The Public Administration Department successfully organized “Best Paper Awards in Public Administration” initiated by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. John Duffy, a professor at the School of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska, Anchorage (UAA), USA.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. John Duffy has held senior executive positions in Alaska ’s local government for 30 years. Since 2017, he has been working as a guest professor at the Public Administration Department, SPSIRPA, NUM. During this time, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. John Duffy has implemented many activities, including establishing, strengthening, and expanding the cooperation between the School of Business and Public Policy, UAA, and SPSIRPA, NUM.
The Best Paper Awards were organized with the aim of enhancing the academic skills of doctoral, master ’s, and bachelor’s students of the public administration program of NUM. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. John Duffy has been sponsoring the event with his own funding.
We are proudly announcing this year’s awardees:
- Ph.D candidates:
- First Place (250$): Otgontsetseg Badarch for the “Result of agricultural subsidies provided by the Government of Mongolia” research paper
- Second place ($100): Otgonchimeg Myagmar for the “Opportunities and ways to improve service access of Arts and Cultural institutions: The case of Mongolian State Puppet Theater” research paper
- Bachelor students:
- First Place (250$): Soyol-Undrakh Ganbaatar for the “Transformational leadership affecting the job satisfaction of the civil servants” research paper
- Second Place (100$): Battuvshin Urtnasan for the “Involvement of citizens in local self-governing (In the example of the 16th committee of the Songinokhairkhan district” research paper
- Third Place (50$): Emujin Iderbat for the “Social security of civil servants in Mongolia and the Republic of Korea (comparative study)” research paper
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. John Duffy expressed that the quality of the research papers of the Public Administration Program students has been achieved at a high level, and even more, the Best Paper Awards will be annually organized in the coming years. We congratulate the Best Paper Awardees for their research results and wish our students all the best in the future. Furthermore, we would like to express our gratitude to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. John Duffy for his support of the Public Administration Department’s development throughout the years. Wishing you all the best, now and always.
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