Section 32 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section Award Recipients

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Best Paper Award
Emerging Scholar Award
John Sullivan Award
Philip E. Converse Book Award
Warren E. Miller Award
Best Article in Political Behavior Award
Graduate Student Travel Awards

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper delivered at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

2025	Priyadarshi Amar, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sumitra Badrinathan, American University Simon Chauchard, University Carlos III Madrid Florian Sichart, Princeton University “Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-based Field Experiment in India.”
2024	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 “Interacting as Equals: How Contact Can Promote Tolerance Among Opposing Partisans.”
2023	Feyaad Allie, Stanford University “The Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India.”
2022	Charles T. McClean, University of Michigan “The Element of Surprise: Election Timing and Opposition Preparedness.”
2021	Mathias Poertner, Texas A&M University “Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico.”
2020	Hans J.G. Hassell, Florida State University “Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Retrospective Voting in U.S. Elections.” Paper presented at APSA 2019.
2020	John B. Holbein, University of Virginia “Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Retrospective Voting in U.S. Elections.” Paper presented at APSA 2019.
2020	Matthew Baldwin, Brigham Young University “Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Retrospective Voting in U.S. Elections.” Paper presented at APSA 2019.
2019	Maggie A. Deichert, Vanderbilt University “God, Sex, and Especially Politics: Disentangling the Dimensions of Discrimination.”
2019	Stephen N. Goggin, San Diego State University “God, Sex, and Especially Politics: Disentangling the Dimensions of Discrimination.”
2019	Alexander Theodoridis, University of California, Merced “God, Sex, and Especially Politics: Disentangling the Dimensions of Discrimination.”
2019	Sara B. Holbolt, London School of Economics “Divided by the Vote: Affective Polarization in the Wake of Brexit.”
2019	Thomas J. Leeper, London School of Economics “Divided by the Vote: Affective Polarization in the Wake of Brexit.”
2019	James Tilley, Oxford University “Divided by the Vote: Affective Polarization in the Wake of Brexit.”
2018	Katherine Conn, Columbia University “When do the Advantaged See the Disadvantages of Others? A Quasi-Experimental Study of National Service.”
2018	Cecilia Mo, University of California, Berkeley “When do the Advantaged See the Disadvantages of Others? A Quasi-Experimental Study of National Service.”
2017	Rune Slothuus, Aarhus University “If Only Citizens Had a Cue: The Process of Opinion Formation over Time.”
2017	Thomas Leeper, London School of Economics “If Only Citizens Had a Cue: The Process of Opinion Formation over Time.”
2016	David A.M. Peterson, Iowa State University “Macrointerest: The Public as Attentive Gods of Vengeance but Lazy Gods of Reward (with Apologies to V.O. Key).”
2016	Kyle Saunders, Colorado State University “Macrointerest: The Public as Attentive Gods of Vengeance but Lazy Gods of Reward (with Apologies to V.O. Key).”
2016	Scott McClurg, Southern Illinois University “Macrointerest: The Public as Attentive Gods of Vengeance but Lazy Gods of Reward (with Apologies to V.O. Key).”
2016	Joanne Miller, University of Minnesota “Macrointerest: The Public as Attentive Gods of Vengeance but Lazy Gods of Reward (with Apologies to V.O. Key).”
2015	Samara Klar, University of Arizona “When Common Identities Fuel Affective Polarization: An Experimental Study of Democratic and Republican Women.”
2014	Thomas Wood, University of Chicago County Line and Prime Time: A Presidential Campaign as a Lab for Advertising Effects.
2013	Jens Hainmueller, Massachusetts Institure of Technology “The Hidden American Immigration Consensus: A Conjoint Analysis of Attitudes toward Immigrants”
2013	Daniel Hopkins, Georgetown University “The Hidden American Immigration Consensus: A Conjoint Analysis of Attitudes toward Immigrants”
2012	James Druckman, Northwestern University “Framing and Biased Information Search”
2012	Jordan Fein, Northwestern University Framing and Biased Information Search
2012	Thomas Leeper, Northwestern University Framing and Biased Information Search
2011	Michael Tomz, Stanford University Candidate Repositioning
2010	Deborah Brooks, Dartmouth College A War of One’s Own: Understanding the Gender Gap in Support for War
2010	Benjamin Valentino, Dartmouth College A War of One’s Own: Understanding the Gender Gap in Support for War
2009	Deborah Schildkraut, Tufts University “Immigrant Resentment: When The Work Ethnic Backfires”
2007	Dennis Chong, Northwestern University “Democratic Competition and Public Opinion”
2007	James Druckman, Northwestern University “Democratic Competition and Public Opinion”
2006	Larry Bartels, Princeton University “What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas?: Class, Culture, and Presidential Voting, 1952-2004”
2005	David Campbell, University of Notre Dame “Community Heterogeneity and Participation”
2004	Larry Bartels, Princeton University “Homer Gets a Tax Cut: Inequality and Public Policy in the American Mind”
2003	George Bizer, Ohio State University “Impact of Personality on Political Beliefs Attitutes, and Behavior: Need for Cognition and Need to Evaluate”
2003	Allyson Holbrook, Ohio State University “Impact of Personality on Political Beliefs Attitutes, and Behavior: Need for Cognition and Need to Evaluate”
2003	Derek Rucker, Ohio State University “Impact of Personality on Political Beliefs Attitutes, and Behavior: Need for Cognition and Need to Evaluate”
2003	Jon Krosnick, Ohio State University “Impact of Personality on Political Beliefs Attitutes, and Behavior: Need for Cognition and Need to Evaluate”
2003	Richard Petty, Ohio State University “Impact of Personality on Political Beliefs Attitutes, and Behavior: Need for Cognition and Need to Evaluate”
2003	S. Christian Wheeler, Ohio State University “Impact of Personality on Political Beliefs Attitutes, and Behavior: Need for Cognition and Need to Evaluate”
2002	Martin Cohen, University of California at Los Angeles “Beating Reform: The Resurgence of Parties in Presidential Nomination, 1980 to 2000.”
2002	David Karol, University of California at Los Angeles “Beating Reform: The Resurgence of Parties in Presidential Nomination, 1980 to 2000.”
2002	Hans Noel, University of California at Los Angeles “Beating Reform: The Resurgence of Parties in Presidential Nomination, 1980 to 2000.”
2002	John Zaller, University of California at Los Angeles “Beating Reform: The Resurgence of Parties in Presidential Nomination, 1980 to 2000.”
2001	James Glaser, Tufts University “Of White Voters and Black Schools”
2000	Robert Huckfeldt, Indiania University “Political Environments, Micro-environments, and the Dynamics of Political Preference”
2000	John Sprague, Washington University “Political Environments, Micro-environments, and the Dynamics of Political Preference”
1999	Stan Humphries, University of Virginia “The Impact of Economic Structure on Social Capital and Civic Engagement”
1997	Richard Johnston, University of British Colombia “The 1993 Canadian Election: Realignment, Dealignment or Something Else?”
1997	André Blais, University of Montreal “The 1993 Canadian Election: Realignment, Dealignment or Something Else?”
1997	Henry Brady, University of California, Berkeley “The 1993 Canadian Election: Realignment, Dealignment or Something Else?”
1997	Elisabeth Gidengil, McGill University “The 1993 Canadian Election: Realignment, Dealignment or Something Else?”
1997	Neil Nevitte, University of Toronto “The 1993 Canadian Election: Realignment, Dealignment or Something Else?”
1996	Henry Brady, University of California, Berkeley “Prospecting for Participants: Rational Expectations and the Recruitment of Political Activists”
1996	Kay Schlozman, Boston College “Prospecting for Participants: Rational Expectations and the Recruitment of Political Activists”
1996	Sidney Verba, Harvard University “Prospecting for Participants: Rational Expectations and the Recruitment of Political Activists”
1995	Stanley Feldman, SUNY- Stony Brook
1995	Karen Stenner, SUNY-Stony Brook “Order, Threat, and Political Intolerance”

Emerging Scholar Award

The Emerging Scholar Award is awarded to the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of her or his Ph.D.

2025	Tyler Reny, Claremont University
2024	Alexander Coppock, Yale University Ruth Dassonneville, University of Montreal
2023	Michele Margolis, University of Pennsylvania
2023	Bernard L. Fraga, Emory University
2022	Ashley Jardina, Duke University
2022	John Holbein, University of Virginia
2021	Noam Lupu, Vanderbilt University
2021	Lauren Davenport, Stanford University
2020	David Broockman, University of California, Berkeley
2020	Cecilia Mo, University of California, Berkeley
2019	Anand Sokhey, University of Colorado, Boulder
2018	Michael Tesler, University of California, Irvine
2018	Samara Klar, University of Arizona
2017	Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College
2017	Peter K. Enns, Cornell University
2016	Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University
2016	Neil Malhotra, Stanford University
2015	Chris Karpowitz, Brigham Young University
2015	Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University
2014	Catherine De Vries, University of Oxford
2014	Daniel Hopkins, Georgetown University
2013	Gabriel Lenz, University of California, Berkeley
2013	Betsy Sinclair, University of Chicago
2012	Thomas Rudolph, University of Illinois
2012	Kevin Arceneaux, Temple University
2011	Cindy Kam, Vanderbilt University
2011	Sara Hobolt, University of Oxford
2010	James Fowler, University of California, San Diego
2009	Ted Brader, University of Michigan
2007	Adam Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007	Thomas Rudolph, University of Illinois
2006	Stephen Nicholson, University of California, Merced
2006	Joshua Tucker, Princeton University
2005	James Druckman, University of Minnesota
2004	Marc Hetherington, Bowdoin College
2003	Darren Davis, University of Michigan
2001	Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University
2001	R. Alvarez, California Institute of Technology
2000	Christopher Anderson, Binghamton University- SUNY
1999	Wendy Rahn, University of Minnesota
1996	Jeffery Mondak, University of Pittsburgh
1996	Arthur Lupia, University of California, San Diego

John Sullivan Award

The John Sullivan Award for the best paper by a graduate student on a panel sponsored by the APSA Organized Section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

2025	Sophie Mainz, Uppsala University “Femonationalism and Citizens’ Preferences: A Multifactorial Survey Experiment.”
2024	Victor Ellenbroek, European University Institute “The effect of more choice on voter turnout: Causal evidence from Germany.”
2023	Klaudia Wegschaider, University of Oxford “The Effect of Simultaneous Proposals: The Case of Immigrant Enfranchisement.” 2022.
2022	Sierra Davis Thomander, Stanford University “The Masculine/Feminine Double Bind: A Survey Experiment of Gendered Elections,” Presented at 2021 APSA Annual Meeting.
2021	Mike Cowburn, Freie Universität Berlin “Ideological Difference & Party Destabilization in Congressional Primary Contests.”
2020	Paul Friesen, University of Notre Dame “The Logic of Group Voting: A Global Examination of Social Identities in Political Institutions.” Paper presented at APSA 2019.
2019	Bradley Spahn, Stanford University “Before Stable Partisanship.”
2018	Elizabeth Connors, Stony Brook University “Political Values as Partisan Social Norms: The Social Context on Value Endorsement.”
2017	John Kane, Stony Brook University “Are You a Team Player? Party Coalitions, Executives, and Partisan Polarization.”
2015	Stephen Utych, Vanderbilt University “Human or Not? Political Rhetoric and Foreign Policy Attitudes”
2013	Alexander Theodoridis, University of California, Merced “It’s My Party: Partisan Intensity through the Lens of Implicit Identity”
2010	Elias Dinas, European University Institute The More You Try the Less It Sticks: Parental Politicization and the Endurance of Partisan Transmission Through the Family
2009	Christopher Stout, University of California, Irvine “Ashamed Not to Vote for an African American; Ashamed to Vote for a Woman: An Analysis of the Bradley Effect from 1982-2006”
2009	Reuben Kline, University of California, Irvine “Ashamed Not to Vote for an African American; Ashamed to Vote for a Woman: An Analysis of the Bradley Effect from 1982-2006”

Philip E. Converse Book Award

The Philip E. Converse Book Award is given for an outstanding book in the field published at least five years before.

2025	Ismail K. White, Princeton University Chyl N. Laird, University of Maryland Steadfast Democrats: How Social forces Shape Black Political Behavior. Princeton University Press, 2020.
2024	Dan Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania The Increasingly United States. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
2023	Jaime Settle, College of William & Mary Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America. 2018.
2022	Ted Brader, University of Michigan Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in Political Ads Work, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
2021	Samara Klar, University of Arizona and Yanna Krupnikov, SUNY Stony Brook University Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
2021	Yanna Krupnikov, SUNY Stony Brook University Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
2020	Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, & Institutions. Princeton University Press, 2014
2020	Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, & Institutions. Princeton University Press, 2014
2019	Donald P. Green, Columbia University Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters. Yale University Press, 2002.
2019	Bradley Palmquest Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters. Yale University Press, 2002.
2019	Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters. Yale University Press, 2002.
2018	Jennifer L. Hochschild, Harvard University What’s Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice. Harvard University Press, 1986.
2017	Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality. Princeton University Press, 2001.
2016	Marc Hetherington, Vanderbilt University Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
2016	Jonathan Weiler, University of North Carolina Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
2015	Robert Huckfeldt, University of California, Davis Citizens, Politics and Social Communication: Information and Influence in an Election Campaign
2015	John Sprague, Washington University in St. Louis Citizens, Politics and Social Communication: Information and Influence in an Election Campaign
2014	Martin Gilens, Princeton University Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy. University of Chicago Press, 2009
2013	John Mueller, Ohio State University War, Presidents and Public Opinion (New York: Wiley, 1973)
2012	Edward Carmines, Indiana University, Bloomington Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics (Princeton University Press, 1989 )
2012	James Stimson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics (Princeton University Press, 1989)
2011	Paul Sniderman, Stanford University Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology
2011	Richard Brody, Stanford University Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology
2011	Philip Tetlock, University of Pennylvania Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology
2010	Robert Erikson, Columbia University Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States
2010	Gerald Wright, Indiana University, Bloomington Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States
2010	John McIver, University of Colorado, Boulder Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States
2009	Steven Rosenstone, University of Minnesota Mobilization, Participation, and Democracy in American (New York: MacMillan)
2009	John Hansen, University of Chicago Mobilization, Participation, and Democracy in American (New York: MacMillan)
2008	Robert E. Lane, Yale University Political Ideology (Free Press of Glencoe, 1963)
2007	Sidney Verba, Harvard University Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism and American Politics
2007	Kay Schlozman, Boston College Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism and American Politics
2007	Henry Brady, University of California, Berkeley Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism and American Politics
2006	James Piereson, Manhattan Institute Political Tolerance and American Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 1982)
2006	George Marcus, Williams College Political Tolerance and American Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 1982)
2006	John Sullivan, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis Political Tolerance and American Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 1982)
2005	Stanley Presser, University of Maryland Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys: Experiments on Question Form, Wording, and Context. NY: Academic Press, 1981.
2005	Howard Schumann, University of Michigan Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys: Experiments on Question Form, Wording, and Context. NY: Academic Press, 1981
2004	Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University Co-Authored with Donald Kinder: News that Matters: Television and American Public Opinion (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
2004	Donald Kinder, University of Michigan Co-Authored with Shanto Iyengar: News that Matters: Television and American Public Opinion (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
2004	John Hansen, University of Chicago Mobilization, Participation, and Democracy in American (New York: MacMillan)
2003	Benjamin Page, Northwestern University The Rational Public
2003	Robert Shapiro, Columbia University The Rational Public
2002	Morris Fiorina, Stanford University Retrospective Voting in American National Elections
2001	James Stimson, University of North Carolina Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles, and Swings
2000	John Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinions (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
1999	Anthony Downs, The Brookings Institution An Economic Theory of Democracy (Harper and Row, 1957)

Warren E. Miller Award

The Warren E. Miller Prize is awarded every two or three years for an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior field.

2024	André Blais, University of Montreal
2022	Pippa Norris, Harvard University
2020	Gary Jacobson, UCSD
2018	Kay Schlozman, Boston College
2016	John Aldrich, Duke University
2014	Larry Bartels, Vanderbilt University
2012	Donald Kinder, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2010	James Stimson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2006	Morris Fiorina, Stanford University
2004	M. Jennings, University of California-Santa Barbara
2000	Sidney Verba, Harvard University
1995	Warren Miller, Arizona State University

**Best Article in Political Behavior Award**

This award is for the best article published in Political Behavior in the previous calendar year.

2025	Benjamin S. Noble, University of California, San Diego Taylor N. Carlson, Washington University in St. Louis “CueAnon: What QAnon Signals About Congressional Candidates and What it Costs Them.” Political Behavior 47(1): 435-456. 2025.
2024	Lauren Young, University of California, Davis “Mobilization Under Threat: Emotional Appeals and Pro‐Opposition Political Participation Online.” Political Behavior 45(2): 445-468, 2023.
2023	Bernard L. Fraga, Emory University; Daniel J. Moskowitz, University of Chicago; Benjamin Schneer, Harvard University “Partisan Alignment Increases Voter Turnout: Evidence from Redistricting”
2022	Jin Woo Kim, University of Pennsylvania “Temporal Selective Exposure: How Partisans Choose When to Follow Politics,” Political Behavior 43, 1663–1683 (2021).
2022	Eunji Kim, Vanderbilt University “Temporal Selective Exposure: How Partisans Choose When to Follow Politics,” Political Behavior 43, 1663–1683 (2021).
2021	Rachel Bernhard, University of California, Davis “The More You Know: Voter Heuristics and the Information Search.” Political Behavior, 42: 603-623, 2020.
2021	Sean Freeder, University of California, Berkeley “The More You Know: Voter Heuristics and the Information Search.” Political Behavior, 42: 603-623, 2020.
2021	Nicole Yadon, Ohio State University “Shades of Privilege: The Relationship between Skin Color and Political Attitudes Among White Americans.” Political Behavior, 42, 2020.
2021	Mara C. Ostfeld, University of Michigan “Shades of Privilege: The Relationship between Skin Color and Political Attitudes Among White Americans.” Political Behavior, 42, 2020.
2020	Mara Cecilia Ostfeld, University of Michigan “The New White Flight?: The Effects of Political Appeals to Latinos on White Democrats.” Political Behavior 41, 561–582 (2019).
2020″	Antoine J. Banks, University of Maryland Black Politics: How Anger Influences the Political Actions Blacks Pursue to Reduce Racial Inequality.” Political Behavior 41, 917–943 (2019).
2020	Brian D. McKenzie Black Politics: How Anger Influences the Political Actions Blacks Pursue to Reduce Racial Inequality.” Political Behavior 41, 917–943 (2019).
2020	Ismail K. White, Duke University Black Politics: How Anger Influences the Political Actions Blacks Pursue to Reduce Racial Inequality.” Political Behavior 41, 917–943 (2019).
2019	Cecilia H. Mo, University of California, Berkeley “Perceived Relative Deprivation and Risk: An Aspiration-Based Model of Human Trafficking Vulnerability.” Political Behavior 40(1): 247–77.
2018	Kevin Munger, New York University “Tweement Effects on the Tweeted: Experimentally Reducing Racial Harassment.” Political Behavior 39(3): 629–649.
2017	Noah J. Kaplan, University of Chicago “Racial Resentment and Whites’ Gun Policy Preference in Contemporary America.” Political Behavior 38(2): 255–75.
2017	Alexandra Filindra, University of Chicago “Racial Resentment and Whites’ Gun Policy Preference in Contemporary America.” Political Behavior 38(2): 255–75.
2016	Cecilia Mo, Vanderbilt University “The Consequences of Explicit and Implicit Gender Attitudes and Candidate Quality in the Calculation of Voters.”
2015	Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University “The Relationship Between Campaign Negativity, Gender and Campaign Context”
2015	Nichole M. Bauer, University of Alabama “The Relationship Between Campaign Negativity, Gender and Campaign Context”

Graduate Student Travel Awards

Multiple grants awarded to graduate students who are authors or co-authors of papers on a panel or poster session sponsored by the section at the Annual Meeting.

2019	Elizabeth Schmitt, University of Arizona
2019	Caitlin Davies, The State University of New York at Stony Brook
2019	Brian Hamel, University of California, Los Angeles
2019	Aykut Ozturk, Syracuse University
2018	Elizabeth Connors, Stony Brook University
2017	Enrijeta Shino, University of Florida
2017	Carolina Tchintian, Rice University
2015	Katherine Haenschen, University of Texas at Austin
2015	Ju Yeon Park, New York University