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IPPA EVENTS

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ICPP7

2025-07-02

Chiang Mai, Thailand

ICPP7 will take place from July 2-4, 2025

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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON PUBLIC POLICY - BRASILIA EDITION 2024

2024-11-04

Brasilia

The Summer School will take place from 04-08 November 2024

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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON PUBLIC POLICY - CHIANG MAI EDITION 2024

2024-11-26

Chiang Mai, Thailand

The Summer School will take place from 26-30 November 2024

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International Winter School on Public Policy - New Delhi Edition 2024

2024-12-09

New Delhi, India

The Winter School will take place from December 9-13, 2024!

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International Winter School on Public Policy - Alps Edition 2025

2025-02-07

Alps,France

The Winter School will take place from February 3-7, 2025!

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Latest Issue 6(1) | 2024

Allegra H. Fullerton, Kayla M. Gabehart and Christopher M. Weible
Emotional Expressions and Advocacy Coalitions

Christopher Walker
Transnational Policy Transfer and the emerging use of Social Network Analysis: supplementing the researcher’s toolkit

Tracy Smith-Carrier and Rana Van Tuyl
The Merits and Pitfalls of Participatory Action Research: Navigating Tokenism and Inclusion with Lived Experience Members

Roberto Cruz Romero
The Problem of Measurements: Fiscal Transparency and Diverging Outcomes

Nikolaos Zahariadis and Philippe Zittoun
Policy Paradox and Policy Prospects: Editors’ Introduction to the Keynote Speech by Deborah Stone

Deborah Stone
Of Democracy, Science and Elephants

Bobby Thomas Cameron and Bryan Evans
Policy capacity research: An overview and bibliography of the international literature, 1978 to 2023

Annemieke van den Dool
Christopher M. WEIBLE & Samuel WORKMAN (Eds.), Methods of the Policy Process

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THE ASSOCIATION

The International Public Policy Association (IPPA) is a non-profit organization created in December 2014 with the aim of promoting scientific research in the field of Public Policy, and to contribute to its international development.
Nowadays, IPPA aims for the international diffusion of knowledge of Public Policy, as a contribution to the internationalization of the field. Furthermore, IPPA intends to strengthen the collaboration between the public policy academic community, and encourage the exchange of knowledge and experience between public policy experts and students through its different projects.

NEWS

Books

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Innovation and Institutional Development for Public Policy: Complexity Theory, Design Thinking and System Dynamics Application

This book offers a comprehensive perspective on policy theories, policy formulation and implementation, and alternative paradigm for dealing with complex social and economic systems.

Jobs

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Faculty Positions at the KAPSARC School of Public Policy

The KAPSARC School of Public Policy (KSPP) invites applications for faculty positions in Public Finance, Public Management, Climate Policy & Sustainability, Public Policy and Energy & Environmental Economics.

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IAPSS Virtual Academic Convention

IAPSS invites associations to propose panels or workshops for its virtual academic conference from December 6 to 8.

Other

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Special Collection from the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning: 25 Years of Open Access Articles

In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning (JEPP) has curated a special collection of articles.

TEACHING RESSOURCES

The IPPA Teaching Resources are intended to introduce PhD students and early career researchers to different approaches of Public Policy, and contemporary policy issues. Currently, the resources include contemporary policy approaches, interviews with distinguished policy scholars and present-day policy topics.

PUBLIC POLICY NETWORK

IPPA builds a global platform for PhD students and early career researchers working in the broad field of Public Policy. These networks share the voice, provide space and create opportunities for researchers.

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BOOKS

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Handbook on Science and Public Policy

Dagmar Simon, Stefan Kuhlmann, Julia Stamm and Weert Canzler

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The Political Formulation of Policy Solutions: Arguments, Arenas and Coalitions

Philippe Zittoun, Frank Fischer and Nikolaos Zahariadis

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Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy: Interpreting the Arguments

Frank Fischer

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Climate Crisis and the Democratic Prospect: Participatory Governance in Sustainable

Frank Fischer

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Handbook on Participatory Governance

Hubert Heinelt

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Beyond Public Policy: A Public Action Languages Approach

Peter Kevin Spink

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Public Policy Circulation: Arenas, Agents and Actions

Tom Baker and Christopher Walker

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Narrative Politics in Public Policy: Legalizing Cannabis

Hugh Miller

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Evidence Use in Health Policy Making

Editors: Parkhurst, Justin, Ettelt, Stefanie, Hawkins.

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The Political process of policymaking

Philippe Zittoun

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Wicked Problems in Public Policy

Brian W. Head

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Public Policy and Indigenous Futures

Nikki Moodle & Sarah Maddison (Eds.)

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Policy Experiments, Failures and Innovations: Beyond Accession in Central and Eastern Europe

Agnes Batory, Andrew Cartwright and Diane Stone

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Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting

Nikolaoas Zahariadis

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Citizen-Centered Public Policy Making in Turkey

Volkan Göçoğlu & Naci Karkin

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Heterarchy in World Politics

Philip G. Cerny

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Writing Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Communicating in the Policymaking Process

Catherine F. Smith

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Aiming to Explain: Theories of Policy Change and Canadian Gun Control

B. Timothy Heinmiller

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Interrogating Public Policy Theory: A Political Values Perspective

Linda Courtenay Botterill and Alan Fenna

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The Economist's View of the World

Steven E. Rhoads

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Data Power in Action

Ola Söderström & Ayona Datta

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The International Handbook of Public Administration and Governance

Andrew Massey, Karen Johnston

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The Politics of Meaning Struggles

Philippe Zittoun & Sébastien Chailleux

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Policy as Practice: Making Sense of Governing

H. K. Colebatch & Calista Castles

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Policy Problems and Policy Design

B. Guy Peters

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Disrupted governance: Towards a new policy science

Kris Hartley

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Local Autonomy as a Human Right

Joshua B. Forrest

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Contemporary Approaches on Public Policy

B. Guy PETERS & Philippe ZITTOUN

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Evaluating Public Policy

Frank Fischer

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Citizen Science and Social Innovation: Mutual Relations, Barriers, Needs, and Development Factors

Andrzej Klimczuk, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

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The Future of the Policy Sciences

Anis Ben Brik; Leslie Pal

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Handbook of European Policies

Hubert Heinelt and Sybille Münch

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Governing the Pandemic: The Politics of Navigating a Mega-Crisis

Arjen Boin, Allan McConnel & Paul 't Hart

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The New Technocracy

Anders Esmark

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Post-Truth, Fake News, and Democracy

Johan Farkas & Jannick Schou

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Public Policy in the 'Asian Century' Concepts, Cases and Futures

Sara Bice, Avery Poole, and Helen Sullivan

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The Public Policy Process

Michael Hill & Frédéric Varone

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Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy

Holger Straßheim and Silke Beck

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The Politics of Evidence

Justin Parkhurst

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Implementing Public Policy: An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance (4TH ed)

Michel Hill & Peter Hupe

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Dictionary of Public Policy

Michael Howlett, M Ramesh, Anthony Perl and Elisa Helena Xiol Y Ferreira

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The Politics of the Public Encounter

Peter Hupe

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Research Handbook on Street-Level Bureaucracy

Peter Hupe

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The Pandemic Withing: Policy Making for a Better World

Hendrik Wagenaar & Barbara Prainsack

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Bringing the Environment Back In: Overcoming the Tragedy of the Diffusion of the Commons Metaphor

Benjamin Cashore and Steven Bernstein

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Making Policies Work

Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett, M Ramesh and Altaf Virani

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Learning in Public Policy

C.A. Dunlop C.M. Radaelli and P. Trein

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Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters

Deborah Stone

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