RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

There has now been a call to propose panels for the 2016 IPSA Congress in Istanbul, 23-28 July. Anyone can propose a panel, but if you would like it to be included in the RC32 bid, let Rob Hoppe know (r.hoppe@utwente.nl). The closing date for open panels is 8 July 2015, and for closed panels 7 October.

The Call for Papers will open on 7 October.

Further details from the IPSA website (www.ipsa.org). The conference address is istanbul2016@ipsa.org.

The Lee Kuan School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and the Centre for Globalization, Peace and Democratic Governance at the Koc University, Turkey invite proposals for participating in the International Workshop on “Institutional and Policy Design in Financial Industry Reform” to be held in Istanbul on 24-25 September 2015.

The objective of the workshop is to examine comparative reform of the financial services industry with special reference to institutional and policy design in theory and practice aimed at enhancing sector stability and discouraging excessive risk taking.

The professorship shall cover comparative policy analysis as an important field of comparative political science in research and teaching. The person to be appointed must prove comprehensive internationally acknowledged research achievements in the analysis of one or more policy areas. Mastery of a variety of theoretical approaches and comprehensive experience in the application of qualitative methods of comparative policy analysis in research as well as the willingness to teach these aspects are expected. Disposition for teaching in the field of comparative political science in its range at Bachelor, Master and PhD level is required.

The University of Lausanne is seeking a new Ph.D. student and teaching assistant (100%). The successful candidate is expected to write a PhD thesis in public policy and administration and/or regulatory governance, and to assist with teaching and research tasks.

The newly founded Energy Politics Group (EPG) within the Department of Humanities, Social, and Political Sciences of ETH Zurich investigates questions related to the governance of technological change in the energy sector. To support our team we are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher. We expect the successful candidate to conduct research on the interaction of public policy and its underlying politics with technological change in the energy sector. Relevant disciplinary fields include, but are not limited to: political science, governance studies, evolutionary or institutional economics, and innovation studies. Interdisciplinary candidates are welcome.

The review of applications will start on April 15, 2015. The position will remain open until filled.

The Hertie School of Governance in Berlin (Germany) is hiring 1 Post-Doctoral Researcher (100%) and 3 Doctoral Researchers (50%) for the Project “State, Risk, and Society (STARS)”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, for a period of 36 months beginning in September 2015. The project examines the adjustment of national policies, regulation, and banking systems to global finance to further our understanding of the causes and effects of the financial crisis.

The department of Sociology seeks to fill a position for a post-doctoral researcher in the field of social security systems and policy implementation, or in the field of socio-legal studies. The successful candidate will join the project team executing the EUR Research Excellence Initiative (REI) Program Shifting from Welfare to Social Investment States: Privatization of Work-Related Risk Control (2015-2019) awarded by the board of the Erasmus University. The project concerns a collaboration between a sociological and a legal research program. The postdoc candidate will be researching the institutional work of state and private actors (i.e. employers and employees) that is related to the shift in the allocation of responsibilities from public to private actors.