The Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award (Annual) – This award is presented for outstanding scholarship on performance in public and nonprofit organizations. The author(s) must provide a significant contribution to advancing knowledge in a scholarly journal or book about the development, implementation, use or impact of performance management. Preference will be given to a scholarly work that is relevant to the broad public administration community and is of interest to both practitioners and academicians.
The Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award for Lifetime Achievement (Triennial) – Every three years (or more frequently as deemed appropriate by the CAP Board), this award is presented as the Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award for Lifetime Achievement. This award is intended to recognize the recipient’s lifetime scholarly contributions to the field of performance management.
NOMINATION PROCESS
To nominate an individual for the annual Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award, please provide the nomination and supporting information for the annual Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award to the following individuals at their respective email addresses by no later than November 1, 2023.
To nominate an individual for the Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award for Lifetime Achievement (to be awarded every three years or at the discretion of the CAP Board, which would result in the next scheduled Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024), please provide nominations to the above individuals at any time to be considered for the next award, but by no later than November 1, 2023).
Joseph Wholey Biography
Joe Wholey is professor emeritus, University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development. His work focuses on the use of performance-based management and program evaluation to improve agency and program performance, strengthen accountability, and support policy decision making.
Wholey is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. His books include Evaluation and Effective Public Management; Performance and Credibility (edited, with Mark Abramson and Chris Bellavita); and Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation (edited, with Harry Hatry and Kathryn Newcomer).
Wholey served earlier as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services and as senior advisor to the Deputy Director for Management in the U. S. Office of Management and Budget. He also chaired the Virginia Board of Social Services, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Hospice of Northern Virginia, the Arlington County Board, and the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing.
Wholey received his B. A. in Mathematics from Catholic University and his M. A. in Mathematics and Ph. D. in Philosophy from Harvard.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
| YEAR | RECIPIENT | SCHOLARLY WORK |
| 2023 | Bert George, Ghent University; Sanjay K. Pandey, George Washington University; Bram Steijn, Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Adelien Decramer, Ghent University; and Mieke Audenaert, Ghent University, Belgium | “Red Tape, Organizational Performance, and Employee Outcomes: Meta-analysis, Meta-regression, and Research Agenda.” Public Administration Review, 81: 638-651. |
| 2022 | Sounman Hong, (Underwood Distinguished Professor, Yonsei University, South Korea) | “Performance Management Meets Red Tape: Bounded Rationality, Negativity Bias, and Resource Dependence.” Public Administration Review, 80: 932-945. |
| 2021 | Kathryn Newcomer | Lifetime Achievement and Outstanding Body of Scholarly Work in the Areas of Performance Management, Government Accountability, and Program Evaluation; Including Her Most Recent Book, “U.S. Inspectors General: Truth Tellers in Turbulent Times” (Brookings 2020, Coauthor Charles Johnson) |
| 2020 | David Ammons | “Performance Measurement for Managing Local Government: Getting It Right”; Irvine, CA; Melvin & Leigh, 2020. Also Award for Lifetime Achievement and Numerous Scholarly Contributions to the Field of Performance Management |
| 2019 | Jessica Terman | “Helping Third-Party Implementers Meet Performance Obligations: A Multi-Level Examination of the Weatherization Assistance Program. Public Administration Quarterly; Randallstown, 42(3), pp. 287–327” |
| 2018 | Katharine Destler | “A Matter of Trust: Street Level Bureaucrats, Organizational Climate and Performance Management Reform,”Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 27, No. 3 (2017), pp. 517-534 |
| 2017 | John D. Marvel | “Unconscious Bias in Citizens’ Evaluations of Public Sector Performance,”Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 26, No. 1 (2016), pp. 143-158 |
| 2016 | Alexander Kroll | “Explaining the Use of Performance Information by Public Managers: A Planned-Behavior Approach” (American Review of Public Administration, Volume 45, Number 2, pages 201-215, March 2015) |
| 2015 | Rusi Sun and Gregg G. Van Ryzin | “Are Performance Management Practices Associated With Better Outcomes? Empirical Evidence From New York Public Schools” (American Review of Public Administration, May 2014) |
| 2014 | David Ammons | “Signs of Performance Measurement Progress Among Prominent City Governments” (Public Performance Management and Review, June, 2013) |
| 2013 | Donald Moynihan and Stéphane Lavertu | “Does Involvement in Performance Management Routines Encourage Performance Information Use? Evaluating GPRA and PART,” Public Administration Review, July 2012 |
| 2012 | Phil Joyce | “The Obama Administration and PBB: Building on the Legacy of Federal Performance-Informed Budgeting?,” Public Administration Review, May-June 2011 |
| 2011 | Sanjay Pandey and Donald Moynihan | “The Big Question for Performance Management: Why Do Managers Use Performance Information?,” Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory; Oct 2010, Vol. 20 Issue 4, pp. 849–866) |
| 2009 | Donald Moynihan and Amber Wichowsky | “Measuring How Administration Shapes Citizenship: A Policy Feedback Perspective on Performance Management.” Public Administration Review. Dec 2008; 68(5): 908-920. |
| 2006 | Arie Halachmi | |
| 2005 | Stephen B. Page | “Measuring Accountability for Results in Interagency Collaboratives,” Public Administration Review. Sept. 2004; 64(5) |
| 2004 | Laurence J. O’Toole Jr. and Kenneth J. Meier | “Plus Change: Public Management, Personnel Stability and Organizational Performance,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory |
| 2003 | Dr. Irwin Feller | “Performance Measurement Redux” published in the American Journal of Evaluation, 23(4), 435-452 |
| 2002 | Patria de Lancer Julnes and Marc Holzer | “Promoting the Utilization of Performance Measure in Public Organizations: An Empirical Study of Factors Affecting Adoption and Implementation” |
| 2001 | Steve A. Harkreader and Gary T. Henry | “Using Performance Measurement Systems for Assessing the Merit and Worth of Reforms,” American Journal of Evaluation (Volume 21, Issue 2) |
| 2000 | Leanna Stiefel, Ross Rubenstein and Amy Schwartz | “Using Adjusted Performance Measures for Evaluating Resource Use” Public Budgeting and Finance (Fall 999) |
| Dr. Charles Coe | “Local Government Benchmarking: Lessons from Two Major Multigovernment Efforts” Public Administration Review (March/April 1999) | |
| Mary Kopczynski and Michael Lombardo | “Comparative Performance Measurement: Insights and Lessons Learned from a Consortium Effort” Public Administration Review (March/April 1999) | |
| 1999 | Joseph S. Wholey | Lifetime Achievement |
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