News release from IPFW:
IPFW Professor, Dr. Nurgul Aitalieva, Wins Midwest Public Affairs Conference Top Award
(August 27, 2015) — Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) and the College of Education and Public Policy (CEPP) are proud to announce that Dr. Nurgul Aitalieva, assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy, has received the 2015 Midwest Public Affairs Conference Best Paper Award.
Aitalieva co-wrote the paper with Andrew Morelock, a Ph.D., student from the University of Tennessee. Their research “Citizen Perceptions of Public Policy Success: A Cross-National Analysis” reveals that citizen attitudes about the success of public policies is largely a function of socio-demographic attributes, personality traits, and political attitudes. In contrast, a cross-country variation is mainly a function of the quality of public institutions within a country and, to a lesser extent, prevailing economic conditions.
“I am deeply honored to receive the Best Paper Award and thrilled that our research project has been recognized and regarded favorably by an independent panel of judges from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management,” said Aitalieva. “Receiving the award has deepened my commitment to continue researching and publishing in the area of comparative study of citizens’ attitudes towards public administration.”
Aitalieva taught at the Department of International and Comparative Politics at the American University in Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) for three years. As a graduate teaching assistant/ associate, she taught at the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tenn.) for five years.
Aitalieva has also worked as a consultant in the European Union (TACIS), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) projects. Through these international projects, she was actively involved in public administration reforms in her native country, Kyrgyzstan. She was a part of the European team that was involved in establishing an MPA program at the Academy of Management under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic.
“Their work exemplifies high-quality comparative policy research, fit for publication in the field’s best journals,” said Stephen Kleinschmit, president, Midwest Public Affairs Conference (MPAC). “IPFW Public Policy is fortunate to have a strong emerging scholar in Dr. Aitalieva.”
MPAC is a regional affiliate of the American Society for Public Administration.
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