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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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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)57
Imperial Borderlands. By Bogdan G.Popescu, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 332 pp. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978100936521544
Commodifying Public Utilities: EU's New Governance Prescriptions for Rail and Water42
Neither multilevel governance nor battleground. Understanding the politics of immigrant integration in small and medium European localities34
Are the answers all out there? Investigating citizen information requests in the haze of bureaucratic responsiveness32
Compliance with government policies during emergencies: Trust, participation and protective actions31
Party Receptiveness to Interest Group Diversity: Evidence From Policymaking in Six European Democracies28
Development of a Scale to Measure Perceived Administrative Burden, With Broad Applicability Beyond Direct Policy Clients27
Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: A global and historical comparison, Ahmet T.KuruCambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2019. 316 pp. $34.99 (paper)26
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The democracy amendments: Constitutional reforms to save the United States. By John J.Davenport, New York: Anthem Press. 2023. pp. 292. $110 (cloth)22
Public administration and political science: From monogamous marriage to professional partnership22
States, markets, and foreign aid. By SimoneDietrich, New York: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp 259, $34.99 (paper)20
Public sector workers' support for technocracy. Comparative evidence from 25 European countries18
Incentives, audits and procurement: Evidence from a district‐level field experiment in Ghana18
The Nature and Dynamics of Access: Conceptualizing and Measuring Procedural Engagement Dynamics Between EU Interest Groups and Public Officials18
Civil servants' preferences for nonprofit contractors: A conjoint analysis17
Politicians' complaint response: E‐governance and personal relationships17
Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change16
Rules or legacies? Industry and political revolving doors in regulators' careers in Portugal15
Buying stones: Welfare spending and protests in Argentina, 2008–201915
Separation of powers, opposition strength, and chief executives' strategy15
European union funding of interest groups: Reassessing the balancing function and the promotion of good organizational practices14
E‐government and citizen‐state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service14
Governing schools in times of pandemic: A set‐theoretical analysis of the role of policy capacities in school closure13
The Belgian mental health reform: When a combination of soft instruments hampers structural change13
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Policy Design Below the Political Radar: When Policy Bureaucracies Mobilize Expertise to Restrict Business Power13
How to identify widespread corruption? New insights from geo‐spatial analysis12
Interacting institutional logics in policy implementation12
Serving quarreling masters: Frontline workers and policy implementation under pressure12
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)12
Unrealized Digital Democracy: A Critical Analysis of Power in the Digital AgeBy GarrettPierman, London: Lexington Books, 2024. 96 pp. $85.00 (e‐book).12
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Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance11
Pawned states: State building in the era of international finance. By DidacQueralt, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2022. pp. 368. $35 (paper)11
Resisting public monitoring in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from local environmental litigation in China11
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How institutionalized feedback works: Online citizen complaints and local government responsiveness in China10
Pacified citizens with a marketized school system: Causal evidence of boomeranging effects of user choice10
Understanding Micro‐Level Budgeting Behavior: How Cognitive Biases Shape Politicians' Budget Preferences10
Police corruption and crime: Evidence from Africa10
Re‐thinking policy and (multi‐level) governance failure: What went wrong and why in the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Italy?9
The political economy of open contracting reforms in low‐ and middle‐income countries9
Retooling governance for improving public service delivery: Case study of right to public services commission, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan9
Patronage at Work: Public Jobs and Political Services in Argentina. By VirginiaOliveros, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 280 pp. $29.99 (paperback) ISBN: 97810090825259
Greasing the wheels of policy reversal: Discursive engineering and public opinion management during the relaxation of China's family planning policy9
Environmental Governance in Malta: A Trajectory and Reflections on Shaping Institutions for Policy Learning9
Beyond consultocracy and servants of power: Explaining the role of consultants in policy formulation9
Measuring accountability in interlocal agreements between Indigenous and local governments9
Non‐majoritarian institutions, media coverage, and “reinforced accountability”9
When Do Liberal Governments Restrict Civil Society?9
Helping hand or centralizing tool? The politics of conditional grants in Australia, Canada, and the United States9
Subnational Lobbying on National Policymaking: Evidence From Germany9
Social protection under authoritarianism: Health politics and policy in China. By XianHuang, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020.8
Viral sovereignty and the political economy of pandemics: What explains how countries deal with outbreaks?. SophalEarRoutledge, New York, 2021. 238 pp. $160 (cloth)8
Parabureaucracy: The case of Mexico's “Servants of the Nation”8
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The law and politics of transnational rights protection: Trusteeship, effectiveness, de‐delegation8
The chemical framework: Exploring Europeanisation in French, Austrian, and Irish eHealth policy processes8
Introduction “street‐level bureaucracy, populism, and democratic backsliding”8
The politics of government reorganization inWestern Europe7
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
Trustee strategies, politicization and de‐delegation: The case of the European Central Bank7
Working with ideas: Collective bricolage, political tests and the emergence of policy paradigms7
Public agency resilience in times of democratic backsliding: Structure, collaboration and professional standards7
Critical thoughts about critical mass in representative bureaucracy: A theoretical exploration and empirical illustration7
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Government Digital Surveillance in Africa6
Including immigrant voices in local mechanisms of citizen participation? Insights from the crucial case of Barcelona6
The pursuit of governance; Nordic dispatches on a new middle way. By FabrizioTassinari, Newcastle: Agenda Publishing. 2022. xi + 185 pp. $95.00 (clo)6
The extra‐legal governance of corruption: Tracing the organization of corruption in public procurement6
Consumer Authorities in Europe: Policing Markets or Empowering Consumers?6
Top‐Down Central Inspection and Subnational Discretion in Policymaking6
Narratives of digital sovereignty in German political discourse6
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)6
Projects, government, and public policy. By StanisławGasik, New York: CRC Press. 2023. pp. 377. £42.39. ISBN: 97810033216066
The origins and consequences of administrative burdens in mass immunization programs: Experimental evidence based on the monkeypox outbreak5
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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
Populist government support and frontline workers' self‐efficacy during crisis5
The art of plucking the goose: Chinese urban residents' tax consciousness5
Towards a multifaceted measure of perceived legitimacy of participatory governance5
The non‐reversal of delegation in international standard‐setting in finance: The Basel Committee and the European Union5
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)5
Neighbors with benefits: How politicians' local ties generate positive externalities when bureaucratic oversight is limited5
Collective cognition in context: Explaining variation in the management of Europe's 2015 migration crisis5
The competence‐control dilemma and the institutional design of European Union agencies4
Norm Adherence, Trust, and Citizens' Compliance: Exploring Citizens Attitudes to Public Welfare Institutions Across Europe4
Indebted societies credit and welfare in rich democracies. By AndreasWiedemann, Cambridge University Press4
Neoliberal resilience. AldoMadariagaPrinceton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2020. 368 pp. $45 (cloth)4
Comparing ministerial advisers across politicization settings: Still hiding in the shadows?4
Government transparency and corruption in a turbulent setting: The case of foreign aid to Ukraine4
Shock to the system: Coups, elections, and war on the road to democratization4
The polity of implementation: Organizational and institutional arrangements in policy implementation4
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In court we trust? Political affinity and citizen's attitudes toward court's decisions4
Explaining Public Sector Corruption: The Hexagon Model3
Populism and Trust in the Public Service in Canada3
Migration debates in the political party arena during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Austria3
What are policymakers waiting for? How trustworthy government can sooth tax instability and expenditure arrears3
Policy Design, Instrument Choice, and Policy Feedback Effects of Institutional Business Power: Varieties of Child Care Investments in Australia, Canada, and Germany3
High Skills for High Tech: Higher Education as Industrial Policy3
Expansion without mandates: Border and asylum agencies in European Union migration governance3
Between a rock and a hard place: (Re)Integrating public administration and political science3
Crippling Leviathan ‐ How foreign subversion weakens the state. By Melissa M.Lee. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2020. $39.95 (cloth)3
Advocacy intelligence and competition: Assessing lobbyists' sharing of tactical knowledge in focus group interviews3
Long‐term policymaking and politicians' beliefs about voters: Evidence from a 3‐year panel study of politicians3
Condemned to complexity? Growing state activity and complex policy systems3
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Political Instrumentalism and Epistemic Communities in Global Governance a Network Analysis of the International Organization for Migration3
Under what conditions does bureaucracy matter in the making of global public policies?3
Women's political representation, good governance and human development3
Public participation in democracy, local accountability and happiness: Evidence from rural China3
Authorized Discretion: The Democratic Essentials of Governance in the European Union3
Award Citation: The Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize, 20212
The distributive politics of privately financed infrastructure agreements2
Governing through expertise: The politics of bioethics, AnnabelleLittoz‐Monnet. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2020. 200 pp. $99.99 (cloth)2
Risk, Inequality, and Support for Social Insurance Reform in China2
Cross‐domain policy feedback effects on mass publics2
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
Who matters at the World Bank? Bureaucrats, policy change, and public sector governance. By KimMoloney, New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 368. $100 (clo)2
The conundrum of corruption: Reform for social justice. MichaelJohnston and Scott A.FritzenRoutledge, New York, New York2021. 194 pp. $44.95 (paper)2
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In the eye of the storm: Street‐level organizations in circumstances of democratic backsliding2
How democratic is government really? The impact of subnational regime variation on evaluations of democracy2
The imperative of state capacity in public health crisis: Asia's early COVID‐19 policy responses2
Partisanship and the Gender Pay Gap in Local Government2
Between Merit and Patronage: Hybrid Appointments of Top Civil Service2
International perspectives on public administration. By Henry T.Sardaryan, Oxfordshire: Routledge. 2021. pp. 124. $47.96 (hbk)2
Thorns in the side: Strategies of populist parties against local public administrations2
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High‐Profile Corruption Convictions, Government Reactions, and Public Approval: A Comparative Analysis Across Levels of Democracy2
Reversing delegation? Politicization, de‐delegation, and non‐majoritarian institutions2
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Can impact assessments tame legislative drift? Event history analysis of modifications of laws across 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
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Within the shadow of hierarchy: The role of hierarchical interventions in environmental collaborative governance2
Award Citation: The Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize, 20222
Limiting bureaucratic discretion? Analyzing the design and exercise of administrative judicial review in the welfare sector1
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: 978‐0‐393‐23923‐21
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
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Executive compliance with parliamentary powers under authoritarianism: Evidence from Jordan1
Shrinking Whitehall: Fundamental reform to improve efficiency. By Tim Ambler, London: Adam Smith Institute. 2023. pp. 301. £24.99 (cloth)1
Boosting Public Confidence in U.S. Agency Policymaking1
Does Transparency Reach Citizens? National Accountability Mechanisms and Public Perceptions in Europe1
The scarce state: Inequality and political power in the hinterland. By NoahNathan, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 374 pp. $39.99 (paper)1
Transparency and citizen support for public agencies: The case of foreign aid1
The politics of order in informal markets: How the state shapes private governance. ShelbyGrossman, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2021, 200pp. $77 (cloth).1
Help your neighbor, help yourself: The drivers of European Union's climate cooperation in trans‐governmental networks with its neighbors1
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
Fengqiao‐Style Policing: A Grassroots Model for Public Security Governance1
Decision‐makers, advisers or educable subjects? Policymakers' perceptions of citizen participation in a Nordic democracy1
Public administration and political science: Can this marriage be saved?1
Business lobbying in the European Union. By DavidCoen, AlexanderKatsaitis, MatiaVannoni. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 237 pp. $8.83 (ebook)1
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Negotiating public service bargains in postrevolutionary times: The case of Iran's diplomatic corps1
Lessons From the Dissolution of Mexico's Information Commission1
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Drivers of transnational administrative coordination on super‐wicked policy issues: The role of institutional homophily1
Central bank independence in Latin America: Politicization and de‐delegation1
Does voluntary cooperation in member state implementation require top‐down steering? The case of regional policy in Switzerland1
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Informal networks as investment: A qualitative analysis from Uganda and Tanzania1
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Property without rights: Origins and consequences of the property rights gap. MichaelAlbertusCambridge University Press,, 2021. 391 pp. $99.99 (cloth)1
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Money down the drain: Corruption and water service quality in Africa1
Determinants of the cabinet size in presidential systems1
Does Policy Capacity Truly Matter for Governmental Effectiveness? A Conjunctural Analysis of the Quality of Governance in Italian Regions1
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Parsing the impact of E‐government on bureaucratic corruption1
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 (pape1
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