OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Administration and Development is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban renewal as policy innovation in China: From growth stimulation to sustainable development	44
Recontextualizing street‐level bureaucracy in the developing world	26
Cross the river by feeling the stones: How did nonlocal grassroots nonprofits overcome administrative barriers to provide quick responses to COVID‐19?	15
Street‐level bureaucrats in a relational state: The case of Bougainville	14
Policy improvisation: How frontline workers cope with public service gaps in developing countries—The case of Mexico's Prospera program	13
When street‐level implementation meets systemic corruption	13
Public administration, context and innovation: A framework of analysis	12
The institutionalization and effectiveness of transnational policy transfer: The China–Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park as a case study	9
Local response to the COVID‐19 pandemic: The case of Nepal	9
Can service providing NGOs build democracy? Five contingent features	9
How does policy innovation diffuse among Chinese local governments? A qualitative comparative analysis of River Chief Innovation	9
Fifty years of capacity building: Taking stock and moving research forward¹	9
“Fairness” in an unequal society: Welfare workers, labor inspectors and the embedded moralities of street‐level bureaucracy in Argentina	8
Do visiting monks give better sermons? “Street‐level bureaucrats from higher‐up” in targeted poverty alleviation in China	8
Open government and the right to information: Implications for transparency and accountability in Asia	8
‘Post‐NPM’ by force or fiat? A comparison of administrative reform trajectories in Brazil and Mexico¹	8
Decentralized governance and collective action dilemma: Sub‐national governments' responses to COVID‐19 in China	8
Localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals in an emerging nation	8
The politicization of civil service recruitment and promotion in Vietnam	8
Discretion on the frontlines of the implementation of the Ghana School Feeding Programme: Street‐Level Bureaucrats adapting to austerity in northern Ghana	8
Isomorphic dynamics in national action plans on antimicrobial resistance	7
Decentralization: A handicap in fighting the COVID‐19 pandemic? The response of the regional governments in Spain	7
Civil society and democratization: The role of service‐providing organizations amid closing civic spaces	7
The role of local governments in South Korea's COVID‐19 response	7
Collaborative governance in disaster management and sustainable development	7

Context and innovation in traditional bureaucracies: A Hong Kong study	7
Interpreting lived experiences: The dilemmas of public sector leaders	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
Relationship between public sector reforms and culture: The implementation of NPM‐related performance management reforms in a collectivist and risk averse culture	6
Social conflict on the front lines of reform: Institutional activism and girls' education in rural India	6
Capturing South Africa's developmental state: State‐society relations and responses to state capture	5
From women for women: The role of social media in online nonprofit activities during Wuhan lockdown	5
Subnational government responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: Expectations, realities and lessons for the future	5
Barriers to transparency in Bhutan's public administration: A new typology of opacity	5
Domestic resource mobilisation strategies of national non‐governmental organisations in Ghana	5
Fiscal decentralization, intergovernmental mobility, and the innovativeness of local governments' policy response in COVID‐19: Evidence from China	5
A glimpse of light in darkness: Performance‐based accountability in Bangladesh public administration	5
Perceptions of bribery in Papua New Guinea’s public sector: Agency and structural influences	4
Uncoordinated federalism: Subnational response to the pandemic crisis in Mexico	4
Pre‐requisites for infrastructure public‐private partnerships in oil‐exporting countries: The case of Saudi Arabia	4
Accountability and transparency in emerging countries: Governance, democratic currents and change	4
Public administration and development in (historical) perspective	3
“Nobody wants to be a dead hero”: Coping with precarity at the frontlines of the Brazilian and Mexican pandemic response	3
The impacts of marketization on international aid: Transforming relationships among USAID vendors	3
A note on pursuing work on street‐level bureaucracy in developing and transitional countries	3
Sustainable development goals and good governance nexus: Implementation challenges in central Asia	3
Land market misallocation, regional integration, and economic growth: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Region, China	3