Organized Section 20: Luebbert Best Article Award

Comparative Politics Section Award Recipients

Luebbert Best Article Award
The Luebbert Article Award is given for the best article in the field of comparative politics published in the previous two years.

2017	Robert Braun, Northwestern University "Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands During the Holocaust." American Political Science Review, February 2016.
2016	Perna Singh, Brown University "Subnationalism and Social Development in India:  A Comparative Analysis of Indian States." World Politics, June 2015.
2015	Dominika Koter, Colgate University "King Makers: Local Leaders and Ethnic Politics in West Africa,” World Politics Vol. 65 No. 2
2014	Stanislav Markus, University of Chicago "Secure Property as a Bottom-Up Process: Firms, Stakeholders, and Predators in Weak States." (World Politics 64 (2) April 2012, 242-77)
2013	Robert Woodberry, National University of Singapore The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy (American Political Science Review 106(2): 244-74)
2012	Philip Roessler, Duke University The Enemy Within. Personal Rule, Coups, and Civil War in Africa (World Politics 63 (2))
2011	Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University International System and Technologies of Rebellion: How the End of the Cold War Shaped Internal Conflict
2011	Laia Balcells, Institute for Economic Analysis, CSIC International System and Technologies of Rebellion: How the End of the Cold War Shaped Internal Conflict
2010	Shawn Treier, University of Minnesota "Democracy as a Latent Variable"
2010	Simon Jackman, Stanford University "Democracy as a Latent Variable"
2009	Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University "How Free is Free Riding in Civil Wars?"World Politics 59 (2) January 2007
2009	Matthew Kocher, Yale University "How Free is Free Riding in Civil Wars?" World Politics 59 (2) January 2007
2009	Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University "Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization?" World Politics 60 (4) July 2008
2008	Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan The Great Divide, World Politics (October 2006)
2008	Honorable Mention Keith Darden, Yale University The Great Divide, World Politics (October 2006)
2007	Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War, American Political Science Review, Vol. 100, (August 2006)
2007	Torben Iversen, Harvard University Electoral Institutions and the Policies of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Distribute More than Others, American Political Science Review, Vol. 100 (May 2006)
2007	David Soskice, Duke University Electoral Institutions and the Policies of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Distribute More than Others, American Political Science Review, Vol. 100 (May 2006)
2006	Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania "A Sequential Theory of Decentralization: Latin American Cases in Comparative Perspective," American Political Science Review 99:3 (August 2005)
2005	Ernesto 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.
2005	Maria 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.
2005	Scott 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.
2005	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.
2004	Isabela Mares, Stanford University "The Sources of Business Interest in Social Insurance: Sectoral versus National Differences," World Politics, 55: 2 (2003), 229- 258.
2003	Pamela Conover, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill "The Deliberative Potential of Political Discussion" (British Journal of Political Science January 2001)
2003	Donald Searing, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill "The Deliberative Potential of Political Discussion" (British Journal of Political Science January 2001)
2003	Ivor Crewe, University of Essex "The Deliberative Potential of Political Discussion" (British Journal of Political Science January 2001)
2002	Guillermo O'Donnell, University of Notre Dame "Democracy, Law, and Comparative Politics" Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 36 (Spring 2001)
2001	David Rueda, State University of New York "Wage Inequalities and the Varieties of Capitalism," World Politics, 52:3 (April 2000)
2001	Nicholas Sambanis, Yale University "Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature," World Politics 52 (4)
2001	Honorable Mention Torsten Persson, Institute for International Economic Studies The Size and Scope of Government: Comparative Politics with Rational Politicians," European Economic Review, 43: 4-6 (April 1999)
2001	Honorable Mention Jonas Pontusson, Princeton University "Wage Inequalities and the Varieties of Capitalism," World Politics, 52:3 (April 2000)
2001	Honorable Mention Michael Wallerstein, Harvard University Wage-Setting Institutions and Pay Inequality in Advanced Industrial Societies. American Journal of Political Science, 43:3 (2000)
2000	Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University "Wanton and Senseless? The Logic of Massacres in Algeria" (Rationality and Society 11(3): 243-285)
2000	Douglas Dion, University of Iowa "Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study," Comparative Politics 30:2 (January 1998)
2000	George Tsebelis, University of Michigan "Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis." American Political Science Review, 93:3 (September 1999): 591-608
1999	Peter Hall, Harvard University "Mixed Signals: Central Bank Independence, Coordinated Wage-Bargaining, and European Monetary Union" (International Organization 52, No. 3, Summer 1998, 505-535
1999	Robert Franzese Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor "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 "Modernization: Theories and Facts" (World Politics 49, No. 2, January 1997, 155-183)
1998	Fernando Limongi, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil "Modernization: Theories and Facts" (World Politics 49, No. 2, January 1997, 155-183)
1998	Thomas Cook, Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin "The Causes of Welfare State Expansion: Deindustrialization or Globalization?"
1997	James Fearon, Stanford University "Explaining Interethnic Cooperation" (]ournal of Political Science, 25, No. 3, July 1995, 289-325)
1997	David Laitin, Stanford University "Explaining Interethnic Cooperation" (]ournal of Political Science, 25, No. 3, July 1995, 289-325)
1996	George Tsebelis, University of Michigan "DecisionMaking in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism, and Multipartism," British Journal of Political Science 25, 3 (July 1995): 289-325
1996	Sylvia Maxfield "Financial Incentives and Central Bank Authority in Industrializing Nations," World Politics 46(4) (July 1994): 556-589
1996	Nicolas van de Walle "Neopatrimonial Regimes and Political Transitions in Africa," World Politics 46(4) (July 1994): 453-489
1996	Honorable Mention Jonas Pontusson, Princeton University "Explaining the Decline of European Social Democracy: The Role of Structural Economic Change," World Politics 47 (4) (July 1995): 495-533
1996	Honorable Mention Michael Bratton "Neopatrimonial Regimes and Political Transitions in Africa," World Politics 46(4) (July 1994): 453-489
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)