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The Flawed Foundations of Social Equity in Public Administration: A Racial Contract Theory Critique
Perspectives on public management and governance, Vol.6(4), pp.131-136
2023
Abstract
The social equity concept of American public administration traces its roots to the philosophies of John Rawls, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. We suggest such fixed positionalities limit what is knowable about social equity. This is due to their restricted considerations of America’s racialized origins. By introducing Charles Mills’ racial contract theory to the public administration discipline, we suggest that the assumed “social contract” at America’s origins was racialized, was disconnected from its historical actuality, and was born of exploitation. Racialized epistemological foundations alter how the social equity concept is understood. The implications matter for our disciplinary understanding of social equity and its origins.
Details
- Title
- The Flawed Foundations of Social Equity in Public Administration: A Racial Contract Theory Critique
- Authors/Creators
- Kim Moloney - Hamad bin Khalifa UniversityRupert Lewis - University of the West Indies
- Publication Details
- Perspectives on public management and governance, Vol.6(4), pp.131-136
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on behalf of the Public Management Research Association.
- Identifiers
- 991005616456007891
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2023.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Biosecurity and One Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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