OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Administration & Society is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning and Adaptation in Polycentric Transport Governance: The Case of the Dutch Brabant Accessibility Agenda	51
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	33
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	24
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	23
Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea	21
School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations	18
To Obey or not to Obey? The Role of Trust in Non-pharmaceutical Interventions	18
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	18
Social Equity and the Responsible Administrator: The Challenge of Equity in Public Policy Initiatives	17
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	16
The Innovative Implications of Smart Working in a Post-pandemic Era: A Model of Smart Working Satisfaction in Public Sector Organizations	16
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	16
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	14
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	14
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	14
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	12
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	12
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	11
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	11
Public-Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector and Sustainability: Managerial Insights from a Systematic Literature Review	11
Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	11
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	11
Does Citizen Sector-based Preference Relate to Citizen Satisfaction with Public Service Organizations?	10
The Unionization of State Government Employees and the Cost of State Government: Re-Evaluating an Evolving Relationship	10
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	10

The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	10
Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks	10
A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients	10
Leveraging the VUCA Paradigm: A SWOT-Based Strategy for Sustainable Healthcare	9
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	9
Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making	8
Can Female Representation Reduce Corruption? A Meta-Analysis	8
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	7
Integrated Ecosystem Approaches to Social Entrepreneurship Development in Hong Kong	7
CEO Turnover and Openness of Decision-making Processes in the Post-succession Phase: Exploring a Threat-rigidity Perspective	7
COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments	7
The Challenge of Balancing Innovation and Tradition in the Public Sector: The Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Digital Transformation	7
Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin	7
Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola	7
Ending the Transformation before the Goal is Fulfilled: The Case of Head Start	7
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	6
Chevron Deference and the Loper Bright Decision: Deference, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State	6
Administrative Friction: A Conceptual Model for Understanding and Anticipating Policy Implementation Failure	6
When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support	6
What if Action Defined Leadership?	6
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	6
The Europeanization of Anti-Corruption Policy: The Case of Spain	6
What Do We Know About Wicked Problems After Nearly 52 Years? Tracing the DNA of Wicked Problems through A Bibliometric Study	6
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	6
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	6