The Beryl Radin Award

Congratulations to Mihaly Fazekas, Romain Ferrali, and Johannes Wachs on winning the 2024 Beryl Radin Award for their insightful article in JPART, “Agency Independence, Campaign Contributions, and Favoritism in US Federal Government Contracting.”

Honorable Mention

Congratulations to Adam Harris, Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, and Christian Schuster for their collaborative effort and scholarly excellence with an Honorable Mention for this year’s Beryl Radin Award for their article in JPART, “Activating the ‘Big Man’: Social Status, Patronage Networks, and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies.”

The Beryl Radin Award is for the best article published in JPART. It is awarded annually and presented at the Public Management Research Association Conference.

Past Recipients:

2023 – Seulki Lee of Singapore Management University is the recipient of the 2023 Beryl Radin Award for “When Tensions Become Opportunities: Managing Accountability Demands in Collaborative Governance,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 32(4), 641-655.

2022 – Simon Calmar Andersen and Ulrik Hvidman of Aarhus University, “Can Reminders and Incentives Improve Implementation Within Government? Evidence from a Field Experiment,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 31(1), 234-249.

2021 – Justine E. Tinkler, and Jun Zhao. “The Sexual Harassment of Federal Employees: Gender, Leadership Status, and Organizational Tolerance for Abuses of Power.” 30, no. 3 (2020): 349-364. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

2020 – John B. Holbein & Hans JG Hassell. When Your Group Fails: The Effect of Race-Based Performance Signals on Citizen Voice and Exit. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 29(2), 268-286

2018 – Sebastian Jilke & Lars Tummers, Which Clients are Deserving of Help? A Theoretical Model and Experimental Test? Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 28 (2), 226-238.

2017 – Sounman Hong, Black in Blue: Racial Profiling and Representative Bureaucracy in Policing Revisited. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 27 (4),547-561.

2016 – Christine Kelleher Palus & Susan Webb Yackee, Clerks or Kings? Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the US Bureaucracy. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 26 (4), 693-708.

2015 – Richard M. Walker & Rhys Andrews, Local Government Management and Performance: A Review of the Evidence. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 25 (1), 101-133.

2014 – Jason Grissom, Is Discord Detrimental? Using Institutional Variation to Identify the Impact of Public Governing Board Conflict on Outcomes. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 24 (2), 289-315.

2013 – Kenneth J. Meier & Laurence J. O’Toole, Jr. Subjective Organizational Performance and Measurement Error: Common Source Bias and Spurious Relationships. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 23 (2), 429-456.

2012 – Stéphane Lavertu, Daniel E. Walters, & David L. Weimer. Scientific Expertise and the Balance of Political Interests: MEDCAC and Medicare Coverage Decisions. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 22 (1), 55-81.

2011 – Joe Soss, Richard Fording, & Sanford F. Schram. The Organization of Discipline: From Performance Management to Perversity and Punishment. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 21 (supplement 2), i203-i232.

2010 – Carolyn J. Heinrich. Third-Party Governance Under No Child Left Behind Accountability and Performance Management Challenges. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 20 (supplement 1), i59-i80.

2009 – Keith G. Provan, Kung Huang, & H. Brinton Milward. The Evolution of Structural Embeddedness and Organization Social Outcomes in a Centrally Governed Health and Human Services Network. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 19 (4), 873-893.

2008 – Christopher M. Reenock & Brian J. Gerber. Political Insulation Information Exchange, and Interest Group Access to the Bureaucracy. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 18 (3), 415-440.

2007 – David M. Van Slyke. Agents or Stewards: Using Theory to Understand the Government-Nonprofit Social Service Contracting Relationship. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 17 (2), 157-187.

2006 – Carolyn Hill. Casework Job Design and Client Outcomes in Welfare-to-Work Offices. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 16 (2), 263-288.

2005 – Young Han Chun & Hal G. Rainey. Goal Ambiguity in U.S. Federal Agencies. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 15 (1), 1-30.