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)

2009 - 2010 Officers

President:
Sheldon Kamieniecki
University of California, Santa Cruz
Division of Social Sciences
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
sk1@ucsc.edu

President-Elect:
Mark A. Peterson
University of California, Los Angeles
School of Public Policy and Social Research
3250 Public Policy Building, Box 951656
Los Angeles CA 90095-1656
markap@ucla.edu

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

2010 Program Chair:
Mark A. Peterson
University of California, Los Angeles
School of Public Policy and Social Research
3250 Public Policy Building, Box 951656
Los Angeles CA 90095-1656
markap@ucla.edu

Editor, 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:
Ann Lin, University of Michigan
Ann Bowman, University of South Carolina
David Levi-Faur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chris Foreman, University of Maryland
Joe Soss, University of Minnesota
Peter May, University of Washington
Mara Sidney, Rutgers University
David Meyer, University of California, Irvine
Scott Allard, University of Chicago
Doug Imig, University of Memphis
Sarah Pralle, Syracuse University
Carolyn Tuohy, University of Toronto

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. Nominations should be received by February 15, 2010.

Award Committee Chair:
Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University
hochschild@gov.harvard.edu

Award Committee Members:
Ann Bowman, Texas A & M University
abowman@bushschool.tamu.edu

Doug Imig, University of Memphis
dimig@memphis.edu

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. Nominations should be received by February 15, 2010.

Award Committee Chair:
Paula McClain, Duke University
pmcclain@duke.edu

Award Committee Members:
Daniel Mazmanian, University of Southern California
mazmania@sppd.usc.edu

Carolyn Tuohy, University of Toronto
c.tuohy@utoronto,edu

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. This award carries a prize of 1,000. Dissertations must have been completed in the previous calendar year. 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, 2010. Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation to the APSA office.

2010 Award Committee
Chair: John T. Woolley
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Political Science
Mail Code 9420
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9420
woolley@polsci.ucsb.edu

Julia Lynch
725 Westview St
Philadelphia, PA 19119
jflynch@sas.upenn.edu

John Zysman
BRIE
University of California
2234 Piedmont Avenue MC2322
Berkeley, CA 94720-2322
zysman@berkeley.edu

The Excellence in Mentoring Award has been established to recognize sustained efforts by a senior scholars to encourage and facilitate the career of emerging political scientists in the field of public policy. Nominations should be received by February 15, 2010.

Award Committee Chair:
Scott Allard, University of Chicago
sallard@uchicago.edu

Award Committee Member:
Donald Haider-Markel, University of Kansas
dhmarkel@ku.edu

Beth Leech, Rutgers University
leech@polisci.rutgers.edu

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. All posters will automatically be reviewed by the committee; no nominations are required.