Public administration upholds four pillars of an administrative practice: economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and social equity. The question arises, however, how do administrators balance effectiveness and social equity when implementing policy? Can the values contributing to administrative decisions be measured? This study leverages the expansion of medical cannabis programs in the states to interrogate these questions. The awarding of dispensary licenses in Pennsylvania affords the ability to determine the effect of social equity scoring on license award decisions, relative to criteria that represent the other pillars. The results show that safety and business acumen were the most important determining factors in the awarding of licenses, both effectiveness concerns. Social equity does not emerge as a significant determinant until the second round of licensing. This study then discusses the future of social equity provisions for cannabis policy, as well as what the findings mean for social equity in public administration.

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将社会公平最大化作为公共行政的支柱：对宾夕法尼亚州大麻药房许可的审查

公共行政坚持行政实践的四大支柱：经济、效率、有效性和社会公平。然而，问题出现了，管理者在执行政策时如何平衡有效性和社会公平？有助于行政决策的价值可以衡量吗？本研究利用各州医用大麻计划的扩展来审视这些问题。宾夕法尼亚州颁发的药房执照提供了确定社会公平评分对执照颁发决定的影响的能力，相对于代表其他支柱的标准。结果表明，安全和商业头脑是授予许可证的最重要的决定因素，两者都是有效性问题。直到第二轮许可，社会公平才成为一个重要的决定因素。然后，本研究讨论了大麻政策社会公平条款的未来，以及研究结果对公共行政社会公平的意义。