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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers	49
Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method	30
Religion and representative bureaucracy: Does religion guide administrative discretion?	27
Deconstructing complexity: A comparative study of government collaboration in national digital platforms and smart city networks in Europe	26
The role of values in the interorganizational network response to wicked problems	21
Perceiving policy entrepreneurship: A Q-methodology study on the attitudes of mid-level managers in developing countries	21
Network structure, network mechanism, and network effectiveness and legitimacy: A configurational analysis of 26 cases	19
Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform	17
Systematic and axiological capacities in artificial intelligence applied in the public sector	16
Dissecting the organization matters: Gauging the effect of unit-level and organization-level factors on perceived innovation outcomes	14
Digital transformation in governance: Preconditions for achieving good governance	13
The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime	11
How does population size influence administrative performance? Evidence from Malta, Samoa, and Suriname	11
Internal and external exploration for public service innovation–Measuring the impact of a climate for creativity and collaborative diversity on innovation	10
Geoffrey Kingdon Fry and the British road to public sector reform	10
The long and winding road towards the EU policy of support to Member States public administration reform: History (2000–2021) and prospects	9
Contours of a research programme for the study of the relationship of religion and public administration	9
Talking at parties: Bureaucratic language in response to party control changes	9
Public administration reform and political will in cases of political instability: Insights from the Israeli experience	9
Affective governmentality and gendered labour in education policy: Sites of non-traditional coproduction	8
Collegiality and efficiency in bureaucracy	8
Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation	8
Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance	7
In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Exploring the functions and role of social impact measurement in enhancing the social value of public-private partnerships: A systematic literature review	6

Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy	6
Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices	6
The shifting political-administrative interface under Westminster: Australia’s prime ministerial views from Fraser to Morrison	5
Beyond specific case responses: Accountability, public service motivation, and bureaucrats’ policy responsiveness	5
Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability	5
Crisis decision-making inside the core executive: Rationality, bureaucratic politics, standard procedures and the COVID-19 lockdown	5
Mission invisible? Managing boundaries for flood protection	5
Policy initiatives for Artificial Intelligence-enabled government: An analysis of national strategies in Europe	4
Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK	4
Religion, spirituality, faith and public administration: A literature review and outlook	4
Varieties of governance versatility and institutions: Comparing the governance of primary care performance in six jurisdictions	4
Governance modes, mayoral leadership and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe	4
Assessing stringency: A survey experiment of energy saving policies across five EU countries	4
Capable supervision, pragmatic engagement, and hands-off steering: Three preferences of Chinese government officials for governing non-profit organizations in public service delivery	4
Legal certainty in automated decision-making in welfare services	4
Artificial intelligence and public administration: Understanding actors, governance, and policy from micro, meso, and macro perspectives	3
Facing NPG implementation problems in municipal organizations: The wickedness of combined value systems	3
Breaking barriers for breaking ground: A categorisation of public sector challenges to smart city project implementation	3
Agency in multi-level governance systems: The implementation puzzle and the role of ‘intelligent’ local implementers	3
Making sense of each other: Relations between social enterprises and the municipality	3
Epistemic environmentalism: Nudging and epistemic externalities	3
Collaborating and co-creating the digital transformation: Empirical evidence on the crucial role of stakeholder demand from Swiss municipalities	3
Economics, ideas or institutions? Agencification through government-owned enterprises in illiberal contexts: The case of Hungary	3
In Memoriam – Dr Fabienne Maron	3
Theoretical-methodological aspects of researching the area of religion and public administration	3
The illiberal transformation of government bureaucracies: Patterns and dynamics	3
Intent vs impact: Ramifications of digitalization on the administrative burden	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
Religion and social sustainability in Mauritius: Exploring the relationships	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 street-level bureaucrats exercise their discretion to encourage clients’ political participation: A case study of Israeli LGBTQ+ teachers	2
Why did China persist with a zero-COVID policy? A cultural interpretation of Confucianism	2
The ideational bases of public value co-creation and the philosophy of personalism: Why a relational conception of person matters for solving public problems	2
Bridging the theory-practice divide in public administration: A virtuous pragmatic approach of Wang Yangming and William James	2
Coercive and mimetic isomorphic mechanisms for service provision: The creation of nonprofit organizations in Mexico before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
How service users envision their engagement in processes of collaborative innovation: A Q-methodological study on user involvement in eHealth collaborations	2
Multiple pathways to solve urban challenges: A shared portfolio approach towards smart city development	2
Inside algorithmic bureaucracy: Disentangling automated decision-making and good administration	2
Eastern and western philosophies: Rethinking the foundations of public administration	2
Engaging professionals in the strategic renewal of public services: A literature review and research agenda	2
Strategies and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe	2
Exploring emergent collaborations for digital transformation in local governments: The engagement of public libraries in the development of smart cities	2
Governance without we. Wicked problems and collaborative governance	2