Beyond social equity: Talking social justice in public administration

Stivers, Camilla; Pandey, Sanjay K.; DeHart‐Davis, Leisha; Hall, Jeremy L.; Newcomer, Kathryn E.; Portillo, Shannon; Sabharwal, Meghna; Strader, Eiko; Wright, James E.

doi:10.1111/puar.13620

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“…It was only during the pandemic that this trend began to change in a meaningful way. Public Administration Review, for example, has led the discipline by creating an avenue for research in the area; we published multiple symposia, articles, and editorials (Hall, 2022; Pandey, Bearfield, & Hall, 2022; Stivers et al, 2023) to draw attention to the subject (see Pandey, Newcomer, DeHart‐Davis, Johnson, & Riccucci, 2022). A new journal was established—The Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration (https://jsepajournal.org).…”

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Scholarly hypocrisy or apostasy in public administration: Preaching to the choir, or to an empty room?

Hall,

McDonald

2023

Public Administration Review

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As a discipline, public administration is at a crossroads. This is hardly the first time that concern has been raised about public administration scholarship's position (see Dubnick, 2018;Ostrom, 1973;Stivers & McDonald, 2023), but we currently find ourselves in a situation as unique as it is potentially dire. Like other disciplines, research within public administration has its roots in improving practice (Perry, de Graaf, van der Wal, & van Montfort, 2014;Vogel & Hattke, 2022). The creation of professional public administration education programs, namely Master of Public Administration (MPA) programs, coupled the basic and applied research of faculty with teaching and gave students access to state-of-the-art solutions to the novel policy and management problems of the day (Farrell, Hatcher, & Diamond, 2022;McDonald, Hatcher, & Abbott, 2022). Research and institutional expectations for extramural research funding, however, have driven a wedge between these two primary faculty functions (Coggburn & Neely, 2015;Tayaban & O'Leary, 2022). The growing emphasis to publish or perish creates a divide between what we teach in the classroom and the research we conduct back in our offices. So divergent are these needs that a proliferation of teaching professors and adjunct faculty is common in many large public policy schools. Moreover, there is a developing generational rift between scholars who see their purpose as contributing to the core theory of the discipline and publishing accordingly, versus those who dedicate their time to highly-applied sponsored research projects. The value proposition for faculty at research universities is now somewhere between a dual path that recognizes faculty for both publications and research funding, and a tangible shift in preference for the pocketbook over the publications that distinguish faculty, units, and universities.Let us be honest from the start-much of the research published in our journals today is completely inaccessible to lay practitioners. Overly theoretical work lacks a tangible connection to real-world problems. Sophisticated

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Scholarly hypocrisy or apostasy in public administration: Preaching to the choir, or to an empty room?

Hall,

McDonald

2023

Public Administration Review

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“…For example, the blind spots of the universal modularity assumption (see Figure 3), driving sludge and behavioral science thinking, can only be addressed through explicitly recognizing and giving epistemic privilege to lived experiences. Recently, scholars associated with the Consortium of Race and Gender Scholars (CORGES) have made a call for more explicitly, accounting for social position and thereby recognizing epistemic privilege of lived experiences, in public policy and public administration scholarship (see DeHart‐Davis et al, 2020; Hall, 2022; Pandey et al, 2023; Pandey, Newcomer, et al, 2022; Portillo et al, 2022; Stivers et al, 2023; Strader et al, 2023).…”

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Elevating subjective individual experience in public policy and public administration: Reflections on red tape, administrative burden, and sludge

Pandey

2023

Public Administration Review

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In this essay, I take stock of the red tape research program (and research programs on administrative burden and sludge) to assess whether subjective individual experience has been given its rightful due in public policy and public administration. My primary purpose is to assess how concepts facilitate or hinder our understanding of the subjective individual experience. To serve this purpose, I present a conceptual analysis strategy and elaborate on the value of interrogating the modularity assumption (fit between conceptualization and experience). I conclude by advocating for consilience across concepts and research programs to better capture the subjective individual experience.

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“…It should come as no surprise that I list social equity among the fast-rising concerns of our time. I have written about this particular challenge on multiple occasions (Hall, 2022;Pandey, Bearfield & Hall 2022;Stivers, et Al 2023). I have lamented the strain placed on society by vitriol and the rhetoric of clashing political parties and their ideals, and the broader implications this has for social capital, civic virtue, and stability (Hall 2022b;Hall 2023;Van Wart, McIntyre & Hall 2023).…”

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