1999 PAR Award Winners

• Published date: 01 July 2000
• Date: 01 July 2000
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6210.00090

290 Public Administration Review • July/August 2000, Vol. 60, No. 4

PAR

Awards

1999

Dwight Waldo

Award

For Outstanding Contributions to

the Literature and Leadership of

Public Administration through an

Extended Career

Deil S. Wright is Alumni Distinguished Professor of political science and public adminis-

tration at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he has served on the faculty

since 1967. He previously taught at Wayne State University and the University of Iowa, as

well as holding visiting professorships at the University of California (Berkeley) and the Uni-

versity of New Mexico. He holds B.A., M.P.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of

Michigan.

His research and writing has covered a range of issues in public administration, state and

local government, federalism, intergovernmental relations, and public finance. He has authored

numerous books, monographs, research reports, and articles including three editions of Un-

derstanding Intergovernmental Relations and most recently edited Globalization and Decen-

tralization. He has lectured extensively overseas on U.S. federalism and intergovernmental

relations in the Far East, Australia, Africa, and Europe. In addition to research on decentraliza-

tion and administrative reform in Japan and Korea, he is currently involved in studying U.S.

devolution at the state and local level in the implementation of welfare reform.

He has been president of the Southern Political Association and chair of the ASPA Section

on Intergovernmental Administration and Management. He is a member of the National Acad-

emy of Public Administration and has served on the Director’s Advisory Committee of the

National Institutes of Health, and the North Carolina State Goals and Policy Council as well as

that State’s Internship Council. He is the recipient of several awards for distinguished schol-

arly contributions from sections of the American Political Science Association and the Ameri-

can Society for Public Administration.

Deil S. Wright

University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill