Public Policy Events in Latin America

SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS: ACTORES, OBJETIVOS Y CONFLICTOS EN LOS ÁMBITOS NACIONAL Y GLOBAL

LUNES 23 DE ENERO, 2023. SALA ALFONSO REYES DE EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO

TRANSIMISIÓN EN LÍNEA VÍA YOUTUBE: bit.ly/PoliticasPubColmex

ACADEMIC WRITING WORKSHOP PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND POLICY

February 22 to 25th, 2023 in Bogotá D.C., Colombia Universidad de los Andes

The Public Management Research Association (PMRA), in collaboration with Andes University (Colombia) and CIDE (Mexico) are pleased to invite you to its third Academic Writing Workshop. PMRA is one of the most active academic networks in the public administration field. PMRA is a nonprofit academic membership association that furthers research on public organizations which over the years has substantially increased in size and influence. The Public Management Research Association Conference has become the foremost gathering of leading public management scholars in the US and around the world. PMRA publishes the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART), one of the premier journals in the field, and Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (PPMG), which debuted in 2017.

For more information visit: https://gobierno.uniandes.edu.co/es/pmra-writing-workshop-2023/academic-writing-workshop-public-management-and-policy

6th International Conference on Public Policy

27-29 June 2023, Toronto, Canada

TO07 Policy Design

Panel Proposal “Policy Design at a Crossroad: The Problem of Institutional Consistency in Governance”

Chairs:

Guillaume Fontaine, FLACSO Ecuador, gfontaine@flacso.edu.ec

B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh, bgpeters@pitt.edu

The concept of policy design —both as a verb and a noun— refers simultaneously to a process and a product in order to underline the differences between non-design (the absence of decision), unconscious design (decision-making without a plan) and conscious design (decisionmaking based on policy learning). For the past four decades, the policy design framework has produced many different theories to assess the issues of causation, instrumentation, intervention and evaluation in decision-making and collective action. Causation is first and foremost related to problem structuring. Instrumentation commonly refers to the mobilization of state and private resources of information, regulation, finances and administrative organization. Evaluation is both about values and impact assessment, about what state and non-state actors consider “good” or “bad”, and how they assess the causal process conducting to policy outputs (policy instruments calibration) and outcomes (the ultimate result of the design process). Intervention combines coordination and policy style into a single entity: a governance mode.

This panel is dedicated to operationalizing the latter. At the crossroad of policy analysis and policy-making, of fundamental and applied research, the concept of intervention comes from the literature on public administration and democratic governance. In this panel we attempt to explore the relationship between policy design and institutional design. We invite scholars to present their research based on the following questions: How does policy design affect institutional consistency? How does institutional design affect policy outcomes? We welcome papers based on comparative policy analysis or within-case studies, to illustrate the conceptual and theoretical arguments made by their authors.

For more information and submit a paper, visit: https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp6-toronto-2023/panel-list/17/panel/policy-design-at-a-crossroad-the-problem-of-institutional-consistency-in-governance/1357

27th World Congress of Political Science

27o Congreso Mundial de Ciencia Política

15-19 JULY 2023 | BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

Politics in the Age of Transboundary Crises: Vulnerability and Resilience

Domestic and international politics are notably challenged by complex transboundary problems that include climate change, cyber terrorism, global migration flows, financial instability and the COVID-19 pandemic, among others. These problems are transboundary in the sense that they traverse state boundaries in an era of intense global connectivity. Disruptions in one part of the world quickly move around the globe through highly integrated global networks.

In order to investigate, understand and contribute to academic and public debates on these complex transboundary problems and opportunities, the discipline of political science needs conceptual lenses and theoretical approaches that span traditional disciplinary boundaries and cross over social, cultural, economic, religious, ethnic, sexual and linguistic delineations. Connecting theory and praxis is also important. Transboundary approaches are called for and these might include but are not limited to interdisciplinarity, sub-field pluralism and diversity of methodological approaches. We invite proposals for panels and roundtables on topics relevant to the theme using both domestic and international analytical lenses and focusing on multiple units of analysis that include citizens, social movements, political parties, leaders, public policies, states and IOs. We especially encourage international participation and collaboration by scholars across boundaries.

We invite you to participate in the panel RC30 Comparative Public Policy - Rethinking and Assessing Policy Change.

Convenor: Dr. Norma Muñoz del Campo.

Description: The main factors to explain policy change that have been discussed in the last decades have been related to different dimensions and approaches: advocacy coalitions, beliefs, and ideas; narratives and frames; policy networks, institutions, crises, and external shocks. Some critics state that these studies of change do not represent a coherent body of research and do not enshrine a concrete understanding concept of policy change. However, we stress here that these studies do provide ways to systematize and shape methods of measuring policy change that can be replicated. As such, we propose in this panel to discuss the explanatory power of the theories used so far to explain stasis and change from a comparative perspective. This panel encourages papers related to all types of policies and all regions of the world that connect ideas, institutions, interests, and contexts promoting the mixed-theory and mixed-factor frameworks from a comparative perspective to shape the analysis trying to measure change.

For more information and submit a paper, visit: https://wc2023.ipsa.org/wc/panel/rethinking-and-assessing-policy-change

América Latina y el Caribe: Pensar, Representar y Luchar por los Derechos

VANCOUVER, CANADA & VIRTUAL / MAY 24 – 27, 2023

En América Latina y el Caribe, la discusión sobre la democracia se ha generado en esferas de producción de conocimiento distanciadas, sea por su ubicación geográfica y/o por sus perspectivas teórico-metodológicas, incluyendo los posicionamientos ideológicos. De un lado, el análisis se ha centrado en las instituciones políticas y su desempeño, con énfasis en la democracia electoral. Del otro, el pensamiento crítico se ha centrado en denunciar los déficits del sistema representativo liberal: la persistente desigualdad social, la jerarquía racial, las asimétricas relaciones internacionales y/o el legado epistemológico colonial. Problemáticas como la de los desplazamientos humanos, la corrupción, la violencia y el populismo tienden a quedar subsumidas en posicionamientos ideológicos.

Esta es la encrucijada en que se encuentra la producción de conocimiento en la región: ¿Cómo preservar derechos cuando las instituciones no los garantizan? ¿Cómo hacerlos efectivos en contextos de elevada desigualdad? Si el estado-nación como lo conocemos no puede lidiar con estos y otros problemas ¿cuáles son las alternativas? Y ¿cuál es la capacidad de< América Latina y el Caribe para intervenir en un contexto global en donde la región parece cada vez menos relevante? Pensar, representar y luchar por los derechos implica también pensar los derechos de la naturaleza, y requiere abordar estas cuestiones desde una academia abierta a la interdisciplinariedad y a la presencia de otros saberes y otras voces. Implica la pasión por comprender a multitudes, movimientos sociales y actores de la sociedad civil, que además de los partidos y gobiernos representan y luchan por esos derechos. Una academia plural, que afronte la relación norte y sur, que supere enfoques dicotómicos, incorporando aportes del activismo sin renunciar a la autonomía necesaria para ejercer el pensamiento crítico y la convivencia de voces disidentes. La lucha por los derechos está intrínsecamente ligada a la lucha por una democracia más participativa, solidaria y de justicia social. Desde la academia debemos contribuir activamente a hacerla posible.

For more information visit: https://lasaweb.org/es/lasa2023/

XII Congreso ALACIP – ISCTE Lisboa 2024

Próximo Congreso será presencial en Lisboa en julio de 2024.

For more information visit: https://alacip.org/?p=44456

Schedule

Congress / activity	DATE AND LOCATION	SUGGESTED PANEL	LINK
Academic Writing Workshop public management and policy	February 22 - 25, 2023 - Bogota, Colombia		https://gobierno.uniandes.edu.co/es/pmra-writing-workshop-2023/academic-writing-workshop-public-management-and-policy
LASA 2023 – América Latina y el Caribe: pensar, repensar y luchar por los derechos	May 24 - 27, 2023 - Vancouver, Canada. On-site and online		https://lasaweb.org/es/lasa2023/
IPPA 2023 – 6th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP6)	June 27-29, 2023 - Toronto, Canada	T16P03 Public Policy Studies in Latin America: unveiling the region’s contribution to the field.	https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp6-toronto-2023/panel-list/17/panel/public-policy-studies-in-latin-america-unveiling-the-region-s-contribution-to-the-field/1395
IPSA 2023 - 27th World Congress of Political Science	July 15 - 19, 2023 - Buenos Aires, Argentina	RC30 Comparative Public Policy - Rethinking and Assessing Policy Change.	https://wc2023.ipsa.org/wc/panel/rethinking-and-assessing-policy-change
ALACIP 2024 – XII Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia Política	July 2024 - LisboA, Portugal		https://alacip.org/?p=44456
CLAD 2024 – XXVIII Congreso Internacional sobre la Reforma del Estado y de la Administración Pública	November 2024 (upcoming)		https://clad.org/