2000 PAR Award Winners

• Date: 01 July 2001
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6210.00041
• Published date: 01 July 2001

Awards 387

PAR

Awards

2000

Dwight Waldo

Award

For Outstanding Contributions to

the Literature and Leadership of

Public Administration through an

Extended Career

Patricia Wallace Ingraham is Distinguished Professor of public administration and political science at the

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. At the Maxwell School, she was also the

founding director of the Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute and the first director of the Government

Performance Project, a multi-year analysis of management capacity at the local, state, and federal levels. Dr.

Ingraham received her B.A. from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, an M.A. from Michigan State

University, and her Ph.D. from Binghamton University. She is the author or editor of nine books on public

management including The Foundation of Merit (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Putting Management in

the Performance Equation (forthcoming, John Hopkins University Press) and of numerous articles, chapters, and

monographs on the topics of administrative reform and human resource management.

Dr. Ingraham has taught and lectured widely throughout Europe, and in Canada, China, and Australia. She is

a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, an international fellow at the Canadian Centre for

Management Development, and an eminent scholar at the Chinese National School of Administration. In the

United States, she has served on the Department of Defense’s Defense Science Board for Human Resource

Management, the Public Advisory Committee for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the Comptroller

General’s National Advisory Board for the U.S. General Accounting Office. She was a project director for the

Volcker Commission and authored its Task Force Report on Recruitment and Retention in the Federal Civil

Service. She served as president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration in

1996–97. She was the chair of the Section on Public Administration for the American Political Science Associa-

tion and has chaired numerous committees for ASPA, APSA, and NASPAA.

Dr. Ingraham received the Midwest Political Science Association’s Herbert Simon Award for Career Contri-

butions to Public Administration in 2000. She has also received ASPA’s Levine Award for Excellence in Public

Administration, the Mosher Award, and the Career Award for the Study of Human Resource Management. She is

a recipient of the Distinguished Research Award from the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and

Administration and the Distinguished Research Award from Syracuse University.

Her current research interests include linking management to performance in public organizations, diffusion

of management reform and policy learning, and leadership in public organizations.

Patricia Wallace Ingraham

Syracuse University