Presidents and Executive Politics Section Award Recipients
Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award
The Founders Award honoring Francis Rourke is given for the best paper on executive politics presented by a Graduate Student at either the preceding year’s APSA Annual Meeting or at any of the regional meetings in the two year’s preceding the APSA Annual Meeting. One copy of each essay should be sent directly to each member of the committee.
2018
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John A. Dearborn, Yale University
"The 'Proper Organs' for Presidential Representation: A Fresh Look at the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921."
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2018
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Honorable Mention
Christina M. Kinane, University of Michigan
"The Politics of Vacancies and Interim Appointments in Bureaucracy."
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2017
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Elizabeth Mann, University of Michigan
"Presidential Policymaking at the State Level: Revision Through Waivers?"
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2016
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Kenneth Lowande, University of Virginia
"Delegation or Unilateral Action?"
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2015
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Christopher A. Martinez, Loyola University Chicago
“Surviving the Presidency in South America: Rethinking the Role of Democracy”
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2014
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Janna Rezaee, University of California, Berkeley
"OIRA: The Other Edge of the Sword."
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2013
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Rachel Potter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Strategic Transparency in Agency Rulemaking"
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2011
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Presented in honor of Martha Joynt Kumar
John Hudak, Vanderbilt University
The Politics of Federal Grants: Presidential Influence Over the Distribution of Federal Funds
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2010
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Presented in honor of Stephen Wayne
Amnon Cavari, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"The Presidential Rhetoric and the Economic Policy Image of the Parties,"
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2009
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Cari Hennessy, Northwestern University
The Effect of Public Opinion on Policy Outcomes in Sequential Veto Bargaining
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2008
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Curtis Nichols, University of Texas, Austin
"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Exploiting the Opportunity for Reconstructive Leadership"
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2008
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Adam Myers, University of Texas, Austin
"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Exploiting the Opportunity for Reconstructive Leadership"
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2007
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Kevin Parsneau, University of Minnesota
Politicizing Priority Departments: Presidential Policy Priorities and Subcabinet Nominations
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2006
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Michael Cutrone, Princeton University
"Parties, Pivots, and the Patients' Bill of Rights"
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2003
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Elvin Lim, Nuffield College University of Oxford
"The Lion and The Lamb: De-Mythologizing Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats"
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2002
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Casey Dominguez, University of California at Berkeley
"Is it a Honeymoon? An Empirical Investigation of the President's First Hundred Days."
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2001
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Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, Texas A&M University
"Anticipating Agendas: Dynamics of Presidential Policy"
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2000
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Kevin Price, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Partisan Legacies of Preemptive Leadership: Assessing the Eisenhower Cohorts in the U.S. House"
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1999
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David Lewis, Stanford University
"The Presidential Advantage in the Design of Bureaucratic Agencies"
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1997
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Richard Powell, Northwestern University
"Taking the Show on the Road: The Politics of Presidential Travel in the Modern Era"
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1996
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David Cohen, University of South Carolina
"President Bush's Chiefs of Staff: Sununu and Skinner in the White House"
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1991
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Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas-Austin
"Raising Taxes and Going into Debt: A Resource Dependence Model of U.S. Public Finance in the 1940s"
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