Award Winners Public Policy Award Winners

Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award
for a book or article published in the last ten to twenty years that continues to influence the study of public policy.

2006	Charles E. Lindblom, Yale University Institute	Politics and Markets: The World's Political Economic Systems (Basic Books, 1977)
2005	Gosta Epsing-Anderson, European University Institute	The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 1990)
2004	James G. March Stanford University Johan P. Olsen ARENA, University of Oslo	Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics (The Free Press, 1989)
2003	Martha Derthick University of Virginia Paul J. Quirk University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	The Politics of Deregulation (Brookings Institution, 1985)
2002	Deborah Stone Dartmouth College	Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision-Making (W.W. Norton, 1988)
2001	Frank Baumgartner Penn State University Bryan D. Jones University of Washington	Agendas and Instability in American Politcs (University of Chicago Press, 1993)
2000	Elinor Ostrom Indiana University	Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
1999	Michael Lipsky Ford Foundation	Street-Level Bureaucracy (Russell Sage, 1980)
1998	Roger W. Cobb Brown University Charles D. Elder Wayne State University	Participation in American Politics: The Dynamics of Agenda Building (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983)
1997	Daniel Mazmanian University of Michigan Paul Sabatier University of California, Davis	Implementation and Public Policy (University Press of America)
1996	James Q. Wilson University of California Los Angeles	The Politics of Regulation (Basic Books, 1980)
1994	John W. Kingdon University of Michigan	Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policy
1989	David T. Ellwood Harvard University	Poor Support (Basic Books)

Award for Distinguised Contribution
recognizes creative policy analysis that has had a significant influence on the course of American public policy

1993	Mollie Orshanksy

Donald Campbell Award
for an outstanding methodological innovator in public policy

1989	Donald Campbell, Leigh University

Policy Studies Best Paper Award
for the best policy studies paper presented at the Annual Meeting

2006	Richard Fording University of Kentucky Sanford F. Schram Bryn Mawr Joe Soss University of Wisconsin	"The Color of Devolution: The Politics of Local Punishment in the New World of Welfare"
2005	Michele A. Gilbert Karen Mossberger Caroline J. Tolbert Kent State University	"Race, Place, and Information Technology"
2004	Craig Volden Ohio State University	"States as Policy Laboratories: Experimenting with the Children's Health Insurance Program"
2003	Soeren C. Winter Danish National Institute of Social Research	"Explaining Variation in Street-Level Bureaucratic Behaviors in Social and Regulatory Policies"
1989	Trudi Miller Leigh University	"Designing Social Structures: A Scientific Perspective"

Hubert H. Humphrey Award
for outstanding scholariship contributing to the understanding public policy practitioner

1989

Charles Levine

Harold D. Lasswell Award
for the best dissertation in the field of public policy, co-sponsored by the APSA Public Policy Section and the Policy Studies Organization.

2003	Kristin A. Goss Harvard University	"Disarmed: The Real American Gun Control Paradox"
1989	Martha Derthick University of Virginia

Theodore Lowi Award
for the best article in Policy Studies Journal

1989

Jeffrey Stonechash Syracuse University

"Inter-Party Competition, Political Dialogue, and Public Policy: A Critical Review"

Jeffrey Pressman Award
for the best article in Policy Studies Review

1989

William N. Dunn University of Pittsbrugh

"Methods of the Second Type: Coping with the Wilderness of Conventional Policy Analysis"

Excellence in Mentoring Award
for excellence in mentoring junior scholars in the field of public policy research

2006	Kenneth Meier, Texas A&M University
2005	Frank R. Baumgartner, Pennsylvania State University