OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Public Policy and Administration is 1. 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
Blame avoidance, scapegoats and spin: Why Dutch politicians won’t evaluate ZBO-outcomes	41
Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers	35
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method	26
Religion and representative bureaucracy: Does religion guide administrative discretion?	21
Perceiving policy entrepreneurship: A Q-methodology study on the attitudes of mid-level managers in developing countries	17
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems	15
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe	15
Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform	15
Implementing digitalization in the public sector. Technologies, agency, and governance	14
Systematic and axiological capacities in artificial intelligence applied in the public sector	12
Dissecting the organization matters: Gauging the effect of unit-level and organization-level factors on perceived innovation outcomes	12
How does population size influence administrative performance? Evidence from Malta, Samoa, and Suriname	11
Comparing policy conflict on electricity transmission line sitings	11
The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime	10
Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: Insights from the Israeli experience	9
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration	9
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform	9
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation	9
Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices	8
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects	7
Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction	6
Collegiality and efficiency in bureaucracy	6
Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation	5
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy	5
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	5

Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance	5
Exploring the functions and role of social impact measurement in enhancing the social value of public-private partnerships: A systematic literature review	4
Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability	4
Electoral administration and the problem of poll worker recruitment: Who volunteers, and why?	4
Crisis decision-making inside the core executive: Rationality, bureaucratic politics, standard procedures and the COVID-19 lockdown	4
Varieties of governance versatility and institutions: Comparing the governance of primary care performance in six jurisdictions	3
Policy initiatives for Artificial Intelligence-enabled government: An analysis of national strategies in Europe	3
Capable supervision, pragmatic engagement, and hands-off steering: Three preferences of Chinese government officials for governing non-profit organizations in public service delivery	3
Artificial intelligence and public administration: Understanding actors, governance, and policy from micro, meso, and macro perspectives	3
Religion, spirituality, faith and public administration: A literature review and outlook	3
The shifting political-administrative interface under Westminster: Australia’s prime ministerial views from Fraser to Morrison	3
Governance modes, mayoral leadership and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe	3
Theoretical-methodological aspects of researching the area of religion and public administration	3
Mission invisible? Managing boundaries for flood protection	3
Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK	3
Legal certainty in automated decision-making in welfare services	3
Co-created public value: The strategic management of collaborative problem-solving	2
Making sense of each other: Relations between social enterprises and the municipality	2
Economics, ideas or institutions? Agencification through government-owned enterprises in illiberal contexts: The case of Hungary	2
Bridging the theory-practice divide in public administration: A virtuous pragmatic approach of Wang Yangming and William James	2
Agency in multi-level governance systems: The implementation puzzle and the role of ‘intelligent’ local implementers	2
Epistemic environmentalism: Nudging and epistemic externalities	2
Collaborating and co-creating the digital transformation: Empirical evidence on the crucial role of stakeholder demand from Swiss municipalities	2
How street-level bureaucrats exercise their discretion to encourage clients’ political participation: A case study of Israeli LGBTQ+ teachers	2
Engaging professionals in the strategic renewal of public services: A literature review and research agenda	2
Breaking barriers for breaking ground: A categorisation of public sector challenges to smart city project implementation	2
Facing NPG implementation problems in municipal organizations: The wickedness of combined value systems	2
Towards AI-driven transformation and smart data management: Emerging technological change in the public sector value chain	2
Coercive and mimetic isomorphic mechanisms for service provision: The creation of nonprofit organizations in Mexico before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Integrating philosophical perspectives into the study of public administration: The contribution of Critical Realism to understanding public value	1
Deliberative mini-publics as a Confucian institution	1
Street-level bureaucrats’ attitudes towards clients in discretionary decision-making: Evidence from the Norwegian labour and welfare administration	1
Exploring the influence of Islamic governance and religious regimes on sustainability and resilience planning: A study of public administration in Muslim-majority countries	1
Exploring emergent collaborations for digital transformation in local governments: The engagement of public libraries in the development of smart cities	1
Governance without we. Wicked problems and collaborative governance	1
Municipal performance management during the covid pandemic	1
Eastern and western philosophies: Rethinking the foundations of public administration	1
Dynamics of agency governance: Evidence from the Nuclear safety sector	1
Promoting public sector innovation: who does what, when and how?	1
‘This is just a little flu’: analysing medical populist discourses on the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil	1
Opening the ‘black box’: Organisational Adaptation and Resistance to institutional isomorphism in a prime-led employment services programme	1
The democratic quality of co-creation: A theoretical exploration	1
The ideational bases of public value co-creation and the philosophy of personalism: Why a relational conception of person matters for solving public problems	1
Inside algorithmic bureaucracy: Disentangling automated decision-making and good administration	1
How service users envision their engagement in processes of collaborative innovation: A Q-methodological study on user involvement in eHealth collaborations	1
Problematizing partner selection: Collaborative choices and decision-making uncertainty	1
Upscaling policy pilots: Four tales in Chinese health governance	1
Politics matter: Public leadership and taking charge behavior in the public sector	1
The visualization of public information: Describing the use of narrative infographics by U.S. municipal governments	1
Swedish municipalities’ local governance strategies in co-creating health promoting conditions for senior adults	1

Multiple pathways to solve urban challenges: A shared portfolio approach towards smart city development	1
“Most people don’t like a client group that tell you to get fucked”: Choice and control in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme for formerly incarcerated people	1
Narrative policy framework at the macro level—cultural theory-based beliefs, science-based narrative strategies, and their uptake in the Canadian policy process for genetically modified salmon	1
Strategies and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe	1
The marginalization of policy integration: Dynamics of integrated policymaking in the periphery of bureaucracy	1
Appraising the philosophical influences on modern public administration research	1