Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations

The Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award recognizing distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations, was presented to Carol S. Weissert of Florida State University.

The Best Paper Award, conferred for the best paper in the field of federalism and intergovernmental relations presented at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, was given to Thomas L. Gais, SUNY-Rockerfeller Institute of Government, Catherine E. Johnson, Williams College, and Catherine Lawrence, Rockerfeller Institute of Government, SUNY, for their work, “Three Faces of Welfare Reform: State Implementation and Child Poverty in the US.” The Best Book Award, conferred for the best book on federalism and intergovernmental relations published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations, was presented to Thomas J. Anton of Brown University, for American Federalism and Public Policy: How the System Works (Temple University Press, 1989).

Law and Courts

The American Judicature Society Award, conferred for the best paper on law and courts presented at the previous year's annual meetings of the American, Midwest, Northeastern, Southern, Southwestern, or Western Political Science Associations, was given to Scott A. Comparato and Scott D. McClurg, Southern Illinois University, for their paper “State Supreme Court Compliance with the Supreme Court's Search and Seizure Decisions” (SPSA, 2002).

The Wadsworth Publishing Award, given for a book or journal article 10 years or older, that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts, was awarded to Gerald N. Rosenberg of the University of Chicago for his book The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (University of Chicago Press, 1991).

The McGraw-Hill Award, given for the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist and published in 2002, was presented to James L. Gibson, Washington University, for “Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation: Judging the Fairness of Amnesty in South Africa,” AJPS (July 2002).

The Congressional Quarterly Press Award, conferred annually for the best paper on law and courts written by a graduate student, was given to Paul M. Collins, Jr. and Lisa Solowiej, SUNY-Binghamton, for “Participation, Competition, and Conflict: Interests Groups in the US Supreme Court.”

The C. Helman Pritchett Award, for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published in 2002, was awarded to Ira L. Strauber, Grinnell College, for his book Neglected Policies: Constitutional Law and Legal Commentary as Civic Education (Duke University Press, 2002).

The Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring a distinguished career of achievement and service in the field of law and courts, was presented to S. Sydney Ulmer of the University of Kentucky.

The Teaching and Mentoring Award, recognizing innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts, was given to Lee Epstein of Washington University and Thomas G. Walker of Emory University.

Legislative Studies

The CQ Press Award, for the best paper on legislative studies presented at the 2002 APSA

Annual Meeting, was given to Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley, and Gregory J. Wawro, Columbia University, for “Where's the Pivot? Obstruction and Lawmaking in the Pre-Cloture Senate.”

The Jewell-Loewenberg Paper Award, for the best article in the Legislative Studies Quarterly in 2002, was awarded to Rory A. Austin, George Washington University, for his article “Seats That May Not Matter: Testing for Racial Polarization in U.S. City Councils” (LSQ 27, 2002).

The Alan Rosenthal Prize, 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, was given to Scott Adler, University of Colorado, Boulder, for Why Congressional Reforms Fall: Reelection and the House Committee System (University of Chicago Press, 2002).

The Richard Fenno Jr. Book Prize, awarded for the best book on legislative studies published in 2002, was given to John D. Huber, Columbia University and Charles R. Shipan, University of Iowa, for Deliberate Discretion? The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Public Policy

The Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award, recognizing a book that has had a lasting impact on the study of public policy, was given to Martha Derthick, University of Virginia and Paul J. Quirk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for The Politics of Deregulation (Brookings Instiution Press, 1985).

The Best Paper Award, conferred for the best paper in the field of federalism and intergovernmental relations presented at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, was presented to Soeren C. Winter, Danish National Institute of Social Research, for “Explaining Variation in Street-Level Bureaucratic Behaviors in Social and Regulatory Policies.”

Political Organizations and Parties

The Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Lifetime Award, given annually to recognize a member of the profession who has made an exemplary contribution to the study of political organizations and parties, was presented to Kay Lawson of San Francisco State University.

The Emerging Scholar Award, awarded to a young scholar in the Organized Sections Distribute Awards at 2003 Annual Meeting 860 PS October 2003 field of political organizations and parties, was given to Daniel J. Tichenor of Rutgers University.

The Jack Walker Award, given annually to honor the best article published in the field of political organizations and parties during the previous two calendar years, was awarded to Richard A. Harris, Rutgers University, Camden, and Daniel J. Tichenor, Rutgers University, for “Organized Interests and American Political Development” (Political Science Quarterly 117, Winter 2002).

The Leon Epstein Award, honoring a book published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties, was given to Jo Freeman, A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002).

The Party Politics Award, honoring the best paper presented by a graduate student on a POP panel at the preceding APSA annual meeting, was given to Richard G.C. Johnston, University of British Columbia and Byron E. Shafer, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for “Economic Development, Legal Desegregation, and Partisan Change in the Post War South.”

Public Administration

The Herbert Kaufman Award, for the best paper presented at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, was awarded to Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Carolyn Fuqua, and Katarina Thoren, University of Chicago, for “Contracting Welfare Reform: Uncertanties of Capacity Building Within Disjointed Federalism.”

Conflict Processes

The Lifetime Achievement Award, given in honor of an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of conflict processes, was presented to Rudolph J. Rummel, of the University of Hawaii.

Representation and Electoral Systems

The George H. Hallett Award, 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, was given to Gary W. Cox, University of California, San Diego, for The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parities in Victorian England (Cambridge University Press, 1987).

The Lawrence Longley Award, given for the best article published in the previous year, was presented to Rein Taagepera, University of California, Irvine for “Nationwide Threshold of Representation” (Electoral Studies 21, 2002).

Presidency Research

The Richard E. Neustadt Award, given for the best book published during 2002 that contributed to research and scholarship in the field of American presidency, was awarded to Andrew C. Rudalevige, Dickinson College, for his work Managing the Presidents Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formation (Princeton University Press, 2002).

The Founder's Award, honoring Stephen Wayne, and awarded for the best paper presented at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, was presented to Andrew C. Rudalevige, Dickinson College, for “The Structure of Leadership: Information, Organization, and Presidential Decision Making.”

The Founder's Award, honoring Peri Arnold, awarded for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, was given to Elvin T. Lim, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, for “The Lion and the Lamb: De-Mythologizing Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats.”

The Presidency Research Group Career Service Award was awarded to Richard E. Neustadt of Harvard University.

Religion and Politics

The Aaron Wildavsky Award, for the best dissertation on religion and politics, and supported by the Lilly Endowment, was presented to Timothy Samuel Shah of Harvard University, for “A Horror of Discord: Radical Pluralism and the Invention of Liberalism in the Early Writings of Hugo Grotius.”

The Best Paper Award, for the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the 2002 APSA Meeting, was given to Steven V. Mazie, University of Michigan, for “Political Liberalism and Public Religion: Lessons from Israel.”

Urban Politics

The Best Book Award, for the best book on urban politics published in 2002, was given to Paul Kantor, Fordham University and Hank V. Savitch, University of Louisville, for their work Cities in the International Marketplace (Princeton University Press, 2002).

The Best Paper Award, for the best paper given at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, was presented to Zoltan L. Hajnal and Jessica Luce Trounstine Hills, University of California, San Diego, for their paper “Why Turnout Does Matter: The Effects of a Skewed Electorate on Minority Representation in Local Politics.”

The Best Dissertation on Urban Politics or Urban Policy, given for the best dissertation written in 2002, was awarded to Steven Reed Johnson of Portland State University, for “The Transformation of Civic Institutions and Practice in Portland Oregon, 1960-1999.”

The Bryan Jackson Dissertation Research Support Award, given to a graduate student studying racial and ethnic politics in an urban setting, was presented to Michelle Camou, University of Colorado, for “Managing Conflict without Contracts: Achieving Economic Justice in the Informal Economy.”

The Norton Long Career Achievement Award, given in recognition of an exemplary career in urban politics, was given to Michael B. Preston of the University of Southern California.

Science, Technology & Environmental Politics

The Lynton Keith Caldwell Award, for the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years, was given to Erika S. Weinthal, Tel Aviv University, for State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic and International Politics in Central Asia (MIT Press, 2001).

The Don K. Price Award, given for the best book on science, technology, and politics published in the past three years, was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University, for The Gifts of Athena (Princeton University Press, 2002).

Foundations of Political Theory

The David Easton Award, recognizing books published during the previous five years that broaden the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through various approaches in the social sciences and humanities, was given to Sheldon S. Wolin for Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Here's an early look at some of the articles you'll see in the December Perspectives on Politics: Articles Symposium: Poor People's Movements Members can access Perspectives on Politics online at www.apsanet.org/perspectives, made possible by Cambridge University Press. Would the Dream of Political Equality Turn Out To Be a Nightmare? SIDNEY VERBA Structures Do Not Come with an Instruction Sheet: Interests, Ideas, and Progress in Political Science MARK BLYTH Engaging Subjective Knowledge: How Amar Singh's Diary Narratives of and by the Self Explain Identity Formation LLOYD I. RUDOLPH AND SUSANNE HOEBER RUDOLPH Retrospective Comments Frances Fox Piven Crossing the Ocean and Back Again with Piven and Cloward Sidney Tarrow The Praxis of Poor People's Movements: Strategy and Theory in Dissensus Politics Sanford F. Schram The Success of Poor People's Movements: Empirical Tests and the More Elaborate Model Joel Lefkowitz Poor People's Movements 25 Years Later: Historical Context, Contemporary Issues Joe Kling Organizing vs. Mobilizing: Poor People's Movements after 25 Years Fred Block 862 PS October 2003 APSA members can access both current and archival issues of the APSR online at www.apsanet.org/apsr.cfm, made possible by Cambridge University Press. Here's an early look at some of the articles you'll see in the November APSR: Making of Political and Theoretical Life (Princeton University Press, 2003).

The Best Paper Award, given for the best paper presented on a Foundations panel at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, was presented to Leigh K. Jenco of the University of Chicago, for her work “Representing a Noble Heart: Thoreau's Critique of Democracy.”

Women and Politics

The Best Dissertation Prize, for the best dissertation on women and politics, was given to Jennifer Leigh Disney, Winthrop University, for “The Theories and Practices of Women's Organizing: Marxism, Feminism, Democratization and Civil Society in Mozambique and Nicaragua.”

Comparative Politics

The Gregory Luebbert Book Award, given for the best book in the field of comparative politics in the previous year, was presented to John D. Huber, Columbia University and Charles R. Shipan University of Iowa, for Deliberate Discretion? The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2002). It was also awarded to Ashutosh Varshney, University of Michigan, for his work, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life (Yale University Press, 2002).

The Gregory Luebbert Article Award, given for the best article in the field of comparative politics in the previous year, was given to Pamela Johnston Conover, University of North Carolina, Ivor Crewe, University of Essex, and Donald D. Searing, University of North Carolina, for their work “The Deliberative Potential of Political Discussion” (British Journal of Political Science, January 2001).

The Sage Paper Award, given for the best paper in the field of comparative politics presented at the previous APSA meeting, was given to Matthew Light and Frances M. Rosenbluth, Yale University, for “The Politics of Low Fertility: Global Markets, Women's Employment and Birth Rates in Four Industrialized Democracies.”

The Data Set Award, given for publicly available data set that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative politics, was given to Ian Budge, D.J. Hearl, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fuer Sozialforschung (WZB), D.R. Robertson, and Andrea Volkens for their “Manifesto Project.”

European Politics and Society

The Best Paper Award, given for the best paper presented at a panel sponsored by the section at the 2001 meeting, was awarded to Bo Rothstein of Goteborg University and Dietlind Stolle of McGill University, for their work “How Political Institutions Create and Destroy Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust.”

The Best Book Award given for the best book on European politics and society published in the previous year, was presented to Mark Beissinger, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State” (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

The Best Dissertation Award given for the best dissertation on European politics and society completed and accepted in the previous year, was presented to Daniel Ziblatt, University of California, Berkeley, for “Constructing a Federal State: Political Development, Path Dependence, and the Origins of Federalism in Modern Europe, 1815-1871”.

State Politics and Policy

The State Policy and Politics Quarterly Best Paper Award, given on the topic of State Politics and Policy given at any professional meeting in 2002, was awarded to Ben Highton, University of California, Davis, Megan Mullin, University of California, Berkeley, and Raymond E. Wolfinger, University of Calfornia, Berkeley, for “Between Registering and Voting: How State Laws Affect Voter Turnout of Young Registrants” (APSA, 2002).

The Best Graduate Student Paper Award, for the best paper presented by a Graduate Student on a Section panel at the 2002 APSA Meeting, was given to Seth E. Masket, University of California, Los Angeles, for “Building Better Partisans: What California's Experience with Cross- Filing Teaches Us About Party Politics.”

The Best Paper Award, for the best paper presented during a Section panel at the 2002 APSA Meeting, was given to Matthew Fellows, Virginia H. Gray, and David L. Lowery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for their work “Sisyphus Meets the Borg: Understanding the Diversity of Interest Communities.”

Political Communication

The Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award, given for the best book published on political communication in the last ten years, was presented to Dean E. Alger and Timothy E. Cook of Lousiana State University, Ann N. Crigler of the University of Southern California, Marion R. Just of Wellesly College, and Darrell M. West of Brown University for their work Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign (University of Chicago Press, 1996).

The Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award, for lifetime contribution to the study of political communication, was given to W. Lance Bennett of the University of Washington.

The Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award, given for the best paper presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting, was awarded to Matthew A. Baum, University of California, Los Angeles, for “Making Politics Fun: What Happens When Presidential Candidates Hit the Talk Shows.

Political Economy

The William H. Riker Best Book Award given for the best book on political economy published in 2002, was awarded to Michael J. Hiscox, Harvard University, for International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions and Mobility (Princeton University Press, 2002) and to John D. Huber, Columbia University and Charles R. Shipan, University of Iowa, for Deliberate Discretion? The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

The Mancur Olsen Best Dissertation Award, given for the best dissertation on political economy in 2002, was presented to Alex Segura- Ubiergo, Columbia University, for “Globalization, Domestic Politics and the Welfare State in the Developing World: Latin America in Comparative Perspective, 1973-1997.”

Ecological and Transformational Politics

The Best Book Award, for the best book on ecological and transformational politics published within the previous two years that deal with social movements, environmental politics, race, ethnicity, and gender in terms of democratic ideals, was presented to Andrew Jamison, Aalborg University, for The Making of Green Knowledge: Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2001). The Praxis Award, given for political scientists who embodies the praxis of political and personal transformation, was presented to Ronald Walters of the University of Maryland. The Outstanding Paper Award, for the best paper presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting, was given to Andrea Y. Simpson, University of Washington, for “Public Hazard, Personal Peril: The Impact of Non-Governmental Organizations in Environmental Justice Claims.”

New Political Science

The Christian Bay Award, given for the best paper presented at a new political science panel at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, was presented to Jennifer Leigh Disney, Winthrop University, for “The Potential and Limitations of Democratization: Civil Society and Women's Organizing in Post-Revolutionary Mozambique and Nicaragua.”

The Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award, presented to a progressive political scientist who has had a long, successful career as a writer, teacher and activist, was awarded to Michael Parenti.

The Michael Harrington Book Award, given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world, was awareded to Manfred B. Steger of Illinois State University, for Globalization: the New Market Ideology (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001).

Undergraduate Education

The Best Paper Presentation Award, given for the best presentation on undergraduate education at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, was presented to Joseph Kahne of Mills College and Joel Westheimer of the University of Ottawa, for their work “Educating the ‘Good’ Citizen: The Politics of School -Based Civic Education Programs.”

The Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to a person whose lifetime contribution to political science have had a significant impact on undergraduate education, was given to Sheilah Mann of the American Political Science Association.

Politics and History

The J. David Greenstone Award, for the Best Book in Politics and History, was given to Mounira Charrad, University of Texas, Austin, for “States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco” (University of California Press) and Taeku Lee, Harvard University, for “Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era” (University of Chicago Press).

The Mary Parker Follett Award, given for the best article in Politics and History, was presented to Daniel J Tichenor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and Richard A. Harris, Rutgers University, Camden, for “Organized Interests and American Political Development” Political Science Quarterly 117:4 (2002-03).

Politics and Literature

The Best Paper Award, given for the best paper presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting, was awarded to Catherine H. Zuckert, University of Notre Dame, for “Tom Sawyer: Potential President.”

Foreign Policy

The Best Paper Award, given for the best paper delivered at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, was presented to Richard C. Eichenberg, Tufts University, for “Gender Difference and the Use of Force in the United States, 1990-2002.”

Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior

The Best Paper Award, presented to the best paper delivered at the 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, was given to George Y. Bizer, Allyson L. Holbrook, Jon A. Krosnick, Richard Petty, Derek D. Rucker, and S. Christian Wheeler, Ohio State University, for “Impact of Personality 864 PS October 2003 on Political Beliefs Attitutes, and Behavior: Need for Cognition and Need to Evaluate.”

The Philip E. Converse Book Award, given for an outstanding book in the field published at least five years before, was presented to Benjamin I. Page, Northwestern University and Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia University, for The Rational Public (University of Chicago Press, 1992).

The Emerging Scholar Award, awarded at least biennially to a top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of her or his Ph.D., was given to Darren Davis of the University of Michigan.

International History and Politics

The Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Prize, awarded for the best book on international history and politics published in 2002, was given to Neta Crawford, Brown University, for Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and to Dorothy Jones, for Toward a Just World: The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2002).