Public Administration Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Administration Review is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Maximizing social equity as a pillar of public administration: An examination of cannabis dispensary licensing in Pennsylvania126
Celebrating 83 Years97
Information for Contributors87
We didn't start the fire…but it sure is getting warm83
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The Moderating Role of Workplace Autonomy on Corruption Control Strategies: Evidence From 33 South Korean Ministries64
Should We Change the Way We Think About Market Performance When It Comes to Quasi‐Markets? A New Framework for Evaluating Public Service Markets63
How does performance management affect social equity? Evidence from New York City public schools62
Keeping the magic alive: The multiple functions of magic concepts61
Decentralised Governance. Crafting Effective Democracies Around the WorldBy Jean‐PaulFaguet and SarmisthaPal (Eds.), London: LSE Press, 2023. To Appear in Public Administration Review. ISB57
Comparative Public Administration Is Regaining Its Importance in the Contemporary WorldPublic Administration in the Middle East and North Africa by ShahjahanBhuiyan, New York: Routledge, 2023. 210 pp.57
Great Gatsby and the Global SouthBy DidingSakri, AndySumner, Arief AnshoryYusuf, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 75 pp. $22.00 (paperback). ISBN 978100938272453
Joint effects of shared and transformational leadership on performance in street‐level bureaucracies: Evidence from the educational sector50
Does performance information receive political attention?50
When do bureaucrats respond to external demands? A theoretical framework and empirical test of bureaucratic responsiveness48
Social inclusion, social exclusion, and the role of leaders in avoiding—or promoting—societal collapse46
Evolving Motivation in Public Service: AThree‐PhaseLongitudinal Examination of Public Service Motivation, Work Values, and Academic Studies Among Israeli Students45
DianeStone and KimMoloney, The oxford handbook of global policy and transnational administration (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). 765 pp. (including index). $125 (hardcover), ISBN43
Mervyn K.Lewis, Rethinking Public Private Partnerships (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2021) 160 pp. (£70.00 paperback, paperback ISBN 978‐1‐78990‐639‐4. The eBook version is priced f42
James L.Perry, ed., Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty‐First Century (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). 312 pp. $69.9539
Celebrating 82 Years39
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics38
Variations on a Theme of Resignation: Idling by, Backpedaling, or Driving Forward?38
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Delivering public services to the underserved: Nonprofits and the Latino threat narrative35
Celebrating 81 Years34
Dollars and Sense: Tax, Spend, and Satisfice33
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How citizens want to “see” the state: Exploring the relationship between transparency and public values32
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics32
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Give, take, or match? Styles of reciprocity, job satisfaction, and work motivation31
Knowledge for results and the efficiency of public agencies in Colombia31
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Buying from Local Providers: The Role of Governance Preferences in Assessing Performance Information29
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics28
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Structural Advocacy Organizations and Intersectional Outcomes: Effects of Women's Police Stations on Female Homicides26
Evacuation behavior of households facing compound hurricane‐pandemic threats25
US state government privatization: Implications for social equity and inequality?24
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Varieties of welfare markets from a street‐level perspective: Comparing long‐term care services in Germany and Israel24
How Can Servant Leaders Foster Public Employees’ Service‐Oriented Behaviors? A Multilevel Multisource Study in Canadian Libraries23
Procedural Rationality in Westminster Systems: HowDe‐SeparationAffects the Decision Premise23
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics23
Decree or democracy? State takeovers and local government financial outcomes23
Goal achievement in municipal strategic planning: The role of executives' background and political context23
Judgment of Volunteer Competence among Service Professionals: Stereotypes or Skills?23
Imprinting and contested practices: The impact of public directors' private‐sector experience on temporary employment in Dutch public organizations22
Quantitative intersectionality: Imperatives and opportunities for advancing social equity22
Decision‐Makers’ Generation of Policy Solutions amidst Negative Performance: Invention or Rigidity?22
Policy entrepreneurs and individuals: Influence and behavior in pandemic response22
(De)Centering Whiteness through community dialogues about safety problems and solutions21
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Celebrating 84 Years20
The bureaucrat, the entrepreneur, and the networker: Developing and validating measurement scales for civil servants’ role perceptions20
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Third‐Party Governance: Using Third Parties to Deliver Governmental Goods and Services By Jessica N.Terman (Ed.), New York, NY: Routledge. 2024. p. 209 $51.99 (paperback). ISBN (print) 978118
The impact of COVID‐19 on American Society for Public Administration's scholar and practitioner membership18
It's not merely about the content: How rules are communicated matters to administrative burden17
The Effect of Administrative Burden on Farmers’ Perceptions of Cross‐Compliance‐Based Direct Payment Policy17
Does collective citizen input impact government service provision? Evidence from SeeClickFix requests17
Moving from coproduction to commonization of digital public goods and services17
Hot town, corruption in the city: Assessing the impact of form of government on corruption using propensity scores17
Insights from local government managers: Navigating crises through organizational capacities and perceptions16
Reducing horizontal neglect in local government: The role of informal institutions16
“It Was Actually Pretty Easy”: COVID‐19 Compliance Cost Reductions in the WIC Program16
Does she belong here? Women in leadership positions and organizational performance in gendered institutions16
Equity in government contracting: Analyzing the performance of small disadvantaged businesses16
Feminine leadership and juvenile justice outcomes: The Florida experience15
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics15
Careers of women public managers: Career needs of women public managers across generations15
Is Trust in Local Government Influenced by the “Marketplace” of Choice?15
Toward a better understanding of local service provision: Implications for studying the determinants of production choice15
The deformation of democracy in the United States: When does bureaucratic “neutral competence” rise to complicity?15
The new PhD: How to build a better graduate education. By LeonardCassuto, RobertWeisbuch, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2021. pp. 408. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781421439761 [also availa15
Reputation management during a public health crisis: Overcompensating when all else fails14
Getting a Grip on the Performance of Collaborations: Examining Collaborative Performance Regimes and Collaborative Performance Summits14
Regulatory offsetting in advanced democracies14
“It's all about trust!” a multilevel model of the effect of servant leadership on firefighters' group task performance, adaptivity and emotional exhaustion14
Who benefits from work‐life programs? Lessons in gender and race from OPM's Federal Work‐Life Survey13
Can public‐private innovation partnerships improve public services? Evidence from a synthetic control approach13
Dilemmas in public management in Greater China and Australia: Rising tensions but common challenges. By AndrewPodger, Hon S.Chan, Tsai‐TsuSu (Eds.), Canberra: ANU Press (Australian National University13
Sector attraction and the role of job information: Evidence from a conjoint experiment13
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics13
Is stress among street‐level bureaucrats associated with experiences of administrative burden among clients? A multilevel study of the Danish unemployment sector13
Body‐worn cameras and representation: What matters when evaluating police use of force?13
Social equity and LGBTQ populations in African public administration: A macro‐ and micro‐approach13
Measuring Transaction Costs in Public Sector Contracting Through Machine Learning and Contract Text13
Racial Discrimination and Street‐Level Managers: Performance, Publicness, and Group Bias13
Your Money, Your Life, or Your Freedom? A Discrete‐Choice Experiment on Trade‐Offs During a Public Health Crisis12
Scholarly hypocrisy or apostasy in public administration: Preaching to the choir, or to an empty room?12
Public Management for Populists: Trump's Schedule F Executive Order and the Future of the Civil Service12
The Cost of Representation: Insurance Status, Gender, and Cardiac Outcomes in Emergency Department Care12
No country for model minorities: Evidence of discrimination against Asian noncitizen immigrants in the U.S. nursing home market12
‘Feeling out’ the rules: A psychological process theory of red tape11
The ambidextrous leadership‐innovative work behavior relationship in the public sector: The mediating role of psychological ownership11
Beyond social equity: Talking social justice in public administration11
Trauma‐informed organizational climate and its impact on first responder burnout during COVID‐1911
Bureaucratic response to performance information: how mandatory information disclosure affects environmental inspections11
Reckoning With Race and Gender in Public Administration and Public Policy: A Substantive Social Equity Turn11
Burden tolerance: Developing a validated measurement instrument across seven countries11
Platform Government in the Era of Smart Technology11
The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding11
Organizational Reputation in the Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review11
Explaining Why the Computer Says No: Algorithmic Transparency Affects the Perceived Trustworthiness of Automated Decision‐Making11
How much damage can a politicized public service do? Lessons from Australia11
Trading Voice for Viability? The Impact of Marketization on Nonprofits' Critical Voice11
Can Leadership Training Improve Organizational Effectiveness? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on Transformational and Transactional Leadership11
Managerial Practice and Diversity Climate: The Roles of Workplace Voice, Centralization, and Teamwork11
Social equity in the data era: A systematic literature review of data‐driven public service research11
Institutional factors driving citizen perceptions of AI in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing11
Spillover Effects of Minority Representation on Majority Bureaucrats’ Behavioral Change10
Knowing what you pay for: Does benefits information increase bond referenda support?10
Public Preferences for Disaster Federalism: Comparing Public Risk Management Preferences Across Levels of Government and Hazards10
Some Parents Survive and Some Don't: The Army and the Family as “Greedy Institutions”10
“We're not there to lead”: Professional roles and responsibilities in “citizen‐led” co‐production10
From noise to knowledge: Improving evidentiary standards for program efficacy to better inform public policy and management decisions10
Celebrating 84 Years9
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Explaining the Use of Influence Tactics to Achieve Intraorganizational Collective Action Around Local Sustainability9
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Cops, teachers, and counselors, stories from the front lines of public service – 2nd edition, new and expanded. By StevenMaynard‐Moody, MichaelMusheno, The University of Michigan Press. 2022. pp. 280.9
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Celebrating 83 Years9
The Motivations for the Adoption of Management Innovation by Local Governments and its Performance Effects9
Mind the gap: Strategies from California on navigating access to public hearings9
The role of institutional factors in shaping university mission statements: A topic‐modeling approach9
Resilience and the management of nonprofit organizations: A new paradigm. By Dennis R.Young, Elizabeth A. M.Searing, Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2022. pp. 167. $110 (hard9
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics9
The Global Survey of Public Servants: Evidence from 1,300,000 Public Servants in 1,300 Government Institutions in 23 Countries9
It takes (at least) two to tango: Investigating interactional dynamics between clients and caseworkers in public encounters9
Interrogating hegemonic embraces: Representative bureaucracy, methodological Whiteness, and non‐West exclusions9
The ontology, origin, and impact of divisive public sector rules: A meta‐narrative review of the red tape and administrative burden literatures9
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Choose your collaborators wisely: Addressing interdependent tasks through collaboration in responding to wildfire disasters9
Swooshed: How Nike and the City of New York could potentially change the landscape of city branding through apparel licensing agreements8
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Being good and doing good in behavioral policymaking8
Do reputational threats influence the rigidity of US agencies? A dynamic panel data approach8
Strategizing under conditions of Weberian bureaucracy and ethnic consociationalism8
Capital, administrative burden, and welfare participation: Evidence from the minimum living standard scheme in China8
Bureaucratic prioritizing among clients in the eyes of the public: Experimental evidence from three countries8
Political accountability and social equity in public budgeting: Examining the role of local institutions7
The reputational dividends of collaborating with a highly reputable agency: The case of interagency collaboration between the U.S. FDA and its domestic partner agencies7
Resource Publicness Matters in Organizational Perceptions7
Connecting founding and dissolution: A demographic study of the US nonprofit sector7
The erosion of the administrative state under President Trump: Citizens' pushback against individual and institutional racism7
Adaptive organizational network response in a crisis: The case of five European airports during theCOVID‐19 pandemic7
Socioeconomic Status and Public Sector Worker Stereotypes: Results from a Representative Survey7
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Celebrating 81 Years7
Building an evidence engine to promote more responsive government7
If it ain't broke, don't fix it: When collaborative public management becomes collaborative excess7
Justice in Black and Brown: The impact of political control and representative bureaucracy on street level outcomes7
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Passive representation: The effect of affirmative action bans on female representation in law enforcement7
Regulatory Capture's Self‐Serving Application7
Celebrating 81 Years6
Managing through COVID‐19: Reflections from city managers and lessons learned6
Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019). 256 pp. $26.95 (Hardcover), ISBN6
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics6
Working as equals: Relational egalitarianism and the workplace. By Julian DavidJonker, Grant J.Rozeboom (Eds.), New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 272. £71.00 (hardback). ISBN: 97801976342956
Citizens' perceptions of the legitimacy of independent agencies: The effects of expertise‐based and reputation‐sourced authority6
Crisis coordination in complex intergovernmental systems: The case of Australia6
Saving Democracy from Rent‐Seeking Economic and Political Behavior Robert F. Durant, Building the Compensatory State. An Intellectual History and Theory of American Administrative Reform (New Y6
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics6
Public Service in the Pandemic Era: A COVID Commentary6
Managing my shame: Investigating the effects of organizational identity threat and public service motivation on exemplification6
Frontline employees' responses to citizens' communication of administrative burdens6
Public Branding and Marketing: Theoretical and Practical Developments6
Street‐level governing: Negotiating the state in urban Turkey. By EliseMassicard, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2023. pp. 344. $130.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 97815036284106
Global topics, global reach: Welcome to PAR's newest editorial board members6
When social workers impact policy and don't just implement it: A framework for understanding policy engagement. By JGal, IWeiss‐Gal, Bristol, UK: Policy Press. 2022, 2023. pp. 1846
Blockchains for emergency and crisis management6
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Designing cross‐sector collaboration to foster technological innovation: Empirical insights from eHealth partnerships in five countries6
Natural born violence? Understanding street‐level bureaucrats' use of violence: Police officers and protests6
In search of the silver‐lining: Police officers' attributions and responses to stakeholder critique5
Can politicians jeopardize public–private partnerships? The case of the Mottarone cable car crash5
Does granting managerial autonomy in exchange for accountability mitigate gaming?5
Coping practices and the spatial dimension of authority design5
Celebrating 85 Years5
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics5
Bending the arc of nonprofit leadership toward justice: Impacts of racial representation and organizational publicness on diversifying executive leadership5
How status‐group power differentials shape age discrimination within U.S. federal agencies: Evidence from EEOC formal complaint filings, 2010–20195
At their fingertips: What is the impact of online reporting of domestic violence?5
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The Asian American experience in the federal workforce: How employees navigate the complexities of racialization5
How reducing documentation burdens impacts equity in access to small business COVID‐19 relief funding5
Raising Expectations: The War We Must Fight to Prevent One5
Can Public Healthcare Afford Marketization? Market Principles, Mechanisms, and Effects in Five Health Systems5
To the summit and beyond: Tracing the process and impact of collaborative performance summits4
The Perceived Fairness of Active Representation: Evidence From a Survey Experiment4
Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?4
Information use in public administration and policy decision‐making: A research synthesis4
Enriching Transactional Leadership with Public Values4
Trust, power, and organizational routines: Exploring government's intentional tactics to renew relationships with nonprofits serving historically marginalized communities4
A compliance—integrity framework for ethics management: An empirical analysis of local government practice4
Same product, different price: Experimental evidence on the transaction cost expenditures of selling to governments and firms4
Province of Origin, Decision‐Making Bias, and Responses to Bureaucratic Versus Algorithmic Decision‐Making4
It's about time! Temporal dynamics and longitudinal research designs in public administration4
Social‐Psychological Context Moderates Incentives to Co‐produce: Evidence from a Large‐Scale Survey Experiment on Park Upkeep in an Urban Setting4
How to systematically analyze co‐production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co‐production4
Ijeoma Oluo. 2020. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America. New York: Seal Press. 336 pp.; $28 (Hardcover). ISBN: 97815800595104
Data feminism. By CatherineD'Ignazio, Lauren F.Klein, Cambridge: The MIT Press. 2020. pp. 314. $29.95 (hard cover). ISBN: 9780262044004 (Open access version through MIT Press at https://data-feminism.4
Toward a Public Administration Theory of Felt Accountability4
Job Vacancy and Organizational Performance: Are Senior Managers or Street‐Level Bureaucrats Missed Most?4
Is There a Glass Cliff in Local Government Management? Examining the Hiring and Departure of Women4
Management of Multiple Accountabilities Through Setting Priorities: Evidence from aCross‐NationalConjoint Experiment4
Institutional design and biases in evaluation reports by international organizations4
James V. Koch and Richard J.Cebula, Runaway College Costs: How College Governing Boards Fail to Protect their Students (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). 238 pp. $39.95 (hardcov4
Urban resilience, digital technologies, and the economic recovery of a city from the pandemic4
Representative bureaucracy and organizational attractiveness: An experimental study of symbolic representation of the US and UK police4
Reducing homelessness: An intergovernmental challenge3
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Death of the public servant. By Daniel A.Rosemond, Brisbane: Limelight Publishing. 2022. pp. 262. $17.95. ISBN 10: 1471668673ISBN 13: 97814716686783
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The Oxford handbook of governance and public management for social policy. By Karen J.Baehler, Washington: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 1064. $29.09 (soft cover), $144.92 (hardcover). pISBN3
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Celebrating 83 Years3
Incentives and effort in the public and private sector3
Hilton L. Root, Network Origins of the Global Economy: East Vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective | SpringerLink (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020). xxxi + 306 pp. USD 39.93
Diffusion of Complex Governance Arrangements: State Approaches to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence3
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics3
The Global Rise of the Modern Plug‐In Electric Vehicle: Public Policy, Innovation, and Strategy, By John D.Graham (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc, 2021), 496 pp. $157.50, 3
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics3
The impact of terrorism on civil servants: Longitudinal evidence from the July 22, 2011 attack in Norway3
Your Competitive Side Is Calling: An Analysis of Florida Contract Performance3
Celebrating 84 Years3
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State of empowerment: Low income families and the new welfare state. By CarolynBarnes, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2020. pp. 178. $49.95 (hardcover) or open access (E‐Book). IS3
Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do About It, By Cass R.Sunstein (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021), 153 pp. Cost: $22.36 (hard cover), ISBN: 978–02620457803
AnnikaJaansoo, Provision of services across international borders: factors driving cooperation of subnational governments in Europe (University of Twente, 2019). 368 pp. Free download at https://doi.o3
Taxing Language: Do Interpreting Fees Affect Immigrant Healthcare Usage? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design3
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What counts as evidence for policy? An analysis of policy actors' perceptions2
Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together By HeatherMcGhee, New York: One World Random House. 2021. pp. 448. Hardcover $28.00. ISBN: 97805255095612
Predict and surveil: Data, discretion, and the future of policing. By BrayneS, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2020. pp. 288. $29.95 (hard cover). ISBN: 97801906840992
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SergioFernandez, Representative bureaucracy and performance: Public service transformation in South Africa, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. 288 pp. (including index), $84.99 (cloth). ISBN2
Leadership in the public sector: A meta‐analysis of styles, outcomes, contexts, and methods2
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