Section Prizes

1. The Best Book Award will be given to the best book on European Politics and Society published in 2009. 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, 2010.

   Book Award committee:

   • Bonnie Meguid (chair)
     University of Rochester
   • Daniel Kelemen
     Rutgers University
   • Gwendolyn Sasse
     Oxford University

2. The Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award
   This award will be given to the best dissertation on European Politics and Society filed in 2009 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 April 1, 2010.

   Dissertation Award committee:

   • Tanja A. Börzel (Chair)
     Freie Universität Berlin
   • Jane Gingrich
     University of Minnesota
   • Karl-Orfeo Fioretos
     Temple University

3. The Best Paper Award
   This award will be given to the best paper on European politics and society presented at the 2009 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, 2010.

   Paper Award Committee:

   • John Stephens (chair)
     UNC
   • Ingrid van Biezen
     Leiden University
   • Thomas König
     University of Mannheim

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   Past Winners

   Best Paper Award	Best Book Award	Best Disssertation Award
   2009: Peter Hall1, Lucy Barnes1 and Rosemary Taylor2 1Harvard University, 2 Tufts University “The Social Sources of the Gradient: A Cross-National Analysis of the Pathways Linking Social Class to Population Health” paper online	2009: Bonnie Meguid University of Rochester Party Competition Between Unequals Cambridge University Press, 2008 More Information (from Amazon)	2009: Joerg Timo Weishaupt University of Wisconsin-Madison “The Emergence of a New Labor Market Policy Paradigm? Analyzing Continuity and Change in an Integrating Europe”
   2008: Aida Paskeviciute and Christopher Anderson University of Essex and Cornell University "Immigrants, Citizenship and Political Action: A Study of 21 European Democracies" paper online	2008: Rachel Cichowski University of Washington The European Court and Civil Society: Litiation, Mobilization, and Governance Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2007 More Information (from Amazon)	2008: Silja Haeusermann University of Zurich "Modernization in Hard Times: Post-industrial Pension Politics in Germany, France and Switzerland"
   2007: Mark Andreas Kayser and Christopher Wlezien University of Rodchester and Temple University "Performance Pressure: Patterns of Partisanship and the Economic Vote" paper online	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 More Information (from Amazon) 2007: Daniel Ziblatt Harvard University Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism Princeton University Press, 2006 More Information (from Amazon)	2007: No prize awarded
   2006: Milada Anna Vachudov UNC, Chapel Hill "Democratization and the Leverage of International Actors: Illiberal Regimes and the European Union"	2006:Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 More Information (from Amazon) 2006:Torben Iverson Harvard University Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare Cambridge University Press, 2005 More Information (from Amazon)	2006: Deborah Boucoyannis Harvard University "Land, Courts and Parliaments: The Hidden Sinews of Power in the Emergence of Constitutionalism"
   2005: No prize awarded	2005:V.P. Gagnon, Jr. Ithaca College The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s. Cornell University Press More Information (from Amazon)	2005: Uwe Puetter Queens University Belfast "The Eurogroup as a Forum for Informal Deliberation Among Ministers"
   2004: Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Yale University "Party Competition and the Pace of State Reform" paper online	2004: Marc Morje Howard Georgetown University The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe Cambridge University Press More Information (from Amazon)	2004: Conor O'Dwyer University of California, Berkeley "Runaway State Building: How Parties Shape States in Post Communist Europe"
   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	2003: Mark Beissinger University of Wisconsin-Madison Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State Cambridge University Press More information (from Amazon)	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"
   2002: Michael Bernhard The Pennsylvania State University "Democratization in Germany: A Reappraisal"	2002: Stefano Bartolini European University Institute The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980: The Class Cleavage Cambridge University Press More information (from Amazon)
   2001: Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse European University Institute "When Europe Hits Home: Europeanization and Domestic Change" (Presented in 2000.)