The Association honored 22 members for their career achievements and outstanding research at the Awards Ceremony and Luncheon, held as part of the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Hosted by 2003 Program Co-Chairs Henry Brady and Margaret Weir, the event began with a luncheon for the winners, their guests, and committee members, and was followed by a ceremony presenting 19 prizes. Complete citations on each award can be found in the Gazette section of this issue of PS.

The Association honored five individuals for their major contributions to the profession and our understanding and practice of politics. The Association was pleased to honor Johan P. Olsen of ARENA, University of Olso, with the John Gaus Award honoring a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint traditions of political science and public administration. In conjunction with receiving the Gaus Award, Olsen delivered the annual John Gaus lecture, titled “Citizens, Public Administration, and the Search for Foundations.” The Gaus lecture will appear in the January issue of PS.

The Carey McWilliams Award, presented annually to an individual who has made a major journalistic contribution to the understanding of politics, was presented to two of today's foremost political writers, Adam Clymer and Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. Their contributions to the discipline were noted as: “a distinct mix of substantive and analytical excellence that has enormously enriched our comprehension of contemporary politics.”

The Hubert H. Humphrey Award, presented each year in recognition of notable public service by a political scientist, was given to Mark O. Hatfield, former Senator of Oregon. Hatfield received an M.A. in political science from Stanford University and served as associate professor of political science at Willamette University for six years. His long and distinguished career of public service includes three terms in the Oregon State Legislature, four years as Oregon secretary of state, two terms as governor of Oregon, and three decades on the U.S. Senate before his retirement in 1997.

Eminent scholar Albert O. Hirschman of Princeton University garnered a standing ovation as he received the Benjamin E. Lippincott Award. The Lippincott Award is given to a political theorist for a work of exceptional quality that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since original publication. Hirschman was recognized for his seminal work, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before its Triumph (Princeton University Press, 1977).

The Charles Merriam Award, recognizing a scholar whose published work and career represents a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research, was presented to Joseph S. Nye, Jr. of Harvard University.

Seven dissertation prizes were awarded to young scholars who had completed their doctoral studies in 2001 or 2002. The Gabriel A. Almond prize for the best dissertation in comparative politics was awarded to Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania. Lynch completed “The Age of Welfare: Citizens, Clients and Generations in the Development of the Welfare State” under the direction of John Zysman at the University of California, Berkeley.

The 2003 William Anderson Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the general field of federalism, intergovernmental relations, or state and local politics was awarded to Thad Kousser, University of California, Berkeley. Kousser completed his dissertation, “How Term Limits and Professionalization Reshape America's State Legislatures,” under the direction of Bruce Cain at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jeffrey Kaplan Staton, Florida State University, won the Edward S. Corwin award for “Judicial Activism and Public Authority Compliance: The Role of Public Support in the Mexican Separation-Of-Powers System.” Lee Epstein and John Carey of Washington University, St. Louis, served as Staton's dissertation cochairs. The Corwin Award is given for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law.

The Harold D. Lasswell Award for the best dissertation in policy studies was presented to Kristin Anne Goss of Georgetown University for her work “Disarmed: The Real American Gun Control Paradox.” Goss completed her dissertation under the direction of Robert D. Putnam at Harvard University.

Stephen G. Brooks of Dartmouth University received the Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best doctoral dissertation in international relations, law, and politics. Brooks wrote his dissertation, “The Globalization of Production and International Security,” under the direction of Geoffrey Garrett, University of California, Los Angeles, Bruce Russett, Yale University, and Alexander Wendt, University of Chicago.

The E. E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government and politics was awarded to Tracy Sulkin of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for “Rethinking Responsiveness: Campaign Themes, Legislative Agendas, and the Politics of Issue Update.” Bryan D. Jones at the University of Washington served as her dissertation chair.

The Leo Strauss Award, for the best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted in 2001 or 2002 in the field of political philosophy, was presented to Arash Abizadeh of McGill University. He completed his dissertation, “Rhetoric, the Passions, and Difference in Discursive Democracy,” under the direction of Seyla Benhabib at Yale University.

Two awards were presented in the paper and article category in 2003. The Heinz Eulau Award for the best article published in the American Political Science Review during 2002 was given jointly to Stephen D. Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder, and Alan Gerber of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yale University, for their work “Equal Votes, Equal Money,” published in the December issue.

The 2003 Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at last year's annual meeting, was given to Larry Bartels of Princeton University for his work, “Economic Inequality and Political Representation.”

Four book awards were also presented. Paul M. Sniderman of Stanford University and Thomas Piazza of the University of California, Berkeley were awarded the Ralph Bunche Award for their book, Black Pride and Black Prejudice (Princeton University Press). The Bunche award is given for the year's best scholarly work in political science which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.

The Gladys M. Kammerer Award, given for the best political science publication in 2002 in the field of U.S. national policy, was awarded to Daniel J. Tichenor of Rutgers University, for his work, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America (Princeton University Press).

The 2003 Victoria Schuck Award, for the best book published in 2002 on women and politics, was awarded to Louise A. Chappell of the University of Sydney for Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada (University of British Columbia Press).

Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge University Press), authored by Mark Beissinger of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was named winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award. The prize is given for the best book published in 2002 on government, politics, or international affairs.

APSA will present 20 awards at the 2004 Annual Meeting in Chicago. Nomination and submission information is available on the APSA web site <www.apsanet.org>.