Abstract In October 2020, President Donald Trump sought to convert many US federal civil
servants to at‐will employees by executive order. Trump's initiative, referred to as Schedule …

* Editor-in-ChiefTs Note: PAR Editorials seek to raise the salience of important public
administration themes. Social justice is one of the defining themes of our times and in this …

Nonprofit and for‐profit providers play an increasing role in public service delivery, but we
know little about what shapes public service delivery preferences. Responding to calls to put …

While many public organizations have made notable strides to improve the representation of
women at all ranks, women remain severely underrepresented in law enforcement …

Drawing on the literature on bureaucratic discretion, this study conducts a large‐scale,
nationwide causal analysis of the effects of body‐worn cameras (BWC) in the United States …

Public Administration's attempts to understand race and racism insufficiently engage with the
historical processes and legacies of White Supremacy. This paper problematizes whiteness …

Scholars have unveiled how and why administrative burdens perpetuate inequity in access
to government benefits. However, less is known about the tools public managers can use to …

Street‐level bureaucrats rely on credibility judgments when navigating interactions with
citizen‐clients who are mostly strangers. These credibility judgments are inherently …

From Caligula and the time of ancient Rome to the present, governments have relied on
experts to manage public programs. But with that expertise has come power, and that power …

Public administration is poised to recognize that race is constitutive of bureaucratic
hierarchies, processes, and outcomes and, as such, to ground our work in a more critical …