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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Resist, Recover, Renew: Fiscal Resilience as a Strategic Response to Economic Uncertainty	41
Inside the Push for Good Governance: Institutional Predictors of Administrative Transparency in Public Organizations	36
The Impact of Cutbacks From a Major State Financial Crisis on Organizational Trust	26
The Adoption and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots in Public Organizations: Evidence from U.S. State Governments	19
Always Connected: Technology Use Increases Technostress Among Public Managers	19
Charter Schools Have Rainy Days Too! But Are They Ready for When It Pours?	17
Presidential Transitions and Interests Group Participation in the Notice and Comment Process	15
Organizational Image and Employee Engagement: Exploring the Inter-Relationships Between Construed External Image and Perceived Organizational Identity	14
Getting a Grant is Just the First Step: Administrative Capacity and Successful Grant Implementation	14
Ethical Performance in Local Governments: An Empirical Study of Organizational Leadership and Ethics Culture	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	12
In Search of Fundamental Fairness and Equal Protection: The Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in Shaping American Democracy	12
Unboxing International Public Administrations: The Politics of Structural Change in the UN System (1998–2019)	10
Bureaucracy's Good News: A Quiet Gender Revolution	10
Intra-Organizational Communication in Public Agencies: The Effects of Contracting Out Core Services	9
Understanding Whether Representative Bureaucracy and Racial Resentment Impact Public Perceptions of the Distributive Justice of Government Programs	8
Competition and Local Government's Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms: Measuring Dyadic Intercity Competition Through the Lens of Business Trade-Offs	8
Seeing the Whole Together Through Relational Mapping: A Method for Engaging in Complex Systems Change	8
Book Review: Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education by Reich, J.	8
Book Review: Private Crusades and Public Problems: The Sociological Heritage of Joseph Gusfield by S. Bernardin	7
Are Women Commissioners More Compassionate Spenders? Evidence From Florida County Governments	7
Book Review: Creating gender-inclusive organizations by Kossek, E. E. & Lee, K-H.	7
Money Matters: Sector Differences, Competition, and the Public Personnel System	6
Impatiently Waiting: Women Managers, Professionalism, Psychological Costs, and the Reduction of ER Wait Times	6
Reconceptualizing the Politics-Administration Dichotomy to Better Understand Public Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: A Multilateral Actors Model	6

Women in State Law Enforcement: An Exploratory Trend Analysis	5
The Practice and Politics of Secretary General Appointments	5
The American Presidency: An Impossible Job	5
A Challenge to the Spirit of Public Administration: Social Equity Reconsidered in Light of Students for Fair Admissions	5
The Conditional Effects of the Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Leaders’ Emotional Exhaustion: Roles of Deep Acting and Emotional Intelligence	4
Social Equity Amid COVID-19: Examining Health Disparities from the Perspective of Governmental and Social Responsiveness	4
An Application of the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy, Gender Concordance, and Symbolic Representation in the Health Care Context	4
Barriers to Evacuating: A Study on Administrative Burdens to Special Needs Shelters	4
Administrative Burden in the Cafeteria: Evidence from School Meal Participation in Shared Buildings	4
The Role of Organizational and Client Reactions in Understanding Representative Bureaucracy	4
To Have Versus To Have Not: A Cross-City Configurational Analysis of Social Service Contracting	4
Organizational Practices and Second-Generation Gender Bias: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Career Progression of U.S. State-Level Managers	4
The Iron Triangle of Affordable Homeownership: Habitat for Humanity Affiliate Strategies for Balancing Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity	4
Book Review: Phantoms of a beleaguered republic: The deep state and the unitary executive by Skowronek, S., Dearborn, J. A., & King, D	3
Explaining Sustainability Innovation in City Governments: Innovation Mechanisms and Discretion Types in Multi-Level Governance	3
Does the Sector of Employment Matter? A Study of Employee Absenteeism in Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Organizations	3
Bureaucratic Beliefs and Representation: Linking Social Identities, Attitudes, and Client Outcomes	3
Technology 3.0: Police Officers’ Perceptions Towards Technology Shifts	3
Determinants of State Infrastructure Spending: Testing Punctuated Equilibrium and Social Vulnerability Theories	3
Moving Away from Patronage: A Feedback Approach	3
Book Review: Zombie Ideas: Why Failed Policies Persist by B. G. Peters, M. L. Nagel	3
Interactive Governance Between and Within Governmental Levels and Functions: A Social Network Analysis of China's Case Against COVID-19	3
Expanding the Boundaries of Representative Bureaucracy	3
Police Chiefs, Organizational Justice, and Body-Worn Cameras: A Key to Releasing Video Footage	3
Enhancing Local Service Effectiveness Through Purpose-Oriented Networks: The Role of Network Leadership and Structure	3
Power Dynamics and Corporate Power in Governance Processes: Evidence From U.S. Environmental Governance Systems	3
Race, Lived Experience, Representation, and Discrimination: Analyzing the Representative Capacities of the Racial Majority	3
The Effect of Civilian Oversight on Police Organizational Performance: A Quasi-Experimental Study	3
Police Mentoring of At-Risk Youth: Case Study of Police-Led Mentoring Program Leadership Development	3
The Influence of Legal Mandates on Public Participation	2
From Disciplinary Depth to Interdisciplinary Breadth: The Case of Public Administration	2
What Can Reform Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Unwarranted Discretionary Behaviors? Principles? Principals? Or Both?	2
Texas Public Pensions: A Common Pool Resource Perspective	2
First Responders and the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Organizational Strategies Can Promote Workforce Retention	2
A Systematic Review of Empirical Emergency Management Network Research: Formation and Development, Properties, and Performance	2
Where Did the Money Go? Assessing the Distribution of the Community Development Block Grant - Disasters Recovery Funds	2
Context Matters: Authoritarian Populism and Public Administration Practice, Teaching, and Research	2
From the Bottom-Up: Probing the Gap Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Intentions of Engaging in Policy Entrepreneurship and Their Behavior	2
Symbolic Representation, Expectancy Disconfirmation, and Citizen Complaints Against Police	2
The Experience of Active Representation in South Korea: How Marriage-Based Immigrant Public Servants Represent Their Clients	2
Street-Level Bias: Examining Factors Related to Street-Level Bureaucrats’ State or Citizen Favoritism	2
Untangling the Association Between Goal Clarity and Public Service Motivation With the Moderating Role of Value Congruence	2
Public Sector Unionization and Government Contracting: A Meta-analysis of Four Decades of Empirical Evidence	2
Bureaucracy's Disquieting News: Entangled in Uncertainty	2
The Burden of Bad Intentions: Analyzing Politicized Administrative Burdens	2
How Does Homeownership Shape Public Service Coproduction? Evidence from a Public Complaint System in Beijing, China	2
Judicializing Public Interests: Administrative Performance Under the Shadow of Judicial Review	2
The Dynamics of Trust and Trustworthiness Perceptions in a Government Agency: A Longitudinal Perspective	2
Accountability in Collaborative Federal Programs—Multidimensional and Multilevel Performance Measures Needed: The Case of Wildland Fire Prevention	2