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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method	117
When GenAI writes public foresight reports: Effects on convincing citizens	55
Religion and representative bureaucracy: Does religion guide administrative discretion?	54
Perceiving policy entrepreneurship: A Q-methodology study on the attitudes of mid-level managers in developing countries	46
When citizens meet the chatbot: Evidence from a survey vignette experiment in Estonia	42
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe	37
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems	36
Parental co-production in public higher education during the COVID-19 crisis: A mixed methods study	29
Patchwork procurement: An institutional logics approach to the ArriveCAN scandal	26
Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform	19
Network structure, network mechanism, and network effectiveness and legitimacy: A configurational analysis of 26 cases	19
How does population size influence administrative performance? Evidence from Malta, Samoa, and Suriname	17
The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime	16
Dissecting the organization matters: Gauging the effect of unit-level and organization-level factors on perceived innovation outcomes	16
Can the public sector break the mold? Exploring antecedent factors driving sensing capabilities with fsQCA in the Tuscan family and community nurse model	15
Systematic and axiological capacities in artificial intelligence applied in the public sector	14
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation	13
Digital transformation in governance: Preconditions for achieving good governance	13
Combining democratic, regulatory and coordination hybridity for achieving robustness in turbulent times	13
Talking at parties: Bureaucratic language in response to party control changes	12
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform	12
Strategizing and collaborating in the digital transformation of public administration	11
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration	11
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects	10
Who should (not) participate? Public service organisations’ attitudes towards participation in policy-making modes	9

Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices	9
Street-level bureaucrats’ non-compliance in policy transfer: How to assess the success and failure of policy transfer and outcomes	9
Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction	9
Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation	9
Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance	8
Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability	8
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy	8
The shifting political-administrative interface under Westminster: Australia’s prime ministerial views from Fraser to Morrison	8
Exploring the functions and role of social impact measurement in enhancing the social value of public-private partnerships: A systematic literature review	8
Mission invisible? Managing boundaries for flood protection	8
Assessing stringency: A survey experiment of energy saving policies across five EU countries	7
Crisis decision-making inside the core executive: Rationality, bureaucratic politics, standard procedures and the COVID-19 lockdown	7
Public value Co-creation in collaborative governance: A complex adaptive systems analysis of gender-based violence policy implementation in Pangani district, Tanzania	7
Stable roles and agile structures: Temporal robustness in public administration networks	7
The moral inversion of administrative AI: A critical interpretation on regime values	7
Beyond specific case responses: Accountability, public service motivation, and bureaucrats’ policy responsiveness	7
Varieties of governance versatility and institutions: Comparing the governance of primary care performance in six jurisdictions	6
Religion, spirituality, faith and public administration: A literature review and outlook	6
Policy initiatives for Artificial Intelligence-enabled government: An analysis of national strategies in Europe	6
Capable supervision, pragmatic engagement, and hands-off steering: Three preferences of Chinese government officials for governing non-profit organizations in public service delivery	6
The role of legitimacy in robust crisis governance. Examining the failed European response to the turbulence of the 2015-16 refugee crisis	6
Resilient cities: Civil engagement in public urban spaces	5
Artificial intelligence and public administration: Understanding actors, governance, and policy from micro, meso, and macro perspectives	5
Governance modes, mayoral leadership and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe	5
Public opinion on morality policy: The moderating role of local context	5
Enhancing organizational commitment through dynamic capabilities: Evidence from municipal mergers	5
Robust governance in response to societal turbulence: The conditioning role of multilevel governance, hybrid governance, and societal intelligence	5
The accountability–blame avoidance nexus: Experimental evidence from public employees in China	4
Seeking mechanisms underlying accountability in crises: A qualitative comparative analysis of 29 cases in China	4
The illiberal transformation of government bureaucracies: Patterns and dynamics	4
Theoretical-methodological aspects of researching the area of religion and public administration	4
Epistemic environmentalism: Nudging and epistemic externalities	4
Legal certainty in automated decision-making in welfare services	4
Generalist and specialist roles of policy actors: Insights from preferences on AI regulation	4
Facing NPG implementation problems in municipal organizations: The wickedness of combined value systems	3
Intent vs impact: Ramifications of digitalization on the administrative burden	3
Co-created public value: The strategic management of collaborative problem-solving	3
Agency in multi-level governance systems: The implementation puzzle and the role of ‘intelligent’ local implementers	3
Breaking barriers for breaking ground: A categorisation of public sector challenges to smart city project implementation	3
Making sense of each other: Relations between social enterprises and the municipality	3
Economics, ideas or institutions? Agencification through government-owned enterprises in illiberal contexts: The case of Hungary	3
In Memoriam – Dr Fabienne Maron	3
Religion and social sustainability in Mauritius: Exploring the relationships	3
Collaborating and co-creating the digital transformation: Empirical evidence on the crucial role of stakeholder demand from Swiss municipalities	3
Digital transformation amidst inertia: Implementing digitalization reforms in the public sector	3
Logics of categorization at the frontline: Stereotyped and investigative categorization	3
Towards AI-driven transformation and smart data management: Emerging technological change in the public sector value chain	3