The Public Management Research Association (PMRA) is a nonprofit academic membership association that furthers research on public organizations and those institutions they interact with, including nonprofit and for-profit organizations.  The PMRA grew out of the bi-annual series of public management research conferences and has attracted a growing membership base (to learn more about PMRA visit www.pmranet.org).  In addition, the PMRA now owns the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART), one of the field’s premier journals.  Both PMRA and JPART emphasize the linkages between the study of public institutions and their management and the study of public policy.  One of the goals of the PMRA and JPART is to foster multidisciplinary research from a variety of fields on government and governance.  The organization 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 methods.  The conferences have become increasingly popular and the competition for participation has become more intense.  Given this rise in demand, the 2011 conference will have facilities that can accommodate a greater number of panels and papers.  The Maxwell School at Syracuse University hosted the first of the PMRA research conferences and now twenty years later will serve as the host for the 11^th bi-annual conference, the foremost gathering of leading public management scholars in the US and around the world.