RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

The International Public Policy Association (IPPA) is offering a student internship at ENTPE - University of Lyon, France, at the head office of the Association. The main purpose of IPPA is to organize the International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) and develop an academic community over the public policy field.

The well-organized and autonomous intern we are looking for will be involved in an international environment where he/she will help to develop the Association through event organization, website management, supervision of communications and member relations in the Association etc.

International Organization and the globalisation of public instruments and ideas; micro-processes and actors' configurations  Conference Strasbourg, France, September 2016.

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Call for abstracts for a fully funded workshop:

Innovative urban governance for mitigation and adaptation: Mapping, exploring and interrogating

22-23 September 2016, Amsterdam

Innovative urban governance for mitigation and adaptation

The built environment is a major source of resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. It is an absolutely key aspect of climate change adaptation and mitigation, and holds a large cost-effective potential for improvement. But traditional governance approaches such as planning legislation and building regulation have not been able to unlock its full potential. In response governments, firms and citizens around the globe have begun to develop and implement governance innovations for improved urban sustainability and resilience. This fully funded workshop will bring together 15-20 scholars under the flag of the COST Action INOGOV (Innovations in Climate Governance) to map, explore and interrogate this global trend of urban governance innovations.

Policy & Politics has been publishing seminal works on public and social policy, and politics for over 40 years. It is a world-leading journal that is committed to advancing understanding of the dynamics of policy-making and implementation.  By exploring the interplay between political actors, governing institutions and policy issues, the journal contributes to theories of the policy process; and by reflecting on the evolving context in which these interactions occur, it provides critical insights that are timely and fresh.

The journal’s co-editors invite proposals for a special issue to be published online in 2018 and in print in 2019 that will make a significant contribution to our understanding of public or social policy and/or politics. 

Postdoctoral Fellowships - IRIS "Governance Analytics"

Applications are invited for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data-driven Research in Social Sciences (Econ., Mangmt., Social Sciences, Computer Sciences, Math and Stats.).
 The newly established multidisciplinary program on "Governance Analytics" has four openings for postdoctoral fellowships in data-driven social sciences. The program aims at establishing a group of young scholars specialized in data gathering, databases integration and data processing with the aims of contributing to the exploration of governance and regulation of organizations, institutions and markets. The pluri-disciplinary team will be responsible for providing assistance to research teams in social science in designing research protocols, contributing to on-going research projects based on advanced methodologies, and developing original tools (algorithm, databases, treatments) to study the various dimension of governance.

The Centre for Deliberative Democracy & Global Governance is convening the Second Deliberative Democracy Summer School from 15-17 February 2017. The three-day summer school will focus on classical debates and emerging themes in deliberative theory and practice, including deliberative cultures, representation in the deliberative system and methodological innovations in researching deliberative politics. Participants will have an opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from the speakers and fellow participants.

Policy Reviews in Higher Education is the new journal from the Society of Research into Higher Education, and will be launching at their annual research conference in December 2016.

The journal will open up a space for publishing in-depth accounts of significant areas of policy development affecting higher education internationally. 

 For a FNRS research project untitled ‘Policy advice utilisation by ministerial cabinet advisers (POLADMIN)’, UCL is recruiting:One PhD student (scholarship) in policy analysis or public administration (4 years) to conduct research on the policy work by ministerial cabinet advisers

Deadline: 20 June 2016

Position open until filled

DEMOCRACY UNDER STRESS: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

The doc­to­ral pro­gram in­ves­ti­ga­tes how the new po­li­ti­cal, eco­no­mic, eco­lo­gi­cal, and cul­tu­ral chal­len­ges (‚stress fac­tors’) that mo­dern de­mo­cra­cies en­coun­ter are per­cei­ved, dealt with, and sol­ved in view of the exis­ting ten­si­on bet­ween po­li­ti­cal le­gi­ti­ma­cy and re­stric­ted per­for­mance. It will fur­ther look into the im­pli­ca­ti­ons that dif­fe­rent mo­des of pro­blem-hand­ling have for the ‚sur­vi­val chan­ces’ of de­mo­cra­cy. This two­fold re­se­arch agen­da will be ana­ly­zed in three fiel­ds of stu­dy that re­pre­sent the core func­tions of de­mo­cra­cies: par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on, re­pre­sen­ta­ti­on, and in­clu­si­on.

The first field of stu­dy is con­cer­ned with how ci­ti­zens in de­mo­cra­tic so­cie­ties per­cei­ve cur­rent so­cie­tal chal­len­ges in light of in­cre­a­sing „eman­ci­pa­ti­ve“ va­lue ori­en­ta­ti­ons and how the­se per­cep­ti­ons are trans­la­ted into po­li­ti­cal be­ha­viour (participatory democracy).

In the frame­work of the se­cond field of stu­dy, the re­pre­sen­ta­ti­ve ca­pa­ci­ty of po­li­ti­cal in­ter­me­di­a­ry or­ga­niza­t­i­ons as well as po­li­ti­cal in­sti­tu­ti­ons wi­t­hin and outs­ide the na­ti­on sta­te will be ana­ly­zed (representative democracy).

By me­ans of selec­ted po­li­cy fiel­ds (e. g. en­vi­ron­men­tal, cli­ma­te, sci­ence and me­dia po­li­cy) the third field of stu­dy looks into the is­sue of how new forms of po­li­ti­cal par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in­ter­act with tra­di­tio­nal in­sti­tu­ti­ons, ac­tors, and pro­ces­ses of re­pre­sen­ta­ti­ve de­mo­cra­cy (inclusive democracy).

Chair­men:

Professor Dr. Ferdinand Müller-Rommel

Professorin Dr. Marion Reiser

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (TENURED) OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Catholic University, Lille

Full time, permanent position

Starting date: September 1st, 2016