OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	144
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	144
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	71
Conflict Contagion: How Interdependence Shapes Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Polycentric Systems	40
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	36
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	33
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	31
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	29
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	29
Correction to: How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	28
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	28
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	25
Meta-Analysis of Collaboration and Performance: Moderating Tests of Sectoral Differences in Collaborative Performance	24
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	23
A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers’ Career Advancement	23
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	22
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	21
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	21
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	20
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	20
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	19
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	19
Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity	18
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	18
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	16

Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens	16
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	16
Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation	16
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	15
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	15
Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	14
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	13
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	13
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	12
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	12
Financial performance of state-owned enterprises: does political ideology play a role?	12
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	12
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	12
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	11
Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers’Situational WorkContributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms	11
The weakness of weak ties: do social capital investments among leaders pay off during times of disaster?	11
Conceptualizing and Explaining Flexibility in Administrative Crisis Management: A Cross-district Analysis in Germany	10
Distributive Justice in Collaborative Outputs: Empowering Minority Viewpoints Through Deliberation	10
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government	10
Assessments of Digital Client Representations: How Frontline Workers Reconstruct Client Narratives from Fragmented Information	10
Emotional capital in citizen agency: contesting administrative burden through anger	10
Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007–2019)	10
An Analysis of Micro-scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance	10
Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	10
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	9
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform: How Enterprising Public Sector Leaders Navigate Institutional Inertia	9
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	9
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	9
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	8
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	8
The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations	8
Will trust move mountains? Fostering radical ideas in public organizations	7
Ebb and flow of network participation: flexibility, stability, and forms of flux in a purpose-oriented network	7
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries	7
Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve US Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?	7
Top Managers’ Language Dissimilarity and Public Organizational Performance	7
The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	7
The Potential of Meta-ethnography in the Study of Public Administration: A Worked Example on Social Security Encounters in Advanced Liberal Democracies	7
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients: Evidence from a Field Experiment	7
Correction to: Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	6
Sexual Orientation and Organizational Justice in the Federal Service: Exploring Differences through an Intersectional Lens	6
Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment	6
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State	6
The professional profile, competence, and responsiveness of senior bureaucrats: a paired survey experiment with citizens and elite respondents	5
Developing the Theory of Pragmatic Public Management through Classic Grounded Theory Methodology	5
Responding to Environmental Uncertainties in Critical Supply Acquisition: An Examination of Contracting for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the Aftermath of COVID-19	5
User Involvement as a Catalyst for Collaborative Public Service Innovation	5
On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies	5
How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	5
Human–AI Interactions in Public Sector Decision Making: “Automation Bias” and “Selective Adherence” to Algorithmic Advice	5

Disaster Experience and Governments’ Savings: The Moderating Role of Organizational Capacity	5
Linguistic Features of Public Service Encounters: How Spoken Administrative Language Affects Citizen Satisfaction	5
Why are policy actors so distrustful of each other, and how? Cognitive, behavioral, and endogenous relational sources of perceived distrust in governance networks	4
Signaling Resilience: A Computational Assessment of Narratives in Local Government Budgets	4
Patterns of bureaucracy: Conceptualizing administrative traditions	4
When does employee turnover matter? Analyzing the role of organizational memory in the federal IT workforce	4
The Performance and Development of Deliberative Routines: A Practice-Based Ethnographic Study	4
Community Foundations as Network Conveners: Structuring Collective Agency for Child Education and Development System Impact	4
(Mis)Led by an Outsider: Abusive Supervision, Disengagement, and Silence in Politicized Bureaucracies	4
Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of the US Administrative State	4
Performance-based accountability systems at the organizational level: effects of a school program	4
Assessing the Effects of User Accountability in Contracting Out	4
Women hold up the shattering sky? Performance feedback on multiple conflicting goals and women’s representation in top management teams in the public sector	4