OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is 5. 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
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	113
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	99
Public service users’ responses to performance information: Bayesian learning or motivated reasoning?	54
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	39
Corrigendum to: Pathways to Implementation: Evidence on How Participation in Environmental Governance Impacts on Environmental Outcomes	35
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	31
Corporatization, Administrative Intensity, and the Performance of Public Sector Organizations	31
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	29
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform: How Enterprising Public Sector Leaders Navigate Institutional Inertia	28
Resourcing Goal-directed Networks: Toward A Practice-based Perspective	27
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	25
When Tensions Become Opportunities: Managing Accountability Demands in Collaborative Governance	24
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	23
Guiding or Following the Crowd? Strategic Communication as Reputational and Regulatory Strategy	22
Can Sunlight Disperse Mistrust? A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Transparency on Citizens’ Trust in Government	20
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	20
Linking Organizational Capacity and Performance: The Case of Probation and Medicaid Reform in California Counties	19
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	18
Bureaucratic Control and Strategic Compliance: How Do Subnational Governments Implement Central Guidelines in China?	18
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	18
“Honor List” and “Shame Roll”: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Performance Feedback under Political Control	18
Individual Agency in Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Implementation of Policy Reforms: The Role of Their Policy Evaluation and Self-efficacy	17
Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity	17
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	17
Linguistic Features of Public Service Encounters: How Spoken Administrative Language Affects Citizen Satisfaction	16

The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations	15
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	15
Responding to Environmental Uncertainties in Critical Supply Acquisition: An Examination of Contracting for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the Aftermath of COVID-19	15
Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve US Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?	14
(Mis)Led by an Outsider: Abusive Supervision, Disengagement, and Silence in Politicized Bureaucracies	14
Hang in there: capacity constraints and processes of sustaining collaboration over time	14
Rulemaking Speed in the US States	14
Do Minimum Charity Care Provision Requirements Increase Nonprofit Hospital Performance? Examining Hospitals’ Responses to Regulatory Changes	13
Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of the US Administrative State	13
Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	12
Competition, Ownership, and the Impact of Government Outsourcing on Employees	12
Finding Your Crowd: The Role of Government Level and Charity Type in Revenue Crowd-Out	12
How to organize in turbulence: arrangements and pathways for robust governance	11
The Performance and Development of Deliberative Routines: A Practice-Based Ethnographic Study	11
Role distance. An ethnographic study on how street-level managers cope	11
Comparing Systemic and Individual Sources of Racially Disparate Traffic Stop Outcomes	11
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	11
Provider Ownership and Indicators of Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care Homes	10
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	10
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	10
Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation	10
Administrative Burden in Citizen–State Interactions: A Systematic Literature Review	10
Regulators as Guardians of Trust? The Contingent and Modest Positive Effect of Targeted Transparency on Citizen Trust in Regulated Sectors	10
Women hold up the shattering sky? Performance feedback on multiple conflicting goals and women’s representation in top management teams in the public sector	10
Why are policy actors so distrustful of each other, and how? Cognitive, behavioral, and endogenous relational sources of perceived distrust in governance networks	9
The Professional Agency Narrative—Conceptualizing the Role of Professional Knowledge in Frontline Work	9
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	9
Thanks, but No Thanks: Preferences towards Teleworking Colleagues in Public Organizations	9
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	8
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	8
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	8
2021 Reviewer thank you	8
Cross-sector collaboration in cities: learning journey or blame game?	8
Intraorganizational mobility and employees’ work-related contact patterns: evidence from panel data in the European Commission	8
A reputational perspective on structural reforms: how media reputations are related to the structural reform likelihood of public agencies	8
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	8
Network Effectiveness in Context	8
Adapting to organizational change in a public sector high-reliability context: the role of negative affect and normative commitment to change	7
Will trust move mountains? Fostering radical ideas in public organizations	7
Assessing the Effects of User Accountability in Contracting Out	7
Nonprofits: A Public Policy Tool for the Promotion of Community Subjective Well-being	6
The Dynamics of Sources of Knowledge on the Nature of Innovation in the Public Sector: Understanding Incremental and Transformative Innovations in Local Governments	6
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	6
Public Service Motivation as a Predictor of Corruption, Dishonesty, and Altruism	6
Signaling Resilience: A Computational Assessment of Narratives in Local Government Budgets	6
To Act or Not to Act? How Client Progression Affects Purposeful Performance Information Use at the Frontlines	6
Democratic Stakeholder Representativeness	6
Agency Independence, Campaign Contributions, and Favoritism in US Federal Government Contracting	6
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients: Evidence from a Field Experiment	5
Public-Sector Honesty and Corruption: Field Evidence from 40 Countries	5

Conflict Contagion: How Interdependence Shapes Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Polycentric Systems	5
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	5
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries	5
Community Foundations as Network Conveners: Structuring Collective Agency for Child Education and Development System Impact	5
The Potential of Meta-ethnography in the Study of Public Administration: A Worked Example on Social Security Encounters in Advanced Liberal Democracies	5
“It’s Not Over When It’s Over”―Post-Decision Arrangements and Empirical Legitimacy	5
The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	5
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	5