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Brownlow Book Award Call For Nominations -- 2000

Since 1968, the National Academy of Public Administration has recognized outstanding contributions to the literature of public administration through presentation of the Louis Brownlow Book Award. Last year, Wendy Nelson Espeland's The Struggle for Water received the highest annual award issued for excellence in public administration literature.

The Academy is seeking nominations for the 2000 Award. Books published during the two years preceding the closure date of May 30, 2000 are eligible. Nominations may be submitted by publishers, professional associations, or individuals with an interest in the subject matter. The selection will be made by a committee appointed by the Academy. Each publisher or organization may nominate up to three books; each individual may submit one book. The nominators must include a statement explaining how the book is relevant to-and contributes to-public administration literature.

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 Award committee seeks to recognize work that, 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 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 not eligible. An entry usually will be considered 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 very substantial 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, please forward four copies of each book and a nominating statement for each by May 30, 2000, to Bill Shields at the address below: