Public Administration Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Public Administration Review is 7. 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.)
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics136
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics94
Information for Contributors89
The deformation of democracy in the United States: When does bureaucratic “neutral competence” rise to complicity?72
Who benefits from work‐life programs? Lessons in gender and race from OPM's Federal Work‐Life Survey66
‘Feeling out’ the rules: A psychological process theory of red tape62
Scholarly hypocrisy or apostasy in public administration: Preaching to the choir, or to an empty room?59
(De)Centering Whiteness through community dialogues about safety problems and solutions53
How much damage can a politicized public service do? Lessons from Australia53
Social equity in the data era: A systematic literature review of data‐driven public service research52
Issue Information48
Celebrating 85 Years47
The Asian American experience in the federal workforce: How employees navigate the complexities of racialization47
Information for Contributors44
Raising Expectations: The War We Must Fight to Prevent One43
Is There a Glass Cliff in Local Government Management? Examining the Hiring and Departure of Women41
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics41
Bureaucratic prioritizing among clients in the eyes of the public: Experimental evidence from three countries40
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics39
Representative bureaucracy and organizational attractiveness: An experimental study of symbolic representation of the US and UK police38
Some Parents Survive and Some Don't: The Army and the Family as “Greedy Institutions”37
Same product, different price: Experimental evidence on the transaction cost expenditures of selling to governments and firms36
Enriching Transactional Leadership with Public Values36
Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?35
Passive representation: The effect of affirmative action bans on female representation in law enforcement33
A compliance—integrity framework for ethics management: An empirical analysis of local government practice33
Issue Information32
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: 978–026204578031
Intergovernmental cooperation and joint purchasing agreements: Do governments free‐ride?30
Bureaucratic professionalization and cabinet management: How civil servants in presidential democracies are treated differently29
Building and Maintaining Trust “Even When Things Aren't Going Well”: Meta‐Regulation Through an Explicit Psychological Contract28
Benefit and hidden cost of organizational support for telework amid the COVID‐19 pandemic on public employees' job satisfaction and retention intention28
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics27
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 (hardcov25
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Collaboration in crisis: Utilizing the SOS program, an at‐home COVID‐19 vaccine administration initiative, to demonstrate best practices in emergency management collaboration25
How scholars can support government analytics: Combining employee surveys with more administrative data sources towards a better understanding of how government functions24
Diffusion of Complex Governance Arrangements: State Approaches to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence24
In Search of Social Equity in Public Administration: Race, Gender, and Some “Class”‐ey New Ideas24
What explains variation in representation in the public sector? Predicting the presence of female officers in U.S. College Police Departments23
Does public sector performance information impact stakeholders? Evidence from a meta‐analysis22
Death of the public servant. By Daniel A.Rosemond, Brisbane: Limelight Publishing. 2022. pp. 262. $17.95. ISBN 10: 1471668673ISBN 13: 978147166867822
Achieving social equity: From problems to solutions By M. E.Guy & S. A.McCandless (Eds.), Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh. 2020. pp. 194 $44.95 (paperback)21
What can postcolonial theory contribute to the study of social equity?21
Race in representative bureaucracy theory: A problematizing review21
Taxing Language: Do Interpreting Fees Affect Immigrant Healthcare Usage? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design21
Risk aversion and public sector employment21
Leadership in the public sector: A meta‐analysis of styles, outcomes, contexts, and methods20
Health in citizen‐state interactions: How physical and mental health problems shape experiences of administrative burden and reduce take‐up20
The three ages of government: From the person, to the group, to the world. By Jos C. N.Raadschelders, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2020. pp. 316. Paper: $29.95 Hardcover: $55. Also ava19
How Public Officials Perceive Algorithmic Discretion: A Study of Status Quo Bias in Policing19
Governance by artifacts: Theory and evidence on materiality of administrative burdens19
Global risk management: The role of collective cognition in response to COVID‐19. By LouiseComfort, Mary LeeRhodes, New York and London: Routledge. 2022. pp. 291. ISBN: 978‐1‐032‐18182‐018
Issue Information18
Editorial: A journal update and note of appreciation18
The Hidden Tier of Social Services. Frontline Workers' Provision of Informal Resources in the Public, Nonprofit and Private Sectors By EinatLavee, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp. 74. 18
The Administrative Presidency and PK‐12 Education Policy: Student Rights and Oversight During the Trump and Biden Era18
Celebrating 84 Years18
In search of the collaborative advantage of public‐private partnerships: A comparative analysis of Dutch transport infrastructure projects17
Revisiting the academic–practitioner divide: Evidence from computational social science and corpus linguistics17
Managing cyberattacks in wartime: The case of Ukraine17
Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments17
Nursery City Innovation: ACELLFramework17
Celebrating 85 Years17
Competence in virtual communication: Remote transformational leadership17
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Political time in public bureaucracies: Explaining variation of structural duration in European governments16
Information for Contributors16
Social equity in federal contracting during emergencies: A portfolio management perspective16
Nudging Public Employees Through Descriptive Social Norms in Healthcare Organizations15
Learning from Local Government Research Partnerships in a Fragmented Political Setting15
Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens' expectations toward public services15
The performance function in local government: Does location impact performance data use?15
Street‐level discretion, personal motives, and social embeddedness within public service ecosystems15
Politics, Policy and Public Administration: Essays in Honour of Professor John Wanna. By AndrewPodger, MichaeldePercy, and SamVincent, eds. 2021. Acton, Australia. Australian National University Press15
Building global public administration knowledge: Leveraging the power of collaboration14
Inconvenient truths about logistic regression and the remedy of marginal effects14
From performance to morality: How politicians frame bureaucracy, its organizations, and public sector employees14
Connecting the composition of collaborative governance structure to community‐level performance in homeless services14
Liberal democratic accountability standards and public administration14
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Influence of external authorities on collaborative frictions14
Nonprofits in policy advocacy their strategies and stories. By SheldonGen, Amy ConleyWright, Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. XXVIII, pp. 238. $34.99 (so13
Information for Contributors13
The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty‐First Century. By AlasdairRoberts, Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2024. pp. 192. $24.95 CAD (paperback). ISBN13
Issue Information13
The power of protest on policing: Black Lives Matter protest and civilian evaluation of the police13
Issue Information13
Celebrating 82 Years13
Bureaucratic Representation, Accountability, and Democracy: A Qualitative Study of Indigenous Bureaucrats in Australia and Canada13
The nexus between emergency management, public health, and equity: Responding to crisis, and mitigating future hazards13
Issue Information12
Strategic program management: Performance accountability driving use in national governments12
Organizational and Individual Factors of Evidence Informed Policy Making in Public Organizations12
Does revenue‐motivated policing alter who receives traffic citations? Evidence from driver race and income in Indiana12
Social inequity in administrative burdens: Evidence from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)12
A tiered pathway toward sustainability: The role of public administrators in advancing social equity in U.S. local governments12
The Impact of Demographic Composition of Social Networks on Perceived Inclusion in the Workplace12
Harnessing the evolutionary advantage of emergent performance management regimes: Strengthening accountability for challenges of modern public administration and governance12
US state government privatization: Implications for social equity and inequality?11
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics11
Administrative exclusion in the infrastructure‐level bureaucracy: The case of the Dutch daycare benefit scandal11
Information for Contributors11
Issue Information11
The Moderating Role of Workplace Autonomy on Corruption Control Strategies: Evidence From 33 South Korean Ministries11
Motivated to Serve: A Regulatory Perspective on Public Service Motivation and Organizational Citizenship Behavior11
Information for Contributors11
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics11
Does she belong here? Women in leadership positions and organizational performance in gendered institutions11
Representative bureaucracy and family planning service delivery in Tanzania11
Evolving Motivation in Public Service: AThree‐PhaseLongitudinal Examination of Public Service Motivation, Work Values, and Academic Studies Among Israeli Students11
Does collective citizen input impact government service provision? Evidence from SeeClickFix requests10
Regulatory offsetting in advanced democracies10
“We're not there to lead”: Professional roles and responsibilities in “citizen‐led” co‐production10
Equity in government contracting: Analyzing the performance of small disadvantaged businesses10
The reputational dividends of collaborating with a highly reputable agency: The case of interagency collaboration between the U.S. FDA and its domestic partner agencies10
Can public‐private innovation partnerships improve public services? Evidence from a synthetic control approach10
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics10
Public Preferences for Disaster Federalism: Comparing Public Risk Management Preferences Across Levels of Government and Hazards10
The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding10
Swooshed: How Nike and the City of New York could potentially change the landscape of city branding through apparel licensing agreements10
Buying from Local Providers: The Role of Governance Preferences in Assessing Performance Information10
Evacuation behavior of households facing compound hurricane‐pandemic threats10
How does performance management affect social equity? Evidence from New York City public schools10
Institutional factors driving citizen perceptions of AI in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing10
No country for model minorities: Evidence of discrimination against Asian noncitizen immigrants in the U.S. nursing home market10
Celebrating 84 Years9
Justice in Black and Brown: The impact of political control and representative bureaucracy on street level outcomes9
Toward a Public Administration Theory of Felt Accountability9
Celebrating 83 Years9
American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics9
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Frontline employees' responses to citizens' communication of administrative burdens9
Regulatory Capture's Self‐Serving Application9
Mind the gap: Strategies from California on navigating access to public hearings9
In search of the silver‐lining: Police officers' attributions and responses to stakeholder critique9
The ontology, origin, and impact of divisive public sector rules: A meta‐narrative review of the red tape and administrative burden literatures9
How to systematically analyze co‐production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co‐production9
Issue Information9
Managing my shame: Investigating the effects of organizational identity threat and public service motivation on exemplification9
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
Bending the arc of nonprofit leadership toward justice: Impacts of racial representation and organizational publicness on diversifying executive leadership8
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Information for Contributors8
Issue Information8
Trust, power, and organizational routines: Exploring government's intentional tactics to renew relationships with nonprofits serving historically marginalized communities8
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First impressions: An analysis of professional stereotypes and their impact on sector attraction7
‘Just like I thought’: Street‐level bureaucrats trust AI recommendations if they confirm their professional judgment7
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A meta‐analysis of the state and local government borrowing costs7
Indian Preference and the status of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the federal service: Employment, earnings, authority, and perceptions of fairness7
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 39.97
Who Joins a Forum—And Who Does Not?—Evaluating Drivers of Forum Participation in Polycentric Governance Systems7
Celebrating 82 Years7
Beyond Simplification in Public Sector Accountability: Contradictions Between Principal‐Agent and Complexity Theories7
Holding out for a hero: Linking hiring duration and managerial fit7
Crowdsourced data in public administration research: A review and look to the future7
Your Competitive Side Is Calling: An Analysis of Florida Contract Performance7
What is necessary for high employee engagement and satisfaction? A look at the best places to work in the Federal Government Index7
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