Organized Section 3: Alan Rosenthal Prize

Legislative Studies Section Award Recipients

Alan Rosenthal Prize
In the spirit of Alan Rosenthal's work, this prize is dedicated to encouraging young scholars to study questions that are of importance to legislators and legislative staff and to conduct research that has the potential application to strengthening the practice of representative democracy.

2018	Ruth Bloch Rubin, University of Chicago Building the Bloc: Intrapraty Organization in the US Congress. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
2017	Tiffany D. Barnes, University of Kentucky Gendering Legislative Behavior. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
2016	James M. Curry, University of Utah Legislating in the Dark. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
2014	Nicholas Carnes, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making. University of Chicago Press, 2013
2013	Kristin Kanthak, University of Pittsburgh The Diversity Paradox: Political Parties, Legislatures, and the Organizational Foundations of Representation in America (Oxford University Press)
2013	George Krause, University of Pittsburgh The Diversity Paradox: Political Parties, Legislatures, and the Organizational Foundations of Representation in America (Oxford University Press)
2012	Vineeta Yadav, Pennsylvania State University Political Parties, Business Groups, and Corruption in Developing Countries (Oxford University Press, 2011)
2011	Kristina Miler, University of Maryland, College Park Constituency Representation in Congress
2010	David Parker, Montana State University “Making a Good Impression: Resource Allocation, Home Styles and Washington Work.”
2010	Craig Goodman, Texas Tech University “Making a Good Impression: Resource Allocation, Home Styles and Washington Work”
2009	Christopher Berry, University of Chicago “Piling On: Multilevel Government and the Fiscal Common Pool,”’ American Journal of Political Science, October 2008
2007	Nancy Martorano Miller, University of Dayton Balancing Power: Committee System Autonomy and Legislative Organization
2006	Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Issue Politics in Congress (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
2005	Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism (Cambridge University Press)
2004	Yusaku Horiuchi, The Australian National University “Reapportionment and Redistribution: Consequences of Electoral Reform in Japan” (American Journal of Political Science, October 2003)
2004	Jun Saito, Yale University The Australian National University, “Reapportionment and Redistribution: Consequences of Electoral Reform in Japan” (American Journal of Political Science, October 2003)
2003	Scott Adler, University of Colorado-Boulder “Why Congressional Reforms Fall: Reelection and the House Committee System” (University of Chicago Press, 2002)