Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)

1029 Vermont Ave NW
Washington ,  DC  20005

Phone: (202) 496-0130

APPAM is dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education.

APPAM is dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education.

APPAM is dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education. APPAM promotes its mission through the following activities:

**A multidisciplinary annual research conference that attracts the highest quality research on a wide variety of important current and emerging policy and management issues, and is structured to encourage substantive interaction among participants.
**A peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal that publishes the highest quality research on public policy and management.
**A dedication in all activities to respecting and enhancing racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, and other forms of diversity among participants in all of the Association's activities.
**The involvement of policymakers, practitioners, and scholars in the Association's governance and the Fall Conference.
**Initiatives that include and foster participation in the Association among students interested in public policy and management.


In 1978, the Sloan Foundation sponsored a conference on the public policy and management curriculum at Hilton Head, South Carolina. A proposal was made to create a new professional association of graduate schools of public policy and management.

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APPAM is dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education.