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Thirtieth Annual APPAM Research Conference
6-8 November, 2008 - Wilshire Grand Hotel - Los Angeles, CA
The Next Decade - What Are the Big Policy Challenges? |
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Call for Proposals
The 2008 research conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) invites
proposals for research papers, panels, roundtables and workshops on current research about public policy and
management across disciplines, policy areas, and national boundaries. Innovative methodologies,
cross-disciplinary perspectives, and comparative analyses are welcome. Priority for the Thirtieth
APPAM Research Conference will be given to proposals that address the theme:
The Next Decade - What Are the Big Policy Challenges?
This year, the U.S. is nominating and electing a new president, a new Congress, and hundreds of new state and local
government representatives. The outcomes will have a significant bearing on when the U.S. ends the war in Iraq, and how the federal and
state governments address the big issues of the next decade. Among these are: how to slow the rising costs of Medicare and Medicaid;
restructuring the financing of health insurance, education, and infrastructure construction; how to increase supplies of renewable energy
and reduce carbon fuel emissions; immigration policy; how to expand mass transit and affordable housing; how to ensure job opportunities;
and national security issues ranging from homeland security to how to arm and reconfigure the armed forces. The 2008 APPAM Fall Research
Conference will be in Los Angeles, offering an opportunity outside of Washington, DC to examine these policy challenges. We hope that
papers and panels will include a focus on the interactions between federal, state and local framing and financing of these issues - and,
where possible what can be learned from other countries' experiences and current approaches. In addition to the papers and panels
traditionally accepted for the conference, the Program Committee welcomes proposals that involve disciplines that in recent years have
been less represented at APPAM (for example, urban planning, civil engineering, the law) but are significant players in how public funds
are spent and managed.
APPAM strongly encourages proposals that are inclusive of diversity in the public policy and management field.
The APPAM Policy Council has instructed the Fall Conference Program Committee especially to consider these
aspects of diversity as it accepts proposals and creates conference sessions:
- Gender, Race, and Ethnicity: APPAM strongly encourages gender, racial and ethnic
diversity in every conference session.
- Practitioner perspectives: APPAM strongly encourages proposals that include
practitioners in all sessions. (For this purpose, APPAM defines ‘practitioners’ as
‘professionals in the public policy and management field who engage research primarily as
consumers and supporters.’)
In addition, APPAM values sessions that include a diversity of ideological/normative perspectives on policy and
management issues, and include a diversity of research disciplines and methodological approaches, as appropriate
and relevant to specific topics. The conference program committee will organize the conference agenda so that it
spans the interests and backgrounds of APPAM members. As space and time at the conference are limited, not every
proposal will be accepted. The program committee may combine or rearrange proposals to sharpen the focus of
panels, coordinate among sessions, and minimize repetition. Panel proposers are urged to be creative in their
own designs, including considering alternative formats, such as reversing or otherwise changing the roles of
presenters and discussants. Acceptance notices for participation in the conference will be availabe on this website
in late June/early July 2008.
Papers delivered at the 2008 Fall Conference may be eligible for these two awards presented through APPAM:
- Award for Research in Comparative Policy Analysis: This award will recognize a paper delivered at the 2008 conference
for excellence in comparative methods of policy and management research. For more information, please click
here.
- Poster Session Award: Three poster sessions presented at the 2008 conference will receive specially
designed ribbons and otherwise recognized by APPAM for the quality fo the research and presentations. For more information,
please click here.
ON-LINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FOR ALL PROPOSALS
The deadline for submitting proposals was March 14. Please contact the APPAM office if you have any questions about proposal submissions.
Anyone with questions about proposals should email the APPAM office or call 202-496-0130.
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