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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes Spring 2006

La Follette to host national conference


Carolyn Hill

Alumni contribute to conference

La Follette School alumni Carolyn Hill and Kurt Thurmaier were among those contributing to the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management research conference in November.

Hill, an assistant professor of public policy at Georgetown University, served on the conference’s program committee. She graduated from the La Follette School of Public Affairs in 1996. She went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Thurmaier, a professor at Iowa State University and director of its Public Policy and Administration Program, had a paper, “Becoming Citizen-Centric Electronic Government: Understanding the Adoption and Satisfaction of Electronic Government Information and Services by Citizens,” presented by co-author Yu-Che Chen, also of Iowa State. Thurmaier graduated in 1983 from the La Follette School. He earned his doctorate from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.

The La Follette School of Public Affairs is proud to host the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management 2006’s national research conference Nov. 2-4, 2006, at the Monona Terrace.

The theme of the conference is “Tax and Spend: Designing, Implementing, Managing and Evaluating Effective Redistributional Policies.”

APPAM brings together policy practitioners and researchers to address substantive public policy problems.

David Weimer

“La Follette School alumni in Wisconsin and nearby states may want to take advantage of this conference,” says APPAM president and La Follette School professor David Weimer.

“APPAM’s emphasis on solving real social problems means our alumni can learn more about cutting-edge solutions to problems they encounter every day on the job.”

Weimer is one of several La Follette School faculty who contribute to APPAM’s governance. After serving as president-elect in 2005, Weimer became president on Jan. 1.

Maria Cancian stepped down as secretary and was elected vice president. She co-chairs APPAM’s Committee on Diversity and Equity.

Carolyn Heinrich and Geoffrey Wallace are on the Policy Council, APPAM’s board of directors. Heinrich also served on the program committee for APPAM’s research conference in November 2005.

Faculty present research at APPAM's fall 2005 conference

Eleven members of the La Follette School of Public Affairs faculty presented papers, served as discussants or chaired panels at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s fall research conference in Washington, D.C., in November.

“Much of the research presented at the conference assessed the impact of existing public policies,” says Weimer, who, in addition to chairing a session on regulatory outcomes and values, served as program chair as part of his duties as APPAM’s president-elect.

“The challenge for policy researchers and policymakers is to reshape policy in light of these assessments,” he says. “Another is to use our better understanding of the policy-making process to influence policy for the greater good.”

In addition to Weimer, these faculty participated in the conference:

More on fall 2005 APPAM conference

Index to La Follette Notes spring 2006