Associate Director of UW-Madison's La Follette School of Public Affairs Donald Moynihan has been elected to the Policy Council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
The council serves as board of directors for an organization which looks to improve public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis and education, according to the UW-Madison website.
Several faculty members from the La Follette School have served on the board in the past, including when professor David Weimer in 2005-'06.
Moynihan and his co-author, Sanjay K. Pandey, also won the American Society for Public Administration's 2011 Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award for a published article on performance management.
The article, titled, ""The Big Question for Performance Management: Why Do Managers Use Performance Information?"" was published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory in 2010.
Moynihan also won this award in 2009.
