Bozeman receives NASPAA/ASPA Distinguished Researcher Award
The award recognizes an individual's research which has made substantial impact on the thought and understanding of public administration.
In selecting Bozeman, the committee notes that nominations, "speak to the depths of his research, the transformative effect of hisresearch, and the power of his intellectual work."
Bozeman's research focuses on public management, organization theory and science and technology policy. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including most recently, Rules and Red Tape: A Prism for Public Administration Theory Development (Sharpe Publishing, 2011) and Public Values and Public Interest (Georgetown University Press, 2007). The latter book won the American Political Science Association's Herbert Simon Award for best book published in public administration and public affairs. Bozeman's All Organizations Are Public (Jossey-Bass, 1987) helped establish a new research and theory approach to "publicness."
Bozeman's research articles have appeared in every major U.S. journal in the fields of public policy and public management, as well as such diverse journals as American Journal of Political Science, IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management, Research Policy, Economics of Education, American Journal of Public Health, Social Studies of Science, Managerial and Decision Economics, and Human Relations.
His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, NIST, Rockefeller Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, and Sloan Foundation.