Social Equity Budgeting

Éditeurs invités

• John R. Bartle,
• Laurence Ferry,
• Meagan M. Jordan,
• Sean A. McCandless,
• Bruce D. McDonald,
• Ileana Steccolini,

Synthèse

This special issue addresses integrating social equity principles into public budgeting and finance. Recent poly-crises have intensified disparities in health, wealth, and opportunity, making budget responses essential to democratic governance. Social equity budgeting applies equity principles to both budget documents and processes, recognizing that budgetary decisions determine resource distribution and reflect political priorities.

Research on social equity budgeting develops around four dimensions—access, processes, quality, and outcomes—to ensure fairness. Growing interest examines how budgetary decisions affect racial and gender equity, though significant gaps remain. While international variations, including gender-responsive budgeting approaches, have enriched the field, the philosophical, theoretical, and empirical foundations of social equity budgeting require further development.

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Thèmes proposés

• How all or some of the four dimensions of social equity should be factored into budgeting practice: procedural fairness (equity in process), access (distributional fairness), quality (equity in services), and outcomes (equity in effectiveness)
• Particular governments' approaches to social equity budgeting, including historical and/or longitudinal studies
• How philosophical traditions and socio-political theories can inform social equity budgeting practice
• The roles played by power, identity, and positionality in social equity budgeting practice
• Place and space in social equity
• Calculative practices including accounting, auditing, and accountability arrangements
• Religion, class, race, gender, ablement, and any other Diversity, Equity, or Inclusion (DEI) dimensions that add alternative insights into social equity budgeting
• How social equity can be measured for use in the public finance process
• Management of social equity in the budgeting and public finance process
• The impacts of grassroots efforts and protesting on social equity processes in budgeting
• Central and local government relations concerning social equity budgeting
• How social equity budgeting practices implicate both emancipation and liberation
• Decolonializing public budgeting and finance
• Explorations of what local governments have been doing to implement social equity budgeting