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Science, Technology & Environmental Politics Section Award Recipients

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Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper in the field of Science, Technology and Environmental Politics.

2017	Erika S. Simmons, University of Wisconsin - Madison "Market Reforms and Water Wars." World Politics. 68 (1):37-73.
2016	Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan “Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development Interventions.” American Political Science Review 109 (3): 470-487.
2016	Ashwini Chhatre, Indian School of Business “Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development Interventions.” American Political Science Review 109 (3): 470-487.
2016	Elisabeth R. Gerber, University of Michigan “Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development Interventions.” American Political Science Review 109 (3): 470-487.
2015	Neil Carter, University of York "Greening the Mainstream: Party Politics and the Environment"
2009	Jonneke Koomen, University of Minnesota "The Global Governance of Culture: Compaigns against Female Circumcision in East Africa"
1995	Jeanette Hofmann, Wissenchaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung "Implicit Theories in Political Discourse: A Critique of Interpretations of Reality in Technology Policy"

Don K. Price Award
The Don K. Price Award recognizes the best book on science, technology, and environmental politics published in the last year.

2017	Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara Giving Aid Effectively: The Politics of Environmental Performance and Selectivity at Multilateral Development Banks, Oxford University Press, 2016.
2017	Mark Zachary Taylor, Georgia Tech The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology, Oxford University Press, 2016.
2016	Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press
2015	David M. Konisky, Georgetown University Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy and the Age of Global Warming. MIT Press, 2014.
2015	Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy and the Age of Global Warming. MIT Press, 2014.
2014	Ethan Kapstein, Arizona State University AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2013
2014	Joshua Busby, University of Texas at Austin AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2013
2013	Jacques Hymans, University of Southern California Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians and Proliferation (Cambrige University Press 2012)
2012	Michael Berkman, Pennsylvania State University Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
2012	Eric Plutzer, Pennsylvania State University Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
2011	Ann Keller, University of California, Berkeley Science in Environmental Policy
2010	Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, National University of Singapore Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
2009	Steven Epstein, Northwestern University Inclusion: The Politics of Differnce in Medical Research (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
2008	Dan Breznitz, Georgia Institute of Technology Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland (Yale University Press, 2007)
2007	Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale University Press, 2006)
2006	Darrell West, Brown University Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance (Princeton University Press, 2005)
2005	Thomas Bernauer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology (Princeton University Press, 2004).
2004	Bruce Bimber, University of California, Santa Barbara Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2003	Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University The Gifts of Athena
2002	David Guston Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research
1998	Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America (Harvard University Press, 1995)
1996	Richard Sclove, The Loka Institute Democracy and Technology (Guilford, 1995)
1994	Scott Sagan, Stanford University The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents and Nuclear Weapons (Princeton University Press, 1993)

Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize
The Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize is given for the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years.

2017	Leigh Raymond, Purdue University Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading. MIT Press, 2016.
2016	Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge University, 2015
2016	Graeme Auld, Carleton University Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification. Yale University Press, 2014
2015	Jessica F. Green, Case Western Reserve University Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance. Princeton University Press, 2014.
2014	David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States. Princeton University Press, 2012
2013	Judith Layzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open for Business: Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 2012)
2012	Michael Kraft, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011)
2012	Mark Stephan, Washington State University, Vancouver Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011)
2012	Troy Abel, Western Washington University Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011)
2011	William Munro, Illinois Wesleyan University Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology
2011	Rachel Schurman, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology
2010	Megan Mullin, Temple University Governing the Tap: Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water
2009	Kathryn Hochstetler, University of New Mexico Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke Univeristy Press, 2007)
2009	Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke University, 2007)
2007	Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of California, Santa Cruz Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way?
2006	Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (University Press of Kansas, 2005)
2006	Eric Montpetit, Université de Montréal Misplaced Distrust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada (UBC Press, 2003)
2005	Barry Rabe, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Brookings, 2004)
2004	David Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law (MIT Press, 2003)
2003	Erika Weinthal State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic and International Politics in Central Asia (MIT Press 2002)
2002	Kate O'Neill, University of California at Berkeley Waste Trading Among Rich Nations: Building a New Theory of Environmental Regulation
2001	Elizabeth DeSombre, Colby College Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy
1998	Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of Southern California Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability (SUNY Press, 1997)
1998	George Gonzalez, University of Miami
1998	Robert Vos, University of Southern California Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability (SUNY Press, 1997)
1996	Bruce Williams, University of Kentucky, Albert R. Matheny, University of Florida Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Languages of Social Regulation (Yale University Press, 1995)

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award
The Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award is named in honor of a young scholar who tragically passed away last year, is given for the best dissertations in the field of science, technology and environmental politics.

2017	Yue (Iza) Ding, University of Pittsburgh "Invisible Sky, Visible State: Environmental Governance and Political Support in China."
2016	Matto Mildenberger, University of California, Santa Barbara “Fiddling While the World Burns: The Double Representation of Carbon Polluters in Comparative Climate Policymaking." Yale University, 2015
2015	Stefan Renckens, University of Toronto "Regulating Transnational Private Governance: Domestic Interests, Market Fragmentation, and Institutional Fit in the European Union."
2014	Alexander Ovodenko, Princeton University "Pathways of Cooperation: Integrated and Unintegrated International Environmental Governance." 2013
2013	Steven Samford, University of Notre Dame "High Road Development in a Low-Tech Industry: Policymakers, Producer Networks, and the Co-Production of Innovation in the Mexican Ceramics Sector."
2012	Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland Contesting Climate Change: Civil Society Networks and Collective Action in the European Union (Completed at Cornell University; advised by Sidney Tarrow)
2012	Kemi Fuentes-George, Middlebury College Scientific Knowledge, Epistemic Communities and Environmental Policy in the Developing World (Completed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; advised by Peter Haas)
2011	Jessica Green, Case Western Reserve University Private Actors, Public Goods: Private Authority in Global Environmental Politics
2010	Jennifer Bussell, University of Louisville Resisting Reform: Technological Backwardness in Political Perspective
2009 2008	Ngeta Kabiri, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Global Environmental Governance and Community Based Conservation in Kenya and Tanzania" Zak Taylor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “The Political Economy of Technological Change: A Change in the Debate”
2006	Sangbum Shin, University of Oregon "From Red to Green: Economic Globalization and Environmental Protection in China"
2005	Daniel Sherman, University of Puget Sound Not Here, Not There: The Federal, State, and Local Politics of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal in the United States (Cornell, August 2004).

Career Achievement Award

2017	David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley
2016	Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University
2015	Helen Ingram, University of California, Irvine (Emeritus)

Emerging Young Scholar Award

2017	Jessica Green, New York University
2016	Graeme Auld, Carleton University
2015	David Konisky, Georgetown University

Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award

2017	Shiran Shen, Stanford University "The Inconvenient Truth of the Political Pollution Cycle: Theory and Evidence from Chinese Prefectures."
2016	Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara “Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015
2016	Heather Hodges, Reed College “Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015
2016	Matthew Wibbenmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara “Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015
2016	Andrew J. Plantinga, University of California, Santa Barbara “Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015
2015	Elizabeth A. Albright, Duke University "Learning Processes, Public and Stakeholder Engagement: Analyzing Responses to Colorado's Extreme Flood Events of 2013."
2015	Deserai A. Crow, University of Colorado, Boulder "Learning Processes, Public and Stakeholder Engagement: Analyzing Responses to Colorado's Extreme Flood Events of 2013."