RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

Call for Papers: "Excursions, Encounters, Enactments: The role of sensory or first-hand experience in policy constructions" (Panel28)

This panel explores the role of policy-makers' sensory or first-hand experiences in the construction of policy `problems' and `solutions'. Such experiences can take the form of excursions to the site of a `policy problem' such as a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, a nature reserve that shows obvious signs of environmental degradation, or a city's `problem neighbourhood'. First-order experience also happens through encounters with affected persons or with experts on the policy problem at hand. Excursions, encounters and other forms of sensory experience can take place spontaneously; most often, however, they are meticulously planned and enacted by those participating, for different audiences and to different ends. Politicians may strive to create a positive public image among their constituency by showing `presence on the ground' or wishing to `see/assess with their very eyes' the nature and extent of the problem. Yet also those who plan excursions and encounters and those who the politicians meet have their agendas and enact specific interpretations of a problem. Interestingly, there are examples where such instances of policy-makers' first-hand experience, no matter how limited they were, seem to have shaped their perception in a sustained manner.

International Seminar “Governance of Public Policy: Cultures and Regimes in Networking Contexts” St. Petersburg, Russia, June 27-28, 2015 (English and Russian language) IPSA RC 48-Administrative Culture together with the Russian Political Science Association (RC on Comparative Politics) cordially invite you to submit proposals for the international seminar “Governance of Public Policy: Cultures and Regimes in Networking Contexts”, which will be held at the Saint-Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg, Russia on June 27- 28, 2015.

We have been told of another interesting panel at ICPP Milan, on Reflexivity, normality and (de)routinization (T11P07), within section 11 on discourse and critical policy research. Submission deadline is 15 January 2015. Please find the call at

http://www.icpublicpolicy.org/conference/article/article.php?conference=2&article=89 :

Are you interested in sharing your experiences “teaching interpretively”? Please submit your proposal to join us in a series of roundtable discussions at IPA 2015 on “New Ways of Teaching Interpretively” that builds on a well-received session at the 2014 IPA conference in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The question at the heart of the discussion in 2014 was: Does an interpretive perspective lend itself to a particular style of teaching? The starting point was our shared belief that YES, it makes sense to think about teaching interpretively. But more questions emerged during the discussion than we had time to address, such as: What does it mean to “teach interpretively”? How does that differ from other ways of teaching? What “lessons learned” can we glean from our varied experiences as interpretive researchers that might be productively applied to interpretive teaching? And what are the primary objectives of this approach to teaching and do these objectives differ from those of more “traditional” approaches? We are continuing the conversation in Lille to address these questions and others.

The second International Conference on Public Policy, to be held in Milan 1-4 July 2015, will be a rather large and diverse gathering, with many sections and over 160 panels. We have been asked to publicise a number of these, and have tried to do so but the number is too many to give them all space on the web site - and in any case, some of the ones which have not asked for publicity are as interesting as the ones that have. So we advise members to go to the conference web site (www.icpublicpolicy.org) to see the full listing. If you would like to know the ones that we have been told about, read on.

The second International Conference on Public Policy has now issued its Call for Papers. there is a long and diverse list of panels, which can be viewed at http://www.icpublicpolicy.org/conference/article/article.php?conference=2&article=79. Papers can be offered in any one of these 164 panels, and will be accepted up to 15 January 2015.

Policy & Politics 2015 Conference

Democracy, Inequality and Power: Redefining Classic Concepts for the 21st Century

Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel, College Green, Bristol 15th-16th September 2015

Call for papers Public Policy Network (PPN) Conference Wed 21 to Friday 23 January 2015 Venue: Deakin University 3rd floor 550 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Proposal for a Workshop ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops Warsaw, Poland 29 March - 2 April 2015 Title: Design and Non-Design in Policy-Making: When and How Policy Design Matters. Convenors; Dr. Giliberto Capano, University of Bologna Dr. Michael Howlett, Simon Fraser University and National University of Singapore

University of Washington’s Center for Environmental Politics is organizing an international conference on Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) in Seattle on May 14-16, 2015. The conference aims to showcase the cutting edge scholarship on EPG, provide a venue for scholars to present their research and network, and shape future EPG research across subfields in political science (American, Comparative, and International).