ABOUT THE AWARD

The Robert A. Dahl Award is awarded annually to an untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy. Nonladder faculty members and junior tenure-track faculty at universities and colleges are eligible for the Dahl Award, as are scholars at nonprofit organizations and think tanks, and independent scholars.

Scholarship eligible for the Dahl Award includes books, papers, and articles on the subject of democracy.

The inaugural winner is Lee Drutman, Senior Fellow, New America, for his book The Business of American is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate. Read the full citation in the Gazette in this issue.

ABOUT ROBERT DAHL

Robert Dahl was a giant in the discipline of political science. He wrote a series of landmark books, including A Preface to Democratic Theory and Who Governs? He served as president of APSA from 1966 through 1967, and participated in countless committees and activities of the Association throughout his long professional career.

Dahl was also especially interested in supporting younger scholars and new talent in the profession and mentored many doctoral students who have become leaders in political science themselves.

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE

James S. Fishkin

Jennifer L. Hochschild

Ira Katznelson

Catharine MacKinnon

Jane Mansbridge

David R. Mayhew

The Honorable David E. Price

Rosemary A. Putnam

Philippe C. Schmitter

Ian Shapiro

Rogers M. Smith

Sidney Tarrow

Jane Thery

Elisabeth Wood