30th Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)

Dates: November 6-8, 2008
Proposal Deadline: March 11, 2008
Location: Los Angeles, California 
Website: http://www.appam.org/conferences/fall/losangeles2008/call.asp

The 30th Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) will be 6-8 November at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles. The Conference theme is, "The Next Decade - What Are the Big Policy Challenges?" Starting in 2006, APPAM has sought to increase the number of conference sessions on issues related to immigration, including, but not limited to, policies to respond to the social issues related to the needs of recent immigrants to the U.S. APPAM also is interested in cross-national/comparative perspectives on immigration and all other topics of the conference.

The APPAM conference recognizes 18 broad policy and management topics and also accepts proposals on other topics. Because of the unique timing, the APPAM conference will be one of the first social science research meetings to occur just after the November general election.

Attached is the call for proposals. To learn more and to submit proposals for panels, papers, poster sessions, roundtables, and workshops, please visit this page of the APPAM website:

http://www.appam.org/conferences/fall/losangeles2008/call.asp

The deadline for submitting proposals online is 11 March 2008. APPAM also will be seeking chairs and discussants for sessions beginning in July.