I am organizing a panel proposal for COPPR 2024 on the application of policy process theories to regulatory and policy-making processes of AI and other emerging technologies (please find below the proposal).

COPPR 2024 (May 15-17) will take place at Syracuse University and proposal submissions are due Sunday, October 15th, 2023. Hence, if you are interested in participating, please send me your proposal by October 12, 2023 (paper title + 300 words abstract) to my email (juagutie@uniandes.edu.co).

It is possible to participate in person or remotely, so it is very likely that our panel will have a hybrid format. Furthermore, there will be limited funding support (registration fees and/or lodging) provided by the organizers.

If you are unable to participate at COPPR 2024 but you find this panel proposal pertinent for other colleagues, please feel free to circulate it.

Juan

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Call for papers: Application of policy process theories to regulatory and policy-making processes of AI and other emerging technologies

Abstract: Fourth Industrial Revolution, digital age, algorithmic society, quantum age, surveillance capitalism, informational capitalism, infocracy. These terms, among others, have been used to describe socio-technical changes driven by digital technologies at a global scale. Emerging technologies, such as computational algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, etc., are embedded in devices that are ubiquitous in people’s lives and in the way that governments, corporations, and civil society organizations operate. Since 2016, a wave of policies and regulations that aim at promoting the development and use of such technologies, as well as establishing mandatory rules regarding their adoption and implementation by the public and private sectors, have been discussed and/or adopted around the World.
The main objective of the panel is to discuss empirical and theoretical works that address the policy and regulatory agendas of AI and other emerging technologies in diverse political and economic contexts. The panel welcomes contributions that: identify the factors that contribute to shape agenda-setting processes associated with digital technologies; trace the incidence of diverse actors in the policy and regulatory processes; examine the different narratives that frame how problems associated with these technologies are understood and defined; study policy and regulatory changes through the lenses of diverse policy process theories (e.g. punctuated equilibrium, multiple streams approach, coalition framework); discuss whether policy and regulatory agendas are influenced by geopolitical dynamics; and, map different policy and regulatory trends and approaches regarding these technologies in different political systems.

Internal deadline to submit paper proposal: October 4, 2023.

Queries: Juan David Gutiérrez, Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes (juagutie@uniandes.edu.co).