Equity in budgeting: U.S. state and local government initiatives DOI
Marilyn Marks Rubin, John R. Bartle, Katherine Willoughby

et al.

Journal of Policy Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 39(4), P. 103 - 122

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

A government’s budget is the most important statement of its priorities. Budgets provide information on how public resources are mobilized and allocated key instruments through which government policies made changed. Historically, budgets have not been perceived as to advance equity, a core value society critical for ensuring that social contract between citizens state met. When equity has specifically addressed in budgetary considerations, it generally regarding economic issues such differential impact tax across income groups. In recent years, however, governments United States at all levels begun use actions especially historically marginalized this research, we answer question: what undertaken by U.S. local structure taxing spending, goals? We also several recommendations consider their efforts infuse into budgeting processes whole-of-government effort actualize goal.

Language: Английский

Establishing an Agenda for Public Budgeting and Finance Research DOI Creative Commons
Bruce D. McDonald, Sarah Larson,

Craig S. Maher

et al.

Deleted Journal, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 1(1), P. 9 - 28

Published: April 1, 2024

Public budgeting and finance is a discipline that encompasses communities of research practice. Too often, however, these fail to engage each other, instead choosing operate independently. The result the being conducted fails address questions day our governments’ challenges. In this article, we come together as community academics practitioners establish an agenda for where future should be conducted. This aims align undertaken within academic with needs those working in After establishing ten areas needed, followed ranked-choice voting process prioritization them. Based on outcome process, two primary currently needed most are fiscal health governments implementation social equity budgeting.

Language: Английский

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“A Practice of Fairness”: Social Equity Budgeting in Freedom City DOI Creative Commons
Laurence Ferry, Thomas Ahrens

Public Administration, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 19, 2025

ABSTRACT Social justice is often theorized as fairness and expressed in equity part of public administration associated budgeting practices. Whereas much literature contrasted deontological positions, emphasizing a procedural with based on rules, consequentialist theory that emphasizes distributional outcomes, this paper addresses lack social research into As politics the budget process fundamental to who gets what, calling upon practice theory, paper's theorization “a fairness” anchored operationalized Equity Budgeting (SEB) context austerity‐localism English local government from 2010 2024 under Conservative led coalition Governments, specific examples longitudinal case study Newcastle City Council (NCC). The suggests needs focus embracing interactions for practical intelligibility understanding, alongside aspects found approaches justice.

Language: Английский

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Racial Equity in Public Budgeting: An Analysis of Three Pioneer Cases DOI
Juan Pablo Martínez Guzmán, Meagan M. Jordan, Philip G. Joyce

et al.

The American Review of Public Administration, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 22, 2025

Over the past decade, pressure has mounted for governments to address effects of racial disparities and systemic racism. Some have implemented equity reforms that build on public budgeting cycle as a system can help filter new interventions push redesigning existing ones. This paper presents in-depth case studies three local are pioneers in advancing through systems: City Austin, TX, Baltimore, MD, King County, WA. Our findings show these advanced practices integrate considerations into decisions, particularly use assessments development participatory processes. Significant challenges remain not just improve what been done but ensure do decay, some cases already failing maintain levels transparency ongoing practices.

Language: Английский

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Towards inclusive public administration systems: Public budgeting from the perspective of critical race theory DOI Creative Commons
Juan Pablo Martínez Guzmán, Meagan M. Jordan, Philip G. Joyce

et al.

Public Administration, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 102(3), P. 797 - 814

Published: Aug. 26, 2023

Abstract While there is a developing consensus that governments need to address systemic racism, public administration scholarship has not played large role in supporting policymakers who want achieve end. To institutionalize effort, we analyze the budget process as setting identify inequities and incorporate social equity given its overarching reach across all programs policies. This article uses tenets of critical race theory illustrate how use equity. The resulting racial budgeting (REB) framework three tenets: acknowledging correcting historic biases, increasing voice nondominant groups, disrupting status quo by ensuring current REB suggests officials may apply these stages budgeting, including reparation statements, participation underrepresented minorities, reviewing disaggregated impact policies, among others.

Language: Английский

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A Polyphonic Debate on Social Equity Budgeting DOI Creative Commons
Bruce D. McDonald, Laurence Ferry, Sean McCandless

et al.

Public Administration, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 13, 2024

ABSTRACT This paper is polyphonic (i.e., a debate involving multiple perspectives) and highlights emerging interdisciplinary thoughts on past, current, future social equity budgeting (SEB). We present vision for the field emphasize potential impact of this paper. hope to enliven debates regarding context, underpinning philosophies, methods, thus fostering greater theoretical practical reconsideration SEB. The significant, as it leads fundamental rethinking SEB related research, profoundly influencing field. To do so, has brought together 10 international scholars foster an approach views strategies. richness looking at plurality perspectives enables exploring developments that open much research. shows while there convergence importance ongoing research gender, race, class, can also be more areas such SEB's philosophical, theoretical, empirical underpinnings need further development.

Language: Английский

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Social equity for wicked problems: achieving racial equity in homeless service provision DOI
Saerim Kim,

Hyokyung Kwak,

Emily Nwakpuda

et al.

Public Management Review, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 33

Published: Aug. 21, 2023

ABSTRACTSome scholars argue that equity cannot be a separate pillar of public management; it must intersect with its core theories and elements. By using mixed-methods in studying racial homelessness, we forge connections between management – leadership, planning, collaboration, budgeting, implementation, evaluation social representation, procedural fairness, access, quality, outcomes to develop the Social Equity for Wicked Problems (SEWP) framework. We find variation how communities connect equity. SEWP can help respond systemic inequality create equitable solutions when implementing policy wicked problems.KEYWORDS: Racial disparitieshomelessnesssocial AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Sabrina Guellil, Hunter McCormick, Anthony Parr, Kotomi Yokokura their research assistance, three anonymous reviewers valuable comments improve research.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict interest was reported by author(s).Additional informationFundingThe author(s) received no financial support research, authorship, and/or publication this article.

Language: Английский

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Intersecting public management and social equity Introduction to the special issue of Public Management Review DOI
Sarah Young, Kimberly Wiley, Denita Cepiku

et al.

Public Management Review, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 10

Published: Dec. 8, 2023

This introduction to the special issue stems from assumption that field of public management is necessary, missing catalyst make tangible progress towards social equity. We begin by outlining concept equity and highlighting value improving field's understanding how we can use foundations advance principles, practices, theories, across all forms oppression. A brief overview papers in follows draw out key themes, which hopefully will inspire scholars engage with research.

Language: Английский

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Representative Bureaucracy, Environmental Turbulence, and Organizational Performance DOI
Xiaoyang Xu, Carla Flink

The American Review of Public Administration, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 52(7), P. 498 - 512

Published: Sept. 7, 2022

The literature on representative bureaucracy posits that increased representation at the managerial level leads to improved outcomes for minority clients. These managers, however, must work within organizational constraints and during times of environmental turbulence sustain performance. We forward theory contextual factors, such as turbulence, could moderate effects Utilizing a Texas school-level dataset K-12 education from 2011, we examine how race school principal influences student standardized test performance in time widespread financial resource cuts. Our findings suggest same-race improves academic both African American Latino students, but positive diminish budgetary cuts become more school. This means can decrease impact representation.

Language: Английский

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Social Equity in Municipally Owned Corporations: Do Women in the Boardroom Make a Difference to the Gender Pay Gap? DOI Creative Commons
Rhys Andrews

Public Administration, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 27, 2024

ABSTRACT Representative bureaucracy theory posits that the presence of less‐advantaged social groups in public leadership positions is an important driver equity among recipients services and servants who provide them. To evaluate whether active representation can lead to improvements within arms‐length service organizations, this article presents analysis relationship between women boardroom gender pay gap 102 large municipally owned corporations (MOCs) England for a 6‐year period (2017–2022). The findings suggest MOCs led by female chief executive officers (CEOs) have lower male employees. more directors on MOC boards also negatively related gap, especially CEOs. highlight importance board address organizations.

Language: Английский

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Equity in budgeting: U.S. state and local government initiatives DOI
Marilyn Marks Rubin, John R. Bartle, Katherine Willoughby

et al.

Journal of Policy Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 39(4), P. 103 - 122

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

A government’s budget is the most important statement of its priorities. Budgets provide information on how public resources are mobilized and allocated key instruments through which government policies made changed. Historically, budgets have not been perceived as to advance equity, a core value society critical for ensuring that social contract between citizens state met. When equity has specifically addressed in budgetary considerations, it generally regarding economic issues such differential impact tax across income groups. In recent years, however, governments United States at all levels begun use actions especially historically marginalized this research, we answer question: what undertaken by U.S. local structure taxing spending, goals? We also several recommendations consider their efforts infuse into budgeting processes whole-of-government effort actualize goal.

Language: Английский

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