Comparative Politics

Membership

Section List

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.

Section Newsletter: www.nd.edu/~apsacp/index.html

2011 - 2012 Officers

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

Vice President/President-Elect:
Duane Swank
Marquette University
Political Science
PO Box 1881
Milwaukee WI 53201-1881
duane.swank@marquette.edu

Secretary/Treasurer:
Julia Lynch
University of Pennsylvania
Political Science
243 Stiteler Hall
Philadelphia PA 19104-6215
jflynch@sas.upenn.edu

2012 Program Chairs:
Erin Jenne
Central European University
International Relations and European Studies
Nador u. 9
Budapest 1051 Hungary
jennee@ceu.edu

Fabrice Lehoucq
Univresity of North Carolina, Greensboro
Political Science
237 Graham Building
Greensboro NC 27402-6170
fabrice_lehoucq@uncg.edu

Executive Council:
Ernesto Calvo, University of Houston
Staffan Lindberg, University of Gothenburg
Sebastian Saiegh, University of California, San Diego
Pepper Culpepper, European University Institute

Awards

Previous Award Recipients

The Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award is given for the best book in the field of comparative politics published in 2010 or 2011. Nominations can be made by the Press or by individual section members (however, in the latter case, it will be the responsibility of the member/nominator to arrange for the press to send copies of the book). One copy of the nominated book should be submitted to each committee member by February 1, 2012.

Award Committee Members:
Ruth Berins Collier
University of California, Berkeley
Political Science
210 Barrows Hall
Berkeley CA 94720-1950
rcollier@berkeley.edu

Teri L. Caraway
University of Minnesota
Political Science
1414 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55455
caraway@umn.edu

Alexander Michael Hicks
Emory University
Sociology
Tarbutton Hall, Rm 225
1555 Dickey Drive
Atlanta GA 30322
ahicks@emory.edu

The Sage Paper Award to the best paper in the field of comparative politics presented at the 2011 APSA Annual Meeting. Nominations should be sent by March 1, 2012.

Award Committee Members:
Giovanni Capoccia
Oxford University
Politics and International Relations
Corpus Christi College
Merton Street
Oxford OX1 4JF
United Kingdom
giovanni.capoccia@politics.ox.ac.uk

Leonardo R. Arriola
University of California, Berkeley
Political Science
210 Barrows Hall MC 1950
Berkeley CA 94720-1950
larriola@berkeley.edu

Nita Rudra
University of Pittsburgh
GSPIA
3210 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh PA 15260
rudra@pitt.edu

The Gregory Luebbert Article Award for the best article in the field of comparative politics published in 2010 or 2011. Nominations should be sent by March 1, 2012.

Award Committee Members:
Stathis N. Kalyvas
Yale University
Political Science
P.O. Box 208301
New Haven CT 06511-3516
stathis.kalyvas@yale.edu

Sara Watson
Ohio State University
Political Science
2140 Derby Hall
154 North Oval Mall
Columbus OH 43210-1373
watson.584@osu.edu

Johanna Kristin Birnir
University of Maryland
Government
0145 Tydings
College Park MD 20742
jkbirnir@umd.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, 2012.

Award Committee Members:
Peter N Wallensteen
Uppsala University
Peace and Conflict Research
Gamla Torget 3
PO Box 514
Uppsala 75120
Sweden
peter.wallensteen@pcr.uu.se

Karen Long Jusko
Stanford University
Political Science
Encina Hall West, Rm 441C
Palo Alto CA 94305-6044
kljusko@stanford.edu

John Gerring
Boston University
Political Science
232 Bay State Rd
Boston MA 02215
jgerring@bu.edu

Powell Graduate Mentoring Award
Beginning in 2012, a new prize will be awarded on a bi-annual basis to a political scientist who throughout his or her career has demonstrated a particularly outstanding commitment to the mentoring of graduate students in comparative politics. The new prize, named in honor of G. Bingham Powell and initiated by his students, will be called the Powell Graduate Mentoring Prize. Candidates will be nominated by a committee appointed by the Comparative Politics Section president. The committee will be composed of three individuals who have had extensive experience in graduate education and graduate student mentoring. The section will solicit nominations from the APSA membership. The committee may, in addition, also solicit nominations from the chairs of PhD-granting political science programmes.

Nominations will consist of: 1) a letter of nomination (typically from a colleague or peer), which ideally would also include a list of the nominee’s current and former graduate students; 2) four to (maximum) eight additional letters of support -- typically though not necessarily exclusively from former or current graduate students -- that highlight the mentoring activities of the nominee; 3) the nominee’s curriculum vita. The bi-annual prize comes with a cash component of $1,500.
Nominations should be directed to the members of the 2012 committee. Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2012

Award Committee Members:
Nancy Bermeo
Oxford University
Nuffield College
New Rd
Oxford OX1 1NF
United Kingdom
nancy.bermeo@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Georg Vanberg
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Political Science
CB# 3265 Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill NC 27599
gvanberg@unc.edu

Victor C. Shih
Northwestern University
Political Science
601 University Pl - Scott Hall
Evanston IL 60208
vshih@northwestern.edu

Nominations Committee:
Bo Rothstein, University of Gothenburg (Chair), bo.rothstein@pol.gu.se
James McGuire, Wesleyan University, jmcguire@wesleyan.edu
Matthew Gabel, Washington University in St. Louis, mgabel@artsci.wustl.edu