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:
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?