Each year, the Working Groups’ Chairs and Project Directors forward the best papers presented in their respective Working Groups to a selection committee consisting of members of the IASIA Board of Management. The papers are then reviewed in line with the following criteria:

  • the relevance of the paper for the practice of Public Administration research and training
  • the relevance of the paper for the discipline of Public Administration
  • the relevance of the paper for the practice of public administration
  • Is a multi-disciplinary approach visible in the paper?
  • Does the paper contain a novel viewpoint?
  • The soundness and consistency of the argumentation
  • the originality of the research question/problem formulation
  • the quality of the theoretical grounding
  • the reliability and validity of the research
  • the significance of the findings
  • Is the research question/problem answered at the end of the paper?
  • the quality of writing
  • the readability and lay out


Winners of the past Pierre De Celles Awards were:

 

2010 : Wilberforce TURYASINGURA, Public sector competence development methods for effective service delivery in the global era: The “what” and “how” question- lessons from Uganda

2009: Benon C. BASHEKA, Social Determinants of Public Procurement Corruption in Uganda: Implications for the Delivery of Public Service

2008: Terrell G. MANYAK, Belay SEYOUM, The Impact of Public and Private Sector Transparency on Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries

2007: Pan Suk KIM, Jongsoon JIN, Action Learning and its Applications in Government: A Case of South Korea

2006: Bamidele OLOWU, From Capacity Building to Capacity Development. The Challenge of Attracting and Retaining Scarce Skills for Rebuilding African State (Governance) Capacities

2005: Christina W. ANDREWS, Michiel S. DE VRIES, High Expectations, Varying Outcomes: Decentralization and Participation in Brazil, Japan, Russia, and Sweden

2004: Robert CAMERON, Metropolitan Government Reorganisation in South Africa

2003: AM SINDANE, Public Administration versus Public Management: Parallels, Divergences, Convergences and Who Benefits?