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Public Administration and Political Analysis

Public Administration and Political Analysis is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various aspects of political governance, leadership, and public administration in modern societies. It covers topics such as participatory democracy, policy change, digitalization, crisis management, and the complexities of governing complex socio-economic systems.

  • Governance
  • Leadership
  • Participation
  • Policy Change
  • Digitalization
  • Complex Systems
  • Public Administration
  • Direct Democracy
  • Crisis Management
  • Innovation
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
81% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Public Administration and Political Analysis

Which countries lead Public Administration and Political Analysis research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (2.4k and 195 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 2.4k works
  2. 2 Austria 195 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 143 works
  4. 4 United States 91 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 32 works
  6. 6 Netherlands 24 works
  7. 7 China 20 works
  8. 8 Poland 19 works
  9. 9 France 17 works
  10. 10 Italy 14 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Germany: 81.5%Austria: 6.5%Switzerland: 4.8%United States: 3.0%6 others listed: 4.2%81%largest
Germany2,445 · 81.5%Austria195 · 6.5%Switzerland143 · 4.8%United States91 · 3.0%6 others listed127 · 4.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Public Administration and Political Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Leibniz Association publishes the most Public Administration and Political Analysis research, followed by University of Kassel and University of Münster.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Leibniz AssociationGermany 70 works
  2. 2 University of KasselGermany 58 works
  3. 3 University of MünsterGermany 48 works
  4. 4 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 46 works
  5. 5 Bielefeld UniversityGermany 45 works
  6. 6 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 39 works
  7. 7 University of Duisburg-EssenGermany 38 works
  8. 8 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 36 works
  9. 9 Ruhr University BochumGermany 32 works
  10. 10 LVR-Klinik KölnGermany 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Public Administration and Political Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Public Administration and Political Analysis include Hermann Brenner, Peter Jüni and Pierre Bourdıeu.

  1. 1 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  2. 2 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  3. 3 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  4. 4 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  5. 5 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  6. 6 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  7. 7 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  8. 8 Michael Weller Switzerland 172k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Public Administration and Political Analysis?

The most cited paper in Public Administration and Political Analysis is "Policy-Netzwerke und die Logik von Verhandlungssystemen" (Renate Mayntz, 1993), with 471 citations. Next come "Deliberation as Discussion" (438) and "Die Handlungsfähigkeit des Staates am Ende des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts" (412).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Policy-Netzwerke und die Logik von Verhandlungssystemen Renate Mayntz · VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften eBooks Book chapter 1993 471
2 Deliberation as Discussion James D. Fearon · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 28 Mar 1998 438
3 Die Handlungsfähigkeit des Staates am Ende des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts Fritz W. Scharpf · VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften eBooks Book chapter 1992 412
4 Deliberative Politics in Action: Analyzing Parliamentary Discourse Jürg Steiner, André Bächtiger, Markus Spörndli et al. 14 Feb 2005 397
5 Are innovative, participatory and deliberative procedures in policy making democratic and effective? Yannis Papadopoulos, Philippe Warin · European Journal of Political Research 25 Apr 2007 393
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Where is Public Administration and Political Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Public Administration and Political Analysis research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Vienna (Austria) and Hamburg (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Speyer and Kassel.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 250 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 115 works
  3. 3 ViennaAustria 109 works
  4. 4 HamburgGermany 93 works
  5. 5 CologneGermany 80 works
  6. 6 MünsterGermany 69 works
  7. 7 Frankfurt am MainGermany 66 works
  8. 8 EssenGermany 65 works
  9. 9 KasselGermany 59 works
  10. 10 StuttgartGermany 58 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SpeyerDE · 23.7 works481×
  2. KasselDE · 59.2 works110×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Public Administration and Political Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Public Administration and Political Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Kassel and University of Potsdam score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 14.24%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Duisbu…University of PotsdamLeipzig UniversityUniversity of Kassel
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Duisburg-EssenGermany 66.320.4%36.4×38 -47.2%
2University of KasselGermany 65.65.7%137.0×58 +24.8%
3University of PotsdamGermany 65.018.2%43.1×27 -37.5%
4Leipzig UniversityGermany 62.117.2%30.1×28 -6.5%
5Zeppelin Universität gemeinnützige GmbHGermany 62.023.9%190.1×10 +112.9%
6Bielefeld UniversityGermany 61.510.5%75.0×46 -43.2%
7University of MünsterGermany 61.411.1%42.7×48 -31.4%
8Freie Universität BerlinGermany 60.88.3%42.1×46 -32.2%
9Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 60.09.3%38.1×36 -13.6%
10HafenCity University HamburgGermany 59.917.8%235.1×10 +182.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Public Administration and Political Analysis, country by country

Is Public Administration and Political Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Public Administration and Political Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0059% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Public Administration and Political Analysis0.0063% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Public Administration and Political Analysis over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Public Administration and Political Analysis9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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