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• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12772
• Published date: 01 May 2017
• Date: 01 May 2017

2016 PAR Award Winners 321

Public Administration Review,

Vol. 77, Iss. 3, pp. 321–322. © 2017 by

The American Society for Public Administration.

DOI: 10.1111/puar.12772.

Editorial

C ongratulations to the winners of the

2016 Public Administration Review ( PAR )

awards.

Dwight Waldo Award

Presented to a person who has made outstanding

contributions to research and the professional

literature in public administration over at least a

25-year period.

Guy B. Adams

Guy B. Adams is professor emeritus at the University

of Missouri Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs

where he has taught since 1990. Dr. Adams’s research

on public service ethics, symbolism, group relations

and culture in the study of organizations, and public

administration history and theory has addressed

relevant and timely issues facing public organizations.

His work has been recognized for its impact on public

administration practice and research through such

awards as the 1998 Louis Brownlow Book Award

from the National Academy of Public Administration

for public administration scholarship excellence,

the 2007 Marshall E. Dimock Award for the best

lead article in Public Administration Review, and the

2008 Faculty-Alumni Award at the University of

Missouri for distinguished contributions as a scholar

and teacher. Dr. Adams has also served in positions

including co-editor-in-chief of The American Review

of Public Administration and chair of American

Society for Public Administration’s Sections on Public

Administration Research and Public Administration

Education. The selection committee praised Dr.

Adams’s contributions to the scholarship and

application of public administration and proclaimed

him to be an excellent recipient who reflects well on

everything Dwight Waldo stood for.

The Dwight Waldo Award Committee: Rosemary

O’Leary (Chair), University of Kansas; Norma

Riccucci, Rutgers University – Newark; Edgar Ramirez,

CIDE, Mexico; Kelly LeRoux, University of Illinois –

Chicago; Eric Zeemering, Northern Illinois University.

Laverne Burchf‌i eld Award

Presented to the author of the best PAR book review.

Winner: Alex Ingram. 2016. Varieties of Open

Governance: How Openness Projects Organize and

Make Decisions. Public Administration Review 76(6):

982–985.

Review of Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness by

Nathaniel Tkacz.

Alex Ingram

Ingram explains the ways in which the Tkacz

work excels, namely its creation of an “openness”

vocabulary and theoretical structure, and where it fails

(the lack of connection to political theory or systems,

and the avoidance of the ways in which technology

can enhance or erode our notions of openness and

politics in separate fashion). Ingram clearly has a

grasp on the relevant literature and how this work can

find a place there, but he also is able to argue about

where the literature will be pushed by this addition,

which requires a familiarity that not everyone may

share. However, this does not in any way impede his

explanation of the work and its contribution, which

is testimony to the review ’ s clarity and Ingram ’ s ability

to engage the reader. All around, an excellent review.

The Laverne Burchfield Award Committee: Jill

Tao (Chair), Inchon University; Morgen Johansen,

University of Hawaii; Claudia Avellaneda, Indiana

University.

William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher

Award

Presented to the authors of the best PAR article by an

academic.

Winner: Joannie Tremblay-Boire, Aseem Prakash, and

Mary Kay Gugerty. 2016. Regulation by Reputation:

Monitoring and Sanctioning in Nonprofit

Accountability. Public Administration Review 76(5):

712–722.

Congratulations