Next Steps for Public ‐Administration in Theory and Practice: Looking Backward and Moving Forward

• Date: 01 January 2014
• Published date: 01 January 2014
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12177

Call for Papers

136 Public Administration Review • January | February 2014

Public Administration Review,

Vol. 74, Iss. 1, pp. 136. © 2014 by

The American Society for Public Administration.

DOI: 10.1111/puar.12177.

Next Steps for Public Administration in  eory 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, and

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana

University (perry@indiana.edu)

Ma Jun, Professor and 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 submissions of

quality paper proposals for the International

Conference on “Next Steps for Public

Administration in  eory and Practice,” which will be

held in Guangzhou, China, on November 16–18, 2014,

in celebration of Public Administration Review’s seventy-

f‌i fth anniversary as well as Sun Yat-sen University’s

ninetieth anniversary.  e committee is interested in

signif‌i cant, original, and rigorous papers that discuss

theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and

opportunities, particularly in the age of austerity, com-

plexity, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.

Public administration as a f‌i eld has become theoreti-

cally 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 to

of‌f er an intellectually challenging and practically relevant

opportunity for both scholars and practitioners.

All accepted papers will be compiled and published on

the conference Web site. Plenary papers and others pre-

sented at the conference will be published in a themed

issue of PAR in 2016 after regular peer review.  eory-

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 propos-

als are welcome. Proposals must be submitted elec-

tronically 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 af‌f‌i liations, 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

af‌f‌i liations, 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).

 e primary author will be e-mailed notif‌i cation 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

accommodations 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 to any of the

program committee members by e-mail.

Conference Venue

Sun Yat-sen University was founded in 1924 by

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a great democratic revolutionary

leader of the twentieth century.  e university is

located in Guangdong Province, an area neighbor-

ing Hong Kong and Macao, which is at the fore-

front of China’s reform and opening up. Sun Yat-sen

University is one of the leading universities in the

People’s Republic of China, with some 83,000 students

studying on four campuses in Guangzhou and Zhuhai.

Benef‌i ting 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, scientif‌i c

research, providing services to society, and inheriting

cultural traditions. According to the Times Higher

Education World University Rankings for 2010–11,

Sun Yat-sen University was ranked in the top 200 in

the world.