Prof. Aseem Prakash is featured in the College of Art and Sciences News.
Aseem Prakash, University of Washington professor of political science and Walker Family Professor in Arts and Sciences, received the 2025 John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association. The award is presented annually to honor “a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration.” As an integral element of this recognition, Professor Prakash presented the 2025 Gaus Lecture, “Climate Change, Governance Failures, and Public Administration,” at the recent annual conference of the American Political Science Association.*
As noted in his nomination letter, Prakash is best known for path-breaking research on the role that private actors — including firms and non-governmental organizations — can play in promoting more stringent environmental standards, even in the absence of effective state intervention. His research has helped to bring “environment” into public administration in a variety of ways, including how businesses and NGOs can fill governance gaps. At the same time, he has explored how these nontraditional governance mechanisms could lead to issues such as regulatory capture and accountability deficits. More recently, Prakash has explored different dimensions of climate mitigation and adaptation.
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