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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	119
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	104
Finding Your Crowd: The Role of Government Level and Charity Type in Revenue Crowd-Out	44
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	35
“It’s Not Over When It’s Over”―Post-Decision Arrangements and Empirical Legitimacy	33
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	31
Conflict Contagion: How Interdependence Shapes Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Polycentric Systems	31
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	28
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	27
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	25
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	25
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	23
Do Cogovernance and CSOs Supplement Municipal Capacity for Service Delivery? An Assessment of Differences in Simple versus Complex Services	20
Meta-Analysis of Collaboration and Performance: Moderating Tests of Sectoral Differences in Collaborative Performance	20
Exit, Voice, and Sabotage: Public Service Motivation and Guerrilla Bureaucracy in Times of Unprincipled Political Principals	20
Service Providers’ Influence in Collaborative Governance Networks: Effectiveness in Reducing Chronic Homelessness	19
Accountability and Affective Styles in Administrative Reporting: The Case of UNRWA, 1951–2020	18
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	18
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	18
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	18
A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers’ Career Advancement	18
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	17
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	17
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	16
Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity	16

Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	16
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	15
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	15
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	15
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	15
Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation	15
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	14
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	14
Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	13
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	13
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	13
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	13
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	12
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	12
An Analysis of Micro-scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance	11
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	11
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	11
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	11
Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers’Situational WorkContributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms	10
Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007–2019)	10
The weakness of weak ties: do social capital investments among leaders pay off during times of disaster?	10
Assessments of Digital Client Representations: How Frontline Workers Reconstruct Client Narratives from Fragmented Information	10
Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	10
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	9
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	9
Emotional capital in citizen agency: contesting administrative burden through anger	9
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	9
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government	9
Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve US Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?	8
Bureaucratic Control and Strategic Compliance: How Do Subnational Governments Implement Central Guidelines in China?	8
The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations	8
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform: How Enterprising Public Sector Leaders Navigate Institutional Inertia	8
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	8
The Professional Agency Narrative—Conceptualizing the Role of Professional Knowledge in Frontline Work	8
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	8
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	8
The Potential of Meta-ethnography in the Study of Public Administration: A Worked Example on Social Security Encounters in Advanced Liberal Democracies	8
Will trust move mountains? Fostering radical ideas in public organizations	7
The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	7
Ebb and flow of network participation: flexibility, stability, and forms of flux in a purpose-oriented network	7
Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment	6
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	6
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries	6
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
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State	6
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients: Evidence from a Field Experiment	6
On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies	5
Human–AI Interactions in Public Sector Decision Making: “Automation Bias” and “Selective Adherence” to Algorithmic Advice	5

Linguistic Features of Public Service Encounters: How Spoken Administrative Language Affects Citizen Satisfaction	5
The Performance and Development of Deliberative Routines: A Practice-Based Ethnographic Study	5
User Involvement as a Catalyst for Collaborative Public Service Innovation	5
The professional profile, competence, and responsiveness of senior bureaucrats: a paired survey experiment with citizens and elite respondents	5
Disaster Experience and Governments’ Savings: The Moderating Role of Organizational Capacity	5
Administrative Groupings and Equality in Public Service Provision	5
Developing the Theory of Pragmatic Public Management through Classic Grounded Theory Methodology	5
How Ensembling AI and Public Managers Improves Decision-Making	5
Why are policy actors so distrustful of each other, and how? Cognitive, behavioral, and endogenous relational sources of perceived distrust in governance networks	5