Public Administration

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Administration 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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A Replication of “Explaining Why the Computer Says No: Algorithmic Transparency Affects the Perceived Trustworthiness of Automated Decision‐Making”81
Public management: A research overview. By TomEntwistle, London: Routledge. 2022. pp. 114. USD 25.59 (paperback) ISBN: 978103206403179
Regional network‐building for complexity: A region‐oriented policy response to increasing and varied demands for older person care in the Netherlands69
Meet all changes with constancy: The dynamic adaptation process of county governments in China58
Ignoring by complying: How public officials handle hybridity to pursue the goals of new public governance53
Evaluating Conflict, Interest Advancement, and Representation in Collaborative Governance50
Coproduction of core and complementary tasks in times of service decline: Experimental evidence49
Are public spaces welcoming to all? A conjoint experiment on cultural representation and inclusionary practices in museums49
Collaborating with the competition? A study of interlocal partnership choices45
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks43
The impact of service separation on value: A longitudinal study of user and provider experiences in a mental health service38
Permanently provisional: An ethnographic analysis of responsive governance practices in and through meetings38
The effect of institutional support and relational capital on knowledge mobilization in public administration research37
The way the money goes: The fiscal constitution and public spending in the UK. By ChristopherHood, MaiaKing, IainMcLean, Barbara MariaPiotrowska. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 36
Performance Rewards and Job Satisfaction in More and Less Developed Countries: Multi‐Level Evidence From Bureaucrats in 10 Countries34
How governments borrow: Partisan politics, constrained institutions, and sovereign debt in emerging markets. By BenCormier, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 192. £90.00 (hbk). ISBN32
Ministerial Leadership: Practice, Performance and PowerBy LeightonAndrews, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 553 pp. £99.99 (hardcover); £79.50 (ebook). ISBN: 10 3031500075; ISBN:32
Correction to “Public value creation and appropriation mechanisms in public–private partnerships: How does it play a role?”31
Leveraging normative power in co‐production to redress power imbalances30
A replication of “the effects of making public service employees aware of their prosocial and societal impact”30
Paths to trust: Explaining citizens' trust to experts and evidence‐informed policymaking during the COVID‐19 pandemic29
Integrating Formal and Relational Contracting: The Link Between Network Structure and Contract Design in Interlocal Collaboration Agreements29
Social Equity and Representative Bureaucracy: The Case of Nigeria's Federal Character Principle28
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Losing control is not an option. Resource allocation to police oversight agencies in Western states26
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Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation?25
Anticipated administrative burdens: How proximity to upcoming compulsory meetings affect welfare recipients' experiences of administrative burden23
How to extend pilot innovation in public services: A case of children's social care innovation23
Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions23
Wartime Leadership as a Bridge Over Troubled Waters: A Representative Bureaucracy Perspective on Ethnically Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Schools22
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Representative bureaucracy in property assessment appeals administration: A group level analysis21
Public Perceptions of the Administrative Values Tradeoff: Bureaucratic and Democratic Ethos21
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Auditing, the State and Democracy in a “New” Machine Age of Digitalization: The UK Supreme Audit Institution21
A long road: Patterns and prospects for social equity, diversity, and inclusion in public administration20
A review of classical thoughts on contemporary public administration in developing countries20
Experiences of Administrative Burden in Context: Exploring Differences Across Countries, Policy Domains, and Socio‐Demography19
Achieving collaborative innovation by controlling or leveraging network complexities through complexity leadership19
“Let's organize”: The organizational basis for stable public governance19
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Metagovernance of co‐creation in city–university partnerships: How to avoid being stuck in the middle?18
Measuring civil service politicization with career data: Backstage and frontstage political experience of top civil servants in the German ministerial administration17
Symbolic Bureaucratic Representation and Client Cooperation: Experimental Insights From Four Daily Public Service Scenarios in China17
Why do public agencies seek accountability? The role of audiences17
A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics17
Accountability in Government Use of AI : Citizen Concerns and Preferences17
How does ethnic diversity shape the design of intergovernmental fiscal relations? Evidence from China17
Can Cross‐Sector Collaboration Contribute to Boundaries Reshaping of Digital Government Platforms? Empirical Evidence Based on Machine Learning and Text Analysis17
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Overlooking the front line: Impacts of front‐line worker inclusion on implementation and outcomes of collaborative innovation16
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AI in Public Decision‐Making: A Philosophical and Practical Framework for Assessing and Weighing Harm and Benefit16
Civil servant tactics for realizing transition tasks understanding the microdynamics of transformative government16
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Professional development leadership in turbulent times: Public administration symposium: Robust politics and governance in turbulent times16
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Algorithmic Governance: Experimental Evidence on Citizens' and Public Administrators' Legitimacy Perceptions of Automated Decision‐Making15
How legal scholars facilitate tax avoidance: Case study on the power of tax consultancy firms14
Rebel with a cause: The effects of leadership encouragement and psychological safety on professionals' prosocial rulebreaking behavior13
Emotional labor and employee outcomes: A meta‐analysis13
Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more13
Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times13
From big data to higher bureaucratic capacity: Poverty alleviation in China13
Reversing Government Reforms: Radical Change or Adaptive Adjustments?13
Performance appraisal justice and employees' work engagement in the public sector: Making the most of performance appraisal design13
Exploring the foundational origins of public service motivation through the lens of behavioral genetics13
Nodality Dynamics and Network Evolution in Multi‐Actor Cooperation: Insights Into Community Conflict Resolution12
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Member duality and policy tourism: Learning in interlocal policy networks12
All you need is … a network: The rise of interpretive public administration12
Governance and Renegotiation in Public‐Private Partnerships During Crises: An Examination of the Resulting Tensions in a Private Partner Consortium12
Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value12
Policy advocacy of nongovernmental organizations in China: A quasi‐replication of Zhan and Tang (2013, 2016)11
Credible signaling to promote local compliance: Evidence from China's multiwave inspection of environmental protection11
“One, none, and a hundred thousand” recipes for a robust response to turbulence11
Opening the “black box” of public administration: The need for interpretive research11
What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy11
Robust emergency management: The role of institutional trust in organized volunteers11
What matters the most in curbing early COVID‐19 mortality? A cross‐country necessary condition analysis11
The association between public managers' type of education and prioritizing core service provision and communication11
How rediscovering nodality can improve democratic governance in a digital world11
Advancing Social Equity in Public Budgeting: The Role of Minority Political Representation in Local Government10
Organizational stability and resocialization in public administrations: Theory and evidence from Norwegian civil servants (1986–2016)10
Seeing the nudge from the trees: The 4S framework for evaluating nudges10
Citizens' Inclusion in Public Services: A Systematic Review of the Public Administration Literature and Reflection on Future Research Avenues10
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Hambleton, Robin. Cities and communities beyond Covid‐19. Great Britain: Bristol University Press. 2020. pp. 177. ISBN: 97815292158549
Buying green in U.S. local government: Internal commitment and responsiveness to external pressures9
Creative Discretion on the Frontline of Public Services: A Longitudinal Qualitative Digital Diary and Interview Study9
Styles of regulatory discretion: A comparative analysis of the British and Israeli education legislation9
How personnel allocation affects performance: Evidence from Brazil's federal protected areas agency9
Robust crisis communication in turbulent times: Conceptualization and empirical evidence from the United States9
Contextual recipes for adopting private control and trust in public–private partnership governance9
What does the evidence tell us about merit principles and government performance?9
Fifty years as the fourth pillar of public administration: A polycentric extension of the social equity framework9
Does increasing auditors' independence lead to more forceful public auditing? A study of a Canadian internal audit reform9
A review of classical thoughts on contemporary public administration in developing countries9
Comparing public servants' behavior in South Korea and the United States: How emotional labor moderates the relationship between organizational commitment and job performance8
Public accountability and auditing: Why and when do state auditors conduct broad audits?8
Algorithms in the public sector. Why context matters8
Management accounting in public service decision making. Malcolm J.Prowle. Routledge, 2021, 262 pp., ISBN: 978‐1‐138‐36616‐9 (hbk), 978‐1‐138‐36617‐6 (pbk), 978‐0‐429‐43046‐6 (ebk)8
Emergency management through enduring collaborative networks: Lessons on phases and levels8
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Between a rock and a hard place: Balancing the duties of political responsiveness and legality in the civil service8
Does political ideology still matter? A meta‐analysis of government contracting decisions8
How does diversity affect public organizational performance? A meta‐analysis8
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance?8
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The effect of human versus automated interaction on willingness to participate in government programs: The role of representation7
Exploring collaboration dynamics and representation in environmental justice councils7
Making nonpunitive accountability matter: Exploring behavioral effects of nonpunitive accountability in a conjoint experiment7
Editing Public Administration7
Designing for adaptation: Static and dynamic robustness in policy‐making7
Are public sector accounts trusted? Exploring the verdict of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in the United Kingdom7
Learning to govern: A typology of ministerial learning styles7
Managing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Public Service Organizations: A Liberatory Justice Approach. By RashmiChordiya and MeghnaSabharwal, New York: Routledge, 2024. 338 pp. $46.74.99 (ebk). 7
Accountability and High‐Effort Coping Strategies of Public Employees: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in China7
Are Competitive Public Service Exams Counter‐Productive? A Survey Experiment From Two East Asian States7
Title in English: Introduction to public management: A citizen‐centered state [Original title: Introducción a la gestión pública, un estado al servicio de la ciudadanía]. Mario Waissbluth in co7
Work safety regulation in China: the CCP's fatality quota system. Gao Jie, Routledge: Routledge Contemporary China Series, (2022). 247 pp., $US160 (hard cover), ISBN: 978‐1‐138‐182446
The administrative burden of doing business with the government: Learning and compliance costs in Business‐Government interactions6
Human resources information systems: a guide for public administrators. Valcik, N. A., Sabharwal, M., Benavides, T. J. (2021). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland6
Building Resilient Communities by Fostering Social Equity in Public Administration: Analyzing the Influence of Social Capital on COVID‐19 Vaccination Rates in Communities With Varying Socia6
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management: A Primer. By RobertAgranoff, AlekseyKolpakov, New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 322. ISBN: 97810033857696
Herbert Simon's Legacy for Public Administration6
Applying an intersectional understanding of extra work behavior and emotional exhaustion in local public service6
A framework for analyzing organizational culture among politicians: Exploring implications for participatory governance schemes6
The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency6
Larger, Not Leaner? Agencification and the Size of the Administrative Overhead in Local Governments6
A recipe for success? The importance of perceptions of goal agreement in cross‐sector collaboration6
Aggressions and associations: How workplace violence affects what public employees think of citizens6
Exploring the Combinatorial Effects of Collaborative Factors Leading to Higher Degree of Co‐Production6
Potter, Rachel Augustine. Bending the rules: Procedural politicking in the bureaucracy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2019, 244 pages5
My Parents and Me: Navigating the Role of Intergenerational Transmission on Policy Feedback5
Decoding Paradoxes in Digital Government: Strategies for the Pursuit of Public Value5
Third‐Party Governance: Using Third Parties to Deliver Governmental Goods and ServicesBy Jessica N.Terman, New York, NY: Routledge, 2024. 209. $51.99 (paperback). ISBN (print) 97810322617755
Fostering employee innovation: Linking person–organization fit to innovative behavior through knowledge sharing and reward perception5
COVID‐19‐induced governance transformation: How external shocks may spur cross‐organizational collaboration and trust‐based management5
Evaluating collaborative institutions by segregation and homophily in policy networks5
Cognitive Biases in Street‐Level Resolutions: The Case of Multiple Claims in Tax Disputes5
Institutions, interests, and policy support: Experimental evidence from China5
Strategies for dealing with policy ambiguities5
When do societal stakeholders matter for agency‐CEOs? The role of stakeholder arrangements and social media attention5
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Institutional Factors as Antecedents of Energy Efficiency Policies at the Local Level5
Administrative characteristics and timing of governments' crisis responses: A global study of early reactions to COVID‐195
Understanding the organizational learning culture—Innovative behavior relation in local government: The roles of knowledge sharing and job autonomy5
Keep going on: A qualitative comparative analysis on the durability of solidarity initiatives during and after crisis4
A replication of “unconscious bias in citizens' evaluations of public sector performance”4
Toward amicro‐levelperspective of organizational publicness: Felt organizational publicness in the eyes of state government employees4
Unveiling environmental justice through open government data: Work in progress for most US states4
Unpacking Approaches to Digitalization Strategy4
An exploration of citizens' professionalism in coproducing social care services4
Celebrating the centennial anniversary of Public Administration4
Prioritizing Along Prototypes: Implicit Citizenship Theories in Decision‐Making at the Frontline4
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Putting the international in Public Administration: An International Quarterly. A historical review of 1992–20224
How young adults explain their intention to participate in online direct citizen participation4
The gradual corporatization of transport infrastructure: The Danish case4
Collaboration and public policy: Agency in the pursuit of public purpose. By H.Sullivan, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐09585‐6.4
Shaping influence in governance networks: The role of motivations and information exchange4
Participatory Budgeting for Social Equity: A Comparative Analysis4
Citizen Acceptance of Co‐Designed Public Sector Innovation4
The curious public administrator. By WiliamHatcher, New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 90. ISBN: 978‐1‐032‐66850‐54
Chasing Digitalization: Understanding Control and Dispersion of Digitalization in Public Sector Organizations4
Citizen involvement in public policy: Does it matter how much is at stake?4
The power struggles of executives and legislators in a kingship budget setting: The role of informal and formal power4
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