Organized Section 6: Herbert A. Simon Book Award

Public Administration Section Award Recipients

Herbert A. Simon Book Award
The APSA Section on Public Administration is accepting for its annual book award, the Herbert A. Simon Book Award, for significant contributions to public administration scholarship. The book’s orientation may be qualitative, quantitative, empirical, interpretive, ethnographic, historical, archival, normative, or theoretical. However, textbooks, revised editions of previously published books, and edited volumes are not eligible.

2018	Rachel VanSickle-Ward, Pitzer College The Deveil is in the Details. SUNY Press, 2014.
2018	Daniel Sabet, Social Impact Police Reform in Mexico: Infromal Politics and the Challenge of Institutional Change. Stanford University Press. 2012.
2017	Sean Gailmard, University of California, Berkeley Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
2017	John Patty, Washington University Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
2016	Manuel Teodoro, Texas A&M University Bureaucratic Ambition: Careers, Motives, and the Innovative Administrator. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
2014	Jonathan Koppell, Arizona State University World Rule: Accountability, Legitimacy, and the Design of Global Governance. University of Chicago Press, 2010
2013	Barry Bozeman, Arizona State University Public Values and Public Interest: Counterbalancing Economic Individualism (Georgetown University Press, 2007)
2012	Donald Moynihan, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Dynamics of Performance Management (Georgetown University Press, 2008)
2010	Paul Light, New York University A Government III Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It
2007	Arjen Boin, Leiden University The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure
2007	Eric Stern, Uppsala Universistet The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure
2007	Bengt Sundelius, Uppsala Universitet The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure
2007	Dvora Yanow, Cal State University, East Bay Constructing “Race” and “Ethnicity” in America: Category-Making in Public Policy and Administration
2007	Paul 't Hart The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure
2006	Henry Richardson, Georgetown University Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy (Oxford University Press, 2003)
2005	John Rohr Civil Servants and Their Constitutions (University of Kansas Press)
2005	Steven Maynard-Moody, University of Kansas Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Stories from the Front-Lines of Public Service (University of Michigan Press)
2005	Michael Musheno, Arizona State University Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Stories from the Front-Lines of Public Service (University of Michigan Press)