OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Review of Public Administration 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconceptualizing the Politics-Administration Dichotomy to Better Understand Public Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: A Multilateral Actors Model	49
Interactive Governance Between and Within Governmental Levels and Functions: A Social Network Analysis of China's Case Against COVID-19	31
The Effects of Organizational Scandals on the Desirability of Public Organizations as Places to Work: Evidence From the VA Waitlist Scandal	29
Technology 3.0: Police Officers’ Perceptions Towards Technology Shifts	23
Trust and Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Willingness to Risk Their Lives for Others: The Case of Brazilian Law Enforcement	19
Public Administration Scholarship: Revisiting the Applied Function	18
The Impact of Cutbacks From a Major State Financial Crisis on Organizational Trust	17
Lack of Gender Representation in Academia: The Experiences of Female STEM Students	16
Book Review: Creating gender-inclusive organizations by Kossek, E. E. & Lee, K-H.	16
The Public Value of Citizens’ Initiatives: Evidence from a Dutch Municipality	15
Money Matters: Sector Differences, Competition, and the Public Personnel System	15
Impatiently Waiting: Women Managers, Professionalism, Psychological Costs, and the Reduction of ER Wait Times	14
Resistance or Capitulation? How Discrete Emotions Shape Citizens’ Interactions With the Administrative State	13
An Exploratory Examination of the Relationship Between Trust and Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Willingness to Risk Their Lives for Others	13
Mitigating Neighborhood Stigma: Examining Strategies of Relating and Reframing	12
The Effect of Civilian Oversight on Police Organizational Performance: A Quasi-Experimental Study	11
Always Connected: Technology Use Increases Technostress Among Public Managers	10
What Drives the Attractiveness of Public and Private Employers? Comparative Evidence From an Online Employer Review Platform	10
Disentangling Risk Management and Error Management in the Public Sector: A Theoretical Framework	10
Inside the Push for Good Governance: Institutional Predictors of Administrative Transparency in Public Organizations	9
Resist, Recover, Renew: Fiscal Resilience as a Strategic Response to Economic Uncertainty	8
Cybersecurity Threats in Local Government: A Sociotechnical Perspective	8
Network Effects Research: A Systematic Review of Theoretical Mechanisms and Measures	8
Don’t You Want My Help? Volunteer Involvement and Management in Local Government	8
Context Matters: Authoritarian Populism and Public Administration Practice, Teaching, and Research	7

Deficits Pro forma and Substantive: Multilevel Policy Implementation in China’s Administrative Approval Intermediaries Reform	7
Police Chiefs, Organizational Justice, and Body-Worn Cameras: A Key to Releasing Video Footage	7
The Adoption and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots in Public Organizations: Evidence from U.S. State Governments	7
Book Review: Migration and xenophobia: A three country exploration	6
The Practice and Politics of Secretary General Appointments	6
Collaborative Governance in a Developing Non-Democracy: Uganda's Organizational Success Fighting HIV/AIDS	6
Procedural Justice and the Unintended Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Prompting Citizens to Act as Vigilantes	6
Women in State Law Enforcement: An Exploratory Trend Analysis	5
Am I My Brothers’ Keeper? A Critical Review of Mandated Collaboration Research	5
Administrative Decentralization and the Role of Information: The Case of Intimate Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
A Model Minority? Asian-White Differences in Federal Careers	5
Book Review: Ethics for contemporary bureaucrats: Navigating constitutional crossroads	5
Determinants of State Infrastructure Spending: Testing Punctuated Equilibrium and Social Vulnerability Theories	5
The American Presidency: An Impossible Job	4
Expanding the Boundaries of Representative Bureaucracy	4
Charter Schools Have Rainy Days Too! But Are They Ready for When It Pours?	4
Religious Environments, Governments, and the Density of Nonprofit Organizations	4
Presidential Transitions and Interests Group Participation in the Notice and Comment Process	4
Analytic Bureaucracy and the Policy Process: Evidence from California	4
Joseph R. Biden as a Multi-layered President	4
The American Review of Public Administration: A Biography	3
Getting a Grant is Just the First Step: Administrative Capacity and Successful Grant Implementation	3
Book Review: Government statistical agencies, and the politics of credibility by Howard, C. W.	3
Exploring the Relationship Between Privatization in Public Service Delivery and Coproduction: Evidence from U.S. Local Governments	3
The Administrative Presidency and Federal Service	3
By the Letter of Law? The Effects of Administrative Adjudication for Resolving Disputes in NYC’s Restaurant Grading Initiative	3
Ethical Performance in Local Governments: An Empirical Study of Organizational Leadership and Ethics Culture	3
A Challenge to the Spirit of Public Administration: Social Equity Reconsidered in Light of Students for Fair Admissions	3
Public Sector Unionization and Government Contracting: A Meta-analysis of Four Decades of Empirical Evidence	3
In the Shadow of Administrative Decentralization: The Impact of Devolution on Subnational Service Provision	3
From Disciplinary Depth to Interdisciplinary Breadth: The Case of Public Administration	3
Police Mentoring of At-Risk Youth: Case Study of Police-Led Mentoring Program Leadership Development	3
Organizational Image and Employee Engagement: Exploring the Inter-Relationships Between Construed External Image and Perceived Organizational Identity	3
Institutional Variation, Professionalization, and State Implementation Choices: An Examination of Investment in Water Quality Across the 50 States	3
The Burden of Bad Intentions: Analyzing Politicized Administrative Burdens	3
The Conditional Effects of the Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Leaders’ Emotional Exhaustion: Roles of Deep Acting and Emotional Intelligence	3
To Have Versus To Have Not: A Cross-City Configurational Analysis of Social Service Contracting	3
Book Review: Public Governance and the Classical-Liberal Perspective: Political Economy Foundations by Aligica, P. D., Boettke, P. J., & Tarko, V.	2
Strengthening American Democracy Through Public Administration	2
Organizational Practices and Second-Generation Gender Bias: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Career Progression of U.S. State-Level Managers	2
The Influence of Legal Mandates on Public Participation	2
Top-Down Accountability, Social Unrest, and Anticorruption in China	2
Resource Stability and Federal Agency Performance	2
Competing Ontologies: A Redux Primer for Public Administration	2
Where Did the Money Go? Assessing the Distribution of the Community Development Block Grant - Disasters Recovery Funds	2
Which Matters More in Coproduction? Political Message, Policy, or Factual Information	2
Accountability in Collaborative Federal Programs—Multidimensional and Multilevel Performance Measures Needed: The Case of Wildland Fire Prevention	2
Bureaucracy's Disquieting News: Entangled in Uncertainty	2
Do All Roads Lead to Innovativeness? A Study of Public Sector Organizations’ Innovation Capabilities	2
What Can Reform Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Unwarranted Discretionary Behaviors? Principles? Principals? Or Both?	2

Street-Level Bias: Examining Factors Related to Street-Level Bureaucrats’ State or Citizen Favoritism	1
Power Dynamics and Corporate Power in Governance Processes: Evidence From U.S. Environmental Governance Systems	1
A Systematic Review of Empirical Emergency Management Network Research: Formation and Development, Properties, and Performance	1
Measuring Reputational Signals Regarding Public Sector Professions: Validation of a Scale and a Research Agenda	1
Symbolic Representation, Cooperation, and Undocumented Immigrants: The Role of Representation in Improving Assessments of Cooperative Behaviors in Education	1
Organizational Memory and Snap Back Performance in Public Agencies	1
A Psychological Process of Bureaucratic Whistleblowing: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior	1
Creating Meaningfulness in Public Service Work: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Public and Nonprofit Managers’ Experience of Work	1
Unboxing International Public Administrations: The Politics of Structural Change in the UN System (1998–2019)	1
Communicating Reform: Testing an Apology for Police History as a Supplement to a Policy Communication	1
Bureaucracy's Good News: A Quiet Gender Revolution	1
Social Equity Amid COVID-19: Examining Health Disparities from the Perspective of Governmental and Social Responsiveness	1
“We’re Not the Cure, We’re Just the Band-Aid”: The Interplay of Structure, Culture, and Practice in Police Service Provision to Persons with Mental Illnesses	1
Barriers to Evacuating: A Study on Administrative Burdens to Special Needs Shelters	1
Public Perceptions of Police Agency Fairness and the Willingness to Call Police	1
Employee Engagement Among Public Employees: Exploring the Role of the (Perceived) External Environment	1
Public Service Motivation and Trust in Government: An Examination Across the Federal, State, and Local Levels in the United States	1
Administrative Burden in the Cafeteria: Evidence from School Meal Participation in Shared Buildings	1
Acquiesce, Compromise, or Avoid? Collaboration, Coordination, & Cooperation as Different Strategic Responses to Institutional Pressures	1
An Application of the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy, Gender Concordance, and Symbolic Representation in the Health Care Context	1
From the Bottom-Up: Probing the Gap Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Intentions of Engaging in Policy Entrepreneurship and Their Behavior	1
Continuing Costs: The Impact of Continuing Resolutions on Federal Contracting	1