2006 Frank Goodnow Award Winners

The Frank Johnson Goodnow Award was created by the APSA Council in 1996 to honor service to the community of teachers, researchers, and public servants who daily toil in the many fields of politics.

John A. Garcia, Norman J. Ornstein, and Kay L. Schlozman were honored with the 2006 Frank J. Goodnow Award for their significant contributions to the political science profession and the American Political Science Association at the 2006 Awards Ceremony, Thursday, August 31, in conjunction with the APSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

John A. Garcia has shaped American higher education and political science as a scholar, teacher, and leader for more than three decades. He provides guidance to fellow Latinos/as in the profession and inspiration to the next generation of scholars and students.

He constantly strives to advance Latinos/as in the profession and promote the study of minority politics. He is President of the Latino Caucus in Political Science, which sponsors panels on Latino/a politics and runs the Latino Outreach Program. He has served as Acting Director of the Mexican American Studies and Research Center at the University of Arizona.

Leadership and excellence are among the qualities Dr. Garcia has shown at the University of Arizona, where he has chaired the political science department. He has received numerous honors for his impact as a teacher, winning recognition as an Outstanding Graduate Faculty Instructor at the University of Arizona and the Arizona Hispanic Alumni Faculty Achievement Award.

Dr. Garcia has contributed professionally by serving the American Political Science Association as Vice President and Secretary, as well as Chair of the Section on Public Opinion and Elections. He has shown his dedication to the discipline by serving on the executive council of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research and on the Advisory Committee of the NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. He has been an editorial board member for several political science journals and has generously given his time to local task forces and committees.

He has written and co-authored several books, most recently Latino Politics: Community Culture, and Interests, and scores of his articles have been published in edited volumes and journals such as Social Science Quarterly, Publius, and the National Journal of Political Science.

Norman J. Ornstein, one of the nation's most prominent congressional scholars, has contributed significantly to the understanding of the American political system not only in the academic sphere but also through the mainstream media. He is an expert in the fields of electoral politics, political transitions, and congressional studies.

Fresh with a University of Michigan Ph.D., he began his now illustrious career as a 1969-70 APSA Congressional Fellow, where he worked with legislative reformers Senator George McGovern and Representative Donald M. Fraser.  He never looked back. He is a long-standing chair of the Congressional Fellowship's Advisory Committee, a guest discussant for the Wilson Seminar Series and, frequently with Congressional Fellow colleague Thomas Mann, he has been engaged in congressional reform.

Among his many honors, Dr. Ornstein is a recipient of the National Capitol Area Political Science Association's Pi Sigma Alpha Award and was a co-winner (with Thomas Mann) of the Policy Studies Organization's Hubert H. Humphrey Award, both for distinguished public service by a political scientist. He founded the Campaign Finance Reform Working Group, which greatly influenced the campaign finance reform law, and directed the Transition to Governing Project, which examined tension between the executive and legislative branches. His accomplishments have been recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which has elected him as a fellow.

Dr. Ornstein has also served as one of the nation's most articulate, supportive, and at times critical observers of the first branch of government as a regular television and radio commentator, author of innumerable books, regular columnist in publications such as Roll Call with his weekly "Congress Inside Out" column.  His opinions and observations reach wide audiences through his pieces in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and other major publications.

Kay L. Schlozman has significantly contributed to the field of political science through her study of the electoral process, women and politics, inequality, and public opinion, and to the profession of political science through her service.

Dr. Schlozman has greatly contributed to the body of literature on American democracy and political behavior, writing books such as Class and Political Response, Injury to Insult: Unemployment, Class and Political Response and Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics. For her most recent book, The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation, which she co-authored with Sidney Verba and Nancy Burns, she earned the Victoria Schuck Award for the best book published on women and politics.

Her scholarly excellence has been recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which has elected her as a fellow. She was awarded a grant from the Pew Charitable Trust for her research. She has also been honored for her creativity as a teacher, receiving in 2004 the Rowman and Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science for her Rights in Conflict course.

As Chair of APSA's Ethics Committee for three years, Dr. Schlozman skillfully handled a variety of contentious issues. She has held dozens of other APSA leadership positions, including Chair of the section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior. She was among the prominent scholars selected to serve on the Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy.

Her belief in the importance of civic participation and service extends to her own life: She is President of the New Directions Foundation and Vice President of the New Prospect Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning.

Nominations for the Goodnow Awards are now being accepted for 2007.

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