The Center for Integrative Leadership and the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota seek paper proposals for a conference on what it means to create public value in a multi-sector, shared-power, no-one-wholly-in-charge world. Successfully addressing most major public challenges in today's world requires contributions from governments, businesses, nonprofit organizations, communities and/or other sectors – yet the effort to find effective solutions is often stymied by lack of knowledge or highly fractious politics and rigid ideological divides. So how do we get the good that these sectors have to offer, while minimizing or overcoming their characteristic weaknesses in such a way that public value is created and the common good is advanced?
 
Paper proposals are sought in two areas:
 
1. Studies that highlight how public value is or is not created. Studies should illuminate how various sectors and instrument or tools are used to advance (or not) public values and the theory that accounts for the results. The studies will provide theoretical backing and concrete grounding for thinking about the achievement of public values.

2. Approaches to discerning, measuring, and assessing public values and the ways of creating them.
 
Submission process and due dates
 
Abstracts should be submitted by February 3, 2012. Authors will be notified by February 24, 2012 whether their proposals have been selected for development as full-blown papers. The due date for final submissions is August 15, 2012. Authors of paper abstracts selected for development into full papers will be invited to present their research at the conference scheduled for September 20 - 22, 2012 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. After the conference, papers will go through a standard blind review process as a requirement for publication in the special issue of Public Administration Review to appear in 2014. An edited book is a likely additional conference outcome.
 
Submissions should be sent electronically to CIL@umn.edu with the subject line: Creating Public Value Submission. Questions about appropriate topics and methodology should be directed to John Bryson (jmbryson@umn.edu or 612-625-5888).
 
Link to pdf of full call for papers:   http://www.leadership.umn.edu/documents/CreatingPublicValueCall-13Oct2011.pdf
 
 
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Laura Bloomberg, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Center for Integrative Leadership
University of Minnesota
301 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55455   
        email: bloom004@umn.edu
        phone: 612.625.0608

www.leadership.umn.edu

Call for Papers

International Conference on

Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice:

Looking Backward and Moving Forward

November 16-18, 2014

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Program Committee

James Perry, Editor-in-Chief, Public Administration Review &

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana University (perry@indiana.edu)

Ma Jun, Professor & Director, National Chinese Public Administration

Research Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, China (junma2002@hotmail.com)

Hon Chan, Professor, City University of Hong Kong (sahschan@cityu.edu.hk)

M. Jae Moon, Professor, Yonsei University (mjaemoon@gmail.com)

The Program Committee invites submission of quality paper proposals for the International Conference on "Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice," which will be held in Guangzhou, China on November 16-18, 2014 in celebration of Public Administration Review's 75^th as well as Sun Yat-Sen University's 90^th Anniversaries. The committee is interested in significant, original, and rigorous papers that discuss theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and opportunities particularly in the age of austerity, complexity, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.

Public administration as a field has become theoretically more interdisciplinary and methodologically more rigorous, while the practice of public administration has been evolving in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. Responding to growing demand for new theoretical frameworks as well as innovative, interactive, and interdependent policy tools, the conference aims at offering an intellectually challenging and practically relevant opportunity for both scholars and practitioners.

All accepted papers will be compiled and published on the conference website.  Plenary papers and others presented in the conference will be published in a themed issue of PAR in 2016 after regular peer-review. Theory-driven, empirical or practically relevant research papers are welcome. Research topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

• New challenges to public administration in the age of austerity and uncertainty
• Citizen participation and governance
• Quality of government and government performance
• Collaborative government in a networked society: opportunities and challenges
• Improving theories and methods in public administration research
• Transparency, openness and accountability in the public sector
• Applications of new technologies for emerging public administration problems
• Measuring public value
• Revisiting professionalism, public values, and ethics in the public sector
• Searching for new institutional design for emerging policy challenges in energy, environment, water, disaster management

Both individual paper proposals and panel proposals are welcome. Proposals must be submitted electronically to Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com by March 1, 2014. Individual paper proposals should be no more one page and include paper title, author name(s) and institutional affiliations, contact details, and brief description of paper, while panel proposals should be no more than three pages and include panel title, names of panel chair and authors, institutional affiliations, and short description of the panel papers. Individuals are neither allowed to submit more than two proposals nor present two papers (regardless of singled or coauthored papers).

The primary author will be emailed the notification of acceptance or rejection by April 30, 2014. Completed papers are expected to be submitted to the Program Committee by October 15, 2014.

Sun Yat-sen University will provide presenters with accommodation and meals up to three nights. No conference registration fee will be charged.

Any questions regarding the conference may be sent to Dr. Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com or any of program committee members via email.

Conference Venue

Sun Yat-sen University was founded in 1924 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a great democratic revolutionary leader of the 20th century. The University is located in Guangdong Province, an area neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, which is at the forefront of China's reform and opening up. Being one of the leading universities in the People's Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen University is one of the leading universities with about 83,633 students studying on four campuses in Guangzhou and Zhuhai. Benefiting from its location near Hong Kong and Macao and the regional advantage of opening and economic development, the university has become an important base for training high-level talents, scientific research, providing services to society and inheriting cultural traditions. According to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking for 2010-2011, Sun Yat-sen University was ranked in the top 200 in the world.

Call for Papers

International Conference on

Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice:

Looking Backward and Moving Forward

November 16-18, 2014

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Program Committee

James Perry, Editor-in-Chief, Public Administration Review &

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana University (perry@indiana.edu)

Ma Jun, Professor & Director, National Chinese Public Administration

Research Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, China (junma2002@hotmail.com)

Hon Chan, Professor, City University of Hong Kong (sahschan@cityu.edu.hk)

M. Jae Moon, Professor, Yonsei University (mjaemoon@gmail.com)

The Program Committee invites submission of quality paper proposals for the International Conference on "Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice," which will be held in Guangzhou, China on November 16-18, 2014 in celebration of Public Administration Review's 75^th as well as Sun Yat-Sen University's 90^th Anniversaries. The committee is interested in significant, original, and rigorous papers that discuss theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and opportunities particularly in the age of austerity, complexity, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.

Public administration as a field has become theoretically more interdisciplinary and methodologically more rigorous, while the practice of public administration has been evolving in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. Responding to growing demand for new theoretical frameworks as well as innovative, interactive, and interdependent policy tools, the conference aims at offering an intellectually challenging and practically relevant opportunity for both scholars and practitioners.

All accepted papers will be compiled and published on the conference website.  Plenary papers and others presented in the conference will be published in a themed issue of PAR in 2016 after regular peer-review. Theory-driven, empirical or practically relevant research papers are welcome. Research topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

• New challenges to public administration in the age of austerity and uncertainty
• Citizen participation and governance
• Quality of government and government performance
• Collaborative government in a networked society: opportunities and challenges
• Improving theories and methods in public administration research
• Transparency, openness and accountability in the public sector
• Applications of new technologies for emerging public administration problems
• Measuring public value
• Revisiting professionalism, public values, and ethics in the public sector
• Searching for new institutional design for emerging policy challenges in energy, environment, water, disaster management

Both individual paper proposals and panel proposals are welcome. Proposals must be submitted electronically to Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com by March 1, 2014. Individual paper proposals should be no more one page and include paper title, author name(s) and institutional affiliations, contact details, and brief description of paper, while panel proposals should be no more than three pages and include panel title, names of panel chair and authors, institutional affiliations, and short description of the panel papers. Individuals are neither allowed to submit more than two proposals nor present two papers (regardless of singled or coauthored papers).

The primary author will be emailed the notification of acceptance or rejection by April 30, 2014. Completed papers are expected to be submitted to the Program Committee by October 15, 2014.

Sun Yat-sen University will provide presenters with accommodation and meals up to three nights. No conference registration fee will be charged.

Any questions regarding the conference may be sent to Dr. Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com or any of program committee members via email.

Conference Venue

Sun Yat-sen University was founded in 1924 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a great democratic revolutionary leader of the 20th century. The University is located in Guangdong Province, an area neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, which is at the forefront of China's reform and opening up. Being one of the leading universities in the People's Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen University is one of the leading universities with about 83,633 students studying on four campuses in Guangzhou and Zhuhai. Benefiting from its location near Hong Kong and Macao and the regional advantage of opening and economic development, the university has become an important base for training high-level talents, scientific research, providing services to society and inheriting cultural traditions. According to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking for 2010-2011, Sun Yat-sen University was ranked in the top 200 in the world.

Call for Papers

International Conference on

Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice:

Looking Backward and Moving Forward

November 16-18, 2014

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Program Committee

James Perry, Editor-in-Chief, Public Administration Review &

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana University (perry@indiana.edu)

Ma Jun, Professor & Director, National Chinese Public Administration

Research Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, China (junma2002@hotmail.com)

Hon Chan, Professor, City University of Hong Kong (sahschan@cityu.edu.hk)

M. Jae Moon, Professor, Yonsei University (mjaemoon@gmail.com)

The Program Committee invites submission of quality paper proposals for the International Conference on "Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice," which will be held in Guangzhou, China on November 16-18, 2014 in celebration of Public Administration Review's 75^th as well as Sun Yat-Sen University's 90^th Anniversaries. The committee is interested in significant, original, and rigorous papers that discuss theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and opportunities particularly in the age of austerity, complexity, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.

Public administration as a field has become theoretically more interdisciplinary and methodologically more rigorous, while the practice of public administration has been evolving in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. Responding to growing demand for new theoretical frameworks as well as innovative, interactive, and interdependent policy tools, the conference aims at offering an intellectually challenging and practically relevant opportunity for both scholars and practitioners.

All accepted papers will be compiled and published on the conference website.  Plenary papers and others presented in the conference will be published in a themed issue of PAR in 2016 after regular peer-review. Theory-driven, empirical or practically relevant research papers are welcome. Research topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

• New challenges to public administration in the age of austerity and uncertainty
• Citizen participation and governance
• Quality of government and government performance
• Collaborative government in a networked society: opportunities and challenges
• Improving theories and methods in public administration research
• Transparency, openness and accountability in the public sector
• Applications of new technologies for emerging public administration problems
• Measuring public value
• Revisiting professionalism, public values, and ethics in the public sector
• Searching for new institutional design for emerging policy challenges in energy, environment, water, disaster management

Both individual paper proposals and panel proposals are welcome. Proposals must be submitted electronically to Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com by March 1, 2014. Individual paper proposals should be no more one page and include paper title, author name(s) and institutional affiliations, contact details, and brief description of paper, while panel proposals should be no more than three pages and include panel title, names of panel chair and authors, institutional affiliations, and short description of the panel papers. Individuals are neither allowed to submit more than two proposals nor present two papers (regardless of singled or coauthored papers).

The primary author will be emailed the notification of acceptance or rejection by April 30, 2014. Completed papers are expected to be submitted to the Program Committee by October 15, 2014.

Sun Yat-sen University will provide presenters with accommodation and meals up to three nights. No conference registration fee will be charged.

Any questions regarding the conference may be sent to Dr. Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com or any of program committee members via email.

Conference Venue

Sun Yat-sen University was founded in 1924 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a great democratic revolutionary leader of the 20th century. The University is located in Guangdong Province, an area neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, which is at the forefront of China's reform and opening up. Being one of the leading universities in the People's Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen University is one of the leading universities with about 83,633 students studying on four campuses in Guangzhou and Zhuhai. Benefiting from its location near Hong Kong and Macao and the regional advantage of opening and economic development, the university has become an important base for training high-level talents, scientific research, providing services to society and inheriting cultural traditions. According to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking for 2010-2011, Sun Yat-sen University was ranked in the top 200 in the world.

CALL FOR PAPERS  -  SYMPOSIUM

Towards an Experimental Public Administration

DEADLINE: 15 October 2014

Symposium Guest Editors

Sebastian Jilke (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Steven Van de Walle (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Soonhee Kim (KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Republic of Korea)

            Experiments in the social sciences typically involve two main attributes: randomization and manipulation. By this, researchers hope to estimate the causal effect of a given manipulable treatment (versus no treatment) - to which experimental subjects are randomly allocated - on a given outcome (for example the effect of performance-related-pay on work motivation). While such a research strategy certainly comes with new challenges, it provides a clear-cut solution to empirical problems of endogeneity (such as reverse-causality, omitted variable bias, or selection bias) that seem endemic in a survey-oriented discipline like public administration. In doing so, an experimental research agenda can provide robust answers to old questions that are of theoretical importance, such as the test of an extended version of Niskanen's budget maximization model (Moynihan, 2013), the effect of governmental performance information and transparency on citizen's voting behavior and trust (Grimmelikhuijsen et al., 2013; James, 2011), or on the relationship between public service motivation and job performance (Bellé, 2013). In other words, if well designed, experiments enrich the methodological toolbox of public administration research and help to increase usable knowledge. Thus it is not surprising that recent calls in the discipline have been made to more frequently experiment (e.g. Perry, 2012; Wright and Grant, 2010).

            The use of experiments in public administration is slowly increasing. While commentators have indeed noted that experiments are nowadays more often utilized within the discipline (Bouwman and Grimmelikhuijsen, 2014), public administration still lags behind neighbouring fields such as psychology, political science, economics, or management studies (see Van de Walle and Van Ryzin, 2011). The lag may be particularly related to the fact that public administration has no experimental tradition and a limited overall acquaintance among students of public administration with the utilization of experiments. Thus, the envisaged symposium aims to provide an overview of a broad range of experiments within public administration, hoping to contribute to the development of an experimental tradition in public administration. It furthermore seeks to provide encouragement and inspiration for public administration scholars to more frequently experiment within the studies they conduct.

            Papers are encouraged to apply a wide range of experimental methods (e.g. survey experiments, field experiments, laboratory experiments, but also quasi-experimental approaches), designs (e.g. multi-factorial designs, blocked randomization designs, within-subjects designs, or split ballots) and analytical techniques (e.g. Difference-in-Difference estimators, regression discontinuities, causal mediation analysis) to substantive fields of interest in public administration. Submissions of meta-analyses of experimental evidence and critical review essays about experiments are also encouraged.

            Manuscripts should be submitted by 15 October 2014 to the coordinating guest editor at jilke@fsw.eur.nl. After a first round of screening, selected authors will be invited to submit their manuscript directly to PAR's Editorial Manager System. All manuscripts will be double-blind reviewed via PAR's Editorial Manager System. A final decision on papers will be made by the journal after full peer review. Author's should follow PAR's style guidelines.

References

Bellé, Nicola (2013). Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Public Service Motivation and Job Performance. Public Administration Review, 73(1): 143-153.

Bouwman, Robin and Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen (2014). Reviewing experimental public administration research: the emergence of a hybrid tradition. Paper presented at the 2014 IRSPM conference in Ottawa.

Grimmelikhuijsen, Stephan; Porumbescu, Gregory; Hong, Boram and Tobin Im (2013). The Effect of Transparency on Trust in Government: A Cross-National Comparative Experiment. Public Administration Review 73(4): 575-586.

James, Oliver (2011). Performance Measures and Democracy: Information Effects of Citizens in Field and Laboratory Experiments. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 21(3): 399-418.

Moynihan, Donald P. (2013). Does Public Service Motivation Lead to Budget Maximization? Evidence from an Experiment. International Public Management Journal 16(2): 179-196.

Perry, James L. (2012). How Can We Improve Our Science to Generate More Usable Knowledge for Public Professionals? Public Administration Review 72(4): 479-482.

Van de Walle, Steven and Gregg G. Van Ryzin (2011). The Order of Questions in a Survey on Citizen Satisfaction with Public Services: Lessons from a Split-ballot Experiment. Public Administration 89(4): 1436-1450.

Wright, Bradley E. and Adam M. Grant (2010). Unanswered Questions about Public Service Motivation: Designing Research to Address Key Issues of Emergence and Effects. Public Administration Review, 70(5): 691-700.

CALL FOR PAPERS - SYMPOSIUM

Towards an Experimental Public Administration

DEADLINE: 15 October 2014

Symposium Guest Editors

Sebastian Jilke (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Steven Van de Walle (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Soonhee Kim (KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Republic of Korea)

            Experiments in the social sciences typically involve two main attributes: randomization and manipulation. By this, researchers hope to estimate the causal effect of a given manipulable treatment (versus no treatment) - to which experimental subjects are randomly allocated - on a given outcome (for example the effect of performance-related-pay on work motivation). While such a research strategy certainly comes with new challenges, it provides a clear-cut solution to empirical problems of endogeneity (such as reverse-causality, omitted variable bias, or selection bias) that seem endemic in a survey-oriented discipline like public administration. In doing so, an experimental research agenda can provide robust answers to old questions that are of theoretical importance, such as the test of an extended version of Niskanen's budget maximization model (Moynihan, 2013), the effect of governmental performance information and transparency on citizen's voting behavior and trust (Grimmelikhuijsen et al., 2013; James, 2011), or on the relationship between public service motivation and job performance (Bellé, 2013). In other words, if well designed, experiments enrich the methodological toolbox of public administration research and help to increase usable knowledge. Thus it is not surprising that recent calls in the discipline have been made to more frequently experiment (e.g. Perry, 2012; Wright and Grant, 2010).

            The use of experiments in public administration is slowly increasing. While commentators have indeed noted that experiments are nowadays more often utilized within the discipline (Bouwman and Grimmelikhuijsen, 2014), public administration still lags behind neighbouring fields such as psychology, political science, economics, or management studies (see Van de Walle and Van Ryzin, 2011). The lag may be particularly related to the fact that public administration has no experimental tradition and a limited overall acquaintance among students of public administration with the utilization of experiments. Thus, the envisaged symposium aims to provide an overview of a broad range of experiments within public administration, hoping to contribute to the development of an experimental tradition in public administration. It furthermore seeks to provide encouragement and inspiration for public administration scholars to more frequently experiment within the studies they conduct.

            Papers are encouraged to apply a wide range of experimental methods (e.g. survey experiments, field experiments, laboratory experiments, but also quasi-experimental approaches), designs (e.g. multi-factorial designs, blocked randomization designs, within-subjects designs, or split ballots) and analytical techniques (e.g., Difference-in-Difference estimators, regression discontinuities, causal mediation analysis) to substantive fields of interest in public administration. Submissions of meta-analyses of experimental evidence and critical review essays about experiments are also encouraged.

            Manuscripts should be submitted by 15 October 2014 to the coordinating guest editor at jilke@fsw.eur.nl. After a first round of screening, selected authors will be invited to submit their manuscript directly to PAR's Editorial Manager System. All manuscripts will be double-blind reviewed via PAR's Editorial Manager System. A final decision on papers will be made by the journal after full peer review. Authors should follow PAR's style guidelines.

References

Bellé, Nicola (2013). Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Public Service Motivation and Job Performance. Public Administration Review, 73(1): 143-153.

Bouwman, Robin and Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen (2014). Reviewing experimental public administration research: the emergence of a hybrid tradition. Paper presented at the 2014 IRSPM conference in Ottawa.

Grimmelikhuijsen, Stephan; Porumbescu, Gregory; Hong, Boram and Tobin Im (2013). The Effect of Transparency on Trust in Government: A Cross-National Comparative Experiment. Public Administration Review 73(4): 575-586.

James, Oliver (2011). Performance Measures and Democracy: Information Effects of Citizens in Field and Laboratory Experiments. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 21(3): 399-418.

Moynihan, Donald P. (2013). Does Public Service Motivation Lead to Budget Maximization? Evidence from an Experiment. International Public Management Journal 16(2): 179-196.

Perry, James L. (2012). How Can We Improve Our Science to Generate More Usable Knowledge for Public Professionals? Public Administration Review 72(4): 479-482.

Van de Walle, Steven and Gregg G. Van Ryzin (2011). The Order of Questions in a Survey on Citizen Satisfaction with Public Services: Lessons from a Split-ballot Experiment. Public Administration 89(4): 1436-1450.

Wright, Bradley E. and Adam M. Grant (2010). Unanswered Questions about Public Service Motivation: Designing Research to Address Key Issues of Emergence and Effects. Public Administration Review, 70(5): 691-700.

CALL FOR PAPERS – SYMPOSIUM

Leadership and Entrepreneurial Behavior in Turbulent Times

Guest Editors

§  Rómulo Pinheiro, University of Agder, Norway

§  Hugo Horta, University of Hong Kong, China

§  David Charles, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

The current socio-economic period is characterized by a series of "nested crises." There is a crisis of market confidence, reflected on the reluctance by public and private sectors alike to embark on bold financial investments in the face of future volatility and uncertainty (Fidler 2010). There is a crisis of democracy, substantiated in the low turn-out rates in local and national elections in recent times (Porcaro 2013). There is a crisis of accountability, with citizens raising critical questions regarding the interplay between personal privacy and collective security (Lomas 2013). There is a crisis of government and governance, reflected in the inability of state-run institutions to adequately respond to the new set of social and economic demands characterizing the knowledge economy, in both its first (Benner 2003) and second (Rutten & Boekema 2012) versions.

Concurrently, many argue, there is also a crisis of leadership, particularly across the public sector, with potential debilitating social and economic effects across the board; from welfare to education to security to the environment (cf. Boin and Hart 2003; Boin, et al. 2005). Governmental agencies are being pressured "to do more with less" and to change the ways in which structural arrangements, rules, standard operating procedures, and relations with key stakeholders have traditionally been conceived (Christensen & Lægreid 2011).

Recent studies following the (neo)institutional tradition within the social sciences-particularly within organizational sociology, political science, and economics (Greenwood, et. al 2008; Peters 2005; Williamson 1985)-have shed light on the criticality of institutional entrepreneurs in infusing new ways of organizing work within organizations. This has effectively changed behaviors at both the meso- and micro-levels, and on some occasions, changed the "rules of the game" as well (Beckert 1999; Bercovitz & Feldman 2008; Powell & Colyvas 2008; Battilana, et al. 2009). However, changing behaviors is easier said than done, with numerous accounts suggesting the considerable resilience (inertia) of organizations, particularly those operating within highly institutionalized environments (Zucker 1991; Benner & Sandström 2000), as is the case of the public sector (Chistensen & Lægredi 2011).

Given this new state of affairs, to what extent are formal leaders and/or institutional entrepreneurs across the public sector-schools, universities, hospitals, local government, ministries, security agencies-forging ahead with significant innovative solutions to pending problems that, on the whole, are capable of changing the internal fabric of the organizations (cf. Thompson 2008) and the organizational fields (DiMaggio & Powell 1983) they inhabit? More importantly, what lessons can be learned-regarding the future of public leadership on the one hand and of institutional entrepreneurship on the other-from critically assessing ongoing developments across the European public sector and beyond at a time of acute financial stringency, serious legitimacy crisis, and the gradual erosion of public trust on the capacity of government to deal with a rapidly changing society and economy?

Hence, we appeal to colleagues emanating from various sub-disciplinary fields within the social sciences-political scientists, organizational sociologists, public policy and administration researchers-with a keen interest in exploring, both critically and comparatively, the changing nature of public sector governance, leadership and entrepreneurial behavior from a global perspective. We are particularly interested in research that sheds light on the ways in which agents (individuals or groups) move beyond the structural constraints posed by their institutional environments as a means of "reinventing the rules of the game" against which public sector governance takes place. More specifically, we would be particularly keen to explore, albeit not exclusively, the following topics:

·         The ways in which formal and informal leaders within public organizations balance the need for adaptation to emerging circumstances (i.e., innovation) while at the same time maintaining a sense of stability in structures, work procedures, norms, and identities;

·         The complex interplay between top-down orientations towards change and innovation and more bottom-up initiatives based on informal ties and network arrangements;

·         The extent to which internal (organizational) and external (environment) structural constraints (rules and regulations, professional norms, and incentive systems) enable or constrain strategic initiatives by change agents or so-called "institutional entrepreneurs";

·         The importance attributed to critical dimensions such as accountability, efficiency, equity, and trust during processes of internal adaptation and transformation;

·         The short- and long-term effects of institutional innovations on public organizations and the nature of the public sector as a whole;

·         The extent to which institutional innovation across the public sector is resulting in new forms of competition as well as in collaboration both within and across sectors of the economy;

·         The ways in which formal leaders mediate internal tensions arising from the co- existence of conflicting policy- and institutional-logics (e.g., market vs. public good), including the importance attributed to hybrid managerial approaches.

Draft manuscripts should be submitted by 31 January 2015 to the coordinating guest editor at romulo.m.pinheiro@uia.no. Following the first round of screening, selected authors will be invited to revise their manuscripts and to resubmit the final versions directly via the journal's online system by 31 May 2015. All manuscripts will then be double blind reviewed using the journal's Editorial Manager System. Invitation to submit a revised manuscript should not be seen as acceptance for publication by the journal, and the final decision on papers will be made by the journal after full peer review. Manuscripts should contain no more than 7,500 words, including abstract, endnotes, and references. Tables, figures, charts, and appendices should be excluded from the word count. All material should be 12-point, Times New Roman type, double-spaced, with margins of one inch. The citation and referencing format is the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition. For further details on formatting requirements, please consult the journal's author guidelines.

References

Battilana, J., Leca, B., & Boxenbaum, E. (2009). How Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship. The Academy of Management Annals, 3(1), 65-107. doi: 10.1080/19416520903053598.

Beckert, J. (1999). Agency, entrepreneurs, and institutional change: The role of strategic choice and institutionalized practices in organizations. Organization Studies, 20(5), 777-799.

Benner, M. (2003). The Scandinavian Challenge: The Future of Advanced Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy. Acta Sociologica, 46(2), 132-149. doi: 10.1177/0001699303046002004

Benner, M., & Sandström, U. (2000). Inertia and change in Scandinavian public-sector research systems: the case of biotechnology. Science and Public Policy, 27(6), 443-454. doi: 10.3152/147154300781781706

Bercovitz, J., & Feldman, M. (2008). Academic Entrepreneurs: Organizational Change at the Individual Level. Organization Science, 19(1), 69-89. doi: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0295

Boin, A., & Hart, P. t. (2003). Public Leadership in Times of Crisis: Mission Impossible? Public Administration Review, 63(5), 544-553. doi: 10.1111/1540-6210.00318.

Boin, A., Hart, P, Stern, E., Sundelius, B. (Ed.). (2005). The politics of crisis management: Public leadership under pressure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Christensen, T., & Lægreid, P. (2011). The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management. Surrey: Ashgate.

DiMaggio, P., and Powell, W. (1983). "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields." American Sociological Review, 48(2), 147-160.

Fidler, S. (2010). 'Crisis Without Borders: Europe's Contagion Woes Illustrate How a Lack of Market Confidence Spreads.' The Wall Street Journal, 26th November. Online at: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704638304575637003178788146

Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Sahlin, K., and Suddaby, R. (2008). The SAGE handbook of organizational institutionalism, London: SAGE.

Lomas, N. (2013). 'Post-Snowden, U.K. Parliamentary Committee to Probe Individual Privacy vs. National Security.' Techcrunch, October 17. Online at: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/17/isc-  gchq-probe/

Peters, B. G. (2005). Institutional Theory in Political Science. 2nd Edition: The New Institutionalism, London and New York: Continuum.

Porcaro, G. (2013). 'Youth turnout at European elections is 'alarmingly low' and could get worse.' The Parliament.com, October 29. Online at: http://www.theparliament.com/latest-  news/article/newsarticle/youth-turnout-at-european-elections-is-alarmingly-low-and-could-get-  worse/

Powell, W., & Colyvas, J. (2008). Microfoundations of institutional theory. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, K. Sahlin & R. Suddaby (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of organizational institutionalism (pp. 276-298). London: Sage.

Rutten, R., & Boekema, F. (2012). "From Learning Region to Learning in a Socio-spatial Context." Regional Studies, 46(8), 981-992.

Thompson, J. D. (2008). Organizations in action: social science bases of administrative theory, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.

Williamson, O. (1985). Reflections on the new institutional economics. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 141(1), 187-195.

Zucker, L. G. (1991). The role of institutionalization in cultural persistence. In W. W. Powell & P. DiMaggio (Eds.), The New institutionalism in organizational analysis (pp. 83-107). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW

Call for Papers

Symposium: Interlocal Collaboration and Horizontal Regional Governance: An International Perspective

António Tavares (University of Minho, Portugal) and Bin Chen (Baruch College/CUNY & Tongji University), Guest Editors

Local governments around the world have increasingly encountered the public policy challenges spanning across multiple jurisdictions. They have dealt with problems of regional significance in a variety of ways. There is a long tradition of studying intergovernmental collaboration and regional governance in the North America. The number of scholarly contributions to this lively debate in the US and Canada contrasts with the paucity of theoretical attention and empirical investigation of self-organizing solutions for regional governance outside the North American context.

Consolidation or amalgamation of local governments as a top-down approach remains popular in many places. Yet many bottom-up and voluntary solutions to regional collective action dilemmas have emerged as viable alternatives, including networks, interlocal service agreements and public-private partnership arrangements. They are not well understood outside the U.S. context.

We seek a broad range of manuscripts that explore the use of horizontal, collaborative and voluntary solutions to collective action dilemmas across regions and metropolitan areas around the world. Informal networks, inter-local collaborative arrangements or associations of municipalities are examples of policy instruments designed to address problems of regional governance in many policy areas, including economic development, environmental sustainability, transportation and urban planning, land use management, etc.

Qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method studies with proven or potential capability to advance the state of research in the field of Public Administration will be considered for selection. Comparative articles are especially welcome.

Manuscripts are due no later than January 31, 2016 to the coordinating guest editors at atavares@eeg.uminho.pt  and bin.chen@baruch.cuny.edu. After initial screening, authors of selected manuscripts will be invited to submit directly to PAR's Editorial Manager for double blind review, with final decisions regarding publication being made by PAR's editors. All authors should comply with PAR's style guidelines.

Public Administration Review, the premier professional journal in the field of public administration, will publish a symposium entitled, Coping with Policy Complexity in the Globalized World, featuring the best papers presented at the HKU-USC-IPPA Conference on Public Policy.  

Guest editors for the symposium are Professor Wai Fung (Danny) Lam, Professor B. Guy Peters and Professor Shui-yan Tang.  Papers submitted for publication will be reviewed using PAR's rigorous peer review process.  Theory-driven, empirical or practically relevant research papers are welcome.

The HKU-USC-IPPA Conference on Public Policy will take place on June 10 and 11, 2016 in Hong Kong. The Conference is co-sponsored by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong, Sol Price School of Public Policy of University of Southern California and International Public Policy Association. The deadline to submit paper proposals is January 30, 2016.  To submit your paper proposal and to find out more about the conference please visit: http://www.socsc.hku.hk/cpphk/

Public Administration Review

Call for Papers

Symposium: Using Administrative Data for Social Policy Research

Guest Editors

Nicole Constance and Anna Solmeyer (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation)

Accountability for federal and state health and human service programs to affect outcomes for participants and society has increased. To track service utilization and demonstrate progress toward outcomes, many federal and state programs collect data. There is a growing understanding of the promise of these administrative data for research and evaluation. Improvements in technology and statistical methods make it possible to access and analyze these data for research purposes. Recently, attention has turned to the potential for using these data to inform policy and program evaluation. As outlined in The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo M-14-06, Guidance for Providing and Using Administrative Data for Statistical Purposes, there are high-quality and reliable data that can provide the foundation for research and evaluation to help understand how public needs are changing, how well policy and programs are addressing those needs, and where greater progress could be made. 

An advantage of using administrative data for research is that agencies collect the data as part of their regular procedures. This means that data can be obtained from large populations over time without fielding a survey, which can be expensive and burdensome for respondents. In addition, agencies stand to benefit from research that can inform their decisions about policies and programs. There are many innovative ways to capitalize on administrative data, including longitudinal follow-ups and analyses (both of administrative data only or combining with survey data), conducting experiments by using existing systems such as lotteries to randomly assign individuals to services, and linking datasets from different agencies to understand service utilization and outcomes across a variety of domains. However, there are many challenges in using administrative data for research and evaluation purposes, including difficulty gaining access to the data, concerns about privacy and confidentiality, linking across data sources, data quality, and unique analytic issues.

                For this symposium, we seek a broad range of submissions that can further our understanding of the promises and challenges of using administrative data for research. Manuscripts may address questions such as:

·         What are the challenges around gaining access to administrative data, including governance and concerns about privacy, and what are some strategies for addressing them?

·         What are some strategies for creating successful partnerships between data custodians and researchers?

·         How can we build partnerships between research and state or local program administrators to ensure that administrative data they collect are useful for both service providers and researchers? Is it reasonable to expect that the same data can serve both purposes?

·         What are the challenges in linking and matching administrative datasets, and what are some strategies for addressing these challenges?

·         What can we gain and what do we lose by using administrative data, in addition to or in lieu of data from surveys?

·         What research questions are appropriate to address using aggregated data, and what kinds of conclusions can be drawn from these analyses?

·         How can we use administrative data for longitudinal follow-ups, cost analyses, and opportunistic experiments (e.g., when services are provided via a lottery)?

·         What are innovative analytic techniques that have been, or need to be, developed to better leverage administrative data for evaluation?

Manuscripts may approach the topic from various perspectives and in various forms, including, but not limited to: empirical research and substantive examples on the use of administrative data in addressing questions of social policy; recommendations and best practices on using administrative data for research, maintaining privacy and confidentiality, getting from data custodians, or other related topics; and commentary on research design and future directions in research with administrative data.

Manuscripts are due no later than June 1, 2016 to the coordinating guest editor at Nicole.Constance@acf.hhs.gov. After initial screening, authors of selected manuscripts will be invited to submit directly to PAR's Editorial Manager for double blind-review, with final decisions regarding publication being made by PAR's editors. All authors should comply with PAR's style guidelines.

Call for Papers: Does a New Public Governance Demand New Public Ethics?

Guest Editors

Gjalt de Graaf, Full Professor at the Department Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Michael Macaulay, Director, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Public management is living in a new and still relatively untested age. Traditional public administration gave way to New Public Management and continues to evolve into new forms of public governance. This development has gone hand in hand, of course, with other massive social, political, economic and technological changes: individualization, globalization, information technology and many more.  As a result, institutions disaggregate and realign in increasingly complex forms; hybridization and collaboration are becoming increasingly the norm while more formal institutional arrangements wither.

Remaining at the heart of each of these manifestations, however, is the concept of public ethics. As new forms of governance have emerged we have witnessed a parallel rise in the ways we try and understand integrity and ethics. Integrity systems, for example, have been developed at all levels: organizational, local, national, and international.  New policy initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership have brought values such as transparency and integrity to the fore on the global stage and have led to cross-cultural conversations.  Yet despite these trends, or perhaps because of them, scientific evidence about the nature, legitimacy, and ethics of new governance paradigms remains relatively scarce. The normative dimensions of new governance dimensions are not well understood.

This call for papers on the ethics of new public governance is intended to remedy limitations in current scientific and normative knowledge. We welcome empirical and theoretical papers in the following areas:

·         What new institutional forms have arisen for dealing with ethical conduct, anti-corruption activity and standards of behaviour and what has their impact been?

·         Are there new connections between public values (integrity, democracy, accountability, transparency) in new governance contexts, or have there been any new clashes?

·         What has been the impact of the continuing reconceptualization of the citizen (as client, consumer, co-producer, collaborator, etc.) on the ethical lenses in which we frame relationships with the state?

·         To what extent have increasingly diverse forms of public participation had an influence upon new forms of legitimacy in public governance?

·         How do we learn about integrity and ethics? Can we meaningfully measure and evaluate integrity in the ever changing socio-political landscape?

·         What is the role of organizational learning for ethical culture, climate and behaviour?  Has it yielded genuine results or simply been used as window dressing?

·         In what ways , if any, have collaboration, cross-agency working, and policy transfer helped to develop robust and resilient ethical practice?

We hope to provide a forum for papers that address both what we know about the changing landscape, but also how we know it. In so doing we hope to bring forth lessons that will be of practical benefit to policy makers and public servants, as well as promoting academic rigour in this exciting arena.

Manuscripts are due no later than November 30, 2016, to the coordinating guest editors g.de.graaf@vu.nl and michael.macaulay@vuw.ac.nz. After initial screening, authors of selected manuscripts will be invited to submit directly to Public Administration Review (PAR)'s Editorial Manager for double-blind review, with final decisions regarding publication being made by PAR's editors. All authors should comply with PAR's style guidelines.

Call for Papers for a Symposium on:

"Entrepreneurship in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors"

Public Administration Review

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-6210

Edited by:

David B. Audretsch

Indiana University

https://spea.indiana.edu/faculty-research/directory/profiles/faculty/full-time/audretsch-david.html

Donald S. Siegel

Arizona State University (as of 7/1/17)

http://www.albany.edu/business/Donald_Siegel.php

Siri Terjesen

American University

Norwegian School of Economics, Norway

http://www.american.edu/kogod/faculty/terjesen.cfm

Entrepreneurship is a topic of growing interest to academics and policymakers. Scholars in the field of public administration have been slower than academics in other fields (e.g., business administration and economics) to embrace the study of entrepreneurship. That is not surprising since entrepreneurial activity has traditionally focused on the private sector and the pursuit of profit.

However, in recent years, we have witnessed a substantial rise in entrepreneurial initiatives in the public and non-profit sectors. These initiatives involve numerous government and non-profit entities, including federal agencies, universities, foundations, and state and local governments. Entrepreneurship in the public and non-profit sectors has broader social goals than conventional forms of entrepreneurship, such as the more rapid commercialization and use of inventions and new technologies arising from federally-funded research, enhancement of regional economic development, sustainability and other environmental objectives, and remedying other market failures with innovative solutions. These new initiatives also have important implications for the "entrepreneurial" behavior of public sector managers (e.g., Lewis, 1980; Schneider and Teske, 1992) and thus, the vast literature in public administration and political science on public entrepreneurship (e.g., Ostrom 1964, 2005; Wagner, 1966; Osborne and Gaebler, 1993; McGinnis and Ostrom, 2012).

The proposed symposium seeks to bring together papers that address these issues. Another key goal of the symposium is to foster stronger links among entrepreneurship researchers in a variety of social science disciplines (including the field of management) and public administration scholars. 

Some themes that papers in the proposed symposium might address are:

•           Public entrepreneurship and public sector entrepreneurship (Bellone and Goerl, 1992; Moon, 1999; Bernier and Hafsi, 2007; Leyden and Link, 2015)

•           Public policies and programs to promote entrepreneurship. For example:

o   The Bayh-Dole Act (Aldridge and Audretsch, 2011; Berman, 2012)

o   The Small Business Innovation Research Program (Audretsch, Link, and Scott, 2002), and

o   The NSF I-Corps Program (Pellicane and Blaho, 2015)

•           Social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in the non-profit sector (Frumkin and Kim, 2001; Korosec and Berman, 2006; Waddock and Post, 1991; Terjesen, Bosma, and Stam, 2015; Schneider, 2017; Terjesen, 2017)

•           Academic/university entrepreneurship, including:

o   Technology transfer offices, and

o   Property-based institutions, such as incubators/accelerators and science/technology parks (Link, Siegel, and Wright, 2015; Siegel, Waldman, and Link, 2003; Yu, Stough, and Nijkamp, 2009)

•           The contribution of entrepreneurship to regional economic development (e.g., Decker, Haltiwanger, Jarmin, and Miranda, 2014)

The Symposium will incorporate regular PAR features, including Theory to Practice, Research Synthesis, Public Administration and the Disciplines, Book Reviews, Perspectives and Commentary.

The Review Process and Tentative Timetable

The following is a tentative schedule for the proposed symposium:

•           Submission of papers: May 2018

•           First Round Completed Reviews of submitted papers: August 2018

•           Developmental workshop at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. September 2018

•           Submission of final papers: January-March 2019

Note that there will be a special developmental workshop for highly promising papers under review, which will be held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.

References

Aldridge, Taylor and David B. Audretsch (2011). "The Bayh-Dole Act and Scientist Entrepreneurship. Research Policy, 40, 1058-1067.

Audretsch, David B., Albert N. Link, and John T. Scott (2002). "Public/Private Technology Partnerships: Evaluating SBIR-Supported Research," Research Policy 31, 145-158.

Bellone, Carl J. and George Frederick Goerl (1992). "Reconciling Public Entrepreneurship and Democracy," Public Administration Review 52: 130-134.

Berman, Elizabeth Popp (2012). Creating the Market University, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Bernier, Luc and Taïib Hafsi (2007). "The Changing Nature of Public Entrepreneurship," Public Administration Review 67: 488-503.

Borins, Sandford.( 2000). "Loose Cannons and Rule Breakers, or Enterprising Leaders? Some Evidence about Innovative Public Managers," Public Administration Review, 60(6): 498-507.

Decker, Ryan, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, and Javier Miranda. (2014). "The Role of Entrepreneurship in US Job Creation and Economic Dynamism," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28(3): 3-24.

Frumkin, Peter, and Mark T. Kim. (2001). "Strategic Positioning and the Financing of Nonprofit Organizations: Is Efficiency Rewarded in the Contributions Marketplace?" Public Administration Review, 61(3): 266-275.

Korosec, Ronnie L., and Evan M. Berman. (2006). "Municipal support for social entrepreneurship." Public Administration Review, 66(3): 448-462.

Lewis, Eugene. (1980). Public Entrepreneurship: Toward a Theory of Bureaucratic Political Power: The Organizational Lives of Hyman Rickover, J. Edgar Hoover, and Robert Moses. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Leyden, Dennis and Albert Link. (2015). Public Sector Entrepreneurship: US Technology and Innovation Policy. New York: Oxford University Press

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Moon, Myung J. (1999). "The Pursuit of Managerial Entrepreneurship: Does Organization Matter?," Public Administration Review 59: 31-43.

Link, Albert N., Donald S. Siegel, and Mike Wright (2015). Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

McGinnis, Michael D., and Elinor Ostrom. (2012). "Reflections on Vincent Ostrom, Public Administration, and Polycentricity." Public Administration Review, 72(1): 15-25.

National Science Foundation. (2011). "Empowering the National Through Discovery and Innovation; NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2011-2016." www.nsf.gov/news/strategicplan/nsfstrategicplan_2011_2016.pdf. Accessed February 15, 2017.

Osborne, David, and Ted Gaebler. (1993). Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector. Reading, MA: Plume.

Ostrom, Elinor (1964). "Public Entrepreneurship: A Case Study in Ground Water Basin Management," University of California, Los Angeles, CA, (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation).

Ostrom, Elinor (2005). "Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economies," Working Paper DP2005/01, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

Pellicane, Christina, and John A. Blaho. (2015). "Lessons Learned from Adapting the NSF I-Corps Curriculum to Undergraduate Engineering Student Entrepreneurship Training," Venture Well.

Schneider, Aaron. (2017). "Social Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Collectivism, and Everything in Between: Prototypes and Continuous Dimensions," Public Administration Review, doi: 10.1111/puar.12635.

Schneider, Mark, and Paul Teske. (1992). "Toward A Theory of the Political Entrepreneur: Evidence from Local Government," American Political Science Review, 86(3): 737-747.

Siegel, Donald S., David Waldman, and Albert N. Link (2003). "Assessing the Impact of Organizational Practices on the Relative Productivity of University Technology Transfer Offices: An Exploratory Study," Research Policy, 32(1): 27-48.

Terjesen, Siri (2017). "Social Entrepreneurship amongst Women and Men in the United States," Office of Advocacy, Small Business Administration: Special Report.

Terjesen, Siri, Niels Bosma, and Erik Stam (2016). "Advancing Public Policy for High-growth, Female, and Social Entrepreneurs," Public Administration Review, 76

(2), 230–239.

Waddock, Sandra, and James Post. (1991). "Social Entrepreneurs and Catalytic Change," Public Administration Review, 51(5), 393-401.

Wagner, Richard E. (1966). "Pressure Groups and Political Entrepreneurs: A Review Article," Public Choice 1: 161-170.

Yu, Junbo, Roger R. Stough, and Peter Nijkamp. (2009). "Governing Technological Entrepreneurship in China and the West." Public Administration Review, 69(1): 595-600.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Public Administration Review Symposium

Comparative Public Administration in a Globalized World

Moving Beyond Standard Assumptions towards Increased Understanding

Increasing interconnectedness, collaboration, and competition in today's globalized and multi- polar world necessitate a deeper understanding of how and why administrative practices differ across regions and what that means for collaborative potential and performance. Until now, two contrasting scholarly perspectives dominate. The first perspective emphasizes divergence as it suggests that public servants in various hemispheres hold divergent sets of values and attitudes engrained in their respective traditions. In this often-oversimplified view, the developing world's traditions are characterized by a collectivist approach, top-down power structure, loyalty, subordination and patronage, whereas the 'Western' tradition is claimed to be based on rule of law, political neutrality, bureaucratic autonomy, and detached 'managerial' professionalism.

The second perspective emphasizes global convergence in administrative practices and norms resulting from greater academic, economic and political exchanges as well as the alleged universal adoption of New Public Management and Good Governance paradigms. Some even claim such universalistic models are preferable, implying that Western-inspired transition should be embraced rather than rejected on particularistic grounds. Once again, this perspective often overgeneralizes complex institutional and cultural realities.

Indeed, some studies highlight considerable differences within each of the mayor traditions. For instance, Asian countries under the Confucian tradition such as China, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea are not only distinct from non-Confucian countries, they themselves differ tremendously in terms of the role of government and administrative practices and behavior (e.g., 'Japanese exceptionalism' vs 'China's market socialism').

However, empirical comparative studies in Public Administration that take into account local and regional particularities in their design, constructs, and interpretation of results, are scarce, with the exception of studies into specific constructs such as public service motivation, work values, and performance appraisal systems. Consistently, scholars engaged in comparative efforts highlight the theoretical, methodological, and empirical difficulties in making cross-national comparisons of public agencies, employees, and practices, as research instruments and assumptions often originate from Western countries. Thus, there is a serious need today for adopting more context-sensitive and balanced approaches to advance our scholarly understanding of administrative systems and practices in different regions and nations.

Based on the above observations, for this PAR Symposium, we invite manuscripts on comparative public administration that contain novel empirical, theoretical, as well as methodological contributions. Scholars and practitioners are encouraged to submit high-quality papers that deal with (but are not limited to) the following issues and questions:

1. The contextual determinants shaping administrative systems and practices, including historical factors (e.g., non-colonial vs. colonial legacies), politico-ideological outlooks (e.g., capitalist vs. socialist state structures), and socio-cultural issues (e.g., ethnic composition, cultural tradition, and religious beliefs). For example, to what extent do such deep-rooted traditions determine public service professions, practices, and values in different regions, and how can we classify and study their dynamics? To what extent do long-standing ideologies, social norms and cultural-religious traditions still impact public administration and public management?

2. The institutional and structural factors relating to public administration, such as state formations and state-society relationship (e.g., the welfare vs developmental state), forms of government (e.g., parliamentary vs presidential systems), and interplay between institutional units (between politics and administration, between the executive and the legislative branch, and between the central and local government). How do these institutions and structures affect administrative practices, and vice versa, and how can we better understand the mechanisms at play?

3. The normative dimensions of public administration, including issues of ethics, values, and norms. How do the public sectors in different parts of the world compare in terms of values such as efficiency, accountability, neutrality, and representation? Why do these differences exist and how they manifest themselves? Do they stand in the way of more convergence and collaboration between Western and non-Western countries? What is the potential for building a "non-Western" or developing public administration approach for teaching and research in a field normatively dominated by Western scholars, concepts, and assumptions?
4. Internal management issues such as motivation, leadership, personnel management, and performance management. Do significant regional differences exist between these internal administrative issues? What are the theory-practice gaps between formal rules and actual practices, especially in developing countries? Should they reconsider or completely re-design existing management instruments and approaches? How do we design comparative research on such management issues in light of existing differences in traditions, cultures, and languages? How can we improve cross-cultural learning to facilitate knowledge exchange and policy transfer?

Manuscripts should be submitted by 1 March 2018 to Zeger van der Wal (sppzvdw@nus.edu.sg), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. After our initial screening of all submissions, the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their papers online directly to Public Administration Review for double-blind review. The final publication decisions will be made by the PAR Editors. Each manuscript must comply with the PAR style guidelines.

Guest Editors:

Zeger van der Wal (Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Affiliate Chair Professor, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University), sppzvdw@nus.edu.sg

Caspar van den Berg (Associate Professor, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University), c.f.van.den.berg@fgga.leidenuniv.nl

M. Shamsul Haque (Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore), polhaque@nus.edu.sg