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Dissertation Awards

• Gabriel A. Almond Award [$750]
  For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of comparative politics.
        Edmund Malesky, University of California, San Diego
  
  
• William Anderson Award [$750]
  For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of state and local politics, federalism, or intergovernmental relations.
        Michael C. Craw, Western Reserve University
  
  
• Edward S. Corwin Award [$750]
  For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law.
        Lori Ann Johnson, Mercer University; and Martin J. Sweet, Florida Atlantic University
  
  
• Harold D. Lasswell Award [$1,000]
  For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of policy studies (supported by the Policy Studies Organization).
        Esther N. Mwangi, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research; and Thaddeus M. Williamson, University of Richmond
  
  
• Helen Dwight Reid Award [$750]
  For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of international relations, law and politics (supported by the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation).
        Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
  
• E. E. Schattschneider Award [$750]
  For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government.
        Markus Prior, Princeton University
  
  
• Leo Strauss Award [$750]
  For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of political philosophy.
        Douglas Casson, St. Olaf College
  
  
• Leonard D. White Award [$750]
  For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public administration.
        Sergio Fernandez, Indiana University

Paper and Article Awards

• Heinz Eulau Award [$750]
  For the best articles published in the American Political Science Review and Perspectives on Politics during the previous calendar year. Three-member award committees select the best article from the previous year's volumes of the American Political Science Review and Perspectives on Politics.
        Jonathan Bendor, Stanford University and Adam H. Meirowitz, Princeton University; Mala N. Htun, New School for Social Research
  
  
• Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award [$750]
  For the best paper presented at the previous annual meeting.
        William T. Bernhard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and David Leblang, University of Colorado, Boulder
  
  

Book Awards

• Ralph J. Bunche Award [$500]
  For the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous calendar year that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.
        Richard M. Valelly, Swarthmore College; Seyla Benhabib, Yale University
  
  
• Gladys M. Kammerer Award [$1,000]
  For the best political science publication in the previous calendar year in the field of U.S. national policy.
        Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago; Charles T. Clotfelter, Duke University
  
  
• Victoria Schuck Award [$1,000]
  For the best book published in the previous calendar year on women and politics.
        Saba Mahmood, University of California, Berkeley
  
  
• Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award [$5,000]
  For the best book published in the U.S. during the previous calendar year on government, politics, or international affairs (supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation).
        Kathleen Thelen, Northwestern University; Steven I. Wilkinson, Duke University

Career Awards

• John Gaus Award [$1,500]
  To honor the recipient's lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration and, more generally, to recognize achievement and encourage scholarship in public administration. The recipient delivers the Gaus Lecture at the Annual Meeting.
        Vincent Ostrom, Indiana University
  
  
• Hubert H. Humphrey Award [$500]
  In recognition of notable public service by a political scientist. 
        Richard Solomon, United States Institute of Peace
  
  
• Carey McWilliams Award [$500]
  To honor a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics. 
        Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker
  
  
• Benjamin E. Lippincott Award [$1,500]
  For a work of exceptional quality by a living political theorist that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since the original publication. Given biennially; Next Awarded in 2007.
        Carole Pateman, University of California, Los Angeles
  
  
• James Madison Award [$2,000]
  To an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science. Given triennially; Next Awarded in 2008.
        Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University
  
  
• Charles Merriam Award [$500]
  To recognize "a person whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research."  Given biennially; Next Awarded in 2007.
        Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia University
  
  
• Ithiel de Sola Pool Award [$500]
  To be "given to a scholar selected to present a lecture exploring the implications of research on issues of politics in a broad range of scholarship pursued by Ithiel de Sola Pool."  Given triennially; Next Awarded in 2007.