06Oct 2011
The Next Big Thing: the Madrid World Congress, July 2012
22:19 - By Hal Colebatch
Plans are now well advanced for the Public Policy and Administration sessions at the IPSA World Congress in Madrid, 8-12 July 2012.
RC32 will be hosting thirteen panels, some co-sponsored by the research committees on Health Policy, Political Philosophy, Local Government, and the new Comparative Public Policy committee.
For details of our panels, and how you can proposed papers for them, read on.
RC32 panels at IPSA Congress Madrid 8-12 July 2012
1. Public policy development in post-communist countries: problems and decisions Contact: Alexander Sungurov (St Petersburg asungurov@mail.ru) or Zdravko Petak (Zagreb) (zpetak@fpzg.hr)
2. Speaking truth to power? Critical perspectives on evidence-based policy making Contact: Pekka Kettunen (Jyväskylä, Finland)(pekka.t.kettunen@jyu.fi), or Holger Strassheim (Humboldt, Berlin) holger.strassheim@hu-berlin.de)
3. Patient empowerment and democratic policy: political challenges and theoretical issues (co-sponsored by RC25 Health Policy and Public Policy Group, Belgian Association of Political Science) Contact: Fabrizio Cantelli (Universite Libre de Bruxelles Fabrizio.Cantelli@ulb.ac.be), Hal Colebatch, New South Wales, hal@colebatch.com) or Jim Bjorkman bjorkman@iss.nl)
4. Governance, metagovernance and the state (co-sponsored with RC31 Political Philosophy) Contact: Paul Fawcett (Sydney), Hal Colebatch (New South Wales hal@colebatch.com), or Preston King pking@morehouse.edu)
5. Making it official: organisation, discourse and technology in the construction of policy Contact: Hal Colebatch (New South Wales), hal@colebatch.com),
6. Public policy making and challenges of underdevelopment (co-sponsored with RC30 Comparative Public Policy) Contact: Godwin Onu (Oko Federal Polytechnic, Nigeria, godwinonu2003@yahoo.com)
7. The Rescaling of Environmental Governance Contact: Jens Newig (Leuphana University, Germany newig@uni.leuphana.de) or Timothy Moss (Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Erkner, Germany MossT@irs-net.de)
8. Policy making for the rural sector Contact: Troy Whitford (Charles Sturt, Australia). twhitford@csu.edu.au)
9. The provision of public services; from public/municipal sector to private sector provision – and reverse (“re-municipalization“)? (co-sponsored with RC05 Local Government) Contact: Hellmut Wollmann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany hellmut.wollmann@rz.hu-berlin.de
10. Policy Work in Comparative Perspective (co-sponsored with RC30 Comparative Public Policy) Contact: Bryan Evans (Ryerson, Canada b1evans@politics.ryerson.ca) or Michael Howlett (Simon Fraser University, chair of RC 30, Howlett@sfu.ca)
11. Policy processes as politics (co-sponsored with RC30 Comparative Public Policy) Contact: Mark Bevir (Berkeley, USA mbevir@ucberkeley.edu) or Philippe Zittoun (ENTPE-LET Lyon, IEP Grenoble, France pzittoun@gmail.com)
12. Comparative governance and public administration education Contact: George Vernadakis, Middle Tennessee State, USA, gvernard@mtsu.edu or Ivan Kopric, Zagreb, Croatia ikopric@pravo.hr
13. The Argumentative Turn Revisited: Public Policy as Communicative Practice Contact: Frank Fischer (Rutgers University frankfischer24@aol.com), Herbert Gottweis (University of Vienna herbert.gottweis@univie.ac.at), orPhilippe Zittoun (University of Grenoble pzittoun@gmail.com)
If you want to offer a paper
Go to the IPSA web site (www.ipsa.org) and to the Madrid Congress page, click on Submit Proposal, get a temporary registration, and enter the title of your paper and an abstract (max. 200 words).
You can then link it to the panel (follow the prompt to RC32), but to be sure, e-mail the title and abstract to one of the contact people listed above.