[ASPA] APPAM Call for Papers

[Welfare Reform Academy]

Call for Papers

 

To participate in the conference

 

Asian Social Protection in Comparative Perspective

 

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

University of Maryland School of Public Policy

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

 

Conference date: January 7 (dinner)-9, 2009

Proposals due: July 1, 2008

Location: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore

 

Asia's growing economic and geopolitical importance has led to increased
interest in its social protection and social welfare programs. How do these
diverse countries deal with aging, disability, drug and alcohol abuse,
housing, income supports and welfare, health care coverage, old-age
pensions, single mothers, social services, unemployment, and the working
poor? Are there lessons in this experience for other parts of the world? Are
there lessons Asia can learn from the experience of others? And, how can we
encourage cross-national exchanges among researchers, academics,
practitioners, and government officials?

 

In keeping with this interest, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public
<http://www.spp.nus.edu.sg/home.aspx> Policy and the University of
<http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/> Maryland School of Public Policy in
association with the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
(APPAM) will hold a conference to explore these and other topics in
Singapore, January 7 (starting at dinner) through January 9.

 

The conference is designed to attract a worldwide audience. It will
highlight scholarly-but policy-oriented-papers on these and similar topics.
At the conference, the papers will be presented in topic-oriented panels
with both Asian and non-Asian discussants. The conference will close with a
panel on "Implications Beyond Asia."

 

Papers are solicited on all aspects of social protection in Asia. The
analysis should cover specific types of programs, programs within particular
Asian countries or across them, or be comparative in nature. Cross-national
and comparative papers are encouraged. All proposals should be submitted
online through the APPAM website with a deadline of 1 July 2008. The main
web page for the conference is:

 

http://www.appam.org/conferences/international/singapore2009/index.asp

 

Schedule


  1 July 2008:

Deadline to submit proposals


  1 August 2008:

Proposal status notifications


  8 September 2008:

Early registration begins


30 October 2008:

Early registration ends, regular registration begins


15 November 2008:

Papers due for distribution/Program available online


19 December2008:

Regular registration ends; all additional registrations must be made on-site


  7 January 2009:

Opening night conference dinner

 

Post-conference publication

Papers from the conference will be considered for publication in the Oxford
University Press Series on "Comparative Policy Analysis," with information
viewable about the series online at
www.welfareacademy.org/pubs/international/policy_exchanges/oxford_university
_series.shtml

 

Side travel

One or more touristic side trips in countries near Singapore will be
available through the conference organizers and are expected to be
affordably priced. More details will be available as soon as possible.

 

Program Co-Chairs

Prof. M. Ramesh (co-chair)

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy 

Social Policy in East and South East Asia: Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and
Taiwan (2004)

Welfare Capitalism in Southeast Asia: Social Security, Health and Education
Policies (2000)

 

Prof. Douglas J. Besharov (co-chair)

School of Public Policy

University of Maryland

Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform (2003)

Comparative policy analysis series, co-editor, Oxford University Press

            President, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management


 

Contact Information 

For more information about the conference visit the conference website per
the address at the top of this page. Email inquires about paper proposals,
opportunities to support the conference, registration, or administrative
matters may also be made through the website.

 

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