| Year |
Author |
Dissertation |
Submitted by |
| 1959 |
Dean E. Mann |
The Administration of Water Resources in the State of Arizona |
University of California, Berkeley |
| 1960 |
Daniel J. Elazar |
Intergovernmental Relations in Nineteenth Century American Federalism |
University of Chicago |
| 1961 |
Laurin Henry |
Presidential Transitions |
University of Chicago |
| 1962 |
Simon D. Perry |
The Conflict of Expectations and Roles in Policy Science Behavior |
Michigan State University |
| 1963 |
Karl A. Hochschwender |
The Politics of Civil Service Reform in West Germany |
Yale University |
| 1964 |
|
No award given |
| 1965 |
|
No award given |
| 1966 |
|
No award given |
| 1967 |
John P. Crecine |
A Computer Simulation Model of Municipal Resource Allocation |
Carnegie Institute of Technology |
| 1968 |
Clyde D. McKee, Jr. |
The Politics of Council-Manager Forms Having and Not Having the Partisan Election |
University of Connecticut |
| 1969 |
Russell Murphy |
Policy Innovation and Political Strategy in an American City: The Formative Years of New Haven, Connecticut's Anti-Poverty Project |
Yale University |
| 1970 |
Gary W. Wynia |
Policy and Bureaucracy in Center America: A Comparative Study |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 1971 |
Larry B. Hill |
The International Transfer of Political Institutions: A Behavioral Analysis of the New Zealand Ombudsman |
Tulane University |
| 1972 |
Ezra N. Suleiman |
Administration, Politics and the Higher Civil Service in France |
Columbia University |
|
Jessica Wolf |
Toward a Model of Inter-organizational Behavior: Two Case Studies in France |
Yale University |
| 1973 |
Douglas T. Yates, Jr. |
Neighborhood Democracy: The Politics and Impacts of Decentralization |
Yale University |
| 1974 |
James Norris Danziger |
Budget-Making and Expenditure Variations in English County Boroughs |
Stanford University |
| 1975 |
Arnold Kanter |
The Organizational Politics of National Security Policy: A Budgetary Perspective |
Yale University |
|
Harry Kranz |
A More Representative Bureaucracy: The Adequacy and Disability of Minority and Female Population Parity in Public Employment |
American University |
| 1976 |
Robert Rich |
An Investigation of Information Gathering and Handling in Seven Federal Bureaucracies: A Case Study of the Continuous National Survey |
University of Chicago |
| 1977 |
George Woodrow Downs, Jr. |
Bureaucracy, Innovation and Public Policy |
University of Michigan |
| 1978 |
Frederic Allan Bergerson |
The Army Gets an Air Force: The Tactics and Process of Insurgent Bureaucratic Politics |
Vanderbilt University |
| 1979 |
Daniel S. Metlay |
Error Correction in Bureaucracy |
University of California, Berkeley |
| 1980 |
John Edward Chubb |
Interest Groups and the Bureaucracy: The Politics of Energy |
University of Minnesota |
| 1981 |
J. Serge Taylor |
Environmentalists in the Bureaucracy: Environmental Impact Analysis in the Forest Service and the Army Corps of Engineers |
University of California, Berkeley |
| 1982 |
Judith Gruber |
Democracy versus Bureaucracy: The Problem of Democratic Control |
Yale University |
| 1983 |
John Swain |
An Evaluation of the Public Choice Approach to Structuring Local Government in Metropolitan Areas |
Northern Illinois University |
| 1984 |
Rondal B. Hoskins |
Within-Year Appropriations Changes in Georgia State Government: The Implications for Budget Theory |
University of Georgia |
| 1985 |
Donald W. Chisholm |
Informal Organization and the Problem of Coordination |
University of California, Berkeley |
| 1986 |
Elisabeth Hollister Sims |
Rural Development and Public Policy: Agricultural Institutions and Technological Change in the Indian and Pakistani Punjab |
University of California, Berkeley |
| 1987 |
John DiIulio, Jr. |
Governing Prisons: A Comparative Study of Correctional Management |
Harvard University |
| 1988 |
Chris C. Demchak |
War, Technological Complexity, and the U.S. Army |
University of California, Berkeley |
| 1989 |
Roy T. Meyers |
Microbudgetary Strategies and Outcomes |
University of Michigan |
| 1990 |
Shui Yan Tang |
Institutions and Collective Action in Irrigation Systems |
Indiana University |
| 1991 |
Alan Abramson |
Responsive Budgeting: The Accommodation of Federal Budgeting to Different Programs and Spending Regimes |
Yale University |
| 1992 |
Bartholomew H. Sparrow |
From the Outside In: The Effects of World War II on the American State |
University of Chicago |
| 1993 |
James Anthony Falk |
Explaining Infant Mortality: An Assessment of County Governments in Georgia |
University of Georgia |
| 1994 |
Marissa Martino Golden |
Bureaucratic Behavior in a Political Setting: Reactions to the Reagan Administration in Four Federal Agencies |
University of California, Berkeley |
| 1995 |
Robert Charles Lieberman |
Race and the Development of the American Welfare State from the New Deal to the Great Society |
Harvard University |
| 1996 |
Sally Coleman Selden |
Representative Bureaucracy: Examining the Potential for Administrative Responsiveness |
University of Georgia |
| 1997 |
Amy Beth Zegart |
In Whose Interest? The Making of American National Security Agencies |
Stanford University |
| 1998 |
Craig W. Thomas |
Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity |
University of California, Berkeley |
| 1999 |
Mark Cassell |
Public Agencies in a Private World: A Comparison of the Federal Republic of Germany's Treuhandanstalt and the United States' Resolution Trust Corporation |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2000 |
William W. Newmann |
The Pattern of Foreign Policy Decision Making: Developing an Evolutionary Model |
University of Pittsburgh |
| 2001 |
Jered Carr |
The Political Economy of Local Government Boundary Change: State Laws, Local Actors and Collective Action |
Florida State University |
| 2002 |
Gregory Huber |
Interests & Influence: Explaining Patterns of Enforcement in Government Regulation of Occupational Safety |
Princeton University |
| 2003 |
|
No award given
|
|
| 2004 |
Neal D. Woods |
Rethinking Regulation: Institutions and Interests in State Regulatory Enforcement |
University of Kentucky |
| |
Young Han Chun |
Goal Ambiguity in Public Organizations: Dimensions, Antecedents, and Comparisons |
University of Georgia |
2005
|
Sergio Fernandez
|
Explaining Contracting Effectiveness: An Empirical Analysis of Contracting for Services among Local Governments
|
University of Georgia
|
2006
|
David Pitts
|
Diversity, Representation and Performance: Evidence about Ethnicity in Public Organizations
|
University of Georgia |
