Epistemic decolonization of public policy pedagogy and scholarship

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confidence: 99%

Trust, power, and organizational routines: Exploring government's intentional tactics to renew relationships with nonprofits serving historically marginalized communities

Cheng

Sandfort

2023

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“…ENDNOTES 1 We acknowledge that our perspective in this editorial primarily draws from the U.S. history and context. Similar and different perspectives on these issues have been articulated at different points in history and in differing cultural and national contexts (see Candler et al, 2010;Pandey, Cheng, and Hall, 2022;Rangarajan, 1992). 2 Polanyi (1980) provides a classic account of markets and capitalism, but also see Marshall (1950) regarding the idea of social rights and the government's role in ensuring the equality of membership of the society.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…More recently, PAR has published landmark articles on social equity (e.g., Frederickson, 1990; Gooden, 2015; Guy & McCandless, 2012; Pandey, Newcomer, et al, 2022; Wright & Merritt, 2020), as well as editorials calling for richer and more inclusive conceptualizations of the concept. For example, PAR editorials have identified the need to better theorize race, gender, class, and geography, and examine disciplinary blind spots (Battaglio & Hall, 2018; Hall, 2022, 2022b; Pandey, Bearfield, & Hall, 2022; Pandey, Cheng, & Hall, 2022).…”

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Beyond social equity: Talking social justice in public administration

Stivers

Pandey

DeHart‐Davis

et al. 2023

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PAR Editorials seek to raise the salience of important public administration themes. Social justice is one of the defining themes of our times and in this editorial statement, we clarify some basic issues and offer a vision for future scholarship and practice. This statement is co-authored with notable public administration scholars, many affiliated with the Consortium of Race and Gender Scholars (CORGES). I am especially grateful to Cam Stivers, Sanjay Pandey, and Leisha DeHart-Davis for their leadership in crafting this editorial statement.

“…The hyperlink for that specific issue is here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-6210.advancing-public-policy-research. This virtual issue offers an introduction to 17 curated articles that document our position on the proper locus of public policy relative to scholarship in public administration and other disciplines (Pandey, Cheng, & Hall, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The risk of pushing too strongly for data analytics in MPA programs is that we further blur the line between a public administrator and an analyst. Many programs draw this distinction with parallel programs in public administration and policy analysis-the Master of Public Policy (see Pandey, Cheng, & Hall, 2022). Too much focus on analysis leaves our graduates able to conduct a wide range of statistical techniques and but leaves them ill-prepared to effectively lead the organization.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Hall,

McDonald

2023

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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