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The Yearbook contains a detailed international listing of policy scholars with contact information, fields of specialization, research references, and an individual scholar’s statements of current and future research interests. The intent is to provide a reasonably comprehensive and accessible reference to the most recent scholarship on all aspects of public policy, as well as indications of future research directions.

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For public policy scholars, inclusion in the Yearbook is a great way to gain visibility and facilitate networking within the policy research community. Listing in the Yearbook is free of charge to all scholars (including graduate students) who do research in public policy.

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Evolving Scholarship in Public Policy

This marks the release of the fifth edition of the Public Policy Yearbook, which continues to serve as a useful tool for examining recent changes in public policy scholarship over the past several years. First, the Yearbook allows for a systematic way to identify the broader public policy community. The multidisciplinary nature of public policy research can make it challenging to identify the experts studying various policy problems, and the Yearbook provides a convenient and helpful instrument to do so.

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Remembering Paul Armand Sabatier

Paul Sabatier


June 17, 1944 –
Feb. 3, 2013

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Featured Policy Experts


Imtiaz Bhatti

The George Washington University
Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration

Substantive Focus:
Economic Policy
Governance

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Abel Afon

Obafemi Awolowo University
Urban and Regional Planning

Substantive Focus:
Environmental Policy
Urban Public Policy

Theoretical Focus:
Policy Analysis and Evaluation

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Public Policy Section Award Winners


Paul Pierson

University of California, Berkeley

2011 Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award for a book or article published in the last ten to twenty years that continues to influence the study of public policy.

Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics (American Political Science Review 94 (2) 251-267)