Administration & Society

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This descriptive study examines gender equity in U.S. public sector workplaces through systematic document analysis ranging from the Revolutionary War to 2023. Through inductive coding, eight themes emerged, each reflecting the evolving contexts that have ...

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This study systematically reviews the literature to explore the conditions under which gender-based passive representation is translated into active representation. The findings reveal that women’s active representation varies across policy domains and ...

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The College of Policing coordinates recruitment, training, and the production of ‘guidance’ for the police forces of England and Wales. In the case of Miller versus College of Policing, it was explicitly censured by the High Court, and the undemocratic ...

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Public hearings enable agencies to inform impact analyses of proposed projects. Yet, how participants present evidence during hearings is underexplored. Our study builds knowledge through an argumentative analysis of a hearing about fracking in New York. ...

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This essay reframes administrative decision-making in the generative AI era by identifying how epistemic constraints rather than traditional information constraints shape administrative rationality. We introduce the concept of epistemic boundedness: the ...