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Home William Anderson Award Winners For the best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted in 2004 or 2005 in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental relations, or state and local politics. Year Author Dissertation Submitted by 1977 Alfred R. Light Intergovernmental Relations and Program Innovation: The Institutionalized Perspectives of State Administrator University of North Carolina 1978 No award given 1979 Donald Kettl Managing Community Development in the New Federalism Yale University 1980 Bruce Jacobs The Political Economy of Organizational Change Harvard University 1981 No award given 1982 Andrew B. Dunham Health and Politics: Cost Control and State Certificate of Need Regulation University of Chicago 1983 No award given 1984 Stephen C. Godek Determinants of Public Interest Cable Communication Policies University of Illinois at Chicago 1985 No award given 1986 Gregory R. Weiher Theory of Urban Political Boundaries Washington University 1987 Barry Rabe Functional Federalism and the Management of Federal Programs in Health Care and Education University of Chicago 1988 No award given 1989 John C. Drew Child Labor and Child Welfare: The Origins and Uneven Development of the American Welfare State Cornell University 1990 Jeffrey J. Anderson Territorial Networks of Interest in Britain and Germany: Regions and the Politics of Economic Decline Yale University 1991 Michael B. Berkman The State Roots of National Politics: Regional Economic Disparities and the Congressional Tax Agenda, 1978-1986 Indiana University 1992 Nancy Elizabeth Burns Making Politics Permanent: The Formation of American Local Governments Harvard University 1993 Grant D. Reeher Narratives of Justice: Legislators' Beliefs About Distributive Justice Yale University 1994 Dewitt John States at the Center of Environmental Politics University of Chicago 1995 David A. Pizza Structure and Cooperation in Party Politics: The Development of Urban Party Organizations in the United States, 1896-1930 University of Chicago 1996 Thomas M. Carsey Election Dynamics: Candidate Strategy and Electoral Cleavages in United States Gubernatorial Elections Indiana University 1997 Dale Mason Interest Group Federalism: Indian Gaming and the Status of Indian Tribe in the American Political System University of Oklahoma 1998 Kirk Emerson The Emergence of State Property Rights Legislation: A Comparative State Policy Analysis Indiana University 1999 Greg M. Shaw Public Opinion and Welfare in the United States Columbia University David Buchholz Competition and Corporate Incentives: Dilemmas in Economic Development Duke University 2000 Pamela W. Winston The Devil in Devolution: Welfare, the Nation, and the States Johns Hopkins University 2001 Pieter J. van Houten Regional Assertiveness in Western Europe: Political Constraints and the Role of Party Competition University of Chicago 2002 David Stuligross A Piece of Land to Call One's Own University of California, Berkeley 2003 Thad Kousser How Term Limits and Professionalization Reshape America's State Legislatures University of California, Berkeley 2004 Christopher Berry Imperfect Union: Fiscal Externalities in Multi-Level Governments University of Chicago 2005 Michael C. Craw Bringing the City Back In: Municipal Governments in U.S. Redistributive Policy Michigan State University 2006 Joon Suk Kim Making States Federatively: Alternative Routes of State Formation in Late Medieval and Early Moden Europe University of Chicago