The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University is proud to be the host of the 11^th National Public Management Research Conference to be held at the School on June 2-4^th.  Since 1991 when the first conference was held also at the Maxwell School, the Public Management Conference has become the pre-eminent gathering for the leading scholars in public management research from around the world.  This bi-annual event is sponsored by the Public Management Research Association whose mission is “to foster multidisciplinary research from a variety of fields on government and governance.”  PMRA “supports the development of empirical and normative inquiry, theory building and systematic testing of theory consistent with the canons of social science, using the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies.”

The 11^th National Public Management Research Conference is also sponsored by:

• The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs 
• Howard and Louise Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management and Leadership
• The Department of Public Administration of the Maxwell School