Sam Richardson Award

The Sam Richardson Award is presented annually to the author of the most influential article published in the Australian Journal of Public Administration. Each year, AJPA’s Editorial Board and representatives of the Institute for Public Administration in Australia (IPAA) divisions assess a shortlist of articles, with the winner announced at the National Conference.

The Award honours Professor S (Sam) Richardson AO, CBE, the founding principal of the Canberra College of Advanced Education (the forerunner of the University of Canberra), and a principal benefactor of the University of Canberra’s Public Administration Research Trust Fund.

You can find out more about the Sam Richardson Award by visiting IPPA’s website.

List of Sam Richardson Award recipients:

2023
The negative relationships between employee resilience and ambiguity, complexity, and inter-agency collaboration
Geoff Plimmer, Joana Kuntz, Evan Berman, Sanna Malinen, Katharina Näswall and Esme Franken

2022
Best person or best mix? How public sector managers understand the merit principle
Meraiah Foley, Rae Cooper, Linda Colley and Sue Williamson

2021
Regulating the post-employment of public officials: Australian experience in an international context
Richard Mulgan

2020
What causes employees to whistle while they work? Factors affecting internal whistle-blowing in the Australian Public Service
Jeannette Taylor

2019
Funny Evidence: Female Comics are the New Policy Entrepreneurs
Christopher L. Pepin-Neff and Kristin Caporale

2018
Between Two Worlds: Indigenous Leaders Exercising Influence and Working across Boundaries
Jenny Stewart and James Warn

2017
Co‐Production of Public Services in Australia: The Roles of Government Organisations and Co‐Producers
John Alford and Sophie Yates

Commercial Lobbying in Australia: Exploring the Australian Lobby Register
Darren Halpin and John Warhurst

2016
Government with a Cast of Dozens: Policy Capacity Risks and Policy Work in the Northern Territory
Dean Carson and Adam Wellstead

2015
Leadership in Local Government: ‘No Girls Allowed’
Jacquie Hutchinson, Elizabeth Walker and Fiona Haslam McKenzie

2014
Under Cover of Westminster: Enabling and Disabling a Public Service Commission in New South Wales
Michael Di Francesco

2013
Coombs’ Bastard Child: The Troubled Life of CDEP
Will Sanders

2012
Assessing the Capacity to Deliver – The BER Experience
Catherine Althaus

2011
Organising for effective emergency management: Lessons from research
Arjen Boin and Paul 't Hart

2010
What Makes an Aboriginal Council Successful? - Case Studies of Aboriginal Community Government Performance in Far North Queensland
Michael Limerick

2009
The Future of the Public Service: A Search for a New Balance
Honourable Jocelyn Bourgon

2008
The Limits to Public Value, or Rescuing Responsible Government from the Platonic Guardians
R.A.W Rhodes and John Wanna

2006
Dilemmas in Policy Support for the Arts and Cultural Sector
Jennifer Craik

2005
Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Relations Between Police Commissioners and Their Political Masters
Jenny Fleming

2004
Navigating the Future: A Case Study of Growing Victoria Together
David Adams

2003
Mapping Public Participation in Policy Choices
Patrick Bishop and Glyn Davis

2002
Auditors-General: Cuckoos in the Managerialist Nest?
Richard Mulgan

2001
An Evaluation Crucible: Evaluating Policy Advice in Australian Central Agencies
Michael Di Francesco

Comparing Accountability in the Public and Private Sectors
Richard Mulgan

2000
Remaking Australia's Economy Policy: Economic Policy Decision Makers During the Hawke Keating Labor Government
Shaun Goldfinch

The Future of Government: Mixed Economy or Minimal State?
John Quiggin

1999
The Captain is a Schizophrenic!' or Contradictions in the Concept of the Steering State
David de Carvalho

1998
Departmental Secretaries: Appointment, Termination and Their Impact
Pat Weller and John Wanna

1997
Virtual Government: What Will Remain Inside the Public Sector?
Gary Sturgess

Competitive Tendering and Contracting in the Australian Public Sector
John Quiggin

1996
The Peculiar Tasks of Public Management: Towards Conceptual Discrimination
Robert Gregory

1995
The Reform of Public Management: An Overview
Anna Yeatman

1994
Towards a New Public Management Model: Beyond 'Managerialism' and Its Critics
John Alford

1993
Public Management or Public Administration?
Owen Hughes