SPOTLIGHTS Norris Awarded Karl Deutsch Award
In July 2014, Pippa Norris was awarded the 2014 Karl Deutsch Award. The Karl Deutsch Award honors a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research of which Karl Deutsch was a master. The award is made on the recommendation of the Committee on Awards. It is supported by the Karl Deutsch fund.
Pippa Norris is a comparative political scientist. She serves as the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Laureate Research Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Electoral Integrity Project.
Since 1997 Norris has been active in APSA activities ranging from Program Committee Women and Politics Research section; APSA Council Member to Vice President, Elections, Public Opinion Secrion, and member of the APSA Taskforce on Democratic Indices. Her research compares elections and public opinion, democratic institutions and cultures, gender politics, and political communications in countries worldwide. She currently directs a six-year research project, www.electoralintegrityproject.com, funded by the Australian Research Council.
Professor Pippa Norris (left) receives the Karl Deutsch Award certificate from Professor Theresa Sasinska-Klas, IPSA Vice President for Europe and Africa, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland (right) at the IPSA World Congress in Montreal. Photo by Paul Labelle.
Previous honors include the 2011 Johan Skytte prize in political science, with Ronald Inglehart, the 2011 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council, a “special recognition” award by the UK Political Science Association, and a Doctor honoris causa by the University of Edinburgh. Book awards include the 2006 Doris A. Graber award for the best book in political communications (for A Virtuous Circle) and the Virginia Hodgkinson prize from the Independent Sector (for Sacred and Secular).
A well-known public speaker and prolific author, she has also directed Democratic Governance at the UNDP in New York and served as an expert consultant for many other international organizations, including the OSCE, World Bank, UNESCO, NDI, and UN Women.
She has published more than 40 books including, in 2014, Why Electoral Integrity Matters (Cambridge University Press), Advancing Electoral Integrity edited with Richard W. Frank and Ferran Martínez i Coma (Oxford University Press) and Comparing Democracies edited with Lawrence LeDuc and Richard Niemi (4th edition, Sage Publications). Details are at www.pippanorris.com .
Norris presented the Karl Deutsch lecture Wednesday, July 23, at the IPSA World Congress of Political Science in Montréal, Canada.
Signé Promotion
Landry Signé, who was educated in Cameroon and France before earning his PhD in political science with an award of excellence at the University of Montreal, joined the department of political science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage (UAA) as a tenure-track assistant professor in August 2013. Prior to joining the faculty at UAA, he was a Banting Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, 2011–13. As founder and chair of the award-winning Global Network for Africa’s Prosperity (GNAP), his research focuses on the evolution of 48 sub-Saharan political regimes and economies, exploring trajectories to help public- and private-sector leaders address African challenges.
During his first year at UAA, Signé won the 2014 Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the 2014 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity. He also won the 2014 Quebec Government’s Claude Masson Award for exceptional national and international engagements and contributions, the 2013 Stanford University Recognition Award for Exceptional Contributions to the Postdoctoral Community, and a 2013 award from the Governor General of Canada for exceptional contributions to Canada. His latest book, Le NEPAD et les institutions financières internationales en Afrique au 21e siècle [NEPAD and International Financial Institutions in Africa of the 21st Century] (L’Harmattan, 2013), received the Best International Book Award from TOUKI, Montreal.
Hayhoe Selected “One of the Hundred Most Influential People” by Time
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist who teaches climate and science policy in the department of political science at Texas Tech University, was selected by the editors of Time for the 2014 TIME 100, that magazine’s annual list of the “…hundred most influential people in the world.” Hayhoe joined the Department of Political Science in the fall of 2011, where she teaches in the department’s Public Administration program and serves as Texas Tech University’s campus director of the South Central Climate Science Center, part of the national Climate Science Center Network established by the Department of the Interior. She has over 100 refereed publications and has contributed extensively to such notable government reports as the third National Climate Assessment (NCA3) recently released by the Obama Administration. This third Assessment was the product of the US Global Change Research Program, a consortium of 13 federal departments and agencies that were overseen by a 60-member federal advisory panel. Hayhoe’s research focuses on developing and applying high-resolution climate projections to evaluate the future impacts of climate change on human society and the natural environment. Her work has assisted numerous cities, states and countries plan for the climate related challenges they will face in planning for the future. Notable examples of her work include climate risk assessments for the City of Chicago, the state of Delaware, and the state of California.
Kenney Tapped Vice Provost and Dean at ASU
Patrick Kenney, a professor of political science, founding director of the School of Politics and Global Studies and director of The Institute for Social Science Research, has been appointed university vice provost and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.
“ASU is a venue for educational discourse related to politics and society, and an incubator for discovery and development that helps students to be socially aware citizens capable of thinking critically,” said ASU President Michael M. Crow. “Patrick Kenney’s 12 years of leadership at ASU and exceptional grounding in research and social sciences position him perfectly to offer the guidance necessary to advance ASU’s largest unit and develop the educational and research underpinnings needed to address the complex challenges facing our society.”
Kenney assumes the leadership role held previously by Robert E. Page, Jr., ASU provost and Foundation Chair of Life Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
“Over the last 28 years, Professor Kenney empowered ASU faculty and students, opened new lines of discovery, and boosted research productivity in social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences,” said Page. “His ability to advance and embrace diversity and communicate across all disciplines will serve the university well.”
Kenney’s research focuses on campaigns, elections, and voting behavior. He joined ASU’s department of political science in 1986 and was named chair in 2002. He became the director of the Institute for Social Science Research in 2010. Under his leadership, ASU’s School of Political and Global Studies was founded, fusing and redefining the study of politics, philosophy, culture, law, science, and global engagement.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects 2014 Members
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 204 new members. They include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders.
The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on October 11, 2014, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The list of the 204 new members is located at https://www.amacad.org/members. In Section 3, Political Science, International Relations, and Public Policy, six individuals were honored, including these APSA members.
Charles M. Cameron is professor of politics and public affairs, and codirector of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, at Princeton University. He specializes in the analysis of political institutions, particularly courts and law, the American presidency, and legislatures. His work often combines game theory and quantitative methods, and sometimes historical materials. The author of numerous articles in leading political science journals, he is also the author of Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power (Cambridge University Press, 2000) which won APSA’s Fenno Prize, for best book in legislative studies, and William Riker Award, as best book in political economy. A recipient of multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, he has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a visiting scholar at Princeton’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, and has a recurrent visiting affiliation as professor at New York University School of Law. Before joining the faculty of Princeton, he taught for 15 years at Columbia University. He holds the MPA and PhD (public affairs) from Princeton University.
Robert Huckfeldt, University of California, Davis, is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Davis and director of the University of California Center Sacramento. His primary research interests lie in participation, communication, and decision making. The unifying focus of his work is on individuals who are imbedded within social contexts and connected to one another through networks of communication. He has carried out studies of urban neighborhoods, national election studies, comparative studies of urban areas, and cross-national election studies, as well as experimental studies and dynamic simulations of political processes. He is currently engaged in a study of political expertise within communication networks and the potential for individual level expertise to enhance the decision-making capacity of aggregate populations. This project involves survey analysis, group-based experiments, and agent-based models. He is the author or coauthor of Politics in Context; Race and the Decline of Class in American Politics; Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication; Political Disagreement; Experts, Activists, and Interdependent Citizens; and a series of research articles.
He is the past president of the Midwest Political Science Association; past president of the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the APSA; and the past chair of the Political Networks Section of APSA He received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis.
Shanto Iyengar holds the Chandler Chair in Communication at Stanford University where he is also professor of political science and director of the Political Communication Laboratory. Iyengar’s areas of expertise include the role of mass media in democratic societies, public opinion, and political psychology. Iyengar’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Ford Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Hewlett Foundation. He is the recipient of several professional awards including the Philip Converse Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book in the field of public opinion, the Murray Edelman Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University. Iyengar is author or coauthor of several books, including News That Matters (University of Chicago Press, 1987), Is Anyone Responsible? (University of Chicago Press, 1991), Explorations in Political Psychology (Duke University Press, 1995), Going Negative (Free Press, 1995), and Media Politics: A Citizen’s Guide (Norton, 2011).
Paula D. McClain, Duke University, is a professor of political science and public policy and dean of The Graduate School and vice provost for Graduate Education.
She directs APSA’s Ralph Bunche Summer Institute hosted by Duke University, and funded by the National Science Foundation and Duke University. A Howard University PhD, her primary research interests are in racial minority group politics, particularly inter-minority political and social competition, and urban politics, especially public policy and urban crime. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals, most recently the Journal of Politics, American Political Science Review, Urban Affairs Review, and The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race.
Her publications include American Government in Black and White, 2nd edition, coauthored with Steven C. Tauber. (Oxford University Press, 2014) and “Can We All Get Along?” Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, 6th edition, coauthored with Joseph Stewart, Jr. (Westview Press, 2014).
Carter Selected as a 2014 Piper Professor
Ralph Carter is a 2014 recipient of the PiperProfessor Award. The Piper Professor Program was established by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation in 1958 to recognize outstanding achievement in theteaching profession in colleges and universities in Texas.
Carter has taught in the political science department at TCU since 1982 and has consistently been recognized for his exemplary teaching and service. “Dr. Carter personifies the very essence of a talented teacher-scholar,” said Joanne Green, chair of the political science department. “He is innovative in the classroom and continues to grow and develop as a gifted teacher, mentor and scholar, even after 35 years in the field. Ralph is a role model for us all.”
While Carter remains an active scholar—contributing regularly to academic journals and publishing his own works, including the newly published Essentials of U.S. Foreign Policy Making—he is recognized for his dedication to teaching and interacting with students.
“The best part of my day is the time spent in class or meeting with students. I truly enjoy it,” Carter said. “They deserve our best efforts.”
Carter teaches a number of courses on foreign policy and international politics at all levels, from “Introduction to Political Science” to specialized courses for the Masters of Liberal Arts program. In 2006, he was awarded the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association, and in 2012 he was named as one of The Best 300 Professors in the United States by The Princeton Review.
James D. Morrow is research professor in the Center of Political Studies at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Morrow’s research addresses theories of international politics, both the logical development and empirical testing of such theories. He is best known for pioneering the application of noncooperative game theory, drawn from economics, to international politics. His published work covers crisis bargaining, the causes of war, military alliances, arms races, power transition theory, links between international trade and conflict, the role of international institutions, and domestic politics and foreign policy.
Morrow’s current research addresses the effects of norms on international politics. The latter project examines the laws of war in detail as an example of such norms.
Morrow has written two books, The Logic of Political Survival, coauthored with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, and Randolph M. Siverson, and Game Theory for Political Scientists. He has also published 30 articles in refereed journals and 18 other papers.
He received the Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association in 1994. He is a member of the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Economics of Governance. Morrow served on the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Political Science from 1995 to 1997.
