Beyond social equity: Talking social justice in public administration

Social equity scholarship has had a prominent place in public administration and in the pages of Public Administration Review (PAR) since 1974 when George Frederickson edited a PAR symposium on social equity. More recently, PAR has published landmark articles on social equity (e.g., Frederickson, 1990; Gooden, 2015; Guy & McCandless, 2012; Pandey, Newcomer, et al., 2022; Wright & Merritt, 2020), as well as editorials calling for richer and more inclusive conceptualizations of the concept. For example, PAR editorials have identified the need to better theorize race, gender, class, and geography, and examine disciplinary blind spots (Battaglio & Hall, 2018; Hall, 2022, 2022b; Pandey, Bearfield, & Hall, 2022; Pandey, Cheng, & Hall, 2022).