Pub Date : 2022-06-24DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2022.2086753
A. Manoharan, N. Rangarajan
Abstract There is growing interest in the potential of storytelling and narrative in public communication, engagement, and connection with stakeholders. Nurturing narrative competence and storytelling capacity in future public administrators will enable them to effectively utilize this essential skill in the practice of public administration. This paper discusses the relevance of storytelling and narrative in public administration, builds the metaphor of public administrator as storyteller, using professional identity theory and sensemaking as conceptual foundations, and offers ideas curated from the literature on how to build narrative competence and capacity. Theoretical, practical, and pedagogical implications for public administrator as storyteller are considered.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2022.2086754
Kidjie Saguin, Richa Shivakoti
Abstract Public administration as a field has struggled with truly understanding international migration as a phenomenon. This article argues that the concept of transnational administration can be used to better analyze how administrative states are able to reach and support their migrant workers in other countries. It develops the exceptional case of a national skills certification program implemented by the Philippines as an example of a state-led transnational administration. They have done so by using the administrative structures already in place through their embassies and consulates while also entering into partnerships with non-state actors in the destination countries. Embassies and consular offices act as an important focal point in the multi-scalar activities of the state by engaging in collaborative partnerships with both state and non-state actors. The extension of administrative structures beyond the borders is motivated not only to provide consular and welfare services but also to control a hypermobile population.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-04DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2022.2043071
S. McCandless, Brandi Blessett
Abstract The field of public administration has long resisted admitting an uncomfortable truth. Public administrattion is culpable in creating and maintaining racist, white supremacist policies and institutions through which Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color disproportionately experience prejudice and discrimination and, therefore, inequities and injustices throughout public services and society. However, few have been willing to have this difficult conversation. This Dialogue symposium seeks to contribute to this conversation, and this introduction both previews pieces in the symposium while also adding context to key concepts and discussions.
{"title":"Dismantling racism and white supremacy in public service institutions and society: contextualizing the discussion and introducing the symposium","authors":"S. McCandless, Brandi Blessett","doi":"10.1080/10841806.2022.2043071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2022.2043071","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The field of public administration has long resisted admitting an uncomfortable truth. Public administrattion is culpable in creating and maintaining racist, white supremacist policies and institutions through which Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color disproportionately experience prejudice and discrimination and, therefore, inequities and injustices throughout public services and society. However, few have been willing to have this difficult conversation. This Dialogue symposium seeks to contribute to this conversation, and this introduction both previews pieces in the symposium while also adding context to key concepts and discussions.","PeriodicalId":37205,"journal":{"name":"Administrative Theory and Praxis","volume":"44 1","pages":"91 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43294137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-31DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2022.2025736
Ose A. Agho
Abstract June of 2020 brought about mass protests on behalf on the Black Lives Matter movement. Protests that caused many industries and institutions to reevaluate the role they have played in perpetuating institutional forms of racism. This article explores the current state of Public Administration and Public Policy theories and frameworks and evaluates the fields understanding of how racial caste and racial socialization impacts the administrative state. It argues that the only way for the field of Public Administration and Public Policy, through scholarship and teaching, to rise to the challenge of addressing systemic and institutionalized forms of racial discrimination that permeates society and the administrative state is for scholars to develop a deeper understanding of racism and its impact on individuals, organizations, and institutions.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-27DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2022.2025737
Emma Ek Österberg, Martin Qvist
Abstract This paper develops a decision-based approach to meta-governance by drawing on insights from studies of organization outside of formal organizations. We argue that meta-governance can be analyzed as a form of partial organization of interactive arenas. Meta-governance has become an important concept in theorizing the role of government in contemporary governance, particularly in the context of shaping and providing guidance to different interactive arenas, such as networks and quasi-markets. Meta-governance is, however, also a broad and ambiguous concept, which limits its ability to guide empirical research on the actual practices of governing and the actors involved. Rather than presenting a new perspective on meta-governance, the framework of partial organization enables analysis of the processes behind the formation of meta-governance strategies. By focusing on decision-making, it offers a dynamic understanding of the stepwise development of meta-governance, reflecting an emerging, rather than predefined, rationality of governance arrangements.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-29DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2021.2020527
T. Catlaw, J. Eagan
Abstract The Occupy Movement (“Occupy”) was largely ignored by public administration scholars. In this paper we argue that letting Occupy pass by without substantive analysis is unfortunate because it represented an opportunity for public administration to learn and reflect on critically important issues. Occupy was an important moment of truth-telling in US politics and prefiguring of a different way of life, yet it revealed the field’s inability to hear and constructively engage with the “truth” of contemporary social movements. We elaborate these matters and contend that Occupy should be read as a moment of what the ancient Greeks and, more recently, Michel Foucault, call parrhēsia, or frank, direct, truthful speech. We consider Occupy within the broader context of public administration as a field of practice that engages with particular forms of truth-telling and use this as a fulcrum to theorize the particular ways in which public administration could or could not “handle” Occupy’s truth-telling. The final sections of the paper outline concrete lessons about how public administration may respond differently to the truth-telling of current and future social movements.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-26DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2021.1948735
Felipe Blanco
Abstract This paper explores the tension between the formal values of public administration, administrative racism, and Whiteness in the context of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). It asks: (1) Which values—if any—are being promoted and/or hindered at DMV offices? and (2) How the values of equity and equality, as well as racial power dynamics, maybe reinforced by street-level bureaucrats, or by the physical space of bureaucratic settings? Findings from document analysis and observations in a Midwestern state suggest that efficiency is the dominant value, with equality supported through colorblindness, and security as an emerging value. Formal colorblindness and the focus on security, however, allow for the reinforcement of administrative racism and Whiteness through the social construction of White people as “the norm,” ultimately undermining social equity.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-25DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2021.1984103
E. Gillespie
Abstract The purpose of this study is to understand feminist empowerment through the grant-making and other work of U.S. women’s foundations and funds to determine how they incorporate and facilitate empowerment. This study contributes new knowledge on the connections between feminist empowerment theories and the organizational practices of women’s philanthropic organizations. To assess the ways in which empowerment manifests in the work of these organizations, feminist empowerment literature was examined along with development literature on women’s empowerment, and critiques of empowerment. For this study, a database was created of more than 200 foundations and funds in 43 states by using website and IRS data and a survey administered. The findings speak to the ways in which women’s foundations and funds align with empowerment theories and the areas of disconnect.
{"title":"Empowerment-focused philanthropy: Bridging feminist theories and organizational practices through U.S. women’s funds","authors":"E. Gillespie","doi":"10.1080/10841806.2021.1984103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2021.1984103","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The purpose of this study is to understand feminist empowerment through the grant-making and other work of U.S. women’s foundations and funds to determine how they incorporate and facilitate empowerment. This study contributes new knowledge on the connections between feminist empowerment theories and the organizational practices of women’s philanthropic organizations. To assess the ways in which empowerment manifests in the work of these organizations, feminist empowerment literature was examined along with development literature on women’s empowerment, and critiques of empowerment. For this study, a database was created of more than 200 foundations and funds in 43 states by using website and IRS data and a survey administered. The findings speak to the ways in which women’s foundations and funds align with empowerment theories and the areas of disconnect.","PeriodicalId":37205,"journal":{"name":"Administrative Theory and Praxis","volume":"45 1","pages":"169 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46954132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-24DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2021.1984102
Schnequa N. Diggs
Abstract Using critical race theory (CRT), this article examines the ideology of privilege within White supremacy thought permeating the Administrative State. Through systems of privilege, the experiences of disadvantaged groups are masked by dominant narratives and used to validate status quo perspectives. To this point, privilege fuels the oppressive state of racial dominance, in American society, and is legitimized through the subtle language within the administrative practice.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-28DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2021.1945376
T. A. Wachhaus
Public administration is fuzzy—it’s not clear where the boundaries of our field are. We reach outward to related professions and disciplines: nonprofit management overlaps with a substantial amount...
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