| 2017 |
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University
Nations Under God. Princeton University, 2015. |
| 2016 |
Michael Albertus, University of Chicago
Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform. Cambridge University Press 2015 |
| 2016 |
Catherine Boone, London School of Economics
Property and Political Order in Africa: Land Rights and the Structure of Politics. Cambridge University Press 2014 |
| 2015 |
Tariq Thachil, Yale University
Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India. Cambridge University Press, 2014 |
| 2015 |
Honorable Mention
Melani Cammett, Harvard University
Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon. Cornell University Press, 2014 |
|
2014 |
Susan Stokes, Yale University
Brokers, Voters and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013) |
|
2014 |
Thad Dunning, University of California, Berkeley
Brokers, Voters and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013) |
|
2014 |
Marcelo Nazareno, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Brokers, Voters and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013) |
|
2014 |
Valeria Brusco, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Brokers, Voters and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013) |
|
2014 |
Honorable Mention
Leonardo Arriola, University of California, Berkeley
Multi-ethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns (Cambridge University Press, 2012) |
|
2014 |
Honorable Mention
Pablo Beramendi, Duke University
The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution (Cambridge University Press, 2012) |
|
2013 |
Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alliance Formation in Civil Wars (Cambridge University Press 2012) |
|
2012 |
Jeffrey Winters, Northwestern University
Oligarchy (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
|
2012 |
Alan Jacobs, University of British Columbia
Governing for the Long Terms: Democracy and the Politics of Investment (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
|
2011 |
James Mahoney, Northwestern University
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective |
|
2010 |
Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University
Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011) |
|
2010 |
James Habyarimana, Georgetown University
Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011). |
|
2010 |
Daniel Posner, University of California, Los Angeles
Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011). |
|
2010 |
Jeremy Weinstein, Stanford University
Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011). |
|
2009 |
Raymond Duch, University of Oxford
The Economic Vote (Cambridge University Press, 2008) |
|
2009 |
Randolph Stevenson, Rice University
The Economic Vote (Cambridge University Press, 2008). |
|
2008 |
Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University
The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006) |
|
2007 |
Jonathan Rodden, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology
Hamilton's Paradox: The Promise and Perils of Fiscal Federalism |
|
2006 |
Daniel Posner, University of California, Los Angeles
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2005) |
|
2005 |
Elisabeth Wood, Yale University
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge University Press) |
|
2005 |
Kathleen Thelen, Northwestern University
How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2004) |
|
2005 |
Honorable Mention
Pradeep Chhibber, University of California, Berkeley
The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States (Princeton University Press, 2004) |
|
2005 |
Honorable Mention
Kenneth Kollman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States (Princeton University Press, 2004) |
|
2004 |
Isabela Mares, Stanford University
The Politics of Social Risk, Business and Welfare State Developments (Cambridge University Press, 2003) |
|
2003 |
Ashutosh Varshney, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life (Yale University Press) |
|
2003 |
John Huber, Columbia University
Deliberate Discretion?: The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2002) |
|
2003 |
Charles Shipan, University of Iowa
Deliberate Discretion?: The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2002) |
|
2002 |
Nicolas van de Walle, Michigan State University
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999 (Cambridge University Press, 2001) |
|
2001 |
Jeffrey Herbst, European University Institute
States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control (Princeton University Press, 2000) |
|
2001 |
Stefano Bartolini, European University Institute
The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980: The Class Cleavage (Cambridge University Press, 2000) |
|
2000 |
Alexander Hicks, Emory University
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Policies (Cornell, 1999) |
|
2000 |
Daniel Treisman, University of Michigan
After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia (University of Michigan 1999) |
|
2000 |
Torben Iversen, Harvard University
Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies (Cambridge University Press 1999) |
|
1999 |
David Laitin, Stanford University
Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell University Press, 1998) |
|
1998 |
Gary Cox, University of California, San Diego
Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems (Cambridge University Press, 1997) |
|
1997 |
Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University
The Politics of Oligarchy (Cambridge University Press, 1995) |
|
1997 |
Mark Ramseyer, University of Chicago
The Politics of Oligarchy (Cambridge University Press, 1995) |
|
1996 |
Stephan Haggard, University of Calfornia, San Diego
The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) |
|
1996 |
Robert Kaufman, Rutgers University
The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) |
|
1996 |
Honorable Mention
Barbara Geddes, University of California, Los Angeles
Politicians Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) |
|
1996 |
Honorable Mention
Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University
Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action, and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1994) |
|
1995 |
M. Crawford Young, University of Wisconsin Madison
The African Colonial State In Comparative Perspective (Yale University Press, 1995) |
|
1994 |
Robert Putnam, Harvard University
Making Democracy Work (Princeton University Press, 1993) |
|
1993 |
Gregory Luebbert, University of California, San Diego
Liberalism, Fascism or Social Democracy (Oxford University Press, 1991) |
|
1993 |
Ruth Collier, University of California, Berkeley
Shaping the Political Arena (Princeton University Press, 1991) |
|
1993 |
David Collier, University of California, Berkeley
Shaping the Political Arena (Princeton University Press, 1991) |