The first PUPOL International Conference
LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES IN A GLOBAL WORLD
Thursday 7 April – Friday 8 April 2016
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Submission deadline paper proposals: 1 December 2015
Conference website: www.ru.nl/imr/pupol/
PUPOL mailing list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/PUPOL
Societies have always faced challenging problems such as safety, poverty, and health care. Currently though these issues are transcending national borders as the world becomes increasingly complex. Besides these traditional challenges to the core functions of the state, global problems are emerging – including climate change, terrorism, and migration – forcing states to work together. To address such wicked problems, citizens look at political and public leaders and urge for their leadership. The aim of the PUPOL (Public and Political Leadership) international academic network is to contribute to solutions and help societies and their leaders address such challenges through scholarship specifically focusing on the role of leaders and leadership in the public and political domain. One way to achieve this aim is through organizing international conferences – the first of which will be held on 7-8 April 2016 in the Netherlands.
We are very pleased to announce that Professor Ludger Helms (Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Innsbruck) will hold the keynote lecture titled Leadership Challenges in a Post-Democratic Age.
Call for papers
Sessions are organized in which we offer participants the opportunity to discuss their research – be it at a fledgling stage, fully developed or anything in between. Paper proposals can be theoretically and/or empirically based, employ any of the existing methodologies (or introduce even new ones), as long as they highlight a specific (public or political) leadership topic linked to the conference theme. Paper proposals conveying research findings of interest to the real world are particularly encouraged.
Based on the full papers, the organizers will invite authors of six of the best accepted conference papers for a special issue on the conference theme Leadership Challenges in a Global World.