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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How-to Bureaucracy: A Concept of Citizens’ Administrative Literacy	46
How Do Leaders Influence Innovation and Creativity in Employees? The Mediating Role of Intrinsic Motivation	45
Working Within a System of Administrative Burden: How Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Perceptions Shape Access to the Promise of Higher Education	30
Racial Bias: A Buried Cornerstone of the Administrative State	28
Nonprofit-Government Relations in Authoritarian China: A Review and Synthesis of the Chinese Literature	25
Taking a COVID-19 Vaccine or Not? Do Trust in Government and Trust in Experts Help Us to Understand Vaccination Intention?	22
Network Governance in Action: Functions and Practices to Foster Collaborative Environments	22
Does Co-Production Lead to the Creation of Public Value? Balancing the Dimensions of Public Value Creation in Urban Mobility Planning	19
Transformational Leadership and Project Success: A Mediating Role of Public Service Motivation	17
Social Accountability Between Consensus and Confrontation: Developing a Theoretical Framework for Societal Accountability Relationships of Public Sector Organizations	17
Public–Private Collaboration Led by Private Organizations in Combating Crises: Evidence From China’s Fighting Against COVID-19	17
Two-Way Risk Communication, Public Value Consensus, and Citizens’ Policy Compliance Willingness About COVID-19: Multilevel Analysis Based on a Nudge View	17
Vision, Voice, and Technology: Is There a Global “Open Government” Trend?	16
Are State-Owned Enterprises Good Citizens in Environmental Governance? Evidence From the Control of Air Pollution in China	16
Personal or Party Roots of Civil Service Patronage? Ministerial Change Effects on the Appointments of Top Civil Servants	15
Public Value Is Unknowable; Public Authority Makes Every Government Decision a Wicked Problem	15
Policy Learning, Policy Failure, and the Mitigation of Policy Risks: Re-Thinking the Lessons of Policy Success and Failure	15
Deliberation and Policy-Making: Three Ways to Think About Minipublics’ Consequences	15
‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible	14
Fostering Public Sector Employees’ Innovative Behavior: The Roles of Servant Leadership, Public Service Motivation, and Learning Goal Orientation	14
The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas	14
The Role of Collaboration in Complying With COVID-19 Health Protective Behaviors: A Cross-National Study	14
Behavioural Insights Teams (BITs) and Policy Change: An Exploration of Impact, Location, and Temporality of Policy Advice	14
The Contingent Value of Political Connections on Donations to Chinese Foundations: Exploring the Moderating Role of Transparency	12
Red Tape, Rule Legitimacy, and Public Service Motivation: Experimental Evidence From Korean Citizens	12

Racialized Emotional Labor: An Unseen Burden in the Public Sector	12
From Neighbors to Partners: The Adoption of Interlocal Government Collaboration in the United States, 1977–2007	12
Social Goals in the Theory of the Firm: A Systems Theory View	11
Working Toward Network Governance: Local Actors’ Strategies for Navigating Tensions in Localized Health Care Governance	11
Coordination Effectiveness During Public Health Emergencies: An Institutional Collective Action Framework	10
The Iterative Process of Legitimacy-Building in Hybrid Organizations	10
When Deaths Are Dehumanized: Deathcare During COVID-19 as a Public Value Failure	10
Enacting Accountability Under Populist Pressures: Theorizing the Relationship Between Anti-Elite Rhetoric and Public Accountability	10
Institutional Injustice: How Public Administration Has Fostered and Can Ameliorate Racial Disparities	10
Predicting Organizational Mortality: How Financial Management Matters	9
Competition and Collaboration in the Nonprofit Sector: Identifying the Potential for Cognitive Dissonance	9
Phenomenology in Public Administration: Bridging the Theory–Practice Gap	9
Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments: A New Pragmatist Approach	9
To Market or Demarket? Public-Sector Branding of Cannabis in Canada	9
Local Autonomy in Temporary Organizations: The Case of Smart City Pilots	9
Examining Public Organization Communication Misalignments During COVID-19 Through the Lens of Higher Education	9
Death by a Thousand 10-Minute Tasks: Workarounds and Noncompliance in University Research Administration	9
Municipal Pathways in Response to COVID-19: A Strategic Management Perspective on Local Public Administration Resilience	9
Policy Learning and Adaptation in governance; a Co-evolutionary Perspective	9
Understanding Emergency Preparedness in Public Agencies: The Key Role of Managerial Perceptions	8
The Cloud of Unknowing: Time for Value-ing Gerunds	8
Who Participates in Public Participation? The Exclusionary Effects of Inclusionary Efforts	8
Public Value is Knowable, Public Value Creation is Not	8
Neurodiversity in (Not Only) Public Organizations: An Untapped Opportunity?	8
Making People Matter: Moving Toward a Humanity-Based Public Administration	8
Theorizing Status Distance: Rethinking the Micro Theories of Representation and Diversity in Public Organizations	8
Walking on Thin Ice: How and Why Frontline Officers Cope With Managerialism, Accountability, and Risk in Probation Services	7
The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out): A Survey Experiment	7
Perceptions of the Frontline Craft: Assessing Value Convergence Between Policy Makers, Managers, and Street-Level Professionals in the Prison Sector	7
Co-creating Democratic Legitimacy: Potentials and Pitfalls	7
Developing the Public Participation Field: The Role of Independent Bodies for Public Participation	7
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	7
Interactive Learning and Governance Transformation for Securing Blue Justice for Small-Scale Fisheries	7
Participation Requests: A Democratic Innovation to Unlock the Door of Public Services?	7
Public–Nonprofit Collaboration in Homeless Services: Are Nonprofit-Led Networks More Effective in Winning Federal Funding?	7
Corporate-Led Environmental Governance: A Theoretical Model	7
Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies	6
Promoting Ethics Management Strategies in the Public Sector: Rules, Values, and Inclusion in Sweden	6
Managerialism and Its Consequences for Professional Identity: A Comparative Analysis of GPs and Secondary School Teachers	6
Designing Performance Systems in Anticipation of Unintended Consequences: Experiences and Lessons From the Compstat-Based Performance Regime in NYPD	6
Understanding the Spirit of the Sectors: Exploring Identity in a New Era of Organizing	6
The Nodality Disconnect of Data-Driven Government	6
The Relationship Between Islamic Work Ethic and Public Service Motivation	6
Actions for Queering American Public Administration	6
The Sequence of Isomorphism—: The Temporal Diffusion Patterns of Quality Management in Higher Education Institutions and Hospitals	6
A Framework for Governance Capacity: A Broad Perspective on Steering Efforts in Society	6
Local Governance Platforms: Roles and Relations of City Governments, Citizens, and Businesses	6
Side-Effects of Representation: Measuring the Impact of Representative Hiring on Employment Discrimination Complaints	6
Bureaucracies Under Judicial Control? Relational Discretion in the Implementation of Immigration Detention in Swiss Cantons	6
Social Services in Ethnically Mixed Cities: Street-Level Bureaucracy at the Crossroads of Ethno-National Conflict	6

Commentaries on “Public Value is Unknowable”: Valuing the Dimensions of Public Choices	5
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices	5
The Rise of a New Public Bureaucracy in New Zealand?	5
A Good Servant But a Poor Master: The Side Effects of Numbers and Metrics	5
Administrative Neutrality in the Wake of Trumpism	5
Volunteer Use as a Service Delivery Alternative: The Case of Law Enforcement Agencies	4
Conditional Nature of Policy as a Stabilizing Force: Erin’s Law and Teacher Child Abuse Reporting Practices	4
Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships for Public Service Provision Through Democratically Accountable Practices	4
How Do Government Grants Affect Nonprofit Financial Effectiveness? The Mediation Role of Process Accountability	4
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	4
Theoretical Perspectives on Bureaucrats: A Quest for Democratic Agents	4
Some Optimism About Public Governance	4
Incorporating Public Values Through Multiple Accountability: A Case Study on Quality Regulation of Emergency Care in the Netherlands by an Independent Regulatory Agency	4
Co-creation: A New Pathway for Solving Dysfunctionalities in Governance Systems?	4
Administration of Community Participation in Small-Scale Projects: Brownfield Remediation in Los Angeles	4
Which Clients Inspire or Reduce the Trust of Street-Level Bureaucrats?	4
Disentangling the Myth of Nonprofit–Government Relations in China	4
Project and Process Management of Public-Private Partnerships: Managerial Tensions and Coping Strategies	4
The Effects of Diverse Feedback Dynamics on Performance Improvement: A Typology of Performance Feedback Signals	4
Can Anyone Implement the Law? The Discourse and Practice of Externalizing Legal Authority	4
Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration	3
Beyond Weber and Kafka: Conceptualizing a Critical Realist Model of Bureaucracy	3
Remodeling Street-Level Workers With Quasi-Markets: Comparing Ireland’s Mixed Economy of Welfare-to-Work	3
Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel	3
Reactivity and the Dialectics of Performance Measurement: Micropolitics Between Agency and Compliance	3
Whose Public Virtue? Exploring Freedom of Information Efficacy and Support	3
Transparency Versus Populism	3
Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola	3
Confidence in Merit-Based Public Administration in the Context of Right-Wing Authoritarian Populism	3
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	3
Serving Multiple Masters? Public Managers’ Role Perceptions in Participatory Budgeting	3
Preparing Blacks and Latinx for Workforce 2000: Unfulfilled Promises and Lost Opportunities	3
Assessing Organizational Role and Perceptions of Programmatic Success in Policy Implementation	3
Community Diversity and Donor Control: An Empirical Analysis of Contributions to Donor-Advised Funds at Community Foundations	3
Towards Interactive Governance: Embedding Citizen Participation in Local Government	3
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	3
Street-Level Actors, Migrants, and Gender: Dealing With Divergent Perspectives	3
The Closer, the Better? Comparing Advisory Councils at Different Government Levels	3
Learn and Adapt, or Perish: The Case of the F35 Lightning II	3
Response to commentaries: Public Authority: Paradox, Process, and Palindrome	3
Relationality as a Lens for Policy Analysis: Preserving Harmony in a Triangular Cooperation Project to Strengthen Gender Mainstreaming in Fiji	3
Exploring Media-Covered Accountability of Public Agencies	3
How Leaders of Arm’s Length Agencies Respond to External Threats: A Strategic-Performative Analysis	2
COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in Decentralized Spain: How Governance and Public Policies Influence Working Conditions and Organizational Responses to the Crisis	2
Does Targeting Always Mean Retrenchment? Housing Assistance “Exceptionalism” in the Canadian Welfare State	2
How Public Managers Make Tradeoffs Regarding Lives: Evidence From a Flood Planning Survey Experiment	2
Application of Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety to Interorganizational Conflicts in Nonprofit Organizations	2
“Whatever It Takes”: Danger, Necessity, and Realism in American Public Policy	2
Corruption, Democracy, and Privately Financed Infrastructure	2
The Last 20 Years of Empirical Research on Government Utilization of Academic Social Science Research: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review	2
Target Groups on the Mainline: A Theoretical Framework of Policy Layering and Learning Disparity	2
Super-Human or Sub-Human? Positive Dehumanization and Gender in Public Performance Evaluations	2
Can the State Take the Burden? Implementation of Policies to Increase Elderly Enrollment in SNAP	2
Playing Offense: How Athletes are Impacting a Changing Administrative State	2
Co-Evolution of Organizations in Infrastructure Planning: The Role of Communities of Practice as Windows for Collective Learning Across Project-Oriented Organizations	2
Between the Public and the Private Interest: The Interrelationship of Intermediary Roles of Environmental Nonprofits in Coastal Resilience	2
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	2
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	2
The Relationship Between Local Public Policies for Economic Development and Entrepreneurial Presence: The Italian Case	2
Exploring Managerial Attitudes Toward Various Participation Mechanisms in Response to Citizen Satisfaction Signals on Public Service Quality	2
The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts	2
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	2
From Bureaucratic Discipline to Self-Actualization: Using Marx and Foucault to Critique the Demand for Better Work Rather Than Less Work	2
Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium	2
Do Business-Backed Think Tanks Represent Class Interests? The Co-evolution of Policy Learning and Economic Elites in the Canadian Knowledge Regime	2
Strategic Orientation and Relationship Building Among Dyads in Complex Public Management Networks: Perspectives From State Asthma Coalitions	2