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: Barry Rabe, chair, University of Michigan; John Dinan, Wake Forest University; Carolyn Bourdeaux, Georgia State University

Recipient: Paul Posner, George Mason University

Title: The Politics of Unfunded Mandates: Whither Federalism? (Georgetown University Press, 1998)

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: Karen Mossberger, chair, University of Illinois, Chicago; Kathleen Hale, Auburn University; Arnie Fleischmann, University of Georgia

Co-Recipients: Nicole Bolleyer, University of Exeter; Tanja A. Boerzel, Freie Universitat Berlin

Title: “Turning the Inside Out: Policy Coordination in Systems of Multilevel Governance”

Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award

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

Award Committee: William Gormley, chair, Georgetown University; Alberta Sbragia, University of Pittsburg; Robert Vipond, University of Toronto

Recipient: Paul Posner, George Mason University

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: Georg Vanberg, chair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester; Patricia Woods, University of Florida

Co-Recipients: Jeffrey R. Lax and Kelly Rader, Columbia University

Title: “Tactical Opinion Assignment and Voting in the Supreme Court”

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: Sanford V. Levinson, chair, University of Texas; Stephen G. Bragaw, Sweet Briar College; Thomas M. Keck, Syracuse University

Recipient: Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University

Title: Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History (Princeton University Press, 2007)

CQ Press Outstanding Student Paper

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

Award Committee: Kevin T. McGuire, chair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Justin Crowe, Pomona College; Mariah Zeisberg, University of Michigan

Recipient: Tom S. Clark, Princeton University

Title: “The Separation of Powers, Court-Curbing and Judicial Legitimacy”

Lifetime Achievement Award

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

Award Committee: Donald A. Downs, chair, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Julie Novkov, SUNY Albany; James Stoner, Louisiana State University; Lee Epstein, Northwestern University; and Scott Gerber, Ohio Northern University

Recipient: J. Woodford Howard, Johns Hopkins University

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: Lawrence Baum, chair, Ohio State University; Thomas Burke, Wellesley College; Wendy Martinek, Binghamton University

Recipient: Jeffrey A. Segal, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

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

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: James R. Rogers, chair, Texas A&M University; Lisa Hilbink, University of Minnesota; J. Mitchell Pickerill, Washington State University

Recipient: Thomas M. Keck, Syracuse University

Title: “Party, Policy, or Duty: Why Does the Supreme Court Invalidate Federal Statues?”

The Law & Courts Lasting Contribution Award

The Law & Courts Lasting Contribution Award is 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: Gary C. Jacobson, Chair, University of California, San Diego; James F. Spriggs II, Washington University, St Louis; Paul Frymer, University of California, San Diego

Recipient: Mark A. Graber, University of Maryland

Title: “The Nonmajoritarian Difficulty: Legislative Deference to the Judiciary Committee”

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: James A Thurber, chair, American University; Nancy Martorano, University of Dayton; Michael D. Minta, Washington University in St. Louis; Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Recipient: David M. Primo, University of Rochester

Title: Rules and Restraint: Government Spending and the Design of Institutions

CQ Press Award

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

Award Committee: Bruce I. Oppenheimer, chair, Vanderbilt University; Jennifer L. Lawless, Brown University; Joshua D. Clinton, Princeton University; Lawrence C. Dodd, University of Florida

Co-Recipients: Kathryn Pearson, University of Minnesota; Erin Schickler, University of California, Berkeley

Title:“Discharge Petitions, Agenda Control, and the Congressional Committee System 1929–1976”

Jewell-Loewenberg Award

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

Award Committee: John D. Griffin, chair, University of Notre Dame; Sarah Binder, Brookings Institution; William Mishler, University of Arizona

Co-Recipients: James M. Snyder, MIT; Michiko Ueda, California Institute of Technology

Title: “Do Multimember Districts Lead to Free-Riding?”

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: Gregory Wawro, chair, Columbia University; Bryan D. Jones, University of Washington; Barbara Sinclair, University of California, Los Angeles

Co-Recipients: Simon Hix, London School of Economics and Political Science; Abdul Noury, Universite Libre de Bruxelles; and Gerard Roland, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Democratic Politics in the European Parliament (Cambridge University Press)

Carl Albert Dissertation Award

The Carl Albert Dissertation Award is given for the best doctoral dissertation in the area of legislative studies.

Award Committee: Kathryn Pearson, University of Minnesota; Elizabeth Oldmixon, University of North Texas; Kim Hill, Texas A&M University

Recipient: Robert Salmon, UCLA

Title: “Parliamentary Question Times: How Legislative Accountability Mechanisms Affect Citizens and Politics”

Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award

The Aaron Wildavsky Award is for a book or article published in the last ten to twenty years that continues to influence the study of public policy.

Award Committee: David M. Hedge, Chair, University of Florida; Michael E. Kraft, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; Suzanne B. Mettler, Syracuse University; Harrell Rodgers, University of Houston; Carol Siva, University of Oklahoma; William F. Berry, Florida State University

Co-Recipients: Anne L. Schneider and Helen Ingram, University of Arizona

Title: Policy Design for Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 1997)

Best Paper on Public Policy Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on Public Policy given at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Joseph White, chair, Case Western Reserve University; Scott

W. Allard, Brown University; Robert L. Lineberry, University of Houston; Lisa L. Miller, Rutgers University; Lina Y. Newton, CUNY, Hunter College

Co-Recipients: Sanford Schram, Bryn Marr College; Joe Soss, University of Minnesota; Richard C. Fording, University of Kentucky; Linda Houser, Bryn Marr College

Title: “Deciding to Discipline: a Multi-Method Study of Race, Choice, and Punishment at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform”

Excellence in Mentoring Award

The Excellence in Mentoring Award has been established to recognize sustained efforts by senior scholars to encourage and facilitate the career of emerging political scientists in the field of public policy.

Award Committee: Gary C. Bryner, chair, Brigham Young University; Amy Zegart, University of California, Los Angeles; Tomas Koontz, Ohio State University; Sarah B. Praile, Syracuse University

Recipient: Nicholas Lovrich, Washington State University

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: Geoffrey Layman, Chair, University of Maryland; Susan Yackee, University of Wisconsin; and Marc Hetherington, Vanderbilt University

Co-Recipients: Scott Desposato, University of California, San Diego, and Seth Masket, University of Denver

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: Kira Sanbonmatsu, chair, Rutgers University; Kristen Goss, Duke University; and Pradeep Chhibber, University of California, Berkeley

Co-Recipients: James Adams and Samuel Merrill III

Title: “Why Small, Centrist Third Parties Motivate Policy Divergence by Major Parties” American Political Science Review (August 2006)

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: Herbert Kitschelt, chair, Duke University; Jeffrey Berry, Tufts University; and Marjorie Hershey, Indiana University

Recipient: Dara Strolovitch, University of Minnesota

Title: Affirmative Advocacy. Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

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: Maryann Barakso, chair, University of Massachusetts; Georgia Kernell, University of Michigan; Dorian Warren, Columbia University

Recipient: Brian Feinstein, Harvard University, and Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “State Party Platforms and Civil Rights Policy, 1920–1968.”

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: Frank Baumgartner, chair, Penn State University; Paul A Beck, Ohio State University; and Kevin Esterling, University of California, Riverside

Recipient: John Aldrich, Duke University

Herbert Kaufman Award

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

Award Committee: Kenneth J. Meier, chair, Texas A&M University; Laurence J. O'Toole Jr., University of Georgia; Kelly LeRoux, University of Kansas

Co-Recipients: Francesca Gains and Peter John, University of Manchester

Title: “Bureaucratic Decision Making in Institutional Reform: A Test of the ‘Bureau Shaping’ Hypothesis”

Best Book Award

The Best Book Award is given for the best book making outstanding contributions to the study of any and all forms of political conflict, either within or between nation-states, published in the two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given.

Award Committee: Paul F. Diehl, Chair, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrew Kydd, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sabine C. Carey, University of Nottingham

Recipient: Tanisha Fazal, Columbia University

Title: State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation (Princeton University Press)

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: Shaun Bowler, chair, University of California, Riverside; Josep Colomer, CSIC University Pompeu Fabra; Douglas Amy, Mount Holyoke College

Co-Recipients: Michel Balinski, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique; and H. Peyton Young, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Fair Representation: Meeting the Ideal of One Man, One Vote (Brookings Institutions Press 2001)

Lawrence Longley Award

Given for the best article published in the previous year. Award Committee: Matthew Shugart, chair, University of California, San Diego; James Adams, University of California, Davis; Todd Donovan, Western Washington University

Co-Recipients: Eric Chang, Michigan State University; and Miriam Golden, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “Electoral Systems, District Magnitude, and Corruption” (British Journal of Political Science 2007)

Leon Weaver Award

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

Award Committee: Kenneth Bonoit, chair, Trinity College; Jeffrey Karp, University of Exeter; Susan Scarrow, University of Houston

Co-Recipients: James Adams and Zeynep Somer, University of California, Davis

Title: “Moderate Now, Win Votes Later: The Electoral Consequences of Parties' Policy Shifts in Twenty-Five Postwar Democracies”

The Founders Award (Ph.D.)

The Founders Award (Ph.D.) is named for Bert Rockman will be given for the best paper presented by a Ph.D.-holding scholar at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Bruce Miroff, chair, University of Albany, SUNY; Randall, Adkins, University of Nebraska, Omaha; David Lewis, Princeton University; David Yalof, University of Connecticut

Recipient: B. Dan Wood, Texas A&M University

Title: “Presidential Saber Rattling and the Economy”

Founders Award

The Founders Award named in honor of David Neveh 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 2007–2008

Award Committee: Andrew J. Dowdle, chair, University of Arizona; Graham Dodds, Concordia University; Tobias Gibson, Monmouth College; Karen Hult, Virginia Tech University; Leah Murray, Weber State College

Co-Recipients: Curtis W. Nichols and Adam Myers, University of Texas, Austin

Title: “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Exploiting the Opportunity for Reconstructive Leadership”

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: George C. Edwards III, chair, Texas A&M University, College Station; Paul Brace, Rice University; Colin Campbell, University of British Columbia; Karen Hoffman, Wheeling Jesuit University; Mel Laracey, University of Texas at San Antonio

Co-Recipient: Martha Joynt Kumar, Towson University

Title: Managing the President's Message (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)

Co-Recipients: William G. Howell, University of Chicago; Jon C. Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin

Title: While Dangers Gather (Princeton University Press, 2007)

Best Undergraduate Paper Award

Given for the best undergraduate paper completed in the academic year 2007–2008.

Award Committee: Thomas S. Langston, chair, Tulane University; Alfred Cuzan, University of West Florida; Lily Goren, Carroll College; Nancy Kassop, SUNY-New Paltz; Brian Newman, Pepperdine University

Recipient: Carrie Roush, Dickenson College

Recipient: Brett Amelkin, Princeton University

Title: “Fit to Print: Trends in New York Times Election Coverage, 1960–2006”

Career Service Award

The Career Service Award is given every four years during a presidential election year, to recognize career service to the study of the Presidency.

Award Committee: Bruce F. Nesmith, chair, Coe College; David Adler, Idaho State University; Ryan Barilleaux, Miami University; Meena Bose, Hofstra University; Elvin Lim, University of Tulsa

Recipient: George C. Edwards, III, Texas A&M University

Harold F. Gosnell Prize

Harold Gosnell prize for the best work of political methodology presented at a political science conference in the previous year.

Award Committee: Kenneth W. Kollman, chair, University of Michigan; Michael Crespin, University of Georgia; Matthew Lebo, SUNY, Stony Brook

Recipient: Kevin Quinn, Harvard University

Title: “What Can Be Learned from a Simple Table? Bayesian Inference and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Effects from 2x2 and 2x2xK Tables in the Presence of Unmeasured Confounding”

John T. Williams Award

The award was established for the best dissertation proposal in the area of political methodology, in recognition of John T. Williams' contribution to graduate training.

Award Committee: Patrick T. Brandt, chair, University of Texas, Dallas; Michael Colaresi, Michigan State University; Tse-Min Lin, University of Texas, Austin

Recipient: Justin Grimmer, Harvard University

Title: “A Bayesian Hierarchical Topic Model for Political Texts: Measuring and Explaining Legislator's Express Agendas”

Warren Miller Article Award

The Warren Miller Article Award is given for the best article in political analysis.

Award Committee: J. Tobin Grant, Chair, Southern Illinois University; David Darmofal, University of South Carolina; Michael J. Hanmer, University of Maryland; Orit Kedar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Drew Linzer, Emory University

Co-Recipients: Daniel E. Ho, Stanford University; Kosuke Imai, Princeton University; Gary King, Harvard University; Elizabeth A. Stuart, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Title: “Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reduced Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference”

Society for Political Methodology Poster Award

Given for the best poster presented at the 2007 Summer Conference on Political Methodology or the 2007 APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Kathy L. Powers, Chair, University of New Mexico; Cherie Maestas, Florida State University; Michael Bailey, Georgetown University; Tobin Grant, Southern Illinois University

Co-Recipient: Daniel Hopkins, Harvard University

Title: “Flooded Communities: Using the Post-Katrina Migration as a Quasi-Experiment”

Co-Recipient: Aya Kachi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Title: “The Empirical Implications of a Theoretical Model on Coalition Bargaining and Governmental Survival”

Career Achievement Award

Honors an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the political methodology field.

Award Committee: Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, chair, Ohio State University; R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology; Elisabeth Gerber, University of Michigan; Marco Steenbergen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Recipient: John Jackson, University of Michigan

Best Book Award

Presented for the best book in urban politics for 2007.

Award Committee: Paul Kantor, chair, Fordham University; Julie-Anne Boudreau, University of Quebec; Richard E. Foglesong, Rollins College

Recipient: Martin Horak, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Title: Governing the Post-Communist City: Institutions and Democratic Development in Prague (University of Toronto Press)

Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Ester Rachel Fuchs, chair, Columbia University; Cynthia Horan, Yale University; Thomas J. Vicino, University of Texas, Arlington

Co-Recipients: Melissa Marschall, Rice University; Paru Shah, Macalaster College; Katherine Donato, Vanderbilt University

Title: “Schools and Parental Involvement Policy: A Macro-Level Analysis of Immigrant Gateway Districts”

Best Dissertation in Urban Politics

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

Award Committee: Janice L. Bockmeyer, chair, CUNY, John Jay College; Richard C. Feiock, Florida State University; Takashi Tsukamoto, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Recipient: Traci Burch, Northwestern University

Title: “Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy”

The Bryan Jackson Dissertation Award

The Bryan Jackson Dissertation in Ethnic and Racial Politics Research Support Award is given to a graduate student studying racial and ethnic politics in an urban setting.

Award Committee: James Lance Taylor, chair, University of San Francisco; Georgia A. Persons, Georgia Institute of Technology; Peter Burns, Loyola University, New Orleans

Recipient: Ravi Kumar Perry, Brown University

Title: “21st Century Black Mayors, Non-majority Black Cities, and the Representation of Black Interests”

Don K. Price Award

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

Award Committee: Darell West, chair, Brown University; Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School; Thomas Bernauer, ETH Zurich

Recipient: Dan Breznitz, Georgia Institute of Technology

Title: Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland (Yale University Press, 2007)

Lynton K. Caldwell Award

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

Award Committee: Christopher J. Bosso, chair, Northeastern University; Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of California, Santa Cruz; Sarah B. Pralle, Syracuse University

Co-Recipients: Chris McGrory Klyza, Middlebury College; David Sousa, University of Puget Sound

Title: American Environmental Policy, 1990–2006: Beyond Gridlock (MIT Press, 2008)

Virginia M. Walsh Award

The Virginia M. Walsh Award is given for the best dissertation in science, technology and environmental politics finished in the last two years.

Award Committee: Jeff Hart, chair, Indiana University; Phillip Stalley, DePaul University; Daniel J. Sherman, University of Puget Sound

Recipient: Mark Zachary Taylor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Title: “The Political Economy of Technological Innovation: A Change in the Debate”

Best Dissertation Award

This award is given to the author of the best dissertation completed and successfully defended on women and politics written in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Susan Gluck Mezey, chair, Loyola University Chicago; Richard L. Fox, Loyola Marymount University; Evelyn M. Simien, University of Connecticut; Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, University of Missouri, Columbia; Mia Bloom, University of Georgia

Co-Recipient: Rachel Rinaldo, University of Chicago

Title: “Mobilizing Piety: Women, Islam, and the Public Sphere in Indonesia”

Co-Recipient: Heather Ondercin, Pennsylvania State University

Title: “The Changing Social Definitions of Men and Women and Their Effect on the Partisan Gender Gap, 1953–2003”

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given to the best paper presented at the previous year's APSA meeting on women and politics.

Award Committee: Suzanne B. Mettler, chair, Cornell University; Suzanne Dovi, University of Arizona; Sherry L. Martin, Cornell University

Recipient: Mala Htun, New School for Social Research; S. Laurel Weldon, Purdue University

Title: “When and Why Do Governments Promote Women's Rights? Toward a Comparative Politics of State and Sex Equality”

The Okin-Young Award

(Co-sponsored by Foundations of Political Theory and the Women's Caucus for Political Science)

The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, and professional contributions of Susan Moller Okin and Iris Marion Young to the development of the field of feminist political theory. The award recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Nancy J. Hirschmann, chair, University of Pennsylvania; Kathy E. Ferguson, University of Hawaii; Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Eastern Michigan University

Co-Recipients: Stephen T. Leonard, University of North Carolina; Joan C. Tronto, Hunter College

Title: “The Genders of Citizenship” American Political Science Review, February 2007

Co-Recipient: Tamara Metz, Reed College

Title: “The Liberal Case for Disestablishing Marriage” Contemporary Political Theory

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.

Recipient: Charles Taylor

Title: The Secular Age (Harvard University Press, 2007)

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: Helen Margetts, chair, Oxford University; Chris Bronk, Rice University

Recipient: Gary King, Harvard University

Title: thedata.org

Computer Instructional Software Award

The Best Research Software Award recognizes work in software, other than statistical software, by a member of APSA, that best contributes to the furtherance of research in the field.

Award Committee: Andrew Chadwick, chair, Royal Holloway, University of London; Cecilia Manrique, Chair, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

Recipient: Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts

Title: “Coding Analysis Toolkit”

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.

Award Committee: Gale Mattox, U.S. Naval Academy; Jeffrey Larsen, SAIC Colorado Springs; Paul Viotti, University of Denver; Carmel Davis; The Citadel

Recipient: Lt General (Dr) Brent Scowcroft, The Scowcroft Group

Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Prize

The Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award is awarded to a successfully defended doctoral dissertation on any aspect of security studies which has been submitted in final, library copy in the 2007 calendar year.

Award Committee: Chris C. Demchak, University of Arizona, Eller College; Andrew Dorman, Kings College London; David Sacko, U.S. Air Force Academy

Recipient: Claes Robert Egnall, Kings College London

Title: “The Missing Link: Civil-Military Aspects of Effectiveness in Complex Irregular Warfare”

Data Set Award

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

Award Committee: James Robinson, chair, Harvard University; Brian Burgoon, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research; Sebastian Saeigh, University of California, San Diego

Recipient: Lyle Scruggs, University of Connecticut

Topic: Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset, http://www.sp.uconn. edu/~scruggs/wp.htm

Greg Leubbert Best Article Award

For the best article in the field of comparative politics published in 2006 or 2007.

Award Committee: Torben Iversen, chair, Harvard University; Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania; Michael Ross, University of California, Los Angeles

Co-Recipients: Keith Darden, Yale University; Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan

Title: “The Great Divide” World Politics (October 2006)

Greg Luebbert Best Book Award

The Luebbert Book Award is given for the best book in the field of comparative politics published in the previous two years.

Award Committee: Catherine Boone, chair, University of Texas at Austin; Gretchen Helmke Tel, University of Rochester; Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University

Recipient: Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University

Title: The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Sage Best Paper Award

The Sage Best Paper Award is given to the best paper in the field of comparative politics presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Victoria Murillo, chair, Columbia University; Allen Hicken, University of Michigan

Recipient: Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University

Title: “Rural Inequality and Electoral Authoritarianism”

Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Daniel F. Ziblatt, chair, Harvard University; Sophie Meunier, Princeton University; Susan L. Woodward, CUNY, Graduate Center

Recipient: Rachel Cichowski, University of Washington

Title: The European Court and Civil Society: Litigation, Mobilization, and Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award

The Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on European politics and society filed during the previous year.

Award Committee: Sofia A. Perez, chair, Boston University; Mark A Pollack, Temple University; Venelin I. Ganev; Miami University, Ohio

Recipient: Silja Haeusermann, University of Zurich

Title: “Modernization in Hard Times: Post-industrial Pension Politics in Germany, France and Switzerland”

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

Co-Recipients: Aida Paskeviciute, University of Essex; Christopher Anderson, Cornell University

Title: “Immigrants, Citizenship, and Political Action: A Study of 21 European Democracies”

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on state politics an policy presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Cynthia J. Bowling, chair, Auburn University; Robert E. Hogan, Louisiana State University; Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson, Wayne State University

Co-Recipients: Elizabeth Rigby, University of Houston; Gerald Wright, Indiana University

Title: “State Parties, Polarization, and Representation of the Poor”

Best Graduate Paper Award

The Best Graduate Paper Award is given for the best paper on state politics and policy presented by a Graduate Student at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Cynthia J. Bowling, Chair, Auburn University; Robert E. Hogan, Louisiana State University; Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson, Wayne State University

Recipient: Mike Binder, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Confusion, Information and Voting Errors in Initiative Races”

SPPQ Award

The SPPQ Award is given for the best paper on state politics and policy presented at any professional meeting in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Barbara Norrander; chair, University of Arizona; Ben Highton, University of California, Davis; Ronald Hedlund, Northeastern University; and the editors of SPPQ

Co-Recipients: Gerald Gamm, University of Rochester; Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Diversity and the Breakdown of Deference”

Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award

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

Award Committee: Robert Entman, chair, George Washington University; Audrey A. Haynes, University of Georgia; Lynda Lee Kaid, University of Florida

Recipient: Michael X. Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania

J. David Greenstone Book Prize

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

Award Committee: David Vogel, chair, University of California, Berkeley; Evan Lieberman, Princeton University; Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania

Recipient: Keith Whittington, Princeton University

Title: Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History (Princeton University Press, 2007)

Mary Parker Follett Award

The Mary Parker Follett Award is given for the best article or chapter in politics and history published in 2006 or 2007.

Award Committee: Eric M. Patashnik, chair, University of Virginia; Jason Wittenberg, University of California, Berkeley; Julie Novkov, SUNY, University of Albany

Recipient: Justin Crowe, Pomona College

Title: “The Forging of Judicial Autonomy: Political Entrepreneurship and the Reforms of William Howard Taft” (Journal of Politics 2007)

Best Dissertation Award

The award for Best Dissertation in the field of politics and history will be given for the best dissertation from Ph.D.s awarded in either 2006 or 2007.

Award Committee: Theda Skocpol, chair, Harvard University; Paul Frymer, University of California, Santa Cruz; Sheri Berman, Barnard College

Recipient: Tomas Henrik Larsson, Cornell University

Title: “Capitalizing Thailand: Colonialism, Communism, and the Political Economy of Rural Land Rights”

Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Andrew Sobel, chair, Washington University; Rebecca Morton, New York University; William Keech, Duke University

Co-Recipients: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita; Alastair Smith, New York University

Title: “Political Survival and Endogenous Institutional Change”

Mancur Olson Award

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

Award Committee: Lisa L. Martin, chair, Harvard University; Gary Cox, University of California, San Diego; William Bianco, Indiana University

Recipient: Thad Dunning, Yale University

Title: “Does Oil Promote Democracy? Regime Change in Rentier States”

William H. Riker Book Award

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

Award Committee: David A. Lake, chair, University of California, San Diego; Kathleen Bawn, University of California, Los Angeles; David Epstein, Columbia University

Recipient: Jeremy M. Weinstein, Stanford University

Title: Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (Cambridge University Press 2007)

Michael Wallerstein Award

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

Award Committee: Kenneth F. Scheve, chair, Yale University; Helen Milner, Princeton University; John Roemer, Yale University

Recipient: James Habyarimana, Marcartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner, and Jeremy Weinstein

Title: “Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision” (American Political Science Review, November 2007)

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: Ilene Feinman, Chair, California State University, Monterey Bay; Julie Mertus, American University; J. Phillip Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipient: Peter Nikolaus Funke, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “Late Capitalism and the World Social Forum: Social Movement Resistance in the 21st Century”

Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven 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: Victor E. Wallis, chair, Berklee College of Music; Maggie Gray, Adelphi University; Jennifer Shea, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Co-Recipient: Centro Presente

Co-Recipient: Open Media Boston

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: Manfred B. Steger, chair, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers University; Wendy Sarvasy, California State University

Recipient: John Ehrenberg, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus

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: William L. Niemi, chair, Western State College of Colorado; Gerard Huiskamp, Wheaton College; Jamie L. Warner, Marshall University

Recipient: Geoff Mann, Simon Fraser University

Title: Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers, & the Political Economy of the American West (University of North Carolina Press, 2007)

Best Dissertation Award

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

Award Committee: George Marcus, chair, Williams College; Cindy Kam, University of California, Davis; Jason Barabas, Florida State University

Recipient: Erin Cassesee, West Virginia University

Title: “Culture Wars as Identity Politics”

Robert Lane Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Diana Mutz, chair, University of Pennsylvania; Ted Brader, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Zoe Oxley, Union College

Co-Recipients: Paul M. Sniderman, Stanford University; Louk Hagendoorn, Utrecht University

Title: When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands (Princeton University Press, 2007)

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is awarded to the authors of a paper in the area of political psychology that was presented during the 2007 APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Jamie Druckman, chair, Northwestern University; Joanne Miller, University of Minnesota; David Nickerson, University of Notre Dame

Co-Recipients: Daphna Canetti-Nisim, Gal Ariely, and Eran Halperin, University of Haifa

Title: “Life, Pocketbook, or Culture”

McGraw-Hill Award for Scholarship and Teaching on Civic Engagement in Political Science

The McGraw-Hill Award recognizes political scientists who advance civic engagement through the study of engagement and participation. The award seeks to honor a wide range of unique and new approaches to the scholarship and teaching of civic engagement, but in particular scholars who raise political awareness, involvement, and participation of undergraduate students.

Award Committee: Brigid Harrision, chair, Montclair State University

Recipient: Bill Ball, The College of New Jersey

Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Natalie Taylor, chair, Skidmore College; Joseph Lombardini, Princeton University; Lee Trapanier, Saginaw Valley State University

Recipient: Avery Plaw, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Title: “Munich Revisited: Reevaluating the ‘Wrath of God’ ”

Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Scott D. McClurg, chair, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Lonna Atkeson, University of New Mexico; William Jacoby, Michigan State University

Recipient: Peter Enns, Cornell University

Title: “The Micro Foundations of Presidential Approval”

Emerging Scholar Award

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

Award Committee: Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, chair, Ohio State University; John Greer, Vanderbilt University; Pat Hurley, Texas A&M University

Recipient: Markus Prior, Princeton University

Philip E. Converse Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Henry E. Brady, chair, University of California, Berkeley; Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley; Cindy Kam, University of California, Davis

Recipient: Robert Lane, Yale University

Title: Political Ideology (Free Press of Glencoe, 1963)

Sullivan Award

The Sullivan Award is given for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Scott D. McClurg, chair, Southern Illinois University; Lonna Atkeson, University of New Mexico; William Jacoby, Michigan State University

Recipients: Neil Malhotra and Alexander Kuo, Stanford University

Title: “Attributing Blame: The Public's Response to Hurricane Katrina.”

Warren E. Miller Prize

The Warren E. Miller Prize is awarded every two or three years for an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Field

Award Committee: Alan I. Abramowitz, chair, Emory University; Russ Dalton, University of California, Irvine; Vince Hutchings, University of Michigan

Recipient: Robert Putnam, Harvard University

Best Dissertation Award

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

Award Committee: Tony Affigne, chair, Providence College; Diane-Michele Prindeville, New Mexico State University; H.L.T. Quan, Arizona State University

Co-Recipient: Vesla Mae Weaver, University of Virginia

Title: “Frontlash: Race and the Politics of Punishment”

Co-Recipient: Daniel Wei HoSang, University of Oregon

Title: “Racial Propositions: ‘Genteel Apartheid’ in Postwar California”

Jervis and Schroeder Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: John Ikenberry, Chair, Princeton University; Katherine Barbieri, University of South Carolina; and Orfeo Fioretos, Temple University

Co-Recipient: Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine

Title: Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2007)

Co-Recipient: Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village (Princeton University Press, 2006)

Best Article Award

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

Award Committee: Richard Snyder, chair, Brown University; Robert Fishman, University of Notre Dame; Jose Antonio Cheibub, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Recipient: Jason Brownlee, University of Texas, Austin

Title: “Hereditary Succession in Modern Autocracies” (World Politics, July 2007)

Best Book Award

For the best book in the field of comparative democratization published in 2007 (single authored, multi-authored, or edited).

Award Committee: James L. Gibson, chair, Washington University, St. Louis; Sheri Berman, Barnard College; Goldie Shabad, Ohio State University

Co-Recipient: Amaney A. Jamal

Title: Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World

Co-Recipient: Kenneth F. Greene

Title: Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico's Democratization in Comparative Perspective

Best Field Research Award

The award for Best Field Work is a prize that rewards dissertation students who are currently working on their dissertations or completed theirs in 2007 who conduct especially innovative and difficult fieldwork.

Award Committee: Kathryn E. Stoner-Weiss, chair, Stanford University; Michael Mitchell, Arizona State University; Devra Coren Moehler, Cornell University

Recipient: Daniel Corstange, University of Michigan

Title: “Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Lebanon and Yemen”

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: Gwendolyn Sasse, Chair, Nuffield College; Anibal Perez-Linan, University of Pittsburg; Juliet Johnson, McGill University

Recipient: Juan Pablo Luna, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Title: “Programmatic and Non-Programmatic Party-Voter Linkages in Two Institutionalized Party Systems: Chile and Uruguay in Comparative Perspective”

Best Convention Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Kurt Weyland, chair, University of Texas, Austin; Kathleen A. Collins, University of Minnesota; Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant University

Recipient: Jan Teorell and Axel Hadenius, Lund University

Title: “Elections as Levers of Democracy: An Empirical Investigation”

Best Book Award

The award is given for the best single-authored, multi-authored, or edited volume on human rights published in 2007.

Award Committee: George J. Andreopoulos, chair, CUNY, John Jay College and Grad Center; Lilian A. Barria, Georgetown University; Mahmood Monshipouri, San Francisco State University

Recipient: Darius Rejali, Reed College

Title: Torture and Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2007)

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, chair, Wilfrid Laurier University; Bethany Barratt, Roosevelt University; Emilie Hafner-Burton, Princeton University

Recipient: Andreas von Staden, Princeton University

Title: “Assessing the Impact of the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights on Domestic Human Rights Practices”

Alexander L. George Article Award

This award honors Alexander George's prominent role in developing and teaching qualitative methodology, in particular the comparative case study method.

Award Committee: Bear Braumoeller, Chair, Ohio State University; Cynthia Kaplan, University of California at Santa Barbara; and George Thomas, Claremont McKenna

Co-Recipients: Giovanni Capoccia, Oxford University; R. Daniel Kelemen, Rutgers University

Title: “Consequences of Positvism: A Pragmatic Assessment”

Co-Recipient: Henry E. Hale, Indiana University

Title: “The Study of Critical Junctures: Theory, Narrative, and Counterfactuals in Historical Institutionalism” (World Politics)

Giovanni Sartori Book Award

This award honors Giovanni Sartori's innovative research on social science concepts and his leading role in developing the field of concept analysis as a component of political science methodology.

Award Committee: Kristen Renwick Monroe, chair, University of California at Irvine; Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; and Fred Chernoff, Colgate University

Recipient: Michael Tomz, Stanford University

Title: Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2007)

The Sage Paper Award

This award honors the contribution of Sara and George McCune to the field of qualitative methods, through their role in founding Sage Publications and developing it into a leading publisher in the field of social science methodology.

Award Committee: Fred Schaffer, chair, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame; and Sarah Lischer, Wake Forest University

Recipient: Dan Slater, University of Chicago; Erica Simmons, University of Chicago

Title: “Informative Regress: Critical Antecedents in Comparative-Historical Analysis”

Labor Project Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Melissa Mason; Yale University, William Mello; Indiana University, Dorian Warren, Columbia University

Recipient: Tim Pachirat, New School for Social Research

Title: “A Geography of Violence: Dividing Labor and Space on the Kill Floor of an Industrialized Slaughterhouse”