Social Equity and Public Administration : Origins, Developments, and Applications.
Title:
Social Equity and Public Administration : Origins, Developments, and Applications.
Author:
Frederickson, H George.
ISBN:
9780765624734
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (193 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Social Equity and the New Public Administration -- What Is New Public Administration? -- Organization Theory and New Public Administration -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 2 Social Equity in Context -- Political Science -- Five Models in Public Administration -- Social Equity and Public Administration -- Description and Meaning -- 3 Social Equity: The Democratic Context and the Compound Theory -- What Is Social Equity? -- Philosophical and Theoretical Developments -- The Compound Theory of Social Equity -- Note -- 4 Social Equity and the Question of Administrative Discretion -- The Philosophical Beginnings of the Equity-and-Administrative-Discretion Debate -- Dworkin and the Necessity of Principle in Law -- Lowi, Gruber, and Modern Platonic Public Administration -- Equity as Process -- Equity and U.S. Public Administration -- Equity as Social Glue -- Conclusions -- 5 The State of Social Equity in American Public Administration -- The Evolution of Social Equity in American PublicAdministration -- Some Examples of the Widening Social Equity Gap -- Walking the Social Equity Talk -- 6 An Intergenerational Social Equity Ethic -- Future Generations as a Domain of Equity:Philosophical Perspectives -- The Compound Theory of Social Equity -- Intergenerational Social Equity -- Intergenerational Social Inequity: Resource Depletion -- Backloaded Intergenerational Equity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Social Equity, Law, and Research -- Social Equity and the Law -- Employment -- Contracting -- Government Services -- Education -- Social Equity and Analysis -- Conclusions -- 8 When Education Quality Speaks, Education Equality Answers -- The Arc of Education Equality Reform -- The Arc of Education Quality Reform.
Summing-Up: Recalibrating the Arc of Education Equalityand Education Quality Reform -- 9 Social Equity in the Twenty-First Century: In Memory of Philip J. Rutledge -- 10 Conclusions -- Affirmative Action in Various Policy Settings -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
This book is designed to be the definitive statement on social equity theory and practice in public administration. Social equity is often referred to as the "third pillar" in PA, after efficiency and economy. It concerns itself with the fairness of the organization, its management, and its delivery of public services. H. George Frederickson is widely recognized as the originator of the concept and the person most associated with its development and application. The book's introduction and chapters 1-4 offer general descriptions of social equity in terms of its arguments and claims in changing political, economic, and social circumstances, and trace the development of the concept over the past forty years. Chapters 5-9 provide applications of social equity theory to particular policy arenas such as education, or to specific public administration issues such as the range of administrative discretion, the legal context, the research challenges, and social equity in the context of time and generations. Chapters 10 and 11 describe the current state of social equity and look towards the future.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Genre:
Electronic Access:
Click to View