Welcome to the Website for the 2008 ICPA!
ASPA, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (USETC), and University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (UMN) are sponsoring the 2008 International Conference on Public Administration (ICPA). The conference will be held at the University of Minnesota on September 24-26, 2008.The conference theme, Building Bridges to the Future: Leadership and Collaboration in Public Administration focuses on creating stable bridges to the future to ensure that issues and challenges such as privatization and information communication are turned into opportunities, not obstacles.
Now in its fourth year, the International Conference on Public Administration seeks to bring academics, practitioners and business leaders together to discuss issues of leadership in this era of globalization. What emerging public issues and challenges should we focus on to ensure that sound, principled governance worldwide moves forward, not backward, in the twenty-first century? This is especially the case with leadership and collaboration in public administration. New styles, strategies, and approaches to leadership are necessary as public organizations function more like networks than hierarchies in a shared-power world.
Among the issues are privatization and the spirit of entrepreneurialism, the Information age driven by enormous advances in information communication technology, the global pursuit of economic well-being accompanied by the diminishment of traditional trade barriers, response to disaster, the pursuit of democratic governance in combination with the rise of new global institutions such as the European Union, and leadership and collaboration in an increasingly dense network of public, profit-making, and non-profit organizations. Developing effective leadership and leadership strategies to address critical issues of public management today is essential to Building Bridges to the Future.
Please join noted academics, practitioners, and public and private sector leaders from around the world for a dialogue on these important topics. Come together to share ideas, experience, and build networks across boundaries - locally, nationally and internationally. Paper and panel sessions will be presented on topics of leadership and collaboration including but not limited to:
- Boundary spanning between private and public sectors
- Networking and collaboration within organizations
- Decision making quality and transparency
- Integrated leadership
- Learning from network failures - the Katrina disaster
- Capacity for ethical leadership
- Human resource investment in leadership training
- Accountability and ethics
- International experiences in networking
- Collaboration styles and strategies that work
- Innovation and change in public management
- Organizational hybrids and cultures
- Incentives and obstacles in collaboration
- Information technology and communication in networks
Paper Deadlines
Please note the following deadlines for abstract and paper proposals. Click here for the call for proposals.May 1 -- abstract deadline
July 15 -- final paper deadline
July 31 -- paper acceptance notification
For more information on the 2008 ICPA contact:
Antoinette Samuel, Executive Director, ASPA: tsamuel@aspanet.orgThomas Walkington, 2008 ICPA Executive Chairperson: walki004@umn.edu, or
Zhao Shurong Executive Director of 2008 ICPA: Zhaoshurong2001@163.com