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

Article	Citations
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation	125
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective	115
Finding Your Crowd: The Role of Government Level and Charity Type in Revenue Crowd-Out	50
“It’s Not Over When It’s Over”―Post-Decision Arrangements and Empirical Legitimacy	37
When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration	34
Conflict Contagion: How Interdependence Shapes Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Polycentric Systems	33
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity	33
Data Manipulation through Patronage Networks: Evidence from Environmental Emissions in China	30
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	30
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office	28
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?	26
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs	25
Dismantling or Disguising Racialization?: Defining Racialized Change Work in the Context of Postsecondary Grantmaking	24
Exit, Voice, and Sabotage: Public Service Motivation and Guerrilla Bureaucracy in Times of Unprincipled Political Principals	21
Do Cogovernance and CSOs Supplement Municipal Capacity for Service Delivery? An Assessment of Differences in Simple versus Complex Services	21
Meta-Analysis of Collaboration and Performance: Moderating Tests of Sectoral Differences in Collaborative Performance	21
Accountability and Affective Styles in Administrative Reporting: The Case of UNRWA, 1951–2020	20
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics	20
A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers’ Career Advancement	19
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon	19
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?	18
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement	18
Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity	17
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals	17
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance	17

The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price	17
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting	15
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration	15
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements	15
Exploring the Influence of Administrative Capacities on Administrative Burdens	15
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma	14
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments	14
Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation	14
Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior	14
Discretionary Responses in Frontline Encounters: Balancing Standardization with the Ethics of Office	14
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes	13
Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management	13
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens	12
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy	12
Activating the “Big Man”: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies	12
Financial Performance Of State-Owned Enterprises: Does Political Ideology Play A Role?	12
The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: a configurational analysis	11
An Analysis of Micro-scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance	11
Correction to: Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	11
Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers’Situational WorkContributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms	11
The weakness of weak ties: do social capital investments among leaders pay off during times of disaster?	10
Assessments of Digital Client Representations: How Frontline Workers Reconstruct Client Narratives from Fragmented Information	9
Emotional capital in citizen agency: contesting administrative burden through anger	9
Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government	9
Distributive Justice in Collaborative Outputs: Empowering Minority Viewpoints Through Deliberation	9
Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe: Class Background and Career Progression within the UK Civil Service	9
Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007–2019)	9
Conceptualizing and Explaining Flexibility in Administrative Crisis Management: A Cross-district Analysis in Germany	9
The interplay of discretion and complexity in public contracting and renegotiations	8
Bureaucratic Control and Strategic Compliance: How Do Subnational Governments Implement Central Guidelines in China?	8
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements	8
Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve US Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?	8
Sex, Race, and the Allocation of Credit in Dispersed Teams: Whose Contributions to Team Success Get Noticed and Whose Get Neglected	8
Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how	8
The Professional Agency Narrative—Conceptualizing the Role of Professional Knowledge in Frontline Work	8
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform: How Enterprising Public Sector Leaders Navigate Institutional Inertia	8
Administrative Errors and Race: Can Technology Mitigate Inequitable Administrative Outcomes?	8
Compliance under distrust: do people comply less when they feel distrusted?	7
The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets	7
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients: Evidence from a Field Experiment	7
Will trust move mountains? Fostering radical ideas in public organizations	6
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State	6
Self-sacrifice for the Common Good under Risk and Competition: An Experimental Examination of the Impact of Public Service Motivation in a Volunteer’s Dilemma Game	6
The Potential of Meta-ethnography in the Study of Public Administration: A Worked Example on Social Security Encounters in Advanced Liberal Democracies	6
Sexual Orientation and Organizational Justice in the Federal Service: Exploring Differences through an Intersectional Lens	6
Correction to: Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach	6
Ebb and flow of network participation: flexibility, stability, and forms of flux in a purpose-oriented network	6
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries	6
Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment	6
The professional profile, competence, and responsiveness of senior bureaucrats: a paired survey experiment with citizens and elite respondents	5

User Involvement as a Catalyst for Collaborative Public Service Innovation	5
How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making	5
Administrative Groupings and Equality in Public Service Provision	5
Developing the Theory of Pragmatic Public Management through Classic Grounded Theory Methodology	5
On the Frontline of Global Inequalities: A Decolonial Approach to the Study of Street-Level Bureaucracies	5
Human–AI Interactions in Public Sector Decision Making: “Automation Bias” and “Selective Adherence” to Algorithmic Advice	5
Disaster Experience and Governments’ Savings: The Moderating Role of Organizational Capacity	5
Linguistic Features of Public Service Encounters: How Spoken Administrative Language Affects Citizen Satisfaction	5