ASSOCIATIONAL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM 

OVERVIEW: The Society for International Comparative Policy Analysis (ICPA) partners with 10 International Associations in the field and with over 30 international universities on five continents. It has offices in Vancouver, New York and Beijing, and has been hosted, together with the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA)  at lead universities in Canada, the US and China. The purpose of the partnership is to advance, through collaboration, comparative policy analytic studies within and among national and inter-national regions, as well as between disciplinary related academic domains.

Since its inception in 1998, the JCPA has been the leading journal dedicated explicitly to comparative policy analysis, fostering a vibrant international community of scholars. JCPA is published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis, UK (3.9 Impact Factor; 7.8 Cite Score EBSCO; Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile).

Benefits to Partner Associations

As an Associational Partner, you will realize the following benefits:

1. Partner Associations are featured on the ICPA Society’s website and on a first page of the JCPA, inclusive of links, to enhance the visibility of the partner association’s goals, mission and activities.
2. Engagement in mutual communications to membership via emails, listserv, newsletters, announcements, conference programs, exchanges of advertisements, display and visibility at conferences, and others.
3. Reduced membership fees to Individual members of partner associations to become annual members of the ICPA Society inclusive of free on-line access to the JCPA, reduced ICPA events fees, and other significant benefits.
4. A special annual Institutional Member fee, or consortia of institutions fee, to members of our partner associations and invitation to a delegated representative to serve on the ICPA Society Executive Institutional Council.
5. Partner Association Heads are invited to serve on the Advisory Board of the ICPA Society and the JCPA.
6. Collaboration and exchanges between the JCPA and the Leadership of the flagship Journal(s) of partner associations on all aspects of common interest.
7. We propose the following to our Associational Partners on a reciprocal basis, as applicable:

• Collaboration on target research projects of common interest.
• Joint applications for research or publication grants.
• Collaborative publications such as JCPA Special Issues, ILPA-Series, ICPA book publications, Workpapers.
• Pre-conference ICPA Workshop on comparative public policy methodology and theory, or others.
• Sponsored Panels at the partner Association’s annual conference.
• The JCPA Award for the Best Comparative Paper at the partner Association’s annual conference signed by a Joint Adjudication Committee. The Award consists of a monetary grant, a Certificate, and a priority publication slot allocation on acceptance of the paper, if submitted, following the JCPA standard review criteria.
• Priority to Special Issue proposals by members of the partner association.
• Priority to JCPA and ICPA Society sponsored Workshop proposals by members of the partner association.
• Priority of participation in the monthly ICPA Society Comparative Lecture and Book Talk Series – widely attended on 5 continents.
• Priority to Doctoral and Post-Doctoral student members of the partner association to be shortlisted for participation in our bi- annual Mentoring Workshop Series on academic and publication writing.

For information about ICPA Society Associational Partnership opportunities, contact the ICPA Society and JCPA Executive Director, Dr. Sebahat Derin Atiskan at jcpaexecutive@gmail.com