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Special Debate: Evidence-Based Public Policy in an Era of Rapid Change

Jul 29, 2019

The Special Debate held during APPAM’s 2019 International Conference presented an opportunity to discuss the ability of empirical evidence to reliably guide public policy in a rapidly changing world versus the value of other reasoned criteria for policy choice such as constituent views or civic values.

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Crafty Solutions for the World’s Most Wicked Problems

Jul 29, 2019

APPAM's 2019 International Conference in Barcelona Spain kicked off with the opening plenary on 'Climate and the Ecological Crisis' where Dr. Tom Burke discussed crafty solutions for the world’s most wicked problems.

JPAM Closer Look Author Interview: Christian Gregory and Travis Smith on Salience, Food Security, and SNAP Receipt

Jul 23, 2019

Household food insecurity status in the United States is ascertained by a battery of closed-ended questions. The authors, Christian A. Gregory and Travis A. Smith, posit that the monthly nature of benefit receipt from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) creates experiences of food hardship, which become salient in the context of SNAP receipt, and, in turn, exert influence on the response to food security questions.

Get Involved with the APPAM Policy Council

Have you ever considered being more involved in APPAM? One of the most rewarding ways to serve the Association is through the Policy Council. APPAM is soliciting its members for nominations to the APPAM Policy Council and for the positions of APPAM President-elect, Vice-President, and Secretary. All terms will begin in 2020.

Video: APPAM/Westat Forum - Bringing Rigor and Intentionality to Mixed Methods Evaluations

Jul 03, 2019

A day-long forum sponsored by Westat and APPAM will focus researchers on sharpening and expanding the mixed method paradigm to respond to these concerns and t enable impact evaluations to make larger contributions to policy learning. Major themes include the roles of mixed methods evaluation in explaining/understanding impact findings from randomized control trials and in strengthening quasi-experimental analytic methods to ward off selection bias.

Five Minutes with APPAM Student Member Rebecca Miller

"I realized that I loved working in environmental fields as a freshman in college. After graduation, I moved to Washington, D.C., and worked as a Science Policy Fellow for the Science and Technology Policy Institute. In supporting a project on local adaptation planning for the Obama Administration, I realized that the academic literature had only limited information as to why municipalities designed adaptation plans or even how to define a “good” adaptation plan."

Dependent Care Grants for #2019APPAM

APPAM is pleased to annouce that it will be offering registered attendees the opportunity to apply for dependent care grants. Grants, of up $400, are available for attendees of the APPAM Fall Research Conference who have child or dependent care obligations.

Five Minutes with APPAM Student Member Dylan Bellisle

Jun 19, 2019

As an aspiring scholar, I view academia as the ideal location to conduct high quality critical research into important social issues, while simultaneously having the humbling opportunity to help shape the next generation of critical social workers who will work collaboratively to solve the societal and community level issues we will face in the future.

JPAM Closer Look Author Interview: Yael Elster, Asaf Zussman and Noam Zussman on Effective Counter-Terrorism

Jun 13, 2019

JPAM interviews Dr. Yael Elster, Dr. Asaf Zussman and Dr. Noam Zussman, authors of the article Effective Counter-Terrorism: Rockets, Iron Dome, and the Israeli Housing Market, in this fifth installment of our JPAM authors profile series JPAM Closer Look.

Five Minutes with Anil Deolalikar - APPAM Institutional Member

Jun 10, 2019

APPAM’s Five Minutes with… series was introduced in March 2019 to illuminate the work of individual APPAM members, and promote connections between members based on their shared interests. For the series' first Institutional Representative interview, Anil Deolalikar - Founding Dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside - discusses the experience of founding a major public policy school, and tells us exactly what he thinks about bucket lists.