Publius, The Journal of Federalism Best Article Award

This award is for the best article published in Publius, The Journal of Federalism in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Michael Gusmano, Chair, The Hastings Center; Paul Manna, College of William and Mary; Frank J. Thompson, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark

Recipient: Gwen Arnold, University of California, Davis

Title: “When Cooperative Federalism Isn’t: How U.S. Federal Interagency Contradictions Impede Effective Wetland Management.” Publius, The Journal on Federalism 45(2): 244–269

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

The Best Graduate Student Paper Award is given annually for the best paper on law and courts written by a graduate student.

Award Committee: Justin Wedeking, Chair, University of Kentucky; Martha Ginn, Augusta University; Morgan Hazelton, St. Louis University; Matthew Hitt, Louisiana State University; Alicia Uribe, University of Illinois

Recipient: Thomas Gray, University of Virginia

Title: “Executive Influence on State Supreme Court Justices: Strategic Deference in Reappointment”

Teaching and Mentoring Award

The 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.

Award Committee: Richard Pacelle, Chair, University of Tennessee; Jennifer Bowie, University of Richmond; Alyx Mark, North Central College; Laura Moyer, University of Louisville; Teena Wilhelm, University of Georgia

Recipient : Susan Haire, University of Georgia

Lasting Contribution Award

The 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: Ryan Owens, Chair, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Chris Bonneau, University of Pittsburgh; Gbemende Johnson, Hamilton College; Maya Sen, Harvard University; Patrick Schmidt, Macalester College

Recipients: Andrew D. Martin, University of Michigan and Kevin M. Quinn, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Dynamic Ideal Point Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the U.S. Supreme Court, 1953–1999.” 2002. Political Analysis. 10: 134–153

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Lifetime Achievement Award is an award for a lifetime of significant scholarship, teaching and service to the law and courts field.

Award Committee: Susan Haire, Chair, University of Georgia; Rachel Caufield, Drake University; Ken Kersch, Boston College; David Law, University of Hong Kong; Christine Nemacheck, College of William & Mary

Recipient: Lee Epstein, Washington University in St. Louis

Best Conference Paper Award

The Law and Courts Best Conference Paper Award (formerly the American Judicature Society Award) is 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. Single and coauthored papers, written by political scientists, are eligible. Papers may be nominated by any member of the Section.

Award Committee: Paul Collins, Chair, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Rachael Hinkle, University at Buffalo; Scott Lemieux, College of St. Rose; Salmon Shomade, University of New Orleans; Jeffrey Yates, Binghamton University

Recipient: Jonathan P. Kastellec, Princeton University

Title: “Empirically Evaluating the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty: Public Opinion, State Policy, and Judicial Review Before Roe v. Wade”

Best Journal Article Award

The Best Journal 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: Lori Hausegger, Chair, Boise State University; Drew Lanier, University of Central Florida; Danny Lempert, State University of New York at Potsdam; Kelly Rader, Yale University; Albert Yoon, University of Toronto

Recipient: Rachael Hinkle, University at Buffalo

Title: “Legal Constraint in the U.S. Courts of Appeals.” Journal of Politics 77(3): 721–735

Law and Courts Service Award

The Law and Courts Service Award recognizes service to the section in the literal sense, as in service on committees and in leadership positions, as well as service within the section, as in service to the profession within the field of law and courts in the form of archiving data, promoting infrastructure, representing the profession in the media, etc.

Award Committee: Matthew Hall, Chair, University of Notre Dame; Bethany Blackstone, University of North Texas; Rebecca Gill, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Kirk Randazzo, University of South Carolina; Susanne Schorpp, Georgia State University

Recipient: Christine Harrington, New York University

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: Craig Volden, Chair, University of Virginia; Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Rice University; Andrew Taylor, North Carolina State University

Recipients: Sven-Oliver Proksch, McGill University and Jonathan B. Slapin, University of Essex

Title: The Politics of Parliamentary Debate: Parties, Rebels and Representation. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Carl Albert Dissertation Award

The Carl Albert Dissertation Award is 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: Michael Barber, Chair, Brigham Young University; Jennifer Clark, University of Houston; Jason Windett, Saint Louis University

Recipient: Molly E. Reynolds, Brookings Institution

Title: “Exceptions to the Rule: Majoritarian Procedures and Majority Party Power in the U.S. Senate.” University of Michigan, 2015

CQ Press Award

The CQ Press Award for the best paper on legislative studies presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Daniel Magleby, Cochair, Binghamton University; Pamela McCann, Cochair, University of Southern California; Ben Highton, University of California, Davis

Recipients: John Voorheis, University of Oregon; Nolan McCarty, Princeton University; Boris Shor, Georgetown University

Title: “Unequal Incomes, Ideology and Gridlock: How Rising Inequality Increases Political Polarization.”

Jewell-Loewenberg Award

The Jewell-Loewenberg Paper Award for the best article in the Legislative Studies Quarterly in the previous year.

Award Committee: Barry Burden, Chair, University of Wisconsin; Jason Casellas, University of Houston; Susan Miller, University of South Carolina

Recipients: Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University; Josh M. Ryan, Utah State University; Anand Edward Sokhey, University of Colorado at Boulder

Title: “Examining Legislative Cue-Taking in the US Senate.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 40 (2015): 13–53

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: Gisela Sin, Chair, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Sunil Ahuja, The Higher Learning Commission; Seth Masket, University of Denver

Recipient: James M. Curry, University of Utah

Title: Legislating in the Dark. University of Chicago Press, 2015

Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award

The Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award is given for the best book or article published in the general area of public policy during the past twenty (20) plus years.

Award Committee: Paul Quirk, University of British Columbia; Ann Bowman, Texas A&M University; Isabela Mares, Columbia University

Recipient: Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University

Title: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Simon and Schuster, 2001

Best Comparative Policy Paper 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: Karen Jusko, Stanford University; Brian Min, University of Michigan; Jacinct Jordana Casajuana, Pompeu Fabra University; Klaus Schubert, University of Muenster; Zach Elkins, University of Texas at Austin

Recipients: Vladimir Gimpelson, Higher School of Economics, Moscow and Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “Misperceiving Inequality”

Best Poster on Public Policy Award

The Best Poster on Public Policy Award is given for the best paper or poster presented at the poster session at the previous APSA meeting.

The Grand Hall at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC) was a large, welcoming space for attendees to gather. It’s placement between the PCC and the Marriott and Loews hotels also made both a gathering place and a thoroughfare for attendees.

Award Committee: Sarah Anzia, University of California, Berkeley; Hongtao Yi, The Ohio State University; Christian Breunig, University of Konstanz; Edella Schlager, University of Arizona

Recipient: Alexander Bolton, Duke University

Title: “Ideological Diversity and Policymaking in the United States”

Recipients: Delphia Shanks-Booth and Mallory SoRelle, Cornell University

Title: “Information v. Ideology: Recognizing (Government) Benefits in the Submerged State”

Best Paper on Public Policy Award

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

Award Committee: Samuel Workman, University of Oklahoma; Jeronimo Cortina, University of Houston; R. Kent Weaver, Georgetown University

Recipient: Daniel Galvin, Northwestern University

Title: “Wage Theft, Public Policy, and the Politics of Workers’ Rights”

Theodore J. Lowi Policy Studies Journal Best Article Award

The Theodore J. Lowi Policy Studies Journal Best Article Award is given to recognize an article of particular distinction published at any time in Policy Studies Journal.

Award Committee: Susan Moffitt, Brown University; Graeme Boushey, University of California, Irvine; Laura Evans, University of Washington

Recipients: Megan E. Hatch, Cleveland State University and Elizabeth Rigby, George Washington University

Title: “Laboratories of (In)equality? Redistributive Policy and Income Inequality in the American States” Policy Studies Journal. 43(2): 163–187

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: Christina Wolbrecht, Chair, University of Notre Dame; Heath Brown, CUNY, John Jay College and Graduate Center; Michael T. Heaney, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Recipient: Samara Klar, University of Arizona

Jack Walker Award

The 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: Florence Faucher, Chair, Science Politique-Paris; Robert G. Boatright, Clark University; Ann-Kristin Kölln, University of Gothenburg

Recipient: Noam Lupu, Vanderbilt University

Title: “Brand Dilution and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America.” World Politics 66 (4): 561–602

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: Peter Francia, Chair, East Carolina University; Marie Hojnacki, Pennsylvania State University; Markus Wagner, University of Vienna

Recipients: Sven-Oliver Proksch, McGill University and Jonathan B. Slapin, University of Essex

Title: The Politics of Parliamentary Debate: Parties, Rebels and Representation. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Recipients: Michael T. Heaney, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Fabio Rojas, Indiana University, Bloomington

Title: Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Lifetime Award

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

Award Committee: Jeffrey M. Berry, Chair, Tufts University; Paul Webb, University of Sussex; Hal Bass, Ouachita Baptist University

Recipient: Kay L. Schlozman, Boston College

John Gaus Award

The John Gaus Award honors the recipient’s lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. The winner delivers the Gaus Award at the APSA Annual Meeting. This year, the Gaus Lecture was presented at 6:30–7:30 PM on Friday, September 2nd, followed by a reception, all at the conference in Philadelphia.

Award Committee: Lael Keiser, University of Missouri; Frances Berry, Florida State University; Dan Carpenter, Harvard University

Recipient: Rosemary O’Leary, University of Kansas

Herbert Kaufman Best Paper Award

Awarded to the best paper presented on a panel sponsored (or cosponsored) by the Public Administration Organized Section at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Scott Robinson, University of Oklahoma; Dominic Bearfield, Texas A&M University; Claudia Avellaneda, Indiana University

Recipient: Asmus Leth Olsen, University of Copenhagen

Title: “Negative Performance Information Causes Asymmetrical Evaluations and Elicits Strong Responsibility Attributions.”

Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award

The Herbert A. Simon Book Award is for significant contributions to public administration scholarship.

Award Committee: Rich Fording, University of Alabama; Ann Bowman, Texas A&M University; Scott Lamothe, University of Oklahoma

Recipient: Manuel Teodoro, Texas A&M University

Title: Bureaucratic Ambition: Careers, Motives, and the Innovative Administrator. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Paul A. Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant Award

This is 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: John Bryson, Chair, University of Minnesota; Amanda Girth, Ohio State University; Amanda Rutherford, Indiana University

Recipient: Jennifer Dodge, Rockefeller College, University at Albany, State University of New York

Title: “Technological controversies and emerging governance: The case of ‘fracking’ in New York and Pennsylvania”

Recipient: Sanghee Park, Boise State University,

Title: “Cutback or Collaboration? Finding a Tipping Point for Saving Without Damaging Performance”

Recipient: Agustin Leon-Moreta, University of New Mexico

Title: “Inequality and the Quality of Local Government in the United States”

Best Poster Award

This is awarded for the best poster presented at the 2015 APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Manny Teodoro, Texas A&M University and Scott Robinson, University of Oklahoma

Recipients: Simon Haeder, Susan Webb Yackee and Jason Webb Yackee, University of Wisconsin

Title: “Coalition Drift? Congressional Accountability and Government Regulation, 1950–1987”

Best Paper Award

This award is 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. Papers are eligible only if all authors are untenured at the time the paper is presented. Nominations must be made by a member of the Conflict Processes Organized Section; self-nominations are encouraged.

Award Committee: Michael Colaresi, Chair, Michigan State University; David B. Carter, Princeton University; Erica Chenoweth, University of Denver

Recipient: Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Spontaneous Collective Action: Peripheral Mobilization during the Arab Spring.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015

Best Book Award

This award is 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 Organized Section; self-nominations are encouraged.

Award Committee: Lars-Erik Cederman, Chair, ETH Zurich; Kyle Beardsley, Duke University; Zaryab Iqbal, Pennsylvania State University

Recipient: Scott Strauss, University of Wisconsin

Title: Making and Unmaking Nations: The Origins and Dynamics of Genocide in Contemporary Africa. Cornell University Press, 2015

George H. Hallet Award

The George H. Hallett Award is presented annually to the author of a book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems.

Award Committee: G. Bingham Powell, Chair, University of Rochester; Ken Kollman, University of Michigan; Susan E. Scarrow, University of Houston

Recipient: Susan Stokes, Yale University

Title: Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2001

Lawrence Longley Award

The Lawrence Longley Award is given for the best article published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Guy Grossman, Chair, University of Pennsylvania; Lucas Leemann, University College London; Isabela Mares, Columbia University

Recipients: Rafaela M. Dancygier, Princeton University; Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Uppsala University; Sven Oskarsson, Uppsala University; Kåre Vernby, Stockholm University

Title: “Why Are Immigrants Underrepresented in Politics? Evidence from Sweden.” American Political Science Review, 2015

Leon Weaver Award

The 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: Jonathan Slapin, Chair, University of Essex; Justin Kirkland, University of Houston; Robin Kolodny, Temple University

Recipient: Amy Catalinac, New York University

Title: “Positioning under Alternative Electoral Systems: Evidence from 7,497 Japanese Candidate Election Manifestos”

Neustadt Award for the Best Book on the Presidency

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

Award Committee: Julia Azari, Chair, Marquette University; Joseph Pika, University of Delaware; Jon Rogowski, Washington University, St. Louis; Mariah Zeisberg, University of Michigan

Recipients: Douglas L. Kriner, Boston University and Andrew Reeves, Washington University, St. Louis

Title: The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality. Cambridge University Press, 2015

The Legacy Award

The Legacy Award is given to a living author for a book, essay, or article, published at least 10 years prior to the award year that has made a continuing contribution to the intellectual development of the fields of presidency and executive politics.

Award Committee: Raymond Tatalovich, Chair, Loyola University of Chicago; Magna Inacio, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; Dan Ponder, Drury University; Rebecca U. Thorpe, University of Washington

Recipient: Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego

Title: Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership. CQ Press, 1986

Founder’s Best Paper Award

The Founders Award honoring Lester Seligman will be given for the best paper on executive politics authored by a PhD-holding scholar at the previous year’s (2015) APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Janet Martin, Chair, Bowdoin College; Andrew Dowdle, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Lilly Goren, Carroll University; William Mayer, Northeastern University

Recipient: Jasmine Farrier, University of Louisville

Title: “Judicial Restraint and the New War Powers”

Founder’s Best Graduate Student Paper Award

The Founders Award honoring Stephen Wayne will be 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.

Award Committee: Michelle Belco, Chair, University of Houston; Graham Dodds, Concordia University, Montreal; Joshua Kennedy, Georgia Southern University; Jeffrey Peake, Clemson University

Recipient: Kenneth Lowande, University of Virginia

Title: “Delegation or Unilateral Action?”

George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award

The George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in presidency research completed and accepted during the previous two calendar years (January 1, 2014– December 31, 2015).

Award Committee: Matthew Beckmann, Chair, University of California, Irvine; Lara Brown, George Washington University; Anthony Madonna, University of Georgia

Recipient: Rachel Augustine Potter, University of Michigan

Title: “Writing the Rules of the Game: The Strategic Logic of Agency Rulemaking”

During a poster session, Inaki Sagarzazu, Texas Tech University, and Kelly Kollman, University of Glasgow, talk about their reserach. The new iPoster format provided a new way to display and discuss research for poster presenters.

Society for Political Methodology Poster Award

This award recognizes the best political methodology poster given at any political science conference in the preceding year.

Award Committee: Erin Hartman, University of California, Los Angeles; Richard Nielsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University; Karen Jusko, Stanford University; Maya Sen, Harvard University

Recipient: Yuki Shirito, Princeton University

Title: “Topical N-Gram Citation Model”

Recipient: Anton Strezhnev, Harvard University

Title: “A New Method for Estimating Treatment Effects under ‘Truncation-by-Death’”

Career Achievement Award

The Career Achievement Award honors an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the political methodology field.

Award Committee: Robert J. Franzese, Jr., University of Michigan; Wendy K. Tam Cho, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lonna Atkeson, University of New Mexico; Kosuke Imai, Princeton University; Simon Jackman, Stanford University

Recipient: Keith T. Poole, University of Georgia

Excellence in Mentoring Award

The Society for Political Methodology Excellence in Mentoring Award honors members of the Organized Section on Political Methodology who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to mentoring and advising graduate and/or undergraduate students-particularly those from underrepresented groups.

Award Committee: R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology; D. Sunshine Hillygus, Duke University; F. Daniel Hidalgo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipient: Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University

Warren Miller Prize

This award is given for the best article in the journal Political Analysis.

Award Committee: Neil Malhotra, Stanford University; Megan Shannon, Colorado University; Arthur Spirling, New York University; Thad Dunning, University of California, Berkeley

Recipient: Pablo Barberá, New York University

Title: “Birds of the Same Feather Tweet Together: Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation Using Twitter Data.” Political Analysis 23(1): 76–91

Statistical Software Award

This award recognizes statistical software that has made a significant contribution to the advancement of political science.

Award Committee: Mike Ward, Duke University; Matt Blackwell, Harvard University; Alexander Tahk, University of Wisconsin

Recipients: Jirka Lewandowski, Nicolas Merz, Sven Regel, and Pola Lehmann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung

Title: manifestoR: Access and Process Data and Documents of the Manifesto Project

Emerging Scholar Award

The Emerging Scholar Award honors a young researcher, within ten years of their degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of political methodology.

Award Committee: Josh Clinton, Vanderbilt University; Adam Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jas Sekhon, University of California, Berkeley

Recipient: Rocio Titiunik, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Harold F. Gosnell Prize

The Harold Gosnell Prize recognizes the best work of political methodology presented at a political science conference in the previous year.

Award Committee: Michael Peress, Stony Brook University; Suzanna Linn, Pennsylvania State University; Brandon Stewart, Princeton University

Recipients: Marc Ratkovic, Princeton University and Dustin Tingley, Harvard University

Title: “Sparse Estimation with Uncertainty: Subgroup Analysis in Large Dimensional Designs”

John T. Williams Dissertation Prize

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

Award Committee: Justin Grimmer, Stanford University; Matt Blackwell, Harvard University; Teppei Yamamoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipient: Dean Knox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Essays on Modeling and Causal Inference in Network Data”

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award

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

Award Committee: Hanna Lerner, Chair, Tel Aviv University; Amelie Barras, York University; Robert Braithwaite, Michigan State University

Recipient: Shoaib A. Ghias, University of California, Berkeley.

Title: “Defining Shari’a: The Politics of Islamic Judicial Review.”

Honorable Mention: Alicia D. Forster, University of Florida.

Title: “American Political Behavior and the Role of Religious Context.”

Honorable Mention: Jonathan S. Blake, Columbia University.

Title: “Ritual Contention in Divided Societies: Participation in Loyalist Parades in Northern Ireland.”

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Jonathan Laurence, Chair, Boston College; Ted Jelen, University of Nevada; Ruth Marshall, University of Toronto

Recipient: Sultan Tepe, University of Illinois, Chicago.

Title: “The Elusive Structure of State Secularism and its Disguised Critics.”

Dennis Judd Best Book Award

The Best Book Award recognizes the best book on urban politics published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Jeff Henig, Chair, Columbia University; Hal Wolman, George Washington University; Juliet Gainsborough, Bentley College

Recipient: Lorrie Frasure-Yokely, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs. Cambridge University Press 2015

Best Dissertation on Urban Policy

The Best Dissertation Award is given annually for the best dissertation on urban politics accepted in the previous year.

Award Committee: Mara Sidney, Chair, Rutgers University; Joshua Sapotichne, Michigan State University; Allison Bramwell, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Recipient: Zachary Todd Taylor, Western University

Title: “The Politics of Metropolitan Development: Institutions, Interests, and Ideas in the Making of Urban Governance in the United States and Canada, 1800–2000.” University of Toronto

Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award

The Byran Jackson Award recognizes the outstanding scholarship by a graduate student in the area of race and urban politics.

Award Committee: Paru Shah, Chair, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Kristin Good, Dalhousie University; Marquita Bowers-Brown, Lindenwood University

Recipient: Diane Wong, Cornell University

Title: “Disappearing Chinatowns: The Struggle Against Gentrification in San Francisco, New York City, and Boston.”

Norton Long Career Achievement Award

The Norton Long Career Achievement Award is 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: Michael Rich, Chair, Emory University; Megan Mullin, Duke University; Timothy Krebs, University of New Mexico

Recipient: Steve Erie, University of California, San Diego

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper given at an Urban Politics Section panel at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Woody Sanders, Chair, University of Texas at San Antonio; Neil Kraus, University of Wisconsin at River Falls; Scott Minkoff, State University of New York at New Paltz; Vladimir Kogan, Ohio State University

Recipients: Patricia Strach, University at Albany, State University of New York; Kathleen Sullivan, Ohio University; and Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués, University at Albany, State University of New York

Title: “Trash: A Political History, 1880–1920.”

Clarence Stone Scholar Award

The Clarence Stone Scholar Award recognizes up to two young scholars who are making a significant contribution to the study of urban politics. The award is to be given to up to two post-PhD scholars who are in their career (pre-tenure, or recently advanced within the last three years).

Award Committee: Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Recipients: Danielle Resnick, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC; Amy Widestrom, Arcadia University

Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award

The Career Achievement Award is given to an individual in recognition of their lifetime contribution to the study of science, technology, and environmental politics.

Award Committee: Dorothy Daley, University of Kansas; Helen Ingram, University of California, Irvine; Eric Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara

Recipient: Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University

Emerging Young Scholar Award

The Emerging Young Scholar Award is given in recognition of a researcher, within ten years of their PhD degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of science, technology, and environmental politics.

Award Committee: Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon; Kathy Hochstedler, University of Waterloo; David Konisky, Indiana University

Recipient: Graeme Auld, Carleton University

Lynton K. Caldwell Award

The Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize is given for the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years.

Award Committee: Jessica F. Green, New York University; David Shafie, Chapman University; Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University

Recipient: Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland, College Park

Title: Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge University, 2015

Recipient: Graeme Auld, Carleton University

Title: Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification. Yale University Press, 2014

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award

The Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award, given 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: Tabitha Benney, University of Utah; Stefan Renckens, University of Toronto; Graeme Auld, Carleton University

Recipient: Matto Mildenberger, University of California, Santa Barbara

Title: “Fiddling While the World Burns: The Double Representation of Carbon Polluters in Comparative Climate Policymaking.” Yale University, 2015

Don K. Price Award

The Don K. Price Award recognizes the best book on science, technology, and environmental politics published in the last year.

Award Committee: Thomas Birkland, North Carolina State University; Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University; Bentley Allan, Johns Hopkins University

Recipient: Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland

Title: Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper published in a relevant journal in the last two years. Relevant journals include political science, public administration, public policy, interdisciplinary environmental science, and science and technology studies journals.

Award Committee: Neil Carter, University of York; Heather Hodges, Reed College; Matthew Arbuckle, University of Cincinnati

Recipients: Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan; Ashwini Chhatre, Indian School of Business; Elisabeth R. Gerber, University of Michigan

Title: “Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development Interventions.” American Political Science Review 109 (3): 470–487.

Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award

The Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award is given for the best paper on science, technology, and environmental politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Deserai A Crow, University of Colorado Boulder; Elizabeth A. Albright, Duke University; Matto Mildenberger, University of California, Santa Barbara

Recipients: Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara; Heather Hodges, Reed College; Andrew J. Plantinga, University of California, Santa Barbara; Matthew Wibbenmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara

Title: “Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on women and politics completed and accepted in the previous year.

Award Committee: Alice Kang, Chair, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Rosanne Kennedy, New York University; Samantha Majic, CUNY-John Jay College

Recipient: Dawn Teele, Yale University (PhD); University of Pennsylvania (assistant professor)

Title: “The Logic of Women’s Enfranchisement: A Comparative Study of the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.” Yale University, 2015

Honorable Mention: Hürcan Asli Aksoy, University of Tübingen

Title: “Engendering Democracy in Turkey: Participation and Inclusion of Women’s Civil Society Organizations under AKP Rule.” University of Tübingen, 2015

Best Paper Award

This award is given for the best paper presented at the previous year’s annual meeting in the field of women and politics.

Award Committee: Meg Rincker, Purdue University Northwest; Tiffany Barnes, University of Kentucky

Recipients: Sarah Bush, Temple University and Lauren Prather, University of California, San Diego

Title: “How Gender Stereotypes Can Increase Engagement with Female Officeholders: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Tunisia”

Honorable Mention: Abigail S. Post and Paromita Sen, University of Virginia

Title: “A Woman in a Man’s World: A Gendered Understanding of Crisis Bargaining”

Okin-Young Award

The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory, cosponsored 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: Shatema Threadcraft, Rutgers University; Jill Locke, Gustavus Adolphus College; Karen Celis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Recipient: Jakeet Singh, Illinois State University

Title: “Religious Agency and the Limits of Intersectionality.” Hypatia 30 (4): 657–674, Fall 2015

David Easton Award

The David Easton Award is given for a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through any of a variety of approaches in the social sciences and humanities.

Award Committee: Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley; Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania; Joe Carens, University of Toronto

Recipient: Patrick Wolfe, past university affiliations include: University of Melbourne, Victoria University and La Trobe University

Title: Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race. Verso 2015

First Book Award

The First Book Award is 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: John Seery, Pomona College; Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota; David Gutterman, Willamette University

Recipient: Neil Roberts, Williams College

Title: Freedom as Marronage. University of Chicago Press

Recipient: Shalini Satkunanandan, University of California, Davis

Title: Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus. Cambridge University Press

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented on a foundations panel at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Karuna Mantena, Yale University; Craig Borowiak, Haverford College; Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo, Rutgers University

Recipient: Josh Simon, Columbia University

Title: “Jose Marti’s Immanent Critique of American Imperialism”

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation in the area of information technology and politics.

Award Committee: Michael Jensen, Chair, University of Canberra; Lauren Copeland, Baldwin Wallace University; Ken Rogerson, Duke University

Recipient: David Benson, Southern Methodist University

Title: “The Internet Effect: How Authoritarian Governments use Internet Communication Technologies to Maintain Control of States.”

Best Book Award

The Best Book Award recognizes the best book in the area of information technology and politics. The contest is limited to books published in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Catie Bailard, Chair, George Washington University; Jeff Gulati, Bentley University; Laurie Freeman, University of California, Santa Barbara; Alan Steinberg, Rice University

Recipient: Eitan Hersch, Yale University

Title: Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Best Information Technology and Politics Article Award

The Best Published Article Award recognizes the best scholarly article published about information technology and politics. The contest is limited to articles published in the calendar year.

Award Committee: Rachel Gibson, Chair, University of Manchester; Dachi Liao, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung,Taiwan; Gerhard Fuchs, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Recipient: Pablo Barberá, New York University

Title: “Birds of the Same Feather Tweet Together: Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation Using Twitter Data.” Political Analysis, 23 (1): 76–91.

Best Conference Paper Award

The Best Conference Paper Award recognizes the best conference paper in the area of information technology and politics.

Award Committee: Jessica Feezell, Chair, University of New Mexico; Kevin Wallsten, California State University, Long Beach; Brian Krueger, University of Rhode Island; Cecilia Manrique, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

Recipients: Yannis Theocharis, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research; Pablo Barberá, New York University; Zoltán Fazekas, University of Southern Denmark; Sebastian Adrian Popa, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research

Title: “A Bad Workman Blames his Tweets.”

Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award

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 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: Michael Horowitz, Chair, University of Pennsylvania; J.D. Kenneth Boutin, Deakin University; David Edelstein, Georgetown University; Stacie Goddard, Wellesley College

Recipient: Daniel Krcmaric, Duke University

Title: “The Justice Dilemma: International Criminal Accountability, Mass Atrocities, and Civil Conflict.”

Honorable Mention: Carrie Lee, Stanford University

Title: “The Politics of Military Operations”

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: Susan Woodward, Chair, City University of New York, Graduate School; Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown University; Amit Ahuja, University of California, Santa Barbara

Recipients: Vladimir Gimpelson, Higher School of Economics, Moscow and Daniel Triesman, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “Misperceiving Inequality”

Left: Rosemary O’Leary, University of Kansas, delivers John Gaus Lecture on Friday evening. The award recognizes a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration.

Below: Attendees applaud during the John Gaus Lecture.

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: Dan Slater, Chair, University of Chicago; Marius Busemeyer, University of Konstanz; Melanie Cammett, Harvard University; David Rueda, Oxford University

Recipient: Michael Albertus, University of Chicago

Title: Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform. Cambridge University Press 2015

Recipient: Catherine Boone, London School of Economics

Title: Property and Political Order in Africa: Land Rights and the Structure of Politics. Cambridge University Press 2014

Luebbert Best Article Award

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

Award Committee: Vivien Schmidt, Chair, Boston University; Jane Gingrich, Oxford University; Guillermo Trejo, University of Notre Dame

Recipient: Perna Singh, Brown University

Title: “Subnationalism and Social Development in India: A Comparative Analysis of Indian States.” World Politics, June 2015

Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award

The Data Set Award recognizes a publicly available data set that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative politics.

Award Committee: Carsten Jensen, Chair, Aarhus University; Joe Wright, Pennsylvania State University; Dawn Brancati, Washington University, St. Louis

Recipients: Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame; John Gerring, Boston University; Staffan I. Lindberg, University of Gothenburg; Svend-Erik Skaaning, Aarhus University; Jan Teorell, Lund University; David Altman, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Michael Bernard, University of Florida; Steven Fish, University of California, Berkeley; Adam Glynn, Emory University; Allen Hicken, University of Michigan; Carl Henrik Knutsen, Oslo University; Kyle L. Marquardt, University of Gothenburg; Kelly McMann, Case Western Reserve University; Farhad Miri, University of Gothenburg; Pamela Paxton, University of Texas at Austin; Daniel Pemstein, North Dakota State University; Jeffrey Staton, Emory University; Eltan Tzelgov, University of East Anglia; Yi-ting Wang, National Cheng Kung University; Brigitte Zimmerman, University of North Carolina; Frida Andersson, University of Gothenburg; Josefine Pernes, University of Gothenburg; Natalia Stepanova, University of Gothenburg; Valeriya Mechkova, University of Gothenburg

Title: Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Data Set, https//v-dem.net/en/data

Powell Graduate Mentoring Award

This prize, introduced in 2012, will be awarded on a bi-annual 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 and was initiated by his students, presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Evelyne Huber, Chair, University of North Carolina; Anke Hassel, Hertie School, Berlin; Mona Leena Krook, Rutgers University

Recipient: Suzanne Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Best Article Award

This award is given for the best article dealing with European politics and society published in the last year.

Award Committee: Lenka Bustikova, Arizona State University; Lucy Barnes, University of Kent; Mareike Kleine, London School of Economics

Recipients: Evgeny Finkel, George Washington University; Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Tricia D. Olsen, University of Denver

Title: “Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence from Russia’s Emancipation of the Serfs.”

Comparative Political Studies, 2015, 48 (8): 984–1019

Best Book Award

The Best Book Award is given for the best book on European politics and society published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mitchell Orenstein, University of Pennsylvania; Sara Goodman Wallace, University of California, Irvine

Recipient: Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan

Title: Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy. Princeton University Press, 2015

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: Jane Gingrich, Oxford University; Sarah Wiliarty, Wesleyan University; Scott Abramson, University of Rochester

Recipient: Dawn Langan Teele, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “The Logic of Women’s Enfranchisement: A Comparative Study of the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.” Yale University, 2015

Peter Mair Award

The Peter Mair Memorial Award will fund the travel of two young scholars to attend the APSA meeting. Named in memory of professor Peter Mair, one of the foremost scholars of European politics, the award is meant explicitly to enable young scholars of European politics without adequate funding to present a paper in one of the panels organized by the EPS section.

Award Committee: Matthias Matthijs, Chair, Johns Hopkins University; Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan; Duane Swank, Marquette University

Recipients: Björn Bremer, European University Institute and Magda Giurcanu, Charles University, Prague

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper given on EPS sponsored panels at the previous annual meetings.

Award Committee: Antonis Ellinas, Chair, University of Cyprus; Klaus Armingeon, University of Bern; Milada Vachudova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recipients: Stanislav Markus, University of Chicago and Volha Charnysh, Harvard University

Title: “Big Business and the Politics of Wealth Defense: The Case of Ukrainian Oligarchs”

Recipients: Daphne Halikiopoulou and Tim Vlandas, University of Reading

Title: “Risks, Costs and Labour Markets: Explaining Cross-National Patterns of Far Right Party Success in European Parliament Elections”

Career Achievement Award

The Career Achievement Award given every biennium to a political scientist who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the study of politics and public policies in the American states.

Award Committee: Michael Berkman, Chair, Pennsylvania State University; James Garand, Louisiana State University; Virginia Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recipient: Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University

Christopher A. Mooney Dissertation Award

This award is given for the best dissertation in American state politics and policy completed during the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Keith Hamm, Chair, Rice University; Lael Keiser, University of Missouri, Columbia; Jeffrey Yates, Binghamton University

Recipient: Chidambaram Parinandi (directed by Jenna Bednar and Charles Shipan), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Title: “Devolution and Policy Experimentation under Federalism: Essays on Innovation and Emulation in the American States”

Best Article Award

The award recognizes the best journal article on US state politics or policy published during the previous calendar year in any peer-reviewed journal.

Award Committee: Tom Carsey, Chair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Bob Erikson, Columbia University; Chris Reenock, Florida State University

Recipients: Frederick J. Boehmke, University of Iowa; Tracy L. Osborn, University of Iowa and Emily U. Schilling, University of Tennessee

Title: “Pivotal Politics and Initiative Use in the American States”

Political Research Quarterly 68 (4): 665–677

Virginia Gray Best Book Award

To be 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: Jennifer Wolak, Chair, University of Colorado; Jennifer Hayes Clark, University of Houston; Susan Miller, University of South Carolina

Recipients: Christopher W. Bonneau, University of Pittsburgh and Damon M. Cann, Utah State University

Title: Voters’ Verdicts: Citizens, Campaigns, and Institutions in State Supreme Court Elections. University of Virginia Press

Recipients: Ray La Raja and Brian Schaffner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Title: Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail. University of Michigan Press

SPPQ Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Tracy Osborn, Chair, University of Iowa; Daniel Lewis, Siena College; Kerri Melitta, Illinois State University

Recipient: Mona Vakilifathi, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Constraining Bureaucrats Today Knowing You’ll Be Gone Tomorrow: The Effect of Legislative Term Limits on Statutory Discretion”

Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Brian Harrison, Northwestern University; Shannon McGregor, University of Texas; Alan Steinberg, Rice University

Recipient: Nick Anspach, Temple University

Title: “The Inadvertent Audience: How Online Peer Influence Mitigates Selective Exposure”

David Swanson Career Achievement

The David Swanson Career Achievement Award (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, 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: Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University

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: Georgia Kernell, Northwestern University; Shelley J. Boulianne, MacEwan University; Betty Hanson, University of Connecticut

Recipients: Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University; Adam Seth Levine, Cornell University

Title: “Citizen Engagement (and Disengagement) in Response to Social Ills”

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

One outstanding doctoral dissertation award in political communication may be given annually. To be considered for the award, the dissertation research must pertain to some aspect of political communication.

Award Committee: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania; Johanna Dunaway, Texas A&M University; Erika Franklin Fowler, Wesleyan University

Recipient: Emily Sydnor, Southwestern University

Title: “Fighting Words and Fiery Tone: The Interaction of Political Incivility and Psychological Conflict Orientation”

J. David Greenstone Book Prize

The J. David Greenstone Book Prize recognizes the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years.

Award Committee: Erik J. Engstrom, Chair, University of California, Davis; K. Orfeo Floretos, Temple University; Adria Lawrence, Yale University

Recipient: Robert Mickey, University of Michigan

Title: Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America’s Deep South, 1944–1972. Princeton University Press, 2015

Mary Parker Follett Award for Best Article

The Mary Parker Follett Prize recognizes the best article on Politics and History published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Daniel Carpenter, Chair, Harvard University; Tulia Faletti, University of Pennsylvania; Jason Wittenberg, University of California, Berkeley

Recipients: Prerna Singh, Brown University

Title: “Subnationalism and Social Development: A Comparative Analysis of Indian States.” World Politics 67 (3): 506–562

Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award

The Walter Dean Burnham Award is given for the best dissertation in the field of politics and history.

Award Committee: Evelyne Huber, Chair, University of North Carolina; Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan; Jonathan M. Obert, Amherst College

Recipient: Sarah Johnson, University of Chicago

Title: “The Ages We Live By: Historical Periodization in Social and Political Thought”

Michael Wallerstein Award

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

Award Committee: Stephanie Rickard, London School of Economics; Carie Steele, Texas Tech University; Soo Yeon Kim, National University of Singapore

Recipients: Ernesto Calvo, University of Maryland, College Park and Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University

Title: “The Achilles Heel of Plurality Systems: Geography and Representation in Multiparty Democracies.” American Journal of Political Science 59 (4): 789–805

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: Miriam Golden, University of California, Los Angeles; Assema Sinha, Claremont McKenna College; Charles Shipan, University of Michigan

Recipient: David Skarbek, King’s College London

Title: The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System. Oxford University Press, 2014

Honorable Mention: Megumi Naoi, University of California, San Diego

Title: Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia: Globalization as Legislation. Cambridge University Press 2015

Honorable Mention: David A. Steinberg , Johns Hopkins University

Title: Demanding Devaluation: Exchange Rate Politics in the Developing World. Cornell University Press, 2015

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: Victor Shih, University of California, San Diego; Cheryl Schonhard-Bailey, London School of Economics; Scott Gates, Peace Research Institute Oslo

Recipient: Charlotte Cavaillé, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse

Title: “Demand for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality”

Recipient: Rachel Augustine Potter, University of Virginia

Title: “Writing the Rules of the Game: The Strategic Logic of Agency Rule Making”

Fiona McGillivray Prize Best Paper Award

The Fiona McGillivray Prize is given for the best paper in Political Economy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown University; Oeindrila Dube, New York University; Antoinette Handley, University of Toronto

Recipient: Francisco Garfias, Stanford University

Title: “Elite Competition and State Capacity Development: Theory and Evidence from Post-Revolutionary Mexico”

Christian Bay Best Paper Award

The Christian Bay Award recognizes the best paper presented on a New Political Science panel at the previous year’s annual meeting.

Award Committee: Robert Kirsch, Chair, Arizona State University; Lucrecia Iommi, Fairfield University; Joshua Yesnowitz, Williams College

Recipient: Jocelyn Boryczka, Fairfield University

Title: “An Anatomy of Sexism: The Colonized Vagina.”

Michael Harrington Book Award

The Michael Harrington Book Award is given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.

Award Committee: Heike Schotten, Chair, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Laurence Davis, University College Cork; Jeff Broxmeyer, University of Toledo

Recipient: Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton University Press, 2015

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: Maggie Gray, Chair, Adelphi University; Andrew Scerri, Virginia Tech; Jennifer Lawrence, Virginia Tech; Frances Piven, Honorary, CUNY-Graduate Center

Recipient: Urban Tree Connection

Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award

The 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: Terrell Carver, Chair, University of Bristol; Timothy Luke, Virginia Tech; Nancy Love, Appalachian State University

Recipient: V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona

Stephen Eric Bronner Dissertation Award

For an outstanding political science dissertation finished within the previous year of the APSA Meeting which exemplifies the commitment to use scholarship in the struggle for a better world.

Award Committee: Manfred Steger, Chair, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Isaac Kamola, Trinity College; John Ehrenberg, Long Island University; Stephen Eric Bronner, honorary, Rutgers University

Recipient: Dean Snyder, Antioch College

Title: “Commercial Capital and the Political Economy of Agricultural Overproduction.” Syracuse University, 2015

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: Kent Jennings, University of California, Santa Barbara; Beth Miller Vonnahme, University of Missouri, Kansas City; Daniel Myers, University of Minnesota

Recipients: Bethany Albertson, University of Texas at Austin and Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University

Title: Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Recipient: Stuart J. Kaufman, University of Delaware

Title: Nationalist Passions. Cornell University Press, 2015

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: David Redlawsk, Rutgers University; Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College; Michael Tesler, University of California, Irvine

Recipients: Eric Groenendyk, University of Memphis and Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University

Title: “What Motivates Reasoning? A Goal-Oriented Theory of Political Evaluation”

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year.

Award Committee: Zoe Oxley, Union College; Elizabeth Suhay, American University; Timothy Ryan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recipient: Eun Bin Chung, University of Utah

Title: “Overcoming the History Problem: Group-Affirmation in International Relations”

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: Casey Klofstad, University of Miami; Monica Schneider, Miami University; Cengiz Erisen, TOBB University of Economics and Technology

Recipients: Matthew Ward, University of Houston; D.J. Flynn, Northwestern University; Tarah Williams, University of Illinois

Craig L. Brians Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Mentorship

Established in 2014, this award will be awarded annually at the Teaching and Learning Conference, with recognition also given at the APSA annual Political Science Education Section reception.

Award Committee: Victor Asal, Chair, University at Albany, SUNY; Mitchell Brown, Auburn University; Steve Greene, North Carolina State University

Recipients: Elizabeth Matto, Rutgers University and Jeffrey Fine, Clemson University

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a person whose lifetime contribution to political science have had a significant impact on undergraduate education.

Award Committee: Sherri L. Wallace, Chair, University of Louisville; Patrick McKinlay, Morningside College; Joseph Roberts, Roger Williams University; Victor Asal, University at Albany, SUNY; Terry Gilmour, Midland College; Bobbi Gentry, Bridgewater College; Ex-Officio: Renee Van Vechten, University of the Redlands

Recipient: Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida

Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award

The Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Claudia Franziska Brühwiler, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland; Davide Panagia, University of California, Los Angeles; Carl Scott, Utah Valley University; Ann Ward, University of Regina, Canada

Recipient: Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan

Title: “Save Our City: The Curious Absence of Aeschylus in Modern Political Thought.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015

Distinguished Scholar Award

Recognizes a history of distinguished scholarship in the field of foreign policy.

Award Committee: Cameron Thies, Arizona State University; Susan Allen, University of Mississippi; James Scott, Texas Christian University

Recipient: Robert Jervis, Columbia University

Best Paper Award

Recognizes the best paper on foreign policy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Desha Girod, Georgetown University; Alexandra Guisinger, Temple University; Elizabeth Saunders, George Washington University

Recipient: Danielle Lupton, Colgate University

Title: “Military Experience and Congressional Oversight of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq”

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: Bridget Coggins, University of California, Santa Barbara; Dennis Foster, Virginia Military Institute; Brendan Green, University of Cincinnati

Recipient: Mark Bell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “What Do Nuclear Weapons Offer States? A Theory of State Foreign Policy Response to Nuclear Acquisition”

Recipient: Lina Benabdallah, University of Florida

Title: “Emerging Powers as Socializers: Examining Norm Diffusion and Knowledge Production in China’s Security Strategy.”

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: Cindy Kam, Chair, Vanderbilt University; Ted Brader, University of Michigan; Robert Van Houweling, University of California, Berkeley

Recipient: John Aldrich, Duke University

Philip E. Converse Best Book Award

The Philip E. Converse Best Book Award is given for an outstanding book in the field published at least five years before.

Award Committee: Tatishe Nteta, Chair, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; William Bianco, Indiana University; John Ryan, Stony Brook University

Recipients: Marc Hetherington, Vanderbilt University and Jonathan Weiler, University of North Carolina

Title: Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2009

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: Cherie Maestas, Chair, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Steve Nicholson, University of California, Merced; Mark Peffley, University of Kentucky

Recipients: Yanna Krupnikov, Stonybrook University and Neil Malhotra, Stanford University

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper delivered at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Anand Sokhey, Chair, University of Colorado; Jessica Preece, Brigham Young University, Adam Levine, Cornell University

Recipients: David A.M. Peterson, Iowa State University; Kyle Saunders, Colorado State University; Scott McClurg, Southern Illinois University; Joanne Miller, University of Minnesota

Title: “Macrointerest: The Public as Attentive Gods of Vengeance but Lazy Gods of Reward (with Apologies to V.O. Key)”

Best Article in Political Behavior Award

This award is for the best article published in Political Behavior in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: David Peterson, Chair, Iowa State University; Nichole Bauer, University of Alabama; Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of Texas at Austin

Recipient: Cecelia Mo, Vanderbilt University

Title: “The Consequences of Explicit and Implicit Gender Attitudes and Candidate Quality in the Calculation of Voters.”

Best Book Award for Race Relations in the United States

The Best Book Award is given for the best book in the field of race, ethnicity, and politics.

Award Committee: Natasha Altema McNeely, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Ivy Cargile, California State University Bakersfield; Tony Affigne, Providence College

Recipient: Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs. Cambridge University Press

Recipient: Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine

Title: Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age. Cambridge University Press

Recipient: Christopher T. Stout, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Title: Bringing Race Back In: Black Politicians, Deracialization, and Voting Behavior in the Age of Obama. University of Virginia Press

Recipient: Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, Wake Forest University

Title: Partners or Rivals? Power and Latino, Black, and White Relations in the Twenty-First Century. University of Virginia Press

Left: Alison McCartney, Towson University; Elizabeth Bennion, Indiana University, South Bend; and Mitchell Brown, Auburn University chat at the Reception Honoring Teaching on Friday evening.

Jervis and Schroeder Best Book Award

This award may be granted to a single- 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 Annual Meeting at which the award is presented. The copyright date of a book will establish the relevant year.

Award Committee: Jonathan Kirshner, Chair, Cornell University; Stacie Goddard, Wellesley College; Erik Grynaviski, George Washington University

Recipients: Andrew Phillips, University of Queensland and Jason Sharman, Griffith University, Queensland

Title: International Order in Diversity: War, Trade, and Rule in the Indian Ocean. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Recipient: Ronald Krebs, University of Minnesota

Title: Narrative and the Making of US National Security. Cambridge University Press, 2015

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 Annual 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: Henry Nau, Chair, George Washington University; Hyon Joo Yoo, Trinity University; Jeff Colgan, Brown University

Recipients: Andrew Phillips, University of Queensland and Jason Sharman, Griffith University, Queensland

Title: “Explaining Durable Diversity in International Systems: State, Company, and Empire in the Indian Ocean” International Studies Quarterly (2015) 59: 436–448

Honorable Mention: Michael Beckley, Tufts University

Title: “The Myth of Entangling Alliances: Reassessing the Security Risks of US Defense Pacts” International Security 39 (4): 7–48

Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award

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.

Award Committee: Henry Thomson, Nuffield College, University of Oxford; Mai Hassan, University of Michigan; Christian von Soest, German Institute of Global and Area Studies

Above: Sean Twombly, Executive Director, Pi Sigma Alpha, speaks to an attendee at the Reception Honoring Teaching. Every year, Pi Sigma Alpha supports Campus Teaching Awards that recognize excellence in teaching political science around the country.

Recipient: Bryn Rosenfeld, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Title: “Varieties of Middle Class Growth and Democratic Preference Formation”

Best Book Award

Given for the best book in the field of Comparative Democratization published in 2015 (authored, coauthored, or edited).

Award Committee: Kurt Weyland, University of Texas at Austin; Sheena Chestnut Greitens, University of Missouri; Rachel Beatty Riedl, Sciences Po Bordeaux

Recipient: Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University

Title: Changing Course in Latin America: Party Systems in the Neoliberal Era. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Best Article Award

Single-authored or co-authored articles focusing directly on the subject of democratization and published in 2015 are eligible.

Award Committee: Jordan Gans-Morse, Northwestern University; Sebastian Mazzuca, Johns Hopkins University; Simeon Nichter, University of California, San Diego

Recipient: Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “Income, Democracy, and Leader Turnover” American Journal of Political Science 59 (4): 927–942

Best Field Work Award

This prize rewards dissertation students who conduct especially innovative and difficult fieldwork. Scholars who are currently writing their dissertations or who complete their dissertations in 2015 are eligible.

Award Committee: Barry Driscoll, Grinnell College; Michael Broache, University of Tampa; Colm Fox, Singapore Management University

Recipient: Pia Raffler, Yale University

Title: “Bureaucrats versus Politicians: A Field Experiment on Political Oversight and Local Public Service Provision”

Recipient: Kathleen Klaus, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: “Claiming Land: Institutions, Narratives, and Political Violence in Kenya”

Best Paper Award

Given to the best paper on comparative democratization presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting. Papers must be nominated by panel chairs or discussants.

Award Committee: Kenneth F. Greene, University of Texas at Austin; Allen Hicken, University of Michigan; Edmund Malesky, Duke University

Recipient: Anne Meng, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Ruling Parties in Authoritarian Regimes: A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change”

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 introduce specific 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: Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University; Katerina Linos, University of California at Berkeley; Craig Parsons, University of Oregon

Recipient: Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota

Title: Narrative and the Making of US National Security. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Honorable Mention: Anna Grzymała-Busse, University of Michigan

Title: Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy. Princeton University Press, 2015

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: Carolyn Warner, Arizona State University; Sarah Parkinson, University of Minnesota; Jonathan Mercer, University of Washington

Recipients: Thomas Rixen, University of Bamberg and Lora Anne Viola, Free University of Berlin

Title: “Putting Path Dependence in its Place: Toward a Taxonomy of Institutional Change” Journal of Theoretical Politics 27 (2): 301–323

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 to a paper presented at the previous Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Award Committee: Rasmus Brun Pedersen, Aarhus University; Ramazan Kilinc, University of Omaha; Daniel Beland, University of Saskatchewan

Recipients: Erica S. Simmons, University of Wisconsin–Madison and Nicholas Rush Smith, City University of New York – City College

Title: “Comparison and Ethnography: What Each Can Learn from the Other”

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 mid-career political scientist to recognize distinction in methodological publications, innovative application of qualitative and multi-method approaches in substantive research, and/or institutional contributions to this area of methodology.

Award Committee: Peter Hall, Harvard University; Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago; John Gerring, Boston University; James Mahoney, Northwestern University

Recipient: Lauren Mathews Morris MacLean, Indiana University

Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper Award

The Best Conference Paper Award recognizes the best paper exploring sexuality and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Helma de Vries-Jordan, Chair, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford; Julie Moreau, Northern Arizona University; Drew Walker, Brown University

Recipients: Joseph J. Fischel, Yale University and Hilary R. O’Connell, AccessMatters.Org

Title: “Disabling Consent, or Reconstructing Sexual Autonomy” Columbia Journal of Gender Equality 30 (2), 2015

Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation on sexuality and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous two calendar years.

Award Committee: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Chair, University of California, Irvine; Jeremiah Garretson, California State University at East Bay; Bogdan Popa, Oberlin College

Recipient: Satoko Itani, University of Toronto

Title: “Japanese Female and ‘Trans’ Athletes: Negotiating Subjectivity and Media Constructions of Gender, Sexuality, and Nation.” University of Toronto, 2015

Recipient: Carly Thomsen, University of California, Santa Barbara

Title: “Unbecoming: Visibility Politics and Queer Rurality.” University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014

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: Shanna Rose, Claremont McKenna College; James Brasfield, Webster University; Miriam Laugeson, Columbia University

Recipients: Lawrence R. Jacobs, University of Minnesota and Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University

Title: “The Contingency of Policy Feedback Effects: How Policy Features Interact with Political Conditions and Motivations to Shape Public Opinion”

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: Frank J. Thompson, Rutgers University, Newark; Michael S. Sparer, Columbia University; Sarah Gollust, University of Minnesota; Bert Rockman, Purdue University; Karen Baird, SUNY at Purchase; David Jones, Boston University; Shanna Rose, Claremont McKenna College

Recipient: Bruce C. Vladeck, Nexera, Inc.

Mildred Schwartz Lifetime Achievement

The Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes scholarship and leadership in bringing the study of Canadian politics to the international political science community.

Award Committee: Scott Matthews, Chair, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Kent Weaver, Georgetown University; Denis Saint Martin, University of Montreal; Anthony Sayers, University of Calgary; Mildred Schwartz, University of Illinois, Chicago

Recipient: Keith Banting, Queen’s University

Political Ties Award

This award is given on a biennial basis to the best article published on political networks.

Award Committee: Pablo Barberá, New York University; Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth University; Jacob Montgomery, Washington University in St. Louis

Recipients: Skyler J. Cranmer, Ohio State University; Elizabeth J. Menninga, University of Iowa; Peter J. Mucha, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title: “Kantian fractionalization predicts the conflict propensity of the international system” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (38)

Best Conference Paper Award

This award is 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: Samara Klar, University of Arizona; Philip Leifeld, University of Glasgow; Skylar Cranmer, Ohio State

Recipients: Jennifer M. Larson, New York University and Janet I. Lewis, US Naval Academy

Title: “Ethnic Networks.” APSA Annual Meeting 2015

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.

Award Committee: Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, University of Pennsylvania; Jungmoo Woo, University of Kentucky

Recipient: Mia Costa, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Title: “Sharing Constituencies: Polarization and Representation in the Extended Party Network.” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2016

Best Book Award

The best book award is given on a biennial basis to the best book published on political networks.

Award Committee: Justin Gross, Chair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Gwen Arnold, University of California, Davis; Sarah Parkinson, University of Minnesota

Recipient: Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland, College Park

Title: Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award recognizes a paper that was scheduled to be presented at APSA and features experimental research.

Award Committee: Josh Kertzer, Harvard University; Jeff Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University; Sean Westwood, Dartmouth College

Recipients: David Broockman, Stanford University and Daniel Butler, Washington University

Title: “The Causal Effects of Elite Position-Taking on Voter Attitudes: Field Experiments with Elite Communication”

Robert Huckfeldt, University of California, Davis, delivers the Ithiel de Sola Pool Lecture on Saturday. Given every three years, the award and lecture recognizes a scholar whose research covers a broad range of fields.

Best Book Award

The Best Book Award recognizes the best book published in 2015 that either uses or is about experimental research methods in the study of politics.

Award Committee: Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University; Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University; Daniel Butler, Washington University

Recipient: Adam Seth Levine, Cornell University

Title: American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction. Princeton University Press 2015

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation completed in calendar year 2015 that utilizes experimental methods on substantive questions about politics or makes a fundamental contribution to experimental methods.

Award Committee: Jonathan M. Ladd, Georgetown University; Antoine Banks, University of Maryland; Kathleen Searles, Lousiana State University

Recipient: Eun Bin Chung, Ohio State University

Title: “Overcoming the History Problem: Group-Affirmation in International Relations”

Public Service Award

Many experiments only occur thanks to the assistance of non-researchers who provide access to resources and data. This award recognizes a special form of public service: the facilitation of randomized experiments in political science by those outside the academy.

Award Committee: Melissa R. Michelson, Menlo College; Samara Klar, University of Arizona; Kristin Kanthak, University of Pittsburgh

Recipient: Dave Fleischer, Leadership Lab of the Los Angeles LGBT Center

Best Paper Award

Award for best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented at the previous APSA Annual Meeting (either as part of a panel or poster session).

Award Committee: James Hollifield, Chair, Southern Methodist University; Mara Sidney, Rutgers University; Fiona Adamson, University of London

Recipients: Antje Ellermann, University of British Columbia and Agustin Goenaga Orrego, Lund University

Title: “Race, Gender, Class, Disability, and the Ethics of Immigrant Selection”

Best Dissertation Award

Award for best dissertation on migration and/or citizenship accepted in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: David FitzGerald, Chair, University of California, San Diego; Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley; Helen Marrow, Tufts University

Recipient: Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of London

Title: “Trading People, Consolidating Power: Emigration and Authoritarianism in Modern Egypt”

Recipient: Daisy Kim, Johns Hopkins University

Title: “Bargaining Citizenship: Women’s Organizations, the State, and Marriage Migrants in South Korea”

Best Article Award

Award for best article on migration and/or citizenship accepted in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Julie Novkov, Chair, University of Albany, SUNY; Maria Koinova, University of Warwick; Cara Wong, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Recipient: Sara Goodman, University of California, Irvine

Title: “Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizenship and Integration Policy: Past Lessons and New Approaches” Comparative Political Studies 48, 2015

Best Book Award

Best Book Award for the best book on migration and/or citizenship published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Jacqueline Stevens, Chair, Northwestern University; Elizabeth Cohen, Syracuse University; H. Richard Friman, Marquette University

Recipient: Leila Kawar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Title: Contesting Immigration Policy in Court: Legal Activism and Its Radiating Effects in the United States and France. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Best Paper Award

Awarded to the best paper presented on the topic of economic or social class inequality at the American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Jacob Hacker, Yale University; Peter Enns, Cornell University; Martin Gilens, Princeton University

Recipient: Eleanor Neff Powell, University of Wisconsin

Title: “Legislative Consequences of Fundraising Influence”

Recipients: Tali Mendelberg, Katherine McCabe, and Adam Thal, Princeton University

Title: “The Rich are Different from You and Me: How Wealthy Student Bodies Foster Economically Conservative Students”