ISA's 54th Annual Convention - San Francisco 2013
The Politics of International Diffusion: Regional and Global Dimensions
April 3-6, 2013, San Francisco
Call for papers
Private
private-partnerships as vehicles for norm diffusion: but which norms?
In less than two decades public-private partnerships (PPPs) have emerged from
obscurity to become an established policy paradigm in global governance.
Nowhere is this approach to cross-sectoral collaboration more evident than in
the field of global health, where partnerships have gained acceptance as
advocacy coalitions, as financing tools supporting research and product
development, and as facilitators of health services delivery. The partnership
paradigm has now spread beyond global health to a range of other
development-oriented sectors including agriculture, gender empowerment,
environment and climate change, and water resource management. While the
utility of PPPs is widely acknowledged by academics and practitioners alike,
the role partnerships play in the diffusion of norms is less clear. This panel
aims to address this question by examining the ideas emerging from partnerships
that have gained traction within international public policy making arenas, the
means by which partnerships generate and disseminate ideas, and the degree to
which partnerships influence other actors in world politics.
We are seeking two contributions for this panel. If you would like to
participate, please send an abstract to either Michael Moran
[email protected] or Michael Stevenson [email protected] by Friday
the 25th of May.
Kind Regards,
Michael Stevenson
Michael Stevenson
Balsillie School of International Affairs
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
[email protected]
