The University of Illinois picks a distinguished professor to honor with the Charles E. Merriam Award for Outstanding Public Policy Research. [1] The award is named after Charles Edward Merriam who was himself a distinguished professor at the University of Chicago.
year | winner | academic position |
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Thomas H. Johnson | Director of the Naval Postgraduate School's Program for Culture & Conflict Studies. [1] | |
2009 | Michael Doyle | Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy. [2] |
2011 | Robert Axelrod | Walgreen Professor for the Human Understanding in the Department of Political Science and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. [3] |
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