2007 APSA Award Winners Complete List of APSA Award Winners

Dissertation Awards

• Gabriel A. Almond Award [$750]
For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of comparative politics.
     Emmanuel J. Teitelbaum, The George Washington University

• William Anderson Award [$750]
For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of state and local politics, federalism, or intergovernmental relations.
      Ronald S. Smith, Hanover College

• Edward S. Corwin Award [$750]
For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law.
     Maria D. Popova, McGill University

• Harold D. Lasswell Award [$1,000]
For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of policy studies (supported by the Policy Studies Organization).
      Vanda Felbab-Brown, George Washington University & The Brookings Institution

• 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).
      Jason Lyall, Princeton University

• E.E. Schattschneider Award [$750]
For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government.
      Michael Franz, Bowdoin College

• Leo Strauss Award [$750]
For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of political philosophy.
      Lars Tønder, The Johns Hopkins University

• Leonard D. White Award [$750]
For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public administration.
      Daniel W. Gingerich, University of Virginia

Paper / 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.
     Jonas Pontusson, Princeton University
     Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, James Robinson, Harvard University

• Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award [$750]
For the best paper presented at the previous annual meeting.
     Dennis Chong and James Druckman, Northwestern University
     Kenneth Scheve, Yale University and David Stasavage, New York University

Book Awards
• Ralph J. Bunche Award [$1,000]
For the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous calendar year that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.
      Fredrick C. Harris, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, and Brian D. McKenzie. Columbia University, University of Rochester, and Texas A&M University, respectively
     Mark Q. Sawyer, University of California, Los Angeles
 
• 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.
      Benjamin I. Page, Northwestern University and Marshall Bouton, University of Chicago

• Victoria Schuck Award [$1,000]
For the best book published in the previous calendar year on women and politics.
     Shireen Hassim, University of Witwatersand
     Kathrin S. Zippel, Northeastern University

• 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).
     Stathis Kalyvas,Yale University
     Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and James Robinson, Harvard University

Career Awards
• John Gaus Award [$2,000]
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.
     Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Texas A&M University

• Hubert H. Humphrey Award [$1,000]
In recognition of notable public service by a political scientist.
     David Obey, U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin

• Carey McWilliams Award [$750]
To honor a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.
     Ron Brownstein, Los Angeles Times, Washington Bureau

• 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.
     Anthony Downs, The Brookings Institution

• 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."
     Robert Putnam, Harvard University

• Ithiel de Sola Pool Award [$2,000]
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."
     Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University Law School