Leonard D. White Award

The Leonard D. White prize, supported by the University of Chicago is awarded yearly for the best dissertation in the field of public administration. It is named after historian Leonard D. White

Winners

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Year Author (Institution) Dissertation
2024 Sarah Rozenblum
Cornell University
Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts? The Role of Scientific Advice in Covid-19 Vaccine Policy in France and the United States
2023 Kaylyn Jackson Schiff
Emory University
The Digital Citizen: The Impact of Technology on Public Participation and Government Responsiveness
2022 Sarah James
Harvard University
When is Hindsight 20/20? The Politics of Acknowledging and Revising Failed Policies
2021 Anthony DeMattee
Emory University
Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs
2020 Angela Young-Shin Park
University of Kansas
Beyond Adoption: The Influence of Local Institutional Arrangements on Sustainability Policy Implementation and Management
2019 Chad Levinson
University of Chicago
Moral Subsidy: The Origins of Influential Extra-Governmental Organizations in US National Security Politics
2018 Jennifer Mei Jun Yim
University of Utah
Delinquency's Treatment: Why Interactions Produce Policy and Identity in Secure Juvenile Facilities
2017 Alan Zarychta
University of Colorado at Boulder
It Takes More Than a Village: Governance and Public Services in Developing Countries
2016 Bruce Jones
University of Texas, Dallas
An fMRI Study of the Reward Preferences of Government and Business Leaders
2015 Katharine Bradley
University of Michigan
Who Lobbies the Lobbyists? Bureaucratic Influence on State Medicaid Legislation
2014 Viridiana Rios
Harvard University
How Government Structure Encourages Criminal Violence: The causes of Mexico's Drug War
2011 Amanda M. Girth
American University
Accountability and Discretion in the Age of Contracting: When and Why Do Public Managers Implement Sanctions for Unsatisfactory Contract Performance?
2010 Mikhail Pryadilnikov
Harvard University
The State and Markets in Russia: Understanding the Development of Bureaucratic Implementation Capacities through the Study of Regulatory Reform, 2001–2008
2009 Zachary Oberfield
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Becoming the Man: How Street-Level Bureaucrats Develop Their Workplace Identities and Views
2008 Matthew Dull
University of Wisconsin
The Politics of Results: Comprehensive Reform and Institutional Choice
2007 Daniel W. Gingerich
Harvard University
Corruption in General Equilibrium: Political Institutions and Bureaucratic Performance in South America
2006 David Pitts
University of Georgia
Diversity, Representation and Performance: Evidence about Ethnicity in Public Organizations
2005 Sergio Fernandez
University of Georgia
Explaining Contracting Effectiveness: An Empirical Analysis of Contracting for Services among Local Governments
2004 Neal D. Woods (University of Kentucky)
and Young Han Chun (University of Georgia)
Rethinking Regulation: Institutions and Interests in State Regulatory Enforcement
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Goal Ambiguity in Public Organizations: Dimensions, Antecedents, and Comparisons
2003 No Award Given Not Applicable
2002 Gregory Huber
Princeton University
Interests & Influence: Explaining Patterns of Enforcement in Government Regulation of Occupational Safety
2001 Jered Carr
Florida State University
The Political Economy of Local Government Boundary Change: State Laws, Local Actors and Collective Action
2000 William W. Newmann
University of Pittsburgh
The Pattern of Foreign Policy Decision Making: Developing an Evolutionary Model
1999 Mark Cassell
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Public Agencies in a Private World: A Comparison of the Federal Republic of Germany's Treuhandanstalt and the United States' Resolution Trust Corporation
1998 Craig W. Thomas
University of California, Berkeley
Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity
1997 Amy Zegart
Stanford University
In Whose Interest? The Making of American National Security Agencies
1996 Sally Coleman Selden
University of Georgia
Representative Bureaucracy: Examining the Potential for Administrative Responsiveness
1995 Robert C. Lieberman
Harvard University
Race and the Development of the American Welfare State from the New Deal to the Great Society
1994 Marissa Martino Golden
University of California, Berkeley
Bureaucratic Behavior in a Political Setting: Reactions to the Reagan Administration in Four Federal Agencies
1993 James Anthony Falk
University of Georgia
Explaining Infant Mortality: An Assessment of County Governments in Georgia
1992 Bartholomew H. Sparrow
University of Chicago
From the Outside In: The Effects of World War II on the American State
1991 Alan Abramson
Yale University
Responsive Budgeting: The Accommodation of Federal Budgeting to Different Programs and Spending Regimes
1990 Shui Yan Tang
Indiana University
Institutions and Collective Action in Irrigation Systems
1989 Roy T. Meyers
University of Michigan
Microbudgetary Strategies and Outcomes
1988 Chris C. Demchak
University of California, Berkeley
War, Technological Complexity, and the U.S. Army
1987 John DiIulio, Jr.
Harvard University
Governing Prisons: A Comparative Study of Correctional Management
1986 Elisabeth Hollister Sims
University of California, Berkeley
Rural Development and Public Policy: Agricultural Institutions and Technological Change in the Indian and Pakistani Punjab
1985 Donald W. Chisholm
University of California, Berkeley
Informal Organization and the Problem of Coordination
1984 Rondal B. Hoskins
University of Georgia
Within-Year Appropriations Changes in Georgia State Government: The Implications for Budget Theory
1983 John Swain
Northern Illinois University
An Evaluation of the Public Choice Approach to Structuring Local Government in Metropolitan Areas
1982 Judith Gruber
Yale University
Democracy versus Bureaucracy: The Problem of Democratic Control
1981 J. Serge Taylor
University of California, Berkeley
Environmentalists in the Bureaucracy: Environmental Impact Analysis in the Forest Service and the Army Corps of Engineers
1980 John Edward Chubb
University of Minnesota
Interest Groups and the Bureaucracy: The Politics of Energy
1979 Daniel S. Metlay
University of California, Berkeley
Error Correction in Bureaucracy
1978 Frederic Allan Bergerson
Vanderbilt University
The Army Gets an Air Force: The Tactics and Process of Insurgent Bureaucratic Politics
1977 George Woodrow Downs, Jr.
University of Michigan
Bureaucracy, Innovation and Public Policy
1976 Robert Rich
University of Chicago
An Investigation of Information Gathering and Handling in Seven Federal Bureaucracies: A Case Study of the Continuous National Survey
1975 Arnold Kanter
Yale University and Harry Kranz
American University
The Organizational Politics of National Security Policy: A Budgetary Perspective and A More Representative Bureaucracy: The Adequacy and Disability of Minority and Female Population Parity in Public Employment
1974 James Norris Danziger
Stanford University
Budget-Making and Expenditure Variations in English County Boroughs
1973 Douglas T. Yates, Jr.
Yale University
Neighborhood Democracy: The Politics and Impacts of Decentralization
1972 Ezra N. Suleiman
Columbia University and Jessica Wolf
Yale University
Administration, Politics and the Higher Civil Service in France and Toward a Model of Inter-organizational Behavior: Two Case Studies in France
1971 Larry B. Hill
Tulane University
The International Transfer of Political Institutions: A Behavioral Analysis of the New Zealand Ombudsman
1970 Gary W. Wynia
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Policy and Bureaucracy in Center America: A Comparative Study
1969 Russell Murphy
Yale University
Policy Innovation and Political Strategy in an American City: The Formative Years of New Haven, Connecticut's Anti-Poverty Project
1968 Clyde D. McKee, Jr.
University of Connecticut
The Politics of Council-Manager Forms Having and Not Having the Partisan Election
1967 John Patrick Crecine
Carnegie Institute of Technology
A Computer Simulation Model of Municipal Resource Allocation
1966 No award given Not applicable
1965 No award given Not applicable
1964 No award given Not applicable
1963 Karl A. Hochschwender
Yale University
The Politics of Civil Service Reform in West Germany
1962 Simon D. Perry
Michigan State University
The Conflict of Expectations and Roles in Policy Science Behavior
1961 Laurin L. Henry
University of Chicago
Presidential Transitions
1960 Daniel J. Elazar
University of Chicago
Intergovernmental Relations in Nineteenth Century American Federalism
1959 Dean E. Mann
University of California, Berkeley
The Administration of Water Resources in the State of Arizona
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