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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 20, 2003
Contact Eric Landau, (202) 347-3190
- Two recent works on how to manage government effectively
have been awarded the Louis Brownlow Book Award, the top literary
prize in the field of public administration. Given by the
National Academy of Public Administration, the Louis Brownlow
Book Award recognizes outstanding contributions to public
administration literature. The National Academy of Public
Administration is a non-profit organization chartered by Congress
to give expert advice and analysis to government leaders on
issues of governance and management. Louis Brownlow, for whom
the award is named, was a renowned expert in public administration
who served as President of the Board of Commissioners of the
District of Columbia and as Chairman of President Roosevelt's
Committee on Administrative Management.
This year's co-winners are Collaborative
Public Management: New Strategies for Local Governments, by
Dr. Robert Agranoff and Dr. Michael McGuire, and The Transformation
of Governance, by Dr. Donald Kettl. The winning books articulately
address some of the most pointed and complex issues in government
today. Collaborative Public Management addresses the numerous
ways that city officials work with public, private and non-profit
organizations to meet the most complex challenges facing local
governments today. The Transformation of Governance suggests
that governance-the linking of government to its political,
social and administrative environment-is the key to understanding
how government works.
"The many books nominated for
this year's award address a diverse and exciting range of
public administration issues. The committee decisively agreed
that the two winning books-one about how government works
and the other about how to get work done in government-are
not only exceptionally well-written, but perfectly go hand
in hand with one another to address real concerns facing public
administrators today," said Fellow Norman Johnson, Chair
of this year's award committee.
Dr. Robert Agranoff, Professor Emeritus,
Indiana University; Dr. Michael McGuire, Associate Professor,
University of North Texas; and Dr. Donald Kettl, Professor
of Public Affairs and Political Science and former Director,
Robert M. LaFollette School of Public Affairs, University
of Wisconsin-Madison will receive their awards on November
21, 2003 at the Academy's Fall Meeting in Washington, DC.
Academy Fellow Norman Johnson, Professor
and Vice Chair, Management Committee, The School of Business
and Industry, Florida A&M University, was joined on the
2003 Brownlow Book Award Committee by Academy Fellows James
Banovetz, Professor and Director Emeritus, Division of Public
Administration, Northern Illinois University and Nanette Blandin,
Senior Staff Member, Center for Public Policy Education, The
Brookings Institution.
The National Academy of Public Administration
is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan corporation chartered
by Congress. Founded in 1967, it provides trusted advice to
leaders on governance and public management. The Academy works
closely with all three branches of government at the federal,
state and local levels; with nongovernmental organizations;
and with foreign and international institutions that request
advice or assistance. For more information, visit www.napawash.org.
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