OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Administration & Society is 2. 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
When Deaths Are Dehumanized: Deathcare During COVID-19 as a Public Value Failure	56
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	35
Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	33
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	30
Cop Wisdom and the Democratic Consequences of Citizen–State Interactions	28
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	27
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	24
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	22
Learning and Adaptation in Polycentric Transport Governance: The Case of the Dutch Brabant Accessibility Agenda	22
The Innovative Implications of Smart Working in a Post-pandemic Era: A Model of Smart Working Satisfaction in Public Sector Organizations	21
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	20
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	20
Representative Bureaucracy, Institutional Support, and Clientele Need: The Case of Undocumented Students	20
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	18
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	18
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	17
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	17
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	17
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	15
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	15
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	14
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	14
Public-Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector and Sustainability: Managerial Insights from a Systematic Literature Review	14
Neurodiversity in (Not Only) Public Organizations: An Untapped Opportunity?	14
Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	13

Making People Matter: Moving Toward a Humanity-Based Public Administration	13
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	13
Serving Multiple Masters? Public Managers’ Role Perceptions in Participatory Budgeting	12
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	12
Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks	12
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	12
Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin	10
‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible	10
CEO Turnover and Openness of Decision-making Processes in the Post-succession Phase: Exploring a Threat-rigidity Perspective	10
Beyond Weber and Kafka: Conceptualizing a Critical Realist Model of Bureaucracy	10
Predicting Organizational Mortality: How Financial Management Matters	10
A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients	10
Does Citizen Sector-based Preference Relate to Citizen Satisfaction with Public Service Organizations?	10
COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments	9
The Challenge of Balancing Innovation and Tradition in the Public Sector: The Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Digital Transformation	9
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	9
Ending the Transformation before the Goal is Fulfilled: The Case of Head Start	9
Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making	9
Community Diversity and Donor Control: An Empirical Analysis of Contributions to Donor-Advised Funds at Community Foundations	8
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	8
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	8
A Framework for Governance Capacity: A Broad Perspective on Steering Efforts in Society	8
Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola	8
What if Action Defined Leadership?	8
When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support	7
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	7
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	7
Theorizing Status Distance: Rethinking the Micro Theories of Representation and Diversity in Public Organizations	7
Corrigendum to “Does Targeting Always Mean Retrenchment? Housing Assistance “Exceptionalism” in the Canadian Welfare State”	7
Local Government Accountability to Citizens as COVID-19 Took Hold: Sentiment Analysis of Tweets in Hispanic–American Countries	7
Which Clients Inspire or Reduce the Trust of Street-Level Bureaucrats?	7
The Adequacy of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Assessment of Public Value: A Case Study from the Transportation Sector	6
Moving Toward More Inclusive Government Communication in an Era of Superdiversity	6
COVID-19 Risk Perception and Support for COVID-19 Mitigation Measures among Local Government Officials in the U.S.: A Test of a Cultural Theory of Risk	6
Social Equity and Clientele Participation: A Cross-National Study of Immigrant Education	6
The Iterative Process of Legitimacy-Building in Hybrid Organizations	6
Remodeling Street-Level Workers With Quasi-Markets: Comparing Ireland’s Mixed Economy of Welfare-to-Work	6
Sector-Switching, Bureaucratic Reputation, and Citizen Evaluation of Performance: Evidence From a Large-Scale Experiment in India	6
The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts	6
Privation of Inclusion: An Exploration of the Stealth and the Strategy that Sabotaged Racialized Public Servants’ Career Mobility in British Columbia, Canada	5
Privileged Omissions: The Impact of Discriminatory Inaction	5
The Institutionalization of Public Innovation: Evidence from Indonesia	5
Determinants of Public Service Quality: An Exploratory Factor Analysis	5
Promoting Ethics Management Strategies in the Public Sector: Rules, Values, and Inclusion in Sweden	5
Reimagining Otherness, Recreating the Public Space: Public Administration and the U.S.-Mexico Border	5
Power of the Vague: How Vision Statements Have Mobilized Change in Two Swedish Cities	5
In Search of Ethics Infrastructure in U.S. Local Governments: Building Blocks or Dead End?	5
Does Policy Influence Hollow Out Public Managers’ Political Neutrality?	5
Government-Business Relations in Policymaking During the New Order Indonesia	5
“The New Red Tape: Agency Value Matching in a Post-Chevron World”	4

Does Governance Matter in Educational Outcomes? A Panel Data Analysis of BRICS Nations	4
The Values of the Management of Value Conflict	4
Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter?	4
Some Optimism About Public Governance	4
Transformational Leadership and Project Success: A Mediating Role of Public Service Motivation	4
Race in the Middle: Exploring the Impacts of Managerial Differences on Organizational Performance	4
Racialized Emotional Labor: An Unseen Burden in the Public Sector	4
Coping Strategies and Policy Alienation Under Centralization and Performance Management: Evidence From a Survey of Quebec Homecare Workers	4
Does Local Government Competition Reduce Environmental Governance Performance? The Role of Public Value Conflict and Media Sentiment	3
Between the Public and the Private Interest: The Interrelationship of Intermediary Roles of Environmental Nonprofits in Coastal Resilience	3
Co-creating Democratic Legitimacy: Potentials and Pitfalls	3
Against the Odds: On the Arduous Production of Linking Social Capital in Local Refugee Reception	3
Strategizing for Sustainable Development: How German Local Governments Use Ideas of Strategic Management for Implementing the 2030 Agenda	3
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?	3
A Reliance Typology of Collaborative Governance Platforms: Findings From a Comparative Study	3
Chai Pride: Using LGBTQIA+ Jewish Identities to Understand Intersectionality in Public Administration	3
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Behavioral Insights Group Rotterdam	3
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Condition of Expertise	3
Playing Offense: How Athletes are Impacting a Changing Administrative State	3
How Do Government Grants Affect Nonprofit Financial Effectiveness? The Mediation Role of Process Accountability	3
“Although Burdened, Do We Need to Do More?” Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Poverty Alleviation Policy Implementation	3
Street-Level Actors, Migrants, and Gender: Dealing With Divergent Perspectives	3
Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium	3
Working Toward Network Governance: Local Actors’ Strategies for Navigating Tensions in Localized Health Care Governance	3
The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come?	3
Co-Evolution of Organizations in Infrastructure Planning: The Role of Communities of Practice as Windows for Collective Learning Across Project-Oriented Organizations	3
Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments: A New Pragmatist Approach	3
Exploring Managerial Attitudes Toward Various Participation Mechanisms in Response to Citizen Satisfaction Signals on Public Service Quality	3
Bureaucracies Under Judicial Control? Relational Discretion in the Implementation of Immigration Detention in Swiss Cantons	3
Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration	3
The Cloud of Unknowing: Time for Value-ing Gerunds	3
Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted: Meta-Governance and Local Institutional Adaptation in the Implementation of the Smart Cities Mission India	3
Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel	3
The Importance of Similarity: How Gender Congruence Matters for the Impact of Leadership Training	2
Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships for Public Service Provision Through Democratically Accountable Practices	2
COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in Decentralized Spain: How Governance and Public Policies Influence Working Conditions and Organizational Responses to the Crisis	2
Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? The Impact of Performance Rating on Public Service Motivation: Evidence From a Chinese Local Government	2
A Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Voluntary Failure Theory: Toward a Future Research Agenda	2
Network Governance in Action: Functions and Practices to Foster Collaborative Environments	2
Fostering Public Sector Employees’ Innovative Behavior: The Roles of Servant Leadership, Public Service Motivation, and Learning Goal Orientation	2
Do Business-Backed Think Tanks Represent Class Interests? The Co-evolution of Policy Learning and Economic Elites in the Canadian Knowledge Regime	2
Public Channels of Access and State-Citizen Encounters in the Namibian Tax System	2
Understanding Emergency Preparedness in Public Agencies: The Key Role of Managerial Perceptions	2
Exploring Niche Alteration in Nonprofit Organizations	2
Prime Minister, Minister, or Something Else? Determinants of Patronage Appointments and Politicization of the Bureaucracy at the Senior Level in Turkey (2002–2018)	2
Towards Interactive Governance: Embedding Citizen Participation in Local Government	2
E-Government Innovation Initiatives in Public Administration: A Systematic Literature Review and a Research Agenda	2
The Political Economic Sources of Policy Non-design, Policy Accumulation, and Decay in Policy Capacity	2
Acknowledging the Emergence of a New Logic: The Regulation of Healthcare in Brazil	2
A Good Servant But a Poor Master: The Side Effects of Numbers and Metrics	2
Does User Involvement in Developing Public Sector Innovations Improve Outcomes? A Set-Theoretic Analysis of European Data	2
Does National Culture Influence Global Policy Diffusion: Evidence From Gender Mainstreaming Policy Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	2
Public Value Is Unknowable; Public Authority Makes Every Government Decision a Wicked Problem	2
Who Participates in Public Participation? The Exclusionary Effects of Inclusionary Efforts	2
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices	2
Opposites But Similar? Technocracy and Populism in Contemporary European Democracies	2