Students Supported by Cambridge University Press

Scott Boddery, Binghamton University

Joshua Jansa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Rachel Whitlark, Harvard University

Melinda Ritchie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sarah Johnson, University of Chicago

Karen Albert, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Jennifer Lamm, University of Texas, Austin

Benjamin Miller, Stanford University

Timothy Haglund, University of North Texas

Rex Troumbley, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Adam Bilinski, University of Florida

Markie McBrayer, University of Houston

Amanda Clayton, University of Washington

Marisha Lecea, Western Michigan University

Sierra Powell, University of California, Irvine

John McMahon, CUNY-Graduate Center

Kathleen Powers, Ohio State University

Theodore Lechterman, Princeton University

INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS

Fulya Apaydin, London Metropolitan University

Balca Arda, York University

Nelli Babayan, Tel Aviv University

Clark Banack, Fudan University

Dana Blander, Israel Democary Institute

Juan Bogliaccini, Université de Montréal

Mihail Chiru, University of Sheffield

Cengiz Erisen, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals

Carol Galais, TOBB University of Economics and Technology

Shaun Goldfinch, Freie Universität Berlin

Dubi Kanengisser, University of Toronto

Ivan Katchanovski, University of Ottawa

Jean Lachapelle, University of Liverpool

Chia-yi Lee, University of Bremen

Jamie Levin, University of Toronto

Konstantinos Matakos, Central European University Budapest

Anja Neundorf, University of Nottingham

Taberez Neyazi, Jamia Millid Islamia University

Benjamin Noble, University of Oxford

Sergio Praca, Universidade Federal Do ABC

Rosario Queirolo, York University

Xiao Ren, University of Toronto

Alba Ruibal, University of Oxford

Alejandra Salinas, University of Sheffield

Craig Smith, American University of Cairo

Karen Smith Stegen, Queen Mary, University of London

Jonathan Tonge, University of Ottawa

Tsung-han Tsai, American University in Bulgaria

Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Oxford

Nils Witte, London School of Economics

Emilia Zankina, American University Bulgaria

Many international participants enjoyed the International Attendees Reception and reconnected with colleagues.

INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES

Bulat Akhmetkarimov, Johns Hopkins University

Jia Chen, University of Colorado

Marina Duque, The Ohio State University

Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez, New York University

Boris Heersink, University of Virginia

Olivier Henripin, Northwestern University

Dong-Joon Jung, University of Florida

Dong Jung Kim, University of Chicago

Rita Konaev, University of Notre Dame

Jason Kuo, University of California, San Diego

Seonghui Lee, Rice University

Shinkyu Lee, University of Notre Dame

Malte Lierl, Yale University

Shuang Lin, Columbia University

Mathilda Lindgren, Uppsala University

Malliga Och, University of Denver

June Park, Boston University

Tomer Perry, Stanford University

Anup Phayal, University of Kentucky

Kirill Pogorelskiy, California Institute of Technology

Nico Ravanilla, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Sanne Rijkhoff, Washington State University

Maria Paula Saffon, Columbia University

Constanza Schibber, Washington University in St. Louis

Yubing Sheng, University of Chicago

Nathanael Sumaktoyo, University of Notre Dame

Joannie Tremblay-Boire, University of Washington

Zhiyuan Wang, Binghamton University (SUNY)

Evren Yalaz, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

In Tae Yoo, University of South Carolina

US Graduate

Konstantin Ash, Harvard University

Tyler Boone, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Evelyn Braz, Stanford University

Kathleen Brennan, University of North Texas

Lashonda Brenson, University of Michigan

Christopher Chambers-Ju, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Philip Chen, University of Florida

The New Members Breakfasts (photos left and right) provided opportunities for informal exchange of information about the association and professional discussion.

Jennifer Corby, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Ivelisse Cuevas-Molina, University of Washington

Nicolas de Zamaroczy, Western Michigan University

Jessica Defenderfer, University of California, Irvine

Ben Denison, University of Notre Dame

Jacob Diliberto, CUNY-Graduate Center

Andrea Eckelman, University of Houston

Charles Fagan, University of Notre Dame

D.J. Flynn, University of Kentucky

Michelle Frasher

Adriane Fresh, University of Florida

Roy Germano, University of Edinburgh

Kristi Govella, Princeton University

Bai Linh Hoang, University of Michigan

Anatoli Ignatov, University of California, Los Angeles

Kristyn Karl, Columbia University

Christina Kiel, University of California, Irvine

Patricia Kim, Princeton University

Nicholas Knowlton, University of Florida

Jeanine Kraybill, University of Pennsylvania

Samantha Larson, University of Colorado, Denver

Jaime Lluch, University of Birmingham

Lewis Luartz, University of California, Berkeley

Raul Madrid, University of Notre Dame

Elizabeth Menninga, University of California, San Diego

Bennet Min, University of Texas at Dallas

Emily Molfino, Florida International University

Michael Nicholson, University of California, San Diego

Victor Olivieri, University of Edinburg

Anna Pechenina, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Elizabeth Plantan, Boston University

Evgeny Postnikov, Cornell University

Allison Quatrini, Northwestern University

Anand Rao, University of Chicago

Abigail Rury, University of Iowa

Sebastian Schmidt, University of Chicago

Mary Kate Schneider, Claremont Graduate University

Christina Sciabarra, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Seyed Hamidreza Serri, Florida International University

Kimberly Shella, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Adrian Shin, University of Colorado, Denver

Benjamin Soltoff, University of Pittsburgh

Shyam Sriram

Rochelle Terman, University of Michigan

Gregory Thaler, Princeton University

Nicolas Thompson, University of Oregon

Austin Trantham, California State University, Chico

Joseph Van Horn, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Steven White, Cornell University

Douglas Williams, University of Alabama

Miranda Yaver, Columbia University

Alan Zarychta, Stanford University

SECTION 01. FEDERALISM & INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

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: Kathleen Hale, Chair, Auburn University; James Clinger, Murray State University; Scott Robinson,University of Oklahoma

Recipients: Robert Agranoff, Indiana University and Michael McGuire, Indiana University

Title: Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Government. Georgetown University Press, 2004

Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award

Conferred for the bestpaper in the field of federalism and intergovernmental relationspresented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: Liesbet Hooghe, Chair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Margaret Ferguson, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; David Robertson, University of Missouri,St. Louis

Recipients: George Tsebelis, University of Michigan and Hyeonho Hahm, University of Michigan

Title: “Suspending Vetoes: How the Euro Countries Achieved Unanimity in the Fiscal Compact.”

Daniel Elazer Distinguished Scholar Award

Recognizes distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of

federalism and intergovernmental relations

Award Committee: Michael Pagano, Chair, University of Illinois at Chicago; Edella Schlager, University of Arizona; Clayton Wukich, Sam Houston State University

Recipient: Richard C. Feiock, Florida State University

SECTION 02. LAW AND COURTS

Best Conference Paper Award

(Formerly 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, international,

or regional political science associations.

Award Committee: Justin Wedeking, Chair, University of Kentucky; Jonathan Chausovsky, State University of New York at Fredonia; Rebecca Gill, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Recipients: Katerina Linos, University of California, Berkeley and Kimberly Twist, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “The Supreme Court, the Media and Public Opinion: Comparing Experimental and Observational Methods.”

Paper presented at the 2013 APSA Annual Meeting

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Given annuallyfor the best paper on law and courts written by a graduate student

Award Committee: Anna Kirkland, Chair, University of Michigan;David Glick, Boston University; Salmon Shomade, University of New Orleans

Recipient: Alicia Uribe, Washington University in St. Louis

Title: “Binders Full of Judges: A Model for the Interdependency of Appointments to the U.S. Federal Judiciary.”

Best Journal Article Award

Recognizes the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist andpublished during the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Lynda Dodd, Chair, City College of New York; Elizabeth Beaumont, University of Minnesota; Mark Massoud, McGill University

Recipients: Veronica Michael, John Jay College and Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard University

Title: “Human Rights Prosecutions and the Participation Rights of Victims in Latin America.” 47 Law and Society Review 873 (2013)

Recipient: Tamir Moustafa, Simon Fraser University

Title: “Islamic Law, Women’s Rights, and Popular Legal Consciousness in Malaysia.” 38 Law and Social Inquiry 168 (2013)

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: Christine Harrington, Chair, New York University; Paul Frymer, Princeton University; Robert Howard, Georgia State University; Mark Miller, Clark University; Mary Volcansek, Texas Christian University

Recipient: Traci Burch, Northwestern University

Title: Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation. University of Chicago Press

Honorable Mention: Mark Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz

Title: Law’s Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan. Cambridge University Press

Lasting Contribution Award

Given annually for a book orjournal article, 10 years or older, that has made a lastingimpression on the field of law and courts

Award Committee: Jeffrey Segal, Chair, Stony Brook University; Justin Crowe, Williams College; Rebecca Hamlin, Grinnell College; Nicholas LaRowe, University of Southern Illinois; Susan Sterett, Denver University

Recipients: Lynn Mather, Buffalo University and Barbara Yngvesson, Hampshire College

Title: “Language, Audience and the Transformation of Disputes.” 15 Law & Society Review 3-4 (1980–81)

Lifetime Achievement Award

Awarded for a lifetime of significant scholarship, teaching and service to the law and courts field.

Award Committee: Mark Graber, Chair, University of Maryland; Kim Lane Scheppele,Princeton University; Susan Mezey, Loyola University, Chicago; Paul Collins,University of North Texas; Stephanie Lindquist, University of Georgia

Recipient: Lawrence Baum, Ohio State University

Teaching and Mentoring Award

Recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts. Examples of innovations that might be recognized by this award include (but are not limited to)outstanding textbooks, websites, classroom exercises, syllabi, or other devices designed to enhance the transmission of knowledge about law and courts to undergraduate or graduate students. The Teaching and Mentoring Award is supported by a generous contribution from theDivision for Public Education of the American Bar Association. The Teaching and Mentoring Award Committee also advises the Organized Section on matters related to teaching and mentoring of students and colleagues.

Award Committee: Nancy Scherer, Chair, Wellesley College; Rachel Cichowski,University of Washington, Seattle; Milt Heumann, Rutgers University; Matthew Ingram, University of Albany; Lynn Mather, University of Buffalo

Recipient: Gerald Rosenberg, The University of Chicago

SECTION 03. LEGISLATIVE STUDIES

Alan Rosenthal Prize

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: Kristin Kanthak, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Dodd, University of Florida; Nadia Brown, Saint Louis University

Recipient: Nicholas Carnes, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

Title: White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making. University of Chicago Press, 2013

Carl Albert Dissertation Award

Given annually for the best dissertation in legislative studies. Topics may be national or subnational in focus-on Congress, parliaments, state legislatures, or other representative bodies.

Award Committee: Nicholas Carnes, Duke University, Frank Thames, Texas Tech University; Gisela Sin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Recipient: Eitan Tzelgov, Pennsylvania State University

Title: “Words as Weapons: Opposition Rhetoric and Partisan Strategy.”

Honorable Mention: David Willumsen, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology—Zurich

Title: “Party, Preferences & Pragmatic Fidelity: Explaining Voting Unity in European Legislatures.”

CQ Press Award

Awarded for the best paper on legislative studiespresented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Charles Finocchiaro, University of South Carolina;David Hedge, University of Florida; Margit Tavits, Washington University in St. Louis

Recipients: Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Virginia and Nathan W. Monroe, University of California, Merced

Title: “On Measuring Legislative Agenda Setting Power”

Jewell-Loewenberg Award

Awarded for the best article in the Legislative Studies Quarterly in the previous year.

Award Committee: Regina Branton, University of North Texas; John Carey, Dartmouth College; Scott Adler, University of Colorado Boulder

Recipients: William Bernhard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: “Commitment and Consequences: Reneging on Cosponsorship Pledges in the U.S. House.”

Richard F. Fenno Prize

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: Lynda Powell, University of Rochester; Jonathan Slapin, University of Houston; Dan Butler, Yale University

Recipient: Justin Grimmer, Stanford University

Title: Representational Style in Congress: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

SECTION 05. POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTIES

Emerging Scholars Award

Given to a scholar who has received his or her PhD within the last five years and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise

Award Committee: Allen Hicken, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; David Karol, University of Maryland, College Park; Margit Tavits, Washington University in St. Louis

Recipient: Noam Lupu, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award

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

Award Committee: Kenneth Kollman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Richard Skinner, American University; Lori Thorlakson, University of Alberta

Recipient: Hans Noel, Georgetown University

Title: Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Lifetime Award

Recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field

Award Committee: Kathleen Bawn, University of California, Los Angeles; Lawrence Ezrow, University of Essex; Frances Lee, University of Maryland,College Park

Recipient: Michael Laver, New York University

Jack Walker Award

Recognizes 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: Daniel Coffey, University of Akron; Robert Van Houweling, University of California, Berkeley; Martin Wattenberg, University of California, Irvine

Recipients: Kathleen Bawn, University of California, Los Angeles; Martin Cohen, James Madison University; David Karol, University of Maryland; Seth Masket, University of Denver; Hans Noel, Georgetown University; John Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “A Theory of Political Parties: Groups, Policy Demands and Nominations in American Politics.” Perspectives on Politics 10 (3): 571–97.

SECTION 06. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Herbert Kaufman Award

Awarded to the best paper presented on a panel sponsored (or co-sponsored) by the Public Administration section at the previous APSA Annual meeting.

Award Committee: Tucker Staley, Chair, University of Central Arkansas; James Harrington; Susan Miller, University of South Carolina

Recipients: Scott Robinson, University of Oklahoma and Arnold Vedlitz, Texas A&M University

Title: “Organizational Trust and Risk Communication: Trust in the EPA and Opposition to Fracking.”

Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award

Awarded for significant contributions to public administration scholarship.

Award Committee: Barry Bozeman, Chair, Arizona State University; Sanjay Pandey, Rutgers University, Newark Leisha DeHart-Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Daniel Smith, New York University

Recipient: Dr. Jonathan Koppell, Arizona State University

Title: World Rule: Accountability, Legitimacy, and the Design of Global Governance. University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant

Awarded to junior scholars researching public administration issues that affect governance in the United States and abroad. Proposals will be judged on their potential to shed new light on important public administration questions, their scholarly and methodological rigor and their promise for advancing practice and theory development.

Award Committee: Jared Llorens, Chair, Louisiana State University; Holly T. Goerdel, University of Kansas; Benedict Jimenez, Northeastern University

Recipient: Randall Davis, Southern Illinois University

Title: “Examining the Mixed Effects of Goal Ambiguity Using a New Multidimensional Goal Scale.”

Recipient: Cullen Merritt, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

Title: “Multi-Dimensional Publicness and Publicity Valuable Outcomes: An Analysis of Behavioral Health Organizations”

Recipient: Amanda Rutherford, Texas A&M University

Title: “Rational Action or Trial and Error?: Identifying the Determinants and Implications of Strategic Management”

SECTION 07. CONFLICT PROCESSES

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. Edited volumes and textbooks are not eligible for the award. Nominations must be made by a member of the Conflict Processes section; self-nominations are encouraged.

Award Committee: Erica Chenoweth, Chair, University of Denver; Michael Horowitz, University of Pennsylvania, and Terence Chapman, University of Texas at Austin

Recipients: Lars-Erik Cedermann, ETH –Zurich, Kristian Gleditsch, University of Essex; Halvard Buhaug, Peace Research Institute Oslo

Title: Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Best Paper Award

Given annually for the best paper written by one or more untenured scholars (graduate students, post-docs, or faculty) and presented as part of a conflict processes sponsored panel or poster session at the previous Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Burcu Savun, Chair; University of Pittsburgh; Kyle Beardsley, Duke University; Stephen Gent, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recipient: David B. Carter, Princeton University

Title: “Provocation and the Strategy of Terrorist and Guerilla Attacks.”

SECTION 08. REPRESENTATION AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

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: Andrew Reynolds, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Thomas Gschwend, University of Mannheim; Lawrence Ezrow, University of Essex

Recipients: Matthew Soberg Shugart, University of California, Davis and John M. Carey, Dartmouth College

Title: Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Lawrence Longley Award

Given for the best article published in the previous year

Award Committee: Scott Clifford, Duke University; Jim Adams, University of California Davis;Jeffrey Lazarus, Georgia State University

Recipient: David E. Broockman, Berkeley

Title: “Black Politicians Are More Intrinsically Motivated to Advance Blacks Interests: A Field Experiment Manipulating Political Incentives.” American Journal of Political Science 57(3): 521–36.

Leon Weaver Award

Given for the best paper presented at the previous year’s annual meeting at a panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Division.

Award Committee: David Farrell, University College Dublin; Jennifer Fitzgerald,

University of Colorado Boulder; Sylvia Gaylord, Colorado School of Mines

Recipient: G. Bingham Powell, University of Rochester

Title: “Party System Polarization and the Ideological Congruence Mechanisms.”

SECTION 09. PRESIDENTS AND EXECUTIVE POLITICS

Founder’s Award in Honor of David Naveh for Best Paper by a Graduate Student

Given for the best paper on executive politics presented by a graduate student at either the preceding year’s APSA Annual Meeting or at any of the regional meetings in the two year’s preceding the APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: David E. Lewis, Vanderbilt University; Matthew N. Beckman, University of California, Irvine; Patricia L. Sykes, American University; Daniel J. Galvin, Northwestern University

Recipient: Janna Rezaee, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “OIRA: The Other Edge of the Sword.”

Best Undergraduate Paper Award

Recognizes the best undergraduate paper completed in the previous two academic years

Award Committee: Brandon Rottinghaus, University of Houston; Julia Azari, Marquette University; Bruce Buchanan, University of Texas; Kevin J. McMahon, Trinity College

Recipient: Aaron Goodman, Dartmouth College

Title: “Presidential Delegation of Foreign Policy Powers.”

Founders PhD Scholar Best Paper Award

The Founders Award, honoring Martha Joynt Kumar, is given for the best paper on executive politics authored by a PhD-holding scholar presented at the previous year’s annual meeting.

Award Committee: Douglas L. Kriner, Chair, Boston University; Sharice D. Thrower, University of Pittsburgh; Brian Newman, Pepperdine University; Jasmine Farrier, University of Louisville

Recipient: Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College

Title: “Bargaining with the Bureaucracy: Executive Orders and the Transaction Costs of Unilateral Action.”

Neustadt Award for the Best Book on the Presidency

The Richard E. Neustadt Award given for the best book published during the year that contributed to research and scholarship in the field of American presidency.

Award Committee: Andrew Rudalavige, Chair, Bowdoin College; Karen Hult, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Mark A. Peterson, University of California, Los Angeles, Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs; Bert Rockman, Purdue University; Roderick P. Hart, University of Texas

Recipient: Mariah Zeisberg, University of Michigan

Title: War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority. Princeton University Press, 2013.

SECTION 10. POLITICAL METHODOLOGY

Career Achievement Award

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

Award Committee: Sara Mitchell, Chair; Gary King, Harvard University; Suzanna Lin, Jasjeet Sekhon, University of California at Berkeley; Curt Signorino

Recipient: John R. Freeman, University of Minnesota

Emerging Scholar Award

Honors a young researcher, within 10 years of their degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of Political Methodology.

Award Committee: Fred Boehmke, Chair, University of Iowa; Jake Bowers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jude Hays, University of Pittsburgh; Kosuke Imai, Princeton University

Recipient: Jens Hainmueller, Stanford University

Harold F. Gosnell Prize

Recognizes the best work of political methodology presented at a political science conference in the previous year.

Award Committee: Jake Bowers, Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Adam Glynn, Harvard University; Xun Pang, Tsinghua University

Recipients: Margaret E. Roberts, University of California, San Diego; Brandon M. Stewart, Harvard University; Dustin Tingley, Harvard University; Christopher Lucas, Harvard University; Jetson Leder-Luis, California Institute of Technology;

Shana Kushner Gadarian, Syracuse University; Bethany Albertson, University of Texas at Austin; David G. Rand, Yale University

Title: “Topic Models for Open-Ended Survey Responses with Applications to Experiments.”

John T. Williams Dissertation Award

In recognition of the John T. Williams’ contribution to graduate training, this award has been established for the best dissertation proposal in the area of political methodology.

Award Committee: Curt Signorino, Chair, University of Rochester; John Ahlquist, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jennifer Jerit, Stony Brook University

Recipient: Yiqing Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Casual Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Data with Applications to Chinese Political Economy.”

Warren Miller Prize

Given for the best article in political analysis.

Award Committee: David Nickerson, Chair, University of Notre Dame; Devin Caughey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Justin Grimmer, Stanford University; Brad Jones, University of California, Davis

Recipients: Jake Bowers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mark Fredrickson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Costas Panagopoulos, Fordham University

Title: “Reasoning about Interference in Randomized Studies.” Political Analysis 21(1):97–124.

Society for Political Methodology Poster Award

Recognizes the best political methodology poster given at any political science conference in the preceding year

Award Committee: Andrew D. Martin, Chair University of Michigan; Alexandra Hennessy, Seaton Hall University; Matt Lebo, Stony Brook University; Maya Sen, University of Rochester; Jeff Harden, University of Colorado Boulder, Rocio Titiunik, University of Michigan; Craig Volden, University of Virginia

Recipient: Felipe Nunes, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “A Bayesian Two-part Latent Class Model for Longitudinal Government Expenditure Data: Assessing the Impact of Vertical Political Alliances and Vote Support.”

Honorable Mention: Peter Foley, California Institute of Technology

Title: “Introducing Salience to a Spatial Model of Voter Ideology.”

Statistical Software Award

Recognizes statistical software that has made a significant contribution to the advancement of political science

Award Committee: Philip Schrodt, Chair, Parus Analytical Systems; Patrick Brandt,

University of Texas at Dallas; Dominik Hangartner, London School of Economics;

Jamie Monogan, University of Georgia

Recipients: James Honaker, Harvard University, Gary King, Harvard University;

Matt Blackwell, Harvard University

Title: Amelia II

SECTION 11. RELIGION ANDPOLITICS

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award

Recognizes the best dissertation on religion and politics successfully defended within the last two years.

Award Committee: Ted Jelen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Michael Robbins, Pew Research Center; John Compton, Chapman University

Recipient: Christopher Hale, Northern Arizona University

Title: “Religion and Political Activism.”

Best Paper Award

Recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: Ramazan Kilinc, University of Nebraska Omaha; Jeremy Menchik, Boston University; John Forren, Miami University, Ohio

Recipient: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University

Title: “The Religious Offensive’: The Politics of Religious Engagement.”

Recipient: Frank-Borge Wietzke, London School of Economics

Title: “One Nation, Two Histories: Long-Term Consequences of Colonial Institutions and Missionary Work in Madagaskar.”

Service to the Section

Awarded to long-standing service to the Religion and Politics Section.

Recipient: Corwin Smidt, Calvin College

SECTION 13. URBAN POLITICS

Best Book Award

Recognizes the best book on urban politics published in the previous year

Award Committee: Jeff Berry, Chair, Tufts University; Elisabeth Muhlenberg, University of Illinois at Chicago; Thomas K. Ogorzalek, Northwestern University

Recipient: Traci Burch

Title: Trading Democracy for Justice. University of Chicago Press

Recipient: Clarissa Hayward

Title: How Americans Make Race. Cambridge Press.

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper given at an Urban Politics Section panel at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: Alison Post, Chair, University of California, Berkeley; Emily Ferris, Texas Christian University; Carlos Cuellar, University of Northern Arizona

Recipient: Veronica Herrera, University of Connecticut

Title: “From Participatory Promises to Partisan Capture: Local Democratic Transitions and Citizen Water Boards in Urban Mexico.”

Best Dissertation on Urban Policy

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

Award Committee: Quinton Mayne, Chair, Harvard University; Sarah Anzia, University of California, Berkeley; Yue Zhang, University of Illinois at Chicago

Recipient: Adam Auerbach, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: “Demanding Development: Democracy, Community Governance, and Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums.”

Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award

Recognizes the outstanding scholarship by a graduate student in the area of race and urban politics

Award Committee: Jamila Michena, Chair, Cornell University;Ravi Perry, Mississippi State University; Christina Greer, Fordham University

Recipient: Zinga Fraser, Northwestern University

Title: “Catalysts for Change: A Comparative Study of Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm.”

Norton Long Career Achievement Award

Presented annually to a scholar who has made distinguished contributions to the study of urban politics over the course of a career through scholarly publication, the mentoring of students, and public service

Award Committee: Karen Kaufmann, Chair, University of Maryland; Judith Garber, University of Alberta; Megan Mullins, Temple University

Recipient: Richard Stren, University of Toronto

SECTION 15. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLTICS

Don K. Price Award

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

Award Committee: Manuel Teodoro, Chair, Texas A&M University;

Abraham Newman, Georgetown University; Matthew Shapiro,

Illinois Institute of Technology

Recipients: Ethan B. Kapstein, Arizona State University and Joshua W. Busby, University of Texas at Austin

Title: AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Lynton K. Caldwell Award

Given for the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years

Award Committee: Kent Portney, Chair, Tufts University; Graeme Auld, Carleton University; Deserai Crow, University of Colorado Boulder

Recipient: David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley

Title: The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States. Princeton University Press, 2012.

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award

The Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award, in honor of a young scholar who tragically passed away, is given for the best dissertations in the field of science, technology and environmental politics.

Award Committee: Tanya Heikkila, Chair, University of Colorado Denver; Derek Kauneckis, University of Nevada, Reno; Chris Koski, Reed College

Recipient: Alexander Ovodenko, Princeton University

Title: “Pathways of Cooperation: Integrated and Unintegrated International Environmental Governance.”

SECTION 16. WOMEN AND POLITICS RESEARCH

Best Dissertation Award

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

Award Committee: Kristin Goss, Chair, Duke University; Louise Davidson-Schmich,University of Miami; Kimala Price, San Diego State University

Recipient: Cheryl M. O’Brien, Purdue University

Title: “Beyond the National: Transnational Influences on (Subnational) State Policy Responsiveness to an International Norm on Violence Against Women.”

Okin-Young Award

The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory, co-sponsored by Women and Politics, Foundations of Political Theory, and the Women’s Caucus for Political Science, 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. This annual award recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Bonnie Honig, Chair, Brown University; Julie Mostov, Drexel University; Sara Rushing, Montana State University, Bozeman

Recipient: Eileen Hunt Botting, University of Notre Dame

Title: “Making an American Feminist Icon: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Reception in U.S. Newspapers, 1800–1869.” History of Political Thought, 2013

SECTION 17. FOUNDATIONS OFPOLITICAL THOUGHT

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper presented on a foundations panel at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: Susan Bickford, Chair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Suzanne Dovi, University of Arizona; Amit Ron, Arizona State University, West Campus

Recipient: Brandon Terry, Yale University

Title: “Rawls, Race, and Critique: Engaging with Charles Mills’ The Racial Contract.”

First Book Award

Given for a first book by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career in the area of political theory or political philosophy

Award Committee: Sara Monoson, Chair, Northwestern University; Jennifer Culbert, Johns Hopkins University; Juliet Hooker, University of Texas at Austin

Recipient: Christopher Lebron, Yale University

Title: The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time. Oxford University Press

SECTION 19. INTERNATIONAL SECURITYAND ARMS CONTROL

Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award

Awarded to a successfully defended doctoral dissertation on any aspect of security studies, which has been submitted in final, library copy in previous calendar year. The committee welcomes nominations for dissertations employing any approach (historical, quantitative, theoretical, policy analysis, etc.) to any topic in the field of security studies. Manuscripts are judged according to (1) originality in substance and approach; (2) significance for scholarly or policy debate; (3) rigor in approach and analysis; and (4) power of expression.

Award Committee: Joshua Rovner, Chair, Southern Methodist University; Katherine Brown, King’s College London; Michael Horowitz,University of Pennsylvania; J.D. Kenneth Boutin, Deakin University

Recipient: Joshua D. Kertzer, Dartmouth College

Title: “Resolve in International Politics.” The Ohio State University (August 2013).

SECTION 20. COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award

Recognizes a publicly available dataset that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative politics.

Award Committee: Zachary Elkins, Chair, University of Texas at Austin; Bethany Lacina, University of Rochester; James Douglas Melton, University College London

Recipients: Hein Goemans, University of Rochester; Kristian Skrede Gleditsch,

University of Essex; Giacomo Chiozza, Vanderbilt University

Title: Archigos: A Data Set on Leaders 1875–2004.

Greg Luebbert Best Article Award

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

Award Committee: Robert D. Woodberry, Chair, National University of Singapore; Wendy Hunter, University of Texas at Austin; David Stasavage,New York University

Recipient: Stanislav Markus, University of Chicago

Title: “Secure Property as a Bottom-Up Process: Firms, Stakeholders, and Predators in Weak States.” World Politics 64 (2): 242–77.

Leubbert Best Book Award

Given for the best book in the fieldof comparative politics published in the previous two years

Award Committee: Stephen Haggard, Chair, University of California, San Diego; Miriam Golden, University of California, Los Angeles; Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University

Recipients: Susan Stokes, Yale University; Thad Dunning, University of California-Berkeley; Marcelo Nazareno, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina; Valeria Brusco, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Title: Brokers, Voters and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Honorable Mention: Leonardo R. Arriola, University of California Berkeley

Title: Multi-ethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Honorable Mention: Pablo Beramendi, Duke University

Title: The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Sage Best Paper Award

Given to the best paper in the field of comparative politics presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: Noam Lupu, Chair, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Dominika Koter, Colgate University; Nicholas Carnes, Duke University

Recipient: Alberto Simpser, University of Chicago

Title: “The Intergenerational Persistence of Attitudes Towards Corruption.” Paper presented at the 2013 APSA Annual Meeting .

Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University and Devra Moehler, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “Mobilization by the Media? A Field Experiment on Partisan Media Effects in Africa.”

Powell Graduate Mentoring Award

This prize, introduced in 2012, is awarded on a biannual basis to a political scientist who throughout his or her career has demonstrated a particularly outstanding commitment to the mentoring of graduate students in comparative politics. The prize was named in honor of G. Bingham Powell, Jr. and was initiated by his students, presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Frances Rosenbluth, Chair, Yale University; Daniel Posner, University of California, Los Angeles; Sven Steinmo, European University Institute

Recipient: Barbara Geddes, University of California, Los Angeles

Recipient: Karen Remmer, Duke University

SECTION 21. EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY

Best Article Award

Given for the best article dealing with European politics and society published in the last year.

Award Committee: Sara Goodman, Chair, University of California, Irvine; Willem Maas, York University; Harris Mylonas, George Washington University

Recipients: Rafaela M. Dancygier, Princeton University and Michael J. Donnelly, European University Institute

Title: “Sectorial Economics, Economics Contexts, and Attitudes Toward Immigration.” Journal of Politics 75(1): 17–35.

Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award

Given for the best dissertation on European politics and society field during the previous year

Award Committee: Giovanni Capoccia, Chair, University of Oxford; Conor O’Dwyer, University of Florida; Amy Verdun, University of Victoria

Recipient: Amanda Garrett, Harvard University

Title: “When Cities Fight Back”

Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Pablo Beramendi, Chair, Duke University; Silja Hausermann, University of Zurich; Graeme Robertson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recipient: Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts

Title: Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice. Cambridge University Press

SECTION 22. STATE POLITICS AND POLICY

SPPQ Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Karen Mossberger, Chair, Arizona State University; Jason Casellas, University of Houston; William Franko, Auburn University

Recipients: James E. Monogan III, University of Georgia; David M. Konishky, Georgetown University; Neal D. Woods, University of South Carolina

Title: “Gone with the Wind: Federalism and the Strategic Placement of Air Polluters.”

Presented at the 2013 State Politics and Policy Conference

Best Paper Award

Awarded for the best paper on state politics and policy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson, Chair, Wayne State University;Donald Haider-Markel, University of Kansas; Julianna Pacheco, University of Iowa

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

Title: “Contingent Partisanship: When Party Labels Matter- and When They Don’t in the Distribution of Pork in American State Legislators.”

Christopher A. Mooney Dissertation Award

Given for the best dissertation in American state politics and policy completed during the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Richard F. Winters, Chair, Dartmouth College; Daniel Biggers, Yale University; Boris Shor, University of Chicago

Recipient: Julianna M. Koch, Cornell University

Title: “States of Inequality: Government Partisanship, Public Policies, and Income Disparity in the American States, 1970-2005.”

Recipient: Steven M. Rogers, Princeton University

Title: “Accountability in a Federal System”

Virginia Gray Best Book Award

awarded annually to the best political science book published on the subject of US state politics or policy in the preceding three calendar years. Thus, books would be eligible to be considered for the award for three years.

Award Committee: Robert S. Erikson, Chair, Columbia University; Jay Barth,Hendrix College; Elizabeth Rigby, George Washington University

Recipient: Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego and Justin Philips, Columbia University

Title: The Power of American Governors: Winning on Budget and Losing on Policy. University of Cambridge Press, 2012.

Recipient: Lynda Powell, Dartmouth College

Title: The Influence of Campaign Contributions in State Legislators: The Effects of Institutions and Politics. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2012.

Best Article Award

The award recognizes the best journal article on U.S. state politics or policy publishedduring the previous calendar year in any peer-reviewed journal.

Award Committee: Janine Parry, University of Arkansas; Thad Kousser,University of California, San Diego; Andy Karch, University of Minnesota

Recipients: Elizabeth Rigby, George Washington University and Gerald Wright, Indiana University

Title: “Political Parties and Representation of the Poor in the American States.” American Journal of Political Science57: 552–54.

Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Book Award

Awarded every three years to a political science book on the subject of US state politics or policy, published at least 10 years prior to the award being bestowed, that stands as an enduring contribution to the literature. Such books would be those classic works frequently assigned in graduate seminars, typically found on the bookshelves of state politics scholars, and that have been crucial in setting the direction of scholarship the field since their publication.

Award Committee: Melanie Springer, Chair, University of California, Santa Cruz; Virginia Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chris Mooney,University of Illinois at Springfield

Recipients: Robert S. Erikson, Columbia University; Gerald C. Wright, Indiana University; John P. McIver, University of Colorado, Boulder

Title: Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States. Cambridge University Press, 1993

Career Achievement Award

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

Award Committee: Caroline Tolbert, Chair, University of Iowa; Kerry Haynie, Duke University; Charles Barrilleaux, Florida State University; Beth Reingold, Emory University

Recipient: Richard F. Winters, Dartmouth College

SECTION 23. POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

Timothy Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Recognizes the best paper on political communication presented by a graduate student at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Stephanie E. Burkhalter, Chair; Humbolt State University; Brian Harrison, Yale University; Joseph Cobetto, University of Missouri

Recipient: Brian E. Weeks, Ohio State University

Title: “Feeling is Believing: The Influence of Emotions on Citizens’ False Political Beliefs.”

David Swanson Career Achievement

(Jointly administered with the International Communication Association)

Recognizes distinguished and sustained contributions to the field as planners, editors, and leaders and in roles that require time and energy, innovation, and personal dedication. The award honors David Swanson, one of the founders of political communication who gave exemplary service to the ICA Political Communication Division and the APSA Political Communication Section. In his memory, the ICA division presents the award every other year.

Award Committee: Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Chair; University of Milan; David L. Paletz, Duke University; Lindsay H. Hoffman, University of Delaware; Steven Livingston, George Washington University; Magdalena Wojcieszak, University of Amsterdam

Recipient: Patricia Moy, University of Washington

Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award

The Doris Graber Award recognizes the best book published on political communication in the last 10 years

Award Committee: Susan Herbst, Chair; University of Connecticut; Thomas Leeper; Aarhus University; Andrew Chadwick, University of London, Royal Holloway

Recipient: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Roskilde University

Title: Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns. Princeton University Press, 2012

Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award

The Paul Lazarsfeld Award recognizes the best paper on political communication presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Sarah Gershon, Chair; Georgia State University; Major James D. Fielder, US Air Force; Scott McClurg, Southern Illinois University; and Amber Boydstun, University of California, Davis

Recipients: Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University; Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University; J. Baxter Oliphant, Princeton University

Title: “Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction.”

SECTION 24. POLITICS AND HISTORY

Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award

Given for the best dissertation in the field of politics and history

Award Committee: Richard Deeg, Temple University; Rachel Riedl, Northwestern University; Deondra Rose, University of Notre Dame

Recipient: Devin Caughey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Congress, Public Opinion, and Representation in the One Party South, 1930s–1960s.” University of California, Berkeley

Recipient: Sheena Greitens, Harvard University

Title: “Coercive Institutions and State Violence under Authoritarianism.” Harvard University

Mary Parker Follett Award for Best Article

Recognizes the best article on politics and history published in the previous year

Award Committee: Kurt Weyland, University of Texas at Austin; Robert Mickey,University of Michigan; Alan Jacobs, University of British Columbia

Recipients: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University and Eric Chaney, Harvard University

Title: “The Feudal Revolution and Europe’s Rise: Political Divergence of the Christian West and the Muslim World Before 1500 CE.” APSR, 107:1.

J. David Greenstone Book Prize

Recognizes the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years

Award Committee: Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University; Adam Sheingate, Johns Hopkins University; Jason Wittenberg University of California, Berkeley

Recipient: Michele Landis Dauber, Stanford University

Title: The Sympathetic State. University of Chicago Press, 2013 .

Recipient: Ira Katznelson, Columbia University

Title: Fear Itself. Liveright, 2013

SECTION 25. POLITICAL ECONOMY

Fiona McGillivray Prize Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Kathleen Bawn, Chair, University of California,Los Angeles; Julia Gray, University of Pennsylvania; John Patty, Washington University at St. Louis

Recipient: Alexandra Guisinger, University of Notre Dame

Title: “Racial Diversity and Redistribution: Explaining (White) Americans Continued Support for Trade Protection.”

Recipients: Edmund Malesky, Duke University; Cuong Nguyen Viet, National Economics University of Vietnam; Anh Tran, Indiana University

Title: “The Impact of Recentralization on Public Services: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Abolition of Elected Councils in Vietnam.”

Michael Wallerstein Award

The Michael Wallerstein Award is given for the best published article in Political Economy in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Kenneth Shotts, Chair, Stanford University; Oeindrila Dube, New York University; Torun Dewan, London School of Economics

Recipient: Saumitra Jha, Stanford University

Title: “Trade, Institutions, and Ethnic Tolerance: Evidence from South Asia.”

American Political Science Review 107( 4), November 2013.

Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award, named for Mancur Olson, is given for the best dissertation in political economy completed in the previous two years.

Award Committee: Sebastian Saiegh, Chair, University of California, San Diego; Xiabo Lu, Texas A&M; Rachel Wellhausen, University of Texas at Austin

Recipient: Jan Pierskalla, Ohio State University

Title: “Urban-Rural Bias and the Political Geography of Distributive Conflicts.”

William H. Riker Book Award

The Best Book Award, named for William H. Riker, is given for the best book on political economy published during the past three calendar years.

Award Committee: Catherine Hafer, Chair, New York University; Sean Gailmard, University of California, Berkeley; Johannes Urpelainen, Columbia University

Recipients: William G. Howell, University of Chicago, Saul P. Jackman, Vanderbilt University; Jon C. Rogowski, Washington University in St. Louis

Title: The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the NationalizingPolitics of Threat. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

SECTION 27. NEW POLITICALSCIENCE

Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award

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

Award Committee: John Ehrenberg, Chair, Long Island University; Stephen Bronner, Rutgers University; William Niemi, Western State University

Recipient: Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Polytechnic and State 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: Michael Lipscomb, Chair, Winthrop University; Chris Buck, St. Lawrence University; Katherine Young, University of Hawaii at Hilo

Recipient: Craig Steven Wilder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Ebony and Ivory: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities.Bloomsbury Press, 2013.

Christian Bay Best Paper Award

Recognizes the best paper presented on a new political science panel at the previous year’s annual meeting

Award Committee: Isaac Kamola, Chair, Trinity College; M. David Forrest, Arizona State University; Kent Worcester, Marymount Manhattan College

Recipient: Alix Olson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Title: “Queer(y)ing Permanent Partnership.”

Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven Award

The Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award recognizes 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: Meredith Weiss, Chair, Johns Hopkins University; Jeff Broxmeyer, CUNY Graduate Center; Frances Fox Piven (Honorary), CUNY Graduate Center

Recipient: Empower DC

SECTION 28. POLITICALPSYCHOLOGY

Best Dissertation Award

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

Award Committee: Paul Goren, Chair, University of Minnesota; Gwyneth McClendon, Harvard University; Cara Wong, University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign

Recipient: Samara Klar, University of Arizona

Title: “The Influence of Identity on Political Preferences”

Robert E. Lane Best Book Award

The Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in the past year.

Award Committee: Howard Lavine, Chair, University of Minnesota; Corrine McConnaughy, Ohio State University; Ted Brader, University of Michigan

Recipients: Chuck Taber, Stony Brook University and Milton Lodge, Stony Brook University

Title: The Rationalizing Voter

Honorable Mention: Eric Groenendyk, University of Memphis

Title: Competing Motives in the Partisan Mind: How Loyalty and Responsiveness Shape Partisan Identity and Democracy.

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given to the most outstanding paper in political psychology delivered at the previous year’s Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chris Johnston, Chair, Duke University; Thomas Leeper, Aarhus University; Kathleen Searles, Georgia Regents University

Recipient: Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University; Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University; J. Baxter Oliphant, Princeton University

Title: “Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction.”

Distinguished Junior Scholars Award

The APSA Political Psychology section will give up to five $400 grants, meant for travel to the APSA, for junior scholars (graduate students or those no more than seven years since receiving their PhD).

Award Committee: Dave Peterson, Chair, Iowa State University; Chris Weber, University of Arizona; Liz Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University

Recipient: Monica C. Schneider, Miami University of Ohio

Recipient: Scott Clifford, Duke University and University of Houston

Recipient: Samara Klar, University of Arizona

Recipient: Thomas Leeper, Aarhus University

SECTION 29. POLITICAL SCIENCE EDUCATION

Best APSA Conference Paper Award

Given for the best presentation on undergraduate education at the past year’s APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: Ryan Claassen, Kent State University; Quin Monson,Brigham Young University; Bobbi Gentry, Millikin University; Chad Raymond, Salve Regina University

Recipients: Ellen Claes, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University, Belgium) and Marc Hooghe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University, Belgium)

Title: “The Effect of Direct and Indirect Forms of Citizenship Education Results from a Three Wave Longitudinal Panel Survey in Belgium.” (2013)

SECTION 30. POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND FILM

Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: Lilly Goren, Chair, Carroll University; Carol McNamara, Utah State University; Charles Rubin, Duquesne University; Julianne Romanello, Baylor University

Recipient: Joshua Foa Dienstag, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “When a Man Loves a Robot: Blade Runner’s Humanism and the Questions of Cinema and Representation.”

SECTION 31. FOREIGN POLICY

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Panel chairs from any division are invited to nominate outstanding graduate student papers presented at the APSA annual meeting that are relevant to the study of foreign policy.

Award Committee: Mark Souva, Florida State University; Karl DeRouen, University of Alabama; Huiyun Feng, Utah State University Amanda Licht, Binghamton University; Brian Marshall, Miami University

Recipient: Chin-Hao Huang, University of Southern California

Title: “Status, Security, and Socialization: Conditions for China’s Cautious Compliance in International Security Institutions.”

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper on foreign policy presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Mark Souva, Florida State University; Karl DeRouen,University of Alabama; Huiyun Feng, Utah State University; Amanda Licht, Binghamton University; Brian Marshall, Miami University

Recipient: Aila Matanock, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Shared Sovereignty in State-Building: Explaining “Invited Interventions.”

SECTION 32. ELECTIONS, PUBLIC OPINION, AND VOTING BEHAVIOR

Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Zeynep Somer-Topcu, Chair, Vanderbilt University; Sara Hobolt, London School of Economics; Michael Peress, University of Rochester

Recipient: Thomas Wood, University of Chicago

Title: “County Line and Prime Time: A Presidential Campaign as a Lab for Advertising Effects.”

Philip E. Converse Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Catherine de Vries, Chair, Oxford University; Peter Enns, Cornell University; Matt Lebo, Stony Brook University

Recipient: Martin Gilens, Princeton University

Title: Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy. University of Chicago Press, 2009

Warren 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: Walter Mebane, Chair, University of Michigan; Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University; Peter Francia, University of East Carolina

Recipient: Larry Bartels, Vanderbilt University

Emerging Scholar Award

The Emerging Scholar Award is awarded to the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of her or his PhD.

Award Committee: Susan Banducci, Chair, University of Exeter; Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University; Betsy Sinclair, University of Chicago

Recipient: Catherine de Vries, University of Oxford

Recipient: Dan Hopkins, Georgetown University

SECTION 34. INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS

Jervis and Schroeder Best Book Award

Granted to a single-authored or multi-authored book, or to an edited volume. The award will be given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented. The copyright date of a book will establish the relevant year.

Award Committee: Kristen Renwick Monroe, Chair, University of California, Irvine; Elizabeth Saunders, George Washington University; William Wohlfarth, Dartmouth College

Recipient: Adria Lawrence, Yale University

Title: Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2013

Recipient: Jennifer Mitzen, Ohio State University

Title: Power in Concert: The Nineteenth Century Origins of Global Governance. University of Chicago Press, 2013

Outstanding Article Award

The Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics recognizes exceptional peer-reviewed journal articles representing the mission of the International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, including innovative work that brings new light to events and processes in international politics, encourages interdisciplinary conversations between political scientists and historians, and advances historiographical methods. The Outstanding Article Award is given to a published article that appeared in print in the calendar year preceding the APSA meeting at which the award is presented. It may be granted to an article that is single- or co-authored. The year of final journal publication, as detailed by print citation, establishes eligibility.

Award Committee: Ted Hopf, Chair, National University of Singapore; Judith Goldstein, Stanford University; Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University

Recipient: Keren Yarhi-Milo, Princeton University

Title: “In the Eye of the Beholder: How Leaders and Intelligence Communities Assess the Intentions of Adversaries,” International Security 38 (1), 2013:7-51

SECTION 35. COMPARATIVE DEMOCRATIZATION

Juan Linz Best Dissertation Prize

Given for the best dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy, completed and accepted in the two calendar years immediately prior to the APSA Annual Meeting where the award will be presented. The prize can be awarded to analyses of individual country cases as long as they are clearly cast in a comparative perspective.

Award Committee: Gwyneth McClendon, Chair, Harvard University; John D. Stephens, University of North Carolina; Noam Lupu, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Recipient: Paula Valeria Munoz, University of Texas at Austin

Title: “Campaign Clientelism in Peru: An Informal Theory.”

Recipient: Leonid Pesakhin, Yale University

Title: “Long Shadow of the Past: Identity, Norms, and Political Behavior.”

Best Article

Single-authored or co-authored articles focusing directly on the subject of democratization and published in 2013 are eligible.

Award Committee: Robert Woodberry, Chair, National University of Singapore; John Gerring, Boston University; John Doces, Bucknell University

Recipient: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University and Eric Chaney, Harvard University

Title: “The Feudal Revolution and Europe’s Rise: Political Divergence of the Christian West and the Muslim World before 1500 CE.” American Political Science Review, February 2013.

Best Fieldwork

Rewards dissertation students who conduct especially innovative and difficult fieldwork. Scholars who are currently writing their dissertations or who complete their dissertations in 2013 are eligible.

Award Committee: Adam Auerbach, Chair, University of Notre Dame; Sarah Parkinson, University of Minnesota; Jill Schwedler, Hunter College

Recipient: Milli Lake, University of Washington

Honorable Mention: Calvert Jones, Yale University

Best Paper

Given to the best paper on comparative democratization presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: Olukunle Owolabi, Chair, Villanova University;Carlos Gervasoni, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Maya Tudor, Blavatnik School of Government

Recipient: Christian Houle, Michigan State University

Title: “Ethnic Inequality and the Dismantling of Democracy: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.”

SECTION 36. HUMAN RIGHTS

Distinguished Scholar Award

Recognizes an individual who has worked in the field of Human Rights and made an exceptional contribution to the field through research, teaching and mentorship.

Award Committee: Richard P. Hiskes, Chair, Grand Valley State University; Shareen Hertel, University of Connecticut; Todd Landgren, University of Essex

Recipient: Claude E. Welch, Jr., University of Buffalo

SECTION 37. QUALITATIVE AND MULTI-METHOD RESEARCH

Alexander L. George Article Award

The Alexander L. George Article Award honors Alexander George’s contributions to the comparative case-study method, including his work linking that method to a systematic concern with research design, and his contribution of developing the idea and the practice of process tracing. This award may be granted to a journal article or to a chapter in an edited volume that stands on its own as an article. The award will be given to an article or book chapter published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented, with the date of publication being established by the journal issue for articles and the copyright date of the book for chapters.

Award Committee: Robert Mickey, University of Michigan; Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lily Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipient: Jonathan Mercer, University of Washington

Title: April, 2013 “Emotion and Strategy in the Korean War.” International Organization, 67 (2): 221–52.

Giovanni Sartori Book Award

The Giovanni Sartori Book Award honors Giovanni Sartori’s work on qualitative methods and concept formation, and especially his contribution to helping scholars think about problems of context as they refine concepts and apply them to new spatial and temporal settings. The award is intended to encompass two types of contributions: new research on methodology per se, i.e., studies that introducespecific methodological innovations or that synthesize and integrate methodological ideas in a way that is in itself a methodological contribution; and substantive work that is an exemplar for the application of qualitative methods.

Award Committee: Séverine Autesserre, Columbia University; Alan Jacobs, University of British Columbia; Frank Schimmelfennig, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Recipient: Katerina Linos, University of California, Berkeley

Title: The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries. Oxford University Press, 2013.

APSR Submission Award

Recognizes the best qualitative manuscript submitted to the American Political Science Review in the previous calendar year

Award Committee: Stathis N. Kalyvas, Yale University; Tianna Paschel, University of Chicago; Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College

Recipient: Sarah E. Parkinson, University of Minnesota

Title: “Organizing Rebellion: Rethinking High-Risk Mobilization and Social Networks in War.” American Political Science Review, 107(3): 418–32.

Sage Paper Award

The Sage Paper Award honors Sara and George McCune, who founded and sustained Sage Publications as a leading publisher of social science methodology —including very centrally qualitative methods. This award will be given toa paper presented at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Alexander Downes, George Washington University; Claudius Wagemann, Goethe University- Frankfurt; Deborah Ward, Columbia University

Recipients: Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University and Alan Jacobs, University of British Columbia

Title: “Mixing Methods: A Bayesian Unification of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches.”

David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award

The award honors David Collier’s contributions—through his research, graduate teaching, and institution-building—as a founder of the qualitative and multi-method research movement in contemporary political science. The award will be presented annually to a midcareer political scientist to recognize distinction in methodological publications, innovative application of qualitative and multimethod approaches in substantive research, and/or institutional contributions to this area of methodology.

Award Committee: Colin Elman, Syracuse University; James Mahoney, Northwestern University; Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago

Recipient: Evan Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SECTION 38. SEXUALITY AND POLITICS

Best Conference Paper Award

Recognizes the best paper exploring sexuality and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: Susan Mezey, Chair, Loyola University Chicago; Karen Baird, State University of New York at Purchase College; Patricia Campbell, American Public University

Recipient: R. Steven Daniels, California State University, Bakersfield

Title: “The Tipping Point: Attitudes on Same-Sex Marriage in the United States, 1998–2012.”

SECTION 39. HEALTH POLITICS AND POLICY

Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy

Awarded to an individual who has been working to improve health and the health care system by actively engaging in politics and policy making

Award Committee: Patricia Siplon, St. Michael’s College; Deborah A. Stone, Dartmouth College; Michael K. Gusmano, The Hastings Center

Recipient: Judith Feder, Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public Policy

Leonard S. Robins Best Paper Award

The Len Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award honors the late Len Robins, who through his presence and gentle questioning at virtually every health politics panel graciously nurtured the scholarship of both junior and senior scholars.

Award Committee: Bert Rockman, Purdue University; Harold Pollack,University of Chicago; Cassandra Mehlig Sweet, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile;

Karen Baird, Purchase College

Recipient: Miriam J. Laugesen, Columbia University

Title: “Policy Complexity and Professional Capture in Federal Rulemaking.”

SECTION 41. POLITICAL NETWORKS

Political Ties Award

Given on a biennial basis to the best article published on political networks

Award Committee: Justin Kirkland, Chair, University of Houston; Elizabeth Menninga, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Anand Sokhey, University of Colorado Boulder

Recipient: Sarah Elizabeth Parkinson, University of Chicago

Title: “Organizing Rebellion: Rethinking High-Risk Mobilization and Social Networks in War,” American Political Science Review 107: 418–32.

Best Conference Paper Award

Given annually to the best paper on political networks presented by a faculty person delivered at a political science conference in the previous year

Award Committee: Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Chair, University of Pennsylvania; Elif Erisen, Hacettepe Universitesi; Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College

Recipient: Casey A. Klofstad, University of Miami

Title: “Exposure to Political Discussion is Associated with Higher Rates of Political Participation Over Time.” Presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the APSA Political Networks Section, Bloomington, IN.

John Sprague Award

This award is given annually to the best paper on political networks presented by a graduate student delivered at a political science conference in the previous year. There is a fund that supports this award and the award includes a cash award that comes from the fund.

Award Committee: Adam Henry, Chair, University of Arizona; Matthew Howell, Eastern Kentucky University; Samara Klar, University of Arizona

Recipient: Franziska Keller, New York University

Title: “Networks of Power: A Social Network Analysis of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee, 1982–2006.” Presented at the 2014 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting

SECTION 42. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Best Book Award

Recognizes the best book published in 2013 that either uses or is about experimental research methods in the study of politics

Award Committee: David Nickerson, Chair; University of Notre Dame; Jens Grosser, Florida State University; and Jens Hainmueller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipients: Milton Lodge, Stony Brook University and Charles Taber, Stony Brook University

Title: The Rationalizing Voter. Cambridge University Press.

Best Dissertation Award

Recognizes the best dissertation completed in calendar year 2013 that utilizes experimental methods on substantive questions about politics or makes a fundamental contribution to experimental methods

Award Committee: Kevin Arceneaux, Chair; Temple University; Cheryl Boudreau, University of California, Davis; and John Bullock, Yale University

Recipient: Samara Klar, Northwestern University; Jamie Druckman, advisor, University of Arizona

Title: “The Influence of Identity on Political Preferences.”

Best Paper Award

Recognizes a paper that was scheduled to be presented at APSA and features experimental research

Award Committee: Mike Findley, Chair; University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer Jerit, Stony Brook University, and Yanna Krupnikov,Northwestern University

Recipient: Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University and Devra C. Moehler, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “Mobilization of Media? A Field Experiment on Partisan Media Effects in Africa.”

SECTION 43. MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP

Best Article Award

Award for best article on migration and/or citizenship published (i.e., printed) in the previous calendar year

Award Committee: Jacqueline Stevens, Chair, Northwestern University; Joel Fetzer, Pepperdine University; Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, University of Toronto

Recipient: Antje Ellerman, University of British Columbia

Title: “When Can Liberal States Avoid Unwanted Immigration? Self-Limited Sovereignty and Guest Worker Recruitment in Switzerland and Germany.” World Politics 65: July 13, 2013, 491–538.

Best Book Award

Awarded for the best book on migration and/or citizenship published in the previous year

Award Committee: Martin Heisler, Chair, University of Maryland, College Park; Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara; Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon

Recipient: Martin Ruhs, Oxford University

Title: The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration. Princeton University Press

Honorable Mention: Natalie Masuoka, Tufts University and Jane Junn, University of Southern California

Title: The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration. University of Chicago Press

Honorable Mention: Andrea Voyer, Pace University

Title: Strangers and Neighbors: Multiculturalism, Conflict, and Community in America. Cambridge University Press.

Best Book Chapter Award

Award for best chapter on migration and/or citizenship published (i.e., printed) in the previous calendar year

Award Committee: Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Chair, University of California, Berkeley; Yasmeen Abu-Laban, University of Alberta; Julie Mostov, Drexel University

Recipient: Luis F.B. Plascencia, Arizona State University

Title: “Attrition through Enforcement and the Elimination of a ‘Dangerous Class.’”Latino Politics and Arizona’s Immigration Law SB1070, ed. Lisa Magaña and Erik Lee. Springer.