Public Policy and Administration

Papers
(The TQCC of Public Policy and Administration is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Blame avoidance, scapegoats and spin: Why Dutch politicians won’t evaluate ZBO-outcomes41
Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers35
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method26
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 countries17
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe15
Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform15
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems15
Implementing digitalization in the public sector. Technologies, agency, and governance14
Dissecting the organization matters: Gauging the effect of unit-level and organization-level factors on perceived innovation outcomes12
Systematic and axiological capacities in artificial intelligence applied in the public sector12
How does population size influence administrative performance? Evidence from Malta, Samoa, and Suriname11
Comparing policy conflict on electricity transmission line sitings11
The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime10
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation9
Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: Insights from the Israeli experience9
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration9
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform9
Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices8
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects7
Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction6
Collegiality and efficiency in bureaucracy6
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance5
Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation5
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy5
Crisis decision-making inside the core executive: Rationality, bureaucratic politics, standard procedures and the COVID-19 lockdown4
Exploring the functions and role of social impact measurement in enhancing the social value of public-private partnerships: A systematic literature review4
Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability4
Electoral administration and the problem of poll worker recruitment: Who volunteers, and why?4
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