Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

DOI

10.1111/padm.12956

Publication Title

Public Administration

Volume

102

Issue

3

Pages

797-814

Abstract

While there is a developing consensus that governments need to address systemic racism, public administration scholarship has not played a large role in supporting policymakers who want to achieve that end. To institutionalize that effort, we analyze the budget process as a setting to identify inequities and incorporate social equity given its overarching reach across all programs and policies. This article uses the tenets of critical race theory to illustrate how to use the budget process to incorporate equity. The resulting racial equity budgeting (REB) framework has three tenets: acknowledging and correcting historic biases, increasing the voice of nondominant groups, and disrupting the status quo by ensuring equity in current policies. The REB framework suggests how public officials may apply these tenets to the stages of public budgeting, including the use of reparation statements, increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities, and reviewing the disaggregated impact of policies, among others.

Data Availability

Article states: "Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during this study."

Rights

© 2023 The Authors.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

ORCID

0000-0002-1574-5238 (Jordan)

Original Publication Citation

Martínez Guzmán, J. P., Jordan, M. M., & Joyce, P. G. (2024). Towards inclusive public administration systems: Public budgeting from the perspective of critical race theory. Public Administration, 102(3), 797-814. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12956

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