OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Public Policy and 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers	71
When GenAI writes public foresight reports: Effects on convincing citizens	40
Religion and representative bureaucracy: Does religion guide administrative discretion?	34
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems	31
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method	31
Perceiving policy entrepreneurship: A Q-methodology study on the attitudes of mid-level managers in developing countries	29
When citizens meet the chatbot: Evidence from a survey vignette experiment in Estonia	24
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe	22
Network structure, network mechanism, and network effectiveness and legitimacy: A configurational analysis of 26 cases	19
Parental co-production in public higher education during the COVID-19 crisis: A mixed methods study	18
Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform	18
Systematic and axiological capacities in artificial intelligence applied in the public sector	16
The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime	14
Digital transformation in governance: Preconditions for achieving good governance	13
Dissecting the organization matters: Gauging the effect of unit-level and organization-level factors on perceived innovation outcomes	13
How does population size influence administrative performance? Evidence from Malta, Samoa, and Suriname	12
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation	12
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform	11
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration	10
Collegiality and efficiency in bureaucracy	10
Talking at parties: Bureaucratic language in response to party control changes	10
Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: Insights from the Israeli experience	10
Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices	9
Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation	9

Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction	9
Street-level bureaucrats’ non-compliance in policy transfer: How to assess the success and failure of policy transfer and outcomes	8
Who should (not) participate? Public service organisations’ attitudes towards participation in policy-making modes	7
Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance	7
Mission invisible? Managing boundaries for flood protection	7
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects	7
Beyond specific case responses: Accountability, public service motivation, and bureaucrats’ policy responsiveness	7
Exploring the functions and role of social impact measurement in enhancing the social value of public-private partnerships: A systematic literature review	7
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy	7
The shifting political-administrative interface under Westminster: Australia’s prime ministerial views from Fraser to Morrison	7
Assessing stringency: A survey experiment of energy saving policies across five EU countries	6
Crisis decision-making inside the core executive: Rationality, bureaucratic politics, standard procedures and the COVID-19 lockdown	6
Stable roles and agile structures: Temporal robustness in public administration networks	6
The moral inversion of administrative AI: A critical interpretation on regime values	6
Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability	6
Capable supervision, pragmatic engagement, and hands-off steering: Three preferences of Chinese government officials for governing non-profit organizations in public service delivery	5
Governance modes, mayoral leadership and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe	5
Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK	5
Public opinion on morality policy: The moderating role of local context	5
Policy initiatives for Artificial Intelligence-enabled government: An analysis of national strategies in Europe	5
Religion, spirituality, faith and public administration: A literature review and outlook	5
Varieties of governance versatility and institutions: Comparing the governance of primary care performance in six jurisdictions	5
Epistemic environmentalism: Nudging and epistemic externalities	4
Theoretical-methodological aspects of researching the area of religion and public administration	4
Breaking barriers for breaking ground: A categorisation of public sector challenges to smart city project implementation	4
Legal certainty in automated decision-making in welfare services	4
The illiberal transformation of government bureaucracies: Patterns and dynamics	4
Intent vs impact: Ramifications of digitalization on the administrative burden	4
Artificial intelligence and public administration: Understanding actors, governance, and policy from micro, meso, and macro perspectives	4
Engaging professionals in the strategic renewal of public services: A literature review and research agenda	3
Facing NPG implementation problems in municipal organizations: The wickedness of combined value systems	3
Economics, ideas or institutions? Agencification through government-owned enterprises in illiberal contexts: The case of Hungary	3
Towards AI-driven transformation and smart data management: Emerging technological change in the public sector value chain	3
Bridging the theory-practice divide in public administration: A virtuous pragmatic approach of Wang Yangming and William James	3
Making sense of each other: Relations between social enterprises and the municipality	3
Co-created public value: The strategic management of collaborative problem-solving	3
Religion and social sustainability in Mauritius: Exploring the relationships	3
Eastern and western philosophies: Rethinking the foundations of public administration	3
In Memoriam – Dr Fabienne Maron	3
Collaborating and co-creating the digital transformation: Empirical evidence on the crucial role of stakeholder demand from Swiss municipalities	3
Agency in multi-level governance systems: The implementation puzzle and the role of ‘intelligent’ local implementers	3
How street-level bureaucrats exercise their discretion to encourage clients’ political participation: A case study of Israeli LGBTQ+ teachers	3