Award Winners Political Economy Award Winners

The William H. Riker Award
for the best book on political economy.

2006	Elinor Ostrom Indiana University, Bloomington	Understanding Institutional Diversity (Princeton University Press, 2005)
2005	Fiona McGillivray New York University	Privileging Industry: The Comparative Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy (Princeton University Press, 2004)
2004	Carles Boix University of Chicago	Democracy and Redistribution (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2003	Michael J. Hiscox Harvard University	International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions and Mobility (Princeton University Press, 2001)
	John D. Huber Columbia University Charles R. Shipan University of Iowa	Deliberate Discretion?: The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
2002	Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman	Special Interest Politics (MIT Press, 2001)
2001	Charles M. Cameron Columbia University	Veto Barganing: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
2000	Robert Powell University of California, Berkeley	In the Shadow of Power (Princeton University Press, 1999)
1999	Carles Boix Ohio State University	Political Parties, Growth, and Equality: Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
1998	Gary W. Cox University of California, San Diego	Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
1997	Kenneth Shepsle Harvard University Michael Laver Trinity College, Dublin	Making and Breaking Governments (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
1996	Donald Wittman University of California, Santa Cruz	The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient (University of Chicago Press, 1996)
1995	Beth A. Simmons Duke University	Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years (Princeton University Press, 1993)
1994	Sven Steinmo University of Colorado	Taxation and Democracy (Yale University Press, 1993)
1993	Dennis Chong Northwestern University	Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement (Chicago University Press, 1991)
1992	Alice H. Amsden New School for Social Research	Asia's Next Giant: South Koreaand Late Industrialization (Oxford University Press, 1992)
	Robert Wade University of Sussex	Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization (Princeton University Press, 1990)
1991	Ronald Rogowski University of California, Los Angeles	Commerce and Coalitions: How trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments (Princeton University Press, 1990)

The Mancur Olson Award
for the best dissertation on political economy.

Best Paper Award
given for the best paper in Political Economy presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.