Annual Meeting and Exhibition Review

Steven Rathgeb Smith

doi:10.1017/S1049096515001031

APSA Awards

At the 2015 APSA Awards Ceremony, the association recognized an exceptional group of diverse individuals for their contributions to political science. Every year, award committees carefully consider candidates, and the association is pleased to honor these distinguished people. The ceremony, in its new evening format hosted by APSA Vice President E. J. Dionne, Jr., was held on Wednesday, September 2, 2015, in the Hilton Union Square Hotel. Here are some photographs of the ceremony and awardees (video portions of the ceremony will be available on www.PoliticalScienceNow.com). A complete list of the awards is included in the Gazette section of this issue, and a listing of the Organized Section awards is provided later in this section.

Left: Attendees enjoyed the colorful awards ceremony. Above: APSA Executive Director Steven Rathgeb Smith begins the awards ceremony with his congratulations to the award winners.

Below: E.J. Dionne, Jr. and Susan Tolleson-Rinehart present the Frank J. Goodnow Award to K.C. Morrison (below left) and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein (below right). The Award honors contributions to the development of the political science profession and the development of the American Political Science Association.

Donna Shalala (above left) and Doug Rivers (above right) receive the Charles E. Merriam Award for significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research.

Left: Beverly Scott receives the Hubert H. Humphrey Award from Liz Gerber, University of Michigan, and E. J. Dionne, Jr.. The annual award recognizes notable public service by a political scientist.

Below Left to Right: Alexis Walker, Stetson University, receives the William Anderson Award for best dissertation in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental relations, state and local politics; Nicholas L. Miller, Brown University, receives the Helen Dwight Reid prize for the best dissertation successfully defended during the previous two years in the field of international relations, law, and politics; and Danielle Thomsen, Duke University, receives the E. E. Schattschneider prize for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government.

Above: APSA President Rodney Hero, University of California, Berkeley, adds his word of congratulations to those attending the Awards Ceremony.

Right: John Ishiyama, University of North Texas, receives the APSA Distinguished Teaching Award from Michael Leo Owens, Emory University, and E. J. Dionne, Jr. The Award recognizes an outstanding contribution to undergraduate and graduate teaching of political science.

Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington, receives the Ralph J. Bunche Award for her book, Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State. The award is given annually for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.

Craig Volden, University of Virginia, and Alan Wiseman, Vanderbilt University, receive the Gladys M. Kammerer Award from E. J. Dionne, Jr. and Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa, for their book, Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers. The award is given for best book published during the previous calendar year in the field of US national policy.

Lisa Baldez, Dartmouth College, receives the Victoria Schuck Award from Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame, for her book, Defying Convention: U.S. Resistance to the U.N. Treaty on Women’s Rights. The award is given annually for the best book published on women and politics.

Ben W. Ansell, University of Oxford, and David J. Samuels, University of Minnesota, receive the The Woodrow Wilson Award from E. J. Dionne, Jr. for their book, Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach. The award is given annually for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. The award is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at Princeton University.

Activities and Events

Attendees at the 111th APSA Annual Meeting enjoyed a wide variety of opportunities for recognition, networking, presenting, collaboration, and professional development. In addition to presenting and discussing papers, meeting attendees were able to choose from a packed schedule of plenary sessions, theme panels, receptions, and meetings that connected them with other colleagues in their subfields or networks. Here are a few glimpses of the many activities and events that filled the three meeting hotels in San Francisco, California.

Kelly LeRoux, Univesrity of Illinois, Chicago, (left) and Scott Robinson, University of Oklahoma, (center) speak during the Public Management Short Course to a crowded room of attendees (right). Over 20 short courses we held throughout the day on Wednesday as part of preconference events.

During a panel titled Understanding Attitudes Of and Toward Groups, Leonie Huddy, SUNY Stony Brook (far left) presents “The Structure of Racial Attitudes among White Americans,” to an engaged audience (near left) on Thursday morning of the meeting.

From Left to Right: Jessica Luce Trounstine, University of California, Merced; Raphael J. Sonenshein (speaking), California State University, Los Angeles; Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University; and Marion Orr, Brown University, participate in a theme panel titled “30 Years after Protest Is Not Enough.”

Above: Dale Rogers Marshall, Wheaton College, speaks during the theme panel titled “30 Years after Protest Is Not Enough.”

An attendee stops to talk about new publications available from one of the publishers in the exhibit hall.

The APSA Lounge provided a welcome space for colleagues to meet and catch up or collaborate. APSA staff were also available to answer questions.

Meeting attendees chat and browse publications amidst the diverse exhibitors in the Hilton’s Grand Ballroom. Coffee breaks and author interviews provided highlights at various booths.

Kyu Young Lee, University of Iowa, discusses her research in during her poster session.

Left: Robert Reich, University of California, Berkeley, speaks during his plenary address “Why Economics Is Too Important to Be Left to the Economists” to a standing-room-only crowd.

Above: Attendees line up to ask questions during the discussion following Robert Reich’s address.

Right: Paul C. Light, New York University, delivers the John Gaus Lecture on Friday evening. Light received the John Gaus Award for his career as a scholar, public servant, and prolific, well-recognized author.

Above: The audience reacts to Paul C. Light’s delivery.

The first day of the meeting culminated with the presidential address by APSA President Rodney Hero, University of California, Berkeley, “American Politics, and Political Science, in an Era of Growing Racial Diversity and Economic Disparity.”

APSA President Rodney Hero, University of California, Berkeley, (center) stands with the 2015 Annual Meeting Program Chairs, Alvin Bernard Tillery, Northwestern University, (left) and Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (right).

Throughout the meeting, many different receptions provided time to celebrate achievements and common ground while making stronger connections. The 111th Annual Meeting Opening Reception was an early highlight of the week. Above Left: Many members attended the event directly after APSA President’s opening address. Top Right: Members enjoyed light refreshments while catching up with colleagues and making new connections. Above Right: Some attendees enjoyed the dance floor, which was a fun new feature of the reception.

Attendees from around the world enjoy a evening panorama of San Francisco during the International Attendee Reception in the Vista room of the Hilton Union Square on Thursday night.

APSA Executive Director Steven Rathgeb Smith (right) chats with former APSA President Dianne Pinderhughes, Notre Dame University, (left) at the Reception Honoring Women of Color on Thursday evening.

Program attendees enjoy reconnecting at a networking reception for the APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute and APSA Minority Fellowship alumni. (Photo Courtesy of Shanelle Oliver)

Young members from schools around the world share a table and chat at the Opening Reception.

2015 APSA Ralph Bunche Scholars Present Posters

Benefitting from work completed at the 2015 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, six RBSI scholars presented their research in a poster session at the Annual Meeting. These RBSI scholars presented on Saturday, September 5:

Jesiel Díaz ColÓn, University of Puerto Rico, “The Effect of Constitutional Amendments over Diverse Aspects of Governance”

Marty Davidson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Traffic Stops and Court Fees: How Local Municipalities Balance Their Budget”

Kaneesha Johnson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Contextual Punishment: Influences on Prison Entries in North Carolina”

Michelle Ngirbabul, Cornell College, “The Limitations of Health-Specific ODA: Revisiting Plans to Save the World”

Isaura Peña, Willamette University, “American Views on Immigration Policy: Do we really support the American Dream?”

Alexis Schramm, University of Cincinnati, “Red Equal Sign: Social Connections and Political Support for Marriage Equality”

Pictured are the APSA RBSI Scholars who presented posters during the Annual Meeting. Left to right, they are Kaneesha Johnson, Marty Davidson, Isaura Peña, Alexis Schramm, Jesiel Díaz Colón, and Michelle Ngirbabul, with Paula D. McClain, the director of the APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute hosted by Duke University. (RBSI Photos courtesy of Shanelle Oliver)

A small crowd gathers to listen to Isaura Peña (center) present her research.

Alexis Schramm (left) discusses her poster with a curious attendee.

Rodney Hero (right) ponders Marty Davidson’s (center) poster.

APSA Council Member Linda L. Fowler, Dartmouth College, (left) interacts with first time meeting attendees at the New Member Breakfast on Thursday morning. The breakfast setting gives newer members a chance to interact with established political scientists.

The New Member Breakfast provided a warm welcome for new APSA members and those attending the Annual Meeting for the first time.

Right: S. Laurel Weldon, Rutgers University, speaks during the theme panel “Empowering Women: Special Challenges Gender Poses for Inclusion and Diversity within the Profession.” Seated left to right are Kristen Renwick Monroe, University of California, Irvine; Cynthia R. Daniels, Rutgers University; Wendy G. Smooth, The Ohio State University (above); Carol A. Mershon, University of Virginia; and Denise Marie Walsh, University of Virginia.

The host city of the Annual Meeting often enjoys the benefit of other events in the surrounding area. Above: Kimberly Mealy, APSA Director of Diversity and Inclusion Programs, speaks to students at San Francisco State University about diversity and inclusion. To her right sits Marcela Garcia-Castañon, San Francisco State University. (Photo Courtesy of Shanelle Oliver)

Left to Right: Ravi Perry, Virginia Commonwealth University; Kimberly Mealy, APSA; Shawn Schulenberg, Marshall University; and Tony Smith, University of California, Irvine chat at the APSA Reception for the LGBT Committee, LGBT Caucus, and Sexuality & Politics Section on Friday night. (Photo Courtesy of Shanelle Oliver)

Right: Juliet Hooker, University of Texas, Austin speaks during the theme panel “Do Black Lives Matter? Analyzing Police Killings of Unarmed Black Citizens,” chaired by David C. Wilson, University of Delaware (not in frame). Sitting with her are E. J. Dionne, Jr. (left) and Melina Abdullah, California State University, Los Angeles (foreground).

Above: Anand Commissiong, West Texas A&M University, responds during the engaging discussion period.

Graduate Students and Scholars Funded

To increase graduate student participation in the Annual Meeting, the association awarded Graduate Student Travel Grants for the 2015 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. The travel grants subsidize the cost of travelling to the meeting, and candidates are awarded the grants after applying during the summer months. APSA is glad to welcome the following graduate students and scholars to the 2015 Annual Meeting:

INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS

Afsoun Afsahi, University of British Columbia

Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand

Senka Anastasova, Institute of Social Science and Humanities – Skopje

Ming Chee Ang, Lund University

Merih Angin, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Andreu Arenas Jal, European University Institute

Gizem Arikan, European University Institute

Bilal Baloch, University of Oxford, St. Antony’s College

Cyril Benoît, Sciences Po Bordeaux

David Blagden, University of Exeter

Tobias Boehmelt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Christian Bueger, Cardiff University

Susanna Campbell, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Hyunjin Cha, Korea University

Rebecca Cordell, University of Essex

Laurence Davis, University College Cork

Bruno de Paula Castanho e Silva, Central European University

Amanda DiPaolo, St. Thomas University

Susan Dodsworth, McGill University

Alexander Dukalskis, University College Dublin

Zsolt Enyedi, Central European University

Lina Eriksson, Uppsala University

Berk Esen, Sabanci University

Tasha Fairfield, London School of Economics

Feike Fliervoet, European University Institute

Yair Fogel-Dror, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Rosario Forlenza, University of Padua

Pawel Frankowski, Jagiellonian University

Holly Ann Garnett, McGill University

Belen Gonzalez, University of Mannheim

Oul Han, Freie Universitaet Berlin

Ray Hartman, Seoul National University

Robert Heimburger, University of Oxford, Blackfriars Hall

Yogi Hendlin, University of Vienna

Lea Heyne, University of Zurich

Wei-Lun Huang, SOAS, University of London

Anthony Imbrogno, McGill University

Sebastian Jäeckle, University of Freiburg

Andreas Jungherr, University of Mannheim

Yael Rivka Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Lukas Kasten, Tuebingen University

Ruchan Kaya, Caspian Strategy Institute

Eleanor Knott, London School of Economics

Thomas Koelble, University of Cape Town

Anouk Kootstra, University of Manchester

Anna Kyriazi, European University Institute

Corina Lacatus, London School of Economics

Virginie Lasnier, McGill University

Liron Lavi, Tel Aviv University

Chia-yi Lee, Nanyang Technological University

Thomas Leeper, London School of Economics

Yiran Li, University of Hong Kong

Alexis Littlefield, Feng Chia University

Lili Liu, SOAS, University of London

Peace Medie, University of Ghana

Giulia Mennillo, University of St. Gallen

Simeon Mitropolitski,

Xichavo Alecia Ndlovu, University of the Witwatersrand

Nicola Nymalm, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies

Roman-Gabriel Olar, University of Essex

Steve On, National Sun Yat-sen University

Sabine Otto, University of Konstanz

Sergi Pardos, University of Oxford, Merton College

Anthony Pezzola, Catholic University of Chile

Giulia Piccolino, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies

Emma Planinc, University of Toronto

Laura Polverari, University of Strathclyde

Osmany Porto de Oliveira, University of Sao Paulo

Amy Poteete, Concordia University

Didac Queralt, Carlos III - Juan March Institute of Social Science

Mascha Rauschenbach, University of Mannheim

Eike Rinke, University of Mannheim

Jenni Rinne, University of Helsinki

Ilyas Saliba, WZB Social Science Research Center Berlin

Anastasia Shesterinina, University of British Columbia

Eunkyung Shin, University of York

Surinder Shukla, Panjab University

Eswaran Sridharan, University of Pennsylvania

Dominik Stecula, University of British Columbia

Daniel Stockemer, University of Ottawa

Yu Tao, University of Central Lancashire

Chris Tenove, University of Toronto

Katerina Tertytchnaya, University of Oxford

Bernat Torres, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Pier Domenico Tortola, University of Milan

Ethel Tungohan, University of Alberta

Burcu Ucaray Mangitli, Ipek University

Felix-Christopher von Nostitz, University of Exeter

Natasha Wunsch, University College London

Titi Zhou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Alexis Zimberg, University of Toronto

Cai Zuo, Fudan University

US GRADUATE STUDENTS

Erin Adam, University of Washington

Rudy Alamillo, University of California, Riverside

Nicolas Anspach, Temple University

Alex Antony, Indiana University, Bloomington

Andre Audette, University of Notre Dame

Kiran Auerbach, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Samuel Bagg, Duke University

Pamela Ban, Harvard University

Katherine Bermingham, University of Notre Dame

Joshua Braver, Yale University

Jennifer Brookhart, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Katherine Bryant, Texas A&M University

Shakari Byerly, University of California, Los Angeles

Tony Caito, University of Southern Mississippi

Anna Calasanti, University of New Mexico

Mauro Caraccioli, University of Florida

Youssef Chouhoud, University of Southern California

Alexandra Cirone, Columbia University

Allan Colbern, University of California, Riverside

Right: Francis Fukuyama discusses his book Political Order and Political Decay during a crowded “Author Meets Critic” session (below) on Friday morning in the Hilton Union Square.

Lauren Copeland, Baldwin Wallace University and Community Research Institute

Amanda Cronkhite, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

John Cuffe, University of California, Irvine

Raphael Cunha, Ohio State University

Nicholas Davis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Mark Denninghoff, Purdue University

Lindsay Dolan, Columbia University

Jordan Dorney, University of Notre Dame

Amanda Edgell, University of Florida

John Emery, University of California, Irvine

Ashley English, University of Minnesota

Katherine Felt, State University of New York, Binghamton

Chase Foster, Harvard University

Kevin Funk, University of Florida

Emily Gade, University of Washington

Paul Gardner, Princeton University

LaGina Gause, University of Michigan

Geoffrey Gertz, University of Oxford, St. Anne’s College

John Givens, University of Pittsburgh

David Golemboski, Georgetown University

Katherine Haenschen, University of Texas at Austin

Lisa Hager, Kent State University

Boris Heersink, University of Virginia

Matthew Heller, University of Colorado, Boulder

Julia Hellwege, University of New Mexico

April Herlevi, University of Virginia

Drew Herrick, George Washington University

John Holbein, Duke University

Emily Holland, Columbia University

Brittany Holom, Princeton University

David Hughes, University of Georgia

Benjamin Jones, Yale University

Patrick Kearney, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Colin Kielty, University of Virginia

Christina Kinane, University of Michigan

Graig Klein, State University of New York, Binghamton

Lisa Koch, Arizona State University

Rita Koganzon, Harvard University

Jay Krehbiel, Washington University in St. Louis

Jordan Kyle, Columbia University

Ryan LaRochelle, Brandeis University

Liz Lebrón, Louisiana State University

David Lee, University of Indiana, Bloomington

Natalie Letsa, Cornell University

Wendy Leutert, Cornell University

Jonathan Lewallen, University of Texas at Austin

Monica Lineberger, University of South Carolina

Avery Livingston, Auburn University

Jaime Lluch, University of Puerto Rico

Kenneth Lowande, University of Virginia

Ali Masood, University of South Carolina

Miku Matsunaga, New York University

Victoria McGroary, Brandeis University

Gabriel Michael, Yale University

Alison Mintz, University of Georgia

Lana Mobydeen, Kent State University

Julia Morse, Princeton University

Matthew Nanes, University of California, San Diego

Heather Pangle, Boston College

Isabel Perera, University of Pennsylvania

Holly Peterson, Oregon State University

Rebecca Ploof, University of Chicago

Bogdan Popescu, University of Chicago

Abigail Post, University of Virginia

Michael Poznansky, Harvard University

Dina Rashed, University of Chicago

Lindsay Reid, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Tyler Reny, University of California, Los Angeles

Amanda Rizkallah, University of California, Los Angeles

Aaron Roberts, Duke University

Peter Rožič,

Annelise Russell, University of Texas at Austin

Jack Santucci, Georgetown University

Jacquelyn Schneider, George Washington University

Viktoryia Schnose, Washington University in St. Louis

Tanya Schwarz, University of California, Irvine

Matt Scroggs, University of Virginia

Rachel Sigman, Syracuse University

Sidney Simpson, University of Notre Dame

Anurag Sinha, Yale University

Jennifer Spindel, University of Minnesota

Swati Srivastava, Northwestern University

Stephanie Stanley, University of Washington

Katelyn Stauffer, Indiana University, Bloomington

Megan Stewart, Georgetown University

Austin M. Strange, Harvard University

Jane Sumner, Emory University

Kristina Teater, University of Cincinnati

Kai Thaler, Harvard University

Joanna Tice, City University of New York

Allison Trochesset, University of Georgia

Daniel Viehoff, Yale University / University of Sheffield

John Voorheis, University of Oregon

Bella Wang, Princeton University

Stuart Warren, University of Cincinnati

Christopher Weaver, University of Notre Dame

Nora Webb Williams, University of Washington

Ryan Welch, Arizona State University

Crystal Whetstone, University of Cincinnati

Jennifer White, University of Georgia

Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta, University of California, Los Angeles

Robinson Woodward-Burns, University of Pennsylvania

Joshua Su-Ya Wu, Ohio State University

Amanda Zadorian, New School for Social Research

INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES

Alexa Bankert, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Chitralekha Basu, University of Rochester

Lina Benabdallah, University of Florida

Holly Boux, Georgetown University

Sarah Brierley, University of California, Los Angeles

Javier Burdman, Northwestern University

Young-hwan Byun, City University of New York

Andreu Casas, University of Washington

Simonas Cepenas, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Taesuh Cha, Johns Hopkins University

Suparna Chaudhry, Yale University

Hyun-Binn Cho, University of Pennsylvania

Renato DeOliveira, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Diego Diaz Rioseco, Brown University

German Feierherd, Yale University

Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez, Carlos III - Juan March Institute of Social Science

Federico Fuchs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Xiaoli Guo, Florida State University

Timothy Hanafin, Johns Hopkins University

Yuxing Huang, Boston College

Rafael Jacob, Temple University

Thomas Jamieson, University of Southern California

Franziska Keller, Columbia University

Jeehye Kim, Harvard University

Junhyup Kim, Purdue University

Jiyoung Ko, Yale University

Kathrin Kranz, University of Notre Dame

Hiroki Kubo, Rice University

Don Lee, University of California, San Diego

Na Youn Lee, University of Michigan

Young-Im Lee, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Zeren Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Edward Lucas, American University

Rabia Malik, University of Rochester

Above: Members enjoyed seeing APSA-specific pictures on a big screen in the Hilton Union Square main lobby.

Left: Fredrick C. Harris, Columbia University, speaks during the “Breaking News!” panel “Beyond the Confederate Flag: The Politics of Race and Civil Rights after the Charleston Massacre” on Friday afternoon. On the right are Vesla Weaver, Yale University, and Rick Valelly, Swarthmore College.

Attendees made good use of hotel seating to stop, relax, and plan their next stop during the busy week.

Two attendees stop near registration to compare schedules. With a myriad of plenaries, panels, roundtables, and other events, there was always something to do at the 111th APSA Annual Meeting!

Ion Marandici, Rutgers University

Gautam Nair, Yale University

Lucas Novaes, University of California, Berkeley

Halil Ege Ozen, State University of New York, Binghamton

Nara Pavao, Vanderbilt University

Lucas Pinheiro, University of Chicago

Neeraj Prasad, Tufts University

Jungsub Shin, University of Missouri, Columbia

Mi Jeong Shin, Washington University in St. Louis

Taiyi Sun, Boston University

Ihsan Efe Tokdemir, State University of New York, Binghamton

Chin-Chang Tsai, Arizona State University

Seanon Wong, University of Southern California

Zining Yang, Claremont Graduate University

Alper Yildiz, City University of New York

Ketian Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Marko Zilovic, George Washington University

Minority Fellowship Program Travel Grant Recipients

In 2015, APSA awarded 10 alumni of the Minority Fellowship Program with a Travel Grant to assist in funding for the APSA Annual Meeting. The award winners are listed below with their current institutional affiliation and MFP fellowship year(s):

Elias Assaf, Ohio State University, 2014

LaShonda Brenson, University of Michigan, 2010

Shakari Byerly, UCLA, 2013

Nyron Crawford, Temple University, 2008

LaGina Gause, University of Michigan, 2010

Muhammed Idris, Harvard University, 2011

Vanessa Nichols, University of Michigan, 2009, 2010

Patricia Posey, Harvard University, 2013

Soledad Prillaman, Harvard University, 2011

Camillia Redding, Columbia University, 2010

Fund for Latino Scholarship Travel Grant Recipients

The primary purpose of the Fund for Latino Scholarship is to encourage and support the recruitment, retention and promotion of Latino/a political scientists. A secondary goal is to support research on Latino/a politics.

The fund awarded grants to initiatives that endeavor to: 1) identify promising Latino/a undergraduates and encourage them to enter the profession of political science; 2) provide professional opportunities and financial assistance to Latino/a graduate students in political science programs; 3) support the teaching, research and publishing activities of junior-level, tenure track Latino/a political science faculty; and 4) support activities that advance our knowledge of Latino/a politics.

The grant recipients are listed here:

Armando Mejia, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Jason Rivera, Rutgers University

Christabel Cruz, Rutgers University

Melina Juarez, University of New Mexico, Albuqerque

Yalidy Matos, Brown University

Samantha Hernandez, Arizona State University

Isabel Perera, University of Pennslyvania

Angel Molina, Jr., Texas A&M University

Zoila Ponce DeLeon Seijas, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta, University of California, Los Angeles

Yanira Rivas Pineda, University of California, Santa Barbara

Maria Livaudais, University of New Mexico

Kara Abramson, APSA, speaks during the full-day short course “Political Science in the Public Arena: Communication Strategies for Scholars” on Wednesday.

A short course attendee asks a question during the short course taught by Kara Abramson (left). Both half-day and full-day short courses were offered for a variety of professional development and technical topics.

2015 APSA Organized Section Awards Presented

In addition to the APSA awards (see full listing and citations in the Gazette in this issue as well as pictures under APSA Awards in this section), the following recognitions were announced by the APSA Organized Sections.

SECTION 01. FEDERALISM & INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award

The Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award recognizes distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.

Award Committee: Michael Mintrom, Chair, Australia and New Zealand School of Government; David Robinson, University of Missouri at St. Louis; Pamela McCann, University of Southern California

Recipient: Craig Volden, University of Virginia

Martha Derthick Best Book Award

The Martha Derthick Book Award is conferred for the best book on federalism and intergovernmental relations, published at least 10 years ago, that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.

Award Committee: Andrew Karch, Chair, University of Minnesota; Michael McGuire, Indiana University; Paul Manna, College of William and Mary

Recipient: Nancy Burns, University of Michigan

Title: The Formation of American Local Governments: Private Values in Public Institutions. Oxford University Press, 1994

Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award

The Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award conferred for the best paper in the field of federalism and intergovernmental relations presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Cynthia Bowling, Chair, Auburn University; Tyler Dickovick, Washington and Lee University; Sarah Reckhow, Michigan State University

Recipients: Michael Coates, University of Rhode Island and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, University of Rhode Island

Title: “Guns of Fortune: State Gun Control Policies and the Laws of Supply and Demand.” Presented at the State Politics and Policy Conference, Bloomington, Indiana 2014.

Publius, The Journal of Federalism Best Article Award

Award Committee: Pat McGuinn, Chair, Drew University; Greg Goelzhauser, Utah State University; Liesbet Hooghe, UNC Chapel Hill and VU University Amsterdam

Recipient: Frank J. Thompson, Rutgers-Newark, Rutgers Center for State Health Policy in New Brunswick

Recipient: Michael K. Gusmano, The Hastings Center

Title: “The Administrative Presidency and Fractious Federalism: The Case of Obamacare.” Publius, The Journal on Federalism 2014 (3)

SECTION 02. LAW AND COURTS

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 co-authored papers, written by political scientists, are eligible. Papers may be nominated by any member of the Section.

Award Committee: Sean Farhang, Chair, University of California, Berkeley; Ken Kersch, Boston College; Alison Gash, University of Oregon; Nancy Kassop, SUNY New Paltz; Jeff Staton, Emory University

Recipient: Rebecca Hamlin, Grinnell College

Title: “The Human Rights Act and the New Immigration Politics in the United Kingdom.” Presented at the APSA Annual Meeting.

Recipients: Benjamin Bishin, University of California, Riverside; Thomas Hayes, University of Connecticut; Matthew Incantalupo, Princeton University; Charles Anthony Smith, University of California, Irvine

Title: “Opinion Backlash and Public Attitudes: Are Political Advances in Gay Rights Counterproductive?” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.

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: Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Chair, Pomona College; Lauren McCarthy, University of Massachusetts; William Blake, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Simon Zschirnt, Texas A&M International University; Susan Burgess, Ohio University

Recipients: Ali S. Masood, University of South Carolina and Monica E. Lineberger, University of South Carolina

Title: “United Kingdom, United Courts? The Hierarchical Impact of Precedent in the British Judiciary.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association 2014.

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: Tom Clark, Chair, Emory University; James Rogers, Texas A&M University; Emily Zackin, John Hopkins University; John Dinan, Wake Forest University; Rachel Cichowski, University of Washington

Recipients: Dino P. Christenson, Boston University and David M. Glick, Boston University

Title: “Chief Justice Roberts’s Health Care Decision Disrobed: The Microfoundations of the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy.” American Journal of Political Science

Recipient: R. Daniel Kelemen, Rutgers University and Terrence K. Teo, Brown University

Title: “Law, Focal Points, and Fiscal Discipline in the United States and the European Union.” American Political Science Review

C. Herman Pritchett Award

The C. Herman Pritchett award is given annually for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published the previous year.

Award Committee: Keith E. Whittington, Chair, Princeton University; Pamela Corley, Southern Methodist University; James Gibson, Washington University; Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School; Sanford Levinson, University of Texas School of Law

Recipient: Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University

Title: Attacking Judges: How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections. Stanford University Press, 2014

Recipient: Ran Hirschl, University of Toronto

Title: Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law. Oxford University Press, 2014

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: David Yalof, Chair, University of Connecticut; Malcom Feeley, University of California, Berkeley; David O’Brien, University of Virginia; Karen Orren, University of California, Los Angeles; Susan Haire, University of Georgia

Recipient: Chuck Epp, University of Kansas

Title: The Rights Revolution. University of Chicago Press, 1998

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: Melinda Gann Hall, Chair, Michigan State University; Charles Lamb, State University of New York – Buffalo; Traci Burch, Northwestern University; Chris Zorn, Pennsylvania State University; Ran Hirschl, University of Toronto

Recipient: Donald Songer, University of South Carolina

Nearly 6,000 individuals attended the 111th APSA Annual Meeting. Attendees are pictured here picking up programs in the registration area in the Hilton Union Square.

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. The Teaching and Mentoring Award is supported by a generous contribution from the

Division for Public Education of the American Bar Association. The Teaching and Mentoring Award Committee also advises the Organized Section on matters related to teaching and mentoring of students and colleagues.

Award Committee: Lisa Hilbink, Chair, University of Minnesota; Mike Salamone, Washington State University; Lori Hausegger, Boise State University; Lisa Holmes, University of Vermont; Michael Nelson, Penn State University

Recipient: Julie Novkov, State University of New York-Albany

Law and Courts Section 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: Michael Giles, Chair, Emory University; Sarah Bernesh, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Chris Bonneau, University of Pittsburgh; Nancy Maveety, Tulane University; Lynn Mather, SUNY Buffalo

Recipient: Art Ward, North Illinois University

SECTION 03. LEGISLATIVE STUDIES

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. The prize is funded by the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to the cash prize associated with the award, winners are typically invited to guest lecture on the OU campus with travel expenses paid by the Carl Albert Center.

Award Committee: Eitan Tzelgov, University of Gothenberg; Yusaku Horiuchi, Dartmouth College; Leah Murray, Weber State University

Recipient: Michael Barber, Princeton University

Title: “Buying Representation: The Incentives, Ideology, and Influence of Campaign Contributors in American Politics”

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: Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Virginia; Nate Monroe, University of California, Merced; Magna Inacio, The Federal University of Minas Gerais

Recipients: Daniel Magleby, Binghamton University and Pamela J. Clouser McCann, University of Southern California

Title: “Separation of Power and the Nature of Compromise in the U.S. Congress”

Jewell-Lowenberg Prize

Jewell-Loewenberg Prize is awarded for the best article in the Legislative Studies Quarterly in the previous year.

Award Committee: Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois; Bill Bernhard, University of Illinois; Todd Makse, Susquehanna University

Recipients: Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin; Brian Jones, University of Wisconsin; Michael Kang, Emory University

Title: “Sore Loser Laws and Congressional Polarization.” Legislative Studies Quarterly

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: Nicholas Carnes, Duke University; Victoria Farrar-Myers, University of Texas at Arlington; Mirjam Dageförde, Sciences Po

Recipient: Gisela Sin, University of Illinois

Title: Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization. Cambridge University Press, 2015

Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize

In the tradition of Richard F. 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: Justin Grimmer, Stanford University; Belinda Davis, Louisiana State University; Alejandro Bonvecchi, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Recipients: Craig Volden, University of Virginia and Alan E. Wiseman, Vanderbilt University

Title: Legislative Effectiveness in the US Congress. Cambridge University Press, 2014

SECTION 04. Public Policy

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 20 plus years. The book or article should have had a major impact on the field.

Award Committee: Deborah Stone, Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jamila Michener, Cornell University; Adam Sheingate, John Hopkins University

Recipient: James C. Scott, Yale University

Title: Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press, 1998

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.

Award Committee: Robert Lowry, Chair, University of Texas at Dallas; Laura Hussey, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Renee Johnson, Rhodes College; Paul Lewis, Arizona State University; Patrick Roberts, Virginia Tech

Recipient: Ellen Donnelly, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “In Pursuit of Racial Justice: Assessing the Politics and Consequences of Racial Disparity Reform in the U.S. Criminal Justice System”

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: Vesla Weaver, Chair, Yale University; Scott Adler, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kimberly Morgan, George Washington University

Recipients: Alexandra Filindra, University of Illinois-Chicago and Noah Kaplan, University of Illinois-Chicago

Title: “A Call to Arms: White Identity and Gun Control Policy Preferences in Post-Civil Rights America”

Excellence in Mentoring Award

The Excellence in Mentoring Award has been established 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: Margaret Weir, Chair, University of California, Berkeley; Jocelyn Crowley, Rutgers University; Donald Moynihan, University of Wisconsin

Recipient: Karen M. Hult, Virginia Tech

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: Joe Soss, Chair, University of Minnesota; Sarah Anzia, University of California-Berkeley; Kristin Goss, Duke University

Recipient: Jeronimo Cortina, University of Houston

Title: “Subsidizing Migration? Mexican Agricultural Policies and Migration to the United States.” Policy Studies Journal 42 (1) 2014: 101–21

Best Comparative Policy Paper

The Best Comparative Policy Paper Award recognizes a paper presented at the APSA Annual Meeting which is of particular distinction in the area of comparative public policy. It is granted in collaboration with and sponsored by the International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum and the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.

Award Committee: Ben Ansell, Oxford University; Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania; Philip Rehm, Ohio State University; Klaus Schubert, University of Muenster; Jacint Jordana Casjuana, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Recipients: Zachary Elkins, University of Texas, Austin

Title: “Micro-Level Foundations of Diffusion Theory: Experimental Evidence”

SECTION 05. POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTIES

Emerging Scholars Award

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

Award Committee: Stephen Medvic, Chair, Franklin & Marshall College; Maryann Barakso, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Christine Mahoney, University of Virginia

Recipient: Tom Louwerse, Trinity College Dublin

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: Eric S. Heberlig, Chair, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Jane Green, Manchester University; Robert Saldin, University of Montana

Recipients: Bruce Desmarais, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Raymond La Raja, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Michael Kowal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Title: “The Fates of Challengers in US House Elections: The Role of Extended Party Networks in Supporting Candidates and Shaping Electoral Outcomes.” American Journal of Political Science 59(1): 194–211 (2015)

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: Kathryn Pearson, Chair, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Daniel J. Galvin, Northwestern University; Kristin Goss, Duke University; Jae-Jae Spoon, University of North Texas

Recipient: Tariq Thachil, Yale University

Title: Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India. Cambridge University Press, Studies in Comparative Politics series, 2014

Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Lifetime Award

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

Award Committee: Paul Quirk, Chair, University of British Columbia; David Mayhew, Yale University; Candice Nelson, American University

Recipient: Byron E. Shafer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

SECTION 06. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Jonathan Koppell, Chair, Arizona State University; Brian Cook, Virginia Tech University; Sergio Fernandez, Indiana University

Recipients: Joe Soss, University of Minnesota; Sanford Schram, Hunter College, CUNY; and Richard Fording, University of Alabama

Title: Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race. University of Chicago, 2011

Paul Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant

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

Award Committee: Frances Berry, Chair, Florida State University; Jill Nicholson-Crotty, Indiana University; Stephane Lavertu, Ohio State University

Recipient: Alisa Moldavanova, Wayne State University

Title: “The Public Purpose of the Arts: Social Connectedness, Survival, and Sustainability of Arts Organizations”

Recipient: Eunju Rho, University of Akron

Title: “Contracting for Government Services: Toward a Comprehensive Model”

Best Poster Award in Public Administration

The Best Poster on Public Administration Award recognizes the best poster presented during the previous year’s annual meeting.

Award Committee: Jared Llorens, Chair, Louisiana State University and Susan Miller, University of South Carolina

Recipient: Shirley Adelstein, Georgetown University

Title: Help or Hindrance? Work-Life Supports, Gender and Career Advancement in Federal Agencies

Recipient: Beatrice Reaud, American Unviersity

Title: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Experimental Approaches to Capturing Municipal Performance in Mozambique.

SECTION 07. CONFLICT PROCESSES

J. David Singer Data Innovation Award

The J. David Singer Data Innovation Award is given for the best data contribution to the study of any and all forms of political conflict, either within or between nation-states. Nominations must be made by a member of the Conflict Processes Section; self-nominations are encouraged. This is a biennial award.

Award Committee: Paul Huth, Chair, University of Maryland; Katherine Barbieri, University of South Carolina; Cullen Hendrix, University of Denver

Recipients: Lars-Erik Cedermann, ETH Zurich and Luc Girardin, ETH Zurich (on behalf of larger team behind platform)

Title: GROWup—Geographical Research On War, Unified Platform (growup.ethz.ch/)

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Lifetime Achievement award is given every other year in recognition of scholarly contributions that have fundamentally improved the study of conflict processes.

Award Committee: Sara Mitchell, Chair, University of Iowa; Navin Bapat, University of North Carolina; Emily Ritter, University of Alabama

Recipient: Harvey Starr, University of South Carolina

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 Section; self-nominations are encouraged.

Award Committee: Caroline Hartzell, Chair, Gettysburg College; Matthew Fuhrmann, Texas A&M University; Amy Yuen, Middlebury College

Recipients: Martin C. Steinwand, Stony Brook University and Nils W. Metternich, University College London

Title: “Who Joins and Who Fights? Explaining Coalition Behavior Among Civil War Actors.”

SECTION 08. REPRESENTATION AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

Lawrence Longley Award

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

Award Committee: David Broockman, University of California, Berkeley; Daniel Bochsler, University of Zurich; Yael Shomer, Tel Aviv University

Recipient: Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “Do Selection Rules Affect Leader Responsiveness? Evidence from Uganda.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science

Recipients: Lucas Leemann, University College London and Isabela Mares, Columbia University

Title: “The Adoption of Proportional Representation.” Journal of Politics

Leon Weaver Award

Leon Weaver Award for the best paper presented at a conference panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Section.

Award Committee: G. Bingham Powell, University of Rochester; Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, Purdue University; Kiril Kolev, Hendrix College

Recipients: Jonathan Slapin, University of Houston and Justin Kirkland, University of Houston

Title: “Ideological and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the U.S. Congress.”

George H. Hallett 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: John M. Carey, Dartmouth College; Matthew Soberg Shugart, University of California, Davis; Robin Kolodny, Temple University

Recipient: G. Bingham Powell, University of Rochester

Title: Elections As Instruments of Democracy. Yale University Press, 2000

In addition to the Hilton Union Square, events were held in at the Nikko (above) and Parc 55 (right) hotels, both of which were conveniently located on adjacent blocks.

SECTION 09. PRESIDENTS AND EXECUTIVE POLITICS

Richard E. Neustadt Award

The Richard. E. Neustadt Award is given for the best book on executive politics published during the previous calendar year. The Neustadt Committee will also consider nominations when submitted for a separate, typically less frequent, Richard E. Neustadt Award for the Best Reference Work on the Presidency and Executive Politics published in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: William Howell, Chair, University of Chicago; Rachel Potter, University of Virginia; Lyn Ragsdale, Rice University; Jeffrey Tulis, University of Texas at Austin

Recipient: Rebecca Thorpe, University of Washington

Title: The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending. University of Chicago Press, 2014

Recipient: Michael Nelson, Rhodes College

Title: Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government. Kansas University Press, 2014

Legacy Award

The Legacy Award will be 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: Terry Moe, Chair, Stanford University; George Krause, University of Pittsburgh; Martha Kumar, Towson University

Recipient: William Howell, University of Chicago

Title: Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action. Princeton University Press, 2003

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.

Award Committee: Douglas Kriner, Chair, Boston University; Karen Hult, Virginia Tech University; David Karol, University of Maryland

Recipient: Ian Ostrander, Texas Tech University

Title: “Winning the Waiting Game: Senatorial Delay in Executive Nominations.” Washington University in St. Louis, 2013

Founders Award Honoring Bert Rockman

The Founders Award Honoring Bert Rockman will be given for the best paper on executive politics authored by a PhD-holding scholar at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Paul Quirk, Chair, University of British Columbia; Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas; Gisela Sin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Recipients: Magna Inácio, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Mariana Llanos, GIGA Institut für Lateinamerika-Studien

Title: “The Institutional Presidency in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis”

Founders Award Honoring Francis Rourke

The Founders Award Honoring Francis Rourke is 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: M. Stephen Weatherford, Chair, University of California, Santa Barbara; E. Scott Adler, University of Colorado; Daniel Galvin, Northwestern University

Recipient: Christopher A. Martinez, Loyola University Chicago

Title: “Surviving the Presidency in South America: Rethinking the Role of Democracy”

SECTION 10. POLITICAL METHODOLOGY

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: Rob Franzese, University of Michigan; Lonna Atkeson, University of New Mexico; Kosuke Imai, Princeton University; Simon Jackman, Stanford University; Wendy Tam Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Recipient: Douglas Rivers, Stanford University

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; Jens Hainmueller, Stanford University; Jasjeet Sekhon, University of California, Berkeley

Recipient: Justin Grimmer, Stanford University

Harold F. Gosnell prize

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

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

Recipients: Sebastian Calonico, University of Miami; Matias Cattaneo, University of Michigan; Rocio Titiunik, University of Michigan

Title: “Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression-Discontinuity Designs”

John T. Williams Dissertation Award

In recognition of the John T. Williams contribution to graduate training, this award has been established for the best dissertation proposal in the area of political methodology.

Award Committee: Curt Signorino, University of Rochester; John Ahlquist, University of California, San Diego; Jennifer Jerit, Stony Brook University

Recipient: Drew Dimmery, New York University

Title: “Essays on Machine Learning and Causal Inference with Applications to Nonprofits”

Warren Miller Prize

Given for the best article in Political Analysis.

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

Recipients: Jens Hainmueller, Stanford University; Daniel Hopkins, Penn State University; Teppei Yamamoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Causal Inference in Conjoint Analysis: Understanding Multidimensional Choices via Stated Preference Experiments.” Political Analysis, 2013

Society for Political Methodology Poster Award

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

Award Committee: Arthur Spirling, New York University; Christina Boyd, University of Georgia; Devin Caughey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wendy Tam Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Neil Malhotro, Stanford University; Margaret Roberts, University of California, San Diego; Teppei Yamamoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipient: Dean Knox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Identifying Peer Effects under Homophily with an Instrumental Variable: Patronage and Promotions in the Chinese Bureaucracy”

Honorable Mention: Dorothy Kronick, Stanford University

Title: “Ecological Inference with Vote-Share Data”

Statistical Software Award

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

Award Committee: Michael Ward, Duke University; Matt Blackwell, Harvard University; Alex Tahk, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Recipients: Dustin Tingley, Harvard University; Teppei Yamamoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kentaro Hirose, Princeton University; Luke Keele, Penn State University; Kosuke Imai, Princeton University

Title: mediation (R package)

Outstanding Reviewer Award

The Political Analysis Outstanding Reviewer Award recognizes individuals who have provided exemplary assistance to Political Analysis during the previous year. Outstanding reviewers are those who provide excellent, timely, and productive feedback for authors who have submitted manuscripts to Political Analysis. Outstanding reviewers are also those who frequently review for the journal, and who provide the editors with productive advice about the submissions they review.

Award Committee: R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology; Jonathan Katz, California Institute of Technology

Recipients: Dorothy Kronick, Stanford University; Matthew Lebo, Stony Brook University

Excellence in Mentoring Award

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

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

Recipients: Lonna Atkeson, University of New Mexico; Jonathan Kropko, University of Virginia

SECTION 11. RELIGION AND POLITICS

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award

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

Award Committee: Melani Cammett, Chair, Harvard University; Robert Bosco, Centre College; Elizabeth Oldmixon, University of North Texas

Recipient: Michele Margolis, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “The Intersection of Religion and Politics: A Two-Way Street.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2014

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: Laura R. Olson, Chair, Clemson University; Nandini Deo, Lehigh University; Mina Suk, Arizona State University

Recipient: Jason A. Klocek, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Band of Believers? The Influence of Religion on Rebel Group Structure”

Hubert Morken Best Book Award

The Hubert Morken Award is given for the best publication dealing with religion and politics published during the last two years.

Award Committee: Amaney Jamal, Chair, Princeton University; Andre Laliberté, University of Ottawa; WIlliam Cavanaugh, DePaul University

Recipient: Tarek Masoud, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Title: Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt. Cambridge University Press, 2014

Honorable Mention: Carrie Wickham, Emory University

Title: The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement. Princeton University Press, 2013

Honorable Mention: Nabile Mouline, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Title: The Clerics of Islam: Religious Authority and the Political Power in Saudi Arabia. Yale University Press, 2014

SECTION 13. URBAN POLITICS

Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Clarissa Hayward, Chair, Washington University in St. Louis; Zoltan Hajnal, University of California, San Diego; Daniel Hopkins, Georgetown University

Recipient: Sarah Anzia, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Timing and Turnout: How Off Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups. Chicago University Press 2014

Recipient: Amy Leman, University of California, Berkeley; Vesla Weaver, Yale University

Title: Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control. Chicago University Press, 2014

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: Veronica Herrera, Chair, University of Connecticut; Ryan Enos, Harvard University; Chris Warshaw, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipients: Katherine Einstein, Boston University and David Glick, Boston University

Title: “Cities, Inequality and Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey of Mayors.” APSA Annual Meeting 2014

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: Adam Auerbach, Chair, American University; Lester Spence, Johns Hopkins University; Clayton Nall, Stanford University

Recipient: Alisha Holland, Harvard University

Title: “Forbearance as Redistribution: Enforcement Politics in Urban Latin America.” Harvard University, 2014

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: Lorrie Frasure-Yokely, Chair, University of California, Los Angeles; Emily Farris, Texas Christian University; Yue Zhang, University of Illinois, Chicago

Recipient: Brad Fulton, Duke University

Title: “Bridging and Bonding: How Social Diversity Influences Collective Political Action.” Duke University

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: Bryan Jones, Chair, University of Texas at Austin; Rick Feiock, Florida State University; Mara Sidney, Rutgers University

Recipient: Jeffrey Henig, Columbia University

Norton Long Young Scholars Award

The Norton Long Young Scholars award recognizes scholars who completed their PhD within the last three years (or are ABDs) and submitted a paper proposal for the 2015 APSA Annual Meeting to the 2015 program chairs.

Award Committee: Paul Lewis, Co-chair, Arizona State University; Alison Post, Co-chair, University of California, Berkeley

Recipient: Karin Kitchens, Georgetown University

Title: “Is Diversity Always Such a Negative for Public Investment?”

Recipient: Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Public Services and Policy Feedback in the Urban Environment”

Recipient: Amy Schoenecker, University of Illinois, Chicago

Title: “Governing Informality: Street Vendors in Chicago and Mumbai”

Clarence Stone Scholars

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 early in their career (pre-tenure, or recently advanced within the last 3 years).

Award Committee: Jessica Trounstine, Chair, University of California, Merced; Neil Kraus, University of Wisconsin-River Falls; Eric Zeemering, Northern Illinois University; Andrea Benjamin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Jefferey Sellers, University of Southern California;

Sarah Anzia, University of California, Berkeley

Recipients: Daniel Hopkins, Georgetown University; Paru Shah, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

SECTION 15. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

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: Neal Woods, University of South Carolina; Ethan Kapstein, Arizona State University; Mahalley Allen, California State University, Chico

Recipients: Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University and David M. Konisky, Georgetown University

Title: Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy and the Age of Global Warming. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2014

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: Elizabeth deSombre, Wellesley College; David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley; Nicole Klenk, University of Toronto Scarborough

Recipient: Jessica F. Green, Case Western Reserve University

Title: Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance. Princeton University Press, 2014

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award

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

Award Committee: Megan Mullin, Duke University; Alexander Ovodenko, Washington University in St. Louis; Steven Samford, University of Toronto

Recipient: Stefan Renckens, University of Toronto

Title: “Regulating Transnational Private Governance: Domestic Interests, Market Fragmentation, and Institutional Fit in the European Union.” Yale University, 2014

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; Matthew Potoski, University of California, Santa Barbara; Andrea K. Gerlak, University of Arizona

Recipient: Helen Ingram, University of California, Irvine (emeritus)

Emerging Young Scholar Award

The Emerging Young Scholar Award is given in recognition of a researcher, within 10 years of their PhD degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of science, technology, and environmental politics.

Award Committee: Edella Schlager, University of Arizona; Kathryn Hochstedler, University of Waterloo; Aseem Prakash, University of Washington

Recipient: David Konisky, Georgetown University

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: Chris Koski, Chair, Reed College; Lowell Gustafson, Villanova University; Kerry Whiteside, Franklin & Marshall College

Recipient: Neil Carter, University of York

Title: “Greening the Mainstream: Party Politics and the Environment.” Environmental Politics 22: 73–94, 2013

The Paul A. 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: Michael Schoon, Arizona State University; Stacy VanDeveer, University of New Hampshire; Andrew Kirkpatrick, Whitworth University

Recipients: Elizabeth A. Albright, Duke University; Deserai A. Crow, University of Colorado, Boulder

Title: “Learning Processes, Public and Stakeholder Engagement: Analyzing Responses to Colorado’s Extreme Flood Events of 2013.” Presented at the 2014 APSA Annual Meeting.

SECTION 16. WOMEN AND POLITICS RESEARCH

Best Dissertation Award

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

Award Committee: Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University; Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Christina Bejarano, University of Kansas

Recipient: Mona Tajali, Concordia University

Title: “Demanding a Seat at the Table: Iranian and Turkish Women’s Organizing for Political Representation”

Honorable Mention: Shauna Lani Shames, Harvard University

Title: “The Rational Non-Candidate: A Theory of (Uneven) Candidate Deterrence”

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award presented for the best paper presented at the previous year’s annual meeting in the field of women and politics.

Award Committee: Sarah Gershon, Chair, Georgia State University; Louise Davidson-Schmich, University of Miami; Monica Schneider, Miami University of Ohio

Recipients: Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University; Juliana Sanin, Rutgers University

Title: “Mapping Violence Against Women in Politics: Aggression, Harassment, and Discrimination Against Female Politicians”

SECTION 17. FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL THEORY

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: Farid Abdel-Nour, San Diego State University; Ella Myers, University of Utah; Roger Berkowitz, Bard College

Recipient: Alex Gourevich, Brown University

Title: “Quitting Work But Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike”

Poster presenters explain their research in the poster area of the exhibit hall. Seven different poster sessions, each lasting just under two hours, were held throughout the meeting, showcasing a broad variety of research.

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: Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University; Elizabeth Wingrove, University of Michigan; Jill Frank, Cornell University

Recipient: Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research

Title: Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2014

David Easton Book 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: Bonnie Honig, Brown University; James Martel, San Francisco State University; Manfred Steger, University of Hawaii at Mānoa

Recipient: Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii at Mānoa

Title: War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice. Polity Press, 2015

Recipient: Joan Cocks, Mount Holyoke College

Title: On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions. Bloomsbury, 2014

SECTION 18. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND POLITICS

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: Jeff Gulati, Chair, Bentley University; Rasmus Kleis Nielson, Roskilde University; Ramona McNeal, University of Northern Iowa

Recipient: Catie Bailard, George Washington University

Title: Democracy’s Double-Edged Sword: How Internet Use Changes Citizens’ Views of their Government. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014

Best Conference Paper

The Best Conference Paper Award recognizes the best conference paper in the area of information technology and politics. The contest is limited to articles presented at conferences in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Andrew Chadwick, Chair, Royal Holloway University of London; Jason Gainous, University of Louisville; Shannon McGregor, University of Texas at Austin

Recipients: Natalie Jomini Stroud, University of Texas at Austin; Joshua M. Scacco, Purdue University; Ashley Muddiman, University of Wyoming; Alexander L. Curry, University of Texas at Austin

Title: “Can News Comment Sections Be More Deliberative?”

Honorable Mentions: Kevin Wallsten, California State University, Long Beach; Melinda Tarsi, Bridgewater State University

Title: “Persuasion from Below? An Experimental Assessment of the Impact of Anonymous Comments Sections on New Reader Attitudes”

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation in the area of Information Technology and Politics.

Award Committee: Ines Mergel, Chair, Syracuse University; Jun Liu, University of Copenhagen; Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania

Recipient: Andreas Jungherr, University of Bamberg

Title: “The Use of Twitter in the Analysis of Political Phenomena”

SECTION 20. COMPARATIVE POLITICS

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: Giacomo Chiozza, Chair, Vanderbilt University; Hein Goemans, University of Rochester; Alison Post, University of California, Berkeley

Recipients: Barbara Geddes, University of California, Los Angeles; Joseph Wright, Pennsylvania State University; Erica Frantz, Bridgewater State University

Title: The Autocratic Regimes Data Set

Greg 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: Mala Htun, Chair, University of New Mexico; Scott Gelbach, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University

Recipient: Dominika Koter, Colgate University

Title: “King Makers: Local Leaders and Ethnic Politics in West Africa” in World Politics 65 (2), 2013

Gregory Leubbert 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: Daniel Kelemen, Chair, Rutgers University; Leonardo Arriola, University of California, Berkeley; Pablo Beramendi, Duke University; Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipient: Tariq Thachil, Yale University

Title: Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India. Cambridge University Press, 2014

Honorable Mention: Melani Cammett, Harvard University

Title: Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon. Cornell University Press, 2014

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: Alberto Simpser, Chair, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University; Jennifer Fitzgerald, University of Colorado, Boulder

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

Title: “Why Are Immigrants Underrepresented in Politics? Evidence from Sweden.” Presented at the 2014 APSA Annual Meeting

SECTION 21. EUROPEAN POLITICS & SOCIETIES

Ernst Haas Prize for the Best Dissertation

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

Award Committee: David R. Cameron, Chair, Yale University; Mary Beth Altier, New York University; Andrew C. Gould, University of Notre Dame

Recipient: Scott F. Abramson, Princeton University

Title: “The Economic Origins of the Territorial State”

Best Article Award

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

Award Committee: Rafaela Dancygier, Chair, Princeton University; Pepper Culpepper, European University Institute; Timothy Hellwig, University of Indiana

Recipient: Lenka Bustikova, Arizona State University

Title: “Revenge of the Radical Right.” Comparative Political Studies 47 (12), 1738–65, October 2014

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: Monika Nalepa, Chair, University of Chicago; Russell Dalton, University of California, Irvine; Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Recipient: Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity. Cambridge University Press, 2014

Recipient: Sarah Goodman, University of California, Irvine

Title: Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2014

Peter Mair Travel Award

The Peter Mair Memorial Award will fund the travel of two young scholars to attend the APSA Annual Meeting. Named in memory of 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 European Politics & Societies Section.

Award Committee: Cas Mudde, University of Georgia; Gabriel Goodliffe, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; Henry Farrell, George Washington University

Recipients: Isabel Perera, University of Pennsylvania; Alexander Jakubow, New Mexico State University; and Young-hwan Byun, City University of New York

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper given on European Politics & Societies Section sponsored panels at the previous annual meetings.

Award Committee: Jan Kubik, Chair, University College London; Ellen Immergut, Humboldt University of Berlin; Anne Wren, Trinity College Dublin

Recipient: Mary Beth Altier, New York University

Title: “Voting for Violence: Explaining Support for Paramilitary Parties at the Polls”

SECTION 22. STATE POLITICS AND POLICY

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: Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Chair, University of Rhode Island; Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego; Vladamir Kogan, Ohio State University

Recipients: Graeme T. Boushey, University of California, Irvine; Robert J. McGrath, University of Michigan & George Mason University

Title: “Experts, Amateurs, and Bureaucratic Influence in the American States.” Presented at the 2014 APSA Annual Meeting and the 2014 MPSA Annual Meeting.

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award for the best paper on state politics and policy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Cindy Bowling, Chair, Auburn University; Neal Woods, University of South Carolina; Cindy Rugeley, University of Minnesota–Duluth

Recipients: Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Dynamic Representation in the American States, 1960–2012”

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: Martin Johnson, Chair, Louisiana State University; Charles Barrilleaux, Florida State University; Steven Rogers, Saint Louis University

Recipient: Jaclyn J. Kettler, Boise State University

Title: “The Right to Party (Resources): Political Party Networks and Candidate Success.” Rice University, 2014

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: Lynda Powell, Chair, University of Rochester; Justin Phillips, Columbia University; Justin Kirkland, University of Houston

Recipient: Sarah F. Anzia, University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy

Title: Timing and Turnout: How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Interests. The University of Chicago Press, 2014

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: Gerald C. Wright, Chair, Indiana University; Jennifer Hayes Clark, University of Houston; Michael M. Binder, University of North Florida

Recipients: Eric McGhee, Public Policy Institute of California; Seth Masket, University of Denver; Boris Shor, Georgetown University; Steven Rogers, Saint Louis University; Nolan McCarty, Princeton University

Title: “A Primary Cause of Partisanship? Nomination Systems and Legislator Ideology.” American Journal of Political Science, 2014

Recipients: Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin–Madison; David Canon, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Ken Mayer, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Don Moynihan, University of Wisconsin–Madison;

Title: “Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout: The Unintended Consequences of Electoral Reform.” American Journal of Political Science, 2014

SECTION 23. POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

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, Yale University; Kathleen Searles, Louisiana State University; Christine Williams, Bentley University

Recipient: Matthew N. Tokeshi, Princeton University

Title: “Countering Implicit Appeals: Which Strategies Work?”

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: Ken Rogerson, Duke University; James Fielder, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency; Deen Freelon, American University

Recipients: Joanne M. Miller, University of Minnesota; Kyle L. Saunders, Colorado State University; Christina Farhart, University of Minnesota

Title: “Conspiracy Endorsement as Motivated Reasoning: The Roles of Political Knowledge and Trust”

SECTION 24. POLITICS AND HISTORY

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: Robert Fishman, Chair, University of Notre Dame; Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington; Sheena Greitens, University of Missouri

Recipient: Jonathan Obert, University of Chicago

Title: “Six Guns and State Formation: The Co-Evolution of Public and Private Violence in American Political Development.” University of Chicago, 2014

Honorable Mention: Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer, City University of New York

Title: “Politics as a Sphere of Wealth Accumulation: Cases of Gilded Age New York, 1855–1888.” City University of New York, 2014

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: Nancy Bermeo, Chair, University of Oxford; Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University; Evan Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipients: Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University and Colin D. Moore, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Title: “When Canvassers Become Activists: Antislavery Petitioning and the Political Mobilization of American Women.” American Political Science Review, 2014

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: Daniel Ziblatt, Chair, Harvard University; David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley; Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania

Recipients: Erik Engstrom, University of California, Davis and Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego

Title: Party Ballots, Reform and the Transformation of America’s Electoral System. Cambridge University Press, 2014

Recipient: Adria Lawrence, Yale University

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

SECTION 25. POLITICAL ECONOMY

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: Lloyd Gruber, London School of Economics and Political Science; Alexandra Guisinger, University of Notre Dame; Milan Svolik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Recipient: Eugene Gholz, University of Texas at Austin

Title: “Assessing the ‘Threat’ of International Tension to the US Economy.” Presented at the 2014 APSA annual meeting

Recipients: Daniel de Kadt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Horacio A. Larreguy, Harvard University

Title: “Agents of the Regime? Traditional Leaders and Electoral Clientelism in South Africa.” Presented at the 2014 APSA Annual Meeting.

Michael Wallerstein Award

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

Award Committee: Jeffrey Frieden, Harvard University; Giovanni Capoccia, Oxford University; Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri

Recipient: David Stasavage, New York University

Title: “Was Weber Right? The Role of Urban Autonomy in Europe’s Rise.” American Political Science Review 108 (2) 2014: 337–54.

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: Adam Przeworski, New York University; Megumi Naoi, University of California, San Diego; Irwin Lester Morris, University of Maryland

Recipient: In Song Kim, Princeton University

Title: “International Political Economy with Product Differentiation: Firm Level Lobbying for Trade Liberalization.” Princeton University

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: Lisa Martin, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Bonnie Meguid, University of Rochester; Aramando Razo, University of Indiana, Bloomington

Recipients: Ben Ansell, University of Oxford and David Samuels, University of Minnesota

Title: Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach. Cambridge University Press, 2014

Honorable Mention: Jonathan Caverley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Democratic Militarism: Voting, Wealth, and War. Cambridge University Press, 2014

Honorable Mention: James Vreeland, Georgetown University; Axel Dreher, Heidelberg University

Title: The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council: Money and Influence. Cambridge University Press, 2014

SECTION 27. NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE

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: Timothy Luke, Chair, Virginia Tech; Judith Grant, Ohio University; Manfred Steger, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Recipient: Terrell Carver, University of Bristol

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: Laura Olson, Chair, Lehigh University; Andrew Scerri, Virginia Tech; Kent Worcester, Marymount Manhattan College

Recipient: Naomi Murakawa, Princeton University

Title: The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. Oxford University Press, 2014

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: Alix Olson, Chair, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Stan Luger, University of Northern Colorado; Brian Waddell, University of Connecticut

Recipient: Robert Kirsch, Arizona State University

Title: “Tweets, Retweets, and Tweeting Retreats: Critically Assessing the Digital Revolution as Veblenian Machine Process”

Richard Cloward and Frances 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: Katherine Young, Chair, University of Hawaii, Hilo; Sarah Surak, Salisbury University; Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center

Recipient: POWER

Ruth Sullivan explains some of the materials at the booth for the Council on Foreign Relations.

SECTION 28. POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Hazel Gaudet Erskine Political Psychology Career Achievement Award

The Political Psychology Career Achievement Award is awarded biennially to recognize a scholar whose lifetime scholarship and service to the profession has made an outstanding contribution to the field of political psychology.

Award Committee: Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University; Thomas Leeper, Aarhus University; Kathleen Searles, Louisiana State University

Recipient: David O. Sears, University of California, Los Angeles

Best Dissertation Award

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

Award Committee: Stephen Nicholson, University of California, Merced; Eric Groenendyk, University of Memphis; Samara Klar, University of Arizona

Recipient: Timothy J. Ryan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Title: “No Compromise: The Politics of Moral Conviction”

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: Laura Stoker, University of California, Berkeley; David Doherty, Loyola University Chicago; Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University

Recipients: Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University and Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University

Title: The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions. Princeton University Press, 2014

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: Steve Greene, North Carolina State University; Rebecca J. Hannagan, Northern Illinois University; Kyle Saunders, Colorado State University

Recipient: Samara Klar, University of Arizona

Title: “When Common Identities Fuel Affective Polarization: An Experimental Study of Democratic and Republican Women.” Presented at the 2014 APSA Annual Meeting.

Distinguished Junior Scholars Award

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

Award Committee: Jeffrey Mondak, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Antoine Banks, University of Maryland, College Park; Mark Ramirez, Arizona State University

Recipients: Alexa Bankert, Stony Brook University; Nichole Bauer, University of Alabama; Christopher J. Ojeda, Pennsylvania State University; Douglas Pierce, Rutgers University; Eike Mark Rinke, University of Mannheim

SECTION 29. POLITICAL SCIENCE EDUCATION

Best APSA Conference Paper Award

The Best Paper Presentation Award is given for the best presentation on undergraduate education at the past year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Ellen Claes, Chair, Catholic University, Leuven; Marc Hooghe, Chair, Catholic University, Leuven; Shayne Nordyke, University of South Dakota; Maureen Feeley, University of California, San Diego

Recipients: Jeffrey K. Sosland, American University and Diane J. Lowenthal, American University

Title: “The Internship Supervisor and Experiential Learning.” Presented at the 2014 APSA Annual Meeting.

The Craig L. Brians Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research & Mentorship

Established in 2014, this award is awarded annually at the Teaching and Learning Conference, with recognition also given at the APSA annual Political Science Education Section reception. The award is given to faculty members who demonstrate commitment to and excellence in encouraging and developing scholarship among undergraduate students, and in mentoring undergraduate students in preparation for graduate school or public affairs-related careers. Evidence for these commitments may include, but not limited to, formal and informal supervision of undergraduate student original research, collaborating with undergraduate students on original research projects, assisting undergraduate students with public presentations and/or publication of work, and accompanying students to academic conferences. In honor of the person for whom the award is named, preference will also be given to faculty members who engage in developing undergraduate scholarship through enhancing information literacy.

Award Committee: Renee Van Vechten, University of Redlands; Mitchell Brown, Auburn University; Chad Raymond, Salve Regina University

Recipient: Tricia Mulligan, Iona College

Lifetime Achievement Award

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

Award Committee: Political Science Education Board

Recipient: John Berg, Suffolk University Boston

SECTION 31. FOREIGN POLICY

Best Paper Award

For the Best Paper on foreign policy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Nikolaos Biziouras, US Naval Academy; Jacqueline L. Hazelton, Naval War College; Aila Matanock, University of California, Berkeley

Recipients: Alexandra Guisinger, University of Notre Dame and Elizabeth N. Saunders, George Washington University

Title: “Mapping the Boundaries of Elite Cues: How Elites Shape Mass Opinion Across International Issues.” Presented at the 2014 APSA Annual Meeting.

SECTION 32. ELECTIONS, PUBLIC OPINION, AND VOTING BEHAVIOR

Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Michael Martinez, Chair, University of Florida; Tasha Philpot, University of Texas; Thad Hall, University of Utah

Recipient: Samara Klar, University of Arizona

Title: “When Common Identities Fuel Affective Polarization: An Experimental Study of Democratic and Republican Women”

Philip E. Converse Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Dick Johnston, Chair, University of British Columbia; Bernie Grofman, University of California, Irvine; Sarah Birch, Glasgow University

Recipients: Robert Huckfeldt, University of California, Davis and John Sprague, Washington University in St. Louis

Title: Citizens, Politics and Social Communication: Information and Influence in an Election Campaign

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: Marc Hetherington, Chair, Vanderbilt University; Mitch Seligson, Vanderbilt University; Dick Katz, Johns Hopkins University

Recipient: Chris Karpowitz, Brigham Young University

Recipient: Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University

John Sullivan Award

The John Sullivan Award for the best paper by a graduate student on a panel sponsored by the APSA Organized Section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Yanna Krupnikov, SUNY Stony Brook; Robert Rohrschneider, University of Kansas; Lynn Vavrek, University of California, Los Angeles

Recipient: Stephen Utych, Vanderbilt University

Title: “Human or Not? Political Rhetoric and Foreign Policy Attitudes”

Best Article in Political Behavior

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

Award Committee: David Peterson, Chair, Iowa State University;

Recipients: Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University and Nichole M. Bauer, University of Alabama

Title: “The Relationship Between Campaign Negativity, Gender and Campaign Context”

Graduate Student Travel Awards

Multiple grants are awarded to graduate students who are authors or coauthors of papers on a panel or poster session sponsored by the section at the 2015 APSA annual meeting.

Award Committee: Gabriel Lenz, Chair, University of California, Berkeley; Nathan Kelly, University of Tennessee; Laura Stephenson, University of Western Ontario

Recipients: Katherine Haenschen, University of Texas at Austin and Ju Yeon Park, New York University

Meeting attendees often joke about the importance of coffee at busy, exciting conferences like the Annual Meeting. Attendees are shown here enjoying a “Coffee Break” sponsored by Cambridge University Press.

SECTION 33. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND POLITICS

Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Chris Parker, Chair, University of Washington; Henry Flores, St. Mary’s University; James Lai, Santa Clara University; Melissa Michaelson, Menlo College

Recipient: David Lublin, American University

Title: Minority Rules: Electoral Systems, Decentralization, and Ethnoregional Party Success. Oxford University Press, 2014

Best Paper Award

The Best Comparative Dissertation Award is given for the best comparative dissertation on race, ethnicity, and politics of the previous year.

Award Committee: Marisa Abrajano, Cochair, University of California, Irvine; Alvin B. Tillery, Cochair, Nothwestern University; Shaun Bowler, University of California, Riverside

Recipients: Renee Rocha, University of Iowa and Elizabeth Maltby, University of Iowa

Title: “Latino Identity, Ethnic Context, and Mass Deportation.” Presented at the 2014 APSA Annual Meeting.

Recipients: Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University; Sophia Wallace, Rutgers University; and Chris Zepeda-Millan, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “The Impact of Large-Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African-Americans.” Presented at the 2014 APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best American dissertation on race, ethnicity, and politics accepted in the previous year.

Award Committee: Lorrie Frasure-Yoakley, Chair, University of California, Los Angeles; Paul Apostolidis, Whitman College; Lisa Magana, Arizona State University

Recipient: Desmond Jagmohan, Cornell University

Title: “Making Bricks Without Straw: Booker T. Washington and the Politics of the Disenfranchised”

Recipient: Ashley Elizabeth Jardina, University of Michigan

Title: “Demise of Dominance: Group Threat and the New Relevance of White Identity for American Politics”

SECTION 34. INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS

Jervis and Schroeder Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Peter Haas, Chair, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Jennifer Mitzen, Ohio State University; Roselyn Hsueh, Temple University

Recipient: Eric Grynaviski, George Washington University

Title: Constructive Illusions: Rethinking the Origins of International Cooperation. Cornell University Press, 2014

Outstanding Article Award

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

Award Committee: Andrew Bennett, Chair, Georgetown University; Brian Burgoon, University of Amsterdam; Keren Yarhi-Milo, Princeton University

Recipient: Nicholas Miller, Brown University

Title: “The Secret Success of Nonproliferation Sanctions.” International Organization, 68 (4) 2014: 913–44

Honorable Mention: Timothy Crawford, Boston College

Title: “The Alliance Politics of Concerted Accommodation: Entente Bargaining and Italian and Ottoman Interventions in the First World War.” Security Studies, 23 (1) 2014: 113–47

SECTION 35. COMPARATIVE DEMOCRATIZATION

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 where the award will be presented. The prize can be awarded to analyses of individual country cases as long as they are clearly cast in a comparative perspective.

Award Committee: Leonid Peisakhin, Chair, New York University; Paula Valeria Munoz Chirinos, Universidad del Pacífico; Arturas Rozenas, New York University

Recipient: Henry Thomson, University of Oxford

Title: “Food and Power: Authoritarian Regime Durability and Agricultural Policy”

Best Book Award

Given for the best book in the field of comparative democratization published in 2014 (authored, coauthored, or edited).

Award Committee: Scott Mainwaring, Chair, University of Notre Dame; Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, University of Pittsburgh; Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan

Recipient: Kurt Weyland, University of Texas at Austin

Title: Making Waves: Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America since 1848. Cambridge University Press, 2014

Honorable Mention: Rachel Beatty Ridel, Northwestern University

Title: Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2014

Honorable Mention: Ben Ansell, Oxford University and David Samuels, University of Minnesota

Title: Inequality and Democratization an Elite-Competition Approach. Cambridge University Press, 2014

Best Article Award

Single-authored or coauthored articles focusing directly on the subject of democratization and published in 2014 are eligible.

Award Committee: Lisa Blaydes, Chair, Stanford University; Nahomi Ichino, University of Michigan; Joseph Wright, Pennsylvania State University

Recipients: Jordan Gans-Morse, Northwestern University; Sebastian Mazzuca, Universidad Nacional de San Martín and CIAS; and Simeon Nichter, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Varieties of Clientelism: Machine Politics During Elections.” American Journal of Political Science 58 (2) 2014: 415–32

Best Fieldwork 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 2014 are eligible.

Award Committee: Milli Lake, Chair, Arizona State University; Michael Weintraub, Binghamton University; Calvert Jones, University of Maryland

Recipient: Barry Driscoll, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Title: “The Perverse Effects of Political Competition: Building Capacity for Patronage in Ghana”

Recipient: Colm Fox, Singapore Management University

Title: “Appealing to the Masses Understanding Ethnic Politics And Elections in Indonesia”

Honorable Mention: Michael Broache, Columbia University

Title: “The International Criminal Court and Atrocities in DRC: A Case Study of the RCD-Goma (Nkunda Faction)/CNDP/M23 Rebel Group”

Best Paper Award

Given to the best paper on comparative democratization presented at the previous year’s APSA Convention.

Award Committee: Christian Houle, Chair, Michigan State University; Michael Albertus, University of Chicago; Ryan Kennedy, University of Houston

Recipient: Kenneth Greene, University of Texas at Austin

Title: “Ousting Autocrats: The Political Economy of Hybrid Autocracy.” Presented at the 2014 APSA Annual Meeting.

SECTION 36. HUMAN RIGHTS

Best Dissertation Award

Given annually for the best political science dissertation that focuses on human rights and was completed and accepted in the previous two calendar years.

Award Committee: Michael Struett, North Carolina State University; Caryl Nuñez, University of Connecticut; Jeff Davis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Recipient: Peter Haschke, University of North Carolina

Title: “Democracy and the Human Right to the Physical Integrity of the Person”

Best Book Award

Given annually for the best book on human rights that was written by a political scientist and published in the previous two years.

Award Committee: Bethany Barratt, Roosevelt University; Mahmoud Monshipouri, San Francisco State University; Zehra Arat, University of Connecticut

Recipient: Lisa Baldez, Dartmouth College

Title: Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women’s Rights. Oxford University Press, 2014

SECTION 37. QUALITATIVE AND MULTI-METHOD RESEARCH

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. This award may be granted to a single-authored or multi-authored book, or to an edited volume. The award is given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA Annual Meeting at which the award is presented.

Award Committee: Audie Klotz, Syracuse University; Claudio Radaelli, University of Exeter; Guillermo Trejo, University of Notre Dame.

Recipient: Melani Cammett, Harvard University

Title: Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon. Cornell University Press, 2014

Alexander L. George Article-Chapter 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 is given to an article or book chapter published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA Annual Meeting at which the award is presented.

Award Committee: Taylor Boas, Boston University; Jeffrey Checkel, Simon Fraser University; Candelaria Garay, Harvard University.

Recipient: Noam Lupu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: “Brand Dilution and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America.” World Politics 66(4) October, 2014: 561–602

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 is given to a paper presented at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Maryam Deloffre, Arcadia University; Zachary S. Elkins, University of Texas; Calvert W. Jones, University of Maryland.

Recipient: Markus Kreuzer, Villanova University

Title: “The Structure of Description: Elements of Analyzing and Criteria for Evaluating Historical Evidence.”

Honorable Mention: Chris Krogslund, University of California, Berkeley and Katherine Michel, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Can QCA Do Causal Inference? An Assessment and Proposed Alternative.”

The Qualitative Submission to APSR Award

For the best qualitative manuscript submitted to the American Political Science Review in the calendar year. The award will be offered for submissions made in 2011 through 2014. To be eligible: (1) the manuscript need only be submitted to (not necessarily published in) the journal; (2) the manuscript needs to have been submitted during the calendar year, with the date of submission determined by the acknowledgement email from the APSR; (3) both new and subsequent submissions (e.g., resulting from an invitation to submit de novo or to revise and resubmit) are eligible for the award, but only one version of the manuscript is eligible for the award in any one calendar year; and (4) the manuscript submitted to the APSR must be (a) new research on qualitative methodology per se, i.e., a study that introduces specific methodological innovations or that synthesizes and integrates methodological ideas in a way that is in itself a methodological contribution; and/or (b) substantive work that is an exemplar for the application of qualitative methods, or of multi-methods with a substantial qualitative component.

Award Committee: Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University; John Gerring, Boston University; James Mahoney, Northwestern University

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

Title: “Mixing Methods: A Bayesian Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Causal Inference”

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 is 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: Colin Elman, Syracuse University; John Gerring, Boston University; and James Mahoney, Northwestern University.

Recipient: Thad Dunning, University of California, Berkeley

SECTION 38. SEXUALITY AND POLITICS

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: Justin Phillips, Chair, Columbia University; C. Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Alison Gash, University of Oregon

Recipient: Drew Walker, Brown University

Title: “The Queer Politics of Possibility”

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. The award is open to all scholarship that falls under the broad rubric of sexuality and politics, including studies concerning the regulation of sexuality, political responses to the regulation of sexuality, the uses of sexuality as a political construct, the intersections of sexuality with gender, race, and class, or LGBT politics and mobilizations.

Award Committee: Phillip Ayoub, Chair, Drexel University; Susan Burgess, Ohio University; Shawn Schulenberg, Marshall University

Recipient: Bogdan Popa, Oberlin College

Title: “Parting Company with the Opinion of the World: Shame and Political Agency in Nineteenth Century Anglo-American Feminism”

Left: Robert Rohrschneider, University of Kansas, speaks to a capacity crowd (above) during a panel called “Crisis of Democracy? Party Politics” on Thursday morning. To the right are Christopher Wlezien, University of Texas at Austin, panel chair; Simon C. J. Bornschier, University of Zurich; Silja Häusermann, University of Zurich; and Denise Traber, University of Zurich.

SECTION 39. HEALTH POLITICS AND POLICY

Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy

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

Award Committee: Harold Pollack, University of Chicago; Michael Gusmano, The Hastings Center; Trish Siplon, Saint Michael’s College; Deborah Stone, Dartmouth College

Recipients: Amy Berman, John A. Hartford Foundation and Judy Heumann, United States Department of State

SECTION 40. CANADIAN POLITICS

Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award

The Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award is given 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: Stuart Soroka, University of Michigan; Royce Koop, University of Manitoba; Ted Jelen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Roger Handberg, University of Central Florida; Ross Burkhart, Boise State

Recipients: Patrick Fournier, Universite de Montreal; Henk van der Kolk, University of Twente; R. Kenneth Carty, University of British Columbia; Andre Blais, Universite de Montreal; and Jonathan Rose, Queen’s University

Title: When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizens Assemblies on Electoral Reform. Oxford University Press, 2011

Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award

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: Richard E. Matland, Loyola University Chicago; Mildred A. Schwartz, New York University; Lori Hausegger, Boise State University; Matthew Kerby, Australian National University; Amanda Bittner, Memorial University Newfoundland

Recipient: Lawrence LeDuc, University of Toronto

SECTION 41. POLITICAL NETWORKS

Political Ties Award

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

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

Recipients: Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College and Jacob Montgomery, Washington University in St. Louis

Title: “Connecting the Candidates: Consultant Networks and the Diffusion of Campaign Strategy in American Congressional Elections.” American Journal of Political Science 59 (2): 292–308

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

Recipients: Philip Leifeld, University of Konstanz and Skyler J. Cranmer, Ohio State Univseristy

Title: “A Theoretical and Performance-Based Comparison of the Temporal Exponential Random Graph Model (TERGM) and the Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model (SAOM).” Presented at the 2014 Political Networks Conference.

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

Recipient: Jungmoo Woo, University of Kentucky

Title: “The Oil Trade Network and Democratization.” Presented at the MPSA 2014 and ISA 2014.

Best Book Award

This award is given on a biennial basis to the best book published on political networks. This award is given in the fall of odd-numbered years. Books published between April 1, 2013 and March 31, 2015 were considered for the 2015 award.

Award Committee: Justin Gross, Chair, University of North Carolina, 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

SECTION 42. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Best Book Award

The Best Book Award recognizes the best book published in 2014 that either uses or is about experimental research methods in the study of politics.

Award Committee: Kevin Arceneaux, Temple University; Jonathan Woon, University of Pittsburgh; David Nickerson, Temple University

Recipient: Dan Butler, Washington University in St. Louis

Title: Representing the Advantaged: How Politicians Reinforce Inequality. Cambridge University Press

Recipients: Christopher Karpowitz, Brigham Young University and Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University

Title: The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions. Princeton University Press

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation completed in calendar year 2014 that utilizes experimental methods on substantive questions about politics or makes a fundamental contribution to experimental methods.

Award Committee: Tali Mendelberg, Chair, Princeton University; Thad Dunning, University of California, Berkeley; Jason Barabas, SUNY Stonybrook

Recipient: Meredith L. Sadin, Princeton University

Title: “A Wealth of Ambivalence: How Stereotypes About the Rich Matter for Political Attitudes and Candidate Choice”

Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Ryan Enos, Chair, Harvard University; Claire Adida, University of California, San Diego; Jamie Druckman, Northwestern University

Recipients: Thomas Leeper, Aarhus University and Kevin Mullinix, Appalachian State University

Title: “What If You Had Done Things Differently? Testing the Generalizability of Framing Effects with Parallel Experiments”

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: Don Green, Columbia University; Andra Gillespie, Emory University; Betsy Sinclair, Washington University in St. Louis

Recipient: Warren Slocum, San Mateo County Board of Supervisors

SECTION 43. MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP

Best Article Award

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

Award Committee: Anje Ellermann, Chair, University of British Columbia; Paulina Ochoa, Haverford College; Dan Hopkins, Georgetown University

Recipient: Rafaela Dancygier, Princeton University

Title: “Electoral Rules or Electoral Leverage? Explaining Muslim Representation in England.” World Politics, 2014

Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Jeannette Money, Chair, University of California, Davis; James McCann, Purdue University; Louis Desipio, University of California, Irvine

Recipients: David Scott Fitzgerald, University of California, San Diego and David Cook-Martin, University of California, San Diego

Title: Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas. Harvard University Press, 2014

Honorable Mention: Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine

Title: Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2014

Honorable Mention: Rebecca Hamlin, Grinnell College

Title: Let Me Be a Refugee: Administrative Justice and the Politics of Asylum in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Oxford University Press, 2014

Best Book Chapter Award

Award for best chapter on migration and/or citizenship published in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Anna Sampaio, Chair, Santa Clara University; Marc Howard, Georgetown Univeristy; Anna Law, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Recipient: David Abraham, University of Miami School of Law

Title: “Law and Migration: Many Constants, Few Changes.” Routledge, 2014

Best Dissertation Award

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

Award Committee: David Leal, Chair, University of Texas at Austin; Katrina Burgess, Tufts University; Maria Koinova, University of Warwick

Recipient: Lamis Abdelaaty, University of California, Santa Clara

Title: “Selective Sovereignty: Foreign Policy, Ethnic Identity, and the Politics of Asylum”

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: David Cook-Martin, Chair, Grinnell College; Dara Strolovitch, Princeton University; Scott Solomon, University of South Florida

Recipient: Leila Kawar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Title: “Bringing Immigration to the Law: Immigrant Rights, Legal Activism, and the Enactment of Adversarial Legalism”

Above: Attendees mingle outside the Exhibit Hall. A common sight in all three hotel spaces was groups of political scientists gathering to make new connections or catch up with one another. Among all the activities and events at the 111th APSA Annual Meeting, this year’s conference accomplished the exciting and important goal of simply bringing people together. APSA is already looking forward to gathering together at the 112th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Meeting attendees congregate for a promotional reception at Cambridge University Press’s booth in the Exhibit Hall.

A standing-room-only assembly intently listens to Robert Reich’s plenary address.

Article contents

Annual Meeting and Exhibition Review

Abstract

APSA Awards

Activities and Events

2015 APSA Ralph Bunche Scholars Present Posters

Graduate Students and Scholars Funded

INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS

US GRADUATE STUDENTS

INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES

Minority Fellowship Program Travel Grant Recipients

Fund for Latino Scholarship Travel Grant Recipients

2015 APSA Organized Section Awards Presented

Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award

Martha Derthick Best Book Award

Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award

Publius, The Journal of Federalism Best Article Award

SECTION 02. LAW AND COURTS

Best Conference Paper Award

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Best Journal Article Award

C. Herman Pritchett Award

Lasting Contribution Award

Lifetime Achievement Award

Teaching and Mentoring Award

Law and Courts Section Service Award

SECTION 03. LEGISLATIVE STUDIES

Carl Albert Dissertation Award

CQ Press Award

Jewell-Lowenberg Prize

Alan Rosenthal Prize

Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize

SECTION 04. Public Policy

Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award

Best Poster on Public Policy Award

Best Paper on Public Policy Award

Excellence in Mentoring Award

Theodore J. Lowi Policy Studies Journal Best Article Award

Best Comparative Policy Paper

SECTION 05. POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTIES

Emerging Scholars Award

Jack Walker Award

Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award

Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Lifetime Award

SECTION 06. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award

Paul Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant

Best Poster Award in Public Administration

SECTION 07. CONFLICT PROCESSES

J. David Singer Data Innovation Award

Lifetime Achievement Award

Best Paper Award

SECTION 08. REPRESENTATION AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

Lawrence Longley Award

Leon Weaver Award

George H. Hallett Award

SECTION 09. PRESIDENTS AND EXECUTIVE POLITICS

Richard E. Neustadt Award

Legacy Award

George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award

Founders Award Honoring Bert Rockman

Founders Award Honoring Francis Rourke

SECTION 10. POLITICAL METHODOLOGY

Career Achievement Award

Emerging Scholar Award

Harold F. Gosnell prize

John T. Williams Dissertation Award

Warren Miller Prize

Society for Political Methodology Poster Award

Statistical Software Award

Outstanding Reviewer Award

Excellence in Mentoring Award

SECTION 11. RELIGION AND POLITICS

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award

Best Paper Award

Hubert Morken Best Book Award

SECTION 13. URBAN POLITICS

Best Book Award

Best Paper Award

Best Dissertation on Urban Policy