Charles E. Merriam Award for Outstanding Public Policy Research

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
	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]