Harold D. Lasswell Award Recipients
| Year | Author | Dissertation | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Natália S. Bueno | The Distributive Politics of Non-State Welfare Provision | Yale University |
| 2018 | Jonathan Mummolo | Modern Police Tactics, Police-Citizen Interactions, and the Prospects for Reform | Princeton University |
| 2017 | Alexander Hertel-Fernandez | Whose Bills? Corporate Interests and Conservative Mobilization Across the States | Harvard University |
| 2016 | Brian Palmer-Rubin | Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Organizations and Policymaking in Mexico | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2015 | Michael Hartney | Turning Out Teachers: The Causes and Consequences of Teacher Political Activism in the Postwar United States | University of Notre Dame |
| 2014 | Sarah Anzia | Election Timing and the Political Influence of the Organized | Stanford University |
| 2013 | Nicholas Carnes | By the Upper Class, For the Upper Class? Representational Inequality and Economic Policymaking in the United States | Princeton University |
| 2012 | Christopher G. Faricy | The Politics of Public Versus Private Social Welfare | University of North Carolina |
| 2011 | Jennifer Kavanagh | The Dynamics of Protracted Terror Campaigns: Domestic Politics, | University of Michigan |
| 2010 | Karen Long Jusko | The Political Representation of the Poor | University of Michigan |
| 2009 | Michael Schoon | Building Robustness to Disturbance: Governance in Southern African Peace Parks | Indiana University |
| 2008 | Christian Breuing | Institutions, Attention Shifts, and Changes within National Budgets | University of Washington |
| 2007 | Vanda Felbab-Brown | Shooting Up: The Impact of Illicit Economies on Military Conflict | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2006 | Jonathan Ari Laurence | Managing Transnational Religion: Muslims and the State in Western Europe (1974-2004) | Boston College |
| 2005 | Esther N. Mwangi | Institutional Change and Politics: The Transformation of Property Rights in Kenya’s Maasailand | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| 2005 | Thad Williamson | Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship: A Philosophical and Empirical Inquiry | Harvard University |
| 2004 | Suzanne Christine Nielsen | Preparing for War: The Dynamics of Peacetime Military Reform | Harvard University |
| 2003 | Kristin Anne Goss | Disarmed: The Real American Gun Control Paradox | Harvard University |