In the discipline of public administration, popular culture remains under-examined in scholarship and under-utilized in pedagogy. However, the field would benefit from greater integration of popular culture to expand understandings of governance, especially in that it provides important representations of and messaging about some of today’s most pressing social equity issues. To contextualize popular culture in public administration, we use critical discourse analysis as a frame to demonstrate how popular culture can inform public administration, especially regarding social equity. We argue that popular culture should be more extensively covered in public administration, because it offers a lens for better understanding intersections of power, equity, and ethics in government.

在公共行政学科中，通俗文化在学术研究中仍然受到忽视，而在教学法中却没有得到充分利用。但是，该领域将从大众文化的更大融合中受益，以扩大对治理的理解，特别是因为它提供了一些当今最紧迫的社会公平问题的重要表示和信息。为了将公共行政中的大众文化情境化，我们使用批判性话语分析作为框架来证明流行文化如何为公共行政提供信息，尤其是在社会公平方面。我们认为，大众文化应在公共行政中得到更广泛的覆盖，因为它为更好地理解政府权力，公平和道德交汇提供了一个视角。