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New publication on Social Equity Budgeting

14/10/2024

Tobias Polzer has contributed to a polyphonic debate on social equity budgeting published in Public Administration.

While progress has been made in social equity research, the roles played by budgetary processes in creating or exacerbating inequities remain underexplored. This misstep is not just a gap in our understanding but a pressing issue that needs to be addressed. More research in this area is crucial to understanding and addressing these issues. The paper is polyphonic (i.e., a debate involving multiple perspectives) and highlights emerging interdisciplinary thoughts on past, current, and future social equity budgeting (SEB). A vision for the field and the potential impact of SEB are presented. The authors hope to enliven debates regarding context, underpinning philosophies, and methods, thus fostering a greater theoretical and practical reconsideration of SEB. The paper brings together ten international scholars to foster an interdisciplinary approach regarding views and strategies. The richness of looking at a plurality of perspectives enables exploring developments that open the potential for a much greater theoretical and practical reconsideration of SEB and related research. The paper shows that while there is much convergence on the importance of ongoing research on gender, race, and class, there can also be more research on areas such as SEB’s philosophical, theoretical, and empirical underpinnings that need further development. The paper can be downloaded here.

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