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 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
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
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	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
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	17
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	17
Councils, Managers. . . and Consultants? Management Consulting and Complementarity in Municipal Strategy Implementation	17
The Need to Reconnect Public Administration Education, Research, and Practice	15
Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018	15
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
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	14
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
Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	13
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	12
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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