OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Review of Public Administration 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Why Do Countries Respond Differently to COVID-19? A Comparative Study of Sweden, China, France, and Japan	162
Lessons From South Korea’s Covid-19 Policy Response	112
Lessons From COVID-19 Responses in East Asia: Institutional Infrastructure and Enduring Policy Instruments	79
A Failure of Political Communication Not a Failure of Bureaucracy: The Danger of Presidential Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic	60
Trump, COVID-19, and the War on Expertise	60
Crisis Coordination and the Role of Social Media in Response to COVID-19 in Wuhan, China	56
“Go Hard, Go Early”: Preliminary Lessons From New Zealand’s Response to COVID-19	54
Singapore’s Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Critical Assessment	49
Public Administration and Creeping Crises: Insights From COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy	48
Citizen–State Collaboration in Combating COVID-19 in China: Experiences and Lessons From the Perspective of Co-Production	44
How Local Governments Are Caring for the Homeless During the COVID-19 Pandemic	40
Police Use of Force Interactions: Is Race Relevant or Gender Germane?	36
Challenges to Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations and Takeaways Amid the COVID-19 Experience	36
Federalism in a Time of Plague: How Federal Systems Cope With Pandemic	36
Federalism, Intergovernmental Relationships, and Emergency Response: A Comparison of Australia and the United States	35
Supervision of Telework: A Key to Organizational Performance	35
Communication for Coproduction: Increasing Information Credibility to Fight the Coronavirus	32
Integrating Government Silos: Local Emergency Management and Public Health Department Collaboration for Emergency Planning and Response	32
Addressing the Increase of Domestic Violence and Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Need for Empathy, Care, and Social Equity in Collaborative Planning and Responses	31
Medical Supply Acquisition in Italy and the United States in the Era of COVID-19: The Case for Strategic Procurement and Public–Private Partnerships	31
Cooperation and Conflict in State and Local Innovation During COVID-19	31
The Erosion of Trust During a Global Pandemic and How Public Administrators Should Counter It	29
Learning From the Past: Distributed Cognition and Crisis Management Capabilities for Tackling COVID-19	29
Seeking Patterns in Chaos: Transactional Federalism in the Trump Administration’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic	28
Collaborative Governance and the Challenges of Network-Based Research	26

What Can COVID-19 Tell Us About Evidence-Based Management?	26
How Do Organizational Capabilities Sustain Continuous Innovation in a Public Setting?	25
Supply Chain Manipulation, Misrepresentation, and Magical Thinking During the COVID-19 Pandemic	25
Cracks in the System: The Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Public Health Systems	25
How the United States Flunked the COVID-19 Test: Some Observations and Several Lessons	23
Can Technology Work for Policing? Citizen Perceptions of Police-Body Worn Cameras	22
“Squandered in Real Time”: How Public Management Theory Underestimated the Public Administration–Politics Dichotomy	22
If Someone Else Pays for Overhead, Do Donors Still Care?	22
Fostering Voluntary Compliance in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analytical Framework of Information Disclosure	21
In the Shadow of the Government: The Chinese Nonprofit Sector in the COVID-19 Crisis	20
From Uncoordinated Patchworks to a Coordinated System: MERS-CoV to COVID-19 in Korea	20
Always Connected: Technology Use Increases Technostress Among Public Managers	20
Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Tale of Two Cities	18
Administrative Response to Consequences of COVID-19 Emergency Responses: Observations and Implications From Gender-Based Violence in Argentina	17
Government Financial Management and the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Comparative Look at South Korea and the United States	17
Strategic Management in Public Organizations: Profiling the Public Entrepreneur as Strategist	16
Managing a Pandemic at a Less Than Global Scale: Governors Take the Lead	15
Creating Guardians or Warriors? Examining the Effects of Non-Stress Training on Policing Outcomes	15
Facing the Pandemic: The Italian Experience From Health Management Experts’ Perspective	15
Do All Roads Lead to Innovativeness? A Study of Public Sector Organizations’ Innovation Capabilities	15
Urban Renewal and “Ghetto” Development in Baltimore: Two Sides of the Same Coin	14
Government Employees’ Experience and Expectation of COVID-19 Hardships: The Moderating Role of Gender and Race in the United States	14
The U.S. Federal Response to COVID-19 During the First 3 Months of the Outbreak: Was an Evidence-Based Approach an Option?	14
Public Administration Training in Basic Police Academies: A 50-State Comparative Analysis	13
Searching for Newness in Management Paradigms: An Analysis of Intellectual History in U.S. Public Administration	13
Being Consistent Matters: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Rule Consistency on Citizen Red Tape	13
Sense or Sensibility? Different Approaches to Cope With the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
COVID-19 Upends Pandemic Plan	12
The Role of Interorganizational Competition in Motivating Street-Level Bureaucrats to Adopt Policy Entrepreneurship Strategies: The Case of Israeli Rabbis in Government Hospitals	12
The Structure of City Action: Institutional Embeddedness and Sustainability Practices in U.S. Cities	12
Municipal Utilities and COVID-19: Challenges, Responses, and Collaboration	11
U.S. Procurement in the Age of COVID-19: Challenges, Intergovernmental Collaboration, and Recommendations for Improvement	11
Creating Meaningfulness in Public Service Work: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Public and Nonprofit Managers’ Experience of Work	11
How Do Frontline Civil Servants Engage the Public? Practices, Embedded Agency, and Bricolage	10
Public Pension Governance and Opportunistic Accounting Choice: A Politico-Economic Approach	10
A Psychological Process of Bureaucratic Whistleblowing: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior	10
Accountability in Government Contracting Arrangements: Experimental Analysis of Blame Attribution Across Levels of Government	10
A Call for Action: Public Administration, Public Policy, and Public Health Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
India’s Response to Coronavirus Pandemic: Nine Lessons for Effective Public Management	10
Representative Bureaucracy Through Staff With Lived Experience: Peer Coproduction in the Field of Substance Use Disorder Treatment	9
Enhancing Methodological Reporting in Public Administration: The Functional Equivalents Framework	9
What Is the Remedy for State and Local Fiscal Squeeze During the COVID-19 Recession? More Debt, and That Is Okay	9
Crisis Learning and Flattening the Curve: South Korea’s Rapid and Massive Diagnosis of the COVID-19 Infection	8
Resistance or Capitulation? How Discrete Emotions Shape Citizens’ Interactions With the Administrative State	8
Walking the Talk of Social Equity? Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Decisionmaking About the Provision of Personal Resources	8
Public Values and Public Participation: A Case of Collaborative Governance of a Planning Process	8
Interactive Governance Between and Within Governmental Levels and Functions: A Social Network Analysis of China's Case Against COVID-19	8
Employee Engagement Among Public Employees: Exploring the Role of the (Perceived) External Environment	8
Cybersecurity Threats in Local Government: A Sociotechnical Perspective	8
Can Infused Publicness Enhance Public Value Creation? Examining the Impact of Government Funding on the Performance of Social Enterprises in South Korea	7

An Exploratory Examination of the Relationship Between Trust and Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Willingness to Risk Their Lives for Others	7
A Systematic Review of Empirical Emergency Management Network Research: Formation and Development, Properties, and Performance	7
Performance-Based Pay: Investigating its International Prevalence in Light of National Contexts	7
How Outsourcing May Enhance Job Satisfaction in the U.S. Federal Bureaucracy: Exploring the Role of Knowledge Sharing	7
Regionalism With and Without Metropolitanism: Governance Structures of Rural and Non-Rural Regional Intergovernmental Organizations	7
Do Body-Worn Cameras Change Law Enforcement Arrest Behavior? A National Study of Local Police Departments	6
Can Employee Training Influence Local Fiscal Outcomes?	6
Evidence-Based Decision-Making for a Public Health Emergency in China: Easier Said Than Done	6
The Impact of Government Contracting Out on Spending: The Case of Public Education in New Orleans	6
Power Dynamics and Corporate Power in Governance Processes: Evidence From U.S. Environmental Governance Systems	6
Public Corruption and Pension Underfunding in the American States	6
Symbolic Representation, Expectancy Disconfirmation, and Citizen Complaints Against Police	6
Symbolic Representation, Cooperation, and Undocumented Immigrants: The Role of Representation in Improving Assessments of Cooperative Behaviors in Education	6
From the Bottom-Up: Probing the Gap Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Intentions of Engaging in Policy Entrepreneurship and Their Behavior	5
Bottom-Up or Top-Down Local Service Delivery? Assessing the Impacts of Special Districts as Community Governance Model	5
Organizational Image and Employee Engagement: Exploring the Inter-Relationships Between Construed External Image and Perceived Organizational Identity	5
Does Managerial Use of Performance Information Matter to Organizational Outcomes?	5
Loss or Gain? Unpacking Nonprofit Autonomy-Interdependence Paradox in Collaborations	5
Managerial Communication and Frontline Workers’ Willingness to Abide by Rules: Evidence From Local Security Agencies in China	5
Resistance to Racial Equity in U.S. Federalism and Its Impact on Fragmented Regions	5
Collaborative Governance at Scale: Examining the Regimes, Platforms, and System in the State of Oregon	4
Top-Down Accountability, Social Unrest, and Anticorruption in China	4
Don’t You Want My Help? Volunteer Involvement and Management in Local Government	4
Enhancing Local Service Effectiveness Through Purpose-Oriented Networks: The Role of Network Leadership and Structure	4
To Have Versus To Have Not: A Cross-City Configurational Analysis of Social Service Contracting	4
Public Perceptions of Police Agency Fairness and the Willingness to Call Police	4
Resource Stability and Federal Agency Performance	4
Women in State Law Enforcement: An Exploratory Trend Analysis	3
Police Chiefs, Organizational Justice, and Body-Worn Cameras: A Key to Releasing Video Footage	3
An Application of the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy, Gender Concordance, and Symbolic Representation in the Health Care Context	3
Institutional Variation, Professionalization, and State Implementation Choices: An Examination of Investment in Water Quality Across the 50 States	3
Inside the Push for Good Governance: Institutional Predictors of Administrative Transparency in Public Organizations	3
Organizational Practices and Second-Generation Gender Bias: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Career Progression of U.S. State-Level Managers	3
Procedural Justice and the Unintended Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Prompting Citizens to Act as Vigilantes	3
Deficits Pro forma and Substantive: Multilevel Policy Implementation in China’s Administrative Approval Intermediaries Reform	3