OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Public Policy and Administration is 3. 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
Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers	60
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method	36
Religion and representative bureaucracy: Does religion guide administrative discretion?	32
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe	27
Perceiving policy entrepreneurship: A Q-methodology study on the attitudes of mid-level managers in developing countries	27
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems	25
Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform	20
Network structure, network mechanism, and network effectiveness and legitimacy: A configurational analysis of 26 cases	19
Systematic and axiological capacities in artificial intelligence applied in the public sector	18
Parental co-production in public higher education during the COVID-19 crisis: A mixed methods study	18
Dissecting the organization matters: Gauging the effect of unit-level and organization-level factors on perceived innovation outcomes	15
Digital transformation in governance: Preconditions for achieving good governance	15
How does population size influence administrative performance? Evidence from Malta, Samoa, and Suriname	13
The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime	13
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation	12
Talking at parties: Bureaucratic language in response to party control changes	10
Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: Insights from the Israeli experience	10
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform	10
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration	10
Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation	9
Collegiality and efficiency in bureaucracy	9
Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices	8
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction	8
Street-level bureaucrats’ non-compliance in policy transfer: How to assess the success and failure of policy transfer and outcomes	8

Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance	8
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects	7
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy	7
Who should (not) participate? Public service organisations’ attitudes towards participation in policy-making modes	7
Mission invisible? Managing boundaries for flood protection	7
Exploring the functions and role of social impact measurement in enhancing the social value of public-private partnerships: A systematic literature review	7
The shifting political-administrative interface under Westminster: Australia’s prime ministerial views from Fraser to Morrison	6
Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability	6
Beyond specific case responses: Accountability, public service motivation, and bureaucrats’ policy responsiveness	6
Assessing stringency: A survey experiment of energy saving policies across five EU countries	5
Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK	5
The moral inversion of administrative AI: A critical interpretation on regime values	5
Capable supervision, pragmatic engagement, and hands-off steering: Three preferences of Chinese government officials for governing non-profit organizations in public service delivery	5
Religion, spirituality, faith and public administration: A literature review and outlook	5
Crisis decision-making inside the core executive: Rationality, bureaucratic politics, standard procedures and the COVID-19 lockdown	5
Policy initiatives for Artificial Intelligence-enabled government: An analysis of national strategies in Europe	5
Varieties of governance versatility and institutions: Comparing the governance of primary care performance in six jurisdictions	5
Epistemic environmentalism: Nudging and epistemic externalities	4
Intent vs impact: Ramifications of digitalization on the administrative burden	4
Making sense of each other: Relations between social enterprises and the municipality	4
Theoretical-methodological aspects of researching the area of religion and public administration	4
Artificial intelligence and public administration: Understanding actors, governance, and policy from micro, meso, and macro perspectives	4
Collaborating and co-creating the digital transformation: Empirical evidence on the crucial role of stakeholder demand from Swiss municipalities	4
Legal certainty in automated decision-making in welfare services	4
Governance modes, mayoral leadership and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe	4
Breaking barriers for breaking ground: A categorisation of public sector challenges to smart city project implementation	4
The illiberal transformation of government bureaucracies: Patterns and dynamics	4
Agency in multi-level governance systems: The implementation puzzle and the role of ‘intelligent’ local implementers	3
Economics, ideas or institutions? Agencification through government-owned enterprises in illiberal contexts: The case of Hungary	3
How street-level bureaucrats exercise their discretion to encourage clients’ political participation: A case study of Israeli LGBTQ+ teachers	3
Engaging professionals in the strategic renewal of public services: A literature review and research agenda	3
Facing NPG implementation problems in municipal organizations: The wickedness of combined value systems	3
In Memoriam – Dr Fabienne Maron	3
Religion and social sustainability in Mauritius: Exploring the relationships	3
Coercive and mimetic isomorphic mechanisms for service provision: The creation of nonprofit organizations in Mexico before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Co-created public value: The strategic management of collaborative problem-solving	3
Towards AI-driven transformation and smart data management: Emerging technological change in the public sector value chain	3
Bridging the theory-practice divide in public administration: A virtuous pragmatic approach of Wang Yangming and William James	3