Public Administration

09/06/2026

Excited to announce the publication of issue 104(2) of Public Administration! Take some time to review the original research found within the issue! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679299/current

08/06/2026

"A Replication of 'Emotional Responses to Bureaucratic Red Tape'" by Huaxing Liu, Cheng Huo, Ben Ma, Qing Huang, & Ziyuan Zhang finds that administrative burden is a robust antecedent of negative emotions, confirming findings of Hattke et al. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fpadm.70068

04/06/2026

Scopus journal rankings and CiteScores are out for 2025, and Public Administration is continuing its rise to the top! The 2025 CiteScore was 11.9, continuing the trend that Public Administration is the place to publish if you want your research cited!

29/05/2026

This week's takes us to 2010 and 88(1). "From the Europeanization of Lawmaking to the Europeanization of National Legal Orders: The Case of Austria" by Marcelo Jenny and Wolfgang C. Müller explains how EU integration reshaped Austrian law.

This article addresses the scope of legal Europeanization with regard to Austria, a 1995 accession country. Depending on the choice among several plausible indicators of legal Europeanization, the re...

28/05/2026

"When Coproduction Meets Professionalism: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Challenges of Lay Input" by Rikke Kolding shows that lay input in coproduction is not uniformly challenging to professionalism. Instead, the type, need, and communication of lay input shape how professionals perceive and experience these challenges, offering a more nuanced understanding of professionalism in coproduction.

https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fpadm.70070

26/05/2026

"Cultural Competence in Community-Level Initiatives to Advance Racial Equity in Homeless Services" by Saerim Kim, Andrew Sullivan, Kotomi Yokokura, Hyokyung Kwak, & Emily Nwakpuda finds that most U.S. homelessness collaboratives demonstrate strong cultural competence in addressing racial inequality. But many still miss opportunities to deepen equity-focused practices and advance more effective, socially just service delivery.

https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.70063

18/05/2026

"Fairness Perception, Administrative Burden, and Social Welfare Participation" by Yongdong Shen, Wenchi Wei, Chao An, & Zhouyi Chen finds that both administrative burden and perceptions of fairness shape participation in China’s welfare programs. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fpadm.70067

07/05/2026

"Governing the Local Digital Transformation: A European Comparative Perspective" by Sabine Kuhlmann, Justine Marienfeldt, & Frederico Ganz is a comparative analysis of how governance systems shape unequal outcomes of local digital transformation. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.70061

30/04/2026

"Policymakers' Preferences Over Public–Private Modes of Service Delivery and Credit-Claiming: Experimental Evidence" by Eleanor Woodhouse, Paolo Belardinelli, & Nathan Lee finds that procurement choices may be shaped by electoral incentives rather than just by efficiency concerns, raising questions about how far allocation decisions reflect political incentives alongside technical criteria.

https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.70065

23/04/2026

"Navigating the Algorithmic State: Public Values and Citizens’ Preferences of AI-Driven Public Service Delivery" by Guimin Zheng, Heewon Lee, Wenhui Li, Yixin Liu, & Tian Tang answers the question of what makes government AI acceptable to citizens. Evidence from a national conjoint experiment shows that effectiveness, transparency, and accountability are key. Equity and data protection matter even more in enforcement contexts, such as criminal justice, than in service-oriented areas.

As the public sector increasingly adopts AI-powered automated decision systems (ADS), understanding how citizens experience and value ADS use in public decision-making is both normatively and practic...