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Leonard D. White Award

Nominations for the 2024 APSA Awards have closed.

The White Award honors the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public administration.

The award, supported by University of Chicago, is presented at the APSA Annual Meeting and carries a cash prize of $750.

Nomination Information

Eligibility: Nominees do not have to be members of APSA, affiliated with an institution in the United States, or an American citizen in order to be considered for an award.

Dissertations must have been successfully defended within the previous two calendar years (dissertations for the 2024 award must be defended in 2022 or 2023).

Self-nominations are accepted. Nominations from non-PhD departments and institutions are also welcome if the nominee is currently employed there.

APSA will accept up to two nominations for the White Award per school or political science department.

Leonard D. White Award Committee

Chair: Dr. Thomas A. Birkland
North Carolina State University
tabirkla@ncsu.edu

Dr. Shelly R. Arsneault
California State University, Fullerton
sarsneault@fullerton.edu

Tim Johnson
Willamette University
tjohnson@willamette.edu

Listing of Awardees

Year	Author	Dissertation	Submitted by
2023	Kaylyn Jackson Schiff	The Digital Citizen: The Impact of Technology on Public Participation and Government Responsiveness	Emory University
2022	Sarah James	When is Hindsight 20/20? The Politics of Acknowledging and Revising Failed Policies	Harvard University
2021	Anthony DeMattee	Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs	Indiana University
2020	Angela Young-Shin Park	Beyond Adoption: The Influence of Local Institutional Arrangements on Sustainability Policy Implementation and Management	University of Kansas
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