Section Prizes
The EPS section awards three prizes annually.
- The Best Book Award will be given to the best book on European Politics and Society published in 2007. Books to be considered for this award must be nominated by the publisher (self-nominations will not be accepted). Please send a letter of nomination and one copy of the book to each committee member by March 1, 2008.
Book Award committee:
Daniel Ziblatt (chair)
Center for European Studies,
Harvard University,
27 Kirkland St
Cambridge, MA 02138.
Email: dziblatt@fas.harvard.edu
Sophie Meunier
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,
Princeton University,
Robertson 437,
Princeton, NJ 08544.
Email: smeunier@Princeton.EDU
Susan L. Woodward
The Graduate Center,
City University of New York,
365 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10016.
Email: SWoodward@gc.cuny.edu
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The Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award
This award will be given to the best dissertation on European Politics and Society filed in 2007. To be considered for this award, a dissertation must be nominated by the chair of the department in which it was defended (self-nominations will not be accepted). Letters of nomination and a copy of the dissertation must be sent to each member of the award committee by March 1, 2008.
Dissertation Award committee:
Sofia A. Perez (chair),
Department of Political Science,
Boston University
232 Bay State Rd.,
Boston, MA 02215.
Email: sperez@bu.edu
Mark A. Pollack,
Department of Political Science,
Temple University,
461 Gladfelter Hall,
Philadelphia, PA 19122.
Email: mark.pollack@temple.edu
Venelin Ganev,
Department of Political Science,
316 Harrison Hall,
Miami University of Ohio,
Oxford, OH 45056.
Email: ganevvi@muohio.edu
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The Best Paper Award
This award will be given to the best paper on European politics and society presented at the 2007 APSA meeting. Nominations (a brief note of nomination as well as a copy of the paper itself) should be sent to each of the committee members, either electronically or in hard copy, and must be received by March 1, 2008.
Paper Award Committee:
Lucy Goodhart (chair),
Department of Political Science,
7th floor IAB,
420 W. 118th St.,
New York, NY 10027.
Email: lmg2005@columbia.edu
Joshua Tucker,
Department of Politics,
NYU, 19 W. 4th St.,
Rm 430,
New York, NY 10012.
Email: joshua.tucker@nyu.edu
Simon Hix,
Department of Government,
London School of Economics and Political Science,
Houghton Street,
London, WC2A 2AE,
United Kingdom.
Email: S.Hix@lse.ac.uk
Past Winners
Best Paper Award
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Best Book Award
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Best Disssertation Award
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- 2007: Mark Andreas Kayser and Christopher Wlezien
- University of Rodchester and
- Temple University
"Performance Pressure: Patterns of Partisanship and the Economic Vote"
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- 2007: Julia Lynch,
- University of Pennsylvania
Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending
on Pensioners, Workers, and Children
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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- 2007: Daniel Ziblatt
- Harvard University
Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and
Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism
Princeton University Press, 2006
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- 2007: No prize awarded
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- 2006: Milada Anna Vachudov
- UNC, Chapel Hill
"Democratization and the Leverage of International Actors: Illiberal Regimes and the European Union"
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- 2006:Giovanni Capoccia,
- University of Oxford
Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
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- 2006:Torben Iverson
- Harvard University
Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare
Cambridge University Press, 2005
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- 2006: Deborah Boucoyannis
- Harvard University
"Land, Courts and Parliaments: The Hidden Sinews of Power in the Emergence of Constitutionalism"
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- 2005: No prize awarded
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- 2005:V.P. Gagnon, Jr.
- Ithaca College
The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s.
Cornell University Press
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- 2005: Uwe Puetter
- Queens University Belfast
"The Eurogroup as a Forum for Informal Deliberation Among Ministers"
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- 2004: Anna M. Grzymala-Busse,
- Yale University
"Party Competition and the Pace of State Reform"
paper online
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- 2004: Marc Morje Howard
- Georgetown University
The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe
Cambridge University Press
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- 2004: Conor O'Dwyer
- University of California, Berkeley
"Runaway State Building: How Parties Shape States in Post Communist Europe"
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- 2003: Bo Rothstein,
- Goteborg University and
- Dietlind Stolle,
- McGill University
"How Political Institutions Create and Destroy Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust".
paper online
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- 2003: Mark Beissinger
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
Cambridge University Press
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- 2003: Daniel Ziblatt
- University of California, Berkeley
"Constructing a Federal State: Political Development, Path Dependence, and the Origins of Federalism in Modern Europe, 1815-1871"
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- 2002: Michael Bernhard
- The Pennsylvania State University
"Democratization in Germany:
A Reappraisal"
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- 2002: Stefano Bartolini
- European University Institute
The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980: The Class Cleavage
Cambridge University Press
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- 2001: Tanja A. Börzel
- and Thomas Risse
- European University Institute
"When Europe Hits Home: Europeanization and Domestic Change" (Presented in 2000.)
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