OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Review of Public Administration is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Resist, Recover, Renew: Fiscal Resilience as a Strategic Response to Economic Uncertainty	36
Disentangling Risk Management and Error Management in the Public Sector: A Theoretical Framework	34
What Drives the Attractiveness of Public and Private Employers? Comparative Evidence From an Online Employer Review Platform	23
The Effect of Civilian Oversight on Police Organizational Performance: A Quasi-Experimental Study	20
Impatiently Waiting: Women Managers, Professionalism, Psychological Costs, and the Reduction of ER Wait Times	18
Resistance or Capitulation? How Discrete Emotions Shape Citizens’ Interactions With the Administrative State	18
The Effects of Organizational Scandals on the Desirability of Public Organizations as Places to Work: Evidence From the VA Waitlist Scandal	17
Mitigating Neighborhood Stigma: Examining Strategies of Relating and Reframing	16
Lack of Gender Representation in Academia: The Experiences of Female STEM Students	15
The Impact of Cutbacks From a Major State Financial Crisis on Organizational Trust	15
Money Matters: Sector Differences, Competition, and the Public Personnel System	14
Network Effects Research: A Systematic Review of Theoretical Mechanisms and Measures	14
Deficits Pro forma and Substantive: Multilevel Policy Implementation in China’s Administrative Approval Intermediaries Reform	13
Trust and Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Willingness to Risk Their Lives for Others: The Case of Brazilian Law Enforcement	12
Inside the Push for Good Governance: Institutional Predictors of Administrative Transparency in Public Organizations	12
Public Administration Scholarship: Revisiting the Applied Function	11
Book Review: Creating gender-inclusive organizations by Kossek, E. E. & Lee, K-H.	10
Interactive Governance Between and Within Governmental Levels and Functions: A Social Network Analysis of China's Case Against COVID-19	9
An Exploratory Examination of the Relationship Between Trust and Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Willingness to Risk Their Lives for Others	9
Reconceptualizing the Politics-Administration Dichotomy to Better Understand Public Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: A Multilateral Actors Model	8
Technology 3.0: Police Officers’ Perceptions Towards Technology Shifts	8
The Public Value of Citizens’ Initiatives: Evidence from a Dutch Municipality	8
Cybersecurity Threats in Local Government: A Sociotechnical Perspective	8
Context Matters: Authoritarian Populism and Public Administration Practice, Teaching, and Research	7
The Adoption and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots in Public Organizations: Evidence from U.S. State Governments	7

A Challenge to the Spirit of Public Administration: Social Equity Reconsidered in Light of Students for Fair Admissions	7
Police Chiefs, Organizational Justice, and Body-Worn Cameras: A Key to Releasing Video Footage	7
Always Connected: Technology Use Increases Technostress Among Public Managers	7
Charter Schools Have Rainy Days Too! But Are They Ready for When It Pours?	6
Women in State Law Enforcement: An Exploratory Trend Analysis	6
Expanding the Boundaries of Representative Bureaucracy	6
Joseph R. Biden as a Multi-layered President	6
By the Letter of Law? The Effects of Administrative Adjudication for Resolving Disputes in NYC’s Restaurant Grading Initiative	5
The American Review of Public Administration: A Biography	5
Organizational Image and Employee Engagement: Exploring the Inter-Relationships Between Construed External Image and Perceived Organizational Identity	5
Presidential Transitions and Interests Group Participation in the Notice and Comment Process	5
Procedural Justice and the Unintended Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Prompting Citizens to Act as Vigilantes	5
Ethical Performance in Local Governments: An Empirical Study of Organizational Leadership and Ethics Culture	4
Institutional Variation, Professionalization, and State Implementation Choices: An Examination of Investment in Water Quality Across the 50 States	4
Administrative Decentralization and the Role of Information: The Case of Intimate Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Police Mentoring of At-Risk Youth: Case Study of Police-Led Mentoring Program Leadership Development	4
Am I My Brothers’ Keeper? A Critical Review of Mandated Collaboration Research	4
Collaborative Governance in a Developing Non-Democracy: Uganda's Organizational Success Fighting HIV/AIDS	4
Getting a Grant is Just the First Step: Administrative Capacity and Successful Grant Implementation	4
The American Presidency: An Impossible Job	4
Determinants of State Infrastructure Spending: Testing Punctuated Equilibrium and Social Vulnerability Theories	4
Religious Environments, Governments, and the Density of Nonprofit Organizations	3
Public Sector Unionization and Government Contracting: A Meta-analysis of Four Decades of Empirical Evidence	3
Accountability in Collaborative Federal Programs—Multidimensional and Multilevel Performance Measures Needed: The Case of Wildland Fire Prevention	3
The Influence of Legal Mandates on Public Participation	3
Where Did the Money Go? Assessing the Distribution of the Community Development Block Grant - Disasters Recovery Funds	3
A Model Minority? Asian-White Differences in Federal Careers	3
Bureaucracy's Disquieting News: Entangled in Uncertainty	3
Organizational Practices and Second-Generation Gender Bias: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Career Progression of U.S. State-Level Managers	3
In the Shadow of Administrative Decentralization: The Impact of Devolution on Subnational Service Provision	3
Do All Roads Lead to Innovativeness? A Study of Public Sector Organizations’ Innovation Capabilities	3
The Practice and Politics of Secretary General Appointments	3
Strengthening American Democracy Through Public Administration	3
Top-Down Accountability, Social Unrest, and Anticorruption in China	3
Exploring the Relationship Between Privatization in Public Service Delivery and Coproduction: Evidence from U.S. Local Governments	3
The Conditional Effects of the Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Leaders’ Emotional Exhaustion: Roles of Deep Acting and Emotional Intelligence	3
Analytic Bureaucracy and the Policy Process: Evidence from California	3
Book Review: Government statistical agencies, and the politics of credibility by Howard, C. W.	2
Resource Stability and Federal Agency Performance	2
Social Equity Amid COVID-19: Examining Health Disparities from the Perspective of Governmental and Social Responsiveness	2
What Can Reform Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Unwarranted Discretionary Behaviors? Principles? Principals? Or Both?	2
Book Review: Public Governance and the Classical-Liberal Perspective: Political Economy Foundations by Aligica, P. D., Boettke, P. J., & Tarko, V.	2
The Burden of Bad Intentions: Analyzing Politicized Administrative Burdens	2
To Have Versus To Have Not: A Cross-City Configurational Analysis of Social Service Contracting	2
Agency Heads’ Public Profiles and Bureaucratic Performance	2
A Systematic Review of Empirical Emergency Management Network Research: Formation and Development, Properties, and Performance	2
From Disciplinary Depth to Interdisciplinary Breadth: The Case of Public Administration	2
Competing Ontologies: A Redux Primer for Public Administration	2
Power Dynamics and Corporate Power in Governance Processes: Evidence From U.S. Environmental Governance Systems	2
“We’re Not the Cure, We’re Just the Band-Aid”: The Interplay of Structure, Culture, and Practice in Police Service Provision to Persons with Mental Illnesses	2

The Iron Triangle of Affordable Homeownership: Habitat for Humanity Affiliate Strategies for Balancing Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity	1
Continuing Costs: The Impact of Continuing Resolutions on Federal Contracting	1
Bureaucracy's Good News: A Quiet Gender Revolution	1
Barriers to Evacuating: A Study on Administrative Burdens to Special Needs Shelters	1
Can Leadership Improve Interorganizational Collaboration? Field-Experimental Evidence From a Team-Based Leadership Training Intervention	1
Organizational Memory and Snap Back Performance in Public Agencies	1
Creating Meaningfulness in Public Service Work: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Public and Nonprofit Managers’ Experience of Work	1
The Role of Organizational and Client Reactions in Understanding Representative Bureaucracy	1
Explaining Sustainability Innovation in City Governments: Innovation Mechanisms and Discretion Types in Multi-Level Governance	1
A Psychological Process of Bureaucratic Whistleblowing: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior	1
Unboxing International Public Administrations: The Politics of Structural Change in the UN System (1998–2019)	1
Acquiesce, Compromise, or Avoid? Collaboration, Coordination, & Cooperation as Different Strategic Responses to Institutional Pressures	1
How Does Homeownership Shape Public Service Coproduction? Evidence from a Public Complaint System in Beijing, China	1
Administrative Burden in the Cafeteria: Evidence from School Meal Participation in Shared Buildings	1
Communicating Reform: Testing an Apology for Police History as a Supplement to a Policy Communication	1
Measuring Reputational Signals Regarding Public Sector Professions: Validation of a Scale and a Research Agenda	1
In Search of Fundamental Fairness and Equal Protection: The Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in Shaping American Democracy	1
Descriptive and Symbolic: The Connection Between Political Representation and Citizen Satisfaction with Municipal Public Services	1
Symbolic Representation, Cooperation, and Undocumented Immigrants: The Role of Representation in Improving Assessments of Cooperative Behaviors in Education	1
An Application of the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy, Gender Concordance, and Symbolic Representation in the Health Care Context	1
Which Matters More in Coproduction? Political Message, Policy, or Factual Information	1
From the Bottom-Up: Probing the Gap Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Intentions of Engaging in Policy Entrepreneurship and Their Behavior	1