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The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice aims to stimulate the further intellectual development of comparative policy studies and the growth of an international community of scholars in the field. It gives priority to comparative studies that:

1. Contribute to comparative theory development;
2. Present theory-based empirical research;
3. Offer comparative evaluations of research methods;
4. Derive the practice implications of theory-based research;
5. Use conceptual heuristics to interpret practice;
6. Draw lessons based on circumstances in which the domains compared have certain manipulable policy, program or institutional variables in common.

Published four times per year, the JCPA is the only explicitly comparative journal of policy studies. It invites manuscripts that address public policy analysis and related public administration and management in this unique manner. The JCPA encourages the submission of articles advancing the comparative dialogue on policy disciplines such as immigration, health care, environmental protection, education, security or human rights, and functionally, technology transfer, public finance and budgeting, administrative reform, performance measurement and others. The Journal welcomes proposals for Special Symposia Issues and submissions to its Comparative Policy Statistics and Policy Innovation sections. Please visit our Call for Papers at www.jcpa.ca/icpaf/calls

All manuscripts are reviewed through the standard, double blind referee procedure and are subject to the review of the advisory board. The journal commits itself to a timely response. Authors are invited to use the www.jcpa.ca site to submit papers electronically and also to become members of the International Comparative Policy Analysis-Forum (ICPA-Forum) and join in promoting comparative policy analysis studies.

The JCPA is supported by a grant from the Office of Research Services and VP Research, Simon Fraser University.

Gold Sponsors:

• Bocconi University, School of Public Administration, Italy
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Public Policy and the Center for Competitive Economics, USA
• Charles University, CESES, The Czech Republic
• University of Pittsburgh, GSPIA and Political Science, USA
• Erasmus University, School of International Affairs, The Netherlands
• University of Plymouth, School of Social Sciences, UK
• National University of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore
• University of Victoria, School of Public Administration, Canada
• Simon Fraser University, Graduate Public Policy Program and Segal Faculty of Business, Canada
• University of Washington, Department of Political Science, USA
• University of British Columbia, the Sauder School of Business, Canada
• Victoria University of Wellington, School of Government, New Zealand
• Yale University, Yale School of Management, USA

Silver Sponsors:

• American University, School of Public Affairs, USA
• Queen' University, School of Policy Studies, Canada
• Australian National University, Department of Political Science and ANZSOG, Australia
• Syracuse University, The Maxwell School, USA
• Carleton University, School of Public Policy and Administration, Canada
• UC Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy, USA
• Central European University, Centre for Policy Studies MPP Program, Hungary
• University of Colorado at Denver, Graduate School of Public Affairs, USA
• Corvinus University, Department of Public Policy and Management, Hungary
• University of Hong Kong, School of Urban Planning and Management, Hong Kong
• Escuela de Graduados en Administración Pública y Política Pública, ITESM, MEXICO
• Hebrew University, School of Public Policy, Israel
• University of Madison-Wisconsin, the La Follette School of Public Affairs, USA
• NYU, The Wagner School of Public Service, USA
• Willamette University, ARP, Salem USA
• Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany 
• Manchester Business School, UK
• Hertie School of Governance, Berlin