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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Hidden Household Water Affordability Burden: An Examination of Municipal Ordinances and Racial Equity	64
The Impact of Cutbacks From a Major State Financial Crisis on Organizational Trust	41
Resist, Recover, Renew: Fiscal Resilience as a Strategic Response to Economic Uncertainty	36
Always Connected: Technology Use Increases Technostress Among Public Managers	28
The Adoption and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots in Public Organizations: Evidence from U.S. State Governments	27
Presidential Transitions and Interests Group Participation in the Notice and Comment Process	23
Ethical Performance in Local Governments: An Empirical Study of Organizational Leadership and Ethics Culture	21
Organizational Image and Employee Engagement: Exploring the Inter-Relationships Between Construed External Image and Perceived Organizational Identity	20
Getting a Grant is Just the First Step: Administrative Capacity and Successful Grant Implementation	20
Bureaucracy's Good News: A Quiet Gender Revolution	17
Unboxing International Public Administrations: The Politics of Structural Change in the UN System (1998–2019)	16
“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	16
In Search of Fundamental Fairness and Equal Protection: The Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in Shaping American Democracy	14
Inclusive Performance Management: Four Dimensions	14
Competition and Local Government's Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms: Measuring Dyadic Intercity Competition Through the Lens of Business Trade-Offs	12
Intra-Organizational Communication in Public Agencies: The Effects of Contracting Out Core Services	12
Understanding Whether Representative Bureaucracy and Racial Resentment Impact Public Perceptions of the Distributive Justice of Government Programs	10
Book Review: Private Crusades and Public Problems: The Sociological Heritage of Joseph Gusfield by S. Bernardin	10
The Impacts of Political Leaders’ Social Capital on Policy Success: The Case of Local Food Systems	9
Seeing the Whole Together Through Relational Mapping: A Method for Engaging in Complex Systems Change	9
Demand for Professionalism Among Elected Officials: Evidence from a Survey of Local Government Officials	8
The American Presidency: An Impossible Job	8
Reconceptualizing the Politics-Administration Dichotomy to Better Understand Public Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: A Multilateral Actors Model	8
Impatiently Waiting: Women Managers, Professionalism, Psychological Costs, and the Reduction of ER Wait Times	8
Are Women Commissioners More Compassionate Spenders? Evidence From Florida County Governments	8

The Practice and Politics of Secretary General Appointments	8
The Conditional Effects of the Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Leaders’ Emotional Exhaustion: Roles of Deep Acting and Emotional Intelligence	7
Women in State Law Enforcement: An Exploratory Trend Analysis	7
Social Equity Amid COVID-19: Examining Health Disparities from the Perspective of Governmental and Social Responsiveness	7
Organizational Practices and Second-Generation Gender Bias: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Career Progression of U.S. State-Level Managers	7
A Challenge to the Spirit of Public Administration: Social Equity Reconsidered in Light of Students for Fair Admissions	7
The Iron Triangle of Affordable Homeownership: Habitat for Humanity Affiliate Strategies for Balancing Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity	7
To Have Versus To Have Not: A Cross-City Configurational Analysis of Social Service Contracting	7
An Application of the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy, Gender Concordance, and Symbolic Representation in the Health Care Context	6
The Role of Organizational and Client Reactions in Understanding Representative Bureaucracy	6
Organizational Memories of Extreme Events: Evidence from U.S. Public Transit Agencies	6
Barriers to Evacuating: A Study on Administrative Burdens to Special Needs Shelters	6
Explaining Sustainability Innovation in City Governments: Innovation Mechanisms and Discretion Types in Multi-Level Governance	6
Administrative Burden in the Cafeteria: Evidence from School Meal Participation in Shared Buildings	6
Power Dynamics and Corporate Power in Governance Processes: Evidence From U.S. Environmental Governance Systems	6
Enhancing Local Service Effectiveness Through Purpose-Oriented Networks: The Role of Network Leadership and Structure	5
Bureaucratic Beliefs and Representation: Linking Social Identities, Attitudes, and Client Outcomes	5
Technology 3.0: Police Officers’ Perceptions Towards Technology Shifts	5
Race, Lived Experience, Representation, and Discrimination: Analyzing the Representative Capacities of the Racial Majority	5
Moving Away from Patronage: A Feedback Approach	5
Police Chiefs, Organizational Justice, and Body-Worn Cameras: A Key to Releasing Video Footage	5
Does the Sector of Employment Matter? A Study of Employee Absenteeism in Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Organizations	5
Interactive Governance Between and Within Governmental Levels and Functions: A Social Network Analysis of China's Case Against COVID-19	5
The Effect of Civilian Oversight on Police Organizational Performance: A Quasi-Experimental Study	5
Context Matters: Authoritarian Populism and Public Administration Practice, Teaching, and Research	4
The Burden of Bad Intentions: Analyzing Politicized Administrative Burdens	4
Expanding the Boundaries of Representative Bureaucracy	4
Checked Out: The Impact of U.S. Public Library Politicization on Employee Turnover Intention, Emotional Exhaustion, and Reduced Compassion	4
Where Did the Money Go? Assessing the Distribution of the Community Development Block Grant - Disasters Recovery Funds	4
Determinants of State Infrastructure Spending: Testing Punctuated Equilibrium and Social Vulnerability Theories	4
Accountability in Collaborative Federal Programs—Multidimensional and Multilevel Performance Measures Needed: The Case of Wildland Fire Prevention	4
Bureaucracy's Disquieting News: Entangled in Uncertainty	4
Police Mentoring of At-Risk Youth: Case Study of Police-Led Mentoring Program Leadership Development	4
What Can Reform Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Unwarranted Discretionary Behaviors? Principles? Principals? Or Both?	3
From Disciplinary Depth to Interdisciplinary Breadth: The Case of Public Administration	3
A Systematic Review of Empirical Emergency Management Network Research: Formation and Development, Properties, and Performance	3
The Dynamics of Trust and Trustworthiness Perceptions in a Government Agency: A Longitudinal Perspective	3
The Influence of Legal Mandates on Public Participation	3
How Does Homeownership Shape Public Service Coproduction? Evidence from a Public Complaint System in Beijing, China	3
The Role of Department Type in Public Managers’ Attitudes Toward Social Media Use	3
Street-Level Bias: Examining Factors Related to Street-Level Bureaucrats’ State or Citizen Favoritism	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	3
Valence for Representation-Enhancing Organizational Change: A Driver of Active Representation Beyond Bureaucrat-Client Social Identity Match	3
Texas Public Pensions: A Common Pool Resource Perspective	2
Contracting Out and Its Outcomes in Public Health: A Case of New York Counties	2
The Experience of Active Representation in South Korea: How Marriage-Based Immigrant Public Servants Represent Their Clients	2
Social Equity, Intellectual History, Black Movement Leaders, and Marcus Garvey	2
Disentangling Risk Management and Error Management in the Public Sector: A Theoretical Framework	2
Resistance or Capitulation? How Discrete Emotions Shape Citizens’ Interactions With the Administrative State	2

From Relational Stability to Network Resilience: Annual Negotiated versus Competitive Municipal Bond-Issuing Networks	2
First Responders and the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Organizational Strategies Can Promote Workforce Retention	2
Advancing Public Entrepreneurship through State Government Capacity and Competitiveness: The Impact of Discretionary Fiscal Policy of American States on Worldwide Manufacturing Industries	2
Walking the Talk of Social Equity? Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Decisionmaking About the Provision of Personal Resources	2
Network Effects Research: A Systematic Review of Theoretical Mechanisms and Measures	2
Analytic Bureaucracy and the Policy Process: Evidence from California	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 Paradox of Meritocracy: System Justification and Inequality in Federal Agencies	2
Perception or Reality: An Examination of Police Misconduct, Organizational Justice, and Promotion Opportunities in the NYPD	2
Lack of Gender Representation in Academia: The Experiences of Female STEM Students	2
Does Administrative Burden Affect Welfare Recipients’ Institutional Trust and Political Participation? Evidence from a Recall Experiment	2
Service Outsourcing and Government Fiscal Conditions: Do Market Competition, Bureaucrat Support, and Management Capacity Matter?	2