Martha Derthick Book Award

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

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

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

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award

Recognizes distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Conference Paper Award

Given annually for the best paper on law and courts presented at the previous years annual meetings of the American, Midwest, Northeastern, Southern, Southwestern, or Western Political Science Associations

Nominations due: February 15, 2013

Award Committee: Anna Law, CUNY Brooklyn College (Chair); Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Pomona College; Jeffrey Staton, Emory University

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Given annually for the best paper on law and courts written by a graduate student

Nominations due: February 15, 2013

Award Committee: Artemus Ward, Northern Illinois University (Chair); Bethany Blackstone, University of North Texas; Adriana Buliga-Stoian, Mount Mercy University

Best Journal Article Award

Recognizes the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist and published during the previous calendar year

Nominations due: February 15, 2013

Award Committee: Richard Pacelle, Georgia Southern University (Chair); Meghan Leonard, Illinois State University; Helen Knowles

C. Herman Pritchett Award

Given annually for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published the previous year

Nominations due: February 15, 2013

Award Committee: Valerie Hoekstra, Arizona State University (Chair); Courtenay Daum, Colorado State University; Robert Hume, Fordham University

Lifetime Achievement Award

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

Nominations due: February 15, 2014

Lasting Contribution Award

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

Nominations due: February 15, 2013

Award Committee: Thomas Walker, Emory University (Chair); Joseph Smith, University of Alabama; Scott Hendrickson, Elizabethtown College; Roger Hartley, Western Carolina University; Elizabeth Bussiere, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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.

Nominations due: February 15, 2013

Award Committee: Keith Whittington, Princeton University (Chair); Ellen Andersen, University of Vermont; Leila Kawar, Bowling Green State University; Kaitlyn Sill, Pacific Lutheran University; Donald Songer, University of South Carolina

Teaching and Mentoring Award

Recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts. The Award is supported by a contribution from the Division for Public Education of the American Bar Association. 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 Committee also advises the Organized Section on matters related to teaching and mentoring of students and colleagues.

Nominations due: February 15, 2013

Award Committee: Jolly Emrey, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater (Chair); Lawrence Baum, Ohio State University; Patrick Wohlfarth, University of Maryland; Alec Ewald, University of Vermont; Jennifer Jacobson, Kutztown University

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.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Vineeta Yadav, Pennsylvania State University (Chair); Catherine Rudder, George Mason University; Sarah Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Carl Albert Dissertation Award

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.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Georg Vanberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chair); James Curry, University of Utah; Kathleen Bratton, Louisiana State University

CQ Press Award

For the best paper on legislative studies presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Daniel Lee, Michigan State University (Chair); Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa; Jeffery Jenkins, University of Virginia

Jewell-Loewenberg Paper Award

For the best article in the Legislative Studies Quarterly in the previous year.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Ryan Vander Wielen, Temple University (Chair); Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University; David Canon, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Richard F. Fenno Prize

In the tradition of Professor Fenno's work, this prize honors work that is both theoretically and empirically strong. Moreover, this prize is dedicated to encouraging scholars to pursue new and different avenues of research to find answers to previously unexplored questions about the nature of politics.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Lanny Martin, Rice University (Chair); Michael Minta, University of Missouri, Columbia; Bruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University

Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award

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. This award carries a $500 prize.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Saundra Schneider, Michigan State University (Chair); Hahrie Han, Wellesley College; Pepper Culpepper, European University Institute

Best Comparative Policy Paper Award

Recognizes an article of particular distinction published in the area of comparative public policy, awarded in collaboration with the International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum. This award carries a $500 prize.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Best Poster on Public Policy Award

Given for the best paper or poster presented at the poster session at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. This award carries a $500 prize.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Paper on Public Policy Award

Recognizes the best paper on public policy given at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. This award carries a $500 prize.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Excellence in Mentoring Award

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. This award carries a $500 prize.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Robert Lieberman, Columbia University (Chair); Elizabeth Rigby, George Washington University; Neal Woods, University of South Carolina

Harold Lasswell Award

Awarded annually by APSA for the best dissertation in the field of public policy. It is co-sponsored by the Policy Studies Association and the APSA Public Policy Organized Section. The award carries a $1,000 prize.

Nominations due: January 15, 2013

Jeffrey Pressman Award

Awarded for the best article in Policy Studies Review

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Theodore J. Lowi Policy Studies Journal Best Article

Given to recognize an article of particular distinction published at any time in Policy Studies Journal. This award carries a $500 prize.

Nominations due: February 15, 2013

Award Committee: William Gormley, Georgetown University (Chair); Graeme Boushey, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor; David Levi-Faur, Hebrew University

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

Nominations due: April 30, 2013

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

Nominations due: April 30, 2013

Leon 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

Nominations due: April 30, 2013

POP/Party Politics Award

Recognizes the best paper delivered on a political organizations and parties-sponsored panel at the preceding APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: April 30, 2013

Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award

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

Nominations due: April 30, 2013

Best Article Award

Recognizes the best article published in The American Review of Public Administration

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Herbert Kaufman Award

Presented to best paper presented on a panel sponsored (or cosponsored) by the Public Administration section at the 2012 APSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Because the APSA 2012 Annual Meeting was canceled, the section will follow APSAs guidance on what constitutes a presented paper: papers that were uploaded to the APSA 2012 conference paper site, hosted by SSRN, or posted/presented in a virtual or alternative form (see PA Division Panels in the 2012 online program for links to such alternative presentations) are eligible for the Kaufman Award.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Anthony Bertelli, University of Southern California (Chair)

Herbert A. Simon Book Award

For significant contributions to public administration scholarship. Books with publication dates of 2007, 2008, and 2009 are eligible for the 2013 award. The books' orientation may be qualitative, quantitative, empirical, interpretive, ethnographic, historical, archival, normative, or theoretical. However, textbooks, revised editions of previously published books, and edited volumes are not eligible.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Donald Moynihan, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Chair); Mary Feeney, University of Illinois, Chicago; Amanda Girth, Ohio State University

Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant

Invites applications and research proposals from junior scholars researching public administration issues affecting governance in the United States and abroad. Proposals are 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. Individual grants are not renewable.

Award Committee: Richard Houston, APSA

Best Book Award

Given annually for the best book in conflict processes that was published in the two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. Edited volumes and textbooks are not eligible. Nominations must be made by a member of the Conflict Processes section; self-nominations are encouraged. Nominations should be submitted to the committee chair, and copy of the book should be sent to each member of the award committee.

Nominations due: March 15, 2014

J. David Singer Data Innovation Award

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.

Nominations due: April 1, 2013

Award Committee: D. Scott Bennett, Pennsylvania State University (Chair); Kyle Beardsley, Emory University; Johanna Birnir, University of Maryland

Lifetime Achievement Award

Awarded every other year in recognition of scholarly contributions that have fundamentally improved the study of conflict processes.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Scott Gartner, Penn State University (Chair); Michaela Mattes, Vanderbilt University; Patrick James, University of Southern California

George H. Hallett Award

Presented annually to the author of a book published at least 10 years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Ethan Scheiner, University of California, Davis (Chair); Susan Banducci, University of Exeter; Royce Carroll, Rice University

Lawrence Longley Award

Given for the best article published in the previous year

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Zeynep Somer-Topcu, Vanderbilt University (Chair); Laura Stephenson, University of Western Ontario; Emily Clough, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Leon Weaver Award

Given for the best paper presented at the previous years annual meeting at a panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Division. This award will not be given in 2013.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award

Given annually for the best dissertation in presidency research completed and accepted during the calendar year prior to the Annual Meeting. The recipient receives a $250 award.

Nominations due: February 1, 2013

Award Committee: Andrew Dowdle, University of Arkansas (Chair); James Campbell, SUNY, University at Buffalo; Ann-Marie Szymanski, University of Oklahoma; Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College

Best Undergraduate Paper Award

Recognizes the best undergraduate paper completed in the previous two academic years

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Lilly Goren, Carroll University (Chair); Jennifer Hopper, Washington College; Todd Eberly, St. Mary's College of Maryland; Leah Murray, Weber State University

Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Given for the best paper presented by a graduate student at either the preceding years APSA Annual Meeting or at any of the regional meetings in the two years preceding the APSA Annual Meeting. One copy of each essay should be sent directly to each member of the committee.

Nominations due: May 1, 2013

Award Committee: Richard Ellis, Willamette University (Chair); Richard Skinner, Rollins College; Maryann Gallagher, DePauw University; Brendan Doherty, US Naval Academy

Founders Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper presented at the previous years Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Irwin Morris, University of Maryland (Chair); Susan Roberts, Davidson College; Glen Sussman, Old Dominion University; Mitchel Sollenberger, University of Michigan, Dearborn

Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award

Given for the best book published during the year that contributed to research and scholarship in the field of American presidency. One copy of each book should be sent directly to each member of the committee.

Nominations due: February 1, 2013

Award Committee: Raymond Tatalovich, Loyola University, Chicago (Chair); Ryan Barilleaux, Miami University; William Mayer, Northeastern University; Colleen Shogan, Congressional Research Service; Nicole Mellow, Williams College

Career Achievement Award

Honors an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in political metholdology

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Emerging Scholar Award

Honors a young researcher, within 10 years of his or her degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of political methodology

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Harold F. Gosnell Prize

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

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

John T. Williams Dissertation Prize

Established for the best dissertation proposal in the area of political methodology. Proposals using quantitative or qualitative methods are welcomed. Proposals should follow National Science Foundation format guidelines.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Statistical Software Award

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

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Warren Miller Article Award

Given for the best article in political analysis

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award

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

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Sultan Tepe, University of Illinois, Chicago (Chair)

Best Paper Award

Recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2014

Best Publication Award

Given for the best publication dealing with religion and politics published during the last two years

Best Book Award

Recognizes the best book on urban politics published in the previous year

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Juliet Gainsborough, Bentley University (Chair); Neil Kraus, University of Wisconsin, River Falls; Lorraine Minnite, Rutgers University-Camden

Best Book in Urban Politics within Five Years

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Dissertation Award

Given annually for the best dissertation on urban politics accepted in the previous year

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Jessica Lavariega Monforti, University of Texas, Pan American (Chair); Traci Burch, Northwestern University; Justin Phillips, Columbia University

Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award

Recognizes the outstanding scholarship by a graduate student in the area of race and urban politics

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Michael Owens, Emory University (Chair); Kim Williams, Portland State University; Jaime Dominguez, Northwestern University

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper given at an Urban Politics Section panel at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Norton Long Career Achievement Award

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

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Rodney Hero, University of California, Berkeley (Chair); Harold Wolman, George Washington University; Annette Steinacker, Loyola University, Chicago

Norton Long Young Scholars

Given to scholars who are completing or have completed their PhD within the last three years and submitted a paper proposal for the 2013 APSA meetings to the 2013 program chairs.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Megan Mullin, Temple University (Chair); Jered Carr, University of Missouri, Kansas City (Chair)

Special Award

Given for contributions to urban political theory

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Special Award for Best Book on Urban Policy

Awarded to the best book on a special topic within the field of urban politics

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper in science, technology, and environmentals studies

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Don K. Price Award

Recognizes the best book on science, technology, and environmental politics published in the last year.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Eric Plutzer, Pennsylvania State University (Chair); James Stoutenborough, Texas A&M University; Brendon Swedlow, Northern Illinois University

Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize

Given for the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Mark Stephan, Washington State University, Vancouver (Chair); Ramiro Berardo, University of Arizona; Jessica Boscarino, Marist College

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award

Named in honor of a young scholar who tragically passed away last year, this award is given for the best dissertations in the field of science, technology, and environmental politics.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Christopher Borick, Muhlenberg College (Chair); Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland; Llewelyn Hughes, George Washington University

Best Dissertation Prize

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

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Paper Award

Presented for the best paper presented at the previous year's annual meeting in the field of women and politics

Nominations due: April 1, 2013

Award Committee: Miki Kittilson, Arizona State University (Chair); Alice Kang, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jennifer Piscopo, Salem College

The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory

Cosponsored by Women and Politics, Foundations of Political Theory, and the Womens Caucus for Political Science, this award commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, and professional contributions of Susan Moller Okin and Iris Marion Young to the development of the field of feminist political theory. This annual award recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year.

Nominations due: February 15, 2013

Award Committee: Erica Townsend-Bell, Oklahoma State University (Chair)

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper presented on a foundations section panel at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. Due to the cancellation of the 2012 APSA Annual Meeting, no best paper award will be given in 2013.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

David Easton Award

Recognizes 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

Nominations due: February 15, 2013

Award Committee: Nancy Hirschmann, University of Pennsylvania (Chair); Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University; Terry Nardin, National University of Singapore

First Book Award

Recognizes the best first book published in the previous year by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career in political theory/philosophy

Nominations due: February 15, 2013

Award Committee: Richard Boyd, Georgetown University (Chair); Fonna Forman, University of California, San Diego; John Zumbrunnen, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Best Book Award

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

Nominations due: April 30, 2013

Award Committee: J. Singh, George Mason University (Chair)

Best Conference Paper

Recognizes the best conference paper in the area of information technology and politics presented at conferences in the previous calendar year

Nominations due: April 1, 2013

Award Committee: Girish Gulati, Bentley University (Chair)

Best Dissertation Award

Recognizes the best dissertation in the area of information technology and politics

Nominations due: April 1, 2013

Award Committee: David Karpf, George Washington University (Chair)

Best Information Technology & Politics Article Award

T Recognizes the best scholarly article published about information technology and politics published in the calendar year 2004. The winner receives a certificate and a check for the cost of one year's membership in the APSA and the ITP section.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Kevin Wallsten, California State University, Long Beach (Chair)

Learning Innovations Award

Recognizes innovations in learning technology and pedagogy

Award Committee: Derrick Cogburn, American University (Chair)

Outstanding Software Development

Recognizes the development of software that advances research and/or teaching in the area of technology and politics

Award Committee: Derrick Cogburn, American University (Chair)

Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award

Awarded to a successfully defended doctoral dissertation on any aspect of security studies, which has been submitted in final, library copy in calendar year 2012. The committee welcomes nominations for dissertations employing any approach (historical, quantitative, theoretical, policy analysis, etc.) to any topic in the field of security studies. Manuscripts are judged according to (1) originality in substance and approach; (2) significance for scholarly or policy debate; (3) rigor in approach and analysis; and (4) power of expression.

Nominations due: February 28, 2013

Award Committee: Joshua Rovner, US Naval War College (Chair); Katherine Brown, King's College London; Chris Demchak, Naval War College; Amy Zegart, University of California, Los Angeles; Michael Horowitz, University of Pennsylvania; Kenneth Boutin, Deakin University

Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Award for Public Service

Awarded to a scholar with a distinguished career in national security affairs both as an academic and a public servant. It is given to memorialize Joseph Kruzel, a security studies scholar and Department of Defense policy official who was killed while on a diplomatic mission to Bosnia.

Nominations due: March 31, 2013

Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award

Recognizes a publicly available data set that has made an important contribution to comparative politics

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Kenneth Kollman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Chair); Daniel Brinks, University of Texas at Austin; Bonnie Meguid, University of Rochester

Luebbert Best Article Award

Given for the best article in comparative politics published in the previous two years

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Philip Roessler, College of William & Mary (Chair); Sheri Berman, Barnard College-Columbia University; Steven Wilkinson, Yale University

Luebbert Best Book Award

Given for the best book in comparative politics published in the previous two years

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Jeffrey Winters, Northwestern University (Chair); Alan Jacobs, University of British Columbia; Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan

Powell Graduate Mentoring Award

Introduced in 2012, this prize is awarded on a biannual basis to a political scientist who throughout his or her career has demonstrated a particularly outstanding commitment to mentoring graduate students in comparative politics. The prize was named in honor of G. Bingham Powell, Jr. and was initiated by his students.

Nominations due: March 1, 2014

Sage Best Paper Award

Given to the best paper in comparative politics presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown University (Chair); Jan Teorell, Lund University; Henry Hale, George Washington University

Best Article Award

T Given for the best article dealing with European politics and society published in the last year

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Frank Schimmelfennig, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH); Christilla Roederer-Rynning, University of Southern Denmark; Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Best Book Award

Given for the best book on European politics and society published in the previous year

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: David Stasavage, New York University (Chair); Sigrun Kahl, Yale University; David Rueda, University of Oxford

Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award

Given for the best dissertation on European politics and society filed during the previous year

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Jordan Gans-Morse, Northwestern University; Jonathan Hopkin, London School of Economics; Markus Thiel, Florida International University

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper presented at a panel sponsored by the section at the most recent meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Peter Mair Award

Awards two travel funds annually to enable young scholars to attend the APSA Annual Meeting to enable young scholars of European politics, without alternative funding, to present a paper in one of the panels organized by the EPS section. First-time APSA-attendants who are graduate students or junior professors from underfunded European universities (notably in the East and South) are prioritized, but senior scholars from such institutions as well as junior scholars from underfunded non-European universities (including the US) are also considered. Applicants are expected to also apply to all other travel funds they are eligible for, including their department/university, national science foundations, and the APSA Travel Fund. The Awards are set at a maximum of $1,000 each, but partial/matching funding is possible too (and could lead to a larger number of grants).

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Cas Mudde, University of Georgia (Chair); Gabriel Goodliffe, Johns Hopkins University; Henry Farrell, George Washington University

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Awarded for the best paper on state and politics by a graduate student given at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: April 15, 2013

Award Committee: John Griffin, University of Colorado, Boulder (Chair); Janine Parry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Donald Haider-Markel, University of Kansas

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper on state politics given at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: April 15, 2013

Award Committee: John Griffin, University of Colorado, Boulder (Chair); Janine Parry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Donald Haider-Markel, University of Kansas

Career Achievement Award

Given every biennium to a political scientist who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the study of politics and public policies in the American states

Nominations due: April 15, 2013

Award Committee: Christopher Mooney, University of Illinois, Springfield (Chair); Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University; Elisabeth Gerber, University of Michigan; Stephen Nicholson, University of California, Merced; Seth Masket, University of Denver

Christopher Mooney Dissertation Award

Given for excellent dissertations in this academic field completed during the previous calendar year

Nominations due: April 15, 2013

Award Committee: Julianna Pacheco, University of Iowa (Chair); Jason Casellas, University of Texas, Austin; Patrick Flavin, Baylor University

State Politics and Policy Quarterly (SPPQ) Best Paper Award

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

Nominations due: April 15, 2013

Award Committee: Andrew Karch, University of Minnesota (Chair); Nancy Martorano Miller, University of Dayton; Jeff Harden, University of Colorado

Timothy Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award

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

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Stephanie Burkhalter, Humboldt State University (Chair); Toby Bolsen, Georgia State University; Joseph Cobetto, University of Missouri, Columbia

David Swanson Career Achievement Award

Recognizes distinguished and sustained contributions to the field as planners, editors, and leaders and in roles that require time and energy, innovation, and personal dedication. The award honors David Swanson, one of the founders of political communication who gave exemplary service to the ICA Political Communication Division and the APSA Political Communication Section and is administered jointly and awarded every other year. The winner receives the award plaque at the annual business meeting of the ICA Political Communication Division.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award

Recognizes a lifetime contribution to the study of political communication

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Doris Graber Award

Recognizes the best book published on political communication in the last 10 years

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Andrew Rojecki, University of Illinois, Chicago (Chair); Costas Panagopoulos, Fordham University; Roderick Hart, University of Texas, Austin

Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award

Recognizes the best paper on political communication presented at the previous years APSA annual meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Sean Richey, Georgia State University (Chair); Danny Hayes, George Washington University; James Fielder, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency

J. David Greenstone Book Prize

Recognizes the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University (Chair); Daniel Kryder, Brandeis University; Anthony Chen, Northwestern University

Mary Parker Follett Prize

Recognizes the best article on politics and history published in the previous year

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Chair); Daniel Galvin, Northwestern University; Christopher Howard, College of William & Mary

Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award

Given for the best dissertation in politics and history

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Alvin Tillery, Rutgers University (Chair); Priscilla Yamin, University of Oregon; Sean Farhang, University of California, Berkeley

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper in political economy presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Elizabeth Penn, Washington University in St. Louis (Chair); Edmund Malesky, Duke University; Stephanie Rickard, London School of Economics

Michael Wallerstein Award

Given for the best published article in political economy in the previous calendar year

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Shanker Satyanath, New York University (Chair); Leslie Johns, University of California, Los Angeles; Cliff Carrubba, Emory University

Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award

Given for the best dissertation in political economy completed in the previous two years

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Christina Davis, Princeton University (Chair); Jowei Chen, University of Michigan; Monika Nalepa, Princeton University

William H. Riker Book Award

Given for the best book on political economy published during the past three calendar years

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Jeffrey Lax, Columbia University (Chair); Karen Jusko, Stanford University; Jens Hainmueller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christian Bay Award

Awarded for a new political science paper presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

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

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award

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

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Michael Harrington Book Award

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

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Dissertation Award

Given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Richard Lau, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (Chair); Deborah Brooks, Dartmouth College; Christopher Dawes, New York University

Robert E. Lane Award

Awarded for the best book in political psychology published in the past year

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Adam Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Chair); Deborah Schildkraut, Tufts University; Paul Freedman, University of Virginia

Best Paper Award

Given to the most outstanding paper in political psychology delivered at the previous years Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University (Chair); Cheryl Boudreau, University of California, Davis; Christopher Karpowitz, Brigham Young University; Rune Slothuus, Aarhus University

Distinguished Junior Scholars Award

Awards up to five $400 grants, meant for travel to the APSA, for junior scholars (graduate students or those no more than seven years since receiving their PhD)

Nominations due: May 1, 2013

Award Committee: Stephen Nicholson, University of California, Merced (Chair); John Bullock, Towson University; Devra Moehler, University of Pennsylvania

Best Paper Presentation Award

Given for the best presentation on undergraduate education at the past year's APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Lifetime Achievement Award

Given to a person whose lifetime contribution to political science have had a significant impact on undergraduate education

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

McGraw-Hill Award

Recognizes political scientists who advance civic engagement through the study of engagement and participation. The award honors a wide range of unique and new approaches to the scholarship and teaching of civic engagement, but in particular scholars who raise political awareness, involvement, and par-ticipation of undergraduate students.

Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

For outstanding graduate student papers presented at the APSA annual meeting that are relevant to the study of foreign policy. Nominations from panel chairs should be sent to the Foreign Policy Section chair.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Paper Award

Presented to the best paper on foreign policy presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper delivered at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Jennifer Jerit, Florida State University; Keena Lipsitz, CUNY, Queens College; Daniel Stevens, University of Exeter

Emerging Scholar Award

Awarded to the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of her or his PhD

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: David Peterson, Iowa State University (Chair); Adam Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University

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

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Jennifer Jerit, Florida State University; Keena Lipsitz, CUNY, Queens College; Daniel Stevens, University of Exeter

Philip E. Converse Book Award

Given for an outstanding book in the field published at least five years before

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Markus Prior, Princeton University (Chair); Kim Fridkin, Arizona State University; John Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles

Warren E. Miller Award

Awarded every two or three years for an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the elections, public opinion, and voting behavior field

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Book Award

Given for the best book in the field of race, ethnicity, and politics

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Jessica Lavariega Monforti, University of Texas, Pan American (Chair); Julia Jordan-Zachery, Providence College; Joseph Yi, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; MaruiceMangum, Texas Southern University; Jason Casellas, University of Texas, Austin

Best Dissertation Award

Given for the best American dissertation on race, ethnicity, and politics accepted in the previous year

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Regina Freer, Occidental College; John Mollenkopf, CUNY-Graduate Center; Daniel HoSang, University of Oregon

Best Comparative Dissertation Award

Given for the best comparative dissertation on race, ethnicity, and politics of the previous year

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Paper Award

Given for the best paper on race, ethnicity, and politics presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Andra Gillespie, Emory University (Chair); Ricardo Ramirez, University of Notre Dame; Reza Hasmath, University of Oxford

Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award

Awarded for the best book on international history and politics. 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 meeting at which the award is presented. The copyright date of a book will establish the relevant year. Hence, books with a 2012 copyright date will be eligible for the award presented at the 2013 APSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations due: January 31, 2013

Best Article Award

Single-authored or co-authored articles focusing directly on the subject of democratization and published in 2012 are eligible. Nominations and self-nominations are encouraged. Copies of the article should be sent by e-mail to each of the committee members.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Milan Svolik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Chair); Svend-Erik Skaaning, Aarhus University; Leonardo Arriola, University of California, Berkeley

Best Book Award

Given for the best book in the field of comparative democratization published in 2012 (authored, co-authored, or edited). Copies of the nominated book should be sent to each committee member in time to arrive by March 15, 2013.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: David Samuels, University of Minnesota (Chair); Rachel Riedl, Northwestern University; James Melton, University College London

Best Field Work Award

This prize rewards dissertation students who conduct especially innovative and difficult fieldwork. Scholars who are currently writing their dissertations or who complete their dissertations in 2012 are eligible.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Leonard Wantchekon, New York University (Chair); Oeindrila Dube, New York University; Gwyneth McClendon, Yale University

Best Paper Award

Given to the best paper on comparative democratization presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting. Papers must be nominated by panel chairs or discussants and sent by e-mail to each committee member.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Zachary Elkins, University of Texas, Austin (Chair); Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University; Joseph Wright, Pennsylvania State University

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 (2011 or 2012 for the 2013 Annual Meeting). The prize can be awarded to analyses of individual country cases as long as they are clearly cast in a comparative perspective.

Nominations due: March 15, 2013

Award Committee: Allen Hicken, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Chair); Daniel Gingerich, University of Virginia; Nic Cheeseman, Oxford University

Best Book Award

Open to all books on human rights that were written by a political scientist and published in the previous two years

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Dissertation Award

Given to political science dissertations that focus on human rights and completed and accepted in the previous two calendar years

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Best Paper Award

Recognizes the “best paper” presented on a Human Rights Section Panel at the APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Distinguished Scholar Award

Recognizes an individual who has worked in human rights and made an exceptional contribution to the field through research, teaching and mentorship

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Alexander L. George Article Award

Honors Alexander George's contributions to the comparative case-study method, including his work linking that method to a systematic concern with research design and his contribution of developing the idea and the practice of process tracing. This award may be granted to a journal article or to a chapter in an edited volume that stands on its own as an article. Articles or chapters published in 2012 will be eligible for the 2013 award.

Nominations due: January 30, 2013

David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award

Honors 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 multimethod approaches in substantive research, and/or institutional contributions to this area of methodology.

Nominations due: January 30, 2013

Giovanni Sartori Book Award

Gonors Giovanni Sartori's work on qualitative methods and concept formation and 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 encompasses two types of contributions: new research on methodology per se, and substantive work that is an exemplar for the application of qualitative methods.

Nominations due: January 30, 2013

APSR Submission Award

The APSR Submission Award recognizes the best qualitative manuscript submitted to the American Political Science Review in the previous calendar year.

Nominations due: January 30, 2013

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.

Nominations due: January 30, 2013

Best Conference Paper Award

Recognizes the best paper exploring sexuality and politics presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 1, 2014

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.

Nominations due: March 1, 2014

Len Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award

The Len Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award, which was approved in 2011, honors the late Len Robins, who through his presence and gentle questioning at virtually every health politics panel graciously nurtured the scholarship of both junior and senior scholars. The award recognizes the best paper on any subject that fits under the rubric of health politics and policy presented at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award

Recognizes scholarship and leadership in bringing the study of Canadian politics to the international political science community

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Robert Young, University of Western Ontario (Chair); R. Kent Weaver, Georgetown University; Mildred Schwartz; Keith Banting, Queen's University; Richard Vengroff, Kennesaw State University

Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award

Honors 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

Nominations due: March 1, 2013

Award Committee: Louise Carbert, Dalhousie University (Chair); Anthony Sayers, University of Calgary; James Endersby, University of Missouri, Columbia; David Leal, University of Texas, Austin; David Lublin, American University

Best Book Award

Recognizes the best book published in 2012 that either uses or is about experimental research methods in the study of politics. Copies of the book should be sent toall members of the selection committee.

Nominations due: April 1, 2013

Award Committee: James Druckman, Northwestern University (Chair); Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University; Toby Bolsen, Georgia State University

Best Dissertation Award

Eligible nominees will have completed a dissertation in the 2012 calendar year that utilizes experimental methods on substantive political science research, or makes a fundamental contribution to experimental methods. Nominations should come from faculty members but they need not be on the students' dissertation committee.

Nominations due: April 1, 2013

Award Committee: Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University (Chair); Betsy Sinclair, University of Chicago; Dustin Tingley, Harvard University

Best Paper Award

Recognizes a paper that was scheduled to be presented at APSA and features experimental analysis. Chairs and discussants are especially encouraged to nominate papers, but nominations from anyone who is aware of an interesting paper prepared for presentation (as well as self-nominations) are welcome.

Nominations due: April 1, 2013

Award Committee: Lynn Vavreck, University of California, Los Angeles (Chair); Donald Green, Columbia University; Eric Dickson, New York University

Best Article Award

Presented for the best article on migration and/or citizenship published in the previous year. Send one copy of an article published in 2012 to each committee member.

Nominations due: March 31, 2013

Award Committee: Monica Varsanyi, CUNY-John Jay College (Chair); Erik Bleich, Middlebury College; Elizabeth Cohen, Syracuse University

Best Book Award

Given for the best book on migration and/or citizenship published in the previous year. Send one copy of a book published in 2012 to each committee member.

Nominations due: March 31, 2013

Award Committee: Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania (Chair); Gallya Lahav, SUNY, Stony Brook University; John Mollenkopf, CUNY-Graduate Center

Best Chapter Award

Given for the best chapter on migration and/or citizenship published in the previous year. Send one copy of a chapter published in 2012 to each committee member.

Nominations due: March 31, 2013

Award Committee: Audie Klotz, Syracuse University (Chair); Maarten Vink, University of Maastricht; Ronald Schmidt, California State University, Long Beach

Best Dissertation Award

Given for the best dissertation on migration and/or citizenship accepted in the previous year. Send one copy of a dissertation accepted in 2012 to each committee member.

Nominations due: March 31, 2013

Award Committee: Erin Chung, Johns Hopkins University (Chair); Willem Maas, York University; Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University