Interrogating hegemonic embraces: Representative bureaucracy, methodological Whiteness, and non-West exclusions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Moloney, Kim; Sanabria-Pulido, Pablo; Demircioglu, Mehmet Akif
• 署名单位: Qatar Foundation (QF); Hamad Bin Khalifa University-Qatar; Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); National University of Singapore
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13512
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 195-202
• 关键词: management

摘要

The United States' racial history infrequently defines the representativeness of bureaucracies outside of the United States. This article explores how selective historical memories and insufficiently critical concept importations limit disciplinary understandings. We articulate how policy transfer assumptions, narrow administrative histories, methodological Whiteness, and incomplete considerations of non-West administration alter our understanding of what is or is not representative bureaucracy. We encourage scholars to recall how concepts like representative bureaucracy may lack exact comparability outside the West and to be open to its potential alteration by contextual circumstances. The implications for further exploration of the representative bureaucracy concept and the challenges for pedagogy are also discussed. Practitioner Points West-derived hegemonic understandings of the public administration discipline limit the development of public administration practice and scholarship outside the West. Insufficient historical and comparative circumspection is a frequent output of West-based scholars seeking to implement their concepts in non-West administrations. The discipline and practice of public administration may increase its global dialogues by conversing with non-West actors and recognizing the limitations of Western data and theories. Like many administrative concepts, the representative bureaucracy concept as developed in the West may not operate similarly in other contexts.