RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

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

This workshop takes a fresh look at what can be learned from experiments and attempts at experimentation in the context of climate change governance. The focus is on experimenting as a broader societal/governance phenomenon and on the ways experiments materialize and challenge existing policies, practices and regulatory systems. This fully funded workshop encourages exploration of experiments from many different angles with the aim to catalyse thinking about experiments, processes of experimentation and the use of experiments. It is expected to bring together new empirical and theoretical analyses. The workshop welcomes theoretical papers, methodological papers, conceptual and empirical studies or combinations thereof. The aim is to eventually publish the contributions presented at the workshop, subject to normal review process, as a Special Volume in a suitable journal.

The Center of Competence for Public Management (CCPM) at the University of Bern is an inter-faculty unit with close ties to the economics, social sciences and legal studies faculties. The CCPM works in interdisciplinary teaching, training and research in the field of public management and administrative science.

The CCPM is currently advertising for a professorship in the fields of Public Management, Public Administration, and Organization Studies.

We drew attention to this post before, but at that stage the only information was in German. Now there is some guidance in English.

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

The School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego http://irps.ucsd.edu (http://irps.ucsd.edu) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the field of politics and public policy to begin July 1, 2015.

The Department of Political Science, in partnership with the University's Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Center for Health Policy, invites applications for a faculty appointment in Health Politics/Policy beginning August, 2015. This appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, in a probationary position leading to a tenure decision. For best consideration, apply no later than September 20, 2014. This position will remain open until filled.

The School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University seeks applicants for a full-time, tenure or tenure-track faculty position on the Bloomington campus in the area of environmental policy. The position is open-rank; we particularly encourage applications from mid-career and senior faculty. Multiple hires are possible.

his panel provides a forum for developing and sharing comparative research experiences on the relationship between expertise, research, policy and practice across policy themes, across institutional settings, and across national boundaries. Systemic obstacles to adoption of expert knowledge are well-known. These include the politicised context of policy debates and governmental commitments, the search for political compromises, low awareness of evaluation findings on the part of public officials; and ineffective communication by researchers and other experts. “Bridging” and “brokering” strategies have emerged to promote closer linkages.