Special Study: Public Policy, Lending and Social Equity Issues for Rural America

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
Charles Dodson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Special Study ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
Policy Lending

The Implications of Political Trust for Supporting Public Transport

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
JAE YOUNG LIM ◽  
KUK-KYOUNG MOON
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Social Surveys ◽  
Pooled Data ◽  
Policy Attitudes

Abstract Despite the importance of public transport for urban vitality, social equity, and mobility, the discussions surrounding these topics have become heated ideological battles between liberals and conservatives in the United States, as in other countries. Conservatives, in particular, have exhibited anti-transit attitudes that have worked against the development of public transport. Scholars note that political trust functions as a heuristic and its impact is felt more strongly among individuals who face ideological risks with respect to a given public policy. Based on several studies noting the relationships between political trust, ideology and policy attitudes, the study employs the pooled data of the 2010 and 2014 General Social Surveys. It finds that conservatives are negatively associated with supporting spending on public transport, but when contingent upon high levels of political trust, they become more supportive of it. The study discusses the potential of political trust as a mechanism to influence public policy discourses as well as certain methodological and substantive limitations.

scholarly journals The Role of Public Administration in the Elimination of Inequality

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Katie Schuldiner ◽  
Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Equality Of Opportunities ◽  
To Come ◽  
Fundamental Rights And Freedoms

The problem of inequality is now requiring solutions that could not be fully found to solve the problem of poverty.  The research question that will be investigated is how to establish a clear distinction between poverty and inequality in public policy debates and how public administrators could formulate and implement policies that will alleviate the current world of inequality.  The elimination of poverty will always be difficult because politicians and bureaucrats do not have full control over its geographic and demographic roots.  While equality can be understood as parity in the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms, and equality of opportunities with regards to education and work and the fulfillment of one’s potential, in policy debates it is the lack of such conditions that is viewed as inequality . Thus, equality is not necessarily viewed as equality of economic conditions but primarily as equality of opportunities for achieving them. This is why it is necessary to refer to the concept of social equity when addressing inequality.  The article will review and analyze current literature on poverty, inequality and social equity and will suggest some new approaches for the elimination of inequality.  Although the necessary initiatives to achieve such an objective have to come from politics, public administrators will ultimately be the ones to provide a definite plan or procedure to ensure the fulfillment of these political initiatives.  The article will address how public policy makers can promote equity and social justice.

scholarly journals Achieving Social Equity: From Problems to Solutions by Mary E. Guy and Sean A. McCandless

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-299
Author(s):  
Bruce D. McDonald, III
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
New Era ◽  
Grand Challenges

The recent publication of Achieving Social Equity: From Problems to Solutions, edited by Mary E. Guy and Sean A. McCandless (2020), sparks a move forward in the literature about social equity. To date, much of the literature on social equity has focused on its overall importance (see Frederickson, 2010), as well as the conditions of inequality within the discipline (see Bodkin & Fleming, 2019; Thomas, 2019) and within practice (see Blessett et al., 2019). Despite the attention that has been given to social equity, the National Academy of Public Administration recently included the need to foster social equity as one of the grand challenges for public administration (Gerton & Mitchell, 2019), suggesting it may be time to move the research on social equity into a new era. Guy and McCandless do just that. Rather than discussing the presence of social equity issues with public organizations, the text seeks to advance our understanding by connecting the literature on social equity with the practicality of the situations that administrators face. This is accomplished over a masterfully curated set of 13 chapters, each which focuses on a unique, but vital perspective on social equity.

The New Barter Economy: An Appraisal of Local Exchange and Trading Systems (LETS)

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Local Unit ◽  
Local Exchange ◽  
Trading Systems ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Nations People ◽  
New Form

ABSTRACTA new form of barter economy is emerging in many industrial nations. People are exchanging goods and services through Local Exchange and Trading Systems (LETS). These are local associations whose members list their offers of, and requests for, goods and services in a directory and then exchange them priced in a local unit of currency. Using a United Kingdom case study of Totnes LETS, this paper presents a preliminary appraisal of their economic, social equity and community-building objectives. It finds that although LETS are fulfilling these objectives, achievements could be substantially improved with some alterations in public policy towards LETS.

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