Social Equity and Public Administration: Orgins, Developments, and Applications

Half-title
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 Social Equity and the New Public Administration......Page 24
What Is New Public Administration?......Page 27
Organization Theory and New Public Administration......Page 32
Conclusions......Page 41
Notes
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2 Social Equity in Context......Page 45
Political Science......Page 46
Five Models in Public Administration......Page 48
Social Equity and Public Administration......Page 59
Description and Meaning......Page 63
3 Social Equity: The Democratic Context and the Compound Theory......Page 70
What Is Social Equity?......Page 73
Philosophical and Theoretical Developments
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The Compound Theory of Social Equity
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Note......Page 79
4 Social Equity and the Question of Administrative Discretion......Page 80
The Philosophical Beginnings of the Equity-and-Administrative-Discretion Debate
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Dworkin and the Necessity of Principle in Law
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Lowi, Gruber, and Modern Platonic Public Administration
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Equity as Process
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Equity and U.S. Public Administration
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Equity as Social Glue
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Conclusions
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5 The State of Social Equity in American Public Administration......Page 95
The Evolution of Social Equity in American PublicAdministration......Page 96
Some Examples of the Widening Social Equity Gap......Page 99
Walking the Social Equity Talk......Page 101
6 An Intergenerational Social Equity Ethic......Page 106
Future Generations as a Domain of Equity:Philosophical Perspectives......Page 108
The Compound Theory of Social Equity......Page 113
Intergenerational Social Equity......Page 114
Intergenerational Social Inequity: Resource Depletion......Page 117
Backloaded Intergenerational Equity......Page 118
Conclusion......Page 119
Notes
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7 Social Equity, Law, and Research......Page 122
Employment......Page 123
Contracting......Page 124
Government Services......Page 125
Education......Page 126
Social Equity and Analysis......Page 129
Conclusions......Page 132
8 When Education Quality Speaks, Education Equality Answers......Page 134
The Arc of Education Equality Reform......Page 136
The Arc of Education Quality Reform......Page 138
Summing-Up: Recalibrating the Arc of Education Equalityand Education Quality Reform......Page 144
9 Social Equity in the Twenty-First Century: In Memory of Philip J. Rutledge......Page 146
10 Conclusions......Page 154
Affirmative Action in Various Policy Settings......Page 160
References......Page 172
Index......Page 182
About the Author......Page 190