The impact of representative bureaucracy on public organizational performance has
received a good deal of attention in public management. However, the literature provides …

Using a nationally representative sample of approximately 3,500 public schools, this study
builds on and extends our knowledge of how ''minority threat''manifests within schools. We …

Existing research on the distributional impacts of nonprofits and philanthropy focuses on
how different groups directly benefit from nonprofit service providers. Given the increasing …

As the proportion of women and racial minorities in managerial positions has increased in
public organizations, considerable attention has been paid to how management …

A bureaucracy representative of disadvantaged groups in a society has been linked to better
outcomes for those groups in a wide variety of policy areas. Most of the empirical work …

Bureaucratic representation theory holds that civil servants are not “neutral” in a Weberian
sense. Bureaucrats are thought to “actively” represent their communities by trying to make …

As issues of social equity and inclusiveness have become increasingly salient to political
discourses, they are also more strongly emphasized as dimensions of effective public …

This article examines everyday disciplinary practices in three kindergarten classrooms and
their role in identity construction. Taking a “figured worlds” perspective, I show how …

We examined whether US schools systemically discriminate when suspending or otherwise
disciplining students with disabilities (SWD). Eighteen studies met inclusion criteria. We …

Recruiting racially minoritized principals is one suggested strategy to increase the racial
diversity of teachers, who would then better match their increasingly racially diverse …