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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	39
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	34
Learning and Adaptation in Polycentric Transport Governance: The Case of the Dutch Brabant Accessibility Agenda	32
Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	27
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	24
Cop Wisdom and the Democratic Consequences of Citizen–State Interactions	24
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	23
To Obey or not to Obey? The Role of Trust in Non-pharmaceutical Interventions	23
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	22
The Innovative Implications of Smart Working in a Post-pandemic Era: A Model of Smart Working Satisfaction in Public Sector Organizations	22
Representative Bureaucracy, Institutional Support, and Clientele Need: The Case of Undocumented Students	21
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	18
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	17
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	17
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	16
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	16
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	15
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	15
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	14
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	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
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	13
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	13
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	12

Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks	12
Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	12
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	11
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	11
A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients	11
‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible	10
Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin	10
Does Citizen Sector-based Preference Relate to Citizen Satisfaction with Public Service Organizations?	10
CEO Turnover and Openness of Decision-making Processes in the Post-succession Phase: Exploring a Threat-rigidity Perspective	10
Predicting Organizational Mortality: How Financial Management Matters	9
Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making	9
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
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	8
COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments	8
Ending the Transformation before the Goal is Fulfilled: The Case of Head Start	8
The Challenge of Balancing Innovation and Tradition in the Public Sector: The Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Digital Transformation	8
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	8
Corrigendum to “Does Targeting Always Mean Retrenchment? Housing Assistance “Exceptionalism” in the Canadian Welfare State”	7
Community Diversity and Donor Control: An Empirical Analysis of Contributions to Donor-Advised Funds at Community Foundations	7
Which Clients Inspire or Reduce the Trust of Street-Level Bureaucrats?	7
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	7
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	7
A Framework for Governance Capacity: A Broad Perspective on Steering Efforts in Society	7
Local Government Accountability to Citizens as COVID-19 Took Hold: Sentiment Analysis of Tweets in Hispanic–American Countries	6
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	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
Chevron Deference and the Loper Bright Decision: Deference, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State	6
The Adequacy of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Assessment of Public Value: A Case Study from the Transportation Sector	6
When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support	6
Remodeling Street-Level Workers With Quasi-Markets: Comparing Ireland’s Mixed Economy of Welfare-to-Work	6
Privation of Inclusion: An Exploration of the Stealth and the Strategy that Sabotaged Racialized Public Servants’ Career Mobility in British Columbia, Canada	5
Social Equity and Clientele Participation: A Cross-National Study of Immigrant Education	5
The Iterative Process of Legitimacy-Building in Hybrid Organizations	5
Determinants of Public Service Quality: An Exploratory Factor Analysis	5
Reimagining Otherness, Recreating the Public Space: Public Administration and the U.S.-Mexico Border	5
Sector-Switching, Bureaucratic Reputation, and Citizen Evaluation of Performance: Evidence From a Large-Scale Experiment in India	5
The Institutionalization of Public Innovation: Evidence from Indonesia	5
The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts	5
Government-Business Relations in Policymaking During the New Order Indonesia	5
Moving Toward More Inclusive Government Communication in an Era of Superdiversity	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?	4
Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter?	4
Some Optimism About Public Governance	4
Does Policy Influence Hollow Out Public Managers’ Political Neutrality?	4
Privileged Omissions: The Impact of Discriminatory Inaction	4
“The New Red Tape: Agency Value Matching in a Post- Chevron World”	4
Promoting Ethics Management Strategies in the Public Sector: Rules, Values, and Inclusion in Sweden	4
Coping Strategies and Policy Alienation Under Centralization and Performance Management: Evidence From a Survey of Quebec Homecare Workers	4

Does Governance Matter in Educational Outcomes? A Panel Data Analysis of BRICS Nations	4
Race in the Middle: Exploring the Impacts of Managerial Differences on Organizational Performance	4
Chai Pride: Using LGBTQIA+ Jewish Identities to Understand Intersectionality in Public Administration	3
The Values of the Management of Value Conflict	3
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?	3
The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come?	3
Transformational Leadership and Project Success: A Mediating Role of Public Service Motivation	3
Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments: A New Pragmatist Approach	3
“Although Burdened, Do We Need to Do More?” Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Poverty Alleviation Policy Implementation	3
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Behavioral Insights Group Rotterdam	3
Racialized Emotional Labor: An Unseen Burden in the Public Sector	3
Does Local Government Competition Reduce Environmental Governance Performance? The Role of Public Value Conflict and Media Sentiment	3
Co-Evolution of Organizations in Infrastructure Planning: The Role of Communities of Practice as Windows for Collective Learning Across Project-Oriented Organizations	3
Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration	3
Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium	3
Co-creating Democratic Legitimacy: Potentials and Pitfalls	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
Action Without Certainty: The Knowability and Legitimacy of Public Value	3
Between the Public and the Private Interest: The Interrelationship of Intermediary Roles of Environmental Nonprofits in Coastal Resilience	3
The Cloud of Unknowing: Time for Value-ing Gerunds	3
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Condition of Expertise	3
Citizen Satisfaction and Traffic Police: Theoretical, Managerial, and Policy Implications of Using a Telegram Channel	3
Playing Offense: How Athletes are Impacting a Changing Administrative State	3
A Reliance Typology of Collaborative Governance Platforms: Findings From a Comparative Study	3
Exploring Niche Alteration in Nonprofit Organizations	2
Exploring Managerial Attitudes Toward Various Participation Mechanisms in Response to Citizen Satisfaction Signals on Public Service Quality	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
Who Participates in Public Participation? The Exclusionary Effects of Inclusionary Efforts	2
A Good Servant But a Poor Master: The Side Effects of Numbers and Metrics	2
Augmented Okun’s Law: Does Institutional Quality Shape the Unemployment-Growth Relationship? Insights From Developing and Emerging Economies	2
Bureaucracies Under Judicial Control? Relational Discretion in the Implementation of Immigration Detention in Swiss Cantons	2
How Do Government Grants Affect Nonprofit Financial Effectiveness? The Mediation Role of Process Accountability	2
Acknowledging the Emergence of a New Logic: The Regulation of Healthcare in Brazil	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
The Importance of Similarity: How Gender Congruence Matters for the Impact of Leadership Training	2
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices	2
Does User Involvement in Developing Public Sector Innovations Improve Outcomes? A Set-Theoretic Analysis of European Data	2
Strategizing for Sustainable Development: How German Local Governments Use Ideas of Strategic Management for Implementing the 2030 Agenda	2
Against the Odds: On the Arduous Production of Linking Social Capital in Local Refugee Reception	2
Public Channels of Access and State-Citizen Encounters in the Namibian Tax System	2
Does National Culture Influence Global Policy Diffusion: Evidence From Gender Mainstreaming Policy Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)	2
Fostering Public Sector Employees’ Innovative Behavior: The Roles of Servant Leadership, Public Service Motivation, and Learning Goal Orientation	2
Towards Interactive Governance: Embedding Citizen Participation in Local Government	2