Dr. Kenneth Wong has been awarded the 2021 Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) for his book "Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Federalism," coauthored with Frank Thompson (Rutgers University) and Barry Rabe (University of Michigan). The award recognizes outstanding contributions on topics in the field of public administration of interest to practitioners and scholars and is generally given to an author who provides a fresh look at ideas that contribute to the understanding of how governmental institutions can most effectively serve the public.

In Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Federalism, published by Brookings Institution Press in 2020, the authors analyze the dynamics and unique qualities of Trump’s administrative presidency in healthcare, climate change, and education and show how Trump took unprecedented steps to undermine and otherwise reshape domestic policy programs through executive action.

Kenneth Wong is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor for Education Policy as well as professor of political science, public policy, and urban studies at Brown. He has conducted extensive research in the politics of education, federalism, policy innovation, outcome-based accountability, and governance redesign. His research has received support from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Social Science Research Council, the Spencer Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the British Council, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has advised the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Secretaries of Education and Interior, state legislature, governors, mayors, and the leadership in several large urban school systems on how to redesign the accountability framework. He has been a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration since 2021.