RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

Professors Brint Milward and Alasdair Roberts invite expressions of interest from academics interested in participating in a panel to be held at the Public Management Research Conference at Aarhus University on June 22-24, 2016. The short papers produced for the panel will be published as a collection in Governance 30.3 (July 2016).

A forum in the latest issue of the journal Critical Policy Studies includes an article about the interpretive approach to policy, along with critiques from several members of an international network of scholars interested in critical and interpretive policy studies. This forum should be especially useful for teaching students about interpretive/critical methods, their distinctiveness from positivist approaches, and the relation between epistemology, theoretical perspective, and methodology/methods.

Through an arrangement with the publisher, these articles have been made available for free downloading at this link: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcps20/current .

The Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration at Chiang Mai University in Thailand is seeking to recruit in a number of fiields, including public policy.

Call for Papers | ECPR Joint Sessions 2016, Pisa

Behavioural Change and Public Policy

Workshop directors

Holger Strassheim, Humboldt University Berlin; holger.strassheim@hu-berlin.de

Silke Beck, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; silke.beck@ufz.de

Closing date for paper proposals is 1 Dec 2016

To submit a paper proposal go to http://ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=101

Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference
5-7 July 2016
University of Hull UK

Call for Panels - Deadline 30th November 2015

Interpretive policy analysis engenders and embraces research which extends across the social sciences and which is applied to a vast range of policy topics. The common interest of interpretive approaches to policy analysis is the recognition of the importance of discourse, meaning making, interpretation and the performance of social practices both in devising and in enacting policy.

Title: Understanding EU responses towards crises and conflicts

The EU’s neighborhood is fraught with crises and conflicts, which range from the violent civil wars in Syria, Libya, and Ukraine, the rise of the Islamic State and the more entrenched situations of Israel-Palestine, Morocco-Western Sahara, Nagorno-Karabakh just to mention a few. Migration flows, including the recent refugee crisis, are also issues that the EU has to face on the international stage. And if we move beyond the neighborhood, conflicts in Africa, the instability in Afghanistan and Iraq and environmental disasters around the world force the EU to act.

European Policy Analysis (EPA) is a double blind peer-reviewed journal on policy research with an emphasis on European countries, issues and studies (and/or) which follows a comparative approach (and/or) which contributes to the theoretical understanding of policy research under the aegis of the Policy Studies Organization (PSO). It appears twice a year, in spring and in fall, as online, e-book and print version. General editors are Nils C. Bandelow (Braunschweig/Germany), Peter Biegelbauer (Wien/Austria), Fritz Sager (Bern/Switzerland) and Klaus Schubert (Münster/Germany). Please visit http://www.ipsonet.org/publications/open-access/epa for more information about the journal

Full or associate professor in management with a specialization in analysis of public data

Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP), Lausanne.

Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenberg, Swedeb,  invites applications for a position as Professor of Innovation Systems and Technology Policy.   The research profile of the chair is sociotechnical transformation towards more sustainable industrial systems and technology policy design