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Best paper, PAQ 2022

Congratulations to Barbara Patrick and Aaron C. Rollins on the selection of their paper, "Delivering Culturally Competent and Equitable Police Services Via Social Media: Assessing Two Way Dialogue between Police Agencies and Vulnerable Citizens" as the best paper published by PAQ in 2022. We are pleased to make this scholarship freely available here.

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call for papers: nonprofit management for social change

ASPA's Section on Nonprofit Management has issued a call for papers for a symposium to explore how nonprofit and philanthropic research and practice might embrace its interdisciplinarity by developing theories and methodological approaches to challenge traditional ways of understanding and address wicked problems facing communities today. We invite you to submit original manuscripts on methodological approaches to nonprofit and philanthropic studies that embrace interdisciplinarity in a number of ways. Please see the attached for more details.

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Public-Private Partnerships in Alberta, Canada: Towards the Institutionalization of Policy Reform

MICHAEL OPARA
PAQ, Vol. 44 No. 4, 578-611 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.37808/paq.44.4.4

The deployment of public-private partnerships (P3s) in Alberta, Canada has stalled following the suspension of the program in 2016. While P3s have become increasingly popular, the dynamics of P3 institutionalization remain unclear and overlooked. In response to Casady et al.’s (2018) call, this study aims to investigate the nature and extent of P3 institutionalization using Alberta’s program as an effective longitudinal case study. This study finds that Alberta’s P3 program, facing the pressures of limited funding availability and a previously failed partnership attempt, was initiated as an experimental effort designed to fill a serious infrastructure gap and motivated by existential political interests, but without the necessary institutional and organizational anchors to ensure program stability, permanency and continuity. Furthermore, Alberta’s P3 program has become the object of ideological contestation between recent successive governments. Following Johnson et al. (2006), this study contends that Alberta’s P3 program has stalled at the “diffusion stage” and unable to transition to the “general validation stage” needed for its widespread acceptance as an institutionalized model of infrastructure delivery.

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