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. Books published
during the two years preceding the are eligible. Nominations may
be submitted by publishers, individuals, or professional associations
with an interest in the subject matter. The selection will
be made by a committee appointed by the Academy. . A listing of previous winners
appears on the reverse side of this announcement.
The Award recognizes outstanding contributions
on topics of wide contemporary interest to both practitioners
and scholars in the field of public administration. Generally,
the Award is made to an author who provides new insights,
fresh analysis, and original ideas that contribute to the
understanding of the role of governmental institutions and
how they can most effectively serve the public. The Academy
committee seeks to recognize work which, in the above context,
best embodies factual accuracy, analytical thinking, readable
style in the constructive treatment of an important problem,
and/or significant development or performance of a government
institution. The permanence of the contribution to the public
administration literature and improvements in methodology
also are factors taken into account.
There is no restriction as to the official
or academic status of the author. Textbooks and collections
of essays written by a number of different authors are
eligible. An entry will be considered usually for only one
competition, that is, the first time it is submitted. A second
or later revision of a published work will not be considered
unless there has been a
revision including new material and/or new interpretation
of data.
If you would like one or more books, published
in the last two years, to be considered,
1997 - The Tides of Reform: Making Government
Work 1945-1995 by Paul C. Light (Yale University Press, 1997),
and The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's
Plan for Health Security by Jacob S. Hacker (Princeton University
Press, 1997)
1996 - The Political Economy of Public
Administration by Murray Horn (Cambridge University Press,
1995), and Strategic Budgeting by Roy Meyers (University of
Michigan Press, 1994)
1995 - Thickening Government: Federal
Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability by Paul C. Light
(The Brookings Institution, 1994)
1994 - Public Opinion and Policy Leadership
in the American States by Phillip W. Roeder (University of
Alabama Press, 1994)
1993 - Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions
in Modern Italy by Robert D. Putnam (Princeton University
Press, 1992)
1992 - The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks
and the Rise of the New Policy Elite by James A. Smith (Free
Press, 1991)
1991 - Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies
Do and Why they Do It by James Q. Wilson (Basic Books, Inc.,
1989)
1990 - Taming the Bureaucracy: Muscles,
Prayers and other Strategies by William T. Gormley, Jr. (Princeton
University Press, 1989)
1989 - Constitutional Dialogues: Interpretation
as Political Process by Louis Fisher (Princeton University
Press, 1988) and Who Guards the Guardians? by Martin Shapiro
1988 - The Search for Government Efficiency
by George Downs and Patrick Larkey
1987 - Making the Managerial Presidency
by Peri E. Arnold (Princeton University Press, 1987)
1986 - The Politics of Deregulation by
Martha Derthick and Paul Quirk (The Brookings Institution,
1985)
1985 - The Hidden-Hand Presidency by
Fred I. Greenstein (Basic Books, 1982)
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