Section Prizes

1. The Best Book Award will be given to the best book on European Politics and Society published in 2008. 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, 2009.

   Book Award committee:

   • Andrew  Moravcsik(chair)
     Princeton University
     Department of Politics
     Robertson Hall 443
     Woodrow Wilson School
     Princeton NJ 08544

   • Conor  O'Dwyer
     University of Florida
     Political Science
     234 Anderson Hall
     P.O. Box 117325
     Gainesville FL 32611-7325

   • Julia  Lynch
     University of Pennsylvania
     Political Science
     243 Stiteler Hall
     Philadelphia PA 19104-6215 
     

2. The Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award
   This award will be given to the best dissertation on European Politics and Society filed in 2008 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, 2009.

   Dissertation Award committee:

   • Jytte Klausen (Chair)
     Brandeis University
     Department of Politics
     MS 058
     Waltham MA 02454-9110

   • David R. Cameron
     Yale University
     Political Science
     124 Prospect Street
     New Haven CT 06520-8301 
     

   • Mitchell A. Orenstein
     The Johns Hopkins University
     European Studies
     1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW
     Room 523
     Washington DC 20036 

3. The Best Paper Award
   This award will be given to the best paper on European politics and society presented at the 2008 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, 2009.

   Paper Award Committee:

   • Bingham Powell (chair)
     Department of Political Science
      University of Rochester
      Harkness Hall 313
      Rochester, NY 14627-0146

   • Rafaela Dancygier
     Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School
     of Public and International Affairs
     434 Robertson Hall
     Princeton University
     Princeton, NJ 08544

   • Marc Howard
     Department of Government 
     Georgetown University 
     ICC 681 
     Washington, DC 20057-1034 

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   Past Winners

   Best Paper Award	Best Book Award	Best Disssertation Award
   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.)