RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

Michael Howlett tells us that the first issue of the new open-access Annual Review of Policy Design has been published and is available on-line. The review is located at http://annualreviewofpolicydesign.com

The review publishes original articles and reprints of current and classic pieces dealing with policy design research and theory. It is a project of the National University of Singapore Policy Design Lab (see http://policy-design.org for more information on the Lab and its activities.)

The department of political science at the Université de Montréal invites applications for a doctoral scholarship in the area of Risk, Bias and Policy Expertise.

The selected candidate will work on the way in which members of the public, elites and institutions respond to new risks, and the extent to which these same actors update their priors in the face of new expert information. Research opportunities in this program cover a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: political culture and the extent to which value cleavages influence risk perception; issue framing and media coverage of risks; the production of risk analysis and the role of experts in the policy-making process.

Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Centre for Governance and Public Policy / Griffith Asia Institute Griffith University

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2014 Annual Conference Creating Possibilities – Igniting Transformative Solutions Edmonton, Alberta June 1-4

The Institute for Public Administration in Canada invites submissions for its annual conference in Edmonton, June 1-4 2014.

The conference is designed to bring together a large and varied audience from academia, all levels of government, First Nations, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.

The Institute of Asian Research (IAR) and the Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia (Vancouver campus), invite applications for a tenure-track appointment at the assistant professor level, effective July 1, 2014, in Asian public policy.* All policy specializations will be considered relevant (for example, governance and policy-making, economic policy, environmental policy, social and gender policy, urban policy, transportation, water, development).

We like to invite you to send us a paper abstract for the panel we will propose on the work of practitioners in policy analysis. The panel theme is as follows:

Studies of policy implementation, community activism and front-line work demonstrate a sustained interest in the everyday practices of people ‘on the ground’. In particular, within the field of urban governance, there is an emergent literature on participation and deliberation, that focuses on how different types of practitioners are able to build vital coalitions, in the boundary spaces between government, civil society and communities in order to get things done. This panel aims to draw together innovative and resonant new contributions to this international field from both early career researchers and more established scholars. We want to provoke critical and lively debate in order to deepen our understanding of these practices and significance of such practitioners.

The Research Group of *Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance (PEGO)* at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag, Dübendorf/Zürich) and the University of Bern opens *three PhD positions *in Public Policy Analysis. The planned *start is April 2014*; applications are *due by December 15th*; please see details below and attached.

The Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University is recruiting a lecturer in Public Policy as part of a 2020 initiative by the Vice-Chancellor. This early-career post is open to any candidate in the area of Public Policy (broadly defined) who is able to demonstrate how they would make a strong research and teaching contribution to the Department.

Proposals for papers are invited for the International Research Society for Public Management Annual Conference, to be held at School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa Canada, April 9-11, 2014, on the theme ‘Intersections: Governance, Democracy, Accountability’

Abstracts are due by November 1st 2013

The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, an autonomous graduate school of the National University of Singapore and a premier Asian public policy institution, invites applications for full-time tenure track position (rank open) in Public Finance. Candidates with expertise in any of the following areas are encouraged to apply: public expenditure analysis; taxation; intergovernmental fiscal relations; financial management; budget analysis.