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FROM THE FOUNDING EDITOR
& SOCIETY FOUNDING PRESIDENT
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are happy to share with you the links to the new JCPA Vol 28:5, as well as information about our bi-annual Call for Special Issues. Note below our ongoing Book Talks Series and annual Executive Institutional Council Meeting, alongside our newly introduced initiatives Teaching Dialogue on Teaching Comparative Public Policy and Scholar-Practitioner Dialogue. We welcome University of Tel Aviv as international institutional member, as well as new members of our Lead Editorial Board.
On behalf of JCPA and ICPA Society, I wish you Happy Autumn Semester!
Professor Iris Geva-May
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JCPA CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUES ARE NOW OPEN!
The JCPA invites proposals for Special Issues that contribute to the development of comparative policy analytic studies.
See the Special Issue Call here.
Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 October 2026
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NEW JCPA APPOINTMENTS
We extend a warm welcome to recently appointed JCPA Lead Editors: Professors Michael Barzelay, London School of Economics, LSE; Hilligje Gerritdina van Dijk, School of Public Management and Administration, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Eduardo José Grin, INCT-QualiGov and FGV-SP, Brazil; Juraj Nemec, UMB Faculty of Economics in Banská Byrstrica, Slovakia; Cecilia Osorio Gonnet, Faculty of Government, University of Chile, Chile; Marius Profiroiu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania; Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Columbia University, US, and Chrysostomos Tabakis, KAPSARC School of Public Policy, Saudi Arabia. We look forward to working with them!
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THANK YOU!
We thank Professors Pablo Bulcourf, Book Review Special Section Co-Editor, and Nelson Cardozo, ICPA Society South America Coordinator, for supporting our Journal’s success and the Society’s activities. We hope they will remain active in the work of the JCPA and ICPA Society.
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WELCOME UNIVERSITY OF TEL AVIV AS AN INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER!
We welcome the Faculty of Government, University of Tel Aviv as an institutional member in our International Institutional Membership Program and Prof. Ravit Hananel as a representative of the institution to the Executive International Institutional Council.
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BECOME AN INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER
and part of the community steering the field of comparative policy studies. Members have a seat on the Executive International Institutional Council and unique benefits, visibility, and international research and publication collaboration opportunities.
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UPCOMING ICPA TEACHING ROUNDTABLE: TEACHING COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY
We are happy to initiate our new project, ICPA Society Teaching Roundtable: Teaching Comparative Public Policy - Global Perspectives and Local Challenges, first session happening on October 22, 2026.
This roundtable of experts is a dispatch from the frontlines in Canada, Europe, India, and Turkiye. Hosted by Dr. Leslie A. Pal, Vice-President, ICPA; Professor Emeritus Carleton University and Hamad Bin Khalifa University, our guests are Professors Caner Bakir, Koc University, Turkiye, Devanyi Pande, National Law School of India; Peter Scholten, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Dr. S. Derin Atiskan, Executive Director, ICPA and JCPA. We will discuss the challenges and techniques of teaching comparative public policy and policy analysis at the graduate level, the impact of AI, and strategies for enhancing the student experience.
DATE: Thursday, October 22, 2026
TIME: 04:00 PM Rotterdam (CET) / 5:00 PM Istanbul and Doha / 10:00 AM Ottawa (EST)
Zoom Meeting Link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85483586754?pwd=0LP2Pqba8G1klQHpnMUASKEe1Cx5gv.1
Meeting ID: 854 8358 6754
Passcode: ICPA
We look forward to seeing you there!
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BOOK TALKS SERIES (See ALL Video Recordings)
Please follow our further announcements for the schedule of 2026-2027 academic year. Should you be interested to promote your publication, please contact us. Institutional members faculty have priority.
BOOK TALK 10: Public Policy in Democratic Backsliding – How Illiberal Populists Engage With the Policy Process
Professor Leslie A. Pal will host Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva; Wick Cary Associate Professor of International and Area Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Brazil Studies, University of Oklahoma, US and Alexandre de Ávila Gomide; Tenured Researcher, Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil to discuss their edited book.
This book examines the impact of democratic backsliding and populist governments on the public policy process. Drawing on case studies from the USA, Brazil, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Turkey, and the Philippines, it assesses how elected populist governments have eroded policy capabilities and dismantled state apparatuses responsible for making and implementing policy.
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Date: Monday, October 19, 2026
Time: 10 AM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time- US and Canada); 9 AM CDT (Central Daylight Time); 4 PM CEST (Central European Summer Time)
Zoom Meeting Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81597886013?pwd=toHAWaEMKfcliWGvEwyZ5eK0X1rNYO.1
Meeting ID: 872 2373 4720
Passcode: ICPA
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BOOK TALK 9: Policy Innovations from the Global South – Will the North Ever Learn? - took place on September 15, 2026 (See Video Recording)
Professor Leslie A. Pal hosted the book editors, Professors Achim Kemmerling, Vice Director, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany; Hasnain Bokhari; Head of Digital Policy and Artificial Intelligence, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany; and Luicy Pedroza; Research Professor, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México.
This book challenges the conventional North-to-South direction of policy diffusion by examining how policy learning flows from the Global South to the Global North. We thank the book editors for this highly engaging discussion.
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UPCOMING INSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL MEETING IN BARCELONA IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER DIALOGUE
We are excited to share that the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) will host our upcoming annual ICPA Society and JCPA Executive Institutional Council Meeting on December 2, 2026, in Barcelona, Spain.
NEW SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER DIALOGUE STREAM
As the title of the JCPA, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, indicates, we are opening a Scholar-Practitioner Dialogue standing initiative. We thank Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) for their collaboration and the opportunity to have this workshop.
The two-day Workshop, December 3–4, will take place in conjunction with the Council meeting. CIDOB is a collaborating partner in this year’s event. This gathering will bring together researchers, policy experts, and institutional partners for collaborative conversations and comparative lesson drawing on the future of EU migration policy.
A warm thank you to our hosts at IBEI and CIDOB for their cooperation. We will share the full program details and registration updates as we get closer to December!
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