Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Insti

Papers
(The median citation count of Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Insti is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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The way the money goes: The fiscal constitution and public spending in the UK. By ChristopherHood, MaiaKing, IainMcLean, and BarbaraPiotrowska, Oxford University Press. 2023. 289pp. US$115.00 (cloth)82
Correction to “Legislative Hearings and Presidential Cabinet Management”52
Imperial Borderlands. By Bogdan G.Popescu, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 332 pp. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978100936521547
Party Receptiveness to Interest Group Diversity: Evidence From Policymaking in Six European Democracies32
Development of a Scale to Measure Perceived Administrative Burden, With Broad Applicability Beyond Direct Policy Clients31
United in Diversity? EU Core‐Periphery Divides at the Time of the Green Transition29
Compliance with government policies during emergencies: Trust, participation and protective actions29
Neither multilevel governance nor battleground. Understanding the politics of immigrant integration in small and medium European localities28
Commodifying Public Utilities: EU's New Governance Prescriptions for Rail and Water28
Are the answers all out there? Investigating citizen information requests in the haze of bureaucratic responsiveness27
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Public administration and political science: From monogamous marriage to professional partnership26
Politicians' complaint response: E‐governance and personal relationships23
E‐government and citizen‐state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service23
Buying stones: Welfare spending and protests in Argentina, 2008–201923
European union funding of interest groups: Reassessing the balancing function and the promotion of good organizational practices23
Rules or legacies? Industry and political revolving doors in regulators' careers in Portugal22
Separation of powers, opposition strength, and chief executives' strategy21
In the Midnight Hour: Participatory Opportunities in Regulatory Policymaking During Presidential Transitions20
States, markets, and foreign aid. By SimoneDietrich, New York: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp 259, $34.99 (paper)18
The democracy amendments: Constitutional reforms to save the United States. By John J.Davenport, New York: Anthem Press. 2023. pp. 292. $110 (cloth)18
Incentives, audits and procurement: Evidence from a district‐level field experiment in Ghana18
Public sector workers' support for technocracy. Comparative evidence from 25 European countries17
Policy Design Below the Political Radar: When Policy Bureaucracies Mobilize Expertise to Restrict Business Power17
The Nature and Dynamics of Access: Conceptualizing and Measuring Procedural Engagement Dynamics Between EU Interest Groups and Public Officials17
Navigating the Accountability Paradoxes of Financial Resource Abundance in the Post‐Pandemic Public Service Delivery17
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Governing schools in times of pandemic: A set‐theoretical analysis of the role of policy capacities in school closure16
Spin dictators: The changing face of Tyranny in the 21st Century. By SergeiGuriev, and DanielTreisman, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2022. pp. 360. $29.95 (cloth)15
Reputational Management in Advisory Agencies: The Case of the STOA Unit15
Unrealized Digital Democracy: A Critical Analysis of Power in the Digital AgeBy GarrettPierman, London: Lexington Books, 2024. 96 pp. $85.00 (e‐book).14
Interacting institutional logics in policy implementation13
How to identify widespread corruption? New insights from geo‐spatial analysis13
Effectiveness of Term Limits Combating Administrative Corruption13
Serving quarreling masters: Frontline workers and policy implementation under pressure13
The Belgian mental health reform: When a combination of soft instruments hampers structural change13
Measuring accountability in interlocal agreements between Indigenous and local governments12
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Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance12
Understanding Micro‐Level Budgeting Behavior: How Cognitive Biases Shape Politicians' Budget Preferences12
Pawned states: State building in the era of international finance. By DidacQueralt, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2022. pp. 368. $35 (paper)12
Patronage at Work: Public Jobs and Political Services in Argentina. By VirginiaOliveros, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 280 pp. $29.99 (paperback) ISBN: 978100908252512
Pacified citizens with a marketized school system: Causal evidence of boomeranging effects of user choice12
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Beyond consultocracy and servants of power: Explaining the role of consultants in policy formulation11
Resisting public monitoring in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from local environmental litigation in China11
Helping hand or centralizing tool? The politics of conditional grants in Australia, Canada, and the United States11
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Subnational Lobbying on National Policymaking: Evidence From Germany11
Retooling governance for improving public service delivery: Case study of right to public services commission, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan11
Environmental Governance in Malta: A Trajectory and Reflections on Shaping Institutions for Policy Learning11
There Is No Rose Without a Thorn: Examining the Contribution of Collaborative Platforms to Sustaining Collaborative Governance11
Police corruption and crime: Evidence from Africa11
How institutionalized feedback works: Online citizen complaints and local government responsiveness in China11
Introduction “street‐level bureaucracy, populism, and democratic backsliding”10
Re‐thinking policy and (multi‐level) governance failure: What went wrong and why in the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Italy?10
Unwritten Rules of the Game in the Danish and Dutch Core Executives10
The political economy of open contracting reforms in low‐ and middle‐income countries9
Non‐majoritarian institutions, media coverage, and “reinforced accountability”9
When Do Liberal Governments Restrict Civil Society?9
Parabureaucracy: The case of Mexico's “Servants of the Nation”9
Social protection under authoritarianism: Health politics and policy in China. By XianHuang, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020.8
Greasing the wheels of policy reversal: Discursive engineering and public opinion management during the relaxation of China's family planning policy8
The chemical framework: Exploring Europeanisation in French, Austrian, and Irish eHealth policy processes8
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Working with ideas: Collective bricolage, political tests and the emergence of policy paradigms8
Viral sovereignty and the political economy of pandemics: What explains how countries deal with outbreaks?. SophalEarRoutledge, New York, 2021. 238 pp. $160 (cloth)8
Public agency resilience in times of democratic backsliding: Structure, collaboration and professional standards8
Trustee strategies, politicization and de‐delegation: The case of the European Central Bank8
Regulatory Means for Interventionist Ends: GBER and the Transformation of the EU State Aid Regime7
Retooling development aid in the 21st century: The importance of budget support. By ShahrokhFardoust, Stefan G.Koeberle, MoritzPiatti‐Fünfkirchen, MarkSundberg, and LodewijkSmets, Oxford, United Kingd7
The pursuit of governance; Nordic dispatches on a new middle way. By FabrizioTassinari, Newcastle: Agenda Publishing. 2022. xi + 185 pp. $95.00 (clo)7
Consumer Authorities in Europe: Policing Markets or Empowering Consumers?7
The politics of government reorganization inWestern Europe7
Local Peace, International Builders: How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace From the Bottom Up. By William G.Nomikos, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 202 pp. $125 (hardback); $41.99 (paperback)7
Projects, government, and public policy. By StanisławGasik, New York: CRC Press. 2023. pp. 377. £42.39. ISBN: 97810033216067
Including immigrant voices in local mechanisms of citizen participation? Insights from the crucial case of Barcelona7
Critical thoughts about critical mass in representative bureaucracy: A theoretical exploration and empirical illustration7
The law and politics of transnational rights protection: Trusteeship, effectiveness, de‐delegation7
Top‐Down Central Inspection and Subnational Discretion in Policymaking7
The art of plucking the goose: Chinese urban residents' tax consciousness6
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Populist government support and frontline workers' self‐efficacy during crisis6
The origins and consequences of administrative burdens in mass immunization programs: Experimental evidence based on the monkeypox outbreak6
American Kompromat: How the KGB cultivated Donald Trump, and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery, CraigUnger, Dutton, New York, 2021. 352 pp. $13.99 (e‐book)6
Narratives of digital sovereignty in German political discourse6
Government Digital Surveillance in Africa6
Government transparency and corruption in a turbulent setting: The case of foreign aid to Ukraine5
The competence‐control dilemma and the institutional design of European Union agencies5
Historical Persistence of Meritocratic Selection on Citizen Compliance5
Norm Adherence, Trust, and Citizens' Compliance: Exploring Citizens Attitudes to Public Welfare Institutions Across Europe5
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From quiet to noisy politics: Varieties of European reactions to 5G and Huawei5
Notice the comment? Chinese government responsiveness to public participation in the policymaking process5
Collective cognition in context: Explaining variation in the management of Europe's 2015 migration crisis5
The non‐reversal of delegation in international standard‐setting in finance: The Basel Committee and the European Union5
The polity of implementation: Organizational and institutional arrangements in policy implementation5
Engaging the Public Through Design: How Digital Platforms Nudge Public Engagement4
Comparing ministerial advisers across politicization settings: Still hiding in the shadows?4
Between Law and Politics—The Emergence of an EU Industrial Policy4
Under what conditions does bureaucracy matter in the making of global public policies?4
Neighbors with benefits: How politicians' local ties generate positive externalities when bureaucratic oversight is limited4
Indebted societies credit and welfare in rich democracies. By AndreasWiedemann, Cambridge University Press4
Migration debates in the political party arena during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Austria4
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World July 23, 2024 By AnneApplebaum, Doubleday, 2024. 224 pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐385‐54993‐64
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Towards a multifaceted measure of perceived legitimacy of participatory governance4
Shock to the system: Coups, elections, and war on the road to democratization4
Expansion without mandates: Border and asylum agencies in European Union migration governance4
Explaining Public Sector Corruption: The Hexagon Model4
Who matters at the World Bank? Bureaucrats, policy change, and public sector governance. By KimMoloney, New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 368. $100 (clo)3
Award Citation: The Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize, 20223
Authoritarian Elasticity: How Autocracies May Effectively Mobilize for Crisis Management3
Populism and Trust in the Public Service in Canada3
In court we trust? Political affinity and citizen's attitudes toward court's decisions3
Public participation in democracy, local accountability and happiness: Evidence from rural China3
Authorized Discretion: The Democratic Essentials of Governance in the European Union3
Thorns in the side: Strategies of populist parties against local public administrations3
In the eye of the storm: Street‐level organizations in circumstances of democratic backsliding3
The Social Consequence of Bureaucratic Oversight: Evidence From the Great Chinese Famine3
Crippling Leviathan ‐ How foreign subversion weakens the state. By Melissa M.Lee. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2020. $39.95 (cloth)3
Policy Design, Instrument Choice, and Policy Feedback Effects of Institutional Business Power: Varieties of Child Care Investments in Australia, Canada, and Germany3
Political Instrumentalism and Epistemic Communities in Global Governance a Network Analysis of the International Organization for Migration3
Long‐term policymaking and politicians' beliefs about voters: Evidence from a 3‐year panel study of politicians3
High Skills for High Tech: Higher Education as Industrial Policy3
International perspectives on public administration. By Henry T.Sardaryan, Oxfordshire: Routledge. 2021. pp. 124. $47.96 (hbk)3
High‐Profile Corruption Convictions, Government Reactions, and Public Approval: A Comparative Analysis Across Levels of Democracy3
When Nature Strikes: Which Regimes Exploit Natural Disasters for Fiscal Expansion?3
Advocacy intelligence and competition: Assessing lobbyists' sharing of tactical knowledge in focus group interviews3
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Women's political representation, good governance and human development3
Between a rock and a hard place: (Re)Integrating public administration and political science3
Condemned to complexity? Growing state activity and complex policy systems3
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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash From 1600 to the Present. By FareedZakaria, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. 400 pp. $29.99 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐0‐393‐23923‐22
Limiting bureaucratic discretion? Analyzing the design and exercise of administrative judicial review in the welfare sector2
Central bank independence in Latin America: Politicization and de‐delegation2
Drivers of transnational administrative coordination on super‐wicked policy issues: The role of institutional homophily2
Bureaucratic Responsiveness and Legitimacy: The Effects of Independence, Competence, and Warmth on Citizens' Legitimacy Perceptions2
Comparing Refugee Dispersal Policies: Varieties of Responsibility‐Sharing in Europe2
The prime minister's chief of staff: Comparing profiles and trends in Westminster democracies, 1990–20212
Global public governance: Toward world government? By SorpongPeou, New Jersey, London, Singapore: World Scientific. 2022. pp. 465. $ 88 (cloth)2
The imperative of state capacity in public health crisis: Asia's early COVID‐19 policy responses2
The Unexpected Actor? Civil‐Military Relations and Regulatory Agency Control in Brazil2
Transparency and citizen support for public agencies: The case of foreign aid2
Shifting the Blame or Defending Implementation: How Do Explanations for Compliance Shape the Legitimacy of Contested EU Policies?2
What's in a Polity? Political Institutions and Varieties of Economic Interventionism in the United States and the European Union2
Cross‐domain policy feedback effects on mass publics2
Partisanship and the Gender Pay Gap in Local Government2
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Reversing delegation? Politicization, de‐delegation, and non‐majoritarian institutions2
Reimagining the judiciary: Women's representation on high courts worldwide. By Maria C.Escobar‐Lemmon, Valerie J.Hoekstra, Alice J.Kang, and Miki CaulKittilson, New York: Oxford University Press. 20212
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Parsing the impact of E‐government on bureaucratic corruption2
The politics of order in informal markets: How the state shapes private governance. ShelbyGrossman, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2021, 200pp. $77 (cloth).2
Trajectories of Governance: Tracing the Entanglements of Order and Violence in Peripheral Cities of Latin America By Viviana GarcíaPinzón, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 280 pp. $41.99 (pape2
Between Merit and Patronage: Hybrid Appointments of Top Civil Service2
Glass Ceiling or Merit? Gender, Promotion, and Judicial Careers in a Civil Law System2
Risk, Inequality, and Support for Social Insurance Reform in China2
The distributive politics of privately financed infrastructure agreements2
The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent DemocraciesBy Isabel M.Perera, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 288pp., $110 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781009499897.2
Is Responsibility Intuitive in a Public Encounter?1
Populist Governance Strategies: How Growth Coalition Tensions Affect Populist Policymaking1
Does Transparency Reach Citizens? National Accountability Mechanisms and Public Perceptions in Europe1
Informal networks as investment: A qualitative analysis from Uganda and Tanzania1
Shrinking Whitehall: Fundamental reform to improve efficiency. By Tim Ambler, London: Adam Smith Institute. 2023. pp. 301. £24.99 (cloth)1
Executive compliance with parliamentary powers under authoritarianism: Evidence from Jordan1
Political corruption, political responsiveness and public trust: Testing the implicit exchange hypothesis1
Decision‐makers, advisers or educable subjects? Policymakers' perceptions of citizen participation in a Nordic democracy1
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Does voluntary cooperation in member state implementation require top‐down steering? The case of regional policy in Switzerland1
Money down the drain: Corruption and water service quality in Africa1
Does Policy Capacity Truly Matter for Governmental Effectiveness? A Conjunctural Analysis of the Quality of Governance in Italian Regions1
Cartels in infrastructure procurement—Evidence from Lebanon1
The scarce state: Inequality and political power in the hinterland. By NoahNathan, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 374 pp. $39.99 (paper)1
Public administration and political science: Can this marriage be saved?1
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Assessing the Democratic Accountability of Europe's New Industrial Policy1
The Embedded Network: Institutional Constraints on Collaborative Governance in Indonesia's Aviation Safety Program1
Government responsiveness and citizen satisfaction: Evidence from environmental governance1
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Venue‐Making1
Justifying opposition and support to EU‐Africa cooperation on deportation in West Africa1
The co‐governance of basic education: Assessing the complementary effects of intergovernmental support, municipal capacity, non‐governmental organization presence and international development assista1
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Determinants of the cabinet size in presidential systems1
National policy piloting as steering at a distance: The perspective of local implementers1
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Negotiating public service bargains in postrevolutionary times: The case of Iran's diplomatic corps1
The home state effect: How subnational governments shape climate coalitions1
Why noncompliance. The politics of law in the European Union. Tanja A.BörzelIthaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2021. 298 pp. $0.00 (ebook)1
Fengqiao‐Style Policing: A Grassroots Model for Public Security Governance1
Lessons From the Dissolution of Mexico's Information Commission1
Boosting Public Confidence in U.S. Agency Policymaking1
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