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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State	83
“It Takes a While to Get Used to”: The Costs of Redeeming Public Benefits	74
Human–AI Interactions in Public Sector Decision Making: “Automation Bias” and “Selective Adherence” to Algorithmic Advice	67
Reducing Compliance Demands in Government Benefit Programs Improves the Psychological Well-Being of Target Group Members	46
Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the US Federal Government	33
Deliberation and Deliberative Organizational Routines in Frontline Decision-Making	32
Everything Is Relative: How Citizens Form and Use Expectations in Evaluating Services	29
When Tensions Become Opportunities: Managing Accountability Demands in Collaborative Governance	24
Meta-Analysis of Collaboration and Performance: Moderating Tests of Sectoral Differences in Collaborative Performance	24
The Professional Agency Narrative—Conceptualizing the Role of Professional Knowledge in Frontline Work	24
Management, Organizational Performance, and Task Clarity: Evidence from Ghana’s Civil Service	23
Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment	22
Thanks, but No Thanks: Preferences towards Teleworking Colleagues in Public Organizations	22
Public Service Motivation as a Predictor of Corruption, Dishonesty, and Altruism	21
Exit, Voice, and Sabotage: Public Service Motivation and Guerrilla Bureaucracy in Times of Unprincipled Political Principals	19
Administrative Burden in Citizen–State Interactions: A Systematic Literature Review	18
Keeping Kids in Care: Reducing Administrative Burden in State Child Care Development Fund Policy	18
“Honor List” and “Shame Roll”: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Performance Feedback under Political Control	18
Performance Information, Racial Bias, and Citizen Evaluations of Government: Evidence from Two Studies	18
Caught up or Protected by the Past? How Reputational Histories Matter for Agencies’ Media Reputations	17
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	17
Government Grants, Donors, and Nonprofit Performance	17
Women and Men Municipal Managers Doing and Undoing Gender	17
Matching to Categories: Learning and Compliance Costs in Administrative Processes	17
Conflict Contagion: How Interdependence Shapes Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Polycentric Systems	16

Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay	15
Guiding or Following the Crowd? Strategic Communication as Reputational and Regulatory Strategy	15
Formal Hierarchies and Informal Networks: How Organizational Structure Shapes Information Search in Local Government	15
Discrimination of Minority Welfare Claimants in the Real World: The Effect of Implicit Prejudice	15
Pathways of Representation in Network Governance: Evidence from Multi-Jurisdictional Disasters	14
The Importance of Oversight and Agency Capacity in Enhancing Performance in Public Service Delivery	14
Commitment to Public Values, Charismatic Leadership Attributions, and Employee Turnover in Street-Level Bureaucracies	14
Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers’Situational WorkContributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms	13
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	13
Media Attention and Bureaucratic Responsiveness	13
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	13
Conceptualizing and Explaining Flexibility in Administrative Crisis Management: A Cross-district Analysis in Germany	12
Bureaucratic Control and Strategic Compliance: How Do Subnational Governments Implement Central Guidelines in China?	12
Service Providers’ Influence in Collaborative Governance Networks: Effectiveness in Reducing Chronic Homelessness	12
Evaluating the Role of Government Collaboration in the Perceived Performance of Community-Based Nonprofits: Three Propositions	12
Search in Response to Negative Performance Feedback: Problem-Definition and Solution-Generation	12
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government	11
How Does Public Disclosure of Performance Information Affect Politicians’ Attitudes towards Effort Allocation? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	11
Public-Sector Honesty and Corruption: Field Evidence from 40 Countries	11
Finding Your Crowd: The Role of Government Level and Charity Type in Revenue Crowd-Out	11
“As Expected”: Theoretical Implications for Racialized Administrative Power as the Status Quo	11
The Dynamics of Sources of Knowledge on the Nature of Innovation in the Public Sector: Understanding Incremental and Transformative Innovations in Local Governments	11
User Involvement as a Catalyst for Collaborative Public Service Innovation	10
“It’s Not Over When It’s Over”―Post-Decision Arrangements and Empirical Legitimacy	10
Moderating Diversity, Collective Commitment, and Discrimination: The Role of Ethical Leaders in the Public Sector	10
Do Cogovernance and CSOs Supplement Municipal Capacity for Service Delivery? An Assessment of Differences in Simple versus Complex Services	10
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	10
Not Too Much, Not Too Little: Centralization, Decentralization, and Organizational Change	10
Following the Paper Trail: Systematically Analyzing Outputs to Understand Collaborative Governance Evolution	10
Hybrid Governance and the Attribution of Political Responsibility: Experimental Evidence from the United States	9
Can Sunlight Disperse Mistrust? A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Transparency on Citizens’ Trust in Government	9
On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies	9
Reputation Management and Administrative Reorganization: How Different Media Reputation Dimensions Matter for Agency Termination	9
(Mis)Led by an Outsider: Abusive Supervision, Disengagement, and Silence in Politicized Bureaucracies	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
Sexual Orientation and Organizational Justice in the Federal Service: Exploring Differences through an Intersectional Lens	8
Competition, Ownership, and the Impact of Government Outsourcing on Employees	8
Sector-Specific Associations, Trust, and Survival of PPPs: A Behavioral Experiment Based on the Centipede Game	8
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	8
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	8
No Thanks, Dear AI! Understanding the Effects of Disclosure and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence in Public Sector Recruitment	7
Community Foundations as Network Conveners: Structuring Collective Agency for Child Education and Development System Impact	7
“Whatever it Takes”: Sexual Harassment in the Context of Resource Dependence	7
Comparing Systemic and Individual Sources of Racially Disparate Traffic Stop Outcomes	7
Disaster Experience and Governments’ Savings: The Moderating Role of Organizational Capacity	7
The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	7
Provider Ownership and Indicators of Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care Homes	6
Administrative Groupings and Equality in Public Service Provision	6

Resourcing Goal-directed Networks: Toward A Practice-based Perspective	6
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	6
Developing the Theory of Pragmatic Public Management through Classic Grounded Theory Methodology	5
Agency Independence, Campaign Contributions, and Favoritism in US Federal Government Contracting	5
Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	5
Individual Agency in Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Implementation of Policy Reforms: The Role of Their Policy Evaluation and Self-efficacy	5
The Myth of Mayoral Leadership in Local Government Resource Allocation: A Multilevel Analysis with Brazilian Municipalities	5
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	5
Corrigendum to: Pathways to Implementation: Evidence on How Participation in Environmental Governance Impacts on Environmental Outcomes	5
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries	5
Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation	5
Corporatization, Administrative Intensity, and the Performance of Public Sector Organizations	5