Popular Culture Informing Public Administration: Messages and Prospects for Social Equity. (4th May 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McCandless, Sean; Elias, Nicole M.
• Is Part Of: Public integrity. Volume 23:Number 3(2021)
• Page Start: 220
• Page End: 234
• Publication Date: 2021-05-04
• Subjects: popular culture -- public administration -- social equity; Civil service ethics -- United States -- Periodicals; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Periodicals; Political ethics -- United States -- Periodicals; Civil service ethics -- Periodicals; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; Political ethics -- Periodicals; Civil service ethics; Political ethics; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects; United States; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; CIVIL SERVICE; MORAL ASPECTS; POLITICAL ETHICS; Periodicals; 172
• DOI: 10.1080/10999922.2020.1837505
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1099-9922

Abstract

Abstract : In the discipline of public administration, popular culture remains under-examined in scholarship and under-utilized in pedagogy. However, the field would benefit from greater integration of popular culture to expand understandings of governance, especially in that it provides important representations of and messaging about some of today's most pressing social equity issues. To contextualize popular culture in public administration, we use critical discourse analysis as a frame to demonstrate how popular culture can inform public administration, especially regarding social equity. We argue that popular culture should be more extensively covered in public administration, because it offers a lens for better understanding intersections of power, equity, and ethics in government.