Representing Personal and Professional Identities in Policing: Sources of Strength and Conflict

Smith

et al. 2022

Public administration scholarship on race and gender is motivated by normative concerns about social equity, and dominated by work on bureaucracy and its representativeness. Despite decades of research on race and gender in public administration, there has been limited engagement with racializing and gendering processes. Relatedly, scant attention is paid to other disciplines that center on race and gender in theorizing. The purpose of this review is to explore public administration scholarship on race and gender in the context of allied social science disciplines, reveal limits of current approaches in public administration, and articulate strategies for enhancing understanding of race and gender in public administration scholarship. We use bibliometric and content analysis methods to map the intellectual structure of social science scholarship on race and gender, highlight public administration's place in this structure, and compare public administration scholarship on race and gender with other social science disciplines.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reimagining race and gender in public administration and public policy: Insights from an interdisciplinary systematic review

Smith

et al. 2022

“…Andrea Headley's (2022) research article examines experiences of employees with diverse identities within public organizations, using in‐depth qualitative study of local police officers. She conducted qualitative interviews with 32 frontline police officers to examine the ways in which personal and professional identities intersect to promote or impede benefits of bureaucratic representation.…”

Section: Race and Gender Symposium Contents—research Articles And Vie...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their findings detail Black women's sexual harassment experiences and support their call for addressing sexual harassment in the workplace with an intersectional lens in order to design more inclusive prevention and response policies, and programs. Andrea Headley's (2022) research article examines experiences of employees with diverse identities within public organizations, using in-depth qualitative study of local police officers. She conducted qualitative interviews with 32 frontline police officers to examine the ways in which personal and professional identities intersect to promote or impede benefits of bureaucratic representation.…”

Section: Diversity and Inclusion In Public Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reckoning With Race and Gender in Public Administration and Public Policy: A Substantive Social Equity Turn

Newcomer

DeHart‐Davis

et al. 2022

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 initiative to promote race and gender scholarship through collaboration between Public Administration Review (PAR), and the Consortium of Race and Gender Scholars (CORGES), and introduces the PAR Race and Gender Symposium. CORGES is an informal group of scholars motivated by the pressing need to address issues of racial justice and gender justice in public administration and public policy scholarship. This PAR symposium is based on the CORGES inaugural conference, held virtually in September 2020. Conference organizers, with the help of Editor-in-Chief Jeremy Hall, devised and oversaw a thoughtful and detailed plan to provide developmental feedback before papers were submitted to PAR's standard peer review process. The symposium is comprised of 14 research articles and 2 viewpoint contributions. In addition to describing symposium contributions, this review provides an account of CORGES origins and its ongoing intellectual and normative commitments on furthering inquiry on racializing and gendering, while also elaborating on the idea of everydayness of scholarly activism. CORGES, with a recently expanded board of advisors committed to centering public administration scholarship on race and gender, as well its intersection with other markers of oppression, continues to support academic research and public outreach on race and gender scholarship.

“…A compelling body of public management research has empirically linked passive to active representation in public organizations, demonstrating that demographic representation makes a clear difference in the enactment of outcomes designed to benefit specific client groups (Capers & Smith, 2021; Headley, 2022; Nicholson‐Crotty et al, 2011; Wilkins & Kaiser, 2006). Some research, for example, has demonstrated that when organizational structures permit higher levels of administrative discretion to those directly carrying out the work of the agency, policy outcomes favoring minority interests are more likely to result (Meier & Bohte, 2001; Sowa & Selden, 2003).…”

Section: Theoretical Insights From Social Equity Representation and P...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Bending the arc of nonprofit leadership toward justice: Impacts of racial representation and organizational publicness on diversifying executive leadership

LeRoux

Medina

2022

Nonprofits are critical partners in the delivery of government‐funded human services in the US, but there is evidence of a persistent racial leadership gap in the sector, whereby Black and Latino Executive Directors are dramatically under‐represented. Why does this gap persist despite increased attention to this issue in recent years? And what organizational and community‐level factors do shape the likelihood that nonprofits will hire a Black or Latino Executive Director (ED)? We answer these questions through a mixed‐methods sequential design, drawing on survey data from 606 nonprofit organizations across the US, along with interview data from 12 nonprofit executives representing expert informants in the Chicago metro area. Consistent with theories of representation and publicness, we find demographic representation at the board level positively linked to the hiring of a Black or Latino ED, but government funding has inconsistent effects. We further elaborate on these findings through our qualitative data.