Charles E. Merriam Award for Outstanding Public Policy Research explained

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.

Winners include

year	winner	academic position
		Director of the Naval Postgraduate School's Program for Culture & Conflict Studies.
2009		Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy.^[2]
2011		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]

References

1. News: Thomas Johnson, Research Professor and Director. Naval Postgraduate School. 2012-02-27.
2. News: Michael Doyle Wins 2009 Charles E. Merriam Award. School of International and Public Affairs. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121220205943/http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/announcements/Doyle-CharlesEMerriamAward.html. 2012-12-20.
3. News: Axelrod Wins 2011 Charles E. Merriam Award . . 2011-08-11 . 2012-02-28 . Adrian Shin . https://web.archive.org/web/20120721024437/http://www.lsa.umich.edu/polisci/news/ci.axelrodwins2011charlesemerriamawardthu11aug2011_ci.detail . 2012-07-21 . dead.