[Tps] APSA Public Policy Section

[Navdeep Mathur]

-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Schneider [mailto:Anne.Schneider at asu.edu]
Sent: dinsdag 23 oktober 2007 19:12
To: …
Subject: RE: APSA Public Policy Section.. call for articles / call for
papers & update



Greetings colleagues!





 The Policy Studies Journal inviting submissions of "synthetic review
articles" on important policy themes.  This looks like a wonderful
addition to PSJ that will provide broad-based overviews of the
scholarship in a given area.  They are offering $250 for successful
peer-reviewed submissions! If you have any questions about articles or
would like to discuss writing a review article, please contact Dorothy
Daley at daley at ku.edu or 785 864 9839.



 The second is a call for papers that will be especially interesting
to young scholars  focusing on welfare reform.  The conference is a
small interdisciplinary one in Sweden, next August.  The conference is
arranged by The Ratio Institute, an independent research institute in
Stockholm. Further information can be found on www.ratio.se.



Also, remember that the deadline for proposals to rejuvenate Policy
Currents is Nov. 2 – next Friday (see note below).


Some of you still need to renew your policy section membership.  Renew
your section membership at this link.
https://www.apsanet.org/services/personal.cfm?opt=os




Would you like to help with (or participate in) a "teaching public
policy" workshop on Wednesday before the 2008 APSA meetings?  If so,
please contact R Kent Weaver at weaverrk at georgetown.edu.


We need nominations for the Best Paper or Poster given at the 2007
APSA conference (Chicago).  Send nominations to Joe White
joseph.white at case.edu


Do you know of someone deserving the Outstanding Mentor award for
2008?  If so, send nominating letters to Gary C Bryner
gary_bryner at byu.edu


What book would you like to see win the Wildavsky Award?  This is for
an outstanding book or article published in last ten to twenty years
that continues to influence the study of public policy.  Send
nominations to David Hedge dhedge at polisci.ufl.edu




Make plans now to attend 2008 APSA, Boston!  . To learn more about the
conference and deadlines for submitting papers, contact:
https://www.apsanet.org/content_45470.cfm





Rejuvenating Policy Currents.  At the APSA this year, we discussed the
idea of rejuvenating Policy Currents as a web-based
newsletter/publication from the section.  We asked anyone who was
interested in taking this on to contact us.  As of this date, we have
one university that has expressed a serious interest, and want to
encourage them to develop a full proposal.  At the same time, however,
we also want to be sure this is an open process and find out if any
other university wants to be considered. If so, please notify
anne.schneider at asu.edu.  The basics of your proposal would include:

(a) A vision of how a web-based Policy Currents would serve the public
policy community of APSA and beyond,

(b) What the newsletter would contain (e.g., news, review articles,
program information, syllabi, job announcements, etc. or, how you
would go about deciding what should be included )

(c) Resources (funding, personnel, responsibilities, organization, etc.)

(d) Details (planning, timeline, frequency of updating, reviewing,
advisory board….

(e) Whether you also would be interested in and willing to sponsor the
public policy section's web page, or whether you believe that should
be separate.



Policy Section Web Page.  We need someone to develop and maintain the
web page for the policy section.  At this time, APSA will put things
up for us on our page, but we have no one responsible for updating,
adding to, making it interesting, and so on.  One possibility is that
this would be done in conjunction with Policy Currents since there
would be a fair amount of overlap.  However, we are open to all
suggestions here.



Please send inquiries, questions or proposals to
anne.schneider at asu.edu. Proposals are due by Friday, November 2.



Hope everyone is having a great week!





Anne L. Schneider, President, APSA Public Policy Section and

Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry and

Dean Emeritus, College of Public Programs



"Never do something routine when you can do something truly special"