OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Public Administration is 10. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Public management: A research overview. By TomEntwistle, London: Routledge. 2022. pp. 114. USD 25.59 (paperback) ISBN: 9781032064031	80
Ignoring by complying: How public officials handle hybridity to pursue the goals of new public governance	74
Fiscal easing in local governments facing potential merger: Visible in budgets or hidden in overruns?	59
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks	56
Collaborating with the competition? A study of interlocal partnership choices	53
Regional network‐building for complexity: A region‐oriented policy response to increasing and varied demands for older person care in the Netherlands	48
Permanently provisional: An ethnographic analysis of responsive governance practices in and through meetings	42
Coproduction of core and complementary tasks in times of service decline: Experimental evidence	40
Are public spaces welcoming to all? A conjoint experiment on cultural representation and inclusionary practices in museums	40
The impact of service separation on value: A longitudinal study of user and provider experiences in a mental health service	39
Meet all changes with constancy: The dynamic adaptation process of county governments in China	39
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). ISBN	36
Correction to “Public value creation and appropriation mechanisms in public–private partnerships: How does it play a role?”	36
Ministerial Leadership: Practice, Performance and PowerBy LeightonAndrews, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 553 pp. £99.99 (hardcover); £79.50 (ebook). ISBN: 10 3031500075; ISBN:	31
The effect of institutional support and relational capital on knowledge mobilization in public administration research	29
Paths to trust: Explaining citizens' trust to experts and evidence‐informed policymaking during the COVID‐19 pandemic	29
A replication of “the effects of making public service employees aware of their prosocial and societal impact”	29
Leveraging normative power in co‐production to redress power imbalances	26
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.	25
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Integrating Formal and Relational Contracting: The Link Between Network Structure and Contract Design in Interlocal Collaboration Agreements	23
Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation?	23
How to extend pilot innovation in public services: A case of children's social care innovation	22

Losing control is not an option. Resource allocation to police oversight agencies in Western states	22
“Success” in policy piloting: Process, programs, and politics	22
Does bureaucratic representation enhance overall organizational accountability in policing?	22
Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions	22
New opportunities for institutional analysis in public administration research	22
Anticipated administrative burdens: How proximity to upcoming compulsory meetings affect welfare recipients' experiences of administrative burden	21
Population analysis of organizational innovation and learning	20
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Social Equity and Representative Bureaucracy: The Case of Nigeria's Federal Character Principle	19
Auditing, the State and Democracy in a “New” Machine Age of Digitalization: The UK Supreme Audit Institution	19
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A review of classical thoughts on contemporary public administration in developing countries	18
Representative bureaucracy in property assessment appeals administration: A group level analysis	18
Achieving collaborative innovation by controlling or leveraging network complexities through complexity leadership	18
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Public Perceptions of the Administrative Values Tradeoff: Bureaucratic and Democratic Ethos	17
A long road: Patterns and prospects for social equity, diversity, and inclusion in public administration	17
“Let's organize”: The organizational basis for stable public governance	17
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CORRIGENDUM	16
Why do public agencies seek accountability? The role of audiences	16
Can Cross‐Sector Collaboration Contribute to Boundaries Reshaping of Digital Government Platforms? Empirical Evidence Based on Machine Learning and Text Analysis	16
Measuring civil service politicization with career data: Backstage and frontstage political experience of top civil servants in the German ministerial administration	15
How does ethnic diversity shape the design of intergovernmental fiscal relations? Evidence from China	15
Symbolic Bureaucratic Representation and Client Cooperation: Experimental Insights From Four Daily Public Service Scenarios in China	15
Overlooking the front line: Impacts of front‐line worker inclusion on implementation and outcomes of collaborative innovation	14
Metagovernance of co‐creation in city–university partnerships: How to avoid being stuck in the middle?	14
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A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics	14
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Professional development leadership in turbulent times: Public administration symposium: Robust politics and governance in turbulent times	14
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Exploring the foundational origins of public service motivation through the lens of behavioral genetics	13
Organizing e‐participation: Challenges stemming from the multiplicity of actors	13
Reversing Government Reforms: Radical Change or Adaptive Adjustments?	13
How legal scholars facilitate tax avoidance: Case study on the power of tax consultancy firms	13
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Civil servant tactics for realizing transition tasks understanding the microdynamics of transformative government	12
Citizen participation matters. Bureaucratic discretion matters more	12
Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times	12
Performance appraisal justice and employees' work engagement in the public sector: Making the most of performance appraisal design	12
Emotional labor and employee outcomes: A meta‐analysis	12
From big data to higher bureaucratic capacity: Poverty alleviation in China	12
Rebel with a cause: The effects of leadership encouragement and psychological safety on professionals' prosocial rulebreaking behavior	12
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All you need is … a network: The rise of interpretive public administration	11
Administrative intensity and local resident satisfaction in Victorian local government	11
Legislative influence on administrative decision making in Pennsylvania's Abandoned and Orphan Well Plugging Program	11
What matters the most in curbing early COVID‐19 mortality? A cross‐country necessary condition analysis	11
Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value	11

Credible signaling to promote local compliance: Evidence from China's multiwave inspection of environmental protection	11
Corporatization and political ideology: The case of hospitals in Spain	11
Member duality and policy tourism: Learning in interlocal policy networks	11
Robust emergency management: The role of institutional trust in organized volunteers	10
How rediscovering nodality can improve democratic governance in a digital world	10
Opening the “black box” of public administration: The need for interpretive research	10
“One, none, and a hundred thousand” recipes for a robust response to turbulence	10
Public Service Motivation and Public Opinion: Examining Antecedents and Attitudes (Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration), Piatak, Jaclyn and Holt, Stephen, Cambridge: Cambridge University P	10
Policy advocacy of nongovernmental organizations in China: A quasi‐replication of Zhan and Tang (2013, 2016)	10
What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy	10
The association between public managers' type of education and prioritizing core service provision and communication	10