Leonard D. White Award Recipients
| Year | Author | Dissertation | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Chad Levinson | Moral Subsidy: The Origins of Influential Extra-Governmental Organizations in US National Security Politics | University of Chicago |
| 2018 | Jennifer Mei Jun Yim | Delinquency's Treatment: Why Interactions Produce Policy and Identity in Secure Juvenile Facilities | University of Utah |
| 2017 | Alan Zarychta | It Takes More Than a Village: Governance and Public Services in Developing Countries | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| 2016 | Bruce Jones | An fMRI Study of the Reward Preferences of Government and Business Leaders | University of Texas, Dallas |
| 2015 | Katharine Bradley | Who Lobbies the Lobbyists? Bureaucratic Influence on State Medicaid Legislation | University of Michigan |
| 2014 | Viridiana Rios Contreras | How Government Structure Encourages Criminal Violence: The Causes of Mexico's Drug War | Harvard University |
| 2013 | Deondra E. Rose | The Development of U.S. Higher Education Policy and its Impact on the Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship | Cornell University |
| 2012 | Quinn W. Mulroy | Public Regulation through Private Litigation: The Regulatory Power of Private Lawsuits and the American Bureaucracy | Columbia University |
| 2011 | Amanda M. Girth | Accountability and Discretion in the Age of Contracting: When and Why Do Public Managers Implement Sanctions for Unsatisfactory Contract Performance? | American University |
| 2010 | Mikhail Pryadilnikov | The State and Markets in Russia: Understanding the Development of Bureaucratic Implementation Capacities through the Study of Regulatory Reform, 2001-2008 | Harvard University |
| 2009 | Zachary Oberfield | Becoming the Man: How Street-Level Bureaucrats Develop Their Workplace Identities and Views | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2008 | Matthew Dull | The Politics of Results: Comprehensive Reform and Institutional Choice | University of Wisconsin |
| 2007 | Daniel W. Gingerich | Corruption in General Equilibrium: Political Institutions and Bureaucratic Performance in South America | Harvard University |
| 2006 | David Pitts | Diversity, Representation and Performance: Evidence about Ethnicity in Public Organizations | University of Georgia |