LIST OF PANELS

The objective of the panel is to study the production of public policy research and public policy analysis in Latin American countries.

This panel aims to cover the subject area of Public Policy in Latin America, a world region that share similar socio-cultural, political, institutional, and administrative characteristics. This panel wants to bring in an overview of public policy analysis and research in Latin America, convening a host of scholars and practitioners from the region.

The proposed panel aims to discuss an overview of public policymaking, institutions, and comparative studies on PP themes. As noted by Jreisat (2005, 2011) most internationally published scholarship in Public Administration focus on countries from Europe, Asia, and North America. The same point was made by Geva-May, Hoffmann and Muhleisen (2018) about policy research. The authors explicitly indicate a lack of comparative publications from the Global South, in general, and from the Latin American region, specifically. This shortage of publications hinders the diffusion of knowledge and administrative solutions between the Global North and the Global South.

The expected benefit from this panel is the availability of a high-quality articles on policy analysis and research in the Latin American region, with a straightforward scope in providing the current state of PP in the region, its challenges and recommendations for policy and further research. This panel can be of interest for researchers and practitioners interested in public policy research and policy analysis in the region, as well as for those working with comparative Public Analysis in non-Spanish and non-Portuguese speaking countries.

Adopting a comparative perspective on public policy analysis and research (Geva-May et al., 2018; Walle & Brans, 2018), the panel proposes the following research question: What are the prevalent public policy analysis methods adopted by policymakers in the region? What are the prevalent policy research theories and frameworks adopted by scholars in the regions? What examples of idiosyncratic or genuine methods/frameworks of policy analysis or policy research have emerged in Latin America?

We welcome theoretical and empirical papers with a policy analysis or policy research perspective of regional comparative fashion or single country studies in Latin America. The following topics are of special interest: public policy analysis traditions (rationalist vs. argumentative policy analysis), policy design, policy evaluation, participation, deliberation, policy diffusion and circulation, advocacy coalition framework, punctuated equilibrium theory, genuine or idiosyncratic methods for policy analysis and policy research.