Martha Derthick Book Award

Conferred for the best book on federalism and intergovernmental relations published at least 10 years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.

Award Committee: Jocelyn Johnston, chair, American University; Michael Hail, Morehead State University; and Michelle Sager, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Recipient: Donald Lutz

Title: The Origins of American Constitutionalism (Louisiana State University Press, 1988)

Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award

Conferred for the best paper in the field of federalism and intergovernmental relations presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Troy Smith, chair, Brigham Young University, Hawaii; Susan Mezey, Loyola University Chicago; and Robert Whelan, University of Texas, Arlington

Recipient: Kenneth Wong

Title: “Accountability and Innovation: New Directions in Education Policy and Management”

Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award

Recognizes distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.

Award Committee: Beryl Radin, chair, American University; William Gormley, Georgetown University; Jodie Neathery-Castro, University of Nebraska, Omaha

Recipient: Barry Rabe, University of Michigan

The APSA would like to apologize for inadvertently omitting the Section 1 award winners and committees from the Annual Meeting's final program and we congratulate them on their achievements.

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, Northeastern, Southern, Southwestern, or Western Political Science Associations.

Award Committee: Isaac Unah, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, chair; Gretchen Ritter, University of Texas, Austin; and Helena Silverstein, Lafayette College

Co-Recipients: J. Mitchell Pickerill, Washington State University and Cornell W. Clayton, Washington State University

Title: “The Supreme Court and the Political Regime: The New Right Regime and Religious Freedom”

C. Herman Pritchett Award

Given annually for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published the previous year.

Award Committee: Ken I. Kersch, Princeton University, chair; Mark S. Hurwitz, Western Michigan University; and Donald R. Songer, University of South Carolina

Recipient: Lawrence Baum, Ohio State University

Title: Judges and Their Audiences: A Perspective on Judicial Behavior (Princeton University Press 2006)

CQ Press Outstanding Student Paper

Given annually for the best paper on law and courts written by a graduate student.

Award Committee: James R. Rogers Texas A&M University, chair; Brandon Bartels, SUNY-Stony Brook; and Laura Hatcher, Southern Illinois University

Recipient: Shauhin Talesh, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee

Title: “Understanding Public Confidence in American Courts”

Lifetime Achievement Award

Honors a distinguished career of scholarly achievement and service to the Law and Courts field.

Award Committee: Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University, chair; Stefanie Lindquist, Vanderbilt University; Scott Barclay, SUNY, Albany; Robert Howard, Georgia State University; and Wendy Martinek, SUNY, Binghamton

Recipient: Saul Brenner, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Teaching and Mentoring Award

Recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts. The Award is supported by a contribution from the Division for Public Education of the American Bar Association.

Award Committee: Elliot E. Slotnick, Ohio State University, chair; Ronald Kahn, Oberlin College; and Sue Davis, University of Delaware

Recipient: Lawrence Baum, Ohio State University

Title: Judges and Their Audiences: A Perspective on Judicial Behavior (Princeton University Press, 2006)

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.

Award Committee: Paul J. Wahlbeck, George Washington University, chair; Saul Brenner, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; and Pamela Brandwein, University of Texas, Dallas

Recipient: H.W. Perry, University of Texas, Austin

Title: Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court (Harvard University Press 2005).

Houghton Mifflin

The Houghton Mifflin Best Published Article Award recognizes the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist and published during the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Harold J. Spaeth, Michigan State University, chair; Christine B. Harrington, New York University; and Chad Westerland, University of Arizona

Recipient: Sara Benesh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Title: “Understanding Public Confidence in American Courts”

Alan Rosenthal Prize

In the spirit of Alan Rosenthal's work, this prize is dedicated to encouraging young scholars to study questions that are of importance to legislators and legislative staff and to conduct research that has the potential application to strengthening the practice of representative democracy.

Award Committee: Garrison Nelson, University of Vermont; Susan Hammond, American University; Stephen Frank, Saint Cloud State University

Recipient: Nancy Martarano, University of Dayton

Title: “Balancing Power: Committee System Autonomy and Legislative Organization”

CQ Press Award

For the best paper on legislative studies presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Linda L. Fowler, Dartmouth College; Jason M. Roberts, University of Minnesota; and Lynda W. Powell, University of Rochester

Recipient: Douglas Kriner, Boston University

Title: “Hail to the Chief? Two Mechanisms of Congressional Influence over Presidential War-Making”

Jewell-Loewenberg Award

For the best article in the Legislative Studies Quarterly in the previous year.

Award Committee: Lanny W. Martin, Rice University; Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego; and Wendy J. Schiller, Brown University

Recipient: John D. Griffin, University of Notre Dame

Title: “Senate Apportionment as a Source of Political Inequality”

Richard F. Fenno Prize

In the tradition of Professor Fenno's work, this prize is designed to honor work that is both theoretically and empirically strong. Moreover, this prize is dedicated to encouraging scholars to pursue new and different avenues of research in order to find answers to previously unexplored questions about the nature of politics.

Award Committee: Tracy Sulkin University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Burdette Loomis, University of Kansas; and Thomas Remington, Emory University

Co-Recipients: Gregory Wawro, Columbia University and Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate (Princeton University Press, 2007)

Emerging Scholars Award

This honor is awarded to a scholar who has received his or her Ph.D. within the last five years and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.

Award Committee: Lonna Rae Atkeson, University of New Mexico, chair; Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Kenneth W. Kollman, University of Michigan

Recipient: Susan Webb Yackee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jack Walker Award

Honors an article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

Award Committee: Beth L. Leech, Rutgers University, chair, Michael J. Laver, New York University; and Jeremy Clayne Pope, Brigham Young University

Co-Recipients: Richard L. Hall, University of Michigan, and Alan V. Deardoff, University of Michigan

Title: “Lobbying as Legislative Subsidy”

Leon Epstein Book Award of Political Organizations and Parties Section

Honors a book published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

Award Committee: Scott H. Ainsworth, University of Georgia, chair; Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, University of Chicago; and Susan Scarrow, University of Houston

Co-Recipient: Henry E. Hale, George Washington University

Title: Why not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism, and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Co-Recipient: Beatriz Magaloni, George Washington University

Title: Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and Its Demise in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Party Politics Award

This award honors the best paper delivered on a Political Organizations and Parties-sponsored panel at the preceding APSA Annual Meeting. The award recipient is offered the opportunity to publish the paper in Party Politics.

Award Committee: Barry C. Burden

University of Wisconsin-Madison, chair; Hans Noel, Georgetown University; and Bonnie M. Meguid, University of Rochester

Recipient: Georgia Kernell, Columbia University

Title: “Candidate Selection and Political Participation”

Samuel J. Eldersveld Award

This award is to honor a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.

Award Committee: Thomas M. Carsey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, chair; Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University; and William B. Heller, SUNY, Binghamton

Recipient: Paul A. Beck, Ohio State University

Herbert Kaufman Award

The award is given for the best paper presented at the preceding year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Sergio Fernandez, Indiana University, chair; Roddrick Colvin, CUNY, John Jay College; and Norma Riccucci, Rutgers University

Co-Recipients: Kenneth Meier, Texas A&M University, and Laurence O'Toole, University of Georgia

Title: “Management Theory and Occam's Razor: How Public Organizations Buffer the Environment”

Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award

The award is conferred annually for the best book on public administration published in the last three to five years that has made a significant contribution to public administration scholarship.

Award Committee: Charles Gossett, California State University, Pomona, chair; Carl Stenberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Kimberly Nelson, Northern Illinois University

Co-Recipients: Arjen Boin, Universiteit Leiden; Paul t'Hart, Universitet Leiden; Eric Stern, Uppsala Universitet; and Bengt Sundelius, Uppsala Universitet

Title: The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Co-Recipient: Dvora Yanow, California State University, East Bay

Title: Constructing “Race” and “Ethnicity” in America: Category-Making in Public Policy and Administration (M. E. Sharpe, 2002)

Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant

Award Committee: Bob Durant, American University, chair; Greg Lewis, Georgia State University; Jane Fountain, University of Massachusetts; and Mel Dubnick, University of New Hampshire

Recipient: Simon A. Andrew, University of North Texas

George H. Hallet 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.

Award Committee: Paul R. Abramson, Michigan State University; and Michal Shamir, Tel-Aviv University

Recipient: Gary Cox, University of California, San Diego

Title: Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems (Cambridge University Press, 1997)

Lawrence Longley Award

Given for the best article published in the previous year.

Award Committee: R. Kenneth Carty, University of British Columbia; Bonnie M. Meguid, University of Rochester; and Antoine Yoshinaka, University of California, Riverside

Leon Weaver Award

Given for the best paper presented at a panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Division.

Award Committee: Bernard N. Grofman, University of California, Irvine; Shaheen Mozaffar, Bridgewater State College; and Henk van der Kolk, University of Twente

Recipient: Jean-Benoit Pilet, Free University Brussels

Title: “Why Do Big Parties Oppose Majority Systems: Satisfaction and Electoral Reform in Belgium”

Founders Paper Award, Edwin Hargrove

Given for the best paper presented by a Ph.D.-holding scholar at the previous year's APSA annual meeting.

Award Committee: Mary Stuckey, Georgia State University, chair; Lydia Andrade, University of the Incarnate Word; Ryan Barilleaux, Miami University; Caroline Heldman, Occidental College; and Ray Tatalovich, Loyola University

Co-Recipients: Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University, and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas

Title: “Change and Stability in the President's Legislative Policy Agenda, 1789–2002”

Founders Award, Martha Joynt Kumar

Named in honor of Martha Joynt Kumar, the award will be given for the best paper presented by a graduate student at either the preceding year's APSA annual meeting or at any of the regional meetings in 2006-2007.

Award Committee: John Woolley, University of California, Santa Barbara, chair; Jody Baumgartner, East Carolina University; Terri Bimes, University of California, Berkeley; Stephen Borrelli, University of Alabama; and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas

Recipient: Kevin James Parsneau, University of Minnesota

Title: “Politicizing Priority Departments: Presidential Policy Priorities and Subcabinet Nominations”

Neustadt Award for the Best Book on the Presidency

Given for the best book published during the year that contributed to research and scholarship in the field of American presidency.

Award Committee: Jeffrey E. Cohen, Fordham University, chair; Diane Heith, Saint John's University; Karen Hult, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Irwin Morris, University of Maryland; and Daniel Ponder, Drury University

Recipient: Brandice Canes-Wrone, Princeton University

Title: Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public (University of Chicago Press, 2005)

Best Undergraduate Paper Award

Given for the best undergraduate paper completed in the academic year 2005–2006.

Award Committee: Bruce Nesmith, Coe College, chair; Rebecca Deen, University of Texas, Arlington; Graham Dodds, Concordia University; Leah Murray, Weber State University; and Brandon Rottinghaus, University of Idaho

Recipient: Carrie Roush, Dickenson College

Title: “ ‘Great Writ,’ Great Power: Habeus Corpus and Prerogative in the Lincoln and Bush II Presidencies”

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award

The Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award for the best dissertation on religion and politics.

Award Committee: Lavinia Stan, Concordia University, chair; Ted G. Jelen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; James D. Slack, University of Alabama-Birmingham; and Carey Newman, Baylor University

Recipient: Ahmet Kuru, San Diego State University

Title: “Dynamics of Secularism: State-Religion Relations in the United States, France, and Turkey”

Hubert Morken Award

Biennial award for the best publication dealing with religion and politics published during 2005–2006.

Award Committee: Rachel M. McCleary, Harvard University, chair; Thomas W. Heilke, University of Kansas; and Jean Reith Schroedel, Claremont Graduate University

Recipient: Melissa M. Deckman, Washington College

Title: School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics (Georgetown University Press 2004)

Paul J. Weber Award

Given for the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the 2006 APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: J. Matthew Wilson, Southern Methodist University, chair; Joel S. Fetzer, Pepperdine University; and Rolin G. Mainuddin, North Carolina Central University

Co-Recipients: Elizabeth A. Oldmixon, University of North Texas, and William Hudson, Providence College

Title: “Dynamics of Secularism: State-Religion When Church Teachings and Republican Ideology Collide: The Perspectives of Catholic Republicans in the House of Representatives”

Norton Long Lifetime Achievement Award

Award Committee: Ann O'M. Bowman, University of South Carolina, chair; Paul Kantor, Fordham University; and Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago

Recipient: Elaine Sharp, University of Kansas

Best Book Award

Presented for the best book in urban politics for 2005.

Award Committee: Sharon Austin, University of Florida, chair; Lana Stein, University of Missouri, St Louis; and John Portz, Northeastern University

Recipient: Reuel R. Rogers, Northwestern University

Title: Afro Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Recipient: Kevin Kruse, Princeton University

Title: White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton University Press, 2005)

Best Paper Award

For the best paper given at an Urban Politics Section panel at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: Stefanie Chambers, Trinity College; John Mollenkopf, City University of New York; Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University

Recipient: Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University

Title: “Electoral Representation of New Actors in Suburbia”

Best Dissertation in Urban Politics

Given for the best dissertation on urban politics completed and accepted in the previous year

Award Committee: Susan Baer, San Diego State University, chair; Heidi Swarts, Rutgers University, Newark; and Ester Fuchs, Columbia University

Recipient: Paru Radha Shah, Macalaster College

Title: “The Politics and Policy Implications of Latino Representation in Education”

Don K. Price Award

For the best book on science, technology, and environmental politics published in the last year.

Award Committee: Thomas Bernauer, University of Zurich, chair; Darrell West, Brown University; and Patrick Hamlett, North Carolina State University

Recipient: Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School

Title: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale University Press, 2006)

Lynton K. Caldwell Award

For the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years.

Award Committee: Barry Rabe, University of Michigan, chair; Eric Montpetit, University of Montreal; and Chris Bosso, Northeastern University

Recipient: Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of California, Santa Cruz

Title: Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way (Stanford Law and Politics, 2006)

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.

Award Committee: Jennifer Pitts, Princeton University; Shannon Stimson, University of California-Berkeley; and Stephen White, chair, University of Virginia

Recipient: Quentin Skinner, Cambridge University

Title: Visions of Politics (Cambridge University Press 2006)

First Book Award

Recognizing the best first book published in 2004 by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career in the area of political theory/philosophy.

Award Committee: Patrick Deneen, chair, Georgetown University; Roxanne Euben, Wellesley College; and Nancy Love, Pennsylvania State University

Recipient: Bryan Garsten, Yale University

Title: Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2006)

Best Graduate Student Paper

The Best Graduate Student Paper Award recognizes the best, sole-authored, conference paper written by a political science graduate student working in the area of information technology and politics. The competition is for papers presented at a political science conference in 2006.

Award Committee: Jeffrey W. Seifert, Congressional Research Service, chair; Helen Margetts, Oxford University; and Deborah Wheeler, United States Naval Academy

Recipient: Kevin Wallsten, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “How Conspiracies Rise, Spread, and Fall: The Case of Voter Fraud, the Blogosphere and the 2004 Election”

Best Published Article

The award recognizes the best scholarly article published about information technology and politics. The contest is limited to articles published in the calendar year 2005.

Award Committee: Toni Poole, Brown University, chair; Priscilla Regan, George Mason University; and Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh

Recipient: Brian S. Krueger, University of Rhode Island

Title: “A Comparison of Conventional and Internet Political Mobilization”

Best Instructional Political Science Website

The Best Instructional Political Science Website Award recognizes the web site with the best instructional value for teaching political science.

Award Committee: Kenneth Rogerson, Duke University, chair; Sungsoo Hwang, University of Pittsburgh; and Carmine Scavo, East Carolina University

Co-Recipients: Bryan Jones, University of Washington; John Wilkerson, University of Washington; and Frank Baumgartner, Pennsylvania State University

Title: Policy Agendas Project

Computer Instructional Software Award

The award recognizes work in software, other than statistical software, by a member of APSA, which best contributes to the furtherance of research in the field.

Award Committee: Chip Hauss, Search for Common Ground; and Micah Altman, Harvard University

Recipient: Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University

Joseph K. Kruzal Memorial Award

Awarded to a scholar who has been active in national security affairs both as an academic and a public servant.

Recipient: Catherine McArdle Kelleher, Brown University

Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Prize

Awarded in recognition of the best doctoral dissertation in the field of international security and arms control

Recipient: Boaz Atzili, Harvard University

Title: “Border Fixity: When Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors”

Data Set Award

Given for a publicly available data set that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative politics.

Award Committee: Kaare Strom, University of California, San Diego, chair; Johanna Kristin Birnir, SUNY, Buffalo; and Kenneth Scheve, Yale University

Recipient: Ronald A. Francisco, University of Kansas

Topic: European protest and coercion

Greg Leubbert Best Article Award

Given for the best article in the field of comparative politics published in 2005 or 2006.

Award Committee: Karen J. Alter, Northwestern University, chair; T.J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley; and Sunita Parikh, Washington University

Co-Recipients: Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University, and Jeremy Weinstein, Stanford University

Title: “Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War,” American Political Science Review 100 (August 2006).

Co-Recipients: Torven Iverson, Harvard University, and David Soskice, Duke University

Title: “Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Distribute More than Others,” American Political Science Review 100 (May 2006).

Greg Leubbert Best Book Award

Given for the best book in the field of comparative politics published in the previous two years.

Award Committee: Robert Rohrschneider, Indiana University; Mitchell Seligson, Vanderbilt University; and Devra Moehler, Cornell University

Recipient: Jonathan Rodden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Hamilton's Paradox: The Promise and Perils of Fiscal Federalism (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Sage Best Paper Award

Given to the best paper in the field of comparative politics presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chris Anderson, Cornell University, chair; Yoshiko Herrera, Harvard University; and David S. Brown, University of Colorado

Recipient: Lily L. Tsai, Stanford University

Title: “Informal Institutions, Accountability, and Public Goods Provision in Rural China”

Best Book Award

Given for the best book on European politics and society published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford; Karen Anderson, Radboud University Nijmegen; and Marc Morje Howard, Georgetown University

Co-Recipient: Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Co-Recipient: Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University

Title: Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (Princeton University Press, 2006)

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper on European Politics and Society presented at the 2006 APSA meeting.

Award Committee: Timothy Frye, Columbia University; Aida Paskeviciute, University of Essex; and David Rueda, University of Oxford

Recipient: Mark Andreas Kayser, University of Rochester, and Christopher Wlezien, Temple University

Title: “Performance Pressure: Patterns of Partisanship and the Economic Vote”

SPPQ Award

For the best paper on state politics and policy presented at any professional meeting in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Michael D. Martinez, chair, University of Florida; Michelle Barnello, Christopher Newsport University; and Ben Highton, University of California, Davis

Recipient: Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University

Title: “Mobilizing Voters in State Supreme Court Elections: Competition and Other Contextual Forces as Democratic Incentives”

Best Paper Award

For the best paper on state politics and policy presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Charles Shipan, chair, University of Iowa; Frederick Boehmke, University of Michigan; and Nancy Martorano, University of Dayton

Recipients: Gerald Gamm, University of Rochester and Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Localism and Factionalism in American State Legislatures”

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

For the best paper on state politics and policy presented by a graduate student at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Charles Shipan, chair, University of Iowa; Frederick Boehmke, University of Michigan; and Nancy Martorano, University of Dayton

Recipient: Todd Makse, Ohio State University

Title: “Party Finance Strategy and the Redistricting Cycle”

Career Achievement Award

Given every biennium to a political scientist who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the study of politics and public policy in the American states.

Recipient: Virginia Gray, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The APSA would like to apologize for inadvertently omitting the Section 22 award winners and committees from the Annual Meeting's final program and we congratulate them on their achievements.

Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award

The award is given to the best paper on political communication presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Matthew A. Baum, University of California, Los Angeles, chair; Tamir Sheafer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Sharon E. Jarvis, University of Texas, Austin; and Costas Panagopoulos, Harvard University

Co-Recipients: T.K. Ahn, Florida State University; Robert Huckfeldt, University of California, Davis; and John Ryan, University of California, Davis

Title: “Information Costs, Information Sources, and the Implications for Democratic Politics”

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Award Committee: James N. Druckman, Northwestern University, chair; John Tedesco, Virginia Tech; Craig Leonard Brians, Virginia Tech

The award is presented for the best paper on political communication presented by a graduate student at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Recipient: Daniela Stockmann, Leiden University

Title: “The New Chinese Media and Public Opinion: Adaptation of a Propaganda Machine or Instrument for Political Change?”

Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award

The award is presented for a lifetime contribution to the study of political communication.

Award Committee: Gladys Engel Lang, University of Washington, chair; Shawn Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine; and Richard Sobel, Harvard University

Co-Recipients: Marion Just, Wellesley College, and W. Russell Neuman, University of Michigan

Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award

Presented for the best book published on political communication in the last ten years.

Award Committee: Paul Brewer, University of Wisconsin-Milawaukee, chair; Beth Leech, Rutgers University; and Kate Kenski, University of Arizona

Co-Recipients: Joseph N. Capella, University of Pennsylvania, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania

Title: The Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good (Oxford University Press, 1997)

J. David Greenstone Book Prize

For the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years.

Award Committee: Jeffrey K. Tulis, University of Texas-Austin, chair; Alyson Cole, CUNY, Queens College; and Ellen M. Immergut, Humboldt University Berlin

Recipient: Istvan Hont, Cambridge University

Title: Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective (Belknap Press, 2005)

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper in political economy presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Strom Thacker, Boston University; Michael Thies, University of California, Los Angeles; and Jonathan Katz, California Institute of Technology

Co-Recipients: Raymond M. Duch, Oxford University, and Randy Stevenson, Rice University

Title: “The Global Economy, Competency, and the Economic Vote”

Mancur Olson Award

Given for the best dissertation in political economy completed in the previous two years.

Award Committee: Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan, chair; Miriam Golden, University of California, Los Angeles; and Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Stanford University

Recipient: Meredith Rolfe, Oxford University

Title: “A Social Theory of Voter Turnout”

William H. Riker Book Award

Given for the best book on political economy published during the past three calendar years.

Award Committee: Tom Romer, Princeton University, chair; Thomas Oatley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and David Laitin, Stanford University

Co-Recipients: Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and James A. Robinson, Harvard University

Title: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Michael Wallerstein Award

The award is presented for the best article in political economy published in the past year.

Award Committee: James Alt, Harvard University, chair; James Robinson, Harvard University; and Royer Myerson, University of Chicago

Recipient: Catherine Hafer, New York University

Title: “On the Origins of Property Rights: Conflict and Production in the State of Nature”

Christian Bay Best Paper Award

For a New Political Science paper presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Award Committee: Jocelyn M. Boryczka, Fairfield University, chair; Steve Shalom, Williams Patterson University; and Melissa Mason, Yale University

Recipient: Angelica M. Bernal, Yale University

Title: “Power, Powerlessness, and Petroleum: Indigenous Environmental Claims and the Limits of International Law”

Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward Award

For 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.

Award Committee: Margaret Groarke, Manhattan College, chair; Dorian Warren, Columbia University; Meredith Sarkees; and Frances Fox Piven, CUNY, Graduate Center

Recipient: Chicago Living Wage Campaign organized by the Grassroots Collaborative

Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award

For a progressive political scientist who has had a long, successful career as a writer, teacher, and activist.

Award Committee: Judith Grant, Ohio University, chair; Stephen Bronner, Rutgers University; and Michael Forman, University of Washington

Recipient: Mark Roelofs, New York University

Michael Harrington Book Award

Given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.

Award Committee: Christopher Malone, Pace University, chair; Jennifer Disney, Winthrop University; and Dean Robinson, University of Massachusetts

Recipient: Dan Zuberi, The University of British Columbia

Title: Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada (ILR Press, 2006)

Best Dissertation Award

Given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year.

Award Committee: John Hibbing, chair, University of Nebraska; Christopher Federico, University of Minnesota; and Jennifer Wolak, University of Colorado at Boulder

Recipient: Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “Selective Exposure to Partisan Information”

Robert Lane Best Book Award

For the best book in political psychology published in the past year.

Award Committee: Martin Gilens, chair, Princeton University; Michael A. Neblo, Ohio State University; and Tasha S. Philpot, Princeton University.

Recipient: Diana C. Mutz, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Rose McDermott, University of California, Santa Barbara; Dennis Chong, Northwestern University; and Kathleen McGraw, Ohio State

Co-Recipients: Nicholas A. Valentino, University of Michigan; Vincent L. Hutchings, University of Michigan; Krysha Gregoroqicz, University of Michigan; Eric Groenendyk, University of Michigan; and Ted Brader, University of Michigan

Title: “Election Night's All Right for Fighting”

Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award

For the best paper presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Joseph H. Lane Jr., Emory & Henry College, chair; Eduardo A. Velasquez, Washington & Lee University; and Simon A. Stow, College of William and Mary

Recipient: John Lombardini, Princeton University

Title: “The Comedy of the Philosopher-Kings: Aristophanes' Birds and Plato's Republic”

Foreign Policy Division's Award for Best Faculty Paper

For the best paper on foreign policy presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Paul Kowert, Florida International University; Peter A. Furia, Wake Forest University; Elizabeth G. Matthews, Rochester Institute of Technology

Recipients: Mark L. Haas, Duquesne University

Title: “Neo-classical Realism and the Importance of Ideological Consensus in International Relations”

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper delivered at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Todd Donovan, Western Washington University, chair; Christopher Wlezien, Temple University; and Thomas M. Holbrook, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Recipient: Dennis Chong, Northwestern University, and James Druckman, Northwestern University

Title: “Democratic Competition and Public Opinion”

Emerging Scholar Award

Awarded to the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of her or his Ph.D.

Award Committee: Jeffrey Mondak, University of Illinois; James Gimpel, University of Maryland; and Katherine Tate, University of California, Irvine

Co-Recipients: Adam Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Thomas Rudolph, University of Illinois

Philip E. Converse Best Book Award

Given for an outstanding book in the field published at least five years before.

Award Committee: Kathleen McGraw, Ohio State University, chair; James Kuklinski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Paul Sniderman, Stanford University

Co-Recipients: Sidney Verba, Harvard University; Kay Schlozman, Boston College; and Henry Brady, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism and American Politics (Harvard University Press, 1995)

Best Book Award: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Participation

Co-Recipients: Bryon E. Shafer, University of Wisconsin, and Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia

Title: The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South (Harvard University Press, 2006)

Best Book Award: Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy

Recipient: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Columbia University

Title: Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (Harvard University Press, 2006).

Best Book Award: Inter Group Relations and Identity Politics

Recipient: Reuel R. Rogers, Northwestern University

Title: Afro Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Best Dissertation Award

The award is given for the best American dissertation on race, ethnicity, and politics accepted the previous year.

Award Committee: Katherine Tate, University of California, Irvine, chair; Tony Affigne, Providence College; and Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Recipient: Melynda Janea Price, The University of Michigan

Title: “At the Cross: Race and Religion in the Politics of the Death Penalty among African Americans”

Best Paper from 2006 Program

Award Committee: Richard Iton, Northwestern University, and Jane Junn, Rutgers University.

Recipient: Niambi Michele Carter, Duke University

Title: “Super Natural: Reclaiming Black Female Sexuality in Pornography”

Jervis and Schroeder Best Book Award

For the best book on international history and politics published in the previous two years.

Recipient: Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago

Title: Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2006).

Best Article Award

Given for the best article published on Comparative Democratization within the last year.

Award Committee: Lucan A. Way, University of Toronto, chair; Staffan I. Lindberg, University of Florida; and Donna Lee Van Cott, Tulane University

Recipient: Richard Snyder, Brown University

Title: “Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder?”

Honorable Mention: Daniel Brinks, University of Texas, Austin, and Michael Coppedge, University of Texas, Austin

Title: “Diffusion is No Illusion”

Best Book Award

For the best single authored, multi-authored, or edited book on comparative democratization published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Frances Hogopian

University of Notre Dame, chair; Dennis Galvan, University of Oregon; and Benjamin Smith, University of Florida

Co-Recipient: Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University

Title: Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and Its Demise in Mexico Demise in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Co-Recipient: Jillian Schwedler, University of Maryland

Title: Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Best Field Research Award

The Best Field Research Award on comparative democratization was presented for the first time at the 2005 APSA Annual meeting.

Award Committee: Milada Vachudova, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Sherrie L. Baver, CUNY, City College of New York; and Lily Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipient: Marc Berenson, Princeton University

Title: “Re-Creating the State: Governance and Power in Poland and Russia”

Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award

Given for the best dissertation in the field of comparative study of democracy completed and accepted in the previous two calendar years.

Award Committee: Marc Morje Howard, Georgetown University, chair; Georgetown University; Michael Bernhard, Pennsylvania State University; and Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University

Recipient: Susan Hyde, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Observing Norms: Explaining the Causes and Consequences of Internationally Monitored Elections”

Best Convention Paper Award

Given for the best convention paper presented at a comparative democratization panel.

Award Committee: Joseph L. Klesner, Kenyon College, chair; Jason M. Brownlee, University of Texas, Austin; and Steven Heydemann, Georgetown University

Recipient: Kenneth F. Greene, University of Texas, Austin

Title: “A Resource Theory of Single-Party Dominance”

Best Book Award

The award is given for the best single-authored, multi-authored, or edited volume on human rights published in 2006.

Award Committee: George J. Andreopoulos, Center for International Human Rights, chair; Sonia Cardenas, Trinity College; Lilian A. Barria, Eastern Illinois University; and Mahmood Monshipouri, Quinnipiac University

Recipient: Stephen Hopgood, University of London

Title: Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International (Cornell University Press, 2006)

Distinguished Scholar Award

The award is intended to recognize someone who has worked in the field of Human Rights and made an exceptional contribution to the field through research, teaching, and mentorship.

Award Committee: Neil J Mitchell, University of Aberdeen, chair; Carol C. Gould, Temple University; and Michael E. Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh

Recipient: David Forsythe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Best Dissertation Award

Political science dissertations that focus on human rights and were completed and accepted in the previous two calendar years are eligible for the award competition.

Award Committee: Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Wilfrid Laurier University, chair; Bethany Barratt, Roosevelt University; and Julie Mertus, American University

Recipient: Daniel Whelan, University of Denver

Title: “Interdependent, Indivisible and Interrelated Human Rights: A Political and Historical Investigation”