| 2025 Awards | |
| Wen Wang Award for Best Young Scholar Paper | Yingnan Zhang (Zhejiang University) and Shenghua Lu (Zhejiang University) “Food Politics in China: How Strengthened Accountability Enhances Food Security.” Food Policy, 128 (2024) 102692 |
| CAAPA Best Student Paper Award | Aparajita Datta (University of Houston) “Policy Feedback, Energy Equity, and Climate Justice: Can Existing Policies Improve Solar Access for Low- and Moderate-Income Communities in the United States?” PS: Political Science&Politics, 2024, 57(4): 463 – 472. |
| CAAPA Dissertation Fellowship | Ying Liu (Rutgers University- Newark) “Hidden Figures: Essays on Women’s Representation and Its Bureaucratic Outcomes.” Tingli Qu (American University) “Unpacking Interlocal Collaboration Through Spatial Interdependence: New Insights from U.S. Emergency Management.” |
| CAAPA Student Travel Award (Cycle 1) | Tipeng Chen (Arizona State University) “Serving the Public as Civil Servants or Citizens? Exploring the Impact of Public Participation and Job Satisfaction on Public Employees’ Volunteering.” Public Management Research Conference (PMRC), June 2025, Seoul, SK Pan Chao (Zhejiang University) “The Impact of Workplace Stereotypes on Non-standard Public Employees.” American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Annual Meeting, April 2025, Washington D.C, U.S. |
| 2024 Awards | |
| Wen Wang Award for Best Young Scholar Paper | Tianyi Xiang (Peking University) and Yifan Chen (Shanghai Jiaotong University) “To Coordinate or Not? A Configurational Approach to Understand Public Organizations’ Emergency Preparedness Coordination.” Public Administration Review, 84(5), 817-832. |
| CAAPA Best Student Paper Award | Jun Zhang (Syracuse University) and Yuanyuan Zhang (Tsinghua University) “Organizational Diffusion in the Judicial Administration: An Event History Analysis on the Diffusion of Environmental Courts in China.” Paper presented at the 2023 PMRC conference. |
| Inaugural CAAPA Dissertation Fellowship | Binzi Dongbin (City University of Hong Kong) “Stakeholder Salience in Public E-Health Public Value Co-Creation.” Meng Ye (Georgia State University) “Nonprofit Commercialization: Three Essays Examining Its Implications for Social Mission, DEI, and Public Perceptions.” |
| 2023 Awards | |
| Wen Wang Award for Best Young Scholar Paper | Xin Chen, Sun Yat-sen University “Local Autonomy and Service Delivery: How Does Home Rule Shape the Provision of Local Public Services?”. Public Management Review, 26(1), 1-24. |
| CAAPA Best Student Paper Award | Shuyi Deng, University of Minnesota “The Cost of Color? Race-conscious Mission Statements and Nonprofit Funding.” Paper presented at the 2020 ARNOVA Conference. |
| 2022 Awards | |
| Wen Wang Award for Best Young Scholar Paper | Wenhui Yang, Peking University “Can Social Welfare Buy Mass Loyalty” (with Xiaoxiao Shen), Governance, 34(4): 1213-1233. |
| CAAPA Best Student Paper Award | Yixin Liu, Florida State University “Micro Foundations of Network Formation: Experimental Evidence from American Municipal Governments.” Paper presented at the 2021 Public Management Research Conference. |
| 2021 Awards | |
| Wen Wang Award for Best Young Scholar Paper | Pan Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University “Target Interactions and Target Aspiration Level Adaptation: How Do Government Leaders Tackle the “Environment-Economy” Nexus?” Public Administration Review, 2021, 81(2), 220-230 |
| CAAPA Best Student Paper Award | Wenhui Yang, University of Texas at Austin “Corruption Monitoring and the Supply of Politicians in China.” Governance, 2021, 34, 229-249 |
| 2020 Awards | |
| Wen Wang Award for Best Young Scholar Paper | Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, University of Minnesota “Exploring the Role of Nonprofits in Public Service Provision: Moving from Coproduction to Cogovernance.” Public Administration Review. 2019, 79(2), 203-214. |
| CAAPA Best Student Paper Award | Yanbing Han, Florida International University “The Financial Arrangement of Transportation Public-Private Partnerships in the U.S.” Paper presented at the 8th CAAPA Chinese Forum on Public Administration, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 2019 |
| 2019 Awards | |
| Wen Wang Award for Best Young Scholar Paper | Lang Yang, George Washington University “Negative Externality of Fiscal Problems: Dissecting the Contagion Effect of Municipal Bankruptcy.” Public Administration Review, 79(2): 156-167. |
| CAAPA Best Student Paper Award | Wenchi Wei, University of Kentucky “The Determinants of Local Government Fiscal Slack: Evidence from a PoliticalBudgetary-Managerial Framework.” Paper presented at the 2018 Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Conference. |
| CAAPA Student Travel Award | Min Xiong, Florida International University Yanbing Han, Florida International University For attending and presenting at the 8th CAAPA Chinese Forum on Public Administration, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 2019 |
| 2018 Awards | |
| Wen Wang Award for Best Young Scholar Paper | Yu Shi, University of North Texas “The Rise of Specialized Governance in American Federalism: Testing Links Between Local Government Autonomy and Formation of Special District Governments.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 2017, 47(1), 99-130. |
| CAAPA Best Student Paper Award | Jinhai Yu, University of Kentucky “Does Financial Disclosure Matter? GASB 45 and Municipal Borrowing Costs.” Paper presented at the 2017 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference. |
| 2017 Awards | |
| The Young Scholar Manuscript Award | Gao Liu, Florida Atlantic University Rui Sun, California State University, Dominguez Hills “Economic Openness and Subnational Borrowing.” Public Budgeting & Finance. 2016, 36(2), 45-69. |
| CAAPA Best Student Paper Award | Lang (Kate) Yang, Indiana University, Bloomington “The Impact of State Intervention and Bankruptcy Authorization Laws on Local Government Deficits.” Paper presented at the 2016 Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Conference. |
| 2016 Awards | |
| The Young Scholar Manuscript Award | Jiaqi Liang, New Mexico State University “The Shadow of the Politics of Deservedness? The Implications of Group-Centric Policy Context for Environmental Policy Implementation Inequalities in the United States.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. First published online Sept. 26, 2015. |
| CAAPA Best Student Paper Award | Pengju Zhang, Syracuse University “The Unintended Impact of Tax and Expenditure Limitations on the Use of Special Districts: The Politics of Circumvention.” Paper presented at the 2015 National Tax Association Conference. |
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