OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Insti 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The polity of implementation: Organizational and institutional arrangements in policy implementation	31
Bringing political science back into public administration research	26
Taking the bite out of administrative burdens: How beneficiaries of a Mexican social program ease administrative burdens in street‐level interactions	26
Government information disclosure and citizen coproduction during COVID‐19 in China	24
Narratives of digital sovereignty in German political discourse	24
Information capacity and social order: The local politics of information integration in China	23
Within the shadow of hierarchy: The role of hierarchical interventions in environmental collaborative governance	21
Can campaign‐style enforcement work: When and how? Evidence from straw burning control in China	20
The extra‐legal governance of corruption: Tracing the organization of corruption in public procurement	19
Exploring political personalities: The micro‐foundation of local policy innovation in China	17
Of democratic governance and revenue: Participatory institutions and tax generation in Brazil	15
Political and administrative control of expert groups—A mixed‐methods study	14
The technocratic tendencies of economists in government bureaucracy	14
Unimplementable by design? Understanding (non‐)compliance with International Monetary Fund policy conditionality	13
Trust‐based corruption networks: A comparative analysis of two municipal governments	13
The imperative of state capacity in public health crisis: Asia's early COVID‐19 policy responses	12
From quiet to noisy politics: Varieties of European reactions to 5G and Huawei	12
Regional spillover into third‐order European elections	11
Acting out or playing along: A typology of citizens' low trust responses to public organizations	11
Sex, gender, and promotion in executive office: Cabinet careers in the world of Westminster	11
Collaborative public sector innovation: An analysis of Italy, Japan, and Turkey	11
On democratic intelligence and failure: The vice and virtue of incrementalism under political fragmentation and policy accumulation	11
The territorial architecture of government	11
Policy diffusion through leadership transfer networks: Direct or indirect connections?	11
Professional ecologies in European sustainable finance	11

Messaging about corruption: The power of social norms	11
Legitimacy crises and the temporal dynamics of bureaucratic representation	10
Interacting institutional logics in policy implementation	10
Authoritarian innovations in labor governance: The case of Cambodia	10
Agencies in the news? Public agencies' media evaluations in a low‐trust context	10
Resisting public monitoring in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from local environmental litigation in China	9
Willingness to pay taxes through mutual trust: The effect of fairness, governability,tax‐enforcementand outsourcing on local tax collection rates	9
Institutional vulnerability and trust in public agencies: Views from both sides of the street	9
A shift in paradigm? Collaborative public administration in the context of national digitalization strategies	9
Foreign aid projects and trust in political institutions	9
Beyond street‐level procedural justice: Social construction, policy shift, and ethnic disparities in confidence in government institutions	9
Critical thoughts about critical mass in representative bureaucracy: A theoretical exploration and empirical illustration	8
Beyond consultocracy and servants of power: Explaining the role of consultants in policy formulation	8
When blame avoidance backfires: Responses to performance framing and outgroup scapegoating during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
National policy piloting as steering at a distance: The perspective of local implementers	8
The godfather provides: Enduring corruption and organizational hierarchy in the Kenyan police service	8
Corruption experiences and attitudes to political, interpersonal, and domestic violence	8
International court curbing in Geneva: Lessons from the paralysis of the WTO Appellate Body	8
Information exchange in governance networks—Who brokers across political divides?	8
Private management of public networks? Unpacking the relationship between network management strategies in infrastructure implementation	8
Condemned to complexity? Growing state activity and complex policy systems	7
Institutional proximity and judicial corruption: A spatial approach	7
Help your neighbor, help yourself: The drivers of European Union's climate cooperation in trans‐governmental networks with its neighbors	7
Reversing delegation? Politicization, de‐delegation, and non‐majoritarian institutions	7
Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change	7
Compliance with government policies during emergencies: Trust, participation and protective actions	7
Explaining interest group litigation in Europe: Evidence from the comparative interest group survey	7
Public administration and political science: Can this marriage be saved?	7
Why efforts to fight corruption can undermine the social contract: Lessons from a survey experiment in Nigeria	7
Central bank independence in Latin America: Politicization and de‐delegation	7
Cabinet size and governance in Sub‐Saharan Africa	6
Collaborative governance platforms and outcomes: An analysis of Clean Cities coalitions	6
The immigrant presence in collaborative structures of urban politics	6
Public participation in democracy, local accountability and happiness: Evidence from rural China	6
Does voluntary cooperation in member state implementation require top‐down steering? The case of regional policy in Switzerland	6
Serving quarreling masters: Frontline workers and policy implementation under pressure	6
Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance	6
Neither multilevel governance nor battleground. Understanding the politics of immigrant integration in small and medium European localities	6
The politics of government reorganization inWestern Europe	6
Conflict and salience as drivers of corporate lobbying? An elite survey experiment	6
Retooling governance for improving public service delivery: Case study of right to public services commission, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	6
Women's political representation, good governance and human development	6
National de‐delegation in multi‐level settings: Independent regulatory agencies in Europe	6
Civil servants' preferences for nonprofit contractors: A conjoint analysis	6
Women's leadership and the gendered consequences of austerity in the public sector: Evidence from IMF programs	6
Parabureaucracy: The case of Mexico's “Servants of the Nation”	6
Government responsiveness and citizen satisfaction: Evidence from environmental governance	6
How politicians see their relationship with top bureaucrats: Revisiting classical images	6
Interests over institutions: Political‐economic constraints on public debt management in developing countries	6
Place matters: Analyzing the roots of political distrust and Brexit narratives at a local level	6

Democracy, public debt transparency, and sovereign creditworthiness	5
Public agency resilience in times of democratic backsliding: Structure, collaboration and professional standards	5
Infrastructural state capacity in the digital age: What drives the performance of COVID‐19 tracing apps?	5
The Belgian mental health reform: When a combination of soft instruments hampers structural change	5
Explaining Ukraine's resilience to Russia's invasion: The role of local governance	5
Fatal remedies. How dealing with policy conflict can backfire in a context of trust‐erosion	5
Varieties of connections, varieties of corruption: Evidence from bureaucrats in five countries	5
Long‐term policymaking and politicians' beliefs about voters: Evidence from a 3‐year panel study of politicians	5
Money down the drain: Corruption and water service quality in Africa	5
Can social welfare buy mass loyalty?	5
Court performance and citizen attitudes toward fighting corruption	5
Navigating welfare regimes in divided societies: Diversity and the quality of service delivery in Lebanon	5
Towards a multifaceted measure of perceived legitimacy of participatory governance	5
How political connections exploit loopholes in procurement institutions for government contracts: Evidence from China	5
Gendered bureaucracies: Women mayors and the size and composition of local governments	4
Government transparency and corruption in a turbulent setting: The case of foreign aid to Ukraine	4
Sorting citizens: Governing via China's social credit system	4
Breaking the mold? Ministerial rotations, legislative production and political strategies in Lebanon	4
Colonial origins of modern bureaucracy? India and the professionalization of the British civil service	4
Gender representation in police organizations: Do upper‐level and street‐level female bureaucrats differ in their roles?	4
Parsing the impact of E‐government on bureaucratic corruption	4
Democracy and bureaucracy in newly industrialized countries: A systematic comparison between Latin America and East Asia	4
Hungry for power? Regional elites and the architecture of government	4
Multilevel political connections and nonprofit revenues under authoritarianism: Evidence from Chinese foundations	4
Separation of powers, opposition strength, and chief executives' strategy	4
Divided loyalties? The role of national IO staff in aid‐funded procurement	4
Corruption perceptions: Confidence in elections and evaluations of clientelism	4
Trustee strategies, politicization and de‐delegation: The case of the European Central Bank	4
Decision‐makers, advisers or educable subjects? Policymakers' perceptions of citizen participation in a Nordic democracy	4
The evolving perceptions of corruption in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic	4