RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

Following a successful first year, the second Summer School on Research Methods in Social Sciences will be held at METU, on 18-29 August 2014. The first program of its kind in Turkey and its neighborhood, the Summer School will bring together prominent international scholars as well as METU faculty to offer PhD students, early career academics and professionals cutting edge qualitative and quantitative social science research methods over a period of two weeks.

The Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan is pleased to announce that Application are OPEN for

Summer School Research Strategies in Policy Studies (ResPoS)

DETECTING CAUSALITY

Villa Durazzo • Santa Margherita Ligure June, 16-20 2014

12th International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum and JCPA Workshop

24-27 September, 2014

Institute of Political Science, WWU Muenster, Germany

Convener: Klaus Schubert The Role of Theory in Comparative Policy Analysis

Abstract deadline: May 15th, 2014 Notification of accepted proposals: June 15th, 2014 Draft paper deadline: August 15th, 2014

International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management looks forward to receiving your paper for a forthcoming special issue entitled ESS Policies Landscape dynamics.

Maria Gusravson

Auditing Good Government in Africa: Public Sector Reform, Professional Norms and the Development Discourse (Executive Politics and Governance) Hardcover

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The Department of Politics at the University of Exeter has advertised a lectureship in Public Policy and Politics. Exeter ranks among the top-15 UK universities for research, with specialisation in public policy, regulation, public management and European public policy.

Jointly hosted by Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS) & School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, China

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, May 22-23, 2014

MAPS is an advanced programme taught in English at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, a real hidden gem of Italy and one of Europe’s most important and dynamic cities, with a vibrant city and nightlife. MAPS is open to students with a 4-year BA, or BA+MA. In 2014-15 MAPS faculty will feature, among others, Chiara Saraceno (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Bruno Palier (Sciences-Po Paris), Margarita Estevez-Abe (Syracuse University & Collegio Carlo Alberto), Klaus Armingeon (University of Berne), Stefaan De Rynck (European Commission), Martin Rhodes (University of Denver).

MAPS tuition fee is 5,000 €. Tuition waivers and scholarships are available on a competitive basis for those who apply by April 15st, 2014. Afterwards, a rolling application will be kept open.

Policy & Politics 2014 Conference

The challenges of leadership and collaboration in the 21st Century

Bristol Marriot Royal Hotel, College Green, Bristol

16th-17th September 2014

Call for Papers − Central European Journal of Public Policy Special Issue on Knowledge in Policy: New Perspectives, New Conflicts

Guest editors: Katarína Staroňová (Comenius University) and Michal Sedlačko (University of Applied Sciences, FH Campus Wien)

Over the last two decades a number of policy scholars, international organisations as well as national governments (particularly in OECD countries) increasingly call for a more systematic use of “evidence” in public policy making. Evidence can, in this respect, be defined as explicit and systematic knowledge that corresponds to scientific criteria of quality – and appears also under names of “(scientific) expertise”, “facts” and others. Increased use of evidence has implications in terms of changes in the structure of policy making processes, the measure of influence that various actors can exert on these processes, skills of administrative staff and division of labour in public organisations, as well as technologies and organisational procedures introduced in public organisations to enable “management” of knowledge. At the same time, the trend towards more systematic use of evidence in policy practice redefines the legitimacy criteria for public policy and opens up new conflict arenas centred on knowledge production and use (see, for example, the recent public discussions around the IPCC reports or the debates on democratisation of science).