The Camilla Stivers Award

Congratulations to Machiel van der Heijden as the winner of this year’s PMRA Camilla Stivers Award 2024 for his article in PPMG, “Liking or Needing? Theorizing on the Role of Affect in Network Behavior.”

Honorable Mention

Congratulations to J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Mila Gascó-Hernandez, Theresa A. Pardo on their Honorable Mention for their insightful PPMG article, “Making Sense of Open Government: A Conceptual Framework and Ideas for Future Research,” in this year’s PMRA awards in honor of Camilla Stivers.

Congratulations to Trine Pallesen and Kirstine Zinck Pedersen for receiving an Honorable Mention for their article, “Models of Human Fallibility: Traveling Behavioral Assumptions in Public Governance,” recognized under the Camilla Stivers Award.


The Camilla Stivers Award is given annually for the best article published in PPMG.

Past Recipients

2023 – “Complementary Bureaucracy: Reimagining Weberian Impersonalism with Indigenous Relationality” by Catherine Althaus, ANZSOG Deputy Dean (Teaching and Learning) and the ANZSOG Chair of Public Service Leadership and Reform at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, is the recipient of the 2023 Camilla Stivers award for Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Vol. 5 (2), 135-150.

2022 – “Artificial Intelligence and Administrative Evil” by Matthew M. Young, Johannes Himmelreich, Justin B. Bullock, and Kyoung-Cheol Kim, Vol. 4, No. 3, 244–258., wins the 2022 Camilla Stivers Award.

2021 – Greer, R. A., & Scott, T. A. (2020). A network autonomy framework: Reconceptualizing special district autonomy in polycentric systems. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 3(1), 59-76.

2020 – Joris van der Voet, Organizational Decline and Innovation in Public Organizations: A Contextual Framework of Cutback Managament, 2(2), 139- 154.