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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Blame avoidance, scapegoats and spin: Why Dutch politicians won’t evaluate ZBO-outcomes	45
Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers	38
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method	27
Religion and representative bureaucracy: Does religion guide administrative discretion?	23
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems	18
Perceiving policy entrepreneurship: A Q-methodology study on the attitudes of mid-level managers in developing countries	16
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe	16
Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform	15
Dissecting the organization matters: Gauging the effect of unit-level and organization-level factors on perceived innovation outcomes	15
Implementing digitalization in the public sector. Technologies, agency, and governance	15
Comparing policy conflict on electricity transmission line sitings	14
Systematic and axiological capacities in artificial intelligence applied in the public sector	11
The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime	10
How does population size influence administrative performance? Evidence from Malta, Samoa, and Suriname	10
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform	9
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration	9
Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: Insights from the Israeli experience	9
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation	9
Talking at parties: Bureaucratic language in response to party control changes	8
Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices	7
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects	7
Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction	6
Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation	6
Collegiality and efficiency in bureaucracy	6
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	6

Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance	5
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy	5
Crisis decision-making inside the core executive: Rationality, bureaucratic politics, standard procedures and the COVID-19 lockdown	5
Electoral administration and the problem of poll worker recruitment: Who volunteers, and why?	5
Exploring the functions and role of social impact measurement in enhancing the social value of public-private partnerships: A systematic literature review	5
Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability	4
Mission invisible? Managing boundaries for flood protection	4
The shifting political-administrative interface under Westminster: Australia’s prime ministerial views from Fraser to Morrison	4
Capable supervision, pragmatic engagement, and hands-off steering: Three preferences of Chinese government officials for governing non-profit organizations in public service delivery	3
Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK	3
Artificial intelligence and public administration: Understanding actors, governance, and policy from micro, meso, and macro perspectives	3
Breaking barriers for breaking ground: A categorisation of public sector challenges to smart city project implementation	3
Religion, spirituality, faith and public administration: A literature review and outlook	3
Governance modes, mayoral leadership and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe	3
Epistemic environmentalism: Nudging and epistemic externalities	3
Policy initiatives for Artificial Intelligence-enabled government: An analysis of national strategies in Europe	3
Varieties of governance versatility and institutions: Comparing the governance of primary care performance in six jurisdictions	3
Theoretical-methodological aspects of researching the area of religion and public administration	3
Legal certainty in automated decision-making in welfare services	3
Making sense of each other: Relations between social enterprises and the municipality	2
Coercive and mimetic isomorphic mechanisms for service provision: The creation of nonprofit organizations in Mexico before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Eastern and western philosophies: Rethinking the foundations of public administration	2
Strategies and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe	2
Agency in multi-level governance systems: The implementation puzzle and the role of ‘intelligent’ local implementers	2
Towards AI-driven transformation and smart data management: Emerging technological change in the public sector value chain	2
Facing NPG implementation problems in municipal organizations: The wickedness of combined value systems	2
Engaging professionals in the strategic renewal of public services: A literature review and research agenda	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
How service users envision their engagement in processes of collaborative innovation: A Q-methodological study on user involvement in eHealth collaborations	2
Economics, ideas or institutions? Agencification through government-owned enterprises in illiberal contexts: The case of Hungary	2
Collaborating and co-creating the digital transformation: Empirical evidence on the crucial role of stakeholder demand from Swiss municipalities	2
Bridging the theory-practice divide in public administration: A virtuous pragmatic approach of Wang Yangming and William James	2
How street-level bureaucrats exercise their discretion to encourage clients’ political participation: A case study of Israeli LGBTQ+ teachers	2
Inside algorithmic bureaucracy: Disentangling automated decision-making and good administration	2
Co-created public value: The strategic management of collaborative problem-solving	2