OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is 5. 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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Administrative Capital and Citizens’ Responses to Administrative Burden	88
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State	75
“It Takes a While to Get Used to”: The Costs of Redeeming Public Benefits	70
Why Do Policymakers Support Administrative Burdens? The Roles of Deservingness, Political Ideology, and Personal Experience	70
Human–AI Interactions in Public Sector Decision Making: “Automation Bias” and “Selective Adherence” to Algorithmic Advice	58
Reducing Compliance Demands in Government Benefit Programs Improves the Psychological Well-Being of Target Group Members	44
Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the US Federal Government	31
Citizen Reactions to Bureaucratic Encounters: Different Ways of Coping With Public Authorities	30
Deliberation and Deliberative Organizational Routines in Frontline Decision-Making	30
Everything Is Relative: How Citizens Form and Use Expectations in Evaluating Services	26
Latent Hybridity in Administrative Crisis Management: The German Refugee Crisis of 2015/16	26
Decision-Making in Collaborative Governance Networks: Pathways to Input and Throughput Legitimacy	25
Institutional Mechanisms for Local Sustainability Collaboration: Assessing the Duality of Formal and Informal Mechanisms in Promoting Collaborative Processes	24
Meta-Analysis of Collaboration and Performance: Moderating Tests of Sectoral Differences in Collaborative Performance	23
Management, Organizational Performance, and Task Clarity: Evidence from Ghana’s Civil Service	23
The Professional Agency Narrative—Conceptualizing the Role of Professional Knowledge in Frontline Work	22
Thanks, but No Thanks: Preferences towards Teleworking Colleagues in Public Organizations	21
When Tensions Become Opportunities: Managing Accountability Demands in Collaborative Governance	20
Audience Heterogeneity, Costly Signaling, and Threat Prioritization: Bureaucratic Reputation-Building in the EU	20
Public Service Motivation as a Predictor of Corruption, Dishonesty, and Altruism	20
Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment	18
Problem Severity, Collaborative Stage, and Partner Selection in US Cities	18
Performance Information, Racial Bias, and Citizen Evaluations of Government: Evidence from Two Studies	17
Government Grants, Donors, and Nonprofit Performance	17
Women and Men Municipal Managers Doing and Undoing Gender	16

Keeping Kids in Care: Reducing Administrative Burden in State Child Care Development Fund Policy	16
Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay	15
Discrimination of Minority Welfare Claimants in the Real World: The Effect of Implicit Prejudice	15
Caught up or Protected by the Past? How Reputational Histories Matter for Agencies’ Media Reputations	15
Policy Alienation and Street-level Bureaucrats’ Psychological Wellbeing: The Mediating Role of Alienative Commitment	15
Conflict Contagion: How Interdependence Shapes Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Polycentric Systems	15
Exit, Voice, and Sabotage: Public Service Motivation and Guerrilla Bureaucracy in Times of Unprincipled Political Principals	15
Formal Hierarchies and Informal Networks: How Organizational Structure Shapes Information Search in Local Government	15
Guiding or Following the Crowd? Strategic Communication as Reputational and Regulatory Strategy	15
Matching to Categories: Learning and Compliance Costs in Administrative Processes	14
The Importance of Oversight and Agency Capacity in Enhancing Performance in Public Service Delivery	13
Commitment to Public Values, Charismatic Leadership Attributions, and Employee Turnover in Street-Level Bureaucracies	13
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	13
Pathways of Representation in Network Governance: Evidence from Multi-Jurisdictional Disasters	13
“Honor List” and “Shame Roll”: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Performance Feedback under Political Control	13
Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers’Situational WorkContributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms	12
Evaluating the Role of Government Collaboration in the Perceived Performance of Community-Based Nonprofits: Three Propositions	12
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	11
Administrative Burden in Citizen–State Interactions: A Systematic Literature Review	11
Public-Sector Honesty and Corruption: Field Evidence from 40 Countries	11
Media Attention and Bureaucratic Responsiveness	11
Conceptualizing and Explaining Flexibility in Administrative Crisis Management: A Cross-district Analysis in Germany	11
How Does Public Disclosure of Performance Information Affect Politicians’ Attitudes towards Effort Allocation? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	11
Following the Paper Trail: Systematically Analyzing Outputs to Understand Collaborative Governance Evolution	10
Bureaucratic Control and Strategic Compliance: How Do Subnational Governments Implement Central Guidelines in China?	10
Service Providers’ Influence in Collaborative Governance Networks: Effectiveness in Reducing Chronic Homelessness	10
The Dynamics of Sources of Knowledge on the Nature of Innovation in the Public Sector: Understanding Incremental and Transformative Innovations in Local Governments	10
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	10
Do Cogovernance and CSOs Supplement Municipal Capacity for Service Delivery? An Assessment of Differences in Simple versus Complex Services	10
Finding Your Crowd: The Role of Government Level and Charity Type in Revenue Crowd-Out	10
User Involvement as a Catalyst for Collaborative Public Service Innovation	10
Hybrid Governance and the Attribution of Political Responsibility: Experimental Evidence from the United States	9
Reputation Shocks and Recovery in Public-Serving Organizations: The Moderating Effect of Mission Valence	9
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	9
Can Sunlight Disperse Mistrust? A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Transparency on Citizens’ Trust in Government	9
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government	9
Reputation Management and Administrative Reorganization: How Different Media Reputation Dimensions Matter for Agency Termination	8
Search in Response to Negative Performance Feedback: Problem-Definition and Solution-Generation	8
(Mis)Led by an Outsider: Abusive Supervision, Disengagement, and Silence in Politicized Bureaucracies	8
Moderating Diversity, Collective Commitment, and Discrimination: The Role of Ethical Leaders in the Public Sector	8
Government-Created Nonprofit Organizations and Public Service Turnaround: Evidence from a Synthetic Control Approach	8
“It’s Not Over When It’s Over”―Post-Decision Arrangements and Empirical Legitimacy	8
Sector-Specific Associations, Trust, and Survival of PPPs: A Behavioral Experiment Based on the Centipede Game	8
“As Expected”: Theoretical Implications for Racialized Administrative Power as the Status Quo	8
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration: Assessing the Link between Passive and Active Representation for Foreign-Born Clients	8
Nonprofits: A Public Policy Tool for the Promotion of Community Subjective Well-being	8
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	8
Not Too Much, Not Too Little: Centralization, Decentralization, and Organizational Change	7
Sexual Orientation and Organizational Justice in the Federal Service: Exploring Differences through an Intersectional Lens	7
Competition, Ownership, and the Impact of Government Outsourcing on Employees	7

On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies	7
“Whatever it Takes”: Sexual Harassment in the Context of Resource Dependence	7
The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	7
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	7
Self-sacrifice for the Common Good under Risk and Competition: An Experimental Examination of the Impact of Public Service Motivation in a Volunteer’s Dilemma Game	7
A Female Policy Premium? Agency Context and Women’s Leadership in the U.S. Federal Bureaucracy	7
Community Foundations as Network Conveners: Structuring Collective Agency for Child Education and Development System Impact	6
Resourcing Goal-directed Networks: Toward A Practice-based Perspective	6
No Thanks, Dear AI! Understanding the Effects of Disclosure and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence in Public Sector Recruitment	6
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	6
Disaster Experience and Governments’ Savings: The Moderating Role of Organizational Capacity	6
Comparing Systemic and Individual Sources of Racially Disparate Traffic Stop Outcomes	6
The Myth of Mayoral Leadership in Local Government Resource Allocation: A Multilevel Analysis with Brazilian Municipalities	5
Individual Agency in Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Implementation of Policy Reforms: The Role of Their Policy Evaluation and Self-efficacy	5
Provider Ownership and Indicators of Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care Homes	5
Corporatization, Administrative Intensity, and the Performance of Public Sector Organizations	5
Administrative Groupings and Equality in Public Service Provision	5
Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation	5
Corrigendum to: Pathways to Implementation: Evidence on How Participation in Environmental Governance Impacts on Environmental Outcomes	5