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2019 Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration 11-13 September 2019 PhD Symposium 9-10 September 2019 EGPA Permanent Study Group XIII: Public Policy Call-for-Papers
Frontiers of policy implementation research in the 21st century The EGPA Permanent Study Group on Public Policy provides a platform for the study of public policy in the context of public administration. Its main purpose is to develop and strengthen the ties between the fields of public administration/public management and political science/public policy by bringing scholars from these fields together. This purpose implies that special attention is given to implementation theory and research. The EGPA-website features a mission statement of the Permanent Study Group XIII on Public Policy. After a successful launch in 2010 (Toulouse) and a continued range of workshops held in the successive years, the Study Group will have its tent meeting at the 2019 EGPA conference in Belfast. The topic of this year’s call for papers is to explore the frontiers of policy implementation research in the 21st century and connect the dots between different strands of contemporary salience. Workshop 2019 theme: Frontiers of policy implementation research in the 21st century With the turn to the 21st century, policy implementation has demonstrated substantial progress both in practice and in research (Saetren 2014; Treib 2014; Saetren and Hupe 2018). In practice, implementation arrangements have become more varied, diverse and complex, designed in governance settings that are multi-layered (Dörrenbächer and Mastenbroek 2017; Thomann and Sager 2017), networked and/ or electronic (Buffat 2015), while involving actors from the public, private and third sector (Cohen et al. 2016; Thomann et al. 2018). In accordance, implementation research has further fragmented into multiple branches of inquiry (O’Toole 2000; Saetren 2014), which refer to different dimensions and phases of implementation, including street-level delivery (Gofen 2013; Harrits and Moller 2014; Zacka 2018), co-delivery of policy-clients (Lavee et al. 2018; Nabatchi et al. 2017), social equity (Epp et al. 2017; Harrits 2018; Terum et al. 2017), street-level management (Gassner and Gofen 2018), multi-government implementation (Thomann 2019; Zhelyazkova et al. 2018), behavioural perspectives on street-level bureaucracy (van Engen et al. 2018), and, in general, management as replacing implementation (Brodkin 2011). Advances in research designs and methodologies (as envisioned by Goggin et al. 1990) are also evidenced, introducing methods such as experiments (de Boer et al. 2018) and vignette (Harrits 2018; Terum et al. 2017), longitudinal comparative research designs (Saetren, 2015) as well as utilizing formal comparisons such as Qualitative Comparative Analysis (Thomann 2019). Though much has been attained, more could be achieved by bridging areas of explorations that are less likely to interact. Motivated to advance a more integrated and parsimonious theory of policy implementation the workshop of the Permanent Study Group XIII on Public Policy to be held at the EGPA 2019 conference is committed to theoretical and methodological pluralism and welcomes contributions from different conceptual frameworks, various analytic approaches, and diverse research designs that explore the current developments in policy implementation around the globe. Our aim is facilitating a wide-ranging discussion of the ways through which implementation influences and influenced by additional aspects of the policy domain including policy design, which is often kept as a separated line of research (Hinterleitner and Sager 2019). From a methodological perspective, our motivation is unfolding and linking the varied ways through which implementation is conceptualized
and operationalized in research. The workshop invites both experienced and junior researchers to
propose theory-based papers that shed light on implementation, either as formally designed or as in-
effect practiced; and explore the frontiers of current developments in policy implementation.
We are happy to announce two joint sessions in 2019. One joint session will be dedicated to Multilevel
Governance and will be organized with the EGPA Permanent Study Group XIV EU Administration and
Multi-Level Governance. The other joint session will be dedicated to “micro-mechanisms of frontline
policy implementation” and will be jointly organized with the EGPA Permanent Study Group XXII
Behavioural Public Administration.
Procedure
We kindly invite researchers interested in the workshop theme to submit a short abstract (max. two
pages) outlining:
▪ the title of the paper
▪ the argument and contents of the paper
▪ the research methods and empirical material used
▪ name, affiliation, and contact information of the author(s)
As the conference takes place in September 2019, the following deadlines apply:
▪ Upload abstracts through the submission website by March 15, 2019.Extended to April 15, 2019
▪ Deadline for decision and notification to the authors by May 15, 2019.
▪ Deadline for submitting the complete papers: August 12, 2019.
Practicalities
Please submit your abstract online through the Conference Website: https://www.egpa-
conference2019.org/ or directly through Conference Management System:
https://www.conftool.org/egpa-conference2019/ More information on the 2019 EGPA conference
can be found at: https://www.egpa-conference2019.org/Permanent Study Group XIII co-chairs:
Harald Sætren Eva Thomann Anat Gofen
Harald.satren@uib.no E.Thomann@exeter.ac.uk anat.gofen@mail.huji.ac.il
Department of Department of Federman School of Public
Administration and PoliticsUniversity of Exeter Policy and Governance
Organization Theory Hebrew University
Amory Building
University of Bergen
ISRAEL
Christiesgt.17, 5007 Bergen - Rennes Drive
NORWAY EX4 4RJ Exeter
UNITED KINGDOM
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Buffat, A. 2015. Street-level bureaucracy and e-government. Public Management Review 17(1): 149-
161.
Cohen, N., Benish, A. and A. Shamriz-Ilouz. 2016. When the Clients Can Choose: Dilemmas of Street-
Level Workers in Choice-Based Social Services. Social Service Review 90(4): 620-646.
de Boer, N., Eshuis, J. and E.H. Klijn 2018. Does Disclosure of Performance Information Influence
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Gofen, A. 2013. Mind the gap: Dimensions and influence of street-level divergence. Journal of Public
Administration Research and Theory 24(2): 473-493.
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Activation Programme? Evidence from a Vignette Experiment. Journal of Social Policy, doi:10.1017/
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Thomann, E., Hupe, P. and F. Sager. 2018. Serving Many Masters: Public Accountability in Private Policy
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