Introduction to the Special Issue: Popular Culture, Social Equity, and Public Administration.

The pieces in this special issue demonstrate that pop culture can be a useful tool to inform our understandings of public administration theory and practice, especially on social equity topics. First, McCandless and Elias ([6]) contextualize pop culture in public administration by offering a foundational definition and providing examples of pop culture's utility for public administration research and teaching. This special issue explores pop culture's social equity messaging in the context of public administration. [Extracted from the article]