Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1750212
T. Garrett
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has repercussions well beyond the confines of borders. National border policies can thwart international efforts to combat the spread of infectious diseases. These problems are especially relevant for the United States with the spectacle of President Trump’s “big, beautiful border wall” used as leverage to maintain political and economic power domestically and globally while confronting the coronavirus pandemic. The focus of this paper is the implementation of Trump’s Zero Tolerance Policy, Migrant Protection Protocols, and the Asylum Cooperation Agreement, all aimed primarily at migrants and refugees, the homo sacer, from Central America to prevent entrance into the U.S. using the border security apparatus. These policies have adverse consequences for people dwelling throughout the hemisphere, particularly borderlanders, as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads into the Americas.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2019.1659049
Joshua Chanin, Reynaldo T. Rojo-Mendoza
This article considers the extent to which the gender of police officers affects the likelihood that a pedestrian will be frisked following a Terry stop. Theories of social equity, organizational diversity, and representative bureaucracy are used to develop several testable hypotheses. Results suggest that the presence of female police officers correlate with lower levels of racial and ethnic disparity in the distribution of frisks conducted by police in the City of Seattle. Further, our analysis suggests that stops initiated by female reporting officers reduce male–female disparities on the probability of being frisked. Results are discussed in terms of both theory and practice.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2019.1659045
Shereen Inayatulla, H. Robinson
This article examines the ways in which embodiments of femme within administrative academic settings intervene in dominant discourses that (incorrectly) frame us as being “in service” of male-identified colleagues, supervisors, and institutionalized heteropatriarchies. We posit femme as an important and complex counternarrative to the heterocentric, cissexist, and masculinist discourses that are ubiquitous within academic administration in both historical and present-day contexts. Additionally, we consider femme as a site of resistance to feminized discourses of nurturance and of (re)productivity. In this collaborative project, we study the labor involved in administering an English Department and a Writing Program at a four-year public college, interrogating, through autoethnographic reflections and analyses, the ways in which this service labor often falls to/gets thrust upon those of us who identify as femme faculty members. Our article illustrates how we resist the imposition of care work and assert our own agency while conducting administrative work on our own, femme, terms. We offer a list of usable interventions to common, predictable, yet sometimes disorienting situations, and although we do not advance these responses as easy conclusions to problematic interactions, we consider how this list might aid femme administrators in managing quotidian, misguided, at times hostile scenarios. Our work calls allies and comrades to identify systemic asymmetries and generate collaborative solutions within a paradigm of affirmation: One that places a commitment to “femme witnessing” at its center.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2019.1659048
Zein Murib
Public administration scholarship pertaining to transgender individuals focuses on the implementation of nondiscrimination policies, particularly with respect to employment (Colvin 2007, 2008; Elias 2017). This literature contributes greatly to our understanding of how to maintain open and accessible workplaces for transgender people; however, the effects of the recent politicization of public restroom access for transgender people, such as North Carolina’s HB 2, has yet to receive the same attention. This article argues that the recent surge of “bathroom bills” introduced across various states and localities makes opportunities for transgender and gender nonconforming people to successfully and safely inhabit public space impossible, and uses quantitative and qualitative analysis to illustrate the consequences of these policies. Focusing on seventy-one bills introduced between 2014 and 2018, this article shows that efforts to restrict bathroom access took two forms: first, legalizing discrimination against transgender and gender nonconforming people in public and second, making trans or gender nonconforming embodiment a criminal act. The article concludes with recommendations from architecture, city planning, and Trans Studies scholarship for public administration scholars and practitioners to consider as they continue to design and implement policies to address the unique needs of transgender individuals.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2019.1659046
Nicole M. Elias, R. Colvin
Our fundamental understandings and treatments of gender and gender identity within the United States are evolving. Recently, a few countries and several U.S. states have moved away from the binary categories of male and female to include a non-binary gender option for official state documents. This third, gender-neutral option, is usually represented as “X” where “M” for male and “F” for female traditionally appeared. The purpose of this study is twofold; first, to utilize Iris Marion Young’s theory of oppression to help contextualize the historical oppression of non-binary gender identity recognition by the State, and second, to analyze recent efforts by U.S. states to include non-binary gender categories. Using Young’s theory for normative explanation along with the Open Society Foundations’ (OSF) practical recommendations, we present a simple administrative framework for comparing proposed, adopted, and enacted non-binary gender policies across the United States. Tying each OSF best practice to one of Young’s faces of oppression, we are able to assess each law or policies’ effectiveness in dismantling the oppressive binary constructs of society.
我们在美国对性别和性别认同的基本理解和处理方式正在演变。最近，一些国家和美国几个州已经放弃了男性和女性的二元分类，在官方国家文件中加入了非二元性别选项。第三种是中性选项，通常表示为“X”，其中“M”代表男性，“F”代表女性。这项研究的目的是双重的；首先，利用Iris Marion Young的压迫理论，帮助将国家承认非二元性别认同的历史压迫置于情境中，其次，分析美国各州最近将非二元性类别纳入其中的努力。利用杨的理论进行规范性解释，并结合开放社会基金会（OSF）的实践建议，我们提出了一个简单的行政框架，用于比较美国各地提出、通过和颁布的非二元性别政策。将每一个OSF的最佳实践与杨的一个压迫面孔联系起来，我们能够评估每一项法律或政策在拆除压迫性的二元社会结构方面的有效性。
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2019.1659051
R. Colvin
When I was a graduate student, in the early 2000s, a well-meaning senior faculty member urged me not to write a dissertation related to “gay rights.” He convinced me that a dissertation on environmental policy would be more marketable and that I would have more outlets for my research. I struggled for almost a year to develop a prospectus on environmental policy. Luckily, another faculty member—who had read my previous work on lesbian and gay employment discrimination—volunteered to lead my committee. Eventually, I completed an LGBT policy-focused dissertation, joining a handful of other public administration scholars focused on this area of research. Fast-forward twenty years, and the state of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression research has blossomed. Today, we have numerous scholars advancing our body of knowledge about a wide range of public administration and policy issues that were previously thought to be beyond the scope of the field. This is best evidenced through this special issue on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. The original charge for this special issue was to bring a theoretical and contextual understanding to the observable changes in public administration—and society more broadly—as related to sexual minorities. The authors in this symposium exceeded expectations by advancing theoretical and practical knowledge on contemporary issues as well as starting dialogs about issues on the horizon of public administration and policy. It is an honor to present six peer-reviewed articles that focus on various aspects of public administration and LGBTQI communities, including: women, queer identity and expression, nonbinary gender status, and of course, sexual orientation. The first three articles in the symposium relate to institutions (i.e., the police and the academy), the second three articles critically analyze broader laws and policies. In addition to the theoretical lens underpinning each article, another emergent connector is intersectionality. Scholars in the field recognize that sexual identities can only be understood in the context
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1752593
Staci M. Zavattaro, S. McCandless
Abstract In this Editor's Introduction, we write during the COVID-19 pandemic response this manifesto for public service.
在这篇编者导言中，我们在应对COVID-19大流行期间撰写了这份公共服务宣言。
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1752978
A. Johnson, Wendi Pollock, Beth M. Rauhaus
Abstract COVID-19 models indicate a mass casualty event may potentially occur in the United States. Among numerous social and economic changes, the potential to reshape the political landscape exists. The theoretical perspective of politics-administration dichotomy is used to examine the rhetoric, power, and authority of public health messages during the pandemic. This study considers political shifts using state-level data on population, historical voter turnout, and projected COVID-19 cases number coupled with national-level data on voter participation by age group and COVID-19 fatality rates. Developing a formula to calculate these data, we project the extent to which the number of voters from each party could diminish. The analysis shows the potential for significant political changes due to the disproportionate loss of older voters in key swing states in the months leading to the 2020 presidential election.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1750211
Michael D. Jones, M. McBeth
Abstract Narratives are the primary way by which people both understand themselves and how they communicate with others. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), a framework intended to help researchers make sense of the policy process, empirically studies the capacity for narratives to shape public policy at multiple levels of analyses. After what has now been a decade of empirical hypotheses testing, the NPF is employed in this article as a theoretical tool to engage the postmodern threat of President Donald Trump. While Trump’s misbehaviors are many, here we focus on his propensity to invent facts and engage in activities that seek to obscure truth. We argue these activities are an existential threat to democratic and scientific institutions, that these institutions require defending, and that the NPF can be deployed to that end. To make our case we first articulate the postmodern threat that Trump presents. We then leverage the NPF to provide ideas and strategies that we would expect to help us better understand Trump’s narrative tactics. The article concludes with some prescriptions flowing from the NPF, which are aimed at firmly anchoring the NPF to the normative assumptions and presuppositions of democracy and science.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1758991
D. P. Carter, P. May
Abstract On March 26, 2020, 3 months after Chinese authorities admitted to a novel coronavirus outbreak and 10 weeks after the first infection was documented on American soil, the U.S. led the world in COVID-19 cases. While the State Department touted the U.S. as “leading the world’s humanitarian and health assistance response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” media accounts more often applied terms like “muddled” and “confused.” In this essay, we step back to consider what it takes to bring about swift and coordinated action in pandemic response, and what has impeded such a response thus far in U.S. efforts to address COVID-19. Informed by a policy regime perspective, we argue that the response has been handicapped by deficient political commitment and unclear goals, dysfunctional institutional dynamics—from bureaucratic silos to mismatched institutions, and inertia from partisan and economic interests. We conclude that the incoherence of the U.S. response to date has further eroded its already undermined legitimacy, and more importantly, has helped engender negative feedback that threatens the near-term durability of response measures, with grave consequences.
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