2023 |
Alexander D. Bolton, Emory University
Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power. Princeton University Press, 2022. |
2023 |
Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University
Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power. Princeton University Press, 2022. |
2022 |
John Dearborn, Vanderbilt University
Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation. University of Chicago Press, 2021. |
2022 |
Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College
By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power. Princeton University Press, 2021. |
2021 |
Paul M. Collins, Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst
The President and the Supreme Court. Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
2021 |
Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas
The President and the Supreme Court. Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
2020 |
Rachel Augustine Potter, University of Virginia
Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy. |
2019 |
Lynn Vavreck, University of California, Los Angeles
Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America. Princeton University Press, 2018. |
2019 |
Michael Tesler, University of California, Irvine
Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America. Princeton University Press, 2018. |
2019 |
John Sides, George Washington University
Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America. Princeton University Press, 2018. |
2018 |
Trygve Throntveit, University of Minnesota
Power Without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment. University of Chicago, 2017. |
2018 |
Amnon Cavari, IDC Herzliya
The Party Politics of Presidential Rhetoric. Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
2017 |
Douglas L. Kriner, Boston University
Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power. Princeton University Press, 2016. |
2017 |
Eric Shickler, University of California, Berkeley
Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power. Princeton University Press, 2016. |
2016 |
Douglas L. Kriner, Boston University
The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality, Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
2016 |
Andrew Reeves, Washington University in St. Louis
The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality, Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
2015 |
Rebecca Thorpe, University of Washington
The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending. University of Chicago Press, 2014. |
2015 |
Michael Nelson, Rhodes College
Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government. Kansas University Press, 2014 |
2014 |
Mariah Zeisberg, University of Michigan
War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority. Princeton University Press, 2013 |
2013 |
Jean Yarbrough, Bowdoin College
Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition (University Press of Kansas, 2012) |
2012 |
Michael Korzi, Towson University
Presidential Term Limits in American History (Texas A&M University Press, 2011) |
2011 |
Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University
Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age |
2010 |
B. Dan Wood, Texas A&M University
The Myth of Presidential Representation |
2009 |
David Lewis, Vanderbilt University
The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance (Princeton University Press, 2008) |
2008 |
Martha Kumar, Towson University
Managing the President’s Message: The White House Communications Operation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) |
2008 |
William Howell, University of Chicago
While Dangers Gather (Princeton University Press, 2007) |
2008 |
Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin, Madison
While Dangers Gather (Princeton University Press, 2007) |
2007 |
Brandice Canes-Wrone, Princeton University
Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public (University of Chicago Press 2005) |
2006 |
Louis Fisher, Library of Congress, Law Division
Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism (University Press of Kansas, 2005) |
2006 |
Joel Aberbach, University of California, Los Angeles
The Executive Branch (Oxford University Press, 2005) |
2006 |
Mark Peterson, University of California, Los Angeles
The Executive Branch (Oxford University Press, 2005) |
2005 |
Kevin McMahon, Trinity College
Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown (University of Chicago Press). |
2004 |
Janet Martin, Bowdoin College
The Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance and Illusion (Texas A&M University Press, 2003) |
2003 |
Andrew Rudalevige, Dickenson College
Managing the Presidents Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formation (Princeton University Press, 2002) |
2002 |
Kenneth Mayer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power (Princeton University Press, 2001) |
2002 |
Patricia Conley, Northwestern University
Presidential Mandates: How Elections Shape the National Agenda (University of Chicago Press, 2001) |
2002 |
Honorable Mention
Larry Berman, University of California Washington Center
"No Peace, No Honor: Nixion, Kissenger, and Betrayal in Vietnam" (Free Press, 2001) |
2001 |
Robert Shapiro, Columbia University
Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (University of Chicago Press, 2000) |
2001 |
Lawrence Jacobs, University of Minnesota
Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (University of Chicago Press, 2000) |
2000 |
David Yalof, University of Connecticut
Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees (University of Chicago Press, 1999) |
1999 |
Keith Krehbiel, Stanford University
Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking (University of Chicago Press, 1998) |
1998 |
Jeffrey Cohen, University of Kansas
Presidential Responsiveness and Public Policy-Making: The Public and the Policies That Presidents Choose (University of Michigan Press, 1997) |
1997 |
Stanley Renshon, CUNY-Graduate Center
High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition (New York University Press, 1996) |
1996 |
Karen Hult, Virginia Tech University
Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ (University of Kansas, 1995) |
1996 |
Charles Walcott, Virginia Tech University
Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ (University of Kansas, 1995) |
1995 |
Charles Jones, University of Wisconsin
The Presidency in a Separated System (Brookings Institution, 1994) |
1994 |
Stephen Skowronek, Yale University
The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush (Harvard University Press, 1993) |
1992 |
David Mayhew, Yale University
Divided We Govern (Yale Univ Press, Reprint Edition:1993) |
1991 |
Harold Koh, Yale University
The National Security Constitution (Yale Univ Press, 1990) |
1990 |
John Burke, University of Vermont
How Presidents Test Reality (Russell Sage Foundation, 1989) |
1990 |
Fred Greenstein, Princeton University
How Presidents Test Reality (Russell Sage Foundation, 1989) |
1990 |
Larry Berman, University of California-Davis
FOR COLLABORATION ON: How Presidents Test Reality (Russell Sage Foundation, 1989) |
1989 |
Erwin Hargrove, Vanderbilt University
Jimmy Carter as President (Louisiana State University Press, 1988) |