Andreea Nastase, PhD candidate at the Department of Public Policy, won the Best Paper Award in the PhD Symposium of the 2011 Annual Conference of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA). The Symposium, designed as a forum where young researchers in the field of Public Administration and Public Management meet and discuss their research, was chaired by Prof. Christoph Reichard (University of Potsdam, Germany), Dr. Patrick von Maravic (Zeppelin University, Germany), and Frank Bannister (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland).