Administrators can use their discretion to discriminate in the provision of public services via
two mechanisms. They make decisions to allocate public services, allowing them to …

Although social equity has been a formal pillar of public administration for decades,
identifying mechanisms through which public officials inadvertently reproduce unfair …

Equal access to public services is a foundational element of democratic societies. Yet, stark
inequalities in access to public services persist, partially due to bureaucratic discrimination …

Despite laws of universalistic treatment, bureaucrats have been shown to discriminate
against minorities. A crucial question for public administration is how bureaucracies can be …

THE EXTENSION OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE TO PUBLIC services such as
health care and education is a major policy issue in the developed world. As the preceding …

Using geographic representations to examine choice policies and patterns in a major urban
area, this analysis considers how districts in a metropolitan area are responding to …

Many proponents of private school choice take for granted that schools won't participate if
government asks too much of them, especially if it demands that they be publicly …

A growing experimental literature uses response rates to fictional requests to measure
discrimination against ethnic minorities. This article argues that restricting attention to …

Theory: Public sector reforms expanding citizen choice are hypothesized to create many of
the benefits of private markets, in part by increasing the incentives of citizens to search for …

Work on bureaucratic representation suggests that minority citizens benefit when the
programs that serve them are administered by bureaucrats with similar characteristics. This …