Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is 12. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Theorizing Multilevel Closure Structures Guiding Forum Participation129
Performance Information Use in a Purpose-Oriented Network: A Relational Perspective57
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision: Understanding citizens’ attribution of responsibility for human versus algorithmic discriminatory outcomes46
Seeing no evil? Social vulnerabilities, collective inference, and organizational divergence40
How the experience of administrative burdens affects clients’ psychological well-being: the role of negativity bias39
Breaking down administrative burdens: a user-centered approach to increase interest in active labor market programs by women38
How wars impact public administration and street-level bureaucracy: teachers and education professionals on the frontlines of the Russian occupation in Ukraine29
Changes in the accountability obligation, intensity, and working drive of public employees: evidence from a survey experiment29
Gendered administrative burden: regulating gendered bodies, labor, and identity28
Correction to: The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets26
Race, Locality, and Representative Bureaucracy: Does Community Bias Matter?25
Making administrative work matter in public service delivery: a lens for linking practice with the purpose of office24
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs23
Correction to: How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making23
The more expertise the better? Examining the impact of policy venue specialization on environmental policy compliance22
Worth the effort? Compliance costs, heuristics, and perceived program accessibility22
Saving the Salmon: Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Collaboration in Oregon20
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement20
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics20
Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens18
Assessing drivers of sustained engagement in collaborative governance arrangements18
The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price17
Volunteers in Public Service Production: Modeling the Contributions of Volunteers to Organizational Performance17
All hands on deck: the role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals17
Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence From Participatory Budgeting15
Does Work Quality Differ between the Public and Private Sectors? Evidence from Two Online Field Experiments14
Critical mass condition of majority bureaucratic behavioral change in representative bureaucracy: a theoretical clarification and a nonparametric exploration14
Breaking the rules, but for whom? How client characteristics affect frontline professionals’ prosocial rule-breaking behavior14
Financial performance of state-owned enterprises: does political ideology play a role?13
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma13
Between breaking and restoring boundaries: conceptualizing responsiveness in street-level decision-making13
Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy12
A process study of managing tensions for sustaining public purpose-oriented networks: toward a “Networks as Practice” perspective12
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats: the political economy of petty corruption and administrative burdens12
Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes12
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