Collier Awarded Skytte Prize

The Johan Skytte Prize, of Uppsala University in Sweden, has been awarded to David Collier, University of California, Berkeley. Collier has been an APSA member since 1966—his first year in graduate school. This honor is often referred to informally as the Nobel Prize of political science. The award recognizes “his contributions to concept development in political science and the development of methods for qualitative analysis.”

In announcing the prize, Uppsala praised Collier’s empirical work on Latin America, calling him “a political scientist of great importance to contemporary research.”

“There is humility and a refreshing lack of self-centering that appears in Collier’s great coauthored works,” said Li Bennich-Björkman, chair of the award committee.

In the April 24, 2014 announcement of the award in Svenska Dagbladet, the leading newspaper in Sweden, it was noted:

“Whoever mentions David Collier thereby simultaneously mentions Ruth Berins Collier, also a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Since the 1970s they have worked side by side. We may ask, who pulled the heaviest load in their large coauthored work, Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement and Regime Dynamics in Latin America? Collier quotes his friend Nelson Polsby: ‘We both did 75 percent of the work.’”

In an interview, Collier expressed his debt to the intellectual community of the Berkeley political science department and his gratitude for being part of the “Berkeley school” of social science methodology.

Collier joined the Berkeley faculty in 1978 and has twice served as chair of the political science department, and also as chair of the Center for Latin American Studies. He was founding co-director of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Latin American Studies. He has been vice-president of APSA, served as president of the APSA Organized Section for Comparative Politics, and served as founding president of the APSA Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. He has regularly taught a short course at the APSA Annual Meeting, and has helped launch additional short courses on methodology. Collier has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences; he is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier

The Johan Skytte Prize will be awarded for the 20th consecutive year at a ceremony in Uppsala, Sweden, in September. Previous winners include nine former APSA presidents.

Carmines President of MPSA

Indiana University Bloomington political scientist Edward G. Carmines has become president of the Midwest Political Science Association. He assumed the presidency April 5 at the association’s annual meeting in Chicago.

Carmines is Distinguished Professor, Warner O. Chapman Professor and Rudy Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

His research on elections, public opinion, political behavior, and methodology has been published in major political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science and Journal of Politics. He is the author of six books, two of which received the APSA’s Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in the field of US national policy. In 2012, his book Issue Evolution: Race and Transformation in American Politics received the Converse Award from APSA’s Organized Section on Elections, Public Opinon, and Voting Behavior for an outstanding and influential book published at least five years earlier.

He directs the Center on American Politics and is director of research of the Center on Congress at Indiana University.

Klotz and Lynch Share Tickner Award

Audie Klotz (Syracuse University) and Cecelia Lynch (University of California, Irvine) are the 2014 co-recipients of the J. Ann Tickner Award of the International Studies Association. This career award “recognizes someone who, in Tickner’s footsteps, consistently combines bravery in pursuing high-quality, pioneering scholarship that pushes the boundaries of the discipline with a deep commitment to service, especially teaching and mentoring.” The selection committee noted that Klotz and Lynch —individually and jointly —demonstrate “a commitment to scholarship centered on people, values, and ideas that matter in the ‘real world’ as well as in the academy.” Together, they co-authored the “pioneering” and “path-breaking” Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations (M. E. Sharpe 2007; Korean translation published 2010) which the committee noted has “expanded and sharpened the constructivist optic.” In all dimensions of their careers, Klotz and Lynch have “rendered service that has enriched the lives and work of students and peers.”

Audie Klotz

Cecelia Lynch

Lynch’s books, in addition to her work with Klotz, include the award-winning Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics (Cornell University Press 1999), and most recently Interpreting International Politics (Routledge 2014). According to the committee, she “has perhaps done more than any other scholar to bring religion into the mainstream of IR theory,” publishing numerous articles on the conceptual, analytic, and theoretical issues at the intersection of religion, ethics, and IR. She has received research support from the Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Henry Luce Foundation, the AAUW, and the Huntington Library. Her mentoring has been recognized by awards from the APSA Women’s Caucus and the Society for Women in International Political Economy, and she founded and coedits the Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa (CIHA) blog, at www.cihablog.com.

Along with her coauthored book with Lynch, Klotz has written an award-winning book, Norms in International Relations (Cornell 1995). Her latest book, Migration and National Identity in South Africa (Cambridge 2013), has been nominated for a Grawemeyer award, while her fieldwork over the years has received research support from Fulbright, the MacArthur Foundation through the Social Science Research Council, and National Science Foundation, among other sources. Klotz has also excelled as a mentor and teacher, attested to by campus-wide awards at Syracuse University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as an award from the Society for Women in International Political Economy. Furthermore, she has been instrumental in creating and chairing professional organizations that have been instrumental in advancing the careers of both women and junior scholars.

The award was presented at the ISA annual meeting on March 27, 2014, in Toronto. For more details, visit http://www.isanet.org/ProgramsResources/Awards/JAnnTickner.aspx.

Brehm, Gates Receive Herbert Simon Award

John Brehm of the University of Chicago and Scott Gates of the Peace Research Institute Oslo received the 2014 Herbert Simon Award. This award is given out annually to scholars who have made significant contributions to the scientific study of bureaucracy and public administration.

The Herbert Simon award is conferred by the Midwest Public Administration Caucus, and gets its name from the first political scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. It is the highest award in the field of political science for the study of bureaucracy and public administration. Gates and Brehm delivered the Herbert Simon Lecture at the 2014 Midwest Political Science Association meeting in April 2014.

Shields Named Dean of Fulbright College

Todd Shields, a 20-year political science professor at the University of Arkansas, was named dean of the school’s J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. Shields served as dean of the university’s Graduate School and International Education and as interim dean of the college since Robin Roberts resigned in August. His new permanent role was effective March 24.

Shields joined the UA in 1994 as an assistant professor of political science. He was promoted to associate professor in 1999 and to full professor in 2005. He also directs the Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society and previously served as interim dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock. He obtained a master’s degree and doctorate in political science from the University of Kentucky and holds two bachelor of arts degrees, one in political science and one in psychology, from Miami University.

“Coming from the perspective of a political scientist who arrived on campus nearly 20 years ago, I am honored and humbled to lead this exceptional college named for Sen. J. William Fulbright,” said Shields. “This college was my original home at the university, and I look forward to the many things we will accomplish together.”

David Gearhart, the university’s chancellor, said he was pleased to have Shields back in Fulbright College. “He’s a proven leader and has the perfect balance of knowledge, skill, and empathy to take the campus’ largest and most academically diverse college into its next phase of excellence,” said Gearhart.

Book Award Winners Announced

Harris Mylonas, George Washington University, has been chosen as the winner of the 2014 European Studies Book Award for his book The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities (Cambridge University Press 2013). Presented every two years, the award recognizes the best first book on any subject in European Studies and includes prize money of $1,000.

An Honorable Mention was also awarded to John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania, for his book, The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science & Technology after Napoleon (University of Chicago Press 2012).

Rosenthal Honored

Cindy Simon Rosenthal was recently honored by the Oklahoma Hospitality Club as one of 10 women who have made a difference in the lives of others through their careers and community service. Rosenthal serves as director and curator of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma and as professor of political science. Rosenthal has written on public leadership and women in politics. She was reelected to a third term as Norman’s mayor in April and is its first popularly elected woman mayor. She served as vice president and executive board member of the Oklahoma Municipal League, a member of the steering committee of the Regional Transit Dialogue and as representative to the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments.

Rosenthal has championed environmental awareness and energy efficiency throughout the city, spearheaded Norman’s inclusive community initiative and has been an advocate for the arts and culture in downtown Norman. She began her public service as Ward 4 council member. Rosenthal won the 2009 Distinguished Public Service Award, which is given annually by the Oklahoma Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration to a public servant whose career exhibits the highest standards of excellence, dedication, and accomplishment.

In 1996, the APSA Organized Section on Women and Politics recognized her dissertation as the best in the field of women in politics, and she also won the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award, given for the best paper on women and politics at the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting.

In 2002, she was named the Carlisle Mabrey and Lurleen Mabrey Presidential Professor at OU, and the Oklahoma Political Science Association recognized her as the Outstanding Oklahoma Political Scientist of the Year in 2000.

Viroli Joins University of Texas

The University of Texas at Austin’s department of government has appointed Maurizio Viroli as professor of government. One of the nation’s premier scholars of the history of political thought, Viroli moved to Texas in January from Princeton University, where he had taught since 1987.

Viroli is the author of 13 books including many on Machiavelli, others on republicanism, nationalism, patriotism, language and politics, Rousseau, and civic education. He was a student of Quentin Skinner, and he is now one of the leading scholars in the “Cambridge school” of political theory that Skinner established.

An award-winning teacher deeply committed to translating the fruits of political knowledge into civic education, Viroli served as a Consultant to the President of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and he founded and directed the first European MA program in civic education. He also retains a part-time appointment as professor of communication and political theory at the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano).

The hiring of Viroli is the culmination of a multiyear search led by professor Thomas Pangle to recruit a senior scholar who would complement the department’s existing strengths. With more than 10 faculty in a theory program covering the full terrain of topics and approaches to the subject, Texas is especially strong in the history of political thought. With Viroli’s appointment Texas becomes one of the few departments in the world where students can encounter “Straussian” and “Cambridge school” approaches in vigorous dialogue.

Rosenbaum President of ASPA

At the conclusion of the 75th anniversary conference of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) in Washington DC this past March, APSA life member, Allan Rosenbaum, assumed the presidency of ASPA, a 9,000 member organization. Rosenbaum noted in his acceptance speech the need for ASPA to more actively engage in the national policy arena and to play a much more vigorous role in advocating on behalf of the importance of a strong public sector and public service for the well being of American society. Rosenbaum is a professor of public administration and directs a research institute at Florida International University in Miami, which he initially went to as dean of its then School of Public Affairs.

Rosenbaum also was recently nominated by the Secretary General of the United Nations, and approved by the UN Economic and Social Council, to serve a four- year term on the 24-member UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration where he will be the only American member. The committee reviews and provides guidance to UN activities in the area of good governance and development management. He is also currently serving as the first Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany, which, supported by the German government, is offering the first doctoral degree program specifically in the field of public administration in that country. In that role, he will visit the University on several occasions to deliver lectures there.

This spring he provided the keynote addresses at the first Midwest Public Administration Conference in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, the annual conference of the Korean Association of Public Administration in Daegu, South Korea, and at international conferences in Macau and Chengdu, China. He recently presented the opening keynote address at the Trans-European Dialogue on local governance, this year held in Cluj, Romania, and at an international conference in Rabat, Morocco, on government training activities.

Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded

In its 90th annual competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 177 Fellowships (including one joint Fellowship) to a diverse group of 178 scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants. Among the winners were three APSA members:

Daniel Diermeier is the IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice in the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences and the Director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship at the Kellogg School of Management. In addition, he holds faculty appointments at the department of political science, the department of economics, the department of linguistics, and the School of Law, all at Northwestern University.

Diermeier is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was named among the World’s 50 Best Business School Professors by Fortune magazine. He is the 2007 recipient of the Faculty Pioneer Award from the Aspen Institute named the “Oscar of Business Schools” by the Financial Times. He is the Chairman and Co-Founder of the Northwestern Global Health Foundation, winner of the 2012 Chicago “Up-and-Comer” Innovation Award.

His teaching and research focuses on political institutions, the interaction of business and politics, and crisis and reputation management. He has published two books, 40 case studies, and more than 80 research articles in academic journals mostly in the fields of economics, political science, and management, but also in other areas ranging from linguistics and psychology to computer science and applied mathematics. His most recent book, Reputation Rules: Strategies for Managing Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset, was published in 2011 and has been translated into Japanese, Mandarin, and Simplified Chinese. His research has been featured globally in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Economist, Business Week, Financial Times, Fortune, and New York Times. He has won 13 teaching awards, including the 2001 Kellogg Lavengood Professor of the Year Award and the 2013 Kellogg Alumni Professor of the Year award. He is a research fellow at the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research (CIFAR) and a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.

Miriam A. Golden is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her PhD in government in 1983 from Cornell University, after undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her broad interests are in problems of political representation and accountability. Golden’s early work focused on labor politics in advanced democratic countries, particularly Western Europe. Her research interests subsequently shifted to the study of the various ways in which elected public officials transgress the law: political corruption, political violence and criminality, and electoral fraud. She has also studied political distortions in the allocation of public resources. At the same time, the geographic focus of her work expanded to encompass South Asia and Africa.

Golden has held residential fellowships at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University and at the Russell Sage Foundation. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID), the International Growth Center, and the governments of Canada and Quebec. She is an affiliate of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), a member of Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP), and past president of the American Political Science Association’s Organized Section in Political Economy.

While a Guggenheim Fellow, Golden will devote her time to writing a book-length study of bad government in rich and poor democracies. The project draws on extensive empirical materials collected in Italy, India, and Ghana over more than a decade of research.

Jack A. Goldstone (PhD Harvard) is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Jr. Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, and a Senior Fellow of the Mercatus Center. Previously, Goldstone was on the faculty of Northwestern University and the University of California, and has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, Stanford University, and the California Institute of Technology. He has received the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship award from the American Sociological Association, the Arnoldo Momigliano Prize, the Barrington Moore Jr. Award, the Myron Weiner Award, and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Mellon Foundation. He recently served as the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor to the American Academy in Berlin.

Recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on revolutions and social change, he contributed to the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Global Megatrends” project and the US Holocaust Museum’s Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Task Force. He has worked with the World Bank, and the US State and Defense departments on developing their operations in fragile states and forecasting political crises. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is also on the advisory board of the Council’s Center for Preventive Action. He is an Academic Fellow of the European Policy Council, and serves on the International Advisory Board of the Gaidar Institute (Moscow).

Goldstone’s research focuses on the conditions for building political stability and economic growth in developing nations. He is currently studying the impact of global population changes on social and economic development. His 2010 essay in Foreign Affairs, “The New Population Bomb,” analyzed the impact of aging and youth bulges on the global ecssonomy and international security, and was one of the most downloaded and viewed essays in recent years.

For a complete list of 2014 Guggenheim Fellows, visit www.gf.org/news-events.