JSGS Policy Change Lecture Series
The JSGS Policy Change Lecture Series features renowned speakers who address questions of change in substantive policy areas and in the manner in which policy is devised and implemented on a wide array of topics. The 2011-12 lecture series features:
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Bryan D. Jones is the J.J. “Jake” Pickle Regents Chair in Congressional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the Policy Agendas Project. His research centers on American public policy processes, including agenda-setting and decision-making. Jones is an author/co-author of ten books, including Agendas and Instability in American Politics and The Politics of Bad Ideas. Jones’ lecture, Human Nature and Public Policy: Behavioral Foundations and Policy Studies, will explore human nature and how it has influenced the development of policy studies, processes and design. Click here for the abstract, video and photos. |
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Jennifer Klein is a professor in the Department of History at Yale University, and is co-director of the Initiative on Labour and Culture. Her research spans the fields of U.S. labor history, urban history, social movements and political economy. Klein’s publications include the book |
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Genevieve Fuji Johnson is an assistant professor with the Department of Political Studies at Simon Fraser University. She is author of Deliberative Democracy for the Future: The Case of Nuclear Waste Management in Canada, and has published in many journals including the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Comparative Policy Analysis and Contemporary Political Theory. She holds a three-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant to study deliberative democratic practices in areas of Canadian public policy, including social housing, energy generation, and nuclear waste management. |
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Maarten Hajer is professor of public policy at the University of Amsterdam. In 2008, the Dutch Cabinet appointed him as director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). As director, Hajer is responsible for the strategic assessments and policy evaluations to facilitate political deliberation and decision making, ranging from environment, nature and land use, to water and transport. Hajer is the author of more the ten books, including The Politics of Environmental Discourse. |
