Public Administration

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Administration is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Beyond co‐production: Value creation and public services68
The future of public administration research: An editor's perspective43
Policy instruments at work: A meta‐analysis of their applications43
Challenging the necessity of New Public Governance: Co‐production by third sector organizations under different models of public management42
Target‐setting, political incentives, and the tricky trade‐off between economic development and environmental protection41
A long road: Patterns and prospects for social equity, diversity, and inclusion in public administration32
Policy design and public support for carbon tax: Evidence from a 2018 US national online survey experiment31
Public servant stereotypes: It is not (at) all about being lazy, greedy and corrupt30
Distinguishing the street‐level policy entrepreneur30
Street‐level bureaucrats and policy entrepreneurship: When implementers challenge policy design29
Reflecting on over 100 years of public administration education29
Burdens, Sludge, Ordeals, Red tape, Oh My!: A User's Guide to the Study of Frictions29
Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses25
Corruption consolidation in local governments: A grounded analytical framework22
Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe22
CO‐DESIGN‐ing a more context‐based, pluralistic, and participatory future for public administration21
Social workers as street‐level policy entrepreneurs21
Strategic communication by regulatory agencies as a form of reputation management: A strategic agenda20
Assessing public value failure in government adoption of artificial intelligence20
Developing a short scale to assess public leadership20
A replication of “Representative bureaucracy and the willingness to coproduce”18
Burdens of transparency: An analysis of public sector internal auditing17
Working through the fog of a pandemic: Street‐level policy entrepreneurship in times of crises17
Street‐level bureaucrats as policy entrepreneurs: Action strategies for flexible community governance in China17
Intersectionality and equity: Dynamic bureaucratic representation in higher education17
Gender‐responsive budgeting: A budget reform to address gender inequity16
Question order bias revisited: A split‐ballot experiment on satisfaction with public services among experienced and professional users16
Integrating citizen deliberation into climate governance: Lessons on robust design from six climate assemblies16
Does organizational performance affect employee turnover? A re‐examination of the turnover–performance relationship16
Improving public services by mining citizen feedback: An application of natural language processing15
Gaming the system: Responses to dissatisfaction with public services beyond exit and voice15
The fragmentation of public administration: Differentiated and decentered governance in the (dis)United Kingdom15
The costs of corporatization: Analysing the effects of forms of governance15
Political opportunism and transaction costs in contractual choice of public–private partnerships15
Public sector creativity as the origin of public sector innovation: A taxonomy and future research agenda14
Toward a positive theory of public participation in government: Variations in New York City's participatory budgeting14
Machine coding of policy texts with the Institutional Grammar14
“I have learned my lesson”: How clients' trust betrayals shape the future ways in which street‐level bureaucrats cope with their clients14
Emotional labor and employee outcomes: A meta‐analysis14
How local governments prioritize multiple conflicting goals: Beyond the sole‐goal perspective14
Institutional design for a complex commons: Variations in the design of credible commitments and the provision of public goods14
A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics13
When does science persuade (or not persuade) in high‐conflict policy contexts?13
Multilevel reinforcing dynamics: Global climate governance and European renewable energy policy13
Designing for adaptation: Static and dynamic robustness in policy‐making13
The public sector and co‐creation in turbulent times: A systematic literature review on robust governance in the COVID‐19 emergency13
Talking the talk, but not walking the walk: A comparison of self‐reported and observed prosocial behaviour13
Bubbling up or cascading down? Public servants, political advisers and politicization13
Dismantling, disintegration or continuing stealthy integration in European Union environmental policy?13
Institutional Grammar 2.0: A specification for encoding and analyzing institutional design13
How to implement policy: Coping with ambiguity and uncertainty13
Dancing on a tightrope: The reputation management of local governments in response to public protests in China12
The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency12
Consultancies in public administration12
Robust crisis communication in turbulent times: Conceptualization and empirical evidence from the United States12
Distributed leadership and performance‐related employee outcomes in public sector organizations12
Representative bureaucracy and impartial policing12
Need, justice and central–local relations: The case of social assistance in China11
Marketization reforms and co‐production: Does ownership of service delivery structures and customer language matter?11
How bureaucrats shape political decisions: The role of policy information11
Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value11
Managing policy‐making in the local climate governance landscape: The role of network administrative organizations and member cities11
The management consultancy effect: Demand inflation and its consequences in the sourcing of external knowledge11
Policy preferences in response to negative economic prospects of COVID‐19: A survey‐experiment among local politicians in four European countries10
When does transparency improve public services? Street‐level discretion, information, and targeting10
Exploring the foundational origins of public service motivation through the lens of behavioral genetics10
Dealing with multiple principals in at arm's length organizations: A qualitative study of Dutch municipally owned corporations10
Corporatization and political ideology: The case of hospitals in Spain10
Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more10
Professional expertise in policy advisory systems: How administrators and consultants built behavioral insights in Danish public agencies10
All you need is … a network: The rise of interpretive public administration10
Linking political and bureaucratic representation: Does minority representation on city councils affect the outcomes of street‐level service?9
Stability not change: Improving frontline employee motivation through organizational reform is harder than it looks9
The core executive and small states: Is coordination the primary challenge?9
The webs of belief around ‘evidence’ in legislatures: The case of select committees in the UK House of Commons9
Network structures and network effects across management and policy contexts: A systematic review9
The politics of FinTech: Technology, regulation, and disruption in UK and German retail banking9
Effects of local government social media use on citizen compliance during a crisis: Evidence from the COVID‐19 crisis in China9
Duopoly, court politics and the Danish core executive9
Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times9
Contracting personalization by results: Comparing marketization reforms in the UK and Australia9
Contextual recipes for adopting private control and trust in public–private partnership governance9
Keeping a watchful eye in times of turmoil? How repeated structural reform leads to more attention to political signals9
Only hearing what they want to hear: Assessing when and why performance information triggers intentions to coproduce8
Intra‐provincial fiscal decentralization, relative wealth, and healthcare efficiency: Empirical evidence from China8
Remapping the European agenda‐setting landscape8
Personnel governance of corporatized public services: Effects of executive resources and corporation forms on turnover8
Do organizational differences matter for the use of social media by public organizations? A computational analysis of the way the German police use Twitter for external communication8
Population analysis of organizational innovation and learning8
Seeking the spotlight: How reputational considerations shape the European Court of Auditor's shifting account‐holding role8
Corporatization of public services7
Financial reporting transparency, citizens' understanding, and public participation: A survey experiment study7
Talk or type? The effect of digital interfaces on citizens' satisfaction with standardized public services7
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks7
Voice, responsiveness, and alternative policy venues: An analysis of citizen complaints against the local government to the national Ombudsman7
The European Parliament's role as an informal EU agenda setter: The influence of own initiative reports7
Representative bureaucracy and the policy environment: Gender representation in Forty‐Four countries7
A micro‐process model of institutional complexity in public hybrid organizations: Construal of identity threats and mitigation strategies7
From “business‐like” to businesses: Agencification, corporatization, and civil service reform under the Thatcher administration7
Data sharing in small and medium US cities: The role of community characteristics7
Professional development leadership in turbulent times: Public administration symposium: Robust politics and governance in turbulent times7
Thinking outside the box, improvisation, and fast learning: Designing policy robustness to deal with what cannot be foreseen7
Bureaucratic responsiveness in times of political crisis: The case of presidential impeachment7
What does the evidence tell us about merit principles and government performance?6
Collaborating with the competition? A study of interlocal partnership choices6
Public value creation and appropriation mechanisms in public–private partnerships: How does it play a role?6
A replication of “Contracting out: For What? With Whom?”6
Corporatization in local government: Promoting cultural differentiation and hybridity?6
On the character of the new entrepreneurial National Health Service in England: Reforming health care from within?6
Reputation management by Chinese universities: Primary profile and comparative features6
Exploring rule‐following identity at the frontline: The roles of general self‐efficacy, gender, and attitude toward clients6
Putting the international in Public Administration: An International Quarterly. A historical review of 1992–20226
Dramaturgy and crisis management: A third act6
COVID‐19‐induced governance transformation: How external shocks may spur cross‐organizational collaboration and trust‐based management6
Sustaining statehood: A comparative analysis of vertical policy‐process integration in Denmark and Italy6
How does diversity affect public organizational performance? A meta‐analysis6
The corporatization of healthcare organizations internationally: A scoping review of processes, impacts, and mediators6
Corruption in social relations: Bribe‐taking, corruptibility, and corruption risks5
The effect of human versus automated interaction on willingness to participate in government programs: The role of representation5
Unveiling environmental justice through open government data: Work in progress for most US states5
Trust, but verify? Understanding citizen attitudes toward evidence‐informed policy making5
Service quality and the optimum number of members in intermunicipal cooperation: The case of emergency primary care services in Norway5
Robust emergency management: The role of institutional trust in organized volunteers5
Creating a public service topology: Mapping public service motivation, public service ethos, and public service values5
Coordinating monetary policy and macroprudential policy: Bureaucratic politics, regulatory intermediary, and bank lobbying5
Ideas and crisis in policy and administration: Existing links and research frontiers5
Public crowdsourcing: Analyzing the role of government feedback on civic digital platforms5
The dynamics of de‐delegation: A principal–agent explanation of the reversal of private authority in international sport governance5
Effects of representative bureaucracy on perceived performance and fairness: Experimental evidence from South Asia5
“Let's organize”: The organizational basis for stable public governance5
A new era for Public Administration5
What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy5
A replication of “an experimental test of the expectancy‐disconfirmation theory of citizen satisfaction”5
Advantages of feeling appreciated: An examination of how receipt of gratitude influences the linkages between PSM and behaviour5
Governance reform, decentralization, and teamwork in public service delivery: Evidence from the Honduran health sector5
What has become of the audit explosion? Analyzing trends in oversight activities in the Canadian government5
“Success” in policy piloting: Process, programs, and politics5
How does council–manager conflict affect managerial turnover intention? The role of job embeddedness and cooperative context5
The administrative burden of doing business with the government: Learning and compliance costs inBusiness‐Governmentinteractions5
Dissecting multiple accountabilities: A problem of multiple forums or of conflicting demands?4
When bureaucratic expertise comes under attack4
Between spin doctor and information provider: Conceptualizing communication professionals in government ministries4
Administrative characteristics and timing of governments' crisis responses: A global study of early reactions to COVID‐194
Institutions, interests, and policy support: Experimental evidence from China4
A framework for analyzing organizational culture among politicians: Exploring implications for participatory governance schemes4
The impact of bounded subadditivity on administrative behaviour among public and private workers4
Managerial capacity in conflict environments: Management effects of private military and security companies in Iraq4
Why do public agencies seek accountability? The role of audiences4
Comparing public servants' behavior in South Korea and the United States: How emotional labor moderates the relationship between organizational commitment and job performance4
Fifty years as the fourth pillar of public administration: A polycentric extension of the social equity framework4
What matters the most in curbing early COVID‐19 mortality? A cross‐country necessary condition analysis4
Why create government corporations? An examination of the determinants of corporatization in the Canadian public sector4
The architecture of organizations as missed opportunity in political research4
Institutionalization or interaction: Which organizational factors help community‐based initiatives acquire government support?4
A long and winding road: 25 years as editor4
Evaluating collaborative institutions by segregation and homophily in policy networks4
Broadcasting good news and learning from bad news: Experimental evidence on public managers' performance information use4
Human resource management as a tool to control corruption: Evidence from Mexican municipal governments4
Accountability and organizational performance in the public sector: Analysis of higher education institutions in Korea4
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance?3
Managing resource transposition in the face of extreme events: Fieldwork at two public networks in Germany and the US3
Strategies for dealing with policy ambiguities3
Public assessments of ministerial leadership in times of national crisis: The case of the pandemic crisis3
Key values for democratic governance innovation: Two traditions and a synthesis3
Effective horizon management in transnational administration: Bespoke and box‐ticking consultancies in anti‐money laundering3
Collaborative gaming: When principals and agents agree to game the system3
Whole‐of‐government and joined‐up government: A systematic literature review3
An exploration of citizens' professionalism in coproducing social care services3
Policy design or organizational design: On the relevance of the study of public policy and administration3
Cutback management strategies and citizen evaluation of government3
Anticipated administrative burdens: How proximity to upcoming compulsory meetings affect welfare recipients' experiences of administrative burden3
Change leadership and change embeddedness in public organizations: Connecting macrolevel reform to microlevel implementation3
Can gender‐responsive budgeting change how governments budget?: Lessons from the case of Ecuador.3
Editing Public Administration3
Street‐level bureaucrats' emotional intelligence and its relation with their performance3
Who loves input controls? What happened to “outputs not inputs” in UK Public Financial Management, and why?3
Robust governance for the long term and the heat of the moment: Temporal strategies for coping with dual crises3
Understanding the organizational learning culture—Innovative behavior relation in local government: The roles of knowledge sharing and job autonomy3
Citizen involvement in public policy: Does it matter how much is at stake?3
Global scientific production, international cooperation, and knowledge evolution of public administration3
Making information silent: How opacity takes root in local governments?3
Seeding the cloud: Consultancy services in the nascent field of cyber capacity building3
Improving the performance of public organizations: Financial resources and the conditioning effect of clientele context3
How legal scholars facilitate tax avoidance: Case study on the power of tax consultancy firms3
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