This conference will explore and develop innovative practices for public administration to address the growing diversity of communities around the country. It emphasizes the importance of context and culture on the sustainability of innovations, and ASPA’s role in supporting public administration globally from a U.S. perspective.
The practice and theory of public administration is at a crossroads. Communities are becoming increasingly diverse due to globalization, market competition, and in some cases open borders. Together these phenomena have created new opportunities and challenges that traditional public administration structures and practices are not designed to address. This conference seeks to provide a platform on which to build a new knowledge base that can help inform public administration practice and theory in the midst of diversity.
Program Tracks
- Non-profit Sector
- Professionalism and Ethics
- Local Government Financing
- Housing Policies and Human Services
- Performance Management
- Citizen Engagement
- The Public Administration of Immigration
- Personnel Administration
- E-governance and Emerging Technologies
- Transportation Policies
- Environmental Issues
- Founders' Forum
- Emergency Management
ASPA is not longer accepting abstract submissions for the 2009 Annual
Conference. Thank you for your interest. If you have any questions, please
contact Judy Miller at jmiller@aspanet.org
Review of Internationally Submitted Spanish Language Proposals
In keeping with the conference theme, we will solicit and accept Spanish-language panel and paper proposals submitted by scholars and practitioners from outside the U.S., especially Latin America. We will review these based on the same criteria and process as English-language proposals. The Host Committee is exploring potential funding sources to cover the cost of bilingual English-Spanish translation in one room in one day of the conference. If this is not financially feasible, accepted Spanish-language papers will be presented in Spanish. Their authors will make available one-page English abstracts during the sessions, under procedures developed by the Conference Management Committee.
Evaluación de Propuestas Internacionales Sometidas en Español
Dado el tema de la conferencia, solicitaremos y aceptaremos propuestas de paneles y papers en Español de colegas fuera de EEUU, y especialmente América Latina. Estos serán evaluados usando los mismos criterios y procesos usados con las propuestas en Ingles. El comité anfitrión de la conferencia esta explorando posibles fuentes de financiamiento para cubrir costos de traducción simultanea por un día de la conferencia en uno de los salones. En caso de que la traducción simultánea no sea posible, los paneles y papers aceptados en Español podrán ser presentados en Español. Pero se le pedirá a los autores que tengan disponible un resumen de una página en Ingles de su presentación durante las sesiones.
