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1988 Award Recipients
Legislative Studies

CQ Press Award
The CQ Press Award for the best paper on legislative studies presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

 

John Hibbing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"Responsiveness in the Senate"

 

John Alford, Rice University
"Responsiveness in the Senate"

Richard F. Fenno Prize
In the tradition of Professor Fenno's work, this prize is designed to honor work that is both theoretically and empirically strong. Moreover, this prize is dedicated to encouraging scholars to pursue new and different avenues of research in order to find answers to previously unexplored questions about the nature of politics.

 

Bruce Cain
The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence (Harvard University Press, 1987)

 

John Ferejohn
The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence (Harvard University Press, 1987)

 

Morris Fiorina
The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence (Harvard University Press, 1987)

Political Organizations and Parties

Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award
The Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award recognizes a book published in the last two calendar years that made an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

 

Alexander Heard
The Costs of Democracy (University of North Carolina Press, 1960)

Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award
The Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.

 

David Truman
Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Award

Urban Politics

Best Book Award
The Best Book Award recognizes the best book on urban politics published in the previous year.

 

Martin Shefter, Cornell University
Political Crisis, Fiscal Crisis: The Collapse and Revival of New York City (Basic Books, 1985)

Best Book in Urban Politics within Five Years

 

Todd Swanstrom, State University of New York at Albany
The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism (Temple University Press, 1985)

Special Award
The Special Award if given for contributions to urban political theory.

 

Edward Banfield
Special Award