OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Review of Public Administration 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Impact of Cutbacks From a Major State Financial Crisis on Organizational Trust	48
Always Connected: Technology Use Increases Technostress Among Public Managers	39
The Adoption and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots in Public Organizations: Evidence from U.S. State Governments	30
Resist, Recover, Renew: Fiscal Resilience as a Strategic Response to Economic Uncertainty	23
The Hidden Household Water Affordability Burden: An Examination of Municipal Ordinances and Racial Equity	22
Getting a Grant is Just the First Step: Administrative Capacity and Successful Grant Implementation	20
Presidential Transitions and Interests Group Participation in the Notice and Comment Process	20
Organizational Image and Employee Engagement: Exploring the Inter-Relationships Between Construed External Image and Perceived Organizational Identity	16
Bureaucracy's Good News: A Quiet Gender Revolution	15
Ethical Performance in Local Governments: An Empirical Study of Organizational Leadership and Ethics Culture	15
“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	14
Unboxing International Public Administrations: The Politics of Structural Change in the UN System (1998–2019)	14
In Search of Fundamental Fairness and Equal Protection: The Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in Shaping American Democracy	11
Intra-Organizational Communication in Public Agencies: The Effects of Contracting Out Core Services	11
Inclusive Performance Management: Four Dimensions	11
Competition and Local Government's Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms: Measuring Dyadic Intercity Competition Through the Lens of Business Trade-Offs	10
Understanding Whether Representative Bureaucracy and Racial Resentment Impact Public Perceptions of the Distributive Justice of Government Programs	10
Are Women Commissioners More Compassionate Spenders? Evidence From Florida County Governments	9
Book Review: Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education by Reich, J.	9
Book Review: Private Crusades and Public Problems: The Sociological Heritage of Joseph Gusfield by S. Bernardin	8
Money Matters: Sector Differences, Competition, and the Public Personnel System	7
Book Review: Creating gender-inclusive organizations by Kossek, E. E. & Lee, K-H.	7
Reconceptualizing the Politics-Administration Dichotomy to Better Understand Public Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: A Multilateral Actors Model	7
Seeing the Whole Together Through Relational Mapping: A Method for Engaging in Complex Systems Change	7
The American Presidency: An Impossible Job	7

Impatiently Waiting: Women Managers, Professionalism, Psychological Costs, and the Reduction of ER Wait Times	7
A Challenge to the Spirit of Public Administration: Social Equity Reconsidered in Light of Students for Fair Admissions	6
The Conditional Effects of the Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Leaders’ Emotional Exhaustion: Roles of Deep Acting and Emotional Intelligence	6
Women in State Law Enforcement: An Exploratory Trend Analysis	6
The Practice and Politics of Secretary General Appointments	6
Organizational Practices and Second-Generation Gender Bias: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Career Progression of U.S. State-Level Managers	6
The Iron Triangle of Affordable Homeownership: Habitat for Humanity Affiliate Strategies for Balancing Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity	5
The Role of Organizational and Client Reactions in Understanding Representative Bureaucracy	5
Explaining Sustainability Innovation in City Governments: Innovation Mechanisms and Discretion Types in Multi-Level Governance	5
Power Dynamics and Corporate Power in Governance Processes: Evidence From U.S. Environmental Governance Systems	5
To Have Versus To Have Not: A Cross-City Configurational Analysis of Social Service Contracting	5
Administrative Burden in the Cafeteria: Evidence from School Meal Participation in Shared Buildings	5
Barriers to Evacuating: A Study on Administrative Burdens to Special Needs Shelters	5
Social Equity Amid COVID-19: Examining Health Disparities from the Perspective of Governmental and Social Responsiveness	5
Moving Away from Patronage: A Feedback Approach	5
An Application of the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy, Gender Concordance, and Symbolic Representation in the Health Care Context	5
Does the Sector of Employment Matter? A Study of Employee Absenteeism in Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Organizations	4
Technology 3.0: Police Officers’ Perceptions Towards Technology Shifts	4
Police Chiefs, Organizational Justice, and Body-Worn Cameras: A Key to Releasing Video Footage	4
Interactive Governance Between and Within Governmental Levels and Functions: A Social Network Analysis of China's Case Against COVID-19	4
Enhancing Local Service Effectiveness Through Purpose-Oriented Networks: The Role of Network Leadership and Structure	4
The Effect of Civilian Oversight on Police Organizational Performance: A Quasi-Experimental Study	4
Determinants of State Infrastructure Spending: Testing Punctuated Equilibrium and Social Vulnerability Theories	4
Race, Lived Experience, Representation, and Discrimination: Analyzing the Representative Capacities of the Racial Majority	4
Bureaucratic Beliefs and Representation: Linking Social Identities, Attitudes, and Client Outcomes	4
Police Mentoring of At-Risk Youth: Case Study of Police-Led Mentoring Program Leadership Development	4
Expanding the Boundaries of Representative Bureaucracy	4
Accountability in Collaborative Federal Programs—Multidimensional and Multilevel Performance Measures Needed: The Case of Wildland Fire Prevention	3
A Systematic Review of Empirical Emergency Management Network Research: Formation and Development, Properties, and Performance	3
The Burden of Bad Intentions: Analyzing Politicized Administrative Burdens	3
From Disciplinary Depth to Interdisciplinary Breadth: The Case of Public Administration	3
What Can Reform Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Unwarranted Discretionary Behaviors? Principles? Principals? Or Both?	3
Where Did the Money Go? Assessing the Distribution of the Community Development Block Grant - Disasters Recovery Funds	3
The Influence of Legal Mandates on Public Participation	3
Context Matters: Authoritarian Populism and Public Administration Practice, Teaching, and Research	3
How Does Homeownership Shape Public Service Coproduction? Evidence from a Public Complaint System in Beijing, China	3
Bureaucracy's Disquieting News: Entangled in Uncertainty	3
Public Sector Unionization and Government Contracting: A Meta-analysis of Four Decades of Empirical Evidence	3
Words Matter for Government Accountability? The Linguistic Tone of Government Reports and Audit Results	2
First Responders and the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Organizational Strategies Can Promote Workforce Retention	2
Valence for Representation-Enhancing Organizational Change: A Driver of Active Representation Beyond Bureaucrat-Client Social Identity Match	2
The Role of Department Type in Public Managers’ Attitudes Toward Social Media Use	2
Texas Public Pensions: A Common Pool Resource Perspective	2
Untangling the Association Between Goal Clarity and Public Service Motivation With the Moderating Role of Value Congruence	2
Judicializing Public Interests: Administrative Performance Under the Shadow of Judicial Review	2
The Dynamics of Trust and Trustworthiness Perceptions in a Government Agency: A Longitudinal Perspective	2
The Paradox of Meritocracy: System Justification and Inequality in Federal Agencies	2
Street-Level Bias: Examining Factors Related to Street-Level Bureaucrats’ State or Citizen Favoritism	2
The Experience of Active Representation in South Korea: How Marriage-Based Immigrant Public Servants Represent Their Clients	2
From Relational Stability to Network Resilience: Annual Negotiated versus Competitive Municipal Bond-Issuing Networks	2

Symbolic Representation, Expectancy Disconfirmation, and Citizen Complaints Against Police