OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Public Policy and 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Working for the future is more than foreseeing the future: Impact of the balanced organizational capabilities on the proactive policy orientation	34
The democratic quality of co-creation: A theoretical exploration	32
Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers	25
Capable supervision, pragmatic engagement, and hands-off steering: Three preferences of Chinese government officials for governing non-profit organizations in public service delivery	21
Agency in multi-level governance systems: The implementation puzzle and the role of ‘intelligent’ local implementers	17
Blame avoidance, scapegoats and spin: Why Dutch politicians won’t evaluate ZBO-outcomes	14
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation	14
Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK	13
Towards AI-driven transformation and smart data management: Emerging technological change in the public sector value chain	12
Religion, spirituality, faith and public administration: A literature review and outlook	12
Varieties of governance versatility and institutions: Comparing the governance of primary care performance in six jurisdictions	12
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method	10
Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: Insights from the Israeli experience	10
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration	9
Exploring the influence of Islamic governance and religious regimes on sustainability and resilience planning: A study of public administration in Muslim-majority countries	9
Scales of governance, polycentricity and the case of active travel infrastructure in West London	9
“From ‘it’s not possible’ to ‘how we can do it’”. Challenges, opportunities and proposals to adopt intersectionality in local administration	9
Municipal performance management during the covid pandemic	8
Linking representations and policy adoption: The effect of bureaucratic and political representations on policy outcomes	6
Religion and representative bureaucracy: Does religion guide administrative discretion?	6
The marginalization of policy integration: Dynamics of integrated policymaking in the periphery of bureaucracy	6
What can we learn from service model analysis? An application in the government export finance sector	5
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform	5
How street-level bureaucrats exercise their discretion to encourage clients’ political participation: A case study of Israeli LGBTQ+ teachers	5
Sustainable urban development: A scoping review of barriers to the public policy and administration	5

The evolution of collaborative networks: A social network analysis of Chinese environmental protection policy	4
Appraising the philosophical influences on modern public administration research	4
Governance modes, mayoral leadership and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe	4
Bridging the theory-practice divide in public administration: A virtuous pragmatic approach of Wang Yangming and William James	4
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Collegiality and efficiency in bureaucracy	3
Politicians’ involvement in street-level policy implementation: Implications for social equity	3
Street-level bureaucrats’ attitudes towards clients in discretionary decision-making: Evidence from the Norwegian labour and welfare administration	3
Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation	3
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects	3
Opening the ‘black box’: Organisational Adaptation and Resistance to institutional isomorphism in a prime-led employment services programme	3
Coercive and mimetic isomorphic mechanisms for service provision: The creation of nonprofit organizations in Mexico before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Islamic public administration and Islamic public value: Towards a research agenda	3
Prioritizing exceptional social needs. Experimental evidence on the role of discrimination and client deservingness in public employees’ and citizens’ discretionary behavior	2
Reaping the fruits of co-creation through design experiments	2
Problematizing partner selection: Collaborative choices and decision-making uncertainty	2
The multi-dimensionality of citizen satisfaction: A conjoint experimental approach	2
Narrative policy framework at the macro level—cultural theory-based beliefs, science-based narrative strategies, and their uptake in the Canadian policy process for genetically modified salmon	2
Contextualising co-production and complex needs: Understanding the engagement of service users with severe and multiple disadvantages	2
Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction	2
Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices	2
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe	2
Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance	2
Epistemic environmentalism: Nudging and epistemic externalities	2
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems	2
Engaging professionals in the strategic renewal of public services: A literature review and research agenda	2
The visualization of public information: Describing the use of narrative infographics by U.S. municipal governments	2
Not the usual suspects: creating the conditions for and implementing co-production with marginalised young people in Glasgow	2
Electoral administration and the problem of poll worker recruitment: Who volunteers, and why?	2