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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Public management: A research overview. By TomEntwistle, London: Routledge. 2022. pp. 114. USD 25.59 (paperback) ISBN: 978103206403187
Ignoring by complying: How public officials handle hybridity to pursue the goals of new public governance78
Regional network‐building for complexity: A region‐oriented policy response to increasing and varied demands for older person care in the Netherlands64
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks63
Collaborating with the competition? A study of interlocal partnership choices52
Permanently provisional: An ethnographic analysis of responsive governance practices in and through meetings45
The impact of service separation on value: A longitudinal study of user and provider experiences in a mental health service44
Coproduction of core and complementary tasks in times of service decline: Experimental evidence44
Fiscal easing in local governments facing potential merger: Visible in budgets or hidden in overruns?41
Meet all changes with constancy: The dynamic adaptation process of county governments in China40
Are public spaces welcoming to all? A conjoint experiment on cultural representation and inclusionary practices in museums39
Evaluating Conflict, Interest Advancement, and Representation in Collaborative Governance36
Correction to “Public value creation and appropriation mechanisms in public–private partnerships: How does it play a role?”32
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
Leveraging normative power in co‐production to redress power imbalances29
A replication of “the effects of making public service employees aware of their prosocial and societal impact”29
The effect of institutional support and relational capital on knowledge mobilization in public administration research29
Performance Rewards and Job Satisfaction in More and Less Developed Countries: Multi‐Level Evidence From Bureaucrats in 10 Countries28
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. 28
Ministerial Leadership: Practice, Performance and PowerBy LeightonAndrews, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 553 pp. £99.99 (hardcover); £79.50 (ebook). ISBN: 10 3031500075; ISBN:26
How to extend pilot innovation in public services: A case of children's social care innovation25
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Paths to trust: Explaining citizens' trust to experts and evidence‐informed policymaking during the COVID‐19 pandemic25
Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation?25
Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions24
Population analysis of organizational innovation and learning24
Losing control is not an option. Resource allocation to police oversight agencies in Western states23
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“Success” in policy piloting: Process, programs, and politics22
Integrating Formal and Relational Contracting: The Link Between Network Structure and Contract Design in Interlocal Collaboration Agreements20
Social Equity and Representative Bureaucracy: The Case of Nigeria's Federal Character Principle20
Anticipated administrative burdens: How proximity to upcoming compulsory meetings affect welfare recipients' experiences of administrative burden20
Public Perceptions of the Administrative Values Tradeoff: Bureaucratic and Democratic Ethos19
A review of classical thoughts on contemporary public administration in developing countries19
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Achieving collaborative innovation by controlling or leveraging network complexities through complexity leadership19
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A long road: Patterns and prospects for social equity, diversity, and inclusion in public administration18
Representative bureaucracy in property assessment appeals administration: A group level analysis18
Auditing, the State and Democracy in a “New” Machine Age of Digitalization: The UK Supreme Audit Institution18
“Let's organize”: The organizational basis for stable public governance18
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Symbolic Bureaucratic Representation and Client Cooperation: Experimental Insights From Four Daily Public Service Scenarios in China17
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Can Cross‐Sector Collaboration Contribute to Boundaries Reshaping of Digital Government Platforms? Empirical Evidence Based on Machine Learning and Text Analysis16
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Metagovernance of co‐creation in city–university partnerships: How to avoid being stuck in the middle?15
Overlooking the front line: Impacts of front‐line worker inclusion on implementation and outcomes of collaborative innovation15
Measuring civil service politicization with career data: Backstage and frontstage political experience of top civil servants in the German ministerial administration15
How does ethnic diversity shape the design of intergovernmental fiscal relations? Evidence from China15
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Why do public agencies seek accountability? The role of audiences15
Professional development leadership in turbulent times: Public administration symposium: Robust politics and governance in turbulent times15
A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics15
Exploring the foundational origins of public service motivation through the lens of behavioral genetics14
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From big data to higher bureaucratic capacity: Poverty alleviation in China14
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Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more14
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Performance appraisal justice and employees' work engagement in the public sector: Making the most of performance appraisal design13
Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times13
Civil servant tactics for realizing transition tasks understanding the microdynamics of transformative government13
Organizing e‐participation: Challenges stemming from the multiplicity of actors13
How legal scholars facilitate tax avoidance: Case study on the power of tax consultancy firms13
Emotional labor and employee outcomes: A meta‐analysis13
Credible signaling to promote local compliance: Evidence from China's multiwave inspection of environmental protection12
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All you need is … a network: The rise of interpretive public administration12
Reversing Government Reforms: Radical Change or Adaptive Adjustments?12
Nodality Dynamics and Network Evolution in Multi‐Actor Cooperation: Insights Into Community Conflict Resolution12
Rebel with a cause: The effects of leadership encouragement and psychological safety on professionals' prosocial rulebreaking behavior12
Governance and Renegotiation in Public‐Private Partnerships During Crises: An Examination of the Resulting Tensions in a Private Partner Consortium11
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
Corporatization and political ideology: The case of hospitals in Spain11
Member duality and policy tourism: Learning in interlocal policy networks11
Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value11
What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy11
Administrative intensity and local resident satisfaction in Victorian local government10
Robust emergency management: The role of institutional trust in organized volunteers10
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How personnel allocation affects performance: Evidence from Brazil's federal protected areas agency10
Policy advocacy of nongovernmental organizations in China: A quasi‐replication of Zhan and Tang (2013, 2016)10
Opening the “black box” of public administration: The need for interpretive research10
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What matters the most in curbing early COVID‐19 mortality? A cross‐country necessary condition analysis10
Public Service Motivation and Public Opinion: Examining Antecedents and Attitudes (Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration), Piatak, Jaclyn and Holt, Stephen, Cambridge: Cambridge University P10
“One, none, and a hundred thousand” recipes for a robust response to turbulence10
Hambleton, Robin. Cities and communities beyond Covid‐19. Great Britain: Bristol University Press. 2020. pp. 177. ISBN: 978152921585410
Does political ideology still matter? A meta‐analysis of government contracting decisions9
“I have learned my lesson”: How clients' trust betrayals shape the future ways in which street‐level bureaucrats cope with their clients9
Citizens' Inclusion in Public Services: A Systematic Review of the Public Administration Literature and Reflection on Future Research Avenues9
Fifty years as the fourth pillar of public administration: A polycentric extension of the social equity framework9
Seeing the nudge from the trees: The 4S framework for evaluating nudges9
What does the evidence tell us about merit principles and government performance?9
Robust crisis communication in turbulent times: Conceptualization and empirical evidence from the United States9
Buying green in U.S. local government: Internal commitment and responsiveness to external pressures9
Organizational stability and resocialization in public administrations: Theory and evidence from Norwegian civil servants (1986–2016)9
How does diversity affect public organizational performance? A meta‐analysis8
Styles of regulatory discretion: A comparative analysis of the British and Israeli education legislation8
Does increasing auditors' independence lead to more forceful public auditing? A study of a Canadian internal audit reform8
Representative bureaucracy and the policy environment: Gender representation in Forty‐Four countries8
A review of classical thoughts on contemporary public administration in developing countries8
Contextual recipes for adopting private control and trust in public–private partnership governance8
Emergency management through enduring collaborative networks: Lessons on phases and levels8
Public accountability and auditing: Why and when do state auditors conduct broad audits?7
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Predicting executive vacancies: An organizational approach7
Designing for adaptation: Static and dynamic robustness in policy‐making7
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance?7
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)7
Between a rock and a hard place: Balancing the duties of political responsiveness and legality in the civil service7
Accountability and High‐Effort Coping Strategies of Public Employees: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in China7
Comparing public servants' behavior in South Korea and the United States: How emotional labor moderates the relationship between organizational commitment and job performance7
Algorithms in the public sector. Why context matters7
The effect of human versus automated interaction on willingness to participate in government programs: The role of representation7
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
Making nonpunitive accountability matter: Exploring behavioral effects of nonpunitive accountability in a conjoint experiment7
The Politics of Collaborative Public Management: A Primer. By RobertAgranoff, AlekseyKolpakov, New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 322. ISBN: 97810033857696
Larger, Not Leaner? Agencification and the Size of the Administrative Overhead in Local Governments6
At the pleasure of the crown: The politics of bureaucratic appointments, by ChristopherCooper. University of British Colombia Press, Vancouver. 2020. 133 pp. $32.95 (paperback)6
Are Competitive Public Service Exams Counter‐Productive? A Survey Experiment From Two East Asian States6
Learning to govern: A typology of ministerial learning styles6
The administrative burden of doing business with the government: Learning and compliance costs in Business‐Government interactions6
Herbert Simon's Legacy for Public Administration6
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
Editing Public Administration6
Seeding the cloud: Consultancy services in the nascent field of cyber capacity building6
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 co6
The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency6
Exploring collaboration dynamics and representation in environmental justice councils6
Are public sector accounts trusted? Exploring the verdict of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in the United Kingdom6
A recipe for success? The importance of perceptions of goal agreement in cross‐sector collaboration6
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 Socia5
When do societal stakeholders matter for agency‐CEOs? The role of stakeholder arrangements and social media attention5
Aggressions and associations: How workplace violence affects what public employees think of citizens5
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
A framework for analyzing organizational culture among politicians: Exploring implications for participatory governance schemes5
Potter, Rachel Augustine. Bending the rules: Procedural politicking in the bureaucracy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2019, 244 pages5
Human resource management as a tool to control corruption: Evidence from Mexican municipal governments5
Evaluating collaborative institutions by segregation and homophily in policy networks5
Exploring the Combinatorial Effects of Collaborative Factors Leading to Higher Degree of Co‐Production5
Human resources information systems: a guide for public administrators. Valcik, N. A., Sabharwal, M., Benavides, T. J. (2021). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland5
Applying an intersectional understanding of extra work behavior and emotional exhaustion in local public service5
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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
How young adults explain their intention to participate in online direct citizen participation4
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Celebrating the centennial anniversary of Public Administration4
Strategies for dealing with policy ambiguities4
My Parents and Me: Navigating the Role of Intergenerational Transmission on Policy Feedback4
The curious public administrator. By WiliamHatcher, New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 90. ISBN: 978‐1‐032‐66850‐54
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
Critical Perspectives on Public Systems Management in India Through the Lens of District Administration, Amar K. J. R.Nayak and Ram KumarKakaniRoutledge: New York/London, 2021, 325 pp. (including inde4
Institutions, interests, and policy support: Experimental evidence from China4
Cognitive Biases in Street‐Level Resolutions: The Case of Multiple Claims in Tax Disputes4
Administrative characteristics and timing of governments' crisis responses: A global study of early reactions to COVID‐194
Citizen Acceptance of Co‐Designed Public Sector Innovation4
The gradual corporatization of transport infrastructure: The Danish case4
Putting the international in Public Administration: An International Quarterly. A historical review of 1992–20224
Understanding the organizational learning culture—Innovative behavior relation in local government: The roles of knowledge sharing and job autonomy4
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Participatory Budgeting for Social Equity: A Comparative Analysis3
Towards inclusive public administration systems: Public budgeting from the perspective of critical race theory3
Cutback management strategies and citizen evaluation of government3
Target‐setting, political incentives, and the tricky trade‐off between economic development and environmental protection3
Shaping influence in governance networks: The role of motivations and information exchange3
Citizen involvement in public policy: Does it matter how much is at stake?3
The power struggles of executives and legislators in a kingship budget setting: The role of informal and formal power3
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A replication of “unconscious bias in citizens' evaluations of public sector performance”3
Unpacking Approaches to Digitalization Strategy3
CO‐DESIGN‐ing a morecontext‐based, pluralistic, and participatory future for public administration3
Corruption in social relations: Bribe‐taking, corruptibility, and corruption risks3
Collaboration and public policy: Agency in the pursuit of public purpose. By H.Sullivan, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐09585‐6.3
Embracing the ambiguity: Tracing climate response diversity in urban water management3
Chasing Digitalization: Understanding Control and Dispersion of Digitalization in Public Sector Organizations3
Voice, responsiveness, and alternative policy venues: An analysis of citizen complaints against the local government to the national Ombudsman3
Do monetary or nonmonetary incentives promote citizens' use of a government crowdsourcing: A case of the City of Omaha's 311‐type of crowdsourcing platform3
An exploration of citizens' professionalism in coproducing social care services3
Prioritizing Along Prototypes: Implicit Citizenship Theories in Decision‐Making at the Frontline3
Keep going on: A qualitative comparative analysis on the durability of solidarity initiatives during and after crisis3
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