The department was well represented at the 2005 APPAM Fall Conference in Washington, DC. The following faculty and Ph.D. students were invited to serve on panels or as discussants on various themes of the conference which focused on"Understanding and Informing Policy Design".

Tom Birkland
Discussant on the panel "Disaster Management." On this panel, Michael Deegan presented his paper on "Extreme Event Policy Analysis"

Michael Deegan
Extreme Event Policy Analysis: A conceptual model for flood hazards using a system dynamics approach

Helen Desfosses
Panelist on the Roundtable: Teaching the Policy Process: New Approaches to an Old Staple

Fatilua Fatilua
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the FCC responses: Rulemaking in pursuit of an unclear mandate

Shawn Flanigan
Faith and the International “Contracting Regime”: Contrasting Faith- Based and Secular Voluntary Agencies in International Development

Do Han Kim
Measuring Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Discretion in Welfare System

Do Han Kim, Gerald Marschke, and Pascal Courty
Does Adjusting Performance Measures Reduce Cream Skimming?: Case of Federal Job Training Programs

Irene Lurie
Discussant on the panel "Social Entitlement Spending: Theory and Trends Across States."

Jeryl Mumpower
Chair of the session entitled "Implementing Democracy: Voting Policies and their Implications."

R. Karl Rethemeyer and Deneen Hatmaker
Policy Network Over Time: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry

Patricia Strach
The Politics of Policy Design: Federal Funding for Higher Education

Ryan M. Taylor and David R. Connelly (Western Illinois University) "Organizations aon the Edge: Introduing a General Analytic Construct and Empirical Tool for Measuring Hierarchy and Organizational Fitness"

James Wyckoff, Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb
How Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement