Conference is themed on ‘Rethinking State Capacity in Delivering Public Policy’; last date for complete paper submission is 15 June, while acceptance announcement date is 30 June

30 May, 2025, Bengaluru: The Centre for Public Policy (CPP) will host the XX International Conference on Public Policy & Management from 19 to 21 August 2025, at the institute campus. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Rethinking State Capacity in Delivering Public Policy’. The last date for complete paper submission is 15 June 2025, while announcement of acceptance results (for all categories of submissions) will be made on 30 June 2025.

For paper submission/registration, please visit: https://www.iimb.ac.in/cpp-xx-2025/cpp_login.php

For more details, please visit: https://www.iimb.ac.in/cpp-xx-2025/

The organizing committee of this year’s CPP Conference on Public Policy & Management comprises Prof. Rajalaxmi Kamath, Chairperson, Internal Committee; Prof. Arnab Mukherji, Chairperson, Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management (PGPPM); Prof. Allen P Ugargol; Prof. Rusha Das and Prof. Arpit Shah – all IIMB faculty from the Public Policy area.

The interdisciplinary conference draws scholars representing diverse perspectives on public policy issues and provides a forum for showcasing the latest developments in policy research and practice. The conference hosts pre-conference activities, academic sessions, topical policy debates, workshops, panel discussions and practitioner-oriented discussions on contemporary topics in public policy and management.

The conference is ideal for academicians, students, research scholars, policy practitioners, lawyers, NGO professionals and others with an interest in public policy.

The theme: ‘Rethinking State Capacity in Delivering Public Policy’

The modern state is anchored by regulations, schemes, organization and broadly, public policy, whose effectiveness is driven by the state’s capacity to deliver on its intentions. Development of theories and frameworks around State Capacity is an ongoing academic exercise. Building on State Capacity as a theoretical construct forces one to think about implementation issues, ex-ante, and if the same could be tackled by innovative design. Evidence around the world speaking of such innovations in State Capacity would be one way of looking at it. Monitoring, evaluating and learning from existing schemes, missions and programs and their lessons towards understanding existing State Capacity, could be another. State Capacity’s role in fostering economic and social development cannot be understated, but equally, the challenges of Politics and Political Economy need to be factored in while enunciating it.

From frameworks for expanding primary healthcare systems towards universal health coverage to strengthening informal labour markets, addressing climate change, advancing agriculture and financial inclusion, exploring pathways to a just transition in the face of socio-environmental changes, the exploration of State Capacity spans a wide array of critical themes. This conference welcomes papers and case studies tackling these issues, among others, building towards an ongoing corpus of literature in and around State Capacity in delivering Public Policy.

Call for Research Papers and Practitioner Case Studies 

Authors are invited to submit their original research findings and case studies relating to above-mentioned themes and other public policy topics under any one of the following two avenues:

A.     Research Paper – The full paper should adhere to the following guidelines:

• The topic of the paper should be directly related to public policy
• The paper should have a limit of 5000-8000 words and the abstract of 250 words
• Only British English needs to be used
• Paper submissions need to be made in MS Word format, Times New Roman font, 12 font size, 1.5 line spacing
• Author/co-author’s biography (2-3 lines) needs to be sent indicating affiliation, designation and contact details
• Checks need to be made for plagiarism, grammar, punctuation and spelling, before submission of paper
• During Signup/Login, aspirants need to indicate, in case their paper does not get selected for full paper presentation, whether they would be willing to include it as a poster presentation

B.Practitioner Case Studies – Policy practitioners from both the public and private sector, as well as researchers, are invited to submit case studies from their successful experiences in the field, challenges faced in policy implementation, and learnings that could drive policy recommendations.

• The word limit of the case study should be 5000
• British English needs to be used
• Paper should be in MS Word format, Times New Roman font, 12 font size, 1.5 line spacing
• Practitioner’s biography (2-3 lines) needs to be sent, indicating affiliation, designation and contact details

Please note that there would be no online presentation and all the candidates must be present at the venue. The selected papers are not published in any journal. However, abstracts are put together as part of the conference report which is mostly limited to organizational reporting.

Conference Venue:

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore – 560076

Contact Information:

Email: cppconference@iimb.ac.in 
Phone: +91 80 26993051/3323