Why does APPAM have both individual and institutional members?
At the time APPAM was founded in the late 1970s, the plan was for APPAM predominately to be an institutional membership association that brought together the resources of public policy schools and policy research organizations to support a new conference and a new journal. These activities were seen as important professional opportunities for an emerging field of policy and management research. At that time, institutional membership offered a way for the fledgling association to raise the financial resources necessary to launch itself. Within a few years, however, the growing body of individual members asked for and achieved a voice in APPAMs governance by gaining the right to directly elect the Policy Council. In 2007, APPAM received 37% of its operating revenue from conferences, 19% from institutional memberships, 14% from individual memberships, 20% from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and the remainder from a variety of other sources. Today APPAM continues to attract
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