Announcements from APPAM

The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) selected winners for four distinguished awards: the Exemplar Award; the Steven D. Gold Award; the APPAM & ICPA-Forum Comparative Award; and the Best Dissertation in Public Policy and Management. These awards were presented to the winners at the Association’s 2014 Fall Research Conference held in Albuquerque, NM, November 6 through 8. Isabel Sawhill, Brookings Institution, was selected as the winner of the Exemplar Award. The Exemplar Award recognizes the work of an individual who has made major contributions to public policy by valuing the knowledge resident in academia and using research and analysis to craft innovative solutions to policy problems. This award serves to recognize extraordinary skills in policymaking and acts as a counterpart to those awards recognizing outstanding research. Ronald C. Fisher, Professor of Economics and Adjunct Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, Michigan State University, was selected as the winner of the Steven D. Gold Award. The Steve Gold Award recognizes a person who has made a significant contribution to public financial management in the field of intergovernmental relations and state and local finance. The award is given annually by APPAM, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and the National Tax Association, in memory of Steve Gold, an active member of all three organizations whose career and life tragically were shortened by illness. Global Expansion of Renewable Energy Generation: An Analysis of Policy Instruments was selected as the winner of the APPAM & ICPA-Forum Comparative Award. The authors of the winning paper were Sanya Carley, Associate Professor, Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA); Jennifer Brass, Assistant Professor, SPEA; Elizabeth Baldwin, Ph.D. Candidate, SPEA; and Lauren M. MacLean, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.