Organized Section 4: Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award
Public Policy Section Award Recipients
Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award
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 (20) plus years. The book or article should have had a major impact on the field. This award carries a $500 prize.
| 2018 | R. Kent Weaver, Georgetown University “The Politics of Blame Avoidance.” Journal of Public Policy, 1986. |
| 2017 | Frank Fischer, Rutgers University Reframing Public Policy. Oxford University Press, 2003. |
| 2016 | Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Simon and Schuster, 2001. |
| 2015 | James C. Scott, Yale University Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press, 1998 |
| 2013 | Theda Skocpol, Harvard University Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992) |
| 2012 | Lester Salamon, Johns Hopkins University Partners in Public Service: Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State (Johns Hopkins University Press,1995) |
| 2011 | Paul Pierson, University of California, Berkeley “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics,” |
| 2009 | Peter Hall, University of Washington Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France (Oxford University, 1986) |
| 2009 | Jennifer Hochschild, University of Washington The Shifting Politics of Multiracialism in the United States |
| 2008 | Anne L. Schneider, University of Arizona Policy Designs for Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 1997) |
| 2008 | Helen Ingram, University of Arizona Policy Designs for Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 1997) |
| 2006 | Charles Lindblom, Yale University Politics and Markets: The World's Political Economic Systems (Basic Books, 1977) |
| 2005 | Gosta Esping-Anderson, European University Institute The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 1990). |
| 2004 | James March, Stanford University Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics (New York: The Free Press, 1989) |
| 2004 | Johan Olsen, ARENA, University of Oslo Co-Authored with James March: Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics (New York: The Free Press, 1989) |
| 2004 | James March, Stanford University Co-Authored with Johan P. Olsen, University of Oslo: Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics (Free Press, 1989 |
| 2003 | Martha Derthick, University of Virginia The Politics of Deregulation (Brookings Institution Press, 1985) |
| 2003 | Paul Quirk, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign The Politics of Deregulation (Brookings Institution Press 1985) |
| 2002 | Deborah Stone, Dartmouth College Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision-Making (W.W. Norton, 1988) |
| 2001 | Frank Baumgartner, Pennsylvania State University Agendas and Instability in American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 1993) |
| 2001 | Bryan Jones, University of Washington Agendas and Instability in American Politics (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 Cobb, Brown University Participation in American Politics: The Dynamics of Agenda Building (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983) |
| 1998 | Charles Elder, Wayne State University Participation in American Politics: The Dynamics of Agenda Building (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983) |
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