OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Review of Public Administration is 2. 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
The Hidden Household Water Affordability Burden: An Examination of Municipal Ordinances and Racial Equity	106
Resist, Recover, Renew: Fiscal Resilience as a Strategic Response to Economic Uncertainty	42
The Adoption and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots in Public Organizations: Evidence from U.S. State Governments	34
Ethical Performance in Local Governments: An Empirical Study of Organizational Leadership and Ethics Culture	33
Presidential Transitions and Interests Group Participation in the Notice and Comment Process	32
Getting a Grant is Just the First Step: Administrative Capacity and Successful Grant Implementation	22
Organizational Image and Employee Engagement: Exploring the Inter-Relationships Between Construed External Image and Perceived Organizational Identity	19
Authoritarian Attitudes and Public Service Motivation: Examining Trust Across Levels of Government in the United States	18
Conceptualizing and Measuring the Rule of Law in Public Administration—Regulations, Organization, and Decision-Making	17
In Search of Fundamental Fairness and Equal Protection: The Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in Shaping American Democracy	16
Unboxing International Public Administrations: The Politics of Structural Change in the UN System (1998–2019)	15
Inclusive Performance Management: Four Dimensions	14
Bureaucracy's Good News: A Quiet Gender Revolution	14
“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	13
Intra-Organizational Communication in Public Agencies: The Effects of Contracting Out Core Services	12
Understanding Whether Representative Bureaucracy and Racial Resentment Impact Public Perceptions of the Distributive Justice of Government Programs	11
Are Women Commissioners More Compassionate Spenders? Evidence From Florida County Governments	10
Book Review: Private Crusades and Public Problems: The Sociological Heritage of Joseph Gusfield by S. Bernardin	10
Socioeconomic Shadows: Agency Directors’ Class Background and Their Relationships with Political Officials	10
Management Impact on Performance in Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Organizations: Evidence from U.S. Nursing Homes	10
Competition and Local Government's Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms: Measuring Dyadic Intercity Competition Through the Lens of Business Trade-Offs	10
Seeing the Whole Together Through Relational Mapping: A Method for Engaging in Complex Systems Change	10
Procurement with a Purpose: Mission-Influenced Responses to Social Movement Salience	9
The Impacts of Political Leaders’ Social Capital on Policy Success: The Case of Local Food Systems	9
The Practice and Politics of Secretary General Appointments	8

Impatiently Waiting: Women Managers, Professionalism, Psychological Costs, and the Reduction of ER Wait Times	8
A Challenge to the Spirit of Public Administration: Social Equity Reconsidered in Light of Students for Fair Admissions	8
Demand for Professionalism Among Elected Officials: Evidence from a Survey of Local Government Officials	8
The American Presidency: An Impossible Job	8
Reconceptualizing the Politics-Administration Dichotomy to Better Understand Public Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: A Multilateral Actors Model	8
Social Equity Amid COVID-19: Examining Health Disparities from the Perspective of Governmental and Social Responsiveness	7
Administrative Burden in the Cafeteria: Evidence from School Meal Participation in Shared Buildings	7
Moving Away from Patronage: A Feedback Approach	7
The Role of Organizational and Client Reactions in Understanding Representative Bureaucracy	7
The Conditional Effects of the Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Leaders’ Emotional Exhaustion: Roles of Deep Acting and Emotional Intelligence	7
Organizational Memories of Extreme Events: Evidence from U.S. Public Transit Agencies	7
The Iron Triangle of Affordable Homeownership: Habitat for Humanity Affiliate Strategies for Balancing Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity	7
Barriers to Evacuating: A Study on Administrative Burdens to Special Needs Shelters	7
Technology 3.0: Police Officers’ Perceptions Towards Technology Shifts	6
Military Personnel, Order Following, and Anti-Democratic Leadership	6
Communicating the Evidence: Understanding Individual-Level Responses to Increased Transparency of the Evidence in Evidence-Informed Policy	6
Police Mentoring of At-Risk Youth: Case Study of Police-Led Mentoring Program Leadership Development	6
Race, Lived Experience, Representation, and Discrimination: Analyzing the Representative Capacities of the Racial Majority	6
Bureaucratic Beliefs and Representation: Linking Social Identities, Attitudes, and Client Outcomes	6
You Have One Job: Political Institutions and Strategic Investments in Human Capital	6
Does the Sector of Employment Matter? A Study of Employee Absenteeism in Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Organizations	6
From Disciplinary Depth to Interdisciplinary Breadth: The Case of Public Administration	5
Expanding the Boundaries of Representative Bureaucracy	5
Bureaucracy's Disquieting News: Entangled in Uncertainty	5
Determinants of State Infrastructure Spending: Testing Punctuated Equilibrium and Social Vulnerability Theories	5
Checked Out: The Impact of U.S. Public Library Politicization on Employee Turnover Intention, Emotional Exhaustion, and Reduced Compassion	5
Context Matters: Authoritarian Populism and Public Administration Practice, Teaching, and Research	5
The Burden of Bad Intentions: Analyzing Politicized Administrative Burdens	4
What Can Reform Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Unwarranted Discretionary Behaviors? Principles? Principals? Or Both?	4
How Does Homeownership Shape Public Service Coproduction? Evidence from a Public Complaint System in Beijing, China	4
The Influence of Legal Mandates on Public Participation	4
Street-Level Bias: Examining Factors Related to Street-Level Bureaucrats’ State or Citizen Favoritism	4
Exploring How Demand and Supply Knowledge Can Improve Centralized Public Health Procurement	4
Where Did the Money Go? Assessing the Distribution of the Community Development Block Grant - Disasters Recovery Funds	4
Public Sector Unionization and Government Contracting: A Meta-analysis of Four Decades of Empirical Evidence	4
Words Matter for Government Accountability? The Linguistic Tone of Government Reports and Audit Results	4
The Relevance of Publicness in an Era of Democratic Backsliding	4
The Experience of Active Representation in South Korea: How Marriage-Based Immigrant Public Servants Represent Their Clients	3
Untangling the Association Between Goal Clarity and Public Service Motivation With the Moderating Role of Value Congruence	3
Judicializing Public Interests: Administrative Performance Under the Shadow of Judicial Review	3
Personality Traits and Agency Politicization: Neuroticism and Perceived Political Control in United States Federal Agencies	3
From Relational Stability to Network Resilience: Annual Negotiated versus Competitive Municipal Bond-Issuing Networks	3
The Paradox of Meritocracy: System Justification and Inequality in Federal Agencies	3
First Responders and the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Organizational Strategies Can Promote Workforce Retention	3
Valence for Representation-Enhancing Organizational Change: A Driver of Active Representation Beyond Bureaucrat-Client Social Identity Match	3
Texas Public Pensions: A Common Pool Resource Perspective	3
The Dynamics of Trust and Trustworthiness Perceptions in a Government Agency: A Longitudinal Perspective	3
It's A Matter of Perspective: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Civil Servants’ Appraisal and Coping with Negative Civil Servant Stereotypes	2
Social Equity, Intellectual History, Black Movement Leaders, and Marcus Garvey	2
Does Administrative Burden Affect Welfare Recipients’ Institutional Trust and Political Participation? Evidence from a Recall Experiment	2

Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Decision Justification Strategies on Citizen Perceptions of Government	2
Administrative Decentralization and the Role of Information: The Case of Intimate Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Disentangling Risk Management and Error Management in the Public Sector: A Theoretical Framework	2
Service Outsourcing and Government Fiscal Conditions: Do Market Competition, Bureaucrat Support, and Management Capacity Matter?	2
Dilemma in Providing Human Services Under Transactional Contracting: A Case Study of Korea's Public Employment Service	2
Resistance or Capitulation? How Discrete Emotions Shape Citizens’ Interactions With the Administrative State	2
Analytic Bureaucracy and the Policy Process: Evidence from California	2
Book Review: The Work of Management, A Leader’s Guide to Applying Systems Leadership MacdonaldI., BurkeC., & StewartK. (2025).	2
Contracting Out and Its Outcomes in Public Health: A Case of New York Counties	2
Network Effects Research: A Systematic Review of Theoretical Mechanisms and Measures	2
Advancing Public Entrepreneurship through State Government Capacity and Competitiveness: The Impact of Discretionary Fiscal Policy of American States on Worldwide Manufacturing Industries	2
Lack of Gender Representation in Academia: The Experiences of Female STEM Students	2
Challenges to Public Management and the Institutions of the U.S. Federal Government	2
Procedural Justice and the Unintended Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Prompting Citizens to Act as Vigilantes	2