery structures in low‐ and middle‐income countries	2
Uncoordinated federalism: Subnational response to the pandemic crisis in Mexico	2
Public administration: Context and innovation	2
“Nobody wants to be a dead hero”: Coping with precarity at the frontlines of the Brazilian and Mexican pandemic response	2
To know is to act? Revisiting the impact of government transparency on corruption	1
Self‐organization's responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	1
Personal privacy VS. public safety: A hybrid model of the use of smart city solutions in fighting the COVID‐19 pandemic in Moscow	1
The role of demonstration projects as policy instruments in the development of nonprofit organizations: Beyond instrumentality	1
Handling in the frontline: A case study of “whistle gathering” in Beijing	1
The perils of a bureaucratic fad in Africa: Examining the effects of the agencification of the state apparatus in Gabon	1
COVID‐19 vaccine equity in doldrums: Good governance deficits	1
Lessons from Brazil's unsuccessful fiscal decentralization policy to fight COVID‐19	1
Public sector reforms in developing countries: A preliminary review	1
Participatory governance and the capacity to engage: A systems lens	1
A review of the unintended gender effects of international development efforts	1
Governance response during COVID‐19 and political affirmative action: Evidence from local governments in India	1
Collective sensemaking within institutions: Control of the COVID‐19 epidemic in Vietnam	1
The perpetuation of bribery–prone relationships: A study from Vietnamese public officials	1
Re‐examining the link between collaborative interorganisational relationships and synergistic outcomes in public–private partnerships: Insights from the Punjab Education Foundation's school partnershi	1
Civil society organizations and the prevention of mass atrocities: Perspectives from south Sudan	1
Unpacking ‘public silence’: Civil society activism under authoritarian rule in Ethiopia	1
Welfare state and the social economy in compressed development: Self‐sufficiency organizations in South Korea	1
How perceived risks in interorganizational collaboration shape disaster response strategies	1

Sustainable development goals and good governance nexus: Implementation challenges in central Asia	1
Micro models of COVID 19 pandemic governance: Reflections on the strategies taken by two states in India	1
Auditing as a tool of government accountability? Exploring divergent causal mechanisms through three Honduran cases	1
Indulgent citizens: Bribery in Mexico's bureaucratic procedures	1
Using foreign aid contracts to pursue participatory approaches to development within large foreign aid agencies	1
Measuring and explaining fiscal de/centralization: Empirical evidence from Ethiopia, 1995–2020	1
Democratization from below: Civil society in Tajikistan	1
Can tax agents support tax compliance in low‐income countries? Evidence from Uganda	1
Understanding success in micro‐enterprise development: Dimensions and misconceptions	1