No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
- Extract
- Federalism and In tergovern mental Relations
- Law and Courts
- Legislative Studies
- Public Policy
- Political Organizations and Parties
- Public Administration
- Conflict Processes
- Representation and Electoral Systems
- Presidency Research
- Religion and Politics
- Urban Politics
- Science, Technology & Environmental Politics
- Women and Politics
- Foundations of Political Thought
- Comparative Politics
- European Politics and Society
- Political Communication
- Political Economy
- Ecological and Trans for mational Politics
- New Political Science
- Political Psychology
- Undergraduate Education
- Politics and Literature
- Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior
- Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
- International History and Politics
- Comparative De mocratization
- Human Rights
- Qualitative Methods
- A LOOK AHEAD Perspectives on Politics
- APSA Task Force Report and Commentaries
- Symposium: The Supreme Court Forecasting Project
- Review Essay
- PSPolitical Science & Politics January 2005
- Symposium
- Features
- The Profession
- The Teacher
Organized Sections Distribute Awards at 2004 Annual Meeting
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2004
- Extract
- Federalism and In tergovern mental Relations
- Law and Courts
- Legislative Studies
- Public Policy
- Political Organizations and Parties
- Public Administration
- Conflict Processes
- Representation and Electoral Systems
- Presidency Research
- Religion and Politics
- Urban Politics
- Science, Technology & Environmental Politics
- Women and Politics
- Foundations of Political Thought
- Comparative Politics
- European Politics and Society
- Political Communication
- Political Economy
- Ecological and Trans for mational Politics
- New Political Science
- Political Psychology
- Undergraduate Education
- Politics and Literature
- Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior
- Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
- International History and Politics
- Comparative De mocratization
- Human Rights
- Qualitative Methods
- A LOOK AHEAD Perspectives on Politics
- APSA Task Force Report and Commentaries
- Symposium: The Supreme Court Forecasting Project
- Review Essay
- PSPolitical Science & Politics January 2005
- Symposium
- Features
- The Profession
- The Teacher
Extract
At their respective meetings during APSA's 2004 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Organized Sections distributed over 75 awards rec og niz ing dissertations, books, papers, and careers. Many of these awards are presented annually and nom i na tions are sought at this time for next year's award. For further in for ma tion be sure to visit www.apsanet.org/about/sections.
- Type
- Association News
- Information
- Copyright
- © 2004 by the American Political Science Association
At their respective meetings during APSA's 2004 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Organized Sections distributed over 75 awards rec og niz ing dissertations, books, papers, and careers. Many of these awards are presented annually and nom i na tions are sought at this time for next year's award. For further in for ma tion be sure to visit www.apsanet.org/about/sections.
Federalism and In tergovern mental Relations
The Best Book Award, conferred for the best book on federalism and in ter governmental relations pub lished at least 10 years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and in ter gov ern men tal relations, was given to William H. Riker, University of Roches ter, for his book Federalism: Origin, Op er a tion, Significance (Little, Brown & Co., 1964).
The Best Paper Award, conferred for the best paper in the field of fed er al ism and intergovernmental relations presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting, was given to Kenneth N. Bickers, University of Colorado, and Robert M. Stein, Rice University, for “Inter-local Co op er a tion and the Distribution of Federal Grants.”
The Daniel J. Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award, rec og niz ing distinguished scholarly con tri bu tions to the study of federalism and in ter gov ern men tal relations, was given to David R. Beam, Illinois In sti tute of Technology.
Law and Courts
The American Judicature Society Award, given annually for the best paper on law and courts presented at the previous year's annual meetings of the American, Midwest, North east ern, Southern, Southwestern, or Western Political Science As so ci a tions, was given to Cornell W. Clayton and J. Mitchell Pickerill, Washington State University, for “The Rehnquist Court and the Political Dynamics of Fed er al ism,” presented at the 2003 APSA Annual Meeting.
The C. Herman Pritchett award, given annually for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published in the previous year, was given to Tom Ginsburg, University of Illinois College of Law, for Judicial Review in New De moc ra cies: Constitutional Courts In Asian Cases (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
The CQ Press Award, given an nu al ly for the best paper on law and courts written by a graduate student, was given to Chad Westerland, SUNY, Stony Brook, for his paper, “Who Owns the Majority Opinion? Policy Making on the U.S. Supreme Court.”
The Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring a distinguished career of scholarly achievement and service to the Law and Courts field, was given to Stuart A. Scheingold, University of Washington.
The McGraw Hill Award, recognizing the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist and published during the previous calendar year, was presented to Paul Frymer, University of Cal i for nia, San Diego for “Acting When Elected Officials Won't: Federal Courts and Civil Rights En force ment in U.S. Labor Unions, 1935–85” (American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 3, 2003).
An Honorable Mention went to Tamir Moustafa, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for his paper, “Law Versus the State: The Judicialization of Politics in Egypt” (Law and Social Inquiry, 2003). The Teaching and Mentoring Award, recognizing innovative teach ing and instructional methods and materials in law and courts, went to Jerry Goldman, North west ern University, and Christine B. Harrington, New York University.
The Wadsworth Publishing Award, given annually for a book or journal article, 10 years or older, that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts, was presented to Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania, for “Political Jurisprudence, the ‘New Institutionalism,’ and the Future of Public Law” (American Political Science Re view, Vol. 82, No. 1, 1988).
Legislative Studies
The Alan Rosenthal Prize, ded i cat ed to en cour ag ing young scholars to study questions that are of im por tance to legislators and leg is la tive staff and to conduct research that has the potential application to strength en ing the practice of rep re sen ta tive democracy, was given to Yusaku Horiuchi, The Australian National University, and Jun Saito, Yale University, for “Reapportionment and Redistribution: Consequences of Electoral Reform in Japan” (American Journal of Political Science, October 2003).
The Carl Albert Dissertation Award, given annually for the best dis ser ta tion in legislative studies, was given to Christian R. Grose, University of Rochester, for “Beyond the Vote: A Theory of Black Rep re sen ta tion in Congress.”
The CQ Press Award, given for the best paper on legislative studies presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was awarded to Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego, for “To Stay, To Quit, or To Move Up: Explaining the Growth of Careerism in the House of Repre sen ta tives, 1878–1940.”
The Jewell-Loewenberg Paper Award, given for the best article in the Legislative Studies Quarterly in the previous year, was presented to Octavio Amorim Neto, Brazilian Institute of Eco nom ics Getulio Vargas Foun da tion, and Fabiano Santos, Rio de Janeiro Graduate Research Institute, for “The In ef ficient Secret Revisited: The Leg is la tive Input and Output of Brazilian Deputies” (Legislative Studies Quarterly, November 2003).
The Richard F. Fenno Prize, de signed to honor work that is both the o ret i cal ly and empirically strong and to encourage scholars to pursue new and different avenues of research in order to find answers to previously unexplored questions about the nature of politics, was given to Sarah A. Binder, George Wash ing ton University, for Stalemate: Causes and Con se quenc es of Legislative Gridlock (Brookings Institution Press, 2003).
Public Policy
The Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award, given for a book or article published in the last 10 to 20 years that continues to influence the study of public policy, was presented to James G. March, Stanford University, and Johan P. Olsen, ARENA, University of Oslo, for their work, Rediscovering In sti tu tions: The Organizational Basis of Politics (Free Press, 1989).
The Best Public Policy Paper Award, given to the best public policy paper pre sent ed at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was awarded to Craig Volden, Ohio State University, for “States as Policy Lab o ra to ries: Experiment ing with the Children's Health Insurance Program.”
Political Organizations and Parties
The Emerging Scholars Award, given to scholars who have received their Ph.D.'s within the last five years and whose careers to date dem on strates unusual promise, was presented to David C. Kimball, University of Missouri, St. Louis, and Eric Schickler, Harvard University.
The Jack Walker Award, honoring an article published in the last two calendar years that makes an out stand ing contribution to research and schol ar ship on political or ganizations and parties, was given to Gary J. Miller and Norman Schofield, Washington University, St. Louis, for “Activists and Partisan Realignment in the United States” (American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 2, 2003).
The Leon Epstein Book Award, given for a book pub lished in the last two calendar years that makes an out stand ing con tri bu tion to research and scholarship on political or ga ni za tions and parties, was given to Jeffrey M. Berry, Tufts University, for A Voice for Nonprofits (Brookings Institution Press, 2003).
The POP/Party Politics Award, honoring the best paper de liv ered on a Political Or ga ni za tions and Parties-sponsored panel at the preceding APSA Annual Meeting, was given to Eric S. Heberlig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Marc J. Hetherington, Bowdoin College, and Bruce A. Larson, Farleigh Dickenson University, for their work, “The Re dis tri bu tion of Campaign Funds and Institutional Advancement in the U.S. House.”
The Samuel J. Eldersveld Lifetime Career Achievement Award, pre sent ed to a scholar whose lifetime pro fes sion al work has made an outstanding contribution to the field, was given to David R. Mayhew, Yale University.
Public Administration
The Herbert Kaufman Award, given for the best paper presented at the preceding year's Annual Meeting, was awarded to Jeffrey L. Brudney, University of Georgia, Jay E. Ryu, Ohio University, and Deil S. Wright, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for their paper, “Exploring and Ex plain ing Contracting Out: Patterns Among the American States.”
Conflict Processes
The Best Book Award, given annually for the best book in Conflict Processes that was published in the two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given, was presented to Bruce J. Bueno de Mesquita, Hoover Institution, Alastair Smith, New York University, Randolph M. Siverson, University of California, Davis, and James D. Morrow, University of Michigan, for The Logic of Political Survival (MIT Press, 2003).
Representation and Electoral Systems
The George H. Hallett Award, presented annually to the author of a book published at least 10 years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems, was given to Douglas J. Amy, Mount Holyoke College, for Real Choices/New Voices (Columbia University Press, 2002).
The Leon Weaver Award, given for the best paper presented at a panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Division, was presented to Josep M. Colomer, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, for “It's Parties that Choose Electoral Systems (or Duverger's Laws Upside Down).” The Lawrence Longley Award, given for the best article on Rep re sen ta tion and Electoral Systems published in the previous year, was awarded to Grigorii V. Golosov, for “Electoral Systems and Party For ma tion in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis” (Comparative Political Studies, October 2003).
Presidency Research
The Founders Award, conferred for the best paper presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was given to Marty Cohen, Hans Noel, and John Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles, for “Constant Rules, Changing Game: A General Model of Presidential Primaries, 1972–2000.”
The Presidency Research Group Career Service Award was given to Fred I. Greenstein, Princeton University.
The Neustadt Award, given for the best book published during the year that contributed to research and scholarship in the field of the American presidency, was awarded to Janet M. Martin, Bowdoin College, for The Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance and Illusion (Texas A&M University Press, 2003).
Religion and Politics
The Aaron Wildavsky Award, given for the best dissertation on religion and politics, was awarded to Carla Valle, Harvard University, for her dissertation, “Roman Catholicism in Post-War Italy: How Social Orga nizations React to Political Change.”
The Best Paper Award, for the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was given to Kevin S. Fridy, Kenneth Wald, and Adam Silverman, University of Florida for their paper, “Making Sense of Religion in Political Life.”
Urban Politics
The Best Book Award, for the best book on urban politics published in the previous year, was given to Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff, Harvard University, for Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (Brookings Institution, 2003).
The Best Dissertation Award, given annually for the best dissertation on urban politics accepted in the previous year, was awarded to Lynette Angela Rawlings, George Washington University, for “The Determinants of Cooperation among Local Governments in Metropolitan Areas.”
The Bryan Jackson Award, given for outstanding scholarship by a graduate student in the area of race and urban politics, was received by Kristin Ruth Good, University of Toronto, for “Multiculturalism in the City: A Com par a tive Analysis of Municipal Re spon sive ness to Immigration in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and the Greater Vancouver Regional District.”
The Best Paper Award, for the best paper given at an Urban Politics Section panel at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting, was given to Megan Mullin, University of California, Berkeley, for her paper, “Specialization and Responsiveness in Local Policy Making: The Case of Water Districts.”
The Norton Long Young Scholars, recognition given via poster session presentations at the Annual Meeting, was given to Brian Adams, San Diego State University, Joshua G. Behr, Old Dominion University, Michael Leo Owens, Emory University, and Deborah E. Ward, Seton Hall University.
Science, Technology & Environmental Politics
The Don K. Price Award, given for the best book on science, technology, and en vi ron men tal politics published in the last year, was awarded to Bruce Bimber, University of California, Santa Barbara, for his book, Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
The Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, for the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years, was awarded to David M. Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law, for his book, The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law (MIT Press, 2003).
Women and Politics
The Best Dissertation Prize, given for the best dissertation on women and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous calendar year, was awarded to Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, University of Arizona, for “Legislative Representation in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Descriptive, Substantive, and Symbolic Representation of Women,” and to Sarah Song, Yale University, for “Culture, Gender, and Equality.”
The Best Paper Award, presented for the best paper presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting in the field of women and politics, was given to Ann E. Towns, University of Minnesota, for “Women Governing for Modernity: International Hierarchy and Legislature Sex Quotas.”
Foundations of Political Thought
The David Easton Award, recognizing a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through any of a variety of approaches in the social sciences and humanities, was given to Scott L. Althaus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for his book, Collective Preferences in Dem o crat ic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
The First Book Award, recognizing the best first book published in 2003 by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career in the area of political theory/philosophy, was presented to Alan Keenan, Bryn Mawr College, for Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure (Stanford University Press, 2003), and to Patchen Markell, University of Chicago, for Bound by Recognition (Princeton University Press, 2003).
Comparative Politics
The Data Set Award, given for a publicly available data set that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative politics, was awarded to Michael Bratton, Michigan State University, E. Gyimah-Boadi, The Center for Democratic Development, Ghana, and Robert Mattes, The Institute for Democracy in South Africa, for their work, “The Afrobarometer.”
The Luebbert Article Award, given for the best article in the field of compar a tive politics published in the previous two years, was given to Isabela Mares, Stanford University, for “The Sources of Business Interest in Social Insurance: Sectoral Versus National Differences” (World Politics, 2003).
The Luebbert Book Award, given for the best book in the field of comparative politics published in the previous two years, was presented to Isabela Mares, Stanford University, for The Politics of Social Risk, Business and Welfare State De vel op ments (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
The Sage Best Paper Award, given to the best paper in the field of comparative politics presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was awarded to Daniel N. Posner, UCLA for “The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi.”
European Politics and Society
The Best Book Award, given for the best book on European Politics and Society published in the previous year, was given to Marc Morjé Howard, Georgetown University, for The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and an Honorable Mention was given to Margaret Kohn, University of Florida, for Radical Space (Cornell University Press, 2003).
An Honorable Mention went to Isabela Mares, Stanford University, for The Politics of Social Risk (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
The Best Dissertation Award, given for the best dissertation on European Politics and Society filed during the previous year, was received by Conor O'Dwyer, University of California, Berkeley, for “Runaway State-Building: How Parties Shape States in Post-Communist Eastern Europe.” An Honorable Mention went to Gail McElroy, University of Rochester, for “In Pursuit of Party Discipline: Committees and Cohesion in the European Parliament,” and Riccardo Pelizzo, Johns Hopkins University for “Cartel Parties and Cartel Party Systems.”
The Best Paper Award, given for the best paper presented at a panel sponsored by the section at the most recent meeting, was given to Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Yale University, for “Party Competition and the Pace of State Reform.” An Honorable Mention went to Bonnie M. Meguid, University of Rochester, for “The Critical Role of Non-Proximal Parties in Electoral Competition: Evidence from France.”
Political Communication
The Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award, given to the best paper on political communication presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was given to Charles H. Franklin and Kenneth Goldstein, Univer si ty of Wisconsin, Madison, Matthew Hale, Seton Hall University, and Daniel Stevens, University of Miami, for their paper, “Political In formation Flows and their Effects in the 2002 Elections.”
Political Economy
The Best Paper Award, given for the best paper in Political Economy presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was awarded to Torben Iversen, Harvard University and Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University, for “The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross-National Variation in Household Bargaining, Divorce, and the Gender Voting Gap.”
The Mancur Olson Award, given for the best dissertation completed and accepted in the previous two years, was given to Scott G. Gehlbach, University of California, Berkeley, for “Taxability and State Support of Economic Activity.”
The William H. Riker Award, given for the best book in political economy published in the previous year, was awarded to Carles Boix, University of Chicago, for Democracy and Re dis tri bu tion (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Ecological and Trans for mational Politics
The Distinguished Career Award, given for an outstanding career of achievements in teaching, scholarship, and public service, was received by Glenn D. Paige, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii.
The Praxis Award, given in rec og ni tion of a political scientist who embodies the praxis of political and professional transformation, was presented to Anthony Affigne, Providence College.
The Best Book Award recognizing a book of extraordinary merit in the field of transformational politics, in particular, the politics and processes of deliberate efforts for change on behalf of ideals that are democratic, ecological, and humanistic, published in the preceding two years, was given to Mark Satin, Center for Visionary Law, for Radical Middle: The Politics We Need Now (Westview Press, 2004).
New Political Science
The Christian Bay Award, given for a New Political Science paper presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was given to Dorothee E. Benz, CUNY Graduate Center, for “Innovative Labor Organizing in a Hostile Climate.” The Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award, given to an activist group in the region of the Annual Meeting that puts the ideals of the New Political Science Section, “to make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world,” into practice, was awarded to the Lamda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Chicago Office.
The Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award, given for a progressive political scientist who has had a long, successful career as a writer, teacher and activist, was presented to Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center.
The Michael Harrington Book Award, given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world, was presented to Linda Faye Williams, University of Maryland, for The Con straint of Race: Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America (Penn State University Press, 2003).
Political Psychology
The Best Dissertation Award, given for the best dis ser ta tion in political psy chol o gy filed during the previous year, was received by Cindy Kam, University of California, Davis, for “Thinking More or Less: Cogni tive Effort in the Formation of Public Opinion.”
The Robert E. Lane Award, given for the best book in political psychology pub lished in the past year, was given to Leonie Huddy, SUNY-Stony Brook, David Sears, University of California, Los Angeles, and Robert Jervis, Columbia University, for The Oxford Hand book of Political Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Undergraduate Education
The Best Paper Presentation Award, given for the best presentation on under grad u ate education at the past year's Annual Meeting, was given to Bernard L. Bray, Talladega College, and Larry W. Chappell, Mis sis sip pi Valley State University, for “Civic Theater for Civic Education.”
Politics and Literature
The Best Paper Award, given for the best paper on politics and literature presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was awarded to Mary M. Keys, University of Notre Dame, for “Tolkien's Tales and Political Philosophy in Liberal Democracy.”
Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior
The Best Paper Award, given for the best paper delivered at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was presented to Larry M. Bartels, Princeton University, for “Homer Gets a Tax Cut: In equality and Public Policy in the American Mind.”
The Emerging Scholar Award, awarded to the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of her or his Ph.D., was given to Marc J. Hetherington, Bowdoin College.
The Philip E. Converse Book Award, given for an outstanding book in the field published at least five years before, was given to Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University and Donald R. Kinder, University of Michigan, for News that Matters: Television and American Public Opinion (University of Chicago Press, 1987).
The Warren E. Miller Prize, awarded every two or three years for an out stand ing career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior field, was given to M. Kent Jennings, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
The Best Paper Award, given for the best paper on race, ethnicity, and politics presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was awarded to Christopher S. Parker, University of California, Santa Barbara, for his paper, “Shades of Patriotism: Group Identity, National Identity, and Democracy.”
The Best Book Award, given for research on Race and Ethnicity Politics in Local Contexts, was received by Lewis Randolph, Ohio University, and Gayle Tate, Indiana University, Bloomington, for Rights for a Season: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Richmond, Virginia (University of Tennessee Press, 2003).
The Best Book Award, given for research on Race and Ethnic Political Theory and Organizational Development., was given to Benjamin Marquez, University of Wisconsin, for Constructing Identities in Mexican American Political Organizations (University of Texas Press, 2003).
The Best Book Award, given for research on Race and Ethnic Political Representation, was presented to Katherine Tate, University of California, Irvine, for Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Rep re sen ta tives in the U.S. Congress (Princeton University Press, 2003).
The Best Book Award, given for research on Public Policy and Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States, was awarded to Linda Faye Williams, Univer si ty of Maryland, for The Con straint of Race: Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003).
International History and Politics
The Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Prize, for the best book on international history and politics published in the previous two years, was given to Richard Samuels, Mas sa chu setts Institute of Technology, for Machiavelli's Children: Leaders & Their Legacies in Italy & Japan (Cornell University Press, 2003).
Comparative De mocratization
The Best Article Award, given for the best article published on Comparative Democratization within the last year, was awarded to Quan Li, Pennsylvania State University and Rafael Reuveny, Indiana University, for “Economic Globalization and Democracy: An Empirical Analysis.” The Best Book Award, given for the best single-authored, multi-authored, or edited book on comparative democratization published in the previous year, was presented to Nancy Bermeo, Princeton University, for Ordinary People in Ex traor di nary Times (Princeton University Press, 2003).
Human Rights
The Best Book Award, given annually for the best book on human rights that was written by a political scientist and published in the previous two years, was presented to Rhoda E. Howard-Hassman, Wilfrid Laurier University, for Compassionate Canadians: Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights (University of Toronto Press, 2003).
The Best Dissertation Award, given annually for the best political science dissertation that focuses on human rights and was completed and accepted in the previous two calendar years, was awarded to Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for “Globalizing Human Rights? How International Trade Agreements Shape Government Repression.”
Qualitative Methods
The Sage Paper Award, honoring Sara and George McCune, who founded and sustained Sage Publications as a leading publisher of social science methodology— including very centrally qualitative methods, and given to a paper presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting, was presented to John Gerring, Boston University, for “Causation: A Unified Framework for the Social Sciences.”
A LOOK AHEAD Perspectives on Politics
Here's an early look at some of the articles you'll see in the De cem ber Per spec tives on Politics:
APSA Task Force Report and Commentaries
American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality
APSA TASK FORCE ON INEQUALITY AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Attacking “Sinful Inequalities” JOHN J. DIIULIO JR.
The Great Passivity LAWRENCE M. MEAD
Challenging Inequality MARGARET WEIR
The Issue of Our Time LINDA FAYE WILLIAMS
Symposium: The Supreme Court Forecasting Project
Introduction LEE EPSTEIN Competing Approaches to Predicting Supreme Court Decision Making ANDREW D. MARTIN, KEVIN M. QUINN, THEODORE W. RUGER, AND PAULINE T. KIM
What's Law Got to Do With It? SUZANNA SHERRY
Expert Judgments versus Statistical Models: Explanation versus Prediction GREGORY A. CALDEIRA
Press Room Predictions LINDA GREENHOUSE
The Dream of a Social Science: Supreme Court Forecasting, Legal Culture, and the Public Sphere SUSAN S. SILBEY
Review Essay
All Politics is Psychological: A Review of Political Psychology Syllabi DEBORAH J. SCHILDKRAUT
PSPolitical Science & Politics January 2005
Here's a preview of some of the articles that will be pub lished in the January issue of PS: Political Science and Politics:
Symposium
Careers of Selected Political Scientists Who Graduated During “Separate But Equal”
CHARLES HENRY, MAURICE C. WOODARD, ALICE M. JACKSON, SHIELA HARMON, AND MICHAEL PRESTON
Features
Improving the Quality of Survey Research in Democratizing Countries MITCHELL A. SELIGSON
The Profession
New Technology and New Opportunities: A Guide to Internet Survey SHANNON ORR
A Political Scientist Accepts Ambiguity and Loses Control: My Experience Inside the Legislative Process KARL G. TRAUTMAN
The Teacher
A Theme of Equality in Campaigns and Elections MARION R. JUST
The Motivating Text: Assigning Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem CHARLES C. TURNER
Examining the Wahlke Report: Surveying the Structure of the Political Science Curricula at Liberal Arts and Sciences Colleges and Universities in the Midwest JOHN ISHIYAMA
Pura Vida: Using Study Abroad to Engage Undergraduate Students in Comparative Politics Research KIRK BOWMAN AND ASHLEY JENNINGS
How to Make the Most of Your Summer Study Abroad Teaching Experience CAMERON G. THIES