Governance
An International Journal of Policy, Administration
                                and Institutions

THE CHARLES A. LEVINE MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE

Charles A. Levine was an outstanding scholar in the fields of public policy and administration. He played a major role in the creation and early life of both this journal and its owner, the Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of the International Political Science Association (SOG). After his untimely death in 1988, the Editorial Board of Governance and the Executive Committee of SOG established an annual book prize in his memory.

The book selected should meet the following criteria:

1. It makes a contribution of considerable theoretical or practical significance in the field of public policy and administration.

2. It takes an explicitly comparative perspective or produces findings the implications of which ware highly significant for comparative research.

3. It is written in an accessible style and form so that it is of value both to scholars and practitioners.

Each year the Levine Prize will be awarded to the book published in the previous year that best meets these criteria. Announcement of the names and contact information of the year's nomination committee will be published in the first issue of the calendar year. Nominations should be made by March 31 and sent to the chair of the committee. A copy of the nominated book should be sent to all three members of the committee.

Note: Please ensure that books being nominated will reach all three members of the committee BY MARCH 31 of each year.

 

MEMBERS OF THE 2009 COMMITTEE:

Dr. Barry Rabe

Chair of the Levine Prize Committee

Gerald Ford School of Public Policy

University of Michigan

735 S. State St., 5234 Weill Hall

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091 USA

Phone (734) 615-9596

Fax (734) 615-4623

Email: brabe@umich.edu

 

Dr. Graham Wilson
Department of Political Science
Boston University
232 Bay State Road
Boston MA 02215 USA
Phone: (617) 353-2545
Fax: (617) 353-5508

EMAIL: gkwilson@bu.edu

 

Dr. Mirko Noordegraaf
Utrecht School of Governance(USG)
University of Utrecht
Bijlhouwerstraat 6
3511 ZC  Utrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: + 31 30 253 8617

Fax: + 31 30 253 72 00
EMAIL: m.noordegraaf@uu.nl

 

PAST LEVINE PRIZE WINNERS

2008 Levine Prize to Mark Thatcher for Internationalisation and Economic Institutions: Comparing the European Experiences (Oxford University Press, 2007)

2007 Levine Prize to Alasdair Roberts for Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

2006 Levine Prize to Herrington J. Bryce for Players in the Public Policy Process: Nonprofits as Social Capital and Agents (Palgrave/MacMillan)

2005 Levine Prize to Atul Kohli for State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

2004 Levine Prize to Jonathan Malloy for Between Colliding Worlds: The Ambiguous Existence of Government Agencies for Aboriginal and Women’s Policy (University of Toronto Press, 2003)

2003 Levine Prize to Mark Cassell for How Governments Privatize: The Politics of Divestment in the United States and Germany (Georgetown University Press, 2002)

2002 Levine Prize to Daniel P. Carpenter for The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928 (Princeton University Press, 2001)

2001 Prize to Elliott D. Sclar for You Don’t Always Get What you Pay For: The Economics of Privatization (Cornell University Press, 2000)

2000 Prize to Susan Rose-Ackerman for Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform (Cambridge University Press, 1999)

1999 Prize to Colin Campbell for The US Presidency in Crisis: A Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1998)

1998 Prize to Delmer Dunn for Politics and Administration at the Top (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997)

1997 Prize to Jos é Edgardos Campos and Hilton L. Root for The Key to the Asian Miracle: Making Shared Growth Credible (The Brookings Institution, 1996)

1996 Prize to Peter Aucoin for The New Public Management: Canada in Comparative Perspective (Quebec Institute for Public Policy Research, 1995)

1995 Prize to Bryan D. Jones for Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice and Public Policy (Chicago University Press, 1994)

1994 Prize to Robert D. Putnam (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti) for Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton University Press, 1993)

1993 Prize to Colin J. Bennett for Regulating Privacy: Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992)

1992 Prize to Merilee S. Grindle and John W. Thomas for Public Choices and Policy Change : The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991)

1991 Prize to J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Jerald Hage, and Robert A. Hanneman for State Intervention in Medical Care: Consequences for Britain, France, Sweden, and the United States, 1890-1970 ( Cornell University Press, 1990)

1990 Prize to Michael M. Atkinson and William D. Coleman for The State, Business, and Industrial Change in Canada (State and Economic Life)(University of Toronto Press, 1989)