Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Insti

Papers
(The median citation count of Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Insti 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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The way the money goes: The fiscal constitution and public spending in the UK. By ChristopherHood, MaiaKing, IainMcLean, and BarbaraPiotrowska, Oxford University Press. 2023. 289pp. US$115.00 (cloth)57
United in Diversity? EU Core‐Periphery Divides at the Time of the Green Transition37
Neither multilevel governance nor battleground. Understanding the politics of immigrant integration in small and medium European localities37
Commodifying Public Utilities: EU's New Governance Prescriptions for Rail and Water36
Imperial Borderlands. By Bogdan G.Popescu, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 332 pp. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978100936521535
Party Receptiveness to Interest Group Diversity: Evidence From Policymaking in Six European Democracies34
Correction to “Legislative Hearings and Presidential Cabinet Management”34
Development of a Scale to Measure Perceived Administrative Burden, With Broad Applicability Beyond Direct Policy Clients33
Blame Avoidance and Corruption: How Politicians' Denials Shape Citizen Perceptions and Political Accountability30
Compliance with government policies during emergencies: Trust, participation and protective actions29
Are the answers all out there? Investigating citizen information requests in the haze of bureaucratic responsiveness28
Public administration and political science: From monogamous marriage to professional partnership27
Politicians' complaint response: E‐governance and personal relationships24
The democracy amendments: Constitutional reforms to save the United States. By John J.Davenport, New York: Anthem Press. 2023. pp. 292. $110 (cloth)22
The Nature and Dynamics of Access: Conceptualizing and Measuring Procedural Engagement Dynamics Between EU Interest Groups and Public Officials21
Navigating the Accountability Paradoxes of Financial Resource Abundance in the Post‐Pandemic Public Service Delivery21
Policy Design Below the Political Radar: When Policy Bureaucracies Mobilize Expertise to Restrict Business Power21
States, markets, and foreign aid. By SimoneDietrich, New York: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp 259, $34.99 (paper)21
Incentives, audits and procurement: Evidence from a district‐level field experiment in Ghana20
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Erosion of Competition Policy in the Age of Populism: Cases of Hungary, Mexico and Turkey18
Public sector workers' support for technocracy. Comparative evidence from 25 European countries17
The Paradox in Citizen's Views Toward Bureaucracy: Exploring Bureauphobia in More Depth17
In the Midnight Hour: Participatory Opportunities in Regulatory Policymaking During Presidential Transitions16
Buying stones: Welfare spending and protests in Argentina, 2008–201916
E‐government and citizen‐state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service16
European union funding of interest groups: Reassessing the balancing function and the promotion of good organizational practices15
Governing schools in times of pandemic: A set‐theoretical analysis of the role of policy capacities in school closure15
Reputational Management in Advisory Agencies: The Case of the STOA Unit15
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Spin dictators: The changing face of Tyranny in the 21st Century. By SergeiGuriev, and DanielTreisman, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2022. pp. 360. $29.95 (cloth)14
Unrealized Digital Democracy: A Critical Analysis of Power in the Digital AgeBy GarrettPierman, London: Lexington Books, 2024. 96 pp. $85.00 (e‐book).14
How to identify widespread corruption? New insights from geo‐spatial analysis13
Effectiveness of Term Limits Combating Administrative Corruption13
Pawned states: State building in the era of international finance. By DidacQueralt, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2022. pp. 368. $35 (paper)12
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Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance12
Pacified citizens with a marketized school system: Causal evidence of boomeranging effects of user choice11
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Subnational Lobbying on National Policymaking: Evidence From Germany11
There Is No Rose Without a Thorn: Examining the Contribution of Collaborative Platforms to Sustaining Collaborative Governance11
Patronage at Work: Public Jobs and Political Services in Argentina. By VirginiaOliveros, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 280 pp. $29.99 (paperback) ISBN: 978100908252511
Helping hand or centralizing tool? The politics of conditional grants in Australia, Canada, and the United States11
Measuring accountability in interlocal agreements between Indigenous and local governments10
Beyond consultocracy and servants of power: Explaining the role of consultants in policy formulation10
Police corruption and crime: Evidence from Africa9
Understanding Micro‐Level Budgeting Behavior: How Cognitive Biases Shape Politicians' Budget Preferences9
Unwritten Rules of the Game in the Danish and Dutch Core Executives9
How institutionalized feedback works: Online citizen complaints and local government responsiveness in China9
Environmental Governance in Malta: A Trajectory and Reflections on Shaping Institutions for Policy Learning9
The political economy of open contracting reforms in low‐ and middle‐income countries9
Trust Me, I'm an Expert: Evaluating the Relation Between Expertise and Trust in Regulators9
Greasing the wheels of policy reversal: Discursive engineering and public opinion management during the relaxation of China's family planning policy9
Non‐majoritarian institutions, media coverage, and “reinforced accountability”9
Re‐thinking policy and (multi‐level) governance failure: What went wrong and why in the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Italy?8
Trustee strategies, politicization and de‐delegation: The case of the European Central Bank8
The law and politics of transnational rights protection: Trusteeship, effectiveness, de‐delegation8
Introduction “street‐level bureaucracy, populism, and democratic backsliding”8
When Do Liberal Governments Restrict Civil Society?8
Working with ideas: Collective bricolage, political tests and the emergence of policy paradigms8
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Parabureaucracy: The case of Mexico's “Servants of the Nation”8
Social protection under authoritarianism: Health politics and policy in China. By XianHuang, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020.8
Critical thoughts about critical mass in representative bureaucracy: A theoretical exploration and empirical illustration8
Regulatory Means for Interventionist Ends: GBER and the Transformation of the EU State Aid Regime7
The chemical framework: Exploring Europeanisation in French, Austrian, and Irish eHealth policy processes7
Consumer Authorities in Europe: Policing Markets or Empowering Consumers?7
Public agency resilience in times of democratic backsliding: Structure, collaboration and professional standards7
Local Peace, International Builders: How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace From the Bottom Up. By William G.Nomikos, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 202 pp. $125 (hardback); $41.99 (paperback)7
When the Regulatory State Meets Populism: Regulatory Agencies in Mexico7
The pursuit of governance; Nordic dispatches on a new middle way. By FabrizioTassinari, Newcastle: Agenda Publishing. 2022. xi + 185 pp. $95.00 (clo)6
Projects, government, and public policy. By StanisławGasik, New York: CRC Press. 2023. pp. 377. £42.39. ISBN: 97810033216066
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Government Digital Surveillance in Africa6
Retooling development aid in the 21st century: The importance of budget support. By ShahrokhFardoust, Stefan G.Koeberle, MoritzPiatti‐Fünfkirchen, MarkSundberg, and LodewijkSmets, Oxford, United Kingd6
Including immigrant voices in local mechanisms of citizen participation? Insights from the crucial case of Barcelona6
AI Innovations in Public Services: The Case of National Libraries. By InesMergel and CarstenSchmidt (eds.), Cham: Springer, 2026. 222 pp. Open Access (ebook)6
Populist government support and frontline workers' self‐efficacy during crisis6
Top‐Down Central Inspection and Subnational Discretion in Policymaking6
The origins and consequences of administrative burdens in mass immunization programs: Experimental evidence based on the monkeypox outbreak6
The art of plucking the goose: Chinese urban residents' tax consciousness5
The non‐reversal of delegation in international standard‐setting in finance: The Basel Committee and the European Union5
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Engaging the Public Through Design: How Digital Platforms Nudge Public Engagement5
Towards a multifaceted measure of perceived legitimacy of participatory governance5
Historical Persistence of Meritocratic Selection on Citizen Compliance5
Collective cognition in context: Explaining variation in the management of Europe's 2015 migration crisis5
The competence‐control dilemma and the institutional design of European Union agencies5
Notice the comment? Chinese government responsiveness to public participation in the policymaking process5
Norm Adherence, Trust, and Citizens' Compliance: Exploring Citizens Attitudes to Public Welfare Institutions Across Europe5
Comparing ministerial advisers across politicization settings: Still hiding in the shadows?5
Neighbors with benefits: How politicians' local ties generate positive externalities when bureaucratic oversight is limited5
Shock to the system: Coups, elections, and war on the road to democratization4
Government transparency and corruption in a turbulent setting: The case of foreign aid to Ukraine4
Women's political representation, good governance and human development4
Explaining Public Sector Corruption: The Hexagon Model4
Public participation in democracy, local accountability and happiness: Evidence from rural China4
Migration debates in the political party arena during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Austria4
Between Law and Politics—The Emergence of an EU Industrial Policy4
Under what conditions does bureaucracy matter in the making of global public policies?4
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Political Instrumentalism and Epistemic Communities in Global Governance a Network Analysis of the International Organization for Migration4
Tracing the Trends of Governance in Governance From 1988 to 2023: Achievements and Future Prospects4
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Authoritarian Elasticity: How Autocracies May Effectively Mobilize for Crisis Management4
Populism and Trust in the Public Service in Canada4
Indebted societies credit and welfare in rich democracies. By AndreasWiedemann, Cambridge University Press4
Between a rock and a hard place: (Re)Integrating public administration and political science4
In court we trust? Political affinity and citizen's attitudes toward court's decisions4
Expansion without mandates: Border and asylum agencies in European Union migration governance4
Crippling Leviathan ‐ How foreign subversion weakens the state. By Melissa M.Lee. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2020. $39.95 (cloth)4
Policy Design, Instrument Choice, and Policy Feedback Effects of Institutional Business Power: Varieties of Child Care Investments in Australia, Canada, and Germany4
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World July 23, 2024 By AnneApplebaum, Doubleday, 2024. 224 pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐385‐54993‐64
Advocacy intelligence and competition: Assessing lobbyists' sharing of tactical knowledge in focus group interviews3
Award Citation: The Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize, 20223
When Nature Strikes: Which Regimes Exploit Natural Disasters for Fiscal Expansion?3
High‐Profile Corruption Convictions, Government Reactions, and Public Approval: A Comparative Analysis Across Levels of Democracy3
International perspectives on public administration. By Henry T.Sardaryan, Oxfordshire: Routledge. 2021. pp. 124. $47.96 (hbk)3
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Long‐term policymaking and politicians' beliefs about voters: Evidence from a 3‐year panel study of politicians3
The Social Consequence of Bureaucratic Oversight: Evidence From the Great Chinese Famine3
Beyond Democratic Backsliding: Bureaucracy, Elite Dynamics and Administrative Change in Authoritarian Transitions3
Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Administrative Capacity With Open Data: Could ‘Administrative Throughput’ Be the Missing Link Between Administrative Inputs and Outputs?3
Reimagining the judiciary: Women's representation on high courts worldwide. By Maria C.Escobar‐Lemmon, Valerie J.Hoekstra, Alice J.Kang, and Miki CaulKittilson, New York: Oxford University Press. 20213
Risk, Inequality, and Support for Social Insurance Reform in China3
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Authorized Discretion: The Democratic Essentials of Governance in the European Union3
In the eye of the storm: Street‐level organizations in circumstances of democratic backsliding3
High Skills for High Tech: Higher Education as Industrial Policy3
Who matters at the World Bank? Bureaucrats, policy change, and public sector governance. By KimMoloney, New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 368. $100 (clo)3
Global public governance: Toward world government? By SorpongPeou, New Jersey, London, Singapore: World Scientific. 2022. pp. 465. $ 88 (cloth)3
Thorns in the side: Strategies of populist parties against local public administrations3
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Transparency and citizen support for public agencies: The case of foreign aid2
Limiting bureaucratic discretion? Analyzing the design and exercise of administrative judicial review in the welfare sector2
Reversing delegation? Politicization, de‐delegation, and non‐majoritarian institutions2
The prime minister's chief of staff: Comparing profiles and trends in Westminster democracies, 1990–20212
Cross‐domain policy feedback effects on mass publics2
Partisanship and the Gender Pay Gap in Local Government2
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Central bank independence in Latin America: Politicization and de‐delegation2
Is Responsibility Intuitive in a Public Encounter?2
Does Transparency Reach Citizens? National Accountability Mechanisms and Public Perceptions in Europe2
Parsing the impact of E‐government on bureaucratic corruption2
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Trajectories of Governance: Tracing the Entanglements of Order and Violence in Peripheral Cities of Latin America By Viviana GarcíaPinzón, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 280 pp. $41.99 (pape2
The distributive politics of privately financed infrastructure agreements2
The Unexpected Actor? Civil‐Military Relations and Regulatory Agency Control in Brazil2
Glass Ceiling or Merit? Gender, Promotion, and Judicial Careers in a Civil Law System2
What's in a Polity? Political Institutions and Varieties of Economic Interventionism in the United States and the European Union2
The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent DemocraciesBy Isabel M.Perera, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 288pp., $110 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781009499897.2
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Assessing the Democratic Accountability of Europe's New Industrial Policy2
The scarce state: Inequality and political power in the hinterland. By NoahNathan, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 374 pp. $39.99 (paper)2
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash From 1600 to the Present. By FareedZakaria, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. 400 pp. $29.99 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐0‐393‐23923‐22
Shifting the Blame or Defending Implementation: How Do Explanations for Compliance Shape the Legitimacy of Contested EU Policies?2
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Between Merit and Patronage: Hybrid Appointments of Top Civil Service2
Comparing Refugee Dispersal Policies: Varieties of Responsibility‐Sharing in Europe2
Bureaucratic Responsiveness and Legitimacy: The Effects of Independence, Competence, and Warmth on Citizens' Legitimacy Perceptions2
The Generativity of Governance Configurations: How Governance Factors Coalesce to Spur Local Green Co‐Creation2
Drivers of transnational administrative coordination on super‐wicked policy issues: The role of institutional homophily2
Determinants of the cabinet size in presidential systems2
Legislative capacity, bureaucratic reputation, and delegation from a trust perspective: A survey experiment1
Informal networks as investment: A qualitative analysis from Uganda and Tanzania1
Government responsiveness and citizen satisfaction: Evidence from environmental governance1
Public administration and political science: Can this marriage be saved?1
Gender and the Collegial Face of Executive Politics: Priorities, Presence, and Power1
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Justifying opposition and support to EU‐Africa cooperation on deportation in West Africa1
Boosting Public Confidence in U.S. Agency Policymaking1
Executive compliance with parliamentary powers under authoritarianism: Evidence from Jordan1
Network dynamics in public health advisory systems: A comparative analysis of scientific advice for COVID‐19 in Belgium, Quebec, Sweden, and Switzerland1
The Politics and Governance of Migration1
Government Officials' Perceptions of Legitimate Governance Arrangements—Does a Representative Orientation Matter?1
Populist Governance Strategies: How Growth Coalition Tensions Affect Populist Policymaking1
The home state effect: How subnational governments shape climate coalitions1
Fengqiao‐Style Policing: A Grassroots Model for Public Security Governance1
Negotiating public service bargains in postrevolutionary times: The case of Iran's diplomatic corps1
Lessons From the Dissolution of Mexico's Information Commission1
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Decision‐makers, advisers or educable subjects? Policymakers' perceptions of citizen participation in a Nordic democracy1
Political corruption, political responsiveness and public trust: Testing the implicit exchange hypothesis1
Street‐level bureaucracy and democratic backsliding. Evidence from Poland1
‘We're All in This Together?’ A Survey Experiment on the Perceived Legitimacy of Region‐Specific Crisis Interventions in Germany and the Netherlands1
Decentralization, local information, and effort substitution: Evidence from a subnational decentralization reform in China1
Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text‐as‐Data Approach1
The Embedded Network: Institutional Constraints on Collaborative Governance in Indonesia's Aviation Safety Program1
Venue‐Making1
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Shrinking Whitehall: Fundamental reform to improve efficiency. By Tim Ambler, London: Adam Smith Institute. 2023. pp. 301. £24.99 (cloth)1
Money down the drain: Corruption and water service quality in Africa1
The co‐governance of basic education: Assessing the complementary effects of intergovernmental support, municipal capacity, non‐governmental organization presence and international development assista1
Does Policy Capacity Truly Matter for Governmental Effectiveness? A Conjunctural Analysis of the Quality of Governance in Italian Regions1
Cartels in infrastructure procurement—Evidence from Lebanon1
Varieties of connections, varieties of corruption: Evidence from bureaucrats in five countries1
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