9:00 AM
Welcome and Introductions
ICPA-Forum workshop sponsors
Nancy Olewiler, Director, Public Policy Program, SFU, Vancouver, BC
Evert Lindquist, Director, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, BC
Iris Geva-May, Chair, ICPA-Forum, Professor, SFU, Vancouver, BC
9:15:10:30
“Organizing for Policy Implementation: The Emergence and Role of Implementation Units in Policy Design and Oversight”
Evert Lindquist, Director, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, Victoria,BC
Moderator: Nancy Olewiler, Director, Public Policy Program, SFU, Vancouver, BC
Discussant: Peter May, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington, Seattle, US
Discussant: John Richards, Professor, Public Policy Program, SFU, Vancouver, BC
10:30
Coffee Break
10:45-12:00
“From Afterthought to Afterburner: Australia’s Cabinet Implementation Unit”John Wanna, ANZSOG Foundation Professor for the Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
Moderator: TBA
Discussant: Aidan Vining, CNABS Professor of Business and Government Relations, SFU, Vancouver, BC
Discussant: Colin Campbell, Canada Research Chair in U.S. Government, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
12:00 -1:30
Buffet Lunch – sponsored by the Offices of the President and Vice President Academic, Simon Fraser University to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of SFU
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Brown-bag Symposium: Thinking About Policy Coherence
Peter May, Professor, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington
1:30 -2:45
“Central Control and Policy Implementation in the UK : A Case Study of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit”
Martin Smith, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK
Moderator: Jon Kesselman, Canada Research Chair, Public Policy Program, SFU, Vancouver, BC
Discussant: Doug MacArthur, Professor, SFU, Vancouver, BC formerly Minister of Education, Saskatchewan, and Deputy Minister Saskatchewan and BC
Discussant: Harald Saetren, Dean, Political Science, and Institute of Public Administration, University of Bergen, Norway
2:45-3:15
“Managing implementation across heterogeneous jurisdictions: Insights from the EU environmental policy implementing committees of the EU.”
Charalampos Koutalakis, Professor, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft,Freie Universität Berlin
Synopsis. Discussion in absentia
3:15
Coffee Break
3:30-4:45
“Working with the stock we have: the evolving role of Queensland's Implementation Unit”
Anne Tiernan, Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia
Moderator: TBA
Discussant: Don Devoretz, Director, RIIM, SFU, Vancouver
Discussant: Fred Thompson, Goody Chair of Public Management and Policy Analysis, Willamette University, Oregon, US; Chair, International Public Management Network, and IJPM
4:45-5:30
General Discussion and Wrap-up
Moderator: Iris Geva-May
Raporteur: Evert Linquist
6:30
Dinner: sponsored by Routledge , Taylor and Francis Group, Oxford, UK
October 4th
9:30-12:30
Business Meeting: ICPA-Forum and JCPA Editorial board
We seek to discuss how to advance collaboration among institutions in the region around scholarly work in comparative policy studies as promoted by the International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum (ICPA-Forum) and the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice (JCPA). A considerable number of colleagues from UBC, SFU, Victoria, Seattle, Oregon – are involved as editorial board members, as well as supportive reviewers and authors. The ICPA-Forum network may prove an interesting cooperation effort.