Public administration scholarship on race and gender is motivated by normative concerns
about social equity, and dominated by work on bureaucracy and its representativeness …

Promoting race‐aware and gender‐aware scholarship is essential for giving substance to
social equity research. This review and introduction provides an account of one such …

This study is an epistemic reflexive examination of race in representative bureaucracy
theory, responding to the criticism that its conceptualization has been narrow. To counter …

Women and minorities are ubiquitously wedded in discourse, policy and inquiry (Bowleg,
2012). The very notion of using “women and minority” to describe groups of individuals …

Remarkably little public administration scholarship has explored the dynamic of race as
manifest in patterns of policy interpretation and discretionary judgments of individual …

Throughout much of representative bureaucracy literature, scholars have primarily focused
on the representation of people seen as other in the professional workforce—people of color …

There is a unanimous agreement among scholars that social equity scholarship is essential
to the study of public administration. One area of weakness in the social equity literature is …

This article identifies the ways that White supremacy manifests throughout the field of public
administration in its research and scholarship. Through a critical discourse analysis of …

This article argues that the integration of race-conscious dialogues in public administration
programs will promote racial and social justice, as well as improve service delivery for a …

* Editor-in-ChiefTs Note: 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 …