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The purpose of this section is to promote the comparative, especially cross-national, study of politics and to integrate work of comparativists, area studies specialists, and those interested in American politics.

2009 - 2010 Officers

Chair/President:
Susan C. Stokes
Yale University
Department of Political Science
P.O. Box 208301
New Haven CT 06520
susan.stokes@yale.edu

Chair-Elect/President-Elect:
Kathleen  Thelen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Political Science
77 Massachusetts Ave, Rm E53-435
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
kthelen@mit.edu

Secretary/Treasurer:
Ian S. Lustick
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Political Science
3440 Market Street, Suite 300
Philadelphia PA 19104-6215
ilustick@sas.upenn.edu

Newsletter Co-Editors:
Anthony Messina, University of Notre Dame
anthony.m.messina.3@nd.edu

Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame
coppedge.1@nd.edu

2010 Program Chairs:
Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester
hlmk@mail.rochester.edu

John Gerring, Boston University
jgerring@bu.edu

Executive Committee:
Catherine Boone, University of Texas, Austin
Richard F. Doner, Emory University
Carles  Boix, Princeton University
Daniel Posner, University of California, Los Angeles

Nominating Committee:
Jennifer Widner, Chair, Princeton University

Awards

• Previous Award Recipients

The Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award is given for the best book in the field of comparative politics published in 2008 or 2009. Nominations made by the Press will ONLY be considered for this Award.  One copy of the nominated book should be submitted to each committee member by February 15, 2010. 

Award Committee Chair:
Stephan Haggard
University of California, San Diego
Graduate School of International Relations
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA 92093-0519

Award Committee Members:
Raymond M. Duch
University of Oxford
Nuffield College
New Road
Oxford 0X1 1NF United Kingdom

Randall A. Hansen
University of Toronto
Political Science
100 St. George Street
Toronto ON M5S 3G3 Canada

The Sage Paper Award to the best paper in the field of comparative politics presented at the 2009 APSA Annual Meeting. Nominations should be sent by March 1, 2010.

Award Committee Chair:
Dorothy J. Solinger
University of California, Irvine
School of Social Sciences
Social Science Plaza B5285
Irvine CA 92697
dorjsoli@uci.edu

Award Committee Members:
Matthew Adam Kocher, Yale University
matthew.kocher@yale.edu

Daniel ZIblatt, Harvard University
dziblatt@fas.harvard.edu

The Gregory Luebbert Article Award for the best article in the field of comparative politics published in 2008 or 2009. Nominations should be sent by March 1, 2010.

Award Committee Chair:
Ruth Collier, University of California, Berkeley
rcollier@berkeley.edu

Award Committee Members:
Robert Pekkanen, University of Washington
pekkanen@u.washington.edu

Lily Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
l_tsai@mit.edu

The Data Set Award for a publicly available data set that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative politics.  Nominations should be sent by March 1, 2010.

Award Committee Chair:
Bo Rothstein, University of Gothenburg
bo.rothstein@pol.gu.se

Award Committee Members:
Jose Cheibub, University of Illinois
cheibub@illinois.edu

David Cingranelli, Binghamton University
davidc@binghamton.edu