Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award

Recognizes a lifetime of contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.

Award Committee: Chair: Sean Nicholson-Crotty, University of Missouri; Jennifer Jensen, Binghamton University, SUNY; Robert Dilger, Congressional Research Service

Recipient: Michael Pagano, University of Illinois at Chicago

Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award

Presented to the author of the best paper on federalism and intergovernmental relations presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Douglas Brown, Saint Francis Xavier University; David Konisky, Georgetown University; Juliet Gainsborough, Bentley University

Recipients: Timothy Conlan, George Mason University; Paul L. Posner, George Mason University

Title: “Inflection Point? Federalism and the Obama Administration”

Martha Derthick Book Award

Presented to the author of a book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.Award Committee: Chair: Sandra Vergari, University at Albany, SUNY; Matthew Bosworth, Winona State University; Dan Palazzola, University of Richmond

Recipient: Alice Rivlin, The Brookings Institution

Title: Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States, and the Federal Government (Brookings Institution Press, 1992)

Lasting Contribution Award

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: Chair: James L. Gibson, Washington University; Ryan C. Black, Michigan State University; Jonathan Kastellec, Princeton University; Doris Marie Provine, Arizona State University; Donald R. Songer, University of South Carolina

Recipients: William Felstiner, University of California, Santa Barbara; Richard Abel, University of California, Los Angeles; Austin Sarat, Amherst College

Title: “The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming” (Law and Society Review 15: 631-654, 1981

C. Herman Pritchett Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Forrest Maltzman, George Washington University; Eileen Braman, Indiana University; Michael W. McCann, University of Washington

Recipient: Sean Farhang, University of California, Berkeley

Title: The Litigation State (Princeton University Press, 2010)

Honorable Mention: Michael Paris, College of Staten Island (CUNY)

Honorable Mention Title: Framing Equal Opportunity: Law and Politics of School Finance Reform (Stanford University Press, 2010)

Honorable Mention: Jeffrey K. Staton, Emory University

Honorable Mention Title: Judicial Power and Strategic Communication in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Best Graduate Student Paper

For the best paper on law and courts written by a graduate student.

Award Committee: Chair: Virginia A. Hettinger, University of Connecticut; Paul Collins, University of North Texas; Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania

Recipient: Douglas Rice, Pennsylvania State University

Title: “The Impact of Supreme Court Activity on the Judicial Agenda: Calling to Action or Settling the Law” (Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, 2010)

Honorable Mention: Dominic J. Nardi, Jr, University of Michigan

Honorable Mention Title: “Why Do Dictators Rule by Law? A Cross-National Study of Judicial Empowerment under Authoritarian Regimes,” (Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on Democracy & Governance, University of Connecticut, 2010)

Lifetime Achievement Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Jeffrey Segal, Stony Brook University; Paul Brace, Rice University; Herbert M. Kritzer, University of Minnesota; Isaac Unah, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Teena Wilhelm, University of Georgia

Recipient: James L. Gibson, Washington University of Saint Louis

Teaching and Mentoring Award

Recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts.

Award Committee: Chair: Richard A. Brisbin, Jr., West Virginia University; Damon M. Cann, Utah State University; Lief Carter, Colorado College; Laura P. Moyer, Louisiana State University; Matthew J. Streb, Northern Illinois University

Recipient: Milton Heumann, Rutgers University

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: Chair: Stacia L. Haynie, Louisiana State University; Thomas G. Hansford, University of California Merced; Reginald S. Sheehan, Michigan State University

Recipients: Tom S. Clark, Emory University; Benjamin Lauderdale, Princeton University

Title: “Locating Supreme Court Opinions in Doctrine Space” (American Journal of Political Science, 54 (October) 871-890, 2010)

Best Conference Paper

For the best paper on law and courts presented at the previous year's annual meetings of the American, International, and regional political science associations.

Award Committee: Chair: Susan Haire, University of Georgia; Brandon L. Bartels, George Washington University; Georg Vanberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recipients: Stefanie A. Lindquist, University of Texas at Austin; Pamela C. Corley, Vanderbilt University

Title: State Courts, State Legislatures, and United States Supreme Court Review (2010 APSA Annual Meeting)

Honorable Mention: Clifford J. Carrubba, Emory University; Tom S. Clark, Emory University

Honorable Mention Title: Rule Creation in a Political Herarchy (2010 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting)

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 infrastructures, represent the media, etc.Award Committee: Chair: Kirk A. Randazzo, University of South Carolina; Pamela C. Corley, Vanderbilt University; David S. Law, Washington University; Kevin T. McGuire, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Julie Novkov, University at Albany SUNY

Recipient: Wayne McIntosh, University of Maryland

Alan Rosenthal Prize

For the best book or article in legislative studies written by a junior scholar that has potential value to legislative practitioners.

Award Committee: Chair: Colleen J. Shogan, Congressional Research Service; Craig Goodman, Texas Tech University; Susan J. Carroll, Rutgers University

Recipient: Kristina Miler, University of Maryland

Title: Constituency Representation in Congress (Cambridge University Press 2010)

CQ Press Award

For the best paper on legislative studies that was presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the APSA.

Award Committee: Chair: Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, University of Missouri, Columbia; Christian R. Grose, University of Southern California; Christopher Z. Mooney University of Illinois, Springfield

Recipients: Sean Theriault, University of Texas; David Rohde, Duke University

Title: “The Gingrich Senators and Their Effect on the U.S. Senate” (2010 APSA Annual Meeting)

Carl Albert Dissertation Award

For the best doctoral disseration in the area of legislative studies. Topics may be national or subnational in focus-on Congress, parliaments, state legislatures, or other representative bodies.

Award Committee: Chair: Alan E. Wiseman, Vanderbilt University; Patrick J. Egan, New York University; Elizabeth A. Oldmixon, University of North Texas

Recipient: Amber Wichowsky, Marquette University

Title: “The Competition Cure? The Consequences of Completive Congressional Elections” (University of Wisconsin, Madison 2010)

Jewell-Loewenburg Award

For best article in the Legislative Studies Quarterly in the previous year (2010).

Award Committee: Chair: Scott R. Meinke, Bucknell University; L. Marvin Overby, University of Missouri, Columbia; Sebastian M. Saiegh, University of California, San Diego

Recipients: Matthew S. Levendusky, University of Pennsylvania; Jeremy C. Pope, Brigham Young University

Title: “Measuring Aggregate-Level Ideological Heterogeneity” Legislative Studies Quarterly 35 (2) 259-282. 2010

Richard F. Fenno Prize

For the best book in legislative studies published in 2010.

Award Committee: Chair: Frances E. Lee, University of Maryland; Georg Vanberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Lynda W. Powell, University of Rochester

Recipient: Gregory Koger, University of Miami

Title: Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate (University of Chicago Press 2010)

Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award

For the best book or article published in the general area of public policy during the past twenty plus years.

Award Committee: Chair: Paul Quirk, University of British Columbia; Cathy Johnson, Williams College; Sven Steinmo, European University Institute

Recipient: Paul Pierson, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics,” (American Political Science Review 94 (2) June 2000 251-267)

Excellence in Mentoring Award

To recognize sustained efforts by a senior scholars to encourage and facilitate the career of emerging political scientists in the field of public policy.

Award Committee: Chair: Joseph McCormick, Pennsylvania State University; Craig Volden, Ohio State University; Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, University of North Carolina

Recipient: Bryan Jones, University of Texas at Austin

Best Paper

For the best paper on Public Policy given at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Joe Soss, University of Minnesota; Khalilah Brown-Dean, Yale University; Margaret Weir, University of California, Berkeley

Recipients: Susan L. Moffitt, Brown University; David K. Cohen, University of Michigan

Title: “The Politics of Bad News: Politics, Policy and Practice in K–12 Education”

Theodore J. Lowi Policy Studies Best Article Award

To recognize an article of particular distinction published at any time in Policy Studies Journal.

Award Committee: Chair: David Meyer, University of California, Irvine; Robert Rich, University of Illinois, Chicago; Patricia Strach, University at Albany, SUNY

Recipients: William T. Gormley Jr., Georgetown University; Deborah Phillips, Georgetown University; Shirley Adelstein, Georgetown University; Catherine Snow, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Title: “Head Start's Comparative Advantage: Myth or Reality”? (Policy Studies Journal 38 (3) August 2010: 397-418)

Best Comparative Policy Paper Award

To recognize an article of particular distinction published in the area of comparative public policy, awarded in collaboration with the International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum/Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.

Award Committee: Chairs: Peter May, University of Washington; Iris Geva-May, Simon Fraser University; Louise Comfort, University of Pittsburgh; Alan Jacobs, University of British Columbia; David Levi-Faur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Sarah Pralle, Syracuse University

Recipients: Shaun Bevan, Pennsylvania State University; Will Jennings, University of Manchester

Title: “Opinion-Responsiveness of Governing Agendas in the US and the UK: Institutional Filtering of Issue Priorities of the Public” (2010 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC)

Best Poster on Public Policy Award

For the best paper or poster presented at the poster session at the previous APSA meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Carolyn Tuohy, University of Toronto; Scott Allard, University of Chicago; Doug Imig, University of Memphis

Recipient: Lindsay Flynn, University of Virginia

Title: “The Work-Family Tradeoff: How Some Countries are Managing Better than Others” 2010 APSA Annual Meeting in Washington DC

Emerging Scholars Award

Awarded to a scholar who has received his or her PhD within the last seven (7) years and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.

Award Committee: Chair: Beth Leech, Rutgers University; James Adams, University of California, Davis; David Karol, American University;

Recipient: Christine Mahoney, University of Virginia

Jack Walker Award

This award honors an article published in the last two calendar years thta makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

Award Committee: Chair: Duane Swank, Marquette University; Raymond J. La Raja; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Cathy Jo Martin, Boston University;

Recipient: Guillermo Trejo, Duke University

Title: “Religion Competition and Ethnic Mobilization in Latin America: Why the Catholic Church Promotes Indigenous Movements in Mexico” American Political Science Review 103 (3): 323-342

Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Byron E. Shafer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Frank Baumgartner, University of North Carolina; Amy McKay, Georgia State University;

Recipient: David R. Mayhew, Yale University

Title: Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don't Kill the U.S. Constitutional System (Princeton University Press, 2011)

Best POP Paper/Party Politics Award

Honors the best paper presented on a POP panel at the preceding APSA annual meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Dara Strolovitch, University of Minnesota; Ronald Hrebenar, University of Utah; Seth Masket, University of Denver;

Recipients: Lee Drutman, The Progressive Policy Institute; Daniel Hopkins, Georgetown University

Title: “The Inside View: Using the Enron Email Archive to Understand Business Lobbying,” 2010 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC

Samuel J. Eldersveld Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: David Rohde, Duke University; Scott Ainsworth, University of Georgia; Paul Allen Beck, Ohio State University:

Recipient: Frank R. Baumgartner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Herbert Kaufman Award

For the best paper presented on a panel sponsored by the Public Administration section at the 2010 APSA Annual Meeting in Washington DC.

Award Committee: Chair: Jeff Brudney, Cleveland State University; Jared Llorens, Louisiana State University; Rick Kearney, North Carolina State University

Recipient: Kenneth Meier, Texas A&M University; Larry O'Toole, University of Georgia

Title: “Organizational Performance: Measurement Theory and a Application Or, Common Source Bias, the Achilles Heel of Public Management Research”

Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant

Awarded to a junior scholar researching public administration issues affecting governance in the United States and abroad.

Award Committee: Chair: Sally Selden, Lynchburg College; Sharon Mastracci, University of Illinois, Chicago; Amanda Girth, American University

Recipient: William Resh, student at American University, Assistant Professor at Indiana University Fall 2011

Title: “Political Control, Managerial trustworthiness, and Active Dyadic Trust; Antecedents of Intellectual Capital and Bureaucratic Discretion in Federal Agencies”

George H. Hallet Award

For a book, at least ten years old, that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems.

Award Committee: Josep Colomer, Georgetown University (Chair); Bernard Grofman, University of California, Irvine; Alan Renwick, University of Reading UK

Recipient: Anthony Downs, The Brookings Institution

Title: Economic Theory of Democracy (Addison Wesley, 1997)

Lawrence Longley Award

For the best article on representation and electoral systems published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Matt Golder, Pennsylvania State University (Chair); Garrett Glasgow, University of California, Santa Barbara; Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, University of Missouri

Recipient: David Stasavage, New York University

Title: “When Distance Mattered. Geographic Scale and the Development of European Representative Assemblies.” APSR 104; 625-643.

Founder's Award named in honor of Dom Bonafede for the Best Paper by a Graduate Student

For the best paper presented by a graduate student at either the preceding year's APSA annual meeting or at any of the regional meetings in 2010-2011.

Award Committee: Chair: Ken Mayer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Hal Bass, Ouachita Baptist University; Karen Hoffman, Marquette University; Alison Howard, Dominican University of California; Justin Vaughn, Cleveland State University

Recipient: John Hudak, Vanderbilt University

Title: The Politics of Federal Grants: Presidential Influence Over the Distribution of Federal Funds

Founder's AwardNamed in Honor of Peri Arnold for the Best Paper by a PhD-Holding Scholar

For the best paper authored by a PhD-holding scholar at the previous year's APSA annual meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Teri Bimes, University of California, Berkeley; Chuck Cameron, Princeton University; Diane Heith, Saint John's University; Brandon Rottinghaus, University of Houston; Mel Laracey, University of Texas at San Antonio

Recipients: Matthew Beckman, University of California, Irvine; Vimal Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Title: “Opportunism in Polarization: Presidential Success in Senate Key Votes, 1953 – 2008”

George C. Edwards 111 Dissertation Award

For the best dissertation in presidency research completed and accepted during the 2009 or 2010 calendar year

Award Committee: Chair: Karen Hult, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Randall E. Adkins, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Richard Powell, University of Maine; Bert Rockman, Purdue University; Christopher Kelley, Miami University

Recipient: Amnon Cavari, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: “The Party Politics of Presidential Rhetoric” (University of Wisconsin 2010)

Richard E. Neustadt Award for the Best Book on the Presidency

For the best book on the U.S. presidency published during the previous year.

Award Committee: Chair: Steven Schier, Carleton College; Meena Bose, Hofstra University; John Burke, University of Vermont; Terry Sullivan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Steve Wayne, Georgetown University

Recipient: Jeffrey E. Cohen, Fordham University

Title: Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age (Cambridge University Press 2010)

Best Undergraduate Paper Award

The best undergraduate paper completed in the academic year 2009-2010.

Award Committee: Chair: Robert Maranto, University of Arkansas; Lara Brown, Villanova University; Nancy Kassop, SUNY New Paltz; Bruce Nesmith, Coe College; Jose Villalobos, University of Texas, El Paso

Recipient: Alexander Gibbons, University of Maryland

Title: “Keeping Time for Skowronek: A Quantification of Secular and Political Time”

Harold F. Gosnell Prize

For the best work in political methodology presented at any political science conference during the preceding year.

Award Committee: Chair: Kenneth W. Kollman, University of Michigan; Betsy Sinclair, University of Chicago; Matthew Lebo, Stony Brook University, SUNY

Recipients: Robert Franzese, University of Michigan; Jude Hays, University of Pittsburgh; Aya Kachi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: “Modeling History-Dependent Network Convolution”

John T. Williams Award

For the best dissertation proposal in the area of political methodology.

Award Committee: Chair: Patrick T. Brandt, University of Texas at Dallas; Michael Colaresi, Michigan State University; Betsy Sinclair, University of Chicago

Recipient: Matthew Blackwell, Harvard University

Title: “Essays in Political Methodology and American Politics”

Warren Miller Prize

For the best article in Political Analysis in the previous year.

Award Committee: Chair: J. Tobin Grant, Southern Illinois University; David Darmofal, University of South Carolina; Michael Hanmer, University of Maryland, College Park

Recipient: Justin Grimmer, Stanford University

Title: “A Bayesian Hierarchical Topic Model for Political Texts: Measuring Expressed Agendas in Senate Press Releases” Political Analysis 2010 (18) 1-35

Society for Political Methodology Poster Award

For the best poster presented at the annual summer Political Methodology Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Suzanna Linn, Pennsylvania State University; Curtis Signorio, University of Rochester; Karen Jusko, Stanford University; Dean Lacy, Dartmouth University; William Clark, University of Michigan; Robert Erikson, Columbia University; Jana von Stein, Un

Recipient: Fernando Daniel (Danny) Hidalgo, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Digital Democracy: The Consequences of Electronic Voting Technology in Brazil”

Statistical Software Award

Recognizes individual(s) for developing statistical software that makes a significant research contribution.

Award Committee: Chair: Jasjeet Sekhon, University of California, Berkeley; Kosuke Imai, Princeton University; Michah Altman, Harvard University; Andrew Martin, Washington University, Saint Louis; Simon Jackman, Stanford University

Recipients: Norman Nie, Stanford University; Dale Bent, Stanford University; Hadlai Hull, Stanford University

Title: Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

Political Methodology Emerging Scholar Award

To honor a young researcher, within ten years of their degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of political methodology.

Award Committee: Chair: Simon Jackman, Stanford University; Wendy Tam Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kevin Quinn, University of California, Berkeley; Jeffrey Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

Recipient: Kosuke Imai, Princeton University

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award

For the best dissertation on religion and politics successfully defended in 2009 and 2010.

Award Committee: Chair: Tarek E. Masoud, Harvard University; Yuksel Sezgin, Harvard Divinity School; Eldon J. Eisenach, University of Tulsa; Joseph Yi

Recipient: Samuel Goldman, Harvard University

Title: “The Shadow of God: Strauss, Jacobi, and the theology-Political Problem”

Recipient: Brandon Kendhammer, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: “Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam and Democracy in Northern Nigeria”

Hubert Morken Award

For the best publication dealing with religion and politics published during 2008 and 2009.

Award Committee: Chair: David Campbell, University of Notre Dame; Michael Gibbons, University of South Florida; Iza Hussin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Sultan Tepe, University of Illinois, Chicago

Recipient: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University

Title: The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton University Press 2008)

Recipient: Vincent Phillip Munoz, Notre Dame University

Title: God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson (Cambridge University Press 2009)

Paul J. Weber Award

For the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the 2010 APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Nader Hashemi, University of Denver; Mirjam Kunkler. Princeton University; Jonathan Laurence, Boston College; Paul Djupe, Denison University

Recipient: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University

Title: “How Does Islamist Local Governance Affect the Lives of Women?: A Comparative Study of Two Cairo Neighborhoods”

Norton Long Career Achievement Award

Presented 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: Chair: Susan E. Clarke, University of Colorado, Boulder; Wilbur Rich, Wellesley College; Karen Mossberger, University of Illinois, Chicago

Recipient: Rodney Hero, University of California, Berkeley

Norton Long Young Scholars Award

For scholars who completed their PhD within the last three years (this also includes ABDs) and submitted a paper proposal for the 2011 APSA meetings to the 2011 program chairs.

Award Committee: Traci Burch, Northwestern University; Martin Horak, University of Western Ontario

Recipient: Gabe Edelman, University of Toronto

Title: Waterfront Politics in Toronto and the Limits of Urban Development Theory: When Public Interests Obstruct the Public's Interest”

Recipient: Jen Nelles, PROGRIS

Title: Capacity at the Crossroads: How Local Authorities Try to Shape State and Federal Policy

Recipient: Josh Sapotichne, Michigan State University

Title: Dimensionality, Issue Attention, and Agenda Dynamics: The Case of Federal Urban Policy

Recipient: Francis Shen, Vanderbilt University

Title: Mayoral Management: Sustaining Effects of Mayoral Control on School Spending in Urban Systems

The Bryan Jackson Dissertation in Ethnic and Racial Politics Research Support Award

Given to a graduate student studying racial and ethnic politics in an urban setting.

Award Committee: Chair: Kristin Good, Dalhousie University; Teri Fair, Suffolk University; Jamila Celestine-Michener, University of Chicago

Recipient: Emily Farris, Brown University

Title: “Pathways to Power: An Examination of Latino Local Elected Officials”

Best Book Award

For the best book on urban politics published in 2010.

Award Committee: Chair: Melissa Marschall, Rice University; Lorraine Minnite, Barnard College; Christopher R. Berry, University of Chicago

Recipient: Zoltan Hajnal, University of California, San Diego

Title: America's Uneven Democracy: Race, Turnout and Representation in City Politics (Cambridge University Press)

Recipient: Peter Eisenstadt, Independent Scholar

Title: Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment Integrated Housing (Cornell University Press)

Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Herman (Buzz) Boschken, San Jose State University; Jennifer Nelles, University of Toronto; Andra Gillespie, Emory University

Recipient: Vladimir Kogan, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Who Benefits from Jurisdictional Competition?”

Recipient: Scott Minkoff, Barnard College

Title: “The Proximate Polity: The Spatial Context of Local Developmental Goods Provision”

Best Dissertation in Urban Politics

For the best dissertation on urban politics completed and accepted in the previous year.

Award Committee: Chair: Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore, Michigan State University; Joel Rast, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Joshua Sapotichne, Michigan State University

Recipient: Quinton Mayne, Princeton University

Title: “The Satisfied Citizen: Participation, Influence, and Public Perceptions of Democratic Performance”

Don K. Price Award

For the best book in science and technology politics published in the past 3 years.

Award Committee: Chair: Roger Handberg, University of Central Florida; Robert Paarlberg, Wellesley College; Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Oxford University

Recipient: Ann Campbell Keller, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Science in Environmental Policy (MIT Press, 2009)

Virginia Walsh Best Dissertation Award

For the best dissertations in science, technology and environmental politics.

Award Committee: Chair: Mark Zachary Taylor, George Institute of Technology; Rob McMonagle, Neumann University; Jennifer Bussell, University of Texas, Austin

Recipient: Jessica F. Green, Case Western Reserve University

Title: Private Actors, Public Goods: Private Authority in Global Environmental Politics (PhD 2010, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Lynton K. Caldwell Award

For the best book in environmental politics published in the past 3 years.

Award Committee: Chair: George A. Gonzalez, University of Miami; Megan Mullin, Temple University; David L. Feldman, University of California, Irvine

Recipients: Rachel Schurman, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; William A. Munro, Illinois Wesleyan University

Title: Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)

Best Paper Award

For the best paper presented at the 2010 APSA meeting on women and politics.

Award Committee: Chair: Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame; Jonneke Koomen, Willamette University; Celia Valiente, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Sue Carroll, Rutgers University

Recipient: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University

Title: “How Does Islamist Local Governance Affect the Lives of Women?: A Comparative Study of Two Cairo Neighborhoods”

Best Dissertation Award

For the best dissertations on women and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Chair: Holli Semetko, Emory University; Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University; Mala Htun, University of New Mexico; Melanie Hughes, University of Pittsburgh

Recipient: Dara Kay Cohen, University of Minnesota

Title: “Explaining Sexual Violence During Civil War”

Recipient: Rosanne Kennedy, Union Institute & University of Cincinnati, Ohio

Title: “Rousseau and the Perversion of Gender”

Women and Politics Research/Foundations of Political Theory Okin-Young Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Lisa J. Disch, University of Michigan; Erica Townsend-Bell, University of Iowa; Lilly Goren, Carroll University

Recipient: Jennifer Elinsahr, Kalamazoo College

Title: “Structural Domination and Structural Freedom: A Feminist Perspective,” (Feminist Review vol 94)

David Easton Award

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: Chair: Leslie Paul Thiele, University of Florida; Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University;

Recipient: Joseph M. Schwatz, Temple University

Title: The Future of Democratic Equality: Rebuilding Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America (Routledge, 2009)

Best Paper Award

For the best paper presented on a foundation panel at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Simon A. Stow, College of William & Mary; Laurie E. Naranch, Siena College; Barbara Cruikshank, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Recipient: Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside

Title: “Gandhi's Body: Asceticism, Pain and Suffering in Environmental Political Discourse”

Best Published Article

Recognizes the best scholarly article published in the previous calendar year about information technology and politics.

Award Committee: Chair: Diane T. Cohen, Central Connecticut State University; Cecilia G. Manrique, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; Laura Roselle, Elon University

Recipient: Kevin Wallsten, California State University, Long Beach

Title: “‘Yes We Can’: How Online Viewership, Blog Discussion, Campaign Statements, and Mainstream Media Coverage Produced a Viral Video Phenomenon”, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 7:2, 163-181.

Best Book Award

Recognizes the best book in the area of information technology and politics published in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Chair: Micah Altman, Harvard University; Priscilla Regan, George Mason University

Recipient: Philip N. Howard, University of Washington

Title: The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Award for Learning Innovations in Information Technology & Politics

This award recognizes outstanding computer related work that is important to the field of information technology and politics. It includes software and/or websites and/or other creative technologies.

Award Committee: Chair: Robert Boynton, University of Iowa; Jerry Goldman, Northwestern University

Recipients: Marcela Velasco, Colorado State University; Gamze Çavdar, Colorado State University

Title: Assessing the Impact of Clickers in Large Classes

Joseph K. Kruzal Memorial Award

Awarded to a scholar with a distinguished career in national security affairs both as an academic and a public servant.

Award Committee: Chair: Peter Feaver, Duke University; Catherine Kelleher, Brown University; Steven Grenier, US Army; Jeffrey Larsen, SAIC and University of Denver

Recipient: Andrew Marshall, United States Department of Defense Office of Net Assessment

Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Prize

Awarded to a successfully defended doctoral dissertation on any aspect of security studies, which has been submitted in final, library copy in calendar year 2010.

Award Committee: Chair: Andrew Dorman, King's College London; Chris D Demchak US Naval War College; Joshua Rovner US Naval War College; Katherine Brown King's College London

Recipient: Paul Staniland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Explaining Cohesion, Fragmentation and Control in Insurgent Groups

Data Set Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Mark Tessler, University of Michigan; Ernesto Calvo, University of Maryland; Lyle Scruggs, University of Connecticut

Recipient: Peter Wallensteen, University of Uppsala

Title: “Uppsala Conflict Data Program”

Greg Leubbert Best Article Award

For the best article in the field of comparative politics published in 2009 or 2010.

Award Committee: Chair: Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan; Keith Darden, Yale University; Dan Slater, University of Chicago

Recipients: Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University; Laia Balcells, Institute for Economic Analysis, CSIC

Title: “International System and Technologies of Rebellion: How the End of the Cold War Shaped Internal Conflict.” American Political Science Review 104: 3, 415-429

Greg Leubert Best Book Award

For the best book in the field of comparative politics published in 2009 or 2010.

Award Committee: Chair: Nicolas van de Walle, Cornell University; Macartan Humphries, Columbia University; Randy Stevenson, Rice University

Recipient: James Mahoney, Northwestern University

Title: Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Sage Best Paper Award

The best paper in the field of comparative politics presented at the 2010 APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Markus Kreuzer, Villanova University; Grigo Pop-Eleches, Princeton University; Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania

Recipient: Giovanni Capoccia, Oxford University

Title: “Normative frameworks, electoral interests, and the boundaries of legitimate participation in post-Fascist democracies. The case of Italy.”

Honorable Mention: Noam Lupu, Princeton University; Jonas Pontusson, Universite' de Geneve

Honorable Mention Title: “The Structure of Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution”

Ernst B. Haas Dissertation Award

Given to the best dissertation on European Politics and Society filed in 2010.

Award Committee: Vivien Schmidt, Boston University; Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Iowa; Erin Jenne, Central European University

Recipient: Gregory Bald, Georgetown University

Title: The Politics of Differentation: Education Reform in Postwar Britain and Germany

Recipient: Quinton Mayne, Princeton University

Title: The Satisfied Citzen: Participation, Influence, and Public Perception of Democratic Performance

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper on European Politics and Society presented at the 2010 APSA meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Sarah Wiliarty, Wesleyan University; Duane Swank, Marquette University; Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, University of Nottingham

Recipients: Ben Ansell, University of Minnesota; David Art, Tufts University

Title: Membership Matters: Radical Right Wing Party Composition in Comparative Perspective

SPPQ Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Beth Reingold, Emory University; Richard Fording, University of Kentucky; Stacy Gordon, University of Nevada, Reno; Christopher Mooney, University of Illinois, Springfield

Recipients: Michael Berkman, Pennsylvania State University; Eric Plutzer, Pennsylvania State University

Title: “Multi-Level Policy Responsiveness to Public Opinion: From Statehouse to Street-Level”

Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Daniel A. Smith, University of Florida; Martin Johnson, University of California, Riverside; Wendy Martinek, Binghamton University

Recipients: Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego; Justin H. Phillips, Columbia University

Title: “The Roots of Executive Power”

Christopher A. Mooney Dissertation Award

For the best dissertation in American State Politics and Policy Research completed during the 2010 calendar year.

Award Committee: Chair: David Lowery, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Rigby, George Washington University; Sandy Schneider, Michigan State University;

Recipient: Julianna Pacheco, Pennsylvania State University

Title: Dynamic Public Opinion and Policy Responsiveness in the American States

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Daniel A. Smith, University of Florida; Martin Johnson, University of California, Riverside; Wendy Martinek, Binghamton University;

Recipients: Heather Creek, University of Maryland; Stephen Yoder, University of Maryland

Title: “With a Little Help from Our Feds: Understanding State/Federal Cooperation on Immigration Enforcement”

Career Achievement Award

Given 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: Chair: Christopher Z. Mooney, University of Illinois, Springfield; Jim Battista, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Fred Boehmke, University of Iowa; Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University; Justin Phillips, Columbia University;

Recipient: Gerald Wright, Indiana University, Bloomington

Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award

For the best paper on political communication presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: John Barry Ryan, Florida State University; Laura Roselle, Elon University; Costas Panagopoulos, Fordham University;

Recipients: Kevin Arceneaux, Temple University; Martin Johnson, University of California, Riverside

Title: “Does Media Fragmentation Produce Mass Polarization? Selective Exposure and a New Era of Minimal Effects” 2010 APSA Annual Meeting

Timothy Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Craig Brians, Virginia Tech; Todd Belt, University of Hawaii at Hilo; Dino Christenson, Ohio State University

Recipients: Sara Esralew, Ohio State University; Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, University of Delaware

Title: “The Influence of Parodies on Mental Models: Exploring the Tina Fey-Sarah Palin Phenomenon” 2010 Annual Meeting

Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award

For lifetime service to the study of political communication.

Award Committee: Chair: Dietram Scheufele, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania; Sarah Oates, University of Glasgow

Recipient: Diana Mutz, University of Pennsylvania

Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award

For the best book of the year published on political communication within the last ten years.

Award Committee: Chair: Andrew Rojecki, University of Illinois, Chicago; Markus Prior, Princeton University; Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, Elizabethtown College

Recipient: Robert M. Entman, George Washington University

Title: Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

Mary Parker Follett Award

For the best article or chapter in politics and history published in 2009 or 2010.

Award Committee: Chair: Eric M. Patashnik, University of Virginia; Lee Ann Banaszak, Pennsylvania State University; Jessica Luce Trounstine, University of California, Merced

Recipients: Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford; Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University

Title: “The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: A New Research Agenda for Europe and Beyond,” Comparative Political Studies (August/September 2010 vol. 43 no. 8-9: 931–968)

Walter Dean Burnham Award

For the best dissertation in the field of Politics and History.

Award Committee: Chair: James Mahoney, Northwestern University; Colleen M. Grogan, University of Chicago; Robert Mickey, University of Michigan

Recipient: Emily Zackin, Hunter College (CUNY)

Title: “Positive Constitutional Rights in the United States” (completed at Princeton University 2010; Adviser: Keith Whittington)

J. David Greenstone Book Prize

For the best book in politics and history published in 2009 or 2010.

Award Committee: Chair: Sidney M. Milkis, University of Virginia; Alan M. Jacobs, University of British Columbia; Nicole E. Mellow, Williams College

Recipient: James Mahoney, Northwestern University

Title: Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press: New York 2010)

Best Paper Award

For the best paper in Political Economy presented at the APSA meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: William T. Bernhard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Sarah M. Brooks, Ohio State University; David M. Primo, University of Rochester

Recipient: Milan Svolik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: “Learning to Love Democracy: A Theory of Democratic Consolidation and Breakdown”

Mancur Olsen Award

For the best dissertation completed and accepted in the previous two years.

Award Committee: Chair: James N. Druckman, Northwestern University; Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University; Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Recipient: Tiberiu Dragu, Stanford University

Title: Essays on Executive Power

Honorable Mention: Brian Greenhill, Dartmouth College

Honorable Mention Title: Norm Transmission in Networks of Intergovermental Organizations

Honorable Mention: Dustin Tingley, Harvard University

Honorable Mention Title: Essays on Understanding International Relations through Experimentation

William H. Riker Book Award

For the best book on political economy.

Award Committee: Chair: Charles R. Shipan, University of Michigan; Orit Kedar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; David Stasavage, New York University

Recipient: Ben W. Ansell, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Title: From The Ballot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive Political Economy of Education (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Honorable Mention: Zachary Elkins, University of Texas at Austin; Tom Ginsberg, University of Chicago; James Melton, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies

Honorable Mention Title: The Endurance of National Constitutions (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Michael Wallerstein Award

For the best published article in Political Economy in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Chair: Scott H. Ainsworth, University of Georgia; B. Peter Rosendorff, New York University; Sebastian M. Saiegh, University of California, San Diego

Recipient: John Ahlquist, University of Wisconsin

Title: “Building Strategic Capacity: The Political Underpinnings of Coordinated Wage Bargaining (American Political Science Review 104 (1) 171–88)

Christian Bay Best Paper Award

For the best paper presented at a New Political Science panel at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Richard J. Meagher Jr., Randolph-Macon College; Elisabeth Chaves, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenton Worcester, Marymount Manhattan College

Recipient: Brian Waddell, University of Connecticut, Stamford

Title: That Time Again? Revisiting the Debates Over the Wagner Act

Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward Award

For an active group, in the region of the annual meeting, that puts the ideals of the New Political Science Section, “to make the study of politics relevent to the struggle for a better world,” into practice.

Award Committee: Chair: Michael J. Bosia, St. Michael's College; Wendy Sarvasy, California State University, East Bay; Sean Parson, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Carl Boggs, National University; Honorary Member: Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center

Recipient: Sarah Laslette, Director, South Seattle Community College, Labor Education and Research Center, Seattle, Washington

Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: John Ehrenberg, Long Island University; John Berg, Suffolk University; Manfred Steger, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Recipient: George Katsiaficas, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Michael Harrington Book Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Jocelyn M. Boryczka, Fairfield University; Sanford Shram, Bryn Mawr College; Joe Kling, Saint Lawrence University

Recipient: Michelle Alexander, Ohio State University

Title: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York Press, 2010)

Best Dissertation Award

For the best paper in the area of Political Psychology that was presented during the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Melinda S. Jackson, San Jose State University; Cheryl Boudreau, University of California, Davis; Erin Cassese, West Virginia University; Alina Oxendine, Hamline University

Recipient: Toby Bolsen, Georgia State University

Title: “Private Behaviors for the Public Good: Citizens' Actions and U.S. Energy Conservation,” (completed at Northwestern University; Advisor: Jamie Druckman)

Robert Lane Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Ted Brader, University of Michigan; Jennifer Wolak, University of Colorado

Recipients: Mark Peffley, University of Kentucky; Jon Hurwitz, University of Pittsburgh

Title: Justice in America (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Best Paper Award

For the best dissertation in political psychology filed in the previous year.

Award Committee: Chair: Toby Bolsen, Georgia State University; Neil Malhotra, University of Pennsylvania; Martin Johnson, University of California, Riverside; Jason Reiffler, Georgia State University

Recipients: Dennis Chong, Northwestern University, Jamie Druckman, Northwestern University

Title: “Dynamic Public Opinion”

Honorable Mention: Jennifer Jerit, Florida State University; Jason Barabas, Florida State University

Honorable Mention Title: “Partisan Perceptual Bias and the Information Environment”

Honorable Mention: Brad Verhulst, Virginial Commonweath University; Peter Hatemi, Pennsylvania State University; Nicholas G. Martin, University of Queensland

Honorable Mention Title: “The Development of Political Attitudes and Personality Traits”

The Best Presentation Award

For the best presentation (be it in a paper, poster, or roundtable format) delivered in a session sponsored by the Undergraduate Education Section at the Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Shannon Jenkins, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; John Ishiyama, University of North Texas

Recipients: Joseph Gershtenson, Eastern Kentucky University; Dennis L. Plane, Juniata College

Title: Attitudes about Voter Registration: The Influence of Teaching

Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award

For the best paper presented on a politics, literature and film panel at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Natalie Taylor, Skidmore College; James H. Read, College of Saint Benedict

Recipient: Charles Rubin, Duquesne University

Title: To Life: Golems, Monsters, and the Biotechnology Future

Best Book Award on Racial and Ethnic Political Identities, Ideologies and Theories

Award Committee: Chair: Robin Jacobson, University of Puget Sound; Sharon Wright Austin, University of Florida; Joseph Yi, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; Melissa Michelson, Menlo College; Maurice Mangum, Texas Southern University

Recipient: Cristina Beltrán, Haverford College

Title: The Trouble With Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Best Book Award on Racial Power and Social Movement Theory

Award Committee: Chair: Robin Jacobson, University of Puget Sound; Sharon Wright Austin, University of Florida; Joseph Yi, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; Melissa Michelson, Menlo College; Maurice Mangum, Texas Southern University

Recipient: Christian Davenport, University of Notre Dame

Title: Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Best Dissertation Award

For the best dissertation completed in the period January 2010 to December 2010 on race, ethnicity, and politics

Award Committee: Chair: Cara Wong, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Chris Parker, University of Washington; John Mollenkopf, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Recipient: Clare Adida, University of California, San Diego

Title: Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa (Stanford University 2010)

Best Textbook Award on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Award Committee: Chair: Robin Jacobson, University of Puget Sound; Sharon Wright Austin, University of Florida; Joseph Yi, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; Melissa Michelson, Menlo College; Maurice Mangum, Texas Southern University

Recipients: Paula D. McClain, Duke University; Steven C. Tauber, University of South Florida

Title: American Government in Black and White (Paradigm Publishing, 2010)

Jervis and Schroeder Best Book Award

For the best book on international history and politics published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented.

Award Committee: Chair: David A. Baldwin, Princeton University; Elizabeth Kier, University of Washington; Keith Darden, Yale University

Recipient: James Mahoney, Northwestern University

Title: Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Best Article Award

Awarded to single-authored or co-authored articles focusing directly on the subject of democratization and published in 2010 are eligible.

Award Committee: Chair: Ellen M. Lust, Yale University; Milan Svolik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lucan A. Way, University of Toronto

Recipients: Ben W. Ansell, University of Minnesota; David Samuels, University of Minnesota

Title: “Inequality and Democratization: A Contractarian Approach” Comparative Political Studies, December 2010 vol. 43 no. 12 1543-1574.

Best Book Award

For the best book in the field of comparative democratization published in 2010 (authored, co-authored, or edited).

Award Committee: Chair: Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego; Steven I. Wilkinson, Yale University; Amaney Jamal, Princeton University

Recipient: Timothy Frye, Columbia University

Title: Building States and Markets after Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Recipient: Monica Nalepa, University of Notre Dame

Title: Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Best Field Research Award

Rewards dissertation students who conduct especially innovative and difficult fieldwork.

Award Committee: Chair: Giovanni Capoccia, Oxford University; Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester; Sunila S. Kale, University of Washington

Recipient: Clare Adida, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa,” defended at Stanford University 2010

Honorable Mention: Rodrigo Zarazaga, University of California, Berkeley

Honorable Mention Title: “Peronist Hegemony and Clientelism: Strategic Interactions among Mayors, Brokers, and Poor Voters”

Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award

For the best dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy completed and accepted in the two calendar years immediately prior to the APSA Annual Meeting where the award will be presented.

Award Committee: Chair: Stathis N. Kalyvas, Yale University; Victor C. Shih, Northwestern University; Maya Jessica Tudor, University of Oxford

Recipient: Ekrem Karakoc, University of Florida

Title: “A Theory of Redistribution in New Democracies: How Democracy Has Increased Income Disparity in Southern and Postcommunist Europe”

Honorable Mention: Prerna Singh, Princeton University

Honorable Mention Title: “Subnationalism and Social Development: A Comparative Analysis of Indian States,” submitted at Princeton University.

Best Paper Award

Recognizes the “best paper” presented on a Human Rights section panel at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Toronto; Alexandre Debs, Yale University; Jennifer Gandhi, Emory University

Recipient: Robert D. Woodberry, University of Texas at Austin

Title: “Weber Through the Back Door: Protestant Competition, Elite Power Dispersion, and the Global Spread of Democracy” (presented at 2010 APSA meeting)

Honorable Mention: Thad Dunning, Yale University; Susan Stokes, Yale University

Honorable Mention Title: “How Does the Internal Structure of Political Parties Shape Their Distributive Strategies?” (presented at 2010 APSA meeting)

Best Book Award

For the best single-authored, multi-authored or edited volume on human rights published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Chair: Mahmood Monshipouri, San Francisco State University; Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, State University of New York, Purchase; Bethany Barratt, Roosevelt University

Recipient: Karen Engle, University of Texas, Austin

Title: The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture and Strategy (Duke University Press, 2010)

Distinguished Scholar Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Wilfrid Laurier University; Jack Donnelly, University of Denver; David P. Forsythe, University of Nebraska

Recipient: Mark Gibney, University of North Carolina, Asheville

Sage Paper Award

For the best paper presented at the previous APSA Annual Meeting .

Award Committee: Chair: Stacie Goddard, Wellesley College; Eleonora Pasotti, University of California, Santa Cruz; Alison Post, University of California, Berkeley

Recipient: Adria Lawrence, Yale University

Title: Political Equality and Nationalist Opposition in the French Colonial Empire

Alexander George Article/Book Chapter Award

Granted to a journal article or to a chapter in an edited volume that stands on its own as an article.

Award Committee: Chair: Henry Hale, George Washington University; Timothy Pachirat, New School for Social Research; Joe Soss, University of Minnesota

Recipients: Sukriti Issar, Brown University; Melani Cammett, Brown University

Title: Bricks and Mortar Clientelism: Sectarianism and the Logics of Welfare Allocation in Lebanon, World Politics 62(3) (July 2010) 381-421

Giovanni Sartori Book Award

Granted to a single-authored or multi-authored book, or to an edited volume published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented.

Award Committee: Chair: Hein Goemans, University of Rochester; Daniel Brinks, University of Texas at Austin; Adria Lawrence, Yale University

Recipient: Lauren Morris MacLean, Indiana University

Title: Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Sexuality and Politics Best Conference Paper Award

For the best paper exploring sexuality and poltics presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Chair: Maxine Eichner, University of North Carolina; Roddrick Colvin, John Jay College; Rosalind Petchesky, Hunter College (CUNY)

Recipient: Beth Kiyoko Jamieson, Princeton University

Title: Fixing Gender: Gender Classifications, Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Prisoners, and the Politics of Law

Sexuality and Politics Best Dissertation Award

For the best dissertation on sexuality and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous two calendar years.

Award Committee: Chair: Ronald Holzhacker, University of Groningen; Paul Amar, University of California, Santa Barbara; Dara Z. Strolovitch, University of Minnesota

Recipient: Jeremiah J. Garretson, Stony Brook, State University of New York

Title: Changing Media, Changing Minds: The Lesbian and Gay Movement, Television, and Public Opinion

Recipient: Sami Zeidan, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Title: Navigating International Rights and Local Politics: Sexuality Governance in a Post-Colonial Setting

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: Chair: André Blais, Université de Montréal; Michelle L. Dion, McMaster University; Harold D. Clarke, University of Texas at Dallas; D. Munroe Eagles, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Mildred A. Schwartz, New York University

Recipient: Allan Kornberg, Duke University

Recipient: John C. Courtney, University of Saskatchewan

Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award

To honor a significant contemporary contribution to the scholarship on Canadian politics, or Canada in a comparative perspective, or a comparative analysis of Canada with other countries, particularly the United States.

Award Committee: Chair: R. Kenneth Carty, University of British Columbia; Antonia Maioni, McGill University; Michael Lusztig, Southern Methodist University; Jeffrey M. Ayres, Saint Michael's College, Vermont; Christine Rothmayr, University of Montreal

Recipient: Mildred A. Schwartz, New York University

Title: Party Movements in the United States and Canada (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)

Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Chair: Joshua Tucker, New York University; Rose McDermott, Brown University; James Gibson, Washington University; Eric Dickson, New York University

Recipients: Michael Tomz, Stanford University; Robert P. Van Houweling, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Candidate Repositioning

Honorable Mention: Deborah Jordan Brooks, Dartmouth College

Honorable Mention Title: Assessing the Double Bind: Public Reactions to Displays of Toughness by Male and Female Candiates

Honorable Mention: Jonathan Woon, University of Pittsburgh

Honorable Mention Title: Democratic Accountability and Retrospective Voting in the Lab

Best Book Award

For the best book published in 2010 that either uses or is about experimental research methods in the study of politics.

Award Committee: Chair: Ted Brader, University of Michigan; Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University; Susan Hyde, Yale University; Ismail White, Ohio State

Recipient: Rebecca B. Morton, New York University; Kenneth C. Williams, Michigan State University

Title: Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality: From Nature to the Lab (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Best Dissertation Award

For the best dissertation completed in the 2010 calendar year that utilizes experimental methods on substantive political science research, or makes a fundamental contribution to experimental methods.

Award Committee: Chair: Sean Gaillard, University of California, Berkeley; Bethany Albertson, University of Texas; Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University; Nick Valentino, University of Michigan

Recipient: Andrew Owen, University of British Columbia

Title: The Negativity Effect in Retrospective Voting (completed at Princeton University, Adviser Larry Bartels)

Honorable Mention: Toby Bolsen, Georgia State University

Honorable Mention Title: Private Behaviors for the Public Good: Citzens' Actions andUS Energy Conservation (completed at Northwestern University, Adviser James N. Druckman)