SECTION 1: FEDERALISM & INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Martha Derthick Book Award

Award Committee: Sara Niedzwiecki, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University; Nancy Burns, University of Michigan

Recipients: Pradeep Chhibber, University of California, Berkeley and Ken Kollman, University of Michigan

Title: The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada Great Britain India and the United States. Princeton University Press, 2004.

Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Hye Young, Princeton University; Vladimir Kogan, Ohio State University; Anjali Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology

Recipient: Julian Michel, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “The Subnational Roots of Democratic Stability.” Presented at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award

Award Committee: Jefferey Sellers, University of Southern California; Eduardo Moncada, Barnard College; Tracy Beck Fenwick, Australian National University

Recipient: Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania

John Kincaid Best Article Award

Award Committee: Heidi Jane Smith, Universidad Iberoamericana; Emily Sydnor, Southwestern University; Louise Tillin, King’s College London

Recipients: Aung Kaung Myat, McGill University; David Roman, Lingnan University; Ian Holliday, University of Hong Kong

Title: “Two Concepts of Federalism in Myanmar: How the 2021 Military Coup Reshaped Political Discourse and Opposition Institutions.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 53(2): 278-300. 2023.

SECTION 2: LAW AND COURTS

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Award Committee: Matthew Montgomery (Chair), Texas Christian University; Jennifer Jacobson, Kutztown University; Abigail Matthews, University of Buffalo; Alison Merrill, Susquehanna University; Nicholas Waterbury, University of Illinois Springfield

Recipient: Sara J. Heridia, Emory University

Title: “Finding Echoes: Judicial Empathy Among Judges with Family Immigration Histories.” Presented at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

Teaching and Mentoring Award

Award Committee: Laura Moyer (Chair), University of Louisville; Adam Nye, Pennsylvania State University; Sahar Abi-Hassan, Northeastern University; Jonathan King, West Virginia University; Christopher Krewson, Brigham Young University

Co-Recipient: Jolly Emrey, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater

Co-Recipient: Teena Wilhelm, University of Georgia

Law and Courts Service Award

Award Committee: Monica Lineberger (Chair), University of Wisconsin–Whitewater; Sivaram Cheruvu, University of Texas at Dallas; Amy Steigerwalt, Georgia State University; Rachel Houston, Texas Christian University; Jessica Schoenherr, University of South Carolina

Co-Recipient: Amanda Driscoll, Florida State University

Co-Recipient: Michael J. Nelson, Pennsylvania State University

Best Conference Paper Award

Award Committee: Brandon Bartels (Chair), George Washington University; Bailey Fairbanks, University of Central Arkansas; Elizabeth Lane, North Carolina State University; Allyson Yankle, Radford University

Recipients: Christina Bambrick, University of Notre Dame and Maureen Stobb, Georgia Southern University

Title: “Meeting of the Minds: Reshaping Citizens’ Rights and Duties.” Presented at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Journal Article Award

Award Committee: Rachel Hinkle (Chair), State University of New York at Buffalo; Susan Achury, Lycoming College; Francesca Parente, Christopher Newport University; Joshua Boston, Bowling Green State University

Recipients: Brandon Bartels, George Washington University; Jeremy Horowitz, Dartmouth College; Eric Kramon, George Washington University

Title: “Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court’s Role in the 2017 Election Crisis” American Journal of Political Science 67(3): 790-807. 2023.

Honorable Mention: Filiz Kahraman, University of Toronto

Title: “What Makes an International Institution Work for Labor Activists? Shaping International Law Through Strategic Litigation.” Law & Society Review 57(1): 61-82. 2023.

C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book

Award Committee: Ali Masood (Chair), Oberlin College; Amanda Driscoll, Florida State University; Jay Krehbiel, West Virginia University; Natalie Rogol, Rhode Island College; Elisha Savchak-Trogdon, Elon University

Co-recipients: Christina L. Boyd, University of Georgia; Paul M. Collins, Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst; Lori A. Ringhand, University of Georgia

Title: Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in US Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings. Stanford University Press, 2023.

Co-recipients: Morgan L. W. Hazelton, Saint Louis University; Rachael K. Hinkle, University at Buffalo; Michael J. Nelson, Pennsylvania State University

Title: The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Charles M. Cameron, Princeton University and Jonathan P. Kastellec, Princeton University

Title: Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Law and Courts Lasting Contribution Award

Award Committee: Ryan Black (Chair), Michigan State University; Rebecca Gill, University of Nevada–Las Vegas; Kayla Canelo, University of Texas at Arlington; Timothy Johnson, University of Minnesota; Tao Dumas, The College of New Jersey

Recipient: Lisa Hilbink, University of Minnesota

Title: Judges Beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons From Chile. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Law and Courts Lifetime Achievement Award

Award Committee: Rorie Solberg (Chair), Oregon State University; Jeffrey Staton, Emory University; Christina Boyd, University of Georgia; Paul M. Collins, Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst

Recipient: Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University

SECTION 3: LEGISLATIVE STUDIES

Carl Albert Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Lucia Motolinia Carballo (Chair), Washington University in St. Louis; Stephen Bates, University of Birmingham; Paruh Shah, Rutgers University

Recipient: Eric Michael Manning, Princeton University

Title: “Essays on Modern Campaign Financing in the United States.”

CQ Press Award

Award Committee: Ari Ray (Chair), Collegium Helveticum & ETH Zürich; Thiago Moreira, Louisiana State University; Susan Miller, Arizona State University

Recipients: Isabela Mares, Yale University and Alexander Trubowitz, Yale University

Title: “Electoral Rules, Programmatic Competition, and Redistribution: Evidence from Interwar France.”

Jewell-Loewenberg Prize

Award Committee: Mary Kroeger (Chair), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Maria Thurk, University of Basel; David Miller, University of California, Riverside

American Politics

Recipient: Emily Ommundsen, University of Mississippi

Title: “The Institution’s Knowledge: Congressional Staff Experience and Committee Productivity.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 48(2): 273-303. 2023.

Comparative

Recipient: Rabia Malik, University of Essex

Title: “Lesser of Two Evils: Allocating Resources to Opposition Districts in Pakistan.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 48(2): 241-271. 2023.

Subnational

Recipients: Miguel M. Pereira, London School of Economics and Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez, Carlos III University

Title: “Does Electing Women Reduce Corruption? A Regression Discontinuity Approach.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 48(4): 731-763. 2023.

Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize

Award Committee: LaGina Gause (Chair), University of California, San Diego; Jose Cheibub, University of Pittsburgh; Royce Carroll, University of Essex

Recipients: Tiffany D. Barnes, University of Kentucky; Yann P. Kerevel, Louisiana State University; Gregory W. Saxton, Texas Tech University

Title: Working Class Inclusion: Evaluations of Democratic Institutions in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award

Award Committee: Katherine Tate (Chair), Brown University; Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University; Ernesto Calvo, University of Maryland

Recipient: Kaare Strøm, University of California, San Diego

SECTION 4: PUBLIC POLICY

Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award

Award Committee: Christopher Weible, University of Colorado Denver; Ling Zhu, University of Houston; Sanford Schram, University of Minnesota

Recipient: Martin Gilens, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Why Americans Hate Welfare. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Best Paper on Public Policy Award

Award Committee: Kenicia Wright, Arizona State University; Trey Thomas, West Virginia University; Johanna Hornung, University of Bern

Recipients: Jaren Finnegan, University College London and Jonas Meckling, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Fighting the Future: Short-Term Investors and Business Opposition to Climate Policy.”

Best Comparative Policy Paper Award

Award Committee: Jane Gingrich, Oxford University; Guillermo Toral, IE University; Nils Bandelow, Technische Universität Braunschweig; Xufeng Zhu, Tsinghua University; Jacint Jordana Casajuana, Pompeu Fabra University

Recipients: Natalie Bueno, Emory University; Felipe Nunes, University of California, San Diego; Cesar Zucco, Getulio Vargas Foundation

Title: “Benefits by Luck: A Study of Lotteries as a Selection Method for Government Programs.”

Theodore J. Lowi Policy Studies Journal Best Article Award

Award Committee: Saba Siddiki, Syracuse University; Kristin Olofsson, Colorado State University; Caroline Schlaufer, Universität of Bern

Recipients: Chris Koski, Reed College and Paul Mason, Reed College

Title: “Policy design receptivity and target populations: A social construction framework approach to climate change policy.” Policy Studies Journal 52(2): 211-233. 2023.

Excellence in Mentoring Award

Award Committee: James Garand, Louisiana State University; Markie McBrayer, University of Idaho; Dorothy Daley, University of Kansas

Recipient: Dr. Aseem Prakash, University of Washington

SECTION 5: POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTIES

Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: David Karol (Chair), University of Maryland; Russell Dalton, University of California, Irvine; Amy McKay, University of Exeter

Recipient: Ken Kollman, University of Michigan

Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award

Award Committee: Ashley English (Chair), University of North Texas; Sarah Zuckerman Daly, Columbia University; Matt Lacombe, Case Western Reserve University

Recipient: Niloufer Siddiqui, State University of New York at Albany

Title: Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

POP/Party Politics Best APSA Paper Award

Award Committee: Zeynep Somer-Topcu (Chair), University of Texas at Austin; Caitlin Andrews-Lee, Toronto Metropolitan University; Connor Phillips, Princeton University

Recipient: Mellisa Meisels, Yale University

Title: “Campaign Agendas and Issue Group Strategy in Congressional Primaries.” Presented at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award

Award Committee: Julia Azari (Chair), Marquette University; Martin Bisgaard, Aarhus University; Devin Fernandes, California State University, Chico; Shamira Gelbman, Wabash College; Zim Nwokora, Deakin University

Recipient: Emilee Booth Chapman, Stanford University

Title: “Realism and Responsible Parties.” American Political Science Review 117(3): 953-966. 2023.

Emerging Scholar Award

Award Committee: Paul Herrnson (Chair), University of Connecticut; Heath Brown, John Jay College, CUNY; Bonnie Meguid, University of Rochester

Recipient: Jesse Crosson, Purdue University

SECTION 6: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Herbert Kaufman Award

Award Committee: Seung-Ho An (Chair), University of Arizona; Kelsey Shoub, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Taha Hameduddin, University of Kentucky

Recipients: William Resh, University of Southern California; Yongjin Ahn, Korea University Sejong Campus; Weijie Wang, University of Missouri; Eli Keunyoung Lee, University of Southern California

Title: “Assessing the Effects of Government Shutdowns on the Inflow and Outflow Dynamics of the United States Federal Workforce.”

Honorable Mention: Heewon Lee, University of Cincinnati and Yixin Liu¸ Syracuse University

Title: “All Hands on Deck: The Role of Collaborative Platforms and Lead Organizations in Achieving Environmental Goals.”

Herbert A. Simon Book Award

Award Committee: Kohei Suzuki (Chair), Leiden University; Cullen Merritt, University of Maryland; Danyao Li, University of Southern California

Recipient: Rachel Augustine Potter, University of Virginia

Title: Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy. University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Paul Volker Junior Scholar Research Grant

Award Committee: Eunju Rho (Chair), Northern Illinois University; Kate Albrecht, University of Illinois Chicago; Chengxin Xu, Seattle University

Co-Recipient: Yixin Liu, Northern Arizona University

Title: “Brother is Being Watched: Can Nonprofit Oversight Mitigate Environmental Injustice?”

Co-Recipient: José Sánchez, University of Colorado Denver

Title: “Take me home? The Continuum of Care Program as a top-down network model.”

Co-Recipient: Kayla Schwoerer, State University of New York at Albany

Title: “User Experience (UX) Design and Digital Citizen-State Interactions.”

SECTION 7: CONFLICT PROCESSES

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Brian J. Phillips (Chair), University of Essex; Benjamin Appel, University of California, San Diego; Dara Kay Cohen, Harvard University

Recipients: Tamar Mitts, Columbia University; Asfandyar Mir, Johns Hopkins University; Austin Wright, University of Chicago

Title: “Information Operations, Territorial Control, and Perceptions of Power During Conflict.”

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Jason Lyall (Chair), Dartmouth College; Megan Stewart, University of Michigan; Oliver Kaplan, Denver University

Recipient: Megan Stewart, University of Michigan

Title: Governing for Revolution: Social Transformation in Civil War. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

SECTION 8: REPRESENTATION AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

George H. Hallett Award

Award Committee: David Samuels, University of Minnesota; Kaitlin Senk, University of Bath; Yuki Atsusaka, University of Houston

Recipient: José Antonio Cheibub, University of Pittsburgh

Title: Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Lawrence Longley Award

Award Committee: Daniel Smith, University of Pennsylvania; Maarja Luhiste, Newcastle University; Brittany Anlar, Rutgers University

Recipients: Michael Hankinson, George Washington University and Asya Magazinnik, The Hertie School

Title: “The Supply-Equity Trade-Off: The Effect of Spatial Representation on the Local Housing Supply.” The Journal of Politics, 85(3): 1033-1047. 2023.

Leon Weaver Award

Award Committee: Andrea Carson, La Trobe University and Brenna Armstrong, Rice University

Recipients: Christopher L. Carter, University of Virginia and Mathias Poertner, The London School of Economics

Title: “Strengthening Political Parties: Experiences of Political Participation and Efficacy.”

SECTION 9: PRESIDENTS AND EXECUTIVE POLITICS

The Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award

Award Committee: Donna R. Hoffman (Chair), University of Northern Iowa; Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University; Alexander Bolton, Emory University; Christopher Devine, University of Dayton; Jeffrey Crouch, American University

Recipients: Charles M. Cameron, Princeton University and Jonathan P. Kastellec, Princeton University

Title: Making the Supreme Court, the Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020. Oxford University Press, 2023.

George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Matthew Miles (Chair), Brigham Young University–Idaho; Michelle Belco, University of Houston; David Miller, University of California, Riverside

Recipient: Benjamin Noble, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Three Essays on Presidential Power, Persuasion, and Interbranch Conflict.” Dissertation, Washington University.

Founders Best Paper Award Honoring James Sterling Young by PhD-holding Scholar

Award Committee: Dino Christenson (Chair), Washington University in St. Louis; Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon; Joshua B. Kennedy, Georgia Southern University; Christina Kinane, Yale University

Recipients: Not awarded this year.

Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award Honoring Stephen Wayne

Award Committee: Leah A. Murray (Chair), Weber State University; Benjamin S. Noble, University of California, San Diego; Heath Brown, John Jay College, CUNY

Recipients: Nicholas R. Bednar, University of Minnesota and Christopher Piper, Vanderbilt University

Title: “Administrative Policymaking Amid Vacancies and Actings.” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Conference.

The Legacy Award

Award Committee: James Pfiffner (Chair), George Mason University; John A. Dearborn, Vanderbilt University; Ashley Moraguez, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Recipient: David E. Lewis, Vanderbilt University

Title: The Politics of Presidential Appointments. Princeton University Press, 2008.

PEP Career Service Award

Award Committee: Brendan J. Doherty (Chair), US Naval Academy; Janet Martin, Bowdoin College; Martha Joynt Kumar, Towson University

Recipient: Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego

SECTION 11: RELIGION AND POLITICS

Hubert Morken Book Award

Award Committee: Nandini Deo (Chair), Lehigh University; Zeynep Bulutgil, University College London; Andrew Murphy, University of Michigan

Recipient: Anna Gryzmala-Busse, Stanford University

Title: Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation in Religion and Politics Award

Award Committee: L. Felipe Mantilla (Chair), University of South Florida; Amy Lakeman, Harvard University; Jason Klocek, University of Nottingham

Recipient: Anirvan Chowdhury, Harvard University

Title: “Religiously Conservative Parties and Women’s Political Mobilization: Gender Norms, Party Activism, and Democratization in India.” University of California, Berkeley.

Honorable Mention: Radha Sarkar, Yale University

Title: “Religion and the Politics of Gender.” Yale University.

Ted Jelen Best Journal Article Award

Award Committee: Eric McDaniel (Chair), University of Texas at Austin; Allyson Shortle, University of Oklahoma; Peter Kratochvil, Institute of International Relations, Prague

Recipient: Dan Koev, Regent University

Title: “The Influence of State Favoritism on Established Religions and Their Competitors.” Politics and Religion 16(1): 1031. 2023.

Weber Best Conference Paper in Religion and Politics Award

Award Committee: Cammie Jo Bolin (Chair), State University of New York at Albany; Feyaad Allie, Harvard University; Abbie Vegter, Berry College

Recipients: Berfin Baydar, Duke University and Asli Cansunar, University of Washington

Title: “Homogenizing the High Street: The Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination”

Honorable Mention: Radha Sarkar, Yale University; Sofia Elverdin, Yale University; Sebastian Lucek, Stanford University; Amar Sarkar, Harvard University

Title: “Religious Communication, ’Benevolent Sexism,’ and Political Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Colombia.”

Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Award Committee: Paul Djupe (Chair), Denison University; Danielle Lussier, Grinnell College; Enrique Quezada, Agnes Scott College

Recipients: Radha Sarkar, Yale University; Sofia Elverdin, Yale University; Sebastian Lucek, Stanford University; Amar Sarkar, Harvard University

Title: “Religious Communication, ’Benevolent Sexism,’ and Political Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Colombia.”

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar in Religion and Politics Award

Award Committee: Sabri Ciftci (Chair), Kansas State University; Ron Hassner, University of California, Berkeley; Elizabeth Oldmixon, James Madison University

Recipient: Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton University

2023 Lifetime Achievement Award

Award Committee: David Buckley (Chair), University of Louisville; Vineeta Yadav, Pennsylvania State University; Nandini Deo, Lehigh University; Paul Djupe, Denison University; Luis Felipe Mantilla, University of South Florida; Eric McDaniel, University of Texas at Austin; Cammie Jo Bolin, State University of New York at Albany; Sabri Ciftci, Kansas State University

Recipients: John C. Green, University of Akron; James L. Guth, Furman University; Lyman “Bud” Kellstedt, Wheaton College; Corwin E. Smidt, Calvin University

SECTION 15: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

Don K. Price Award

Award Committee: Daniel Mallinson, Penn State Harrisburg; Alex Osei-Kojo, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; David Carter, University of Utah

Recipients: Alexander F. Gazmararian, Princeton University and Dustin Tingley, Harvard University

Title: Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize

Award Committee: Sarah Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara; Chris Armstrong, University of Southampton; Luke Fowler, Boise State University

Recipients: Manuel P. Teodoro, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Samantha Zuhlke, University of Iowa; David Switzer, University of Missouri

Title: The Profits of Distrust: Citizen Consumers, Drinking Water and the Crisis of Confidence in the American Government. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Elizabeth Shanahan, Montana State University; Noah Zucker, London School of Economics; Matto Mildenberger, University of California, Santa Barbara

Recipient: Christina Toenshoff, Leiden University

Title: “Hiding in the Crowd: Corporate Climate Lobbying Under Investor and Consumer Pressure.” Stanford University.

Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award

Award Committee: Hongtao Yi, Florida State University; Ishana Ratan, University of California, Berkeley; Jesse Barnes, University of Nevada–Reno

Recipients: Cesar B. Martinez-Alvarez, University of California, Santa Barbara and Michael L. Ross, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “The Electoral Impacts of Supply-Side Energy Transitions.”

The Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Megan Mullin, University of California, Los Angeles; Michael Bestill, University of Copenhagen; Chris Weible, University of Colorado Denver

Recipient: Mark Lubell, University of California, Davis

The Emerging Young Scholar Award

Award Committee: Elizabeth Koebele, University of Nevada–Reno; Manny Teodoro, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Tom Birkland, North Carolina State University

Recipient: Tyler Scott, University of California, Davis

Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Minwoo Ahn, Arizona State University; Amber Wichowsky, Marquette University; Wesley Wehde, Texas Tech University

Recipient: Annemieke van den Dool, Duke Kunshan University

Title: “The multiple streams framework in a nondemocracy: The infeasibility of a national ban on live poultry sales in China.” Policy Studies Journal 51(2): 327-349. 2023.

STEP APSA Inclusion Travel Award

Award Committee: Rob DeLeo, Bentley University; Deserai Crow, University of Colorado Denver; Kristin Taylor, Wayne State University

Recipient: Ariana Montoya-Lozano, Purdue University

SECTION 16: WOMEN, GENDER, AND POLITICS RESEARCH

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Anna Mahoney (Chair), Dartmouth College; Sofia Collignon, Queen Mary University of London; Sara Hassani, Providence College

Recipient: Anirvan Chowdhury, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Religiously Conservative Parties and Women’s Political Mobilization: Gender Norms, Party Activism, and Democratization in India.”

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Kristen Williams (Chair), Clark University; Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, University of Connecticut; Elizabeth Dorssom, Lincoln University of Missouri; Jill Greenlee, Brandeis University; Sarah Liu, University of Edinburgh; Whitney Ross Manzo, Meredith College

Recipients: Richard Clark, Cornell University; Roza Khoban, University of Zurich; Noah Zucker, London School of Economics

Title: “Breadwinner Backlash: The Gendered Effects of Industrial Decline.”

The Okin-Young Award in the Feminist Political Theory

Award Committee: Katrina Forrester, Harvard University; Danielle Hanley, Clark University; Ivy Cargile, California State University, Bakersfield

Co-Recipient: Robyn Marasco, CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College

Title: “The Real Possibility of Physical Killing: A Feminist Critique of Carl Schmitt.” American Journal of Political Science 67(4): 1067-1079. 2023.

Co-Recipient: Elena Gambino, Rutgers University

Title: “Red Roots of Solidarity: Paula Gunn Allen and the Queer Audiences of Intellectual Sovereignty.” Journal of Women in Culture and Society 48(2): 635–658. 2023.

Best Paper on Intersectionality Award

Award Committee: Kanisha Bond (Chair), Binghamton University; Jasmine Jackson, Texas Christian University; Ethan Tungohan, York University

Recipients: Savannah Plaskon, University of California, Irvine and Danielle Thomen, University of California, Irvine

Title: “Self-Rising Candidates: Racial and Gender Disparities in Self-Finance.”

Public Engagement Award

Award Committee: Angie Torres-Beltran (Chair), Cornell University; Erin Cassese, University of Delaware; Claire Gothreau, Aarhus University; Luisa Turbino Torres, Florida Atlantic University

Recipient: Kelly Dittmar, Rutgers University–Camden, Center for American Women and Politics

Politics & Gender Best Article Award

Politics & Gender Editorial Board Award Committee: Summer Lindsey (Chair), Rutgers University; Corrine McConnaughy, Princeton University; Juliana Restrepo Sanín, University of Florida

Recipient: Nicholas J.G. Winter, University of Virginia

Title: “Hostile Sexism, Benevolent Sexism and American Elections.” Politics & Gender 19(2): 427-456. 2023.

Honorable Mention: Young-Im Lee, California State University, Sacramento

Title: “A Trailblazer or a Barrier? Dynastic Politics and Symbolic Representation.” Politics & Gender 19(3): 756-780. 2023.

SECTION 16 RESEARCH GRANT

Award Committee: Malliga Och (Chair), Denison University; Sara Chatfield, University of Denver; Juliana Restrepo Sanin, University of Florida; Christina Gregory, Lamar University; Natasha Behl, Arizona State University

Recipients: Yujing (Lisa) Fan, Columbia University; Jasmine English, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Carly Millerd, University of Iowa; Hannah Phillips, University of Oxford; Khasan Redjaboev, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Kimberly Saks, University of Michigan–Flint; Marty P. Jordan, Michigan State University

SECTION 17: FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL THEORY

First Book Award

Award Committee: P.J. Brendese, Johns Hopkins University; Benjamin McKean, Ohio State University; Shalini Pradeepa Satkunanandan, University of California, Davis

Co-Recipient: Tejas Parasher, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Co-Recipient: David Myer Temin, University of Michigan

Title: Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Susan Okin Iris Marion Young Award

Award Committee: Katrina Forrester, Harvard University; Danielle Hanley, Clark University; Ivy Cargile, California State University, Bakersfield

Co-Recipient: Robyn Marasco, CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College

Title: “The Real Possibility of Physical Killing: A Feminist Critique of Carl Schmitt.” American Journal of Political Science 67(4): 1067-1079. 2023.

Co-Recipient: Elena Gambino, Rutgers University

Title: “Red Roots of Solidarity: Paula Gunn Allen and the Queer Audiences of Intellectual Sovereignty.” Journal of Women in Culture and Society 48(2): 635–658. 2023.

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Nina Hagel, Wesleyan University; Noga Rotem, University of Washington; David Termin, University of Michigan

Co-Recipient: Jess Feldman, Brown University

Title: “Hannah Arendt: General Strike Theorist?”

Co-Recipient: Sheharyar Imran, Johns Hopkins University

Title: “Wastelanding and the Colonial Ecology of Racial Capitalism: An Indo-Atlantic Perspective.”

SECTION 18: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND POLITICS

Best Conference Paper in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

Award Committee: Kari Steen-Johnsen, Institute for Social Research, Norway; Mads Thau, Institute for Social Research, Norway; Cristian Vaccari, Loughborough University

Recipients: Tiago Ventura, Georgetown University; Rajeshwari Majumdar, New York University; Jonathan Nagler, New York University; Joshua Tucker, New York University

Title: “Misinformation Exposure Beyond Traditional Feeds: Evidence from a WhatsApp Experiment in Brazil.”

Best Book in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

Award Committee: Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University Chicago; Emily van Duyn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Andrew Chadwick, Loughborough University

Recipient: Alice Marwick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title: The Private is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media. Yale University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Thomas J. Billard, Northwestern University

Title: Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Best Public Facing Scholarship in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

Award Committee: David Nemer, University of Virginia; David Karpf, George Washington University; Jennifer Clark, University of Houston

Recipients: Kathleen Searles, Louisiana State University; Danielle Brown, Michigan State University

Best Student Paper Award

Award Committee: Rui Wang, University of Buffalo; Dror Walter, Georgia State University; Yotam Ophir, University of Buffalo

Recipient: Manu Singh, Columbia University

Title: “Fake it till you make it: Behind the scenes of bot-driven popularity.”

Best Journal of Information Technology and Politics Article Award

Award Committee: Benjamin Guinaudeau, University of Konstanz; Kevin Munger, Pennsylvania State University; Fabio Votta, University of Amsterdam

Recipients: Stefan McCabe, George Washington University; Jon Green, Duke University; Pranav Goel, Northeastern University; David Lazer, Northeastern University

Title: “Inequalities in Online Representation: Who Follows Their Own Member of Congress on Twitter?” Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 3: 1-34. 2023.

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Tongtong Zhang, Stanford University; Kiran Basavaraj, University College London; Bryan Gervais, University of Texas at San Antonio

Recipient: Will Schulz, Princeton University

Title: “Warped Words: How Online Speech Misrepresents Opinion.”

SECTION 19: INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Sumit Ganguly (Chair), Indiana University; Vandana Bhatia, Sheridan College; Erik Gartzke, University of California, San Diego

Recipient: Justin K. Haner, Northeastern University

Title: “Organizing Peace: An Algorithmic Analysis of Four Centuries of International Law and the Decline of War.” 2023.

Catherine McArdle Kelleher Award for Best International Security Article

Award Committee: Indu Saxena (Chair), Consortium of Indo-Pacific Researchers; Charles Boehmer, University of Texas at El Paso; Anit Mukherjee, King’s College London

Recipients: Miguel García-Sánchez, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia; Aila M Matanock, University of California, Berkeley; Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, European University Institute

Title: “Do Citizens’ Preferences Matter? Shaping Legislator Attitudes Towards Peace Agreements.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 67(5). 2023.

Robert Jervis Best International Security Book by Non-Tenured Faculty

Award Committee: David Sacko (Chair), United States Air Force Academy; Jodi Vittori, Georgetown University; Roger Harrison, United States Air Force Academy

Co-recipient: Sharan Grewal, College of William & Mary

Title: Soldiers of Democracy: Military Legacies and the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Co-recipient: Lisa Langdon Koch, Claremont McKenna College

Title: Nuclear Decisions: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs. Oxford University Press, 2023.

SECTION 20: COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Luebbert Book Prize

Final Selection Committee: Pauline Jones (Chair), University of Michigan; Yuhua Wang, Harvard University; Kate Baldwin, Yale University

Short Listing Committee: Mark Beissinger (Chair), Princeton University; Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, University of Virginia; Mariela Szwarcberg Daby, Reed College

Recipient: Sara Zukerman Daly, Columbia University

Title: Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections. Princeton University Press, 2022.

Runner-Up: Soledad Prillaman, Stanford University

Title: The Patriarchal Political Order: The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Adam Auerbach, Johns Hopkins University and Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Erin Baggott Carter, University of Southern California and Brett L. Carter, University of Southern California

Title: Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Charlotte Cavaillé, University of Michigan

Title: Fair Enough: Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Janice K. Gallagher, Rutgers University

Title: Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared. Oxford University Press, 2022.

Honorable Mention: Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University

Title: Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Egor Lazarev, Yale University

Title: State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Noah Nathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Olukunle Owolabi, Villanova University

Title: Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Sage Paper Prize

Award Committee: Marcia Grimes (Chair), University of Gothenburg; Feyaad Allie, Harvard University; Dominika Koter, Colgate University

Recipient: Anna Callis, Tulane University

Title: “When Economic Elites Support Democratization: Evidence from Argentina.”

Honorable Mention: Htet Thiha Zaw, University of Michigan

Title: “The Indigenous Origins of Colonial Education: Evidence from British Burma.”

Honorable Mention: Christopher Carter, University of Virginia and Urteaga Quispe, Harvard University

Title: “Distributing the State: Rural Unrest and State Building in Peru.”

Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award

Award Committee: Matthew Winters (Chair), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Gilles Verniers, Amherst College; Kyle Marquardt, University of Bergen

Recipients: Marc Debus, Mannheim Center for European Social Research, University of Mannheim; Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of Texas at Austin; Margit Tavits, Washington University in St. Louis

Title: “Comparative Campaign Dynamics Dataset.”

Honorable Mention: Myles Williamson, University of Baltimore

Title: “Trans Rights Indicator Project (TRIP).”

Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholars

Award Committee: Scott Stratus (Chair), University of California, Berkeley; Dawn Teele, University of Pennsylvania; Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown University

Recipient: Marko Klašnja, Georgetown University

Luebbert Article Prize

Award Committee: Karen Ferree (Chair), University of California, San Diego; Daniel Mattingly, Yale University; Volha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipient: Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University

Title: “Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation.” American Political Science Review 118(1): 88-107. 2023.

Honorable Mention: Ali Cheema, Lahore University of Management; Sarah Khan, Yale University; Asad Liaqat, Independent Researcher; Shandana Khan Mohmand, University of Sussex

Title: “Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan.” American Political Science Review 117(1): 1-21. 2023.

Honorable Mention: Francisco Garfias, University of California, San Diego and Emily A. Sellars, Yale University

Title: “When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in Rebellion.” American Journal of Political Science 66(4): 977-992. 2022.

Honorable Mention: Agustina S. Paglayan, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems in an Era of State-Building.” American Political Science Review 116(4): 1242-1257. 2022.

Bingham Powell Mentoring Award

Award Committee: Andy Harris (Chair), New York University Abu Dhabi; Pete Hatemi, Pennsylvania State University; Rose McDermott, Brown University

Recipient: Peter Hall, Harvard University

SECTION 21: EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Tommaso Pavone, University of Toronto; Robert Thomson, Monash University; Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Co-Recipient: Charlotte Cavaillé, University of Michigan

Title: Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Co-Recipient: Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University

Title: Education for All? Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Christopher Wratil, University of Vienna; Joe Jupille, University of Colorado; Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of Texas

Co-Recipient: Klaudia Wegschaider, University of Oxford

Title: “Democratisation after Democratisation: The Politics of Contemporary Enfranchisement.” University of Oxford, 2023.

Co-Recipient: Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki, Harvard University

Title: “Identity Politics, Old and New: Party-Building in the Long Twentieth Century.” Harvard University, 2023.

Best Article Award

Award Committee: Natascha Zaun, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg; Sara Hobolt, London School of Economics; Andreas Wiedemann, Princeton University

Recipient: Anna Gryzmala-Busse, Stanford University

Title: “Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation.” American Political Science Review 118(1): 88-107. 2024.

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Petia Kostadinova, University of Illinois Chicago; Ines Wagner, Harvard University; Miguel Pereira, London School Economics

Co-recipient: Andrew O’ Donohue, Harvard University

Title: “Law versus Democracy: Reputation Costs, Judicial Alliance Networks, and Democratic Erosion in Turkey.”

Co-recipients: Isabela Mares, Yale University and Alexander Trubowitz, Yale University

Title: “Electoral Rules, Programmatic Competition, and Redistribution: Evidence from Interwar France.”

SECTION 22: STATE POLITICS AND POLICY

Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Janine A. Parry (Chair), University of Arkansas; Michael Olson, Washington University in St. Louis; Mary Kroeger, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recipient: Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa

Virginia Gray Book Award

Award Committee: Greg Goelzhauser (Chair), Utah State University; Tessa Provins, University of Pittsburgh; Zach Baumann, Nebraska Wesleyan University

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

Title: Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States. University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Christopher Z. Mooney Best Dissertation Prize

Award Committee: Michael G. Miller (Chair), Barnard College; Derek Epp, University of Texas at Austin; Megan Goldberg, Cornell College

Recipient: Derek Holliday, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “The Reaches and Limits of Nationalization in US Politics”

State Politics and Policy Quarterly Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Dan Butler (Chair), Washington University in St. Louis; Anne M. Whitesell, Miami University; James Strickland, Arizona State University

Recipients: Jennifer Gaudette, University of California, San Diego; Seth Hill, University of California, San Diego; Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego; MacKenzie Lockhart, Yale University; Mindy Romero, University of Southern California; Laura Uribe, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Why American Federalism is a Recipe for Distrust in Elections (And What to Do About It)”

Recipient: G. Agustin Markarian, Loyola University Chicago

Title: “Why Parkland, Not Pulse? Racially Disparate Policy Responses to Mass Shootings.”

Best Journal Article Award

Award Committee: Jaclyn J. Kettler (Chair), Boise State University; Nick Goedert, Virginia Tech University; Jamil Scott, Georgetown University

Recipients: James M. Strickland, Arizona State University

Title: “The Contingent Value of Connections: Legislative Turnover and revolving-door Lobbyists.” Business and Politics 25(2): 152-172. 2023.

Emerging Scholar Award

Award Committee: Rebecca Bromley Trujillo (Chair), Christopher Newport University; Kaitlin Sidorsky, Ramapo College; Eric Plutzer, Pennsylvania State University

Recipient: Rebecca Kreitzer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

SECTION 23: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award

Award Committee: Michael Wagner (Chair), University of Wisconsin–Madison; Jessica Feezell, University of New Mexico; Rachel Kuo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Lala Muradova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Recipient: Jaime Settle, College of William & Mary

Title: Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Rune Slothuus (Chair), Aarhus University; Chelsea Butkowski, American University; Meredith Pruden, Kennesaw State University

Recipients: Tiago Ventura, Georgetown University; Rajeshwari Majumdar, New York University; Jonathan Nagler, New York University; Joshua A. Tucker, New York University

Title: “Misinformation Exposure Beyond Traditional Feeds: Evidence from a WhatsApp Experiment in Brazil.” Presented at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Award Committee: Nina Oberheimer (Chair), King’s College London; Emilija Gagrcin, University of Mannheim; Dan Myers, University of Minnesota; Pelekeh Tapang, York University

Recipient: Eddy S.F. Yeung, Emory University

Title: “The Logic of Provocative Propaganda in the Shadow of Democratic Uprisings.” Presented at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Jianing Li (Chair), University of South Florida; Eunji Kim, Columbia University; Emily Lynch, University of Rhode Island; Tarah Williams, Allegheny College

Recipient: Anirvan Chowdhury, Harvard University

Title: “Religiously Conservative Parties and Women’s Political Mobilization: Gender Norms, Party Activism, and Democratization in India.” University of California, Berkeley, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Will Schulz, Princeton University

Title: “Warped Words: How Online Speech Misrepresents Opinion.” Princeton University, 2024.

Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award

Award Committee: Patricia Rossini (Chair), University of Glasgow; John Cluverius, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Philipp Darius, The Hertie School; Stephanie DeMora, University of Pennsylvania

Recipient: Eunji Kim, Columbia University

Title: “Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility.” American Journal of Political Science 67(1): 39-54. 2023.

SECTION 24: POLITICS AND HISTORY

Mary Parker Follett Prize

Award Committee: Kerry Goettlich, University of Reading; Lachlan McNamee, Monash University; Sara Chatfield, University of Denver

Recipient: Isabel Castillo, Universidad de Chile

Title: “Motivation Alignment, Historical Cleavages, and Women’s Suffrage in Latin America.” Perspectives on Politics 21(1): 78-93. 2023.

Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Adnan Naseemullah, King’s College London and Emily Zackin Johns Hopkins University

Recipient: Matthew Reichert, Harvard University

Title: “Who Built Nations in Eurasia?”

Honorable Mention: Kumar Ramanathan, University of Chicago

Title: “Building a Civil Rights Agenda.”

David Brian Robertson Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Paul Herron, Providence College and Tine Paulsen, University of Southern California

Recipients: Valentin Figueroa, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Guadalupe Tuñón, Princeton University

Title: “Oppression Beyond Plantations: The Effect of Emancipation on Incarceration in Urban Buenos Aires.”

Honorable Mention: Elliot Mamet, Princeton University and Austin Bussing, Trinity University

Title: “Nonvoting Delegates to the Modern US Congress: Race, Democracy, Empire.”

SECTION 25: POLITICAL ECONOMY

McGillivray Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Srinivas Parinandi (Chair), University of Colorado Boulder; Jian Xu, National University of Singapore; Horace Bartilow, American University

Recipient: Hao Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Commerce, Coalitions, and Collective Lobbying on Trade.” Presented at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

Michael Wallerstein Award

Award Committee: Jane Sumner (Chair), University of Minnesota; Didac Queralt, Yale University; Megumi Naoi, University of California, San Diego; Simone Dietrich, University of Geneva

Recipients: Julian Michel, University of California, Los Angeles; Michael K. Miller, George Washington University; Margaret E. Peters, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “How Authoritarian Governments Decide Who Emigrates: Evidence From East Germany.” International Organization 77(3): 527-563. 2023.

Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Philipp Rehm (Chair), Johns Hopkins University; Abhit Bhandari, Vanderbilt University; Asya Magazinnik, The Hertie School; Ada Johnson-Kanu, University of Kentucky

Co-Recipient: Anirvan Chowdhury, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Religiously Conservative Parties and Women’s Political Mobilization: Gender Norms, Party Activism, and Democratization in India.” 2023.

Co-Recipient: Nanxi Zeng, Johns Hopkins University

Title: “Frames of Welfare: The Rise of the Housing Welfare State in Post-Socialist China (1988-2020).” 2022.

William H. Riker Book Award

Award Committee: Charles Hankla (Chair), Georgia State University; Irene Merendez Gonzalez, IE Madrid; Amy Pond, Washington University in St. Louis; Joel Selway, Brigham Young University

Co-Recipient: Noah Nathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Co-Recipient: Lucy Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title: Strategic Taxation: Fiscal Capacity and Accountability in African States. Oxford University Press, 2023.

SECTION 27: CRITICAL POLITICAL SCIENCE

Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award

Award Committee: Biko Koenig (Chair), Franklin and Marshall College; Katerina Traut, University of Pennsylvania; Gordan Lafer, University of Oregon

Recipient: Students for the Preservation of Chinatown

Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Victor Wallis (Chair), Berklee College of Music; Lauren Olson, Lehigh University; Edwin Dan Jacob, Arizona State University

Co-recipient: Nancy Love, Appalachian State University

Co-Recipient: Bradley J. Macdonald, Colorado State University

Michael Harrington Book Award

Award Committee: Bryant Sculos (Chair), University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Stan Luger, University of Northern Colorado; Brian Waddell, University of Connecticut; Kevin Funk, Columbia University

Recipient: Tom Malleson, King’s University College at Western University

Title: Against Inequality: The Practical and Ethical Case for Abolishing the Superrich. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Stephen Eric Bronner Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Candice K. Travis (Chair), Quinnipiac University; Judith Grant, Ohio University; Lucrecia Garcia Iommi, Fairfield University; William Sokoloff, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Recipient: Be Stone, City University of New York

SECTION 28: POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Robert E. Lane Book Award

Award Committee: Margit Tavits, Washington University in St. Louis and Josh Gubler, Brigham Young University

Recipient: Alex Coppock, Yale University

Title: Persuasion in Parallel: How Information Changes Minds about Politics. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Alexandra Filindra, University of Illinois Chicago

Title: Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Alexandra Filindra, University of Illinois Chicago; Biz Herman, University of Pennsylvania; Ethan Busby, Brigham Young University

Recipient: Hilary Izatt, University of Michigan

Title: “The Political Psychology of Electoral Suppression: Electoral Manipulation, Emotion, and Mobilization.”

Honorable Mention: Isaac Mehlhaff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title: “The Natural Origins of Mass Opinion: An Argument Theory of Political Reasoning.”

Honorable Mention: Gabriella Levy, Duke University

Title: “Variations in Individuals’ Responses to Violence Against Civilians.”

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Elizabeth Suhay, American University; Andrew Engelhardt, Stony Brook University; Wayde Marsh, University of Tennessee

Recipients: Love Christensen, Aarhus University; Rasmus Skytte, Aarhus University; Rune Slothuss, Aarhus University

Title: “How Party Reputations Help Citizens Grasp What Is at Stake in Policy Debates.”

Honorable Mention: Robert A. Blair, Brown University; Jessica Gottlieb, University of Houston; Marie Schenk, Lehigh University; Christopher Woods, Brown University

Title: “Depolarizing Within the Comfort of Your Party: Experimental Evidence from Online Workshops.”

Distinguished Junior Scholar Award

Award Committee: Ben Lyons, University of Utah and Nicole Yadon, Ohio State University

Co-Recipients: Alexandria Davis, University of California, Los Angeles; Rex Deng, Washington University in St. Louis; Rajeshwari Majumdar, New York University; Autumn Perkey, University of Maryland; Zoe Walker, University of Michigan; Geneva Cole, College of William & Mary; Charles Crabtree, Dartmouth College

SECTION 29: POLITICAL SCIENCE EDUCATION

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

Award Committee: Laura Roost (Co-Chair), Creighton University; Michael Rogers (Co-Chair), Arkansas Tech University; Tavishi Bashin, Kennesaw State University; J. Cherie Strachan, Akron University; Joseph W. Roberts (Ex Officio), Roger Williams University

Recipient: Rebecca Glazier, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The Best APSA Conference Paper Award

Award Committee: Elizabeth Norell (Co-Chair), University of Mississippi and Peter Yacobucci (Co-Chair), Buffalo State University

Recipient: Jacob Wobig, Wingate University

Title: “The Write Stuff: Designing Undergraduate Writing Assignments in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence.” Presented at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

The Lifetime Achievement Award

Award Committee: Joseph W. Roberts (Chair), Roger Williams University; Colin Brown, Northeastern University; Matt Evans, Northwest Arkansas Community College; Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University; Michael Rogers, Arkansas Tech University; Laura Roost, Creighton University; Megan Becker, University of Southern California; Maureen Feeley, University of California, San Diego; J. Cherie Strachan, University of Akron; Elizabeth Norell, University of Mississippi; Peter Yacobucci, Buffalo State University

Recipient: Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi

The Distinguished Service Award

Award Committee: Joseph W. Roberts (Chair), Roger Williams University; Terry Gilmour, Midland College; Colin Brown, Northeastern University; Matt Evans, Northwest Arkansas Community College; Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University; Michael Rogers, Arkansas Tech University; Laura Roost, Creighton University; Megan Becker, University of Southern California; Maureen Feeley, University of California, San Diego; J. Cherie Strachan, University of Akron; Elizabeth Norell, University of Mississippi; Peter Yacobucci, Buffalo State University

Recipient: Patrick McKinlay, Morningside College

SECTION 30: POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND FILM

The Pamela Jensen Award

Award Committee: Elizabeth Amato, Gardner-Webb University; Michelle Kundmueller, Old Dominion University; Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Recipient: Brian K. Goodman, Arizona State University

Title: The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain. Harvard University Press, 2023.

SECTION 31: FOREIGN POLICY

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Tom Dolan, University of Central Florida; Jacqueline Hazelton, Harvard University; Emily Holland, Naval War College

Recipient: Rikio Inouye, Princeton University

Title: “Preserve, Pressure, Protect, and Peel: The US-China Rivalry and the Politics of Vaccine Provision.”

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Award Committee: Chad Nelson (Chair), Brigham Young University and Kelsey Larsen, University of Central Florida

Recipient: Yuji Idomoto, University of Southern California

Title: “How Much Does China’s Rise Matter? A Cross Regional Analysis of Threat Level.”

The Foreign Policy Section Graduate Student Travel Grant

Award Committee: Chad Nelson, Brigham Young University and Dov Levin, University of Hong Kong

Co-Recipients: Mahesh Acharya, University of Mississippi; Xunchao Zhang, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Zara Albright, Boston University; Oren Samet, University of California, Berkeley

SECTION 32: ELECTIONS, PUBLIC OPINION, AND VOTING BEHAVIOR

Philip E. Converse Book Award

Award Committee: Shane Singh (Chair), University of Georgia; Paul Lendway, Yale University; Matt Pietryka, Florida State University

Recipient: Dan Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania

Title: The Increasingly United States. University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Emerging Scholars Award

Award Committee: Brad Gomez (Chair), Florida State University; David Tully, US Department of State; Enrijeta Shino, University of Alabama

Co-Recipients: Alexander Coppock, Yale University and Ruth Dassonneville, University of Montreal

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Lisa Bryant (Chair), California State University, Fresno; Mert Bayar, University of Washington; Bob Lupton, University of Connecticut

Recipients: Kenneth Greene, University of Texas at Austin; Erin Rossiter, University of Notre Dame; Enrique Seira, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; Alberto Simpser, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Title: “Interacting as Equals: How Contact Can Promote Tolerance Among Opposing Partisans.”

Honorable Mention: Iris E. Acquarone, Rice University

Title: “Strategically Inclusive Parties and Diversity of Descriptive Representation.”

Honorable Mention: Shusei Eshima, Netflix; Yusaku Horiuchi, Dartmouth College; Shiro Kuriwaki, Yale University; Daniel M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “Winning Elections with Unpopular Policies: Valence Advantage and Single-Party Dominance in Japan.”

Best Article in Political Behavior

Award Committee: Jean-François Daoust (Chair), Université de Sherbrooke; Alex Coppock, Yale University; Marques Zarate, Brown University

Recipient: Lauren Young, University of California, Davis

Title: “Mobilization Under Threat: Emotional Appeals and Pro-Opposition Political Participation Online.” Political Behavior 45(2): 445-468. 2023.

John Sullivan Award

Award Committee: Ruth Dassonneville (Chair), University of Montreal; Fabian Neuner, Arizona State University; Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, College of William & Mary

Recipient: Victor Ellenbroek, European University Institute

Title: “The effect of more choice on voter turnout: Causal evidence from Germany.”

Warren E. Miller Award

Award Committee: Alessandro Nai (Chair), University of Amsterdam; Scott Matthews, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Hannah Ridge, Chapman University

Recipient: André Blais, University of Montreal

SECTION 33: RACE, ETHNICITY AND POLITICS

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Natasha Behl, Arizona State University; Dara Strolovitch, Yale University; Erica Townsend-Bell, Oklahoma State University

Recipient: Ramón Garibaldo Valdéz, University of Chicago

Title: “La Lucha de Cada Día: Immigrant Justice Organizing and the Political Remaking of Illegality in the US”

Honorable Mention: Kaneesha Johnson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title: “The Punishing State: Punishment, Social Control, and Social Services in North Carolina.”

Honorable Mention: Rachel Smilan-Goldstein, Stanford University

Title: “Peril and Protection.”

SECTION 34: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS

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

Award Committee: Jonathan Wyrtzen (Chair), Yale University; Ayşe Zarakol, Cambridge University; Jonathan Kirshner, Boston College

Recipient: Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Oberlin College

Title: The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia. Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Natasha Wheatley, Princeton University

Title: The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University

Title: Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics

Award Committee: Jelena Subotic (Chair), Georgia State University; Sean Richmond, Carleton University; Luwei Ying, University of California, Los Angeles

Recipient: Naosuke Mukoyama, University of Tokyo

Title: “The Eastern cousins of European sovereign states? The development of linear borders in early modern Japan.” European Journal of International Relations 29(2): 255-282. 2023.

SECTION 35: DEMOCRACY AND AUTOCRACY

Best Article Award

Award Committee: Jean Hong (Chair), University of Michigan; Lisa Mueller, Macalester College; Anibal Perez-Linan, University of Notre Dame

Recipients: Adam Scharpf, University of Copenhagen; Christian Glaläßel, The Hertie School; Pearce Edwards, Carnegie Mellon University

Title: “International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup.” American Political Science Review 117(3): 909-926. 2023.

Honorable Mention: Alexander De Juan, Osnabrück University; Felix Haas, University of Oslo; Carlo Koos, University of Bergen; Sascha Riaz, University of Oxford; Thomas Tichelbaecker, Princeton University

Title: “War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party.” American Political Science Review 118(1): 144-162. 2023.

Honorable Mention: Adrienne Lebas, American University and Lauren E. Young, University of California, Davis

Title: “Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe.” American Political Science Review 118(2): 584-601. 2023.

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Fiona Shen-Bayh (Chair), University of Maryland; Lucan Way, University of Toronto; Paul Schuler, University of Arizona

Recipient: Fasial Ahmed, Wellesley College

Title: Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Erin Baggott Carter, University of Southern California and Brett L. Carter, University of Southern California

Title: Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Best Fieldwork Award

Award Committee: Elvin Ong (Chair), National University of Singapore; Emilia Simison, Queen Mary University of London; Chantal Berman, Georgetown University

Recipient: Feyaad Allie, Harvard University

Title: “Power, Exclusion, and Identity: The Politics of Muslim Marginalization in India.”

Honorable Mention: Ozlem Tuncel, Georgia State University

Title: “Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes.”

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Steven Rosenzweig (Chair), Boston University; Sharan Grewal, College of William & Mary; Jane Esberg, University of Pennsylvania

Recipient: Shikhar Singh, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “In-Group Anger or Out-Group Ambivalence? How Voters Perceive Rule-Based Direct Transfers in India.”

Honorable Mention: Oren Samet, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Challenging Autocrats Abroad: Opposition Parties on the International Stage.”

Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Genevieve Bates (Chair), University of Wisconsin–Madison; Tanushree Goyal, Princeton University; Minh Trinh, Purdue University

Co-Recipient: Feyaad Allie, Harvard University

Title: “Power, Exclusion, and Identity: The Politics of Muslim Marginalization in India.”

Co-Recipient: Roya Talibova, Vanderbilt University

Title: “Why Fight? Causes and Consequences of Joining a Tyrant’s Army.”

Honorable Mention: Andres Uribe, Stanford University

Title: “Coercion and Capture in Democratic Politics.”

SECTION 36: HUMAN RIGHTS

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Jacqueline R. McAllister (Chair), Kenyon College; Robert Tynes, Bard College; Christina Sciabarra, Bellevue College; Anwar Mahjne, Stonehill College; Michael J. Struett, North Carolina State University

Co-recipient: Janice Gallagher, Rutgers University

Title: Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Co-recipient: Tricia Olsen, University of Denver

Title: Seeking Justice: Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Runner-up: Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Johns Hopkins University and Kimberly Howe, Tufts University

Title: Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Francesca Parente (Chair), Christopher Newport University; Lucrecia García Iommi, Fairfield University; David Ebner, Sweet Briar University; Leah Larson-Rabin, Independent Researcher; Gino Pauselli, Princeton University

Recipients: Yuan Zhou, Kobe University; Ghashia Kiyani, Western Illinois University; Charles Crabtree, Dartmouth College

Title: “Does Naming and Shaming Improve Women’s Rights?” Journal of Human Rights, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Robert Bivens, Northern Illinois University

Title: “Productive Shared Identity: Angola, Lusophony, and LGBTQIA+ Acceptance.”

Honorable Mention: Natalie Chwalisz, American University

Title: “Friend or Foe? Undocumented Migrants’ Experience Traveling with a Smuggler.”

Best Dissertation Award

Dissertation making the greatest contribution to the field of human rights in the previous calendar year. Please send a copy to each member of the committee.

Award Committee: Sandra F. Joireman (Chair), University of Richmond; Daniel Braaten, Texas A&M University; Janice Clark, Susquehanna University; Jieun Baek, University of Oxford; Kristen Monroe, University of California, Irvine

Recipient: Gabriella Levy, Duke University

Title: “Variation in Individuals’ Responses to Violence Against Civilians.”

SECTION 37: QUALITATIVE AND MULTI-METHOD RESEARCH

Alexander L. George Article Award

Award Committee: Rodrigo Barrenechea (Chair), Universidad Católica del Uruguay; Ora Szekely, Clark University; Stephanie Ternullo, Harvard University

Co-Recipient: Killian Clarke, Georgetown University

Title: “Ambivalent allies: How inconsistent foreign support dooms new democracies.” Journal of Peace Research 60(1): 157-171. 2023.

Co-Recipient: Thalia Gerzso, London School of Economics

Title: “Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya.” Electoral Studies 85: 102653. 2023.

Giovanni Sartori Book Award

Award Committee: Jana Krause (Chair), University of Oslo; Eduardo Moncada, Columbia University; Keesha Middlemas, Howard University

Recipients: Adam Auerbach, American University and Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Migrants and Machine Politics. How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Janice Gallagher, Rutgers University

Title: Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Kendra Koivu Paper Award

Award Committee: Susanna Campbell (Chair), American University; Sherry Zaks, University of Southern California; Janet Lewis, George Washington University

Recipient: Shelley Liu, Duke University

Title: “Coercive Legacies of Rebel Governance: Evidence from Zimbabwe.” Presented at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Raul Madrid (Chair), University of Texas at Austin; Ben Read, University of California, Santa Cruz; Gerardo Munck, University of Southern California

Recipient: Tasha Fairfield, London School of Economics

SECTION 38: SEXUALITY AND POLITICS

Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Andrew Flores (Chair), American University; Razvan Ghazzawi, Oregon State University; Samuel Ritholtz, European University Institute; Kathryn Perkins, California State University, Long Beach

Recipient: Myles Williamson, University of Baltimore

Title: “A Global Analysis of Transgender Rights.”

Honorable Mention: Mori Reithmayr, Oxford University

Title: “Community Before Liberation: Theorizing Gay Resistance in San Francisco, 1953-1969.”

Sexuality & Politics: LGBTQ+ Politics Best Book Award

Award Committee: Melissa Michelson (Chair), Menlo College; Ed Kammerer, Idaho State University; Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College–CUNY

Recipient: Zein Murib, Fordham University

Title: Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Sexuality & Politics Lasting Contribution Award

Award Committee: Paisley Currah (Chair), Brooklyn College–CUNY; Ed Kammerer, Idaho State University; Melissa Michelson, Menlo College

Recipients: Don Haider-Markel, University of Kansas and Kenneth Meier, American University

Title: “The Politics of Gay Rights: Expanding the Scope of Conflict.” Journal of Politics 58(2): 332-349. 1996.

SECTION 39: HEALTH POLITICS AND POLICY

Leonard S. Robins Award for the Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy

Award Committee: Didi Kuo, Stanford University; Michael Gusmano, Lehigh University; Herschel Nachlis, Dartmouth University

Recipients: Alex Barnard, New York University and Nick Rekenthaler, New York University

Title: “Suffering, Addicted, or Resistant? Target Ecologies and the Medicalization of Homelessness in California.”

Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy Award

Award Committee: Andrew Kelly, California State University, East Bay; Holly Jarman, University of Michigan; Herschel Nachlis, Dartmouth College; Charley Willison, Cornell University; Alan Zarychta, University of Chicago; Simon Haeder, Texas A&M University

Co-Recipient: Jamila Michener, Cornell University

Co-Recipient: Harold Pollack, University of Chicago

Emerging Scholar Award

Award Committee: Timothy Callaghan, Boston University; Jamila Michener, Cornell University; Simon Haeder, Texas A&M University

Recipient: Charley Willison, Cornell University

SECTION 41: POLITICAL NETWORKS

The Political Ties Award

Award Committee: Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania and Cassy Dorff, Vanderbilt University

Recipients: Sandra González-Bailón, University of Pennsylvania; David Lazer, Northeastern University; Pablo Barbera, Meta; Meiqing Zhang, Meta; Hunt Allcott, Stanford University; Taylor Brown, Meta; Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Meta; Deen Freelon, University of Pennsylvania; Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University; Andrew M. Guess, Princeton University; Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University; Young Mie Kim, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Neil Malhotra, Stanford University; Devra Moehler, Meta; Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College; Jennifer Pan, Stanford University; Carlos Velasco Rivera, Meta; Jaime Settle, College of William & Mary; Emily Thorson, Syracuse University; Rebekah Tromble, George Washington University; Arju Wilkins, Meta; Magdalena Wojcieszak, University of California, Davis; Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Meta; Annie Franco, Meta; Winter Mason, Meta; Natalie Jomini Stroud, University of Texas at Austin; Joshua A. Tucker, New York University

Title: “Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook.” Science 381(6656): 392-398. 2023.

Best Conference Paper Award

Award Committee: Naomi Egami, Columbia University; Laurence Brandenberger, ETH Zürich; Olga Chyzh, University of Toronto

Recipients: Jennifer M. Larson, Vanderbilt University and Janet I. Lewis, George Washington University

Title: “Reducing Prejudice Towards Refugees in Uganda: Evidence that Social Networks Influence Attitude Change.” American Political Science Review First View: 1-19. 2024.

John Sprague Award

Award Committee: Bomi Lee, Washington University in St. Louis; Claudia Wiehler, ETH Zürich; Taylor Carlson, Washington University in St. Louis

Recipient: Caterina Chiopris, Harvard University

Title: “Spatial Networks and The Diffusion of Ideas.”

SECTION 42: EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Love Christensen, Aarhus University; Robert Blair, Brown University; Alex Coppock, Yale University

Recipient: Lotem Bassan-Nygate, Harvard University

Title: “Who is Watching? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism.”

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Chaigai Weiss, Stanford University; Rajeshwari Majumdar, New York University; Joshua Tucker, New York University

Recipients: Naoki Egami, Columbia University and Diana Da In Lee, Columbia University

Title: “Designing Multi-Site Studies for External Validity: Site Selection via Synthetic Purposive Sampling.” Presented at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Gwyneth McClendon, New York University; Danny Choi, Brown University; Mathias Porter, London School of Economics

Co-Recipients: Adam Michael Auerbach, American University and Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Co-Recipients: Graeme Blair, University of California, Los Angeles; Alexander Coppock, Yale University; Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University

Title: Declare Design: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Rebecca Morton Award for Best JEPS Article

Award Committee: Jenn Jerit, Dartmouth College; Scott Clifford, University of Houston; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam

Recipients: Catie Snow Bailard, George Washington University; Matthew Graham, Temple University; Kimberly Gross, George Washington University; Ethan Porter, George Washington University; Rebekah Tromble, George Washington University

Title: “Combating Hateful Attitudes and Online Browsing Behavior: The Case of Antisemitism.” Journal of Experimental Political Science: 1-14. 2023.

Best Article with a Pre-Registration Plan in JEPS

Award Committee: Jenn Jerit, Dartmouth College; Scott Clifford, University of Houston; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam

Recipient: Love Christensen, Aarhus University

Title: “Optimal Persuasion under Confirmation Bias: Theory and Evidence from a Registered Report.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 10(1): 4-20. 2023.

Best Replication in JEPS Award

Award Committee: Jenn Jerit, Dartmouth College; Scott Clifford, University of Houston; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam

Recipients: Bruno Silva, University of Cologne; Fabian Neuner, Arizona State University; Christopher Wratil, University of Vienna

Title: “Population and Candidate Support in the US: The Effects of ‘Thin’ and ‘Host’ Ideology.”

Public Service Award

Award Committee: Don Green, Columbia University; Daniel Posner, University of California, Los Angeles; Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University

SECTION 43: MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Joseph Wright (Chair), Pennsylvania State University; Katrina Burgess, Tufts University; Victoria Finn, University of Oslo

Co-Recipient: Lachlan McNamee, Monash University

Title: Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Co-Recipient: Olukunle P. Owolabi, Villanova University

Title: Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Yalidy Matos, Rutgers University

Title: Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Best Article Award

Award Committee: Elizabeth Iams Wellman (Chair), University of Memphis; Ezgi Irgil, Swedish Institute of International Affairs; Alexandra Délano Alonso, The New School

Recipients: Amir Abdul Reda, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University; Nicholas A. R. Fraser, Toronto Metropolitan University; Ahmed Khattab, Georgetown University

Title: “Does Social Mobility Matter? The Kafala System and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment.” Political Studies Review 21(4): 801-824. 2023.

Honorable Mention: Omar Hammoud-Gallego, London School of Economics and Luisa Feline Freier, Universidad del Pacífico

Title: “Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws.” American Political Science Review 117(2): 454-473. 2023.

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Laura Cleton (Chair), Erasmus University Rotterdam; Zack Taylor, University of Western Ontario; Ugur Altundal, Dartmouth College

Recipient: Dr. Naiara Rodriguez-Peña, University of Kent

Title: “Emigration from ‘Destination’: The Unfulfilled Migration Aspirations of the Precariat in the ‘Global North’.”

Honorable Mention: Sabrina Axster, Cornell University

Title: “Making Migrant Illegality: Vagrancy, Indentured Labor, and the Policing of Mobility in Germany.”

Honorable Mention: Elisa D’Amico, Loyola University Chicago

Title: “The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Urban Migration and Methodological Innovations.”

Honorable Mention: Klaudia Wegschaider, University of Oxford

Title: “Democratisation After Democratisation: The Politics of Contemporary Enfranchisement.”

Best Graduate Student Paper

Award Committee: Lillian Frost (Chair), Virginia Tech; Rithika Kumar, University of Notre Dame; Yi-Chun Chien, National Chengchi University

Recipient: Jeyhun Alizade, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Title: “The Electoral Politics of Immigration and Crime.”

Honorable Mention: Natalie Chwalisz, American University

Title: “Friend or Foe? Undocumented Migrants’ Experience Traveling with a Smuggler.”

Emerging Scholar Award

Award Committee: Jeannette Money (Chair), University of California, Davis; Erin Aeran Chung, Johns Hopkins University; Justin Gest, George Mason University

Recipient: Ayca Arkilic, University of Wellington

Honorable Mention: Yang Yang Zhou, Dartmouth College

Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Elizabeth Cohen (Chair), Boston University; Alexandra Filindra, University of Illinois Chicago; Dan Tichenor, University of Oregon

Co-Recipient: Ayelet Schachar, University of California, Berkeley

Co-Recipient: Wayne A. Cornelius, University of California, San Diego

SECTION 47: AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

Lifetime Achievement Award

Award Committee: Jeremy Bailey, University of Oklahoma; George Thomas, Claremont McKenna College; Phillip Munoz, University of Notre Dame

Recipient: Michael Zuckert, Arizona State University and the University of Notre Dame (Emeritus)

SECTION 48: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

Best Article Award

Award Committee: Paula Poast (Chair), University of Chicago; Julia Morse, University of California, Santa Barbara; Tyler Pratt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recipient: Averell Schmidt, Harvard University

Title: “Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation.” American Journal of Political Science Early View: 2023.

Honorable Mention: Ryan Brutger, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation.” American Political Science Review First View: 1-18. 2023.

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Didac Queralt (Chair), Yale University; Adam Dean, George Washington University; Tana Johnson, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Recipient: Rochelle Terman, University of Chicago

Title: The Geopolitics of Shaming. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Hyeran Jo (Chair), Texas A&M University; Katherine Beall, Wellesley College; Thomas Stubbs, Royal Holloway, University of London

Recipient: Harry Oppenheimer, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)

Title: “Essays on Digital Interdependence and Globalization.” Harvard University, 2023.

Honorable Mention: Sabrina Arias, Princeton University

Title: “Who Sets the Agenda? Diplomatic Capital, Small States, and Legislative Activities in the United Nations.” University of Pennsylvania, 2023.

Distinguished Mentor Award

Award Committee: Jonas Tallberg (Chair), Stockholm University; Songying Fang, Rice University; Jennifer Tobin, Georgetown University

Recipient: James Raymond Vreeland, Princeton University

SECTION 49: MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA POLITICS

Best Book on MENA Politics

Award Committee: David Patel (Chair), Harvard University; Steven Brooke, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Kristin Fabbe, European Union Institute

Recipient: Sharan Grewal, American University

Title: Soldiers of Democracy? Military Legacies and the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Best MENA Politics Article

Award Committee: Asli Cansunsar (Chair), University of Washington; Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick; Nadya El Hajj, Wellesley College

Recipients: Daniel Arnon, University of Arizona; Richard J. McAlexander, University of Pennsylvania; Michael A. Rubin, University of Connecticut

Title: “Social Cohesion and Community Displacement in Armed Conflict.” International Security 47(3): 52-94. 2023.

Best Dissertation on MENA Politics

Award Committee: Shamiran Mako (Chair), Boston University; Michelle Weitzel, Graduate Institute of Geneva; Daniel Tavana, Pennsylvania State University

Co-Recipient: Hessa Alnuaimi, University of St. Andrews

Title: “The Legitimation of the Arab Gulf States through British Colonial Racialisation of Arabs and South Asians.”

Co-Recipient: Alice Baroni, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Title: “Imperfect Struggles: Jewish-Israeli Activists for Palestinian Rights and the Paradoxes of Solidarity from a Position of Power.”

Best MENA Politics APSA Paper

Award Committee: Mohamed Saleh (Chair), London School of Economics; Tugba Bozcago, King’s College London; Ammar Shamaileh, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Co-Recipient: Elizabeth K. Parker-Magyar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Workplace Networks and Civil Society in Autocracies: Evidence from Jordan.”

Co-Recipient: Rana B. Khoury, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title: “Surviving International Aid: Local Organizations in Wartime Syria.”

SECTION 50: CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Established Leader Award

Award Committee: Shamira Gelbman (Chair), Wabash College; Chapman Rackaway, Radford University; J. Cherie Strachan, University of Akron

Recipient: Diana Owen, Georgetown University

Outstanding Civic Engagement Project

Award Committee: Rick Battistoni (Chair), Providence College; Cameron Arnzen, Columbia University; Jennifer Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh; William O’Brochta, Texas Lutheran University

Recipient: Alison McCartney, Towson University

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: John Forren (Chair), Miami University; Jeremy Bowling, University of Nevada–Las Vegas; Kevin Lorentz, Saginaw Valley State University

Recipients: Maricruz Ariana Osorio, Bentley University; Stephanie L. DeMora, University of Pennsylvania; Melissa R. Michelson, Menlo College; Kescia A. Dickinson, University of Mississippi; Jasmine Jackson, Texas Christian University; Jazmine Jimenez, Arizona State University

Title: “Students as Knowledge Brokers: Voter Information Sharing and the Political Consequences of Informing Students of Color and First-Generation Students on Electoral Politics.”

Emerging Scholar Award

Award Committee: Austin Trantham (Chair), Saint Leo University; Abigail Dym, University of Pennsylvania; Jeffrey Kraus, Wagner College; Sara Sadhwani, Pomona College

Recipient: Jae Yeon Kim, Johns Hopkins University

SECTION 51: EDUCATION POLITICS AND POLICY

Best Education Politics and Policy Dissertation

Award Committee: Katharina Sass, University of Bergen; Roland Kappe, University College London; Susanne Garritzmann, University of Konstanz

Recipient: Zhamilya Mukasheva, London School of Economics

Title: “The Politics of Cost Sharing in Higher Education in OECD Countries.” Royal Holloway University.

Best Book on Education Politics and Policy

Award Committee: Kenneth Wong, Brown University and Thomas Gift, University College London

Recipient: Michael Hartley, Boston College

Title: How Policies Make Interest Groups: Government, Unions, and American Education Policy. University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Best APSA Paper on Education Politics and Policy

Award Committee: NaLette Brodnax, Georgetown University; Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland; Matthias Haslberger, University of St. Gallen

Recipient: Elizabeth K. Parker-Magyar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Workplace Networks and Civil Society in Autocracies: Evidence from Jordan.”

SECTION 52: FORMAL THEORY

Journal of Theoretical Politics Ostrom Award

Award Committee: Catherine Hafer, New York University; Scott Tyson, University of Rochester; Ian Turner, Yale University

Co-Recipient: Hannah Simpson, Texas A&M University

Title: “Access to justice in revenue-seeking legal institutions.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 35(2): 75-99. 2023.

Co-Recipient: Michael Gibilisco, California Institute of Technology

Title: “Mowing the grass.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 35(3): 204-231. 2023.

Best Article by a Non-Tenured Scholar Award

Award Committee: Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Emory University; Nolan McCarty, Princeton University; Scott Wolford, University of Texas at Austin

Recipient: Tara Slough, New York University

Title: “Phantom Counterfactuals.” American Journal of Political Science 67(1): 137-153. 2023.

Best Article Award

Award Committee: Alexandre Debs, Yale University; Alan Wiseman, Vanderbilt University; Keith Schnakenberg, Washington University in St. Louis

Recipients: Edoardo Grillo, University of Padova and Carlo Prato, Columbia University

Title: “Reference Points and Democratic Backsliding.” American Journal of Political Science 67(1): 71-88. 2023.

Best APSA Paper Award

Award Committee: Hannah Simpson, Texas A&M University; Alex Hirsch, California Institute of Technology; John Patty, Emory University

Recipient: Joseph Ruggiero, Stanford University

Title: “What Makes a World War? A Structural Analysis of Integration.” Presented at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

SECTION 53: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY

Nuno P. Monteiro Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Sebastian Rosato (Chair), University of Notre Dame; Katherine Beall, Wellesley College; Alexandre Debs, Yale University

Recipient: Soyoung Lee, Duke University

Title: “National Interest in International Relations: Domestic Distributional Consequences and Constraints to Conflict.” Stanford University, 2023.

SECTION 55: SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS

Rajni Kothari Award for Best Paper on the Politics of South Asia

Award Committee: Rikhil Bhavnani, University of Wisconsin; Niloufer Siddiqui, State University of New York at Albany; Sushmita Pati, National Law School of India

Recipients: Saad Gulzar, Princeton University; Ben Pasquale, Independent Scholar; Apoorva Lal, Independent Scholar

Title: “Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas.” American Political Science Review 118(2): 764-783. 2023.

Francine Frankel Best Book Award

Award Committee: Kanchan Chandra, New York University; Assema Sinha, Claremont McKenna College; Shandana Mohmand, Institute of Development Studies

Co-Recipient: Akshay Mangla, Oxford University

Title: Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Co-Recipient: Niloufer Siddiqui, State University of New York at Albany

Title: Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan. Cambridge University Press, 2023. ■

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