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Brian An wins 2020 Donald C. Stone Best Paper Award

The MPPA program's newest Assistant Professor is the 2020 winner of the prestigious Donald C. Stone Best Student Paper award presented by the American Society for Public Administration's (ASPA) section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management (SIAM).  Written and presented while still a student at the University of Southern California in 2019, his paper was recognized as the best work on federalism and intergovernmental relations during that year.  Feel free to contact Professor An to get your own copy of "Bottom-up Special Districts as Community Governance Model: Assessing Their Impacts and Processes."