LIST OF PANELS

As a region home to multiple rising global powers, Asia plays an increasingly pivotal role in shaping global public policies. Distinctive patterns emerge in Asian policymaking practices (Mukherjee and Howlett 2015), indicating that Asian public policy warrants focused study. Yet scholars have identified a persistent gap in the engagement with and understanding of public policy dynamics across Asia (Bice et al. 2018).

Studying public policy in Asia extends beyond merely comprehending political systems, governance structures, and administration frameworks. It requires an examination of the unique and complex interplay between various forms of knowledge, authority, and power that inform policy development and implementation (such as Curaming 2020, Nugroho et.al. 2018). Knowledge and power matter in public policy. Knowledge plays a critical role in addressing policy problems, but it is also a way of exerting power, influencing which issues are prioritised and how they are understood (Jasanoff 1987; Fischer 2000; Yanow 2004, Rakhmani and Sakhiyya 2024).

This panel asks how studies of knowledge and power in policymaking in Asia can advance theoretical discourses and/or inform us about distinct methodological approaches and commitments?

Asia may be a site of data collection, but it is not often a source of theorising or knowledge sharing. Theorising and universalities remain largely developed in the West and then applied to the rest of the world, including Asia (Takayama 2016, Santos 2016, Connell 2020). This panel will  contribute to broader theoretical advancements in public policy from the region and deepen our understanding of the region's unique policy landscape.

This panel invite papers that investigate the relationship between knowledge and power in policymaking processes in Asia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, evidence-based policymaking, knowledge transfer, policy translation, the role of policy entrepreneurs, and the challenges of policy implementation.

This hybrid panel is open to PhD students and early career researchers, as well as more experienced and established academics. Our goal is to create constructive and engaging dialogues. We welcome contributions that are empirical, methodological and theoretical in nature.

This panel invite papers that investigates the relationship between knowledge and power in policymaking processes in Asia. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, evidence-based policymaking, knowledge transfer, policy translation, the role of policy advisors/experts/technocrats in policy making, the role of policy entrepreneurs, and the challenges of policy implementation. We welcome contributions that are empirical, methodological and theoretical in nature

This hybrid panel is open to PhD students and early career researchers, as well as more experienced and established academics. Our goal is to create constructive and engaging dialogues on how research from the region can contribute to broader theoretical advancements in public policy studies and deepen our understanding of the region's unique policy landscape.