Beyond social equity: Talking social justice in public administration
2025
Social equity scholarship has had a prominent place in public administration and in the pages of Public Administration Review (PAR) since 1974 when George Frederickson edited a PAR symposium on social equity. More recently, PAR has published landmark articles on social equity (e.g., Frederickson, 1990; Gooden, 2015; Guy & McCandless, 2012; Pandey, Newcomer, et al., 2022; Wright & Merritt, 2020), as well as editorials calling for richer and more inclusive conceptualizations of the concept. For example, PAR …