scholarly journals Representation through Lived Experience: Expanding Representative Bureaucracy Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 434-451
Author(s):  
Cullen C. Merritt ◽  
Morgan D. Farnworth ◽  
Sheila Suess Kennedy ◽  
Gordon Abner ◽  
James E. Wright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Representative Bureaucracy ◽  
Bureaucracy Theory

scholarly journals Representation through Lived Experience: Expanding Representative Bureaucracy Theory

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cullen C. Merritt ◽  
Morgan D. Farnworth ◽  
Sheila Suess Kennedy ◽  
Gordon Abner ◽  
James E. Wright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Representative Bureaucracy ◽  
Bureaucracy Theory

Gendered Funding: United Way Board Composition and the Funding of Women- and Girl-Serving Organizations

2021 ◽  
pp. 089976402110574
Author(s):  
Lauren Dula
Keyword(s):  
Time Series Data ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women In Leadership ◽  
Representative Bureaucracy ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
United Way ◽  
Bureaucracy Theory

Representative bureaucracy theory posits that the passive representation of women in leadership positions will lead to active representation of the concerns of women in general. This article attempts to identify whether this theory plays out on boards of nonprofit funding organizations, specifically United Ways across the United States. Using random effects modeling of interrupted time series data covering 15 years, the findings suggest a small yet significant nonlinear effect of women in leadership positions on boards upon the size of funding for women- and girl-serving organizations. This partially supports representative bureaucracy theory, but raises questions as to why there is a negative representational effect past a certain “critical mass” of women.

Representative Bureaucracy Through Staff With Lived Experience: Peer Coproduction in the Field of Substance Use Disorder Treatment

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 880-897
Author(s):  
Sunggeun (Ethan) Park
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Substance Use Disorder ◽  
The United States ◽  
Descriptive Representation ◽  
Representative Bureaucracy ◽  
Organizational Decision Making ◽  
Substance Use Disorder Treatment ◽  
Disorder Treatment

This study extends the representative bureaucracy literature by theorizing and empirically testing how staff sharing lived experience with service users can serve as user representatives in service provision processes (i.e., the peer coproduction mechanism). Using survey data from a representative sample of substance use disorder treatment clinics in the United States, we explore factors associated with descriptive representation (the presence of staff with firsthand experience of a substance use disorder in both frontline treatment and senior positions) and directors’ perceptions of recovering staff’s potential to serve as user representatives in individual care and organizational decision-making processes. Recovering staff accounted for a third of the field’s workforce, but the majority of the clinics did not employ them in senior staff positions. Regression results suggest that organizational leaders’ recognition of recovering staff’s unique representation capacities may facilitate greater descriptive representation and grant meaningful organizational decision-making authority to recovering staff. Multiple research and practice implications are discussed.

Does an Increased Share of Black Police Officers Decrease Racial Discrimination in Law Enforcement?

2022 ◽  
pp. 107808742110702
Author(s):  
Sunyoung Pyo
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Representative Bureaucracy ◽  
Black Representation ◽  
Black Residents ◽  
Black Police ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
Black Officers ◽  
Bureaucracy Theory

Based on representative bureaucracy theory, the current study investigates whether increasing Black representation in police forces is negatively associated with racial discrimination in law enforcement. This study additionally investigates how associations may differ according to the organizational or environmental contexts of the forces. Results show that an increased share of Black officers is associated with decreased police-involved deaths of Black residents, but is not significantly associated with a change in order maintenance arrests of Black suspects. In addition, the negative association between Black representation and police-involved deaths of Black residents disappears when the percent of Black officers surpasses about 15 percent, especially in organizations where White officers comprise a larger share. These findings support the potential negative role of organizational socialization on the effectiveness of increasing the share of Black officers in policing, implying that additional long-term efforts to change organizational culture are needed to realize the benefits of enhancing Black representation.

scholarly journals School Choice and Conflict Narratives: Representative Bureaucracy at the Street Level in East Jerusalem

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-565
Author(s):  
Karl O’Connor ◽  
Craig Larkin ◽  
Mansour Nasasra ◽  
Kelsey Shanks
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Education System ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Representative Bureaucracy ◽  
Active Representation ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats ◽  
Bureaucracy Theory ◽  
East Jerusalem ◽  
Conflict Narratives

In representative bureaucracy research, the dominant view holds that passive representation leads to active representation. Much of the research to date has focused on the conditions that influence this process. In this research, we argue that more attention needs to be paid to the manifestation of active representation, rather than simply its presence. We find that although passive representation may indeed lead to active representation, the nature of this active representation is interpreted differently by those sharing a primary identity. We use the lens of representative bureaucracy theory, and Q Methodology, to understand how street-level bureaucrats in East Jerusalem use their discretion within the education system of a contested society.

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