Camilla Stivers Award

Best article in PPMG on gender, diversity, or equity, named for the scholar who rewrote the field’s origin story.

Camilla Stivers’ Bureau Men, Settlement Women did something few books manage: it went back to the founding of American public administration and showed how deeply gender shaped it, who got credentialed as an “administrator” and who got dismissed as a “social worker,” even when they were doing the same work. That reframing opened space for a whole line of scholarship on equity and inclusion in the field. The award in her name keeps that project going, honoring the year’s best PPMG article on gender, diversity, or equity.

2026 Winners

Maeve Curtin and Caitlin McMullin — “The Co-Production Spectrum: Conceptual Blurs in Theory and Practice” (Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Vol. 8, No. 3, September 2025, pp. 144–157).

Maeve Curtin

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (PPMG)

Caitlin McMullin

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (PPMG)

Eligible articles must have been published in PPMG during the applicable award year. Eligible articles are identified and reviewed by the award committee; there is no separate nomination or application step.

Articles are evaluated based on originality, analytical rigor, contribution to governance scholarship, and relevance to public management research.

The award is presented at the 2026 Public Management Research Conference, June 4–6, 2026, at American University in Washington, D.C.

Award Committee Chair: Sebawit Bishu, University of Washington

2025 | Gabriela Spanghero Lotta, Iana Alves de Lima, Mariana Costa Silveira, Michelle Fernandez, João Paschoal Pedote, and Olívia Landi Corrales Guaranha

“The Procedural Politicking Tug of War: Law-Versus-Management Disputes in Contexts of Democratic Backsliding” (Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 7(1–2), 2024, pp. 13–26).

2024 | Machiel van der Heijden

Liking or Needing? Theorizing on the Role of Affect in Network Behavior.

2023 | Catherine Althaus

Complementary Bureaucracy: Reimagining Weberian Impersonalism with Indigenous Relationality

2022 | Matthew M. Young, Johannes Himmelreich, Justin B. Bullock, and Kyoung-Cheol Kim

Artificial Intelligence and Administrative Evil by, Vol. 4, No. 3, 244–258.

2021 | Greer, R. A., & Scott, T. A.

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.

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