| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A PUBLIC MANAGEMENT FOR ALL SEASONS? | Public Administration | 1991 | 5,680 |
| 2 | THE JOINT-DECISION TRAP: LESSONS FROM GERMAN FEDERALISM AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION | Public Administration | 1988 | 1,548 |
| 3 | WHAT’S MEASURED IS WHAT MATTERS: TARGETS AND GAMING IN THE ENGLISH PUBLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM | Public Administration | 2006 | 958 |
| 4 | 'Accountability': An Ever-Expanding Concept? | Public Administration | 2000 | 931 |
| 5 | The Competent Boundary Spanner | Public Administration | 2002 | 849 |
| 6 | Evaluation, Policy Learning and Evidence‐Based Policy Making | Public Administration | 2002 | 758 |
| 7 | Organizing Babylon - On the Different Conceptions of Policy Networks | Public Administration | 1998 | 718 |
| 8 | The Dynamics of Multi-organizational Partnerships: an Analysis of Changing Modes of Governance | Public Administration | 1998 | 606 |
| 9 | INNOVATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA | Public Administration | 2016 | 577 |
| 10 | MAKING GOVERNANCE NETWORKS EFFECTIVE AND DEMOCRATIC THROUGH METAGOVERNANCE | Public Administration | 2009 | 563 |
| 11 | NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS: THE DARK SIDES OF MANAGERIALISTIC ‘ENLIGHTENMENT’ | Public Administration | 2009 | 547 |
| 12 | STREET-LEVEL BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY | Public Administration | 2007 | 537 |
| 13 | Managing Horizontal Government: The Politics of Co-Ordination | Public Administration | 1998 | 511 |
| 14 | Understanding Policy Transfer: A Multi-Level, Multi-Disciplinary Perspective | Public Administration | 1999 | 414 |
| 15 | NEW MODES OF CONTROL IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE | Public Administration | 1996 | 411 |
| 16 | DOES PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY WORK? AN ASSESSMENT TOOL | Public Administration | 2008 | 403 |
| 17 | THEORIZING HYBRIDITY: INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS, COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS, AND ACTOR IDENTITIES: THE CASE OF NONPROFITS | Public Administration | 2015 | 402 |
| 18 | DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE NETWORKS: COMPATIBLE OR NOT? | Public Administration | 2007 | 345 |
| 19 | A Critique of the Use of Path Dependency in Policy Studies | Public Administration | 2005 | 338 |
| 20 | Delivering joined-up government in the UK: dimensions, issues and problems | Public Administration | 2002 | 328 |
| 21 | Trends In Public Participation: Part 1 – Local Government Perspectives | Public Administration | 2001 | 322 |
| 22 | Traditions of governance: interpreting the changing role of the public sector | Public Administration | 2003 | 321 |
| 23 | META‐GOVERNANCE: VALUES, NORMS AND PRINCIPLES, AND THE MAKING OF HARD CHOICES | Public Administration | 2009 | 321 |
| 24 | THE IMPACT OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT ON OUTCOMES IN GOVERNANCE NETWORKS | Public Administration | 2010 | 314 |
| 25 | Implementation Studies: Time for a Revival? Personal Reflections on 20 Years of Implementation Studies | Public Administration | 2004 | 313 |
| 26 | THE MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS: A LITERATURE REVIEW | Public Administration | 2014 | 297 |
| 27 | WHAT’S VALUED MOST? SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES OF THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR | Public Administration | 2008 | 280 |
| 28 | PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM IN DUTCH HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE UNIVERSITY | Public Administration | 2007 | 278 |
| 29 | NETWORKING LITERATURE ABOUT DETERMINANTS OF NETWORK EFFECTIVENESS | Public Administration | 2010 | 270 |
| 30 | Constituting 'the public' in public participation | Public Administration | 2003 | 265 |
| 31 | CHANGE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICES | Public Administration | 1992 | 263 |
| 32 | TOWARDS AN EXOGENOUS THEORY OF PUBLIC NETWORK PERFORMANCE | Public Administration | 2009 | 262 |
| 33 | INNOVATION, PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC SERVICES DELIVERY IN THE UK. THE WORD THAT WOULD BE KING? | Public Administration | 2011 | 262 |
| 34 | CLUMSY SOLUTIONS FOR A COMPLEX WORLD: THE CASE OF CLIMATE CHANGE | Public Administration | 2006 | 261 |
| 35 | HYBRID MANAGER–PROFESSIONALS' IDENTITY WORK: THE MAINTENANCE AND HYBRIDIZATION OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALISM IN MANAGERIAL CONTEXTS | Public Administration | 2015 | 248 |
| 36 | THE LIMITATIONS OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT NETWORKS | Public Administration | 2011 | 244 |
| 37 | INNOVATION TYPE AND DIFFUSION: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT | Public Administration | 2006 | 243 |
| 38 | The Public Governance of Collaborative Spaces: Discourse, Design and Democracy | Public Administration | 2005 | 237 |
| 39 | TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING POLICY SUCCESS | Public Administration | 2010 | 234 |
| 40 | The Formation of Public-Private Partnerships: Lessons from Nine Transport Infrastructure Projects in The Netherlands | Public Administration | 2005 | 232 |
| 41 | Knowledge management and communities of practice in the private sector: lessons for modernizing the National Health Service in England and Wales | Public Administration | 2002 | 228 |
| 42 | CONSTITUTION-MAKING IN EASTERN EUROPE: REBUILDING THE BOAT IN THE OPEN SEA | Public Administration | 1993 | 217 |
| 43 | UNDERSTANDING HYBRIDITY IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS | Public Administration | 2015 | 217 |
| 44 | Public Governance in the Netherlands: An Alternative to Anglo-American 'Managerialism' | Public Administration | 1997 | 215 |
| 45 | Organizing For Europe: Whitehall, The British State And European Union | Public Administration | 1998 | 214 |
| 46 | Trends in Public Participation: Part 2 – Citizens' Perspectives | Public Administration | 2001 | 214 |
| 47 | CORE EXECUTIVE STUDIES IN BRITAIN | Public Administration | 1990 | 212 |
| 48 | MANAGING NETWORKS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: A THEORETICAL STUDY OF MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN POLICY NETWORKS | Public Administration | 1995 | 210 |
| 49 | PUBLIC POLICY NETWORKS AND ‘WICKED PROBLEMS’: A NASCENT SOLUTION? | Public Administration | 2011 | 207 |
| 50 | DESIGNING RESILIENT INSTITUTIONS FOR TRANSBOUNDARY CRISIS MANAGEMENT: A TIME FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION | Public Administration | 2016 | 200 |
