Camilla Stivers Award

The Camilla Stivers Award recognizes the best article published in Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (PPMG).

           

2025 Camilla Stivers Award

The Public Management Research Association is proud to recognize Gabriela Spanghero Lotta, Iana Alves de Lima, Mariana Costa Silveira, Michelle Fernandez, João Paschoal Pedote, and Olívia Landi Corrales Guaranha as recipients of this year’s Camilla Stivers Award for their article, “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). Their work was selected for its exceptional contribution to scholarship on gender, equity, and democratic governance in public management.
Gabriela Spanghero Lotta Iana Alves de Lima Mariana Costa Silveira Michelle Fernandez João Paschoal Pedote Olívia Landi Corrales Guaranha

 

Purpose

The Camilla Stivers Award is given annually for the best article published in PPMG.

Eligibility

Eligible articles must have been published in PPMG during the applicable award year.

Application Process

Eligible articles are identified and reviewed by the award committee.

Eligibility

The PMRA Best Dissertation Award encourages and rewards exemplary public management research at the doctoral level.

Assessment Criteria

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

Award

TBA

Award Committee Chair

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

Past Recipients

 

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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