Public Policy

Membership

Section List

Public Policy

The Organized Section on Public Policy is committed to producing rigorous empirical and theoretical knowledge of the processes and products of governing and the application of that knowledge to critical policy issues.

Website: www.apsapolicysection.org/

Journal: Policy Studies Journal (cooperative production of The Policy Studies Organization and The Public Policy Organized Section)

2011 - 2012 Officers

President:
Mara Sidney
Rutgers University, Newark
Political Science
360 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
7th Floor, Hill Hall
Newark NJ 07102
msidney@andromeda.rutgers.edu

President-Elect:
Andrea Campbell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Political Science
77 Massachusetts Ave
Room E53-461
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
acampbel@mit.edu

Secretary/Treasurer:
David Hedge
University of Florida
Political Science
P.O. Box 117325
Anderson Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611-7325
dhedge@polisci.ufl.edu

2012 Program Chair:
Andrea Campbell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Political Science
77 Massachusetts Ave
Room E53-461
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
acampbel@mit.edu

Editors, Policy Studies Journal
Peter deLeon
University of Colorado, Denver
School of Public Affairs
1380 Lawrence St., Suite 500
Denver, CO 80204
peter.deleon@cudenver.edu

Chris Weible
University of Colorado Denver
School of Public Affairs
1380 Lawrence Street - Suite 500
Denver, CO 80204
chris.weible@ucdenver.edu

Executive Council:
2009-2012
Scott Allard, University of Chicago
Doug Imig, University of Memphis
Sarah Pralle, Syracuse University
Carolyn Tuohy, University of Toronto

2010-2013
Lisa Garcia Bedolla, University of California, Berkeley
Khalilah Brown-Dean, Yale University
Joseph P. McCormick, Pennsylvania State University, York
Patricia Strach, University at Albany, SUNY

2011-2014
Thomas Gais, University at Albany, SUNY
David Levi-Faur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Susan Moffitt, Brown University
Neal Woods, University of South Carolina

Awards

Previous Award Recipients

The Best Paper on Public Policy Award is given for the best paper on Public Policy given at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. This award carries a prize of $500. Nominations should be received by February 15, 2012.

Award Committee Chair:
TBA

Award Committee Members:
TBA

The Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award is given for the best book or article published in the general area of public policy during the past twenty plus years. The book or article should have had a major impact on the field. This award carries a prize of $500. Nominations should be received by February 15, 2012.

Award Committee Chair:
TBA

Award Committee Members:
TBA

The Harold D. Lasswell Award is awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the field of public policy. It is co-sponsored by the Policy Studies Association and the Public Policy Section. Dissertations must have been completed in the previous calendar year. This award carries a prize of 1,000.

Departments are requested to submit a letter of nomination and a copy of the dissertation to each award committee member, and a letter of nomination only to the APSA office by January 15, 2012. Copies of the dissertation are not to be submitted to the APSA office.

Award Committee Members:
TBA

The Excellence in Mentoring Award has been established to recognize sustained efforts by a senior scholar to encourage and facilitate the career of emerging political scientists in the field of public policy. This award carries a prize of $500. Nominations should be received by February 15, 2012.

Award Committee Chair:
TBA

Award Committee Members:
TBA

The Best Poster on Public Policy Award is given for the best paper or poster presented at the poster session at the previous APSA meeting. This award carries a prize of $500. Nominations should be received by February 15, 2012.

Award Committee Chair:
TBA

Award Committee Members:
TBA

The Theodore J. Lowi Policy Studies Journal Best Article Award is given to recognize an article of particular distinction published at any time in Policy Studies Journal. This award carries a prize of $500. Nominations should be received by February 15, 2012.

Award Committee Chair:
TBA

Award Committee Members:
TBA

The Best Comparative Policy Paper Award is given to recognize an article of particular distinction published in the area of comparative public policy, awarded in collaboration with the International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum/Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. . This award carries a prize of $1000. Nominations should be received by February 15, 2012.

Award Committee Chair:
TBA

Award Committee Members:
TBA