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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Administrative Capital and Citizens’ Responses to Administrative Burden	69
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State	59
“It Takes a While to Get Used to”: The Costs of Redeeming Public Benefits	57
Why Do Policymakers Support Administrative Burdens? The Roles of Deservingness, Political Ideology, and Personal Experience	54
Who Is in Charge? The Provision of Informal Personal Resources at the Street Level	46
Representative Bureaucracy and Attitudes Toward Automated Decision Making	36
Reducing Compliance Demands in Government Benefit Programs Improves the Psychological Well-Being of Target Group Members	35
Human–AI Interactions in Public Sector Decision Making: “Automation Bias” and “Selective Adherence” to Algorithmic Advice	34
Are Citizens More Negative About Failing Service Delivery by Public Than Private Organizations? Evidence From a Large-Scale Survey Experiment	29
Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the US Federal Government	27
Modeling Alternative Collaborative Governance Network Designs: An Agent-Based Model of Water Governance in the Lake Champlain Basin, Vermont	26
Citizen Reactions to Bureaucratic Encounters: Different Ways of Coping With Public Authorities	23
Decision-Making in Collaborative Governance Networks: Pathways to Input and Throughput Legitimacy	23
Representative Bureaucracy and Public Hiring Preferences: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment among German Municipal Civil Servants and Private Sector Employees	23
Deliberation and Deliberative Organizational Routines in Frontline Decision-Making	23
Everything Is Relative: How Citizens Form and Use Expectations in Evaluating Services	22
Institutional Mechanisms for Local Sustainability Collaboration: Assessing the Duality of Formal and Informal Mechanisms in Promoting Collaborative Processes	22
Latent Hybridity in Administrative Crisis Management: The German Refugee Crisis of 2015/16	21
The Benefits of PSM: An Oasis or a Mirage?	21
Meta-Analysis of Collaboration and Performance: Moderating Tests of Sectoral Differences in Collaborative Performance	20
What is Public about Public Leadership? Exploring ImplicitPublicLeadership Theories	19
Management, Organizational Performance, and Task Clarity: Evidence from Ghana’s Civil Service	19
Thanks, but No Thanks: Preferences towards Teleworking Colleagues in Public Organizations	18
Audience Heterogeneity, Costly Signaling, and Threat Prioritization: Bureaucratic Reputation-Building in the EU	17
Public Service Motivation as a Predictor of Corruption, Dishonesty, and Altruism	16

The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment on Solid Waste Services in Uganda	15
The Professional Agency Narrative—Conceptualizing the Role of Professional Knowledge in Frontline Work	15
Caught up or Protected by the Past? How Reputational Histories Matter for Agencies’ Media Reputations	15
Problem Severity, Collaborative Stage, and Partner Selection in US Cities	14
Policy Alienation and Street-level Bureaucrats’ Psychological Wellbeing: The Mediating Role of Alienative Commitment	14
Women and Men Municipal Managers Doing and Undoing Gender	14
Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay	14
Performance Information, Racial Bias, and Citizen Evaluations of Government: Evidence from Two Studies	14
Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment	14
Discrimination of Minority Welfare Claimants in the Real World: The Effect of Implicit Prejudice	14
Guiding or Following the Crowd? Strategic Communication as Reputational and Regulatory Strategy	13
Keeping Kids in Care: Reducing Administrative Burden in State Child Care Development Fund Policy	13
Formal Hierarchies and Informal Networks: How Organizational Structure Shapes Information Search in Local Government	12
Exit, Voice, and Sabotage: Public Service Motivation and Guerrilla Bureaucracy in Times of Unprincipled Political Principals	12
The Importance of Oversight and Agency Capacity in Enhancing Performance in Public Service Delivery	12
Understanding the Meaning of Concepts Across Domains Through Collocation Analysis: An Application to the Study of Red Tape	12
Evaluating the Role of Government Collaboration in the Perceived Performance of Community-Based Nonprofits: Three Propositions	12
Government Grants, Donors, and Nonprofit Performance	11
Pathways of Representation in Network Governance: Evidence from Multi-Jurisdictional Disasters	11
Commitment to Public Values, Charismatic Leadership Attributions, and Employee Turnover in Street-Level Bureaucracies	11
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	11
Matching to Categories: Learning and Compliance Costs in Administrative Processes	11
Service Providers’ Influence in Collaborative Governance Networks: Effectiveness in Reducing Chronic Homelessness	10
Finding Your Crowd: The Role of Government Level and Charity Type in Revenue Crowd-Out	10
Conflict Contagion: How Interdependence Shapes Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Polycentric Systems	10
“Honor List” and “Shame Roll”: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Performance Feedback under Political Control	10
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	10
Media Attention and Bureaucratic Responsiveness	10
Gender and Prosecutorial Discretion: An Empirical Assessment	10
How Does Public Disclosure of Performance Information Affect Politicians’ Attitudes towards Effort Allocation? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	9
When Tensions Become Opportunities: Managing Accountability Demands in Collaborative Governance	9
Performance, Satisfaction, or Loss Aversion? A Meso–Micro Assessment of Local Commitments to Sustainability Programs	9
Reputation Shocks and Recovery in Public-Serving Organizations: The Moderating Effect of Mission Valence	8
Bureaucratic Control and Strategic Compliance: How Do Subnational Governments Implement Central Guidelines in China?	8
Do Cogovernance and CSOs Supplement Municipal Capacity for Service Delivery? An Assessment of Differences in Simple versus Complex Services	8
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	8
Public-Sector Honesty and Corruption: Field Evidence from 40 Countries	8
User Involvement as a Catalyst for Collaborative Public Service Innovation	7
“Whatever it Takes”: Sexual Harassment in the Context of Resource Dependence	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
Government-Created Nonprofit Organizations and Public Service Turnaround: Evidence from a Synthetic Control Approach	7
Following the Paper Trail: Systematically Analyzing Outputs to Understand Collaborative Governance Evolution	7
The Dynamics of Sources of Knowledge on the Nature of Innovation in the Public Sector: Understanding Incremental and Transformative Innovations in Local Governments	7
Hybrid Governance and the Attribution of Political Responsibility: Experimental Evidence from the United States	7
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	7
Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers’Situational WorkContributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms	7
Competition, Ownership, and the Impact of Government Outsourcing on Employees	7
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government	6
Nonprofits: A Public Policy Tool for the Promotion of Community Subjective Well-being	6
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration: Assessing the Link between Passive and Active Representation for Foreign-Born Clients	6

Conceptualizing and Explaining Flexibility in Administrative Crisis Management: A Cross-district Analysis in Germany	6
Moderating Diversity, Collective Commitment, and Discrimination: The Role of Ethical Leaders in the Public Sector	5
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	5
A Female Policy Premium? Agency Context and Women’s Leadership in the U.S. Federal Bureaucracy	5
(Mis)Led by an Outsider: Abusive Supervision, Disengagement, and Silence in Politicized Bureaucracies	5
Reputation Management and Administrative Reorganization: How Different Media Reputation Dimensions Matter for Agency Termination	5
No Thanks, Dear AI! Understanding the Effects of Disclosure and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence in Public Sector Recruitment	5
The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	5
Administrative Burden in Citizen–State Interactions: A Systematic Literature Review	5
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	5
Administrative Groupings and Equality in Public Service Provision	5
Disaster Experience and Governments’ Savings: The Moderating Role of Organizational Capacity	5
“It’s Not Over When It’s Over”―Post-Decision Arrangements and Empirical Legitimacy	5
Comparing Systemic and Individual Sources of Racially Disparate Traffic Stop Outcomes	5
Sector-Specific Associations, Trust, and Survival of PPPs: A Behavioral Experiment Based on the Centipede Game	5
“As Expected”: Theoretical Implications for Racialized Administrative Power as the Status Quo	4
Equality of Opportunity? Sex, Race, and Occupational Advantages in Promotion to Top-Level Management	4
Community Foundations as Network Conveners: Structuring Collective Agency for Child Education and Development System Impact	4
Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation	4
Resourcing Goal-directed Networks: Toward A Practice-based Perspective	4
How US Private Foundations Change Payouts Based on Financial Shocks: Revealed Publicness or Revealed Privateness?	4
Accountability and Affective Styles in Administrative Reporting: The Case of UNRWA, 1951–2020	4
The Myth of Mayoral Leadership in Local Government Resource Allocation: A Multilevel Analysis with Brazilian Municipalities	4
Ideology, Unionization, and Personnel Politics in the Federal Budget Process	4
Quasi-Market Competition in Public Service Provision: User Sorting and Cream-Skimming	4
Not Too Much, Not Too Little: Centralization, Decentralization, and Organizational Change	4
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	4
Search in Response to Negative Performance Feedback: Problem-Definition and Solution-Generation	4
Provider Ownership and Indicators of Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care Homes	4
Corporatization, Administrative Intensity, and the Performance of Public Sector Organizations	4