The Latin American School of Public Policy is organized into three different time slots during the day. 

All plenary lectures will be delivered in English. This edition offers three specialised courses. One course will be taught in English, one in Spanish, and one in Portuguese. As participants will attend only one of these courses, we strongly encourage you to read the course descriptions carefully and take the language of instruction into account when indicating your course preferences in your application.

MORNING LECTURES

Each morning from 9:00 to 10:00, all the participants will attend the morning lectures.

COURSES

From 10:00- to 12:00, the participants are divided into small groups of 10 to 15 persons and follow a course given by an international scholar. They have to choose between:

• • • Understanding Policy Implementation and Street-level bureaucracy by Gabriela Lotta [Portuguese-speaking course]
    • Public Policy Analysis by José Luis Mendes Martinez [Spanish-speaking course]
    • Studying the Policy Process: Theories and Methods by Evangelia Petridou [English-speaking course]

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP

The afternoon will be dedicated to a three-hour workshop on research design, during which participants will have the opportunity to present a paper for which they would like to receive constructive feedback from the other participants and the professor. This paper can be a doctoral thesis research project or a project of an article they would like to submit to a journal or present at a conference. The relevant size would be from 5.000 to 10.000 words and it must include a clear research question, a presentation of methodology, and some key arguments.

Participants who don't present a paper will discuss the papers presented with the professor. All the participants are expected to read the papers before the workshop to engage in constructive discussions.