LIST OF PANELS

This panel is a merge between two panels presenting international examples of dealing with public budgeting and social policies in the global market.

Recent events have shown the potential of global markets and the interests that champion them to disrupt established social policies. The European Union has struggled to calm financial markets, implementing new constraints on fiscal spending that have real consequences for social policies in the region. Well-resourced, multinational tobacco firms have used international trade and investment regimes to challenge domestic public health policies. Emerging crossborder markets for medical professionals have raised concerns among states about managing the capacity of their healthcare systems.   Governments are responding to these new challenges in important ways that deserve the attention of public policy researchers, whether they are pursuing more stable policy through supranational laws and governance, or implementing policies designed to introduce market competition to the delivery of health and social services.   In an attempt to better understand and theorize these developments, the 2015 International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) meeting in Milan will include a set of themed panels on Social Policies in Global Markets. To that end, we are soliciting papers addressing one or more of the following broad areas:   ·      At any level of government, the interaction between social policies protecting the public interest (e.g., social insurance, welfare programs, public health policies, education policies) and those aimed at shaping crossborder markets (e.g., trade, competition, finance, investment, intellectual property). ·      National or supranational policymaking and the regulation of regional markets, e.g., the European Union, MERCOSUR, ASEAN. ·      The role of transnational corporations in domestic policymaking. ·      Studies of social movements, advocacy coalitions, or epistemic communities that actively engage with or question crossborder markets.   Papers should draw on either empirical evidence (whether qualitative or quantitative) or legal analysis in presenting their arguments. Papers offering a comparative perspective on these key themes are particularly welcome.