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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
An agenda for the study of Public Administration in Developing Countries	48
“Promotion tournament 2.0”: Why local cadres expand health‐care provision in China	33
The polity of implementation: Organizational and institutional arrangements in policy implementation	28
Information, power, and location: World Bank staff decentralization and aid project success	25
(Un)principled principals, (un)principled agents: The differential effects of managerial civil service reforms on corruption in developing and OECD countries	24
Government information disclosure and citizen coproduction during COVID‐19 in China	23
Taking the bite out of administrative burdens: How beneficiaries of a Mexican social program ease administrative burdens in street‐level interactions	23
Narratives of digital sovereignty in German political discourse	22
Bringing political science back into public administration research	21
Information capacity and social order: The local politics of information integration in China	20
Can campaign‐style enforcement work: When and how? Evidence from straw burning control in China	19
Is impartiality enough? Government impartiality and citizens' perceptions of public service quality	19
Understanding Felt Accountability	19
The extra‐legal governance of corruption: Tracing the organization of corruption in public procurement	18
Within the shadow of hierarchy: The role of hierarchical interventions in environmental collaborative governance	17
Understanding self‐regulation for political control and policymaking: Effects of governance mechanisms on accountability	16
Countering fragmentation, taking back the state, or partisan agenda‐setting? Explaining policy integration and administrative coordination reforms	16
Kingdon's multiple streams approach in new political contexts: Consolidation, configuration, and new findings	16
Exploring political personalities: The micro‐foundation of local policy innovation in China	15
The technocratic tendencies of economists in government bureaucracy	14
Of democratic governance and revenue: Participatory institutions and tax generation in Brazil	14
Why do nondemocratic regimes promote e‐participation? The case of Moscow's active citizen online voting platform	13
Unimplementable by design? Understanding (non‐)compliance with International Monetary Fund policy conditionality	13
Political and administrative control of expert groups—A mixed‐methods study	12
Innovation, voice, and hierarchy in the public sector: Evidence from Ghana's civil service	11

The imperative of state capacity in public health crisis: Asia's early COVID‐19 policy responses	11
On democratic intelligence and failure: The vice and virtue of incrementalism under political fragmentation and policy accumulation	11
Regional spillover into third‐order European elections	10
Elite bargains and policy priorities in authoritarian regimes: Agenda setting in China under Xi Jinping and Hu Jintao	10
Policy diffusion through leadership transfer networks: Direct or indirect connections?	10
The territorial architecture of government	10
Coordination inside government administrations: Lessons from the EU Commission	10
Collaborative public sector innovation: An analysis of Italy, Japan, and Turkey	10
Legitimacy crises and the temporal dynamics of bureaucratic representation	10
Citizen political knowledge and accountability: Survey evidence on devolution in Kenya	10
Foreign aid projects and trust in political institutions	9
Interacting institutional logics in policy implementation	9
Sex, gender, and promotion in executive office: Cabinet careers in the world of Westminster	9
Agencies in the news? Public agencies' media evaluations in a low‐trust context	9
The political cost of public–private partnerships: Theory and evidence from Colombian infrastructure development	9
Trust‐based corruption networks: A comparative analysis of two municipal governments	9
Acting out or playing along: A typology of citizens' low trust responses to public organizations	9
Resisting public monitoring in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from local environmental litigation in China	8
Willingness to pay taxes through mutual trust: The effect of fairness, governability,tax‐enforcementand outsourcing on local tax collection rates	8
Professional ecologies in European sustainable finance	8
Institutional vulnerability and trust in public agencies: Views from both sides of the street	8
Private management of public networks? Unpacking the relationship between network management strategies in infrastructure implementation	8
Messaging about corruption: The power of social norms	8
National policy piloting as steering at a distance: The perspective of local implementers	8
Beyond street‐level procedural justice: Social construction, policy shift, and ethnic disparities in confidence in government institutions	8
Authoritarian innovations in labor governance: The case of Cambodia	8
Corruption experiences and attitudes to political, interpersonal, and domestic violence	8
From quiet to noisy politics: Varieties of European reactions to 5G and Huawei	7
Transnational governance in motion: Regional development banks, power politics, and the rise and fall of South America's infrastructure integration	7
Critical thoughts about critical mass in representative bureaucracy: A theoretical exploration and empirical illustration	7
Representative bureaucracy, role congruence, and Kenya's gender quota	7
Institutional proximity and judicial corruption: A spatial approach	7
A shift in paradigm? Collaborative public administration in the context of national digitalization strategies	7
Beyond consultocracy and servants of power: Explaining the role of consultants in policy formulation	7
Termination, aggregation, or replacement? A competing risks approach to agency transitions	7
Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change	7
The godfather provides: Enduring corruption and organizational hierarchy in the Kenyan police service	7
Conflict and salience as drivers of corporate lobbying? An elite survey experiment	6
Condemned to complexity? Growing state activity and complex policy systems	6
When blame avoidance backfires: Responses to performance framing and outgroup scapegoating during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Explaining interest group litigation in Europe: Evidence from the comparative interest group survey	6
Public administration and political science: Can this marriage be saved?	6
Does voluntary cooperation in member state implementation require top‐down steering? The case of regional policy in Switzerland	6
Why efforts to fight corruption can undermine the social contract: Lessons from a survey experiment in Nigeria	6
Cabinet size and governance in Sub‐Saharan Africa	6
Reversing delegation? Politicization, de‐delegation, and non‐majoritarian institutions	6
How politicians see their relationship with top bureaucrats: Revisiting classical images	6
National de‐delegation in multi‐level settings: Independent regulatory agencies in Europe	6
Compliance with government policies during emergencies: Trust, participation and protective actions	6
Central bank independence in Latin America: Politicization and de‐delegation	6

Navigating welfare regimes in divided societies: Diversity and the quality of service delivery in Lebanon	5
International court curbing in Geneva: Lessons from the paralysis of the WTO Appellate Body	5
Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance	5
Government responsiveness and citizen satisfaction: Evidence from environmental governance	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
Information exchange in governance networks—Who brokers across political divides?	5
Court performance and citizen attitudes toward fighting corruption	5
Serving quarreling masters: Frontline workers and policy implementation under pressure	5
Infrastructural state capacity in the digital age: What drives the performance of COVID‐19 tracing apps?	5
Interests over institutions: Political‐economic constraints on public debt management in developing countries	5
Ethnic identity and local government responsiveness in Taiwan	5
Women's leadership and the gendered consequences of austerity in the public sector: Evidence from IMF programs	5
Can social welfare buy mass loyalty?	5
Retooling governance for improving public service delivery: Case study of right to public services commission, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	5
Keeping control of regulation? Domestic constraints on the creation of independent authorities in emerging and developing economies	5
It takes a village to build illegality: Minorities' noncompliance as manifestation of distrust	5
The politics of government reorganization inWestern Europe	5
Civil servants' preferences for nonprofit contractors: A conjoint analysis	5
Collaborative governance platforms and outcomes: An analysis of Clean Cities coalitions	5
Gendered bureaucracies: Women mayors and the size and composition of local governments	4
Help your neighbor, help yourself: The drivers of European Union's climate cooperation in trans‐governmental networks with its neighbors	4
Democracy and bureaucracy in newly industrialized countries: A systematic comparison between Latin America and East Asia	4
Varieties of connections, varieties of corruption: Evidence from bureaucrats in five countries	4
The immigrant presence in collaborative structures of urban politics	4
Sorting citizens: Governing via China's social credit system	4
Colonial origins of modern bureaucracy? India and the professionalization of the British civil service	4
Separation of powers, opposition strength, and chief executives' strategy	4
Divided loyalties? The role of national IO staff in aid‐funded procurement	4
Trustee strategies, politicization and de‐delegation: The case of the European Central Bank	4
Democracy, public debt transparency, and sovereign creditworthiness	4
Public participation in democracy, local accountability and happiness: Evidence from rural China	4
Money down the drain: Corruption and water service quality in Africa	4
Multilevel political connections and nonprofit revenues under authoritarianism: Evidence from Chinese foundations	4
Bureaucratic locus of control	4
Corruption fights back: Localizing transparency and EITI in the Nigerian “penkelemes”	4
Do governments keep their promises? An analysis of speeches from the throne	4
Is there anything Left? The politics of social spending in new democracies	4
Hungry for power? Regional elites and the architecture of government	4
Place matters: Analyzing the roots of political distrust and Brexit narratives at a local level	4
The Belgian mental health reform: When a combination of soft instruments hampers structural change	4