The Beryl Radin Award
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.
The committee noted that despite an array of very high quality 2022 articles, Professor Lee’s stood out. The article provides JPART readers with an elegant, well-constructed, theoretically and practically significant article, and is a prime example of how qualitative research can be leveraged to advance compelling theory. The paper combines empirical analysis with extant theory to build a rich theoretical model and offer propositions that explain how conflicting accountability demands are best managed. Perhaps more importantly, Lee pushes theory to make an important contribution about how these conflicts can be used to improve collaborative governance. Implications for practitioners seem immediately useful.
Honorable Mention
Sarah Yde Junge, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, warrants an honorable mention for “Administrative Groupings and Equality in Public Service Provision,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 32 (2), 252–268.
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:
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.