50 Years as the 4th Pillar of Public Administration: A Polycentric Extension of the Social Equity Framework

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Stokan, E., Hatch, M. and Overton, M. (2022), 50 Years as the 4th Pillar of Public Administration: A Polycentric Extension of the Social Equity Framework. Public Admin. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12888

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Stokan, E., Hatch, M. and Overton, M. (2022), 50 Years as the 4th Pillar of Public Administration: A Polycentric Extension of the Social Equity Framework. Public Admin. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12888, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12888. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
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While public consideration of social equity pre-dates Minnowbrook (Blessett et al., 2019; Burnier, 2021), the field formally recognized social equity as its fourth pillar after the conference (Frederickson, 1971). The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA, 2000), Svara and Brunet (2004, 2005), and Johnson and Svara (2011) outlined a unified social equity framework along four dimensions: procedural fairness, access, quality, and outcomes. We build on this important work by offering a polycentric extension, which considers what social equity means when government programs are often place-based and delivered in an intergovernmental context with multiple decision-making units across spatial levels (e.g., state, city, neighborhood) simultaneously. Using the Community Development Block Grant as an example, we demonstrate the importance of careful consideration of geographic levels in the delivery of public goods for understanding the program’s social equity implications. The polycentric framework can be a useful tool for evaluating the social equity of policies.