Almond Award Winners

The Almond award is given each year for the best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted that year or the previous one in the field of comparative politics.

Year	Author	Dissertation	Submitted by
1972	Paul M. Sniderman	Personality and Democratic Politics: Correlates of Self-Esteem	University of California, Berkeley
1977	Kenneth Wald	Patterns of English Voter Alignment since 1885	Washington University
1978	Peter H. Lemieux	The Liberal Party and British Political Change, 1955-74	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1979	John T. S. Keeler	The Politics of Official Unionism in French Agriculture, 1958-1976	Harvard University
	Anne Louise Potter	Political Institutions, Political Decay and the Argentine Crisis of 1930	Stanford University
1980	Steven Jay Kelman	Regulating Job Safety and Health: A Comparison of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Swedish Worker Protection Board	Harvard University
1981	Thomas M. Callaghy	State Formation and Absolutism in Comparative Perspective: Seventeenth-Century France and Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaire	University of California, Berkeley
1982	David G. Becker	The New Bourgeoisie and the Limits of Dependency: The Social and Political Impact of the Industry in Peru since 1968	University of California, Los Angeles
1983	Miriam A. Golden	Austerity and Its Opposition: Italian Working Class Politics in the 1970s	Cornell University
1984	Kaare Strom	Minority Government and Majority Rule	Stanford University
1985	David Pion-Berlin	Ideas as Predictors: A Comparative Study of Coercion in Peru and Argentina	University of Denver
1986	Michael Loriaux	International Change and Political Adaptation: The French Overdraft Economy in the Seventies	Princeton University
	James Tong	Collective Violence in a Pre-modern Society: Rebellions and Banditry in the Ming Dynasty (1364-1644)	University of Michigan
1987	Frances Hagopian	The Politics of Oligarchy: The Persistence of Traditional Elites in Contemporary Brazil	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1988	David Friedman	The Misunderstood Miracle: Politics and the Development of a Hybrid Economy in Japan	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1989	Jeffrey Herbst	Policy Formulation and Implementation in Zimbabwe: Understanding State Autonomy and the Focus of Decision-Making	Yale University
	Sven Steinmo	Taxes, Institutions and the Mobilization of Bias: The Political Economy of Taxation in Britain, Sweden and the United States	University of California, Berkeley
1990	Brian M. Downing	The Military Revolution and Political Change in Early Modern Europe	University of Chicago
1991	Michael Barnett	War Preparation and the Restructuring of the State-Society Relations: Israel and Egypt in Comparative Perspective	University of Minnesota
1992	Felipe Aguero	The Assertion of Civil Supremacy in Post-Authoritarian Contexts: Spain in Comparative Perspectives	Duke University
1993	Daniel M. Green	Structural Study of PNDC Ghana and the District Assembly Decentralization Policy	Indiana University
1994	Daniel Goldhagen	The Nazi Executioners: A Study of Their Behavior and the Causation of Genocide	Harvard University
1995	Jonah Levy	Tocqueville's Revenge: Dilemmas of Institutional Reform in Post-Dirigiste France	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996	Torben Iverson	Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macro-Economics and Wage Bargaining in Organized Capitalism	Duke University
1997	Michael Orenstein	Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe	Yale University
1998	Beatriz Magaloni	The Dynamics of Dominant Party Decline: The Mexican Transition to Multipartyism	Duke University
	James Mahoney	Radical, Reformist, and Aborted Liberalism: Origins of National Regimes in Central America	University of California, Berkeley
1999	Daniel Posner	The Institutional Origins of Ethnic Politics in Zambia	Harvard University
2000	Anna M. Grzymala-Busse	Redeeming the Past: The Regeneration of the Communist Successor Parties in East and Central Europe after 1989	Harvard University
2001	Jonathan Hiskey	Does Democracy Matter? Electoral Competition and Local Development in Mexico	University of Pittsburgh
2002	Evan S. Lieberman	Payment for Privilege? Race and Space in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa	Yale University
2003	Julia Lynch	The Age of Welfare: Citizens, Clients, and Generations in the Development of the Welfare State	University of California, Berkeley
2004	Daniel F. Ziblatt	Constructing a Federal State: Political Development, Path Dependence, and the Origins of Federalism, 1815-1871	Harvard University
2005	Edmund James Malesky	At Provincial Gates: The Impact of Locally Concentrated Foreign Direct Investment on Provincial Autonomy and Economic Reform	University of California, San Diego
2006	Matthew Kocher	Human Ecology and Civil War	University of Chicago