American Political Science Association Announces 2008 Awards

American Political Science Association Announces 2008 Awards APSA Press Release

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American Political Science Association Announces 2008 Awards

Washington, DC—The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce its 2008 awards for excellence in the study, teaching, and practice of politics. The awards will be presented at the 104^th APSA Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday, August 28 at 12:45 PM in Salon E of the Grand Ballroom at the Marriott Boston Copley Place.

Career Awards

Henry G. Cisneros (Chairmen, CityView and Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) will receive the Hubert H. Humphrey Award in recognition of notable public service by a political scientist.

National Public Radio will receive the Carey McWilliams Award to honor a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.

Donald F. Kettl (University of Pennsylvania) will receive the John Gaus Award and Lectureship to honor a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration and to recognize achievement and encourage scholarship in public administration.

Theodore Lowi (Cornell University) will receive the James Madison Award and Lectureship to recognize an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.

Book Awards

The Ralph J. Bunche Award is for the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous calendar year that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. The 2008 joint recipients are Victoria Hattam (New School University), for In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States (The University of Chicago Press, 2007), and Sarah Song (University of California, Berkeley) for Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

The Gladys M. Kammerer Award is for the best political science publication in the previous calendar year in the field of

U.S.

national policy. The 2008 joint recipients are Dara Z. Strolovitch (University of Minnesota) for Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class and Gender in Interest Group Politics (The University of Chicago Press, 2007) and co-authors Frank R. Baumgartner, Suzanna L. DeBoef and Amber E. Boydstun (Pennsylvania State University) for The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
The Victoria Schuck Award is for the best book published in the previous calendar year on women and politics. The 2008 joint recipients are Georgina Waylen (University of Sheffield) for Engendering Transitions: Women's Mobilization, Institutions and Gender Outcomes (Oxford University Press, 2007), and Anna Marie Smith (Cornell University) for Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award is for the best book published in the

U.S.

during the previous calendar year on government, politics, or international affairs. The award is supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. The 2008 recipient is Etel Solingen (University of California, Irvine) for Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2007).

Paper and Journal Article Awards

The Heinz Eulau Award is for the best journal article published in American Political Science Review and Perspectives on Politics during the previous calendar year (an award is made for each journal). The 2008 APSR award recipients are co-authors James Habyarimana (Georgetown University), Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University), Daniel Posner (University of California, Los Angeles) and Jeremy Weinstein (Stanford University) for “Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?,” Volume 101, Issue 04, November 2007, pp. 709-725. The 2008 Perspectives on Politics award recipients are co-authors Jack Citrin (University of California, Berkeley), Amy Lerman (University of California, Berkeley), Michael Murakami (University of California, Berkeley) and Kathryn Pearson (University of Minnesota) for “Testing Huntington: Is Hispanic Immigration a Threat to American Identity?,” Volume 5, Issue 01, March 2007, pp. 31-48.

The Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award is for the best paper presented at the previous annual meeting. The 2008 recipients are co-authors Alastair Smith (New York University) and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (New York University/Stanford University) for their paper “Political Survival and Institutional Change.”

Dissertation Awards

Rafaela Mirjam Dancygier (Princeton University) will receive the Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of comparative politics. Her dissertation is entitled “Immigration and Conflict.”

Traci Renee Burch (Northwestern University) will receive the William Anderson Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of state and local politics, federalism, or intergovernmental relations. Her dissertation is entitled “Punishment and Participation.”

Diana Kapiszewski (University of California, Irvine) will receive the Edward S. Corwin Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law. Her dissertation is entitled “Challenging Decisions: High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil.”

Christian Breunig (University of Toronto) will receive the Harold D. Lasswell Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of policy studies (supported by the Policy Studies Organization). His dissertation is entitled “Institutions, Attention Shifts, and Changes within National Budgets.”

Margarita Hristoforova Petrova, (European University Institute) will receive the Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of international relations, law and politics (supported by the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation). Her dissertation is entitled “Leadership Competition and the Creation of Norms.”

Daniel J. Hopkins (Yale University) will receive the E.E. Schattschneider Award For the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government. His dissertation is entitled “When Differences Divide: How National Influences and Local Demographics Shape Politics Between Ethnic Groups.”

Leigh Jenco (National University of Singapore) will receive the Leo Strauss Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of political philosophy. Her dissertation is entitled “Individuals, Institutions, and Political Change: The Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao.”

Matthew Dull (Virginia Tech University) will receive the Leonard D. White Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public administration. His dissertation is entitled “The Politics of Results: Comprehensive Reform and Institutional Choice.”

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