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AWARD CITATION: THE CHARLES H. LEVINE MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE, 2003.
Charels H. Levine was a major presence in the IPSA Research Committee on the
Structure and Organization of Government and was deeply involved with the
Research Committee's official journal, Governance, serving on its
editorial board. His distinguished professional career was devoted to connecting
the worlds of theory and practice. Following his untimely death in September
1988, the editorial board of Governance and the SOG executive board
established an annual book award in his memory. The award is to honour the best
book in the fields of public policy and administration published in the previous
year according to the following criteria:
- it makes a contribution of considerable
theoretical and / or practical significance in the field of public policy
and administration;
- it takes an explicitly comparative perspective or
produces findings whose implications for comparative research are highly
significant;
- it appears in an accessible writing style and form
so that both scholars and practitioners might find it valuable to their
research and work.
The 2003 Levine Prize will be awarded too the best book published in 2002.
Nominations should be sent to the committee chair, accompanied by a copy
of the book. All nominations should be recived by 31 March. The Levine Prize Committee for this year consists of Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chair); John Witte, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh. They are all in political
science.
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