Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award Winners

The Burdette prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at the previous year's annual meeting.

Year	Author	Paper	Affiliation
1964	James G. March	An Individualistic Theory of Political Process	Universityof California, Irvine
1965	James B. Christoph	British Political Ideology Today: Consensus and Cleavage	Ohio State University
1966	Samuel Huntington	Political Modernization: America vs. Europe	Harvard University
1967	Robert C. Tucker	The Deradicalization of Marxist Movements	Princeton University
	Frederick Frey	Socialization to National Identification: Turkish Peasants	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1968	Sidney Tarrow	Catch-all Political Parties in a Polarized Political System: An Empirical Analysis and Theoretical Critique	Yale University
1969	Gerald H. Kramer	Short-Term Fluctuations in U.S. Voting Behavior, 1896-1964	Yale University
1970	Brian Fry and Richard Winters	The Politics of Redistribution	Stanford University and Dartmouth College
1971	Daniel Ellsberg	Escalating in a Quagmire	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1972	Alexander George	Multiple Advocacy in Making Foreign Policy	Stanford University
1973		No award given
1974	William Zimmerman	National-International Linkages in Yugoslavia: The Political Consequences of Openness	University of Michigan
1975	Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph	Authority and Power in Bureaucratic and Patrimonial Administration	University of Chicago
1976	Richard F. Fenno	Congressmen in Their Constituencies: An Exploration	University of Rochester
1977	Mary Cornelia Porter	Rodriguez, the "Poor" and the Burger Court: A Prudent Prognosis	Barat College
1978	Raymond E. Wolfinger and Steven J. Rosenstone	Who Votes?	University of California, Berkeley
1979	Mancur Olson	Pluralism and National Decline	University of Maryland
1980	Bert A. Rockman	Constants, Cycles, Trends and Persons in Presidential Governance: Carter's Troubles Reviewed	University of Pittsburgh
1981	Trudi C. Miller	Toward a Normative Dynamic Model of Educational Equity	National Science Foundation
1982	Sylvia Snowiss	From Fundamental Law to the Supreme Law of the Land: A Reinterpretation of the Origin of Judicial Law Review in the U.S.	California State University, Northridge
1983	Jennifer Hochschild	Incrementalism, Pluralism and the Failure of School Desegregation	Princeton University
	Kaare Strom	Minority Government and Majority Rule	Stanford University
1984	Gary Miller and Terry Moe	The Positive Theory of Hierarchies	Michigan State University and Stanford University
1985	Jack L. Walker	Three Modes of Political Mobilization
	Michael Wallerstein	The Micro-Foundations of Corporatism: Formal Theory and Comparative Analysis	University of California, Los Angeles
1986	Robert Axelrod	Modeling the Evolution of Norms	University of Michigan
1987	James L. Gibson	The Policy Consequences of Political Tolerance	University of Houston
1988	Ronald Rogowski	Changing Exposure to Trade and the Development of Political Cleavages	University of California, Los Angeles
1989	George Rabinowitz, Stuart Elaine Macdonald, and Ola Listhaug	New Players in an Old Game	University of North Carolina
1990	Byron E. Shafer	The Notion of an Electoral Order: The Structure of Electoral Politics at the Accession of George Bush	Nuffield College
1991	Bartholomew H. Sparrow	Raising Taxes and Going into Debt: A Resource Dependence Model of U.S. Public Finance in the 1940s	University of Texas at Austin
1992	Edgar Kiser	Markets and Hierarchies in Early Modern Fiscal Systems: A Principal-Agent Analysis of the Choice Between Tax Farming and State Bureaucracy	University of Washington
1993	George Tsebelis	The Power of the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda-Setter	University of California, Los Angeles
1994	Paul Sniderman, Edward Carmines, Philip Tetlock, and Anthony Tyler	The Asymmetry of Race as a Political Issue: Prejudice, Political Ideology, and the Structure of Conflict of American Politics	Stanford University, Indiana University, and University of California, Berkeley
1995	Kenneth Schultz and Barry Weingast	The Democratic Advantage: The Institutional Sources of State Power in International Competition	Stanford University
1996	Jeffrey A. Segal	Marksist (and Neo-Marksist) Models of Supreme Court Decision Making: Separation-of-Powers in the Positive Theory of Law and Courts	SUNY Stony Brook
1997	Richard A. Brisbin	The U.S. Supreme Court and the Rationality of Labor Violence: The Impact of the Mackay Radio Doctrine and 'Violence' during the Coal Strike of 1989-90	West Virginia University
1998	Karen Orren	Machine Constitutionalism: The Court, the Republican Party and the Eleventh Amendment in the Gilded Age	University of California, Los Angeles
1999	Charles Stewart III	Architect or Tactician? Henry Clay and the Institutional Development of the U.S. House of Representatives	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2000	Herbert Kitschelt	Accounting for Outcomes of Post-Communist Regime Change: Casual Depth or Shallowness in Rival Explanations	Duke University
2001		No award given
2002		No award given
2003	Larry M. Bartels	Economic Inequality and Political Representation	Princeton University
2004	Larry W. Chappell and Bernard L. Bray	Civic Theatre for Civic Education	Mississippi Valley State University and Talladega College
	David Woodruff	Boom, Gloom, Doom: Balance Sheets, Monetary Fragmentation, and Financial Crisis in Argentina and Russia	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005	William T. Bernhard and David Leblang	When Markets Party:  Stocks, Bonds, and Cabinet Formations	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and University of Colorado, Boulder
2006	Dawn Brancati	Decentralization: Fueling the Fire or Dampening the Flames of Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism	Harvard University