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Call for papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critical Policy Studies group invites proposals for the 119th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, August 31 \u2013 September 3, 2023, held in Los Angeles, California, on the theme of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critical Policy Studies in an Age of Mis- and Disinformation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and other distortions of public information are not new, yet they continue to create challenges for policymakers and public policy scholars. Misinformation challenges application of rationalistic tools of public policy (like cost-benefit analysis, evidence-based policy or others). It can also challenge the implementation of selected policies, due to skepticism or disbelief on the side of the affected publics. In the age of mis- and disinformation critical, interpretative and ethnographic methodologies are particularly relevant. They rely on rebuilding the trust between policymakers, professionals and broader publics as well as demonstrate the role of values in policy-making. They can be used by scholars to demonstrate the contradictory, and sometimes exclusionary, consequences arising from apparently neutral decisions and policies. However, prevalence of mis- and disinformation also raises questions about the role and responsibilities of critical scholars in countering such distortions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critical Policy APSA related group welcomes individual papers and panel submissions that respond to the Annual Meeting 2023 theme and that focus on questions of rights and responsibilities in an age of mass- and disinformation. The topics may include the role of critical and interpretative methodologies in countering\/or analysing distortions of information, responsibilities of critical policy scholars, critical analysis of policies and strategies to address distortion of information in the public sphere, and others.
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The submission deadline is Wednesday, January 18, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submit your proposal here and join us in sunny Los Angeles!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Past Events:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Our group held a panel at the American Political Science Association\u2019s Annual Meeting & Exhibition<\/strong>, September 15-18, 2022 in beautiful Montreal, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada! Our theme for 2022 was ‘Critical Policy Analysis in and for Tumultuous Times<\/strong>‘<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last decade has been a period of radical disruption in politics and policymaking. This sense of disruption has culminated most spectacularly in the COVID pandemic but includes also upheaval associated with rising nativism and populism across the globe, accelerating inequality in many advanced capitalist societies, the looming climate emergency facing the world, and beyond. This panel offers an opportunity to reflect on what critical policy analysis has to offer in tumultuous times. The most influential works in this tradition have typically focused on unsettling taken-for-granted norms in politics and policy, and revealing hidden struggles beneath seemingly routine practices. But what insight do these traditions and approaches have in a context of rapidly changing norms and growing public contestation and polarisation? The classics in critical policy analysis have also used interpretive and ethnographic methods that generally rely on a stable foundation of trust and rapport with policymakers, professionals and practitioners, and everyday service users and citizens. But how do these tools and techniques translate to a context of unpredictable disruption and upheaval, isolation and fragmentation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The panel included presentations by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n