| Year |
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
| 1971 |
Bruce M. Russett |
What Price Vigilance? |
Yale University Press |
| 1972 |
Alice M. Rivlin |
Systematic Thinking for Social Action |
Brookings Institution |
| 1973 |
Norman H. Nie and Sidney Verba |
Participation in America: Political Democracy and Social Equality |
Harper & Row |
| 1974 |
David P. Calleo and Benjamin M. Rowland
Anthony Downs |
America and the World Political Economy
Opening Up the Suburbs: An Urban Strategy for America |
Indiana University Press
Yale University Press |
| 1975 |
|
no award given |
| 1976 |
Arnold J. Heidenheimer, Hugh Heclo, and Carolyn Teich Adams |
Comparative Public Policy: The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America |
St. Martin's Press |
| 1977 |
Paul E. Peterson |
School Politics Chicago Style |
University of Chicago Press |
| 1978 |
William Ophuls |
Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity |
W.H. Freeman |
| 1979 |
Edward R. Tufte |
Political Control of the Economy |
Princeton University Press |
| 1980 |
Martha Derthick |
Policymaking for Social Security |
Brookings Institution |
| 1981 |
Gary C. Jacobson |
Money in Congressional Elections |
Yale University Press |
|
Michael Lipsky |
Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services |
Russell Sage Foundation |
| 1982 |
Elizabeth Sanders |
The Regulation of Natural Gas |
Temple University Press |
| 1983 |
Robert A. Dahl |
Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy vs. Control |
Yale University Press |
|
Mancur Olson |
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities |
Yale University Press |
| 1984 |
Ithiel de Sola Pool (posthumously) |
Technologies of Freedom |
Harvard University Press |
| 1985 |
Rufus P. Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David H. Tabb |
Protest Is Not Enough: The Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics for Equality in Urban Politics |
University of California Press |
| 1986 |
David A. Baldwin |
Economic Statecraft |
Princeton University Press |
| 1987 |
I.M. Destler |
American Trade Politics: System Under Stress |
Institute for International Economics and Twentieth Century Fund |
|
Jane Mansbridge |
Why We Lost the ERA |
University of Chicago Press |
| 1988 |
Dennis F. Thompson |
Political Ethics and Public Office |
Harvard University Press |
| 1989 |
Thomas J. Anton |
American Federalism and PublicPolicy: How the System Works |
Random House and Temple University Press |
| 1990 |
Donald Alexander Downs |
The New Politics of Pornography |
University of Chicago Press |
|
Edward G. Carmines and James A. Stimson |
Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics |
Princeton University Press |
| 1991 |
James A. Morone |
The Democratic Wish |
Basic Books |
| 1992 |
D. Roderick Kiewiet and Mathew D. McCubbins |
The Logic of Delegation: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations |
University of Chicago Press |
| 1993 |
Robert F. Durant |
The Administrative Presidency Revisited: Public Lands, the BLM and the Reagan Revolution |
State University of New York Press |
| 1994 |
Jeffrey Berry, Kent Portney, and Ken Thomson |
The Rebirth of Urban Democracy |
The Brookings Institution |
| 1995 |
Paul Pierson |
Dismantling the Welfare State |
Cambridge University Press |
| 1996 |
John Aldrich |
Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America |
University of Chicago Press |
| 1997 |
Joel F. Handler |
Down From Bureaucracy: The Ambiguity of Privatization and Empowerment |
Princeton University Press |
| 1998 |
Paul M. Sniderman |
Reaching Beyond Race |
Harvard University |
| 1999 |
Suzanne Mettler |
Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy |
Syracuse University |
| 2000 |
David Cole |
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System |
The New Press |
| 2001 |
Scott C. James |
Presidents, Parties, and the State |
Cambridge University Press |
| 2002 |
Daniel Carpenter |
The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy |
Princeton University Press |
| 2003 |
Daniel J. Tichenor |
Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America |
Princeton University Press |
| 2004 |
Gerry Mackie |
Democracy Defended |
Cambridge University Press |
|
Peter W. Singer |
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry |
Cornell University Press |
2005
|
Charles T. Clotfelter
|
After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation
|
Princeton University Press
|
|
Geoffrey R. Stone
|
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism
|
W.W. Norton & Company
|
| 2006 |
Suzanne Mettler |
Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation |
Oxford University Press |
|
Jonas Pontusson |
Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America |
Cornell University Press |