RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

Christina Boswell (Edinburgh), Annabelle Littoz-Monnet (Geneva), Sotiria Grek (Edinburgh) and Luis Sanz-Menéndez (IPP Madrid) are proposing a section on 'Governing Knowledge' at the Glasgow ECPR, and are seeking proposals for papers or panels that examine the relationship between knowledge, monitoring and policy in the context of global and European governance. Topics could include the role of ideas in the making of policy; the political uses of expertise and knowledge; the social construction of policy problems and responses; the transnationalisation of knowledge networks; and political science, sociological or ethnographic studies of the tools, actors and organisations involved in the production and utilisation of such knowledge in policymaking.