RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

Public policy studies have been bound by the Westphalian concept of sovereignty. Yet, increasingly at the transnational level there have been a proliferation of administrative practices and processes of policy-making and policy delivery beyond but often overlapping with traditional nation-state policy processes. New formal and informal institutions at the international level (i.e. transnational public administration) are behind these policy processes often in cooperation with national public administrations but sometimes quite independently from them.

Examples include practices such as the OECD’s standard setting and 'best practice' to the World Bank's 'global programs. There are many other 'multi-stakeholder initiatives', 'global public-private partnerships' and 'Global Commissions'. While policy norms and agendas may have global resonance, nevertheless the pattern of policy action can vary considerably. Implementation may occur at national or local levels in different countries more or less contemporaneously, or also in problem contexts that are cross-border and co-jurisdictional, hence our use of the term ‘transnational administration’.

These developments represent a challenge to traditional policy and public administration studies which have tended to undertake analysis of the capacity of public sector hierarchies to globalise national policies rather than to ask if there is transnational policy-making above and beyond the state. There is little conceptualisation of global public policy – policy that is either co-authored by states, in coalition with other actors such as in ‘global public private partnerships’ or ‘private’ global policy and of transnational public administration. This special edition calls for papers that interrogate the idea of ‘global policy processes’ and the emergence of various modalities of ‘transnational administration’.

Guest Editors: Professor Diane Stone, Murdoch University (and University of Warwick). Email: d.stone@murdoch.edu.au

Dr Stella Ladi, Queen Mary, University of London. Email: s.ladi@qmul.ac.uk

We look forward to receiving submissions of papers via he Public Administration Manuscript Central pages by 1st June 2014.

For further details, see http://www.uib.no/admorg/51926/phd-course-organizations-and-coordination-times-wicked-problems

We invite paper proposals for an open panel “Making knowledge about governance” at 4S/ESOCITE meeting in Buenos Aires 2014 (for details see below). The aim is to explore how STS can contribute to our understanding of the making of knowledge about governance (not problems or issues, but the very reality of governance and politics). Please feel free to disseminate the information to potentially interested people.

JP Voß (TU Berlin, jan-peter.voss@tu-berlin.de) S Aykut (LATTS/IFRIS, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, s.aykut@gmail.com), N Baya-Laffite (medialab/SciencesPo,nicolas.bayalaffite@sciencespo.fr),

The 7th Sino-US International Conference for Public Administration will be held in the Yifu Conference Center, Renmin University of China on June 6th and 7th, 2014。 It will examine public management and governance reform since the end of year 2000 the last century, and will focus on the future. The previous six conferences have been held in China and in the United States as well.

Theme："Global Governance Reform: Lessons from the Past and Plans for the Future" “跨世纪全球公共治理改革：回顾与展望 ”

CALL FOR PAPERS Policy Studies Journal Forthcoming special issue entitled, “Exploring the Theoretical Nexus between Public Policy and Public Management” Co-Editors: Edella Schlager, Craig Smith, Chris Weible, and Andrew Whitford

We have a vacancy for an assistant professor “environmental social sciences” at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University.

Feel free to spread the word. Application deadline February 2.

Best Wishes Bas van Vliet

We propose a panel for the9th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA 2014), 3-5 July 2014, Wageningen University

Basil Bornemann, PhD. University of Basel Department of Social Sciences Sustainability Research Email: basil.bornemann@unibas.ch

Jennifer Dodge, PhD. Rockefeller College State University of New York, Albany Email: jdodge@albany.edu

Tamara Metze, PhD. Tilburg School of Politics and Public Administration Tilburg University Email: t.metze@uvt.nl

Abstracts (not more than 300 words) to be submitted to the conference organisers by 15 January. ++

CALL FOR PROPOSALS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 28 – 29, MAY 2014 MOSCOW, RUSSIA NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, RC 30 & RC 32 Public Policy Department of National Research University Higher School of Economics together with RC 30 and RC 32 of International Political Science Association (IPSA) is pleased to announce International Conference “ANALYTICAL COMMUNITIES IN POLICY ADVISORY SYSTEMS AT GLOBAL AND LOCAL LEVEL: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF POLICY IMPACT”

The Public Policy Network (PPN) is an informal network of Australasian public policy scholars that meets annually to discuss research, teaching and cognate issues in public policy, public administration and governance, and has affiliated with RC32 as a 'regional chapter'. Its focus is on public policy issues in Australia and New Zealand, theoretical debates within the field and comparative research that informs practice. The 2014 conference of the Public Policy Network will be held at the University of Canberra from 29-31 January 2014. For details of the conference program, read on.

We would will like to remind you of the CfP for the panel on “Theorising advisers and their relation to politicians and bureaucrats” at the Nordic Political Science Association (NOPSA) conference in Gothenburg, August 12-15, 2014 (see the call below or at www.nopsa.net). Deadline for paper proposals is January 18, 2014.

Birgitta Niklasson, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen, Department of Political Science, Aalborg University Thurid Hustedt, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam