Award Winners

Award Winners
Comparative Politics Award Winners

Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award
for the best book in Comparative Politics.

2006	Daniel N. Posner University of California, Los Angeles	Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
2005	Elisabeth Jean Wood Yale University	Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge University Press)
2004	Isabela Mares Stanford University	The Politics of Social Risk, Business and Welfare State Developments (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2003	John D. Huber Columbia University Charles R. Shipan University of Iowa	Deliberate Discretion? The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
	Ashutosh Varshney University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (Yale University Press, 2002)
2002	Nicolas van de Walle Michigan State University	African Economies and the Poilitics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999 (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
2001	Stefano Bartolini European University Institute	The Political mobilizatin of the European Left, 1860-1980: The Class Cleavage (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
2001	Jeffery Herbst Princeton University	States and Power in Africa : Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control (Princeton University Press, 2000)
2000	Alexander Hicks	"Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Policies" (Cornell, 1999)
1999	David Laitin Stanford University	Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell 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	J. Mark Ramseyer University of Chicago Frances Rosenbluth Yale University	The Politics of Oligarchy (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
1996	Stephan Haggard Robert R. Kaufman	The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)
1995	M. Crawford Young University of Wisconsin, Madison	The African Colonial State In Comparative Perspective (Yale University Press, 1995)
1994	Robert D. Putnam Harvard University	Making Democracy Work (Princeton University Press, 1993)
1993	Ruth Berins Collier David Collier	Shaping the Political Arena (Princeton University Press, 1991)
	Gregory M. Luebbert	Liberalism, Fascism or Social Democracy (Oxford University Press, 1991)

Gregory Luebbert Article Award
for the best professional article in comparative politics.

2006	Tullia Falleti University of Pennsylvania	"A Sequential Theory of Decentralization: Latin American Cases in Comparative Perspective" (American Political Science Review, Vol. 99, No. 3, August 2005)
2005	Scott J. Basinger Stony Brook University, SUNY	"Remodeling the Competition for Capital: How Domestic Politics Erases the Race to the Bottom" (American Political Science Review, Vol. 98, No. 2, May 2004)
	Ernesto F. Calvo University of Houston	"Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market." (American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, October 2004. pp. 742-757)
	Mark Hallerberg Emory University	"Remodeling the Competition for Capital: How Domestic Politics Erases the Race to the Bottom" (American Political Science Review, Vol. 98, No. 2, May 2004)
	Maria Victoria Murillo Columbia University	"Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market" (American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, October 2004. pp. 742-757)
2004	Isabela Mares Stanford University	"The Sources of Business Interest in Social Insurance: Sectoral Versus National Differences" (World Politics, 2003)
2003	Pamela Johnston Conover and Donald D. Searing University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ivor Crewe University of Essex	"The Deliberative Potential of Political Discussion" (British Journal of Political Science, January 2001)
2002	Guillermo A. O'Donell University of Notre Dame	"Democracy, Law, and Comparative Politics" (Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 36, Spring 2001)
2000	Stathis N. Kalyvas Harvard University	"Wanton and Senseless? The Logic of Massacres in Algeria " (Rationality and Society 11(3): 243-285)
1999	Peter A. Hall Harvard University Robert J. Franzese Jr. University of Michigan	"Mixed Signals: Central Bank Independence , Coordinated Wage-Bargaining, and European Monetary Union " (International Organization 52, No. 3, Summer 1998, 505-535
1998	Adam Przeworski New York University Fernando Limongi University of Sao Paulo, Brazil	"Modernization: Theories and Facts" (World Politics 49, No. 2, January 1997, 155-183)
1997	James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin University of Chicago	"Explaining Interethnic Cooperation" (]ournal of Political Science, 25, No. 3, July 1995, 289-325)
1995	David Laitin University of Chicago	"The Tower of Babel as a Coordination Game: Political Linguistics in Ghana" (American Political Science Review 88, No. 3, September 1994, 622-634)

Sage Paper Award
for the best comparative politics paper presented at the APSA Annual Meeting.

2006	Margarita Estevez-Abe Harvard University	"Labor Markets, Public Policies, and Gender Equality: The Varieties of Capitalism, Perspective and Beyond"
	James L. Gibson* Washington University	"Land Inequality and Squatting in South Africa: Judging Historical Injustice"
2005	Macartan Humphreys Columbia University	"Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War: Determinants of the Strategies of Warring Factions"
	Lianjiang Li Hong Kong Baptist University	"Popular Contention and its Impact in Rural China"
	Kevin J. O'Brien University of California, Berkeley	"Popular Contention and its Impact in Rural China "
	Jeremy M. Weinstein Stanford University	"Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War: Determinants of the Strategies of Warring Factions"
2004	Daniel N. Posner University of California, Los Angeles	"The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi"
2003	Matthew Aaron Light Frances M. Rosenbluth Yale University	"The Politics of Low Fertility: Global Markets, Women's Employment and Birth Rates in Four Industrialized Democracies"
2002	James Gibson Washington University	"Does Truth Lead to Reconciliation? Testing the Casual Assumptions of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process"
1999	Torben Iversen Harvard University Thomas R. Cook Wissenschaftzentrum, Berlin	"The Causes of Welfare State Expansion: Deindustrialization or Globalization?"
1998	Joel S. Hellman European Bank for Reconstruction and Development	"Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform"
1997	Duane Swank Marquette University	"Funding the Welfare State"
	Isabella Mares Harvard University	“Negotiating Risks: Employers and Development of Unemployment Insurance"

* Honorable mention

Data Set Award
is intended to recognize and encourage the development of high-quality, publicly available data sets that contribute to the shared base of empirical knowledge in the field of comparative politics.

2006	David Cingranelli SUNY, Binghamton David Richards University of Memphis	CIRI Human Rights
2005	Timothy M. Smeeding Syracuse University	Luxembourg Income Study
2003	Ian Budge D.J. Hearl Hans-Dieter Klingemann Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin D.R. Robertson Andrea Volkens	Manifesto Project
2002	Michael Alvarez DePaul University Jose Antonio Cheibub Yale University Fernando Limongi CEBRAP (Brazil) Adam Przeworski New York University	ACLP Political and Economic Database
2000	The collectivity of scholars who gathered the data for the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems	Comparative Study of Electoral Systems www.umich.edu/~nes/cses/cses.htm
1999	Michael J. Coppedge University of Notre Dame	Data Sets on Polyarchy and Latin American Political Parties
1999	Gabriel A. Almond Stanford University Sidney Verba Harvard University	Civic Culture Data Set