Past JCPA and ICPA-Forum Workshops

The JCPA and ICPA-Forum have help workshops around the world to help advance the field of comparative policy analysis. This comprehensive list represents the past JCPA and ICPA-Forum workshops.

When: April 19-21, 2024
Where: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University

 

COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICIES AT THE AGE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES

To celebrate its 25th Anniversary, the Journal of Comparative Policy Research and Analysis: Research and Practice (JCPA) welcomes scholars, graduate students, and practitioners to participate in the International Conference on Comparative Public Policy, sponsored by the Society for International Comparative Policy Analysis (ICPA-Forum) and hosted by the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, to be held on April 19-21, 2024.

When: September 11-12, 2020

Where: Koç University, Istinye Campus, Istanbul, Turkey

Convener: Prof. Caner Bakir - cbakir@ku.edu.tr | http://canerbakir.com/

Website:  https://istinye.ku.edu.tr/home
 
Click Here for Details

 
 
 
20th Anniversary Workshop
"Causal Claims and Causal Inferences in Comparative Policy Analysis"
 
JPCA & ICPA-Forum 20th Anniversary Workshop held in conjunction with IPPA prior to the
 
International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP4)
 
 
Venue: Concordia University, Montreal
 
Date of Pre-Conference Workshop: June 25-26, 2019
 
Topic:
T02 / COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY
 
Convenors:
Iris Geva-May, The Wagner School, NYU; Simon Fraser University Vancouver
 
Philipp Trein, Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne
 
Guillaume Fontaine, the Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences (FLACSO)
SCHEDULE
 
JUNE 25, 2019 | 16:00-18:00
*Special Pre-Conference Event*
John Molson Building 
MB9EG
KEYNOTES -
A dialogue on Causality in Comparative Policy Analysis
Presentation of the workshop,
by Iris Geva-May, Philipp Trein and Guillaume Fontaine
  • “What Have We Learned? Time to Look in the Mirror. Questions for Comparative Policy Analysts”, by Beryl Radin, Georgetown Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University, Washington, DC
  • “Causal Claims and Causal Inferences in Comparative Policy Analysis”, by B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of Government, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
 
JUNE 25, 2019 | 18:00-19:00
John Molson Building 
MB9 LOBBY
RECEPTION of the JCPA and ICPA- Forum Scholarly Society:
  • All participants of the JCPA and ICPA-Forum Workshop. Q&A on publication possibilities.
  • Editors and friends of JCPA are invited.
 
JUNE 26, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00
John Molson Building 
MB 3.435 
Session Title: Process-Tracing and Comparative Policy Analysis
Discussant:
Beryl Radin
  • Getting Underneath the Hood : The Implications of Mechanism Approaches for Policy-Process Theorizing
Author: Adam Wellstead - 
awellste@mtu.edu
  • Modes of policy learning as causal mechanisms: coming up with a “policy learning measuring instrument” for qualitative research
Author: Jonathan Kamkhaji - 
j.c.kamkhaji@exeter.ac.uk
  • Contending with Policy Legacy: Comparative Case Study of Local Health Insurance in Indonesia and the Philippines
Author: Kidjie Ian Saguin - 
kidjie_saguin@u.nus.edu
 
JUNE 26, 2019 | 16:30-18:30
John Molson Building 
MB 3.435 
Session Title : Aligning Methodology and Ontology
Discussants: 
Iris Geva-May
- 
igm235@nyu.edu
  • The Role and Impact of Policy Learning Approaches in Comparative Policy Analysis 
Author: Claire Dunlop - 
c.a.dunlop@ex.ac.uk
  • Better understanding of the policy process through randomised designs in the field
Author: Peter John - 
peter.john@kcl.ac.uk
  • From a causal to a consequentialist perspective: a pragmatic approach to compare policy processes differently
Author: Philippe Zittoun - 
philippe.zittoun@entpe.fr
 
 
JUNE 27, 2019 | 8:00 – 10:00
John Molson Building 
MB 3.435 
Session Title: Process Tracing and Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Discussants: 
Guillaume Fontaine
- 
gfontaine@flacso.edu.ec
  • Why not privatize schools? A Bayesian Process Tracing analysis of divergent school choice reform paths in France and England
Author: Charlotte Haberstroh - 
c.m.haberstroh@lse.ac.uk
  • Using comparative methods in search of causality: Advancing the state of energy justice research by using a case-oriented approach
Author: Brent Burns - 
bburns@mtu.edu
  • Modeling the Black Boxes of Causation
Author: Alessia Damonte - 
alessia.damonte@unimi.it
 
JUNE 27, 2019 | 10:30 – 12:30
John Molson Building 
MB 3.435 
Session Title : Quantitative and Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Discussants : 
Philipp Trein
- 
philipp.trein@unil.ch
  • Understanding the effectiveness of policy interventions. On the methodological implications of different conceptualizations 
Author: Valerie Pattyn - 
v.e.pattyn@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
  • The Familial Foundations of the Welfare State: Government as a Nurturing Institution in Cross-National and Historical Perspectives 
Author :Eileen McDonagh - 
emcd@neu.edu
  • An ACF Explanation of the Canadian Firearms Act: Regularity Versus Mechanistic Causation
Author: Tim Heinmiller - 
theinmiller@brocku.ca
 
JUNE 27, 2019 | 12:30—14:00
John Molson Building, Room 9A
  • LUNCH MEETING (lunch will be provided)
  • EDITORIAL BOARD and FRIENDS OF THE JCPA and ICPA-Forum
 
 
 

When: March 7-9, 2019
Where: Heidelberg University, Germany

On March 8-9, 2019 Heidelberg University will host the 19th ICPA-Forum and JCPA workshop on “Issue politicization and policy change: Lesson-drawing the agriculture-food policy process” of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA).
 
The goal of the JCPA workshop is to spark a structured theoretical debate on issue politicization and policy change, using the agri-food policy domain as a theory-generating case. Studies of policy change argue that politicization is an important factor in inducing learning and eventually policy change. Politicization is a situation in which an issue becomes subject to increased political attention and conflict with the consequence that there are demands on government for action. However, research on ‘wicked’ policy problems, for instance, has argued that politicization has an impeding effect for policy change. Moreover, the intensity of politicization varies widely depending on policy domain and social unit context.
 
Registration Information: 
 
The workshop includes refreshments during the workshop and a complimentary reception following. The workshop fee for all participants (presenters, discussants and other attendees), is $250. For Student Rates, contact secretary@comparativepolicy.org. The fee includes membership to the ICPA-Forum and all related benefits as well as a FREE annual subscription to the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.
 

Tentative Schedule of Workshop 8-9 March

“Issue politicization and policy change: Lesson drawing from the case of agriculture-food policy process”

When: March 30-31, 2018
Venue: School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM), Tsinghua University（清华大学公共管理学院）
Where: Beijing, China
Topic: “Comparison of Policy Experiments: Practices in the Asia-Pacific Region”

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When: November 19-21, 2017
Venue: Marxe School of Public and International Affairs Baruch College, CUNY
Where: New York, NY
Topic: “Comparing Third Sector Expansions”

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When: August 7-9, 2016
Venue: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand School of Government
Where: Wellington, New Zealand
Topic: “Transferable Learning, Advances in Comparative Methodologies and Practices”

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When: August 24-25, 2015
Venue: Dept. of Public Affairs at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLASCO), Quito, Ecuador
Where: Quito, Ecuador
Topic: “Comparative Theory Testing and Theory Building: The Case of Policy change in Latin America”
Program:View the 13th Workshop Program

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When: September 24-26, 2014
Venue: Institute of Political Science, WWU Muenster
Where: Muenster, Germany
Topic: “The Role of Theory in Comparative Policy”
Program:View the 12th Workshop Program

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When: May 27, 2014
Venue: National Research University
Where: Moscow, Russia
Topic: "Concepts and Methods of Comparative Policy Analysis:”Context Matters”
Program:View the Workshop Program

When: November 27-30, 2013
Venue: Public Management Institute of the KU
Where: Leuven, Belgium
Topic: "Validating Methods For Comparing Public Policy: Academia And Government In Dialogue”
Program:View the 10th Workshop Program

When: June 12-13, 2012
Venue: School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
Where: Sydney, Australia
Topic:: "Domestic and Intra–Nations Environmental Policies: Comparative Approaches”
Program:View the 9th Workshop Program

When: April 27-29, 2011
Venue: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Where: Singapore
Topic:: "Corruption, Trust, the Public Sector and Public Policies”
Program:View the 8th Workshop Program

When: April 22-24, 2010
Venue: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
Where: Pittsburgh, PA
Topic: "Designing Disaster Resilience: Comparative Perspectives”
Program:View the 7th Workshop Program

When: June 4-7, 2009
Venue: Department of Public Policy & Management, Shih Hsin University
Where: Taipei, Taiwan
Topic: "Developments in Public Policy Programs in Higher Education in Asia”
Program:View the 6th Workshop Program

When: October 22-24, 2008
Venue: Bocconi University
Where: Milan, Italy
Topic: "Public Service Personnel Policies: Impact on Policy Implementation Related Performance”
Program:View the 5th Workshop Program

When: April 26-28, 2007
Venue: Yale University
Where: New Haven, CT, US
Topic: "Comparative Healthcare Policies"
Program:View the 4th JCPA Workshop Program

When: November 28-29, 2006
Venue: Australian National University
Where: Canberra, Australia
Topic: "Building Policy Capability in the Public Sector”
Program:View the 3rd JCPA Workshop Program

When: October 3-5, 2005
Venue: Simon Fraser University, Harbor Centre
Where: Vancouver, Canada
Topic: "Policy Implementation: The Emergence and Role of Implementation Units in Policy Design and Oversight Invitation”
Program:View the 2nd JCPA Workshop Program

When: June 18-19, 2004
Venue: Institut d’Etudes Administratives
Where: Paris, France
Topic: "Comparative Policy Analysis Methodology”
Program:View the 1st JCPA Workshop Program

When: September 11-12, 2020

Where: Koç University, Istinye Campus, Istanbul, Turkey

Convener: Prof. Caner Bakir - cbakir@ku.edu.tr | http://canerbakir.com/

Website:  https://istinye.ku.edu.tr/home
 
Click Here for Details

 
 
 
20th Anniversary Workshop
"Causal Claims and Causal Inferences in Comparative Policy Analysis"
 
JPCA & ICPA-Forum 20th Anniversary Workshop held in conjunction with IPPA prior to the
 
International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP4)
 
 
Venue: Concordia University, Montreal
 
Date of Pre-Conference Workshop: June 25-26, 2019
 
Topic:
T02 / COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY
 
Convenors:
Iris Geva-May, The Wagner School, NYU; Simon Fraser University Vancouver
 
Philipp Trein, Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne
 
Guillaume Fontaine, the Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences (FLACSO)
SCHEDULE
 
JUNE 25, 2019 | 16:00-18:00
*Special Pre-Conference Event*
John Molson Building 
MB9EG
KEYNOTES -
A dialogue on Causality in Comparative Policy Analysis
Presentation of the workshop,
by Iris Geva-May, Philipp Trein and Guillaume Fontaine
  • “What Have We Learned? Time to Look in the Mirror. Questions for Comparative Policy Analysts”, by Beryl Radin, Georgetown Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University, Washington, DC
  • “Causal Claims and Causal Inferences in Comparative Policy Analysis”, by B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of Government, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
 
JUNE 25, 2019 | 18:00-19:00
John Molson Building 
MB9 LOBBY
RECEPTION of the JCPA and ICPA- Forum Scholarly Society:
  • All participants of the JCPA and ICPA-Forum Workshop. Q&A on publication possibilities.
  • Editors and friends of JCPA are invited.
 
JUNE 26, 2019 | 14:00 – 16:00
John Molson Building 
MB 3.435 
Session Title: Process-Tracing and Comparative Policy Analysis
Discussant:
Beryl Radin
  • Getting Underneath the Hood : The Implications of Mechanism Approaches for Policy-Process Theorizing
Author: Adam Wellstead - 
awellste@mtu.edu
  • Modes of policy learning as causal mechanisms: coming up with a “policy learning measuring instrument” for qualitative research
Author: Jonathan Kamkhaji - 
j.c.kamkhaji@exeter.ac.uk
  • Contending with Policy Legacy: Comparative Case Study of Local Health Insurance in Indonesia and the Philippines
Author: Kidjie Ian Saguin - 
kidjie_saguin@u.nus.edu
 
JUNE 26, 2019 | 16:30-18:30
John Molson Building 
MB 3.435 
Session Title : Aligning Methodology and Ontology
Discussants: 
Iris Geva-May
- 
igm235@nyu.edu
  • The Role and Impact of Policy Learning Approaches in Comparative Policy Analysis 
Author: Claire Dunlop - 
c.a.dunlop@ex.ac.uk
  • Better understanding of the policy process through randomised designs in the field
Author: Peter John - 
peter.john@kcl.ac.uk
  • From a causal to a consequentialist perspective: a pragmatic approach to compare policy processes differently
Author: Philippe Zittoun - 
philippe.zittoun@entpe.fr
 
 
JUNE 27, 2019 | 8:00 – 10:00
John Molson Building 
MB 3.435 
Session Title: Process Tracing and Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Discussants: 
Guillaume Fontaine
- 
gfontaine@flacso.edu.ec
  • Why not privatize schools? A Bayesian Process Tracing analysis of divergent school choice reform paths in France and England
Author: Charlotte Haberstroh - 
c.m.haberstroh@lse.ac.uk
  • Using comparative methods in search of causality: Advancing the state of energy justice research by using a case-oriented approach
Author: Brent Burns - 
bburns@mtu.edu
  • Modeling the Black Boxes of Causation
Author: Alessia Damonte - 
alessia.damonte@unimi.it
 
JUNE 27, 2019 | 10:30 – 12:30
John Molson Building 
MB 3.435 
Session Title : Quantitative and Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Discussants : 
Philipp Trein
- 
philipp.trein@unil.ch
  • Understanding the effectiveness of policy interventions. On the methodological implications of different conceptualizations 
Author: Valerie Pattyn - 
v.e.pattyn@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
  • The Familial Foundations of the Welfare State: Government as a Nurturing Institution in Cross-National and Historical Perspectives 
Author :Eileen McDonagh - 
emcd@neu.edu
  • An ACF Explanation of the Canadian Firearms Act: Regularity Versus Mechanistic Causation
Author: Tim Heinmiller - 
theinmiller@brocku.ca
 
JUNE 27, 2019 | 12:30—14:00
John Molson Building, Room 9A
  • LUNCH MEETING (lunch will be provided)
  • EDITORIAL BOARD and FRIENDS OF THE JCPA and ICPA-Forum
 
 
 

When: March 7-9, 2019
Where: Heidelberg University, Germany

On March 8-9, 2019 Heidelberg University will host the 19th ICPA-Forum and JCPA workshop on “Issue politicization and policy change: Lesson-drawing the agriculture-food policy process” of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA).
 
The goal of the JCPA workshop is to spark a structured theoretical debate on issue politicization and policy change, using the agri-food policy domain as a theory-generating case. Studies of policy change argue that politicization is an important factor in inducing learning and eventually policy change. Politicization is a situation in which an issue becomes subject to increased political attention and conflict with the consequence that there are demands on government for action. However, research on ‘wicked’ policy problems, for instance, has argued that politicization has an impeding effect for policy change. Moreover, the intensity of politicization varies widely depending on policy domain and social unit context.
 
Registration Information: 
 
The workshop includes refreshments during the workshop and a complimentary reception following. The workshop fee for all participants (presenters, discussants and other attendees), is $250. For Student Rates, contact secretary@comparativepolicy.org. The fee includes membership to the ICPA-Forum and all related benefits as well as a FREE annual subscription to the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.
 

Tentative Schedule of Workshop 8-9 March

“Issue politicization and policy change: Lesson drawing from the case of agriculture-food policy process”

When: March 30-31, 2018
Venue: School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM), Tsinghua University（清华大学公共管理学院）
Where: Beijing, China
Topic: “Comparison of Policy Experiments: Practices in the Asia-Pacific Region”

Read More

View Gallery

When: November 19-21, 2017
Venue: Marxe School of Public and International Affairs Baruch College, CUNY
Where: New York, NY
Topic: “Comparing Third Sector Expansions”

View Gallery

When: August 7-9, 2016
Venue: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand School of Government
Where: Wellington, New Zealand
Topic: “Transferable Learning, Advances in Comparative Methodologies and Practices”

View Gallery

When: August 24-25, 2015
Venue: Dept. of Public Affairs at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLASCO), Quito, Ecuador
Where: Quito, Ecuador
Topic: “Comparative Theory Testing and Theory Building: The Case of Policy change in Latin America”
Program:View the 13th Workshop Program

View Gallery

When: September 24-26, 2014
Venue: Institute of Political Science, WWU Muenster
Where: Muenster, Germany
Topic: “The Role of Theory in Comparative Policy”
Program:View the 12th Workshop Program

View Gallery

When: May 27, 2014
Venue: National Research University
Where: Moscow, Russia
Topic: "Concepts and Methods of Comparative Policy Analysis:”Context Matters”
Program:View the Workshop Program

When: November 27-30, 2013
Venue: Public Management Institute of the KU
Where: Leuven, Belgium
Topic: "Validating Methods For Comparing Public Policy: Academia And Government In Dialogue”
Program:View the 10th Workshop Program

When: June 12-13, 2012
Venue: School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
Where: Sydney, Australia
Topic:: "Domestic and Intra–Nations Environmental Policies: Comparative Approaches”
Program:View the 9th Workshop Program

When: April 27-29, 2011
Venue: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Where: Singapore
Topic:: "Corruption, Trust, the Public Sector and Public Policies”
Program:View the 8th Workshop Program

When: April 22-24, 2010
Venue: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
Where: Pittsburgh, PA
Topic: "Designing Disaster Resilience: Comparative Perspectives”
Program:View the 7th Workshop Program

When: June 4-7, 2009
Venue: Department of Public Policy & Management, Shih Hsin University
Where: Taipei, Taiwan
Topic: "Developments in Public Policy Programs in Higher Education in Asia”
Program:View the 6th Workshop Program

When: October 22-24, 2008
Venue: Bocconi University
Where: Milan, Italy
Topic: "Public Service Personnel Policies: Impact on Policy Implementation Related Performance”
Program:View the 5th Workshop Program

When: April 26-28, 2007
Venue: Yale University
Where: New Haven, CT, US
Topic: "Comparative Healthcare Policies"
Program:View the 4th JCPA Workshop Program

When: November 28-29, 2006
Venue: Australian National University
Where: Canberra, Australia
Topic: "Building Policy Capability in the Public Sector”
Program:View the 3rd JCPA Workshop Program

When: October 3-5, 2005
Venue: Simon Fraser University, Harbor Centre
Where: Vancouver, Canada
Topic: "Policy Implementation: The Emergence and Role of Implementation Units in Policy Design and Oversight Invitation”
Program:View the 2nd JCPA Workshop Program

When: June 18-19, 2004
Venue: Institut d’Etudes Administratives
Where: Paris, France
Topic: "Comparative Policy Analysis Methodology”
Program:View the 1st JCPA Workshop Program