Pub Date : 2020-09-16DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1814080
S. Viswanath, L. Mullins
Abstract Acknowledging the need for more gender work in Public Administration, this paper engages feminist standpoint theory to analytically frame the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic from a feminist perspective. By assessing the differential impact of the pandemic on women and men in the United States across several sectors of the political economy and society, it is apparent women face immense obstacles in the labor market, as well as in access to health, food and housing. This analytical approach is in line with the United Nation’s fifth Sustainable Development Goal, gender equity. The imperative to include women’s perspectives in pandemic response and planning is juxtaposed against the current pandemic response that primarily leaves women out of the decision-making process. The policy tool of gender responsive budgeting, successfully implemented in various countries, is proposed to offset the gender inequities triggered by the pandemic in the U.S.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-14DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1816787
Albena Dzhurova
Abstract The U.S. government’s response to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions of whether its role is in fact limited to symbolic politics courtesy of its highly fragmented authority. This paper deconstructs the most prominent federal government outreach to the American people at the outset of the COVID-19 crisis—the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings, to show how government actions have been communicated to the public. Within the Kübler-Ross’ five-stage theory of grief, several narratives are surveyed as they are being circulated, tested and/or abandoned. It is argued that engaging in the enactment of narratives is one logical avenue for a crisis mitigation reimagined in postmodern terms. This serves as yet another reminder of how policy deliberation could be replaced with symbolic acts via discursive manipulation to the detriment of democratic public administration.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1805273
Fabian Hattke, Helge Martin
Abstract Countering the calls for more centralized public decision-making and unified command-and-control administration, we show how fragmented authority can foster collective action to mount an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To this aim, we use a conceptual framework that integrates emergency management and political economic theory and provide several examples to illustrate how public and private actors in Germany met the challenges of the pandemic with coordinated, cooperative, and collaborative action. The motivational, strategic, and structural solutions we identify in this research offer to scholars and practitioners insight into the design of resilient public health systems.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-28DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1813456
Nicole M. Elias, M. D’Agostino
Abstract School closings during COVID-19 exposed an under-addressed gender equity issue in the United States: child care in crisis. To better understand the child care crisis in the current U.S. context, we detail how New York City is addressing child care during COVID-19. We then connect the current approaches to the Lanham Act that was instituted during WWII as a historical parallel. Ultimately, we argue for the adoption of a universal system that is affordable, high-quality, federally-funded with local involvement and discretion, and flexible for primary caregivers seeking care support. This potential system builds on current congressional proposals and should take into account the challenges primary caregivers face in order to disrupt gender imbalances in care, and in turn, produce greater gender equity. COVID-19 is an opportunity to instill lasting change by improving the current U.S. child care model.
{"title":"Care in crisis: COVID-19 as a catalyst for universal child care in the United States","authors":"Nicole M. Elias, M. D’Agostino","doi":"10.1080/10841806.2020.1813456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2020.1813456","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract School closings during COVID-19 exposed an under-addressed gender equity issue in the United States: child care in crisis. To better understand the child care crisis in the current U.S. context, we detail how New York City is addressing child care during COVID-19. We then connect the current approaches to the Lanham Act that was instituted during WWII as a historical parallel. Ultimately, we argue for the adoption of a universal system that is affordable, high-quality, federally-funded with local involvement and discretion, and flexible for primary caregivers seeking care support. This potential system builds on current congressional proposals and should take into account the challenges primary caregivers face in order to disrupt gender imbalances in care, and in turn, produce greater gender equity. COVID-19 is an opportunity to instill lasting change by improving the current U.S. child care model.","PeriodicalId":37205,"journal":{"name":"Administrative Theory and Praxis","volume":"43 1","pages":"217 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10841806.2020.1813456","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49376862","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 : 2020-08-12DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1805272
D. Kasdan, Jesse W. Campbell
Abstract COVID-19 is as much a social as a biological problem and securing mass compliance with public health directives is a necessary condition of suppressing the pandemic. South Korea’s containment has been characterized by high levels of such compliance We contend that Korea's neo-Confucian traditions, ongoing exposure to diverse existential threats, and technology-driven development inform a set of biases and social practices that facilitate positive containment outcomes. Utilizing an advanced dataveillance infrastructure, Korea has benefited from the extant biases of conformity, convenience, and risk aversion in its containment effort, as many of the prescriptions for containment are consistent with the cultural norms of collectivism. We suggest that an understanding of the idiosyncratic and historically grounded factors of Korea's coronavirus response can contribute to a realistic evaluation of its applicability for other contexts.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-31DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1798693
E. Santis
Abstract In the throes of COVID-19, heads of state like President Donald J. Trump have the power to declare a state of exception and use their moment in the limelight to help the public make sense of the pandemic. Unfortunately, sometimes leaders use the state of exception as a vehicle for acts of administrative evil against would-be enemies. Therefore, it is essential to interrogate whether heads of state like President Trump are using the limelight to harm others. As I show through a qualitative content analysis of 87 communication events, instead of unifying and reassuring the public with cogent solutions, President Trump has leveraged the spotlight to name enemies: China, COVID-19, and the press. Consequently, the President may soon sanction or intensify acts of administrative evil in the United States.
{"title":"From the leader’s lips, to the public’s ears: The state of exception, administrative evil, and the enemy in President Trump’s rhetoric during COVID-19","authors":"E. Santis","doi":"10.1080/10841806.2020.1798693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2020.1798693","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the throes of COVID-19, heads of state like President Donald J. Trump have the power to declare a state of exception and use their moment in the limelight to help the public make sense of the pandemic. Unfortunately, sometimes leaders use the state of exception as a vehicle for acts of administrative evil against would-be enemies. Therefore, it is essential to interrogate whether heads of state like President Trump are using the limelight to harm others. As I show through a qualitative content analysis of 87 communication events, instead of unifying and reassuring the public with cogent solutions, President Trump has leveraged the spotlight to name enemies: China, COVID-19, and the press. Consequently, the President may soon sanction or intensify acts of administrative evil in the United States.","PeriodicalId":37205,"journal":{"name":"Administrative Theory and Praxis","volume":"42 1","pages":"558 - 570"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10841806.2020.1798693","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43155922","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 : 2020-07-31DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1798692
C. Knox
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Pub Date : 2020-07-27DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1798694
Fang Ding, Norma M. Riccucci
Abstract There has been a good deal of research on the role of nongovernmental organizations in addressing public concerns and issues. However, alumni networks, mainly regarded as a platform for in-group benefits between alumni and their alma maters, have attracted little attention in terms of their potential utility to the broader public. But the unexpected vital role of alumni networks in addressing the recent novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in China provides some insights into the value of alumni networks in both the practice and theory of public administration. Along with the successful practice in China, this essay attempts to understand how alumni networks can be used to assist in shared struggles in general, helping to solve major public challenges in practice in contexts beyond China, and to extend the understanding of alumni networks as potential areas of study through existing theoretical frameworks in public administration (e.g., collaborative governance and nonprofit organizations). The essay also provides directions for a future research agenda on the value of alumni networks for public administration.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-10DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1782127
Nuri Heckler, Ryan Rouse
Abstract This article examines the reasons that Whiteness and social justice have adopted conceptions of democracy and freedom that seem to conflict and yet do not directly conflict. The argument starts by framing a problem of democracy and freedom as property issued to White people within a dominant majoritarian semiotic system. By using critical race theory and linguistic philosophy, we describe how conflict suppression maintains a homeplace, a social justice semiotic subsystem that suppresses conflict with Whiteness, thereby protecting both the homeplace and Whiteness simultaneously. We argue that public administration theory offers unique opportunities to promote and enrich these sites of resistance to reterritorialize democracy and freedom in new and inclusive ways.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1799665
S. McCandless, Staci M. Zavattaro
Abstract As Administrative Theory & Praxis's Dialogues series on COVID-19 continues, we reflect on where we have come and where we are going while previewing new pieces in the series.
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