Rethinking Global Public Policy (GPP): Actors, Mechanisms and Performance

The 3rd LSE-Fudan Annual Academic Conference  

Guanghua Tower, Fudan University, Shanghai

3-4 November 2024

Host

LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy

LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub

 Fudan Institute for Global Public Policy (IGPP)

Aim and Scope

The 2024 LSE-Fudan Annual Academic Conference invites frontier studies on global public policy that explore important issues reshaping the rapidly evolving global policy landscape in the post-pandemic era.

The post-pandemic world faces more serious and urgent challenges to effective and resilient global governance of issues affected by global public interest. Traditional policy problems such as global warming and climate change, poverty alleviation and international development, social and industrial transitions, public service provision, health, economic openness, and security have encountered increased difficulties due to economic slowdown and enlarged economic inequality. Simultaneously, new challenges such as AI, biosecurity, and aging populations still lack basic mechanisms of global cooperation and collaboration.

Amidst these trends, the actors in the landscape of global public policy have experienced significant changes in their structure, values, goals, mutual relations, strategies, and courses of action. The tools and mechanisms available to global actors have also been shifting in their legitimacy and effectiveness due to evolving technical and institutional contexts.

These factors call for a rethinking of global public policy from both normative and positive perspectives. We invite participants to discuss issues in a variety of policy areas, including but not limited to:

Global health governance;

International development and poverty alleviation;

Social and environmental transition and adaptation;

AI and emerging technology governance;

Traditional and non-traditional actors in GPP;

Cooperative mechanisms, network governance, and collective actions in GPP;

Innovation in tools and mechanisms of GPP;

Comparing and measuring GPP performance;

South-South learning, cooperation, and co-creation;

Public sector reforms in response to challenges of GPP.

We look forward to your participation and contribution to this important discussion on the future of global public policy.

Proposal Submission

We welcome paper and panel proposals from scholars at the LSE and Fudan universities and affiliated partner institutions. We encourage submissions that employ a comparative approach and address theoretical, methodological, or empirical issues related to public policy.

Please submit a paper proposal to fudan_lse@fudan.edu.cnby September 30, 2024. Please include in the submission the research question(s), theoretical framework and/or empirical exploration, methodological approach, and preliminary findings, plus a two-paragraph author bio and contact information. To submit a panel proposal, please have a brief statement of the panel and its chair(s), and detailed above information of each paper in the panel.

Logistics

There is no conference registration fee. The organizers provide meals and coffee breaks during the conference. Participants shall be responsible for their own travel and hotel arrangements. LSE participants may apply to the Fudan-LSE seed research funds for financial support if there is a need (please contact fudan_lse@fudan.edu.cn for more information).

Publication Plan

Papers presented in the conference are welcome to be submitted for publication to the journal Global Public Policy and Governance (GPPG). GPPG is a quarterly journal hosted by the Fudan Institute for Global Public Policy and is a Q2 journal (ESCI indexed) included in the Web of Science database.

Hosts

The conference is co-hosted by the LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy, the LSE-Fudan Research Hub for Global Public Policy, and the Fudan Institute for Global Public Policy.

Academic committee of the conference

Wen Chen (Professor, School of Public Health, Fudan University)

Timothy Hildebrandt (Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Yijia Jing (Professor, Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan)

Bingchun Meng (Professor, Department of Media and Communication, LSE)

Xizhe Peng (Professor, Institute on Ageing, Fudan)

Andrew Street (Professor, Department of Health Policy, LSE)

Any questions about the conference can be addressed to:

Haoqi Qian, Associate Professor of IGPP, qianhaoqi@fudan.edu.cn

Ziteng Fan, Associate Professor of IGPP, fanzt@fudan.edu.cn

Rong Zhang, Director of Administrative Office of IGPP, fudan_lse@fudan.edu.cn