OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Administration & Society is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Does Public Accreditation Promote More State-Friendly Decisions at the Street Level?	42
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	28
Water Governance in Public Administration: Insights from the Bibliometrics	25
Cop Wisdom and the Democratic Consequences of Citizen–State Interactions	25
Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Catch-All Bureaucracy	24
Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets, and Should They?	22
To Obey or not to Obey? The Role of Trust in Non-pharmaceutical Interventions	21
The Innovative Implications of Smart Working in a Post-pandemic Era: A Model of Smart Working Satisfaction in Public Sector Organizations	18
How the Drafting of the Clayton Antitrust Act Helped Spread the Managerial Approach to Efficiency	17
Representative Bureaucracy, Institutional Support, and Clientele Need: The Case of Undocumented Students	17
“No time for nonsense!”: The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance	16
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
Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today	16
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter?	16
Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis	14
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	13
Neurodiversity in (Not Only) Public Organizations: An Untapped Opportunity?	12
Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services	12
Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review	12
A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients	11

Administrator Political Orientations and Views on Federal Encroachment	11
Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks	11
Does Citizen Sector-based Preference Relate to Citizen Satisfaction with Public Service Organizations?	10
The Distortion of Public–Private Partnerships in China: An Institutional Perspective of Central–Local Government Relations	10
The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis	10
CEO Turnover and Openness of Decision-making Processes in the Post-succession Phase: Exploring a Threat-rigidity Perspective	9
‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible	9
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries	9
COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments	8
Predicting Organizational Mortality: How Financial Management Matters	8
Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization	8
Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin	8
Ending the Transformation before the Goal is Fulfilled: The Case of Head Start	8
Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making	8
Local Government Employees’ Technology Acceptance of E-Participation: An Empirical Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling	7
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments	7
Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola	7
What if Action Defined Leadership?	7
Community Diversity and Donor Control: An Empirical Analysis of Contributions to Donor-Advised Funds at Community Foundations	7
The Challenge of Balancing Innovation and Tradition in the Public Sector: The Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Digital Transformation	7
A Framework for Governance Capacity: A Broad Perspective on Steering Efforts in Society	7
Chevron Deference and the Loper Bright Decision: Deference, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State	6
Corrigendum to “Does Targeting Always Mean Retrenchment? Housing Assistance “Exceptionalism” in the Canadian Welfare State”	6
Local Government Accountability to Citizens as COVID-19 Took Hold: Sentiment Analysis of Tweets in Hispanic–American Countries	6
Burdens Are Everybody’s Business: Examining the Intersection of Administrative Burdens, Motivation, and Entrepreneurial Culture	6
When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support	6
Which Clients Inspire or Reduce the Trust of Street-Level Bureaucrats?	6
Remodeling Street-Level Workers With Quasi-Markets: Comparing Ireland’s Mixed Economy of Welfare-to-Work	5
Moving Toward More Inclusive Government Communication in an Era of Superdiversity	5
The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts	5
Power of the Vague: How Vision Statements Have Mobilized Change in Two Swedish Cities	5
Sector-Switching, Bureaucratic Reputation, and Citizen Evaluation of Performance: Evidence From a Large-Scale Experiment in India	5
The Adequacy of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Assessment of Public Value: A Case Study from the Transportation Sector	5
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	5
Government-Business Relations in Policymaking During the New Order Indonesia	5
Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin	5
Social Equity and Clientele Participation: A Cross-National Study of Immigrant Education	5
The Institutionalization of Public Innovation: Evidence from Indonesia	5
The Iterative Process of Legitimacy-Building in Hybrid Organizations	5