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Over the past 40 years, public policy research has grown as an academic field studied in many countries. Involving a range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities including political science, public administration, geography, sociology, economics and law, this research has helped to develop our undestanding of many fragmented research, the first International Conference on Public Policy was organized in 2013 in Grenoble (France) and was met with incredible success, with over 900 participants from more tan 60 countries.Following this success and to support the development of activities, a non-profit association named the Internatinal Public Policy Association (IPPA) was created in December 2014. With its hedquaters based at ENTPE-LAET, University of Lyon-France, the Association supported the organization of the second International Conference on Public Policy in Milan, which ad even greater success with more than 1300 participants.More information