Legislative Studies Section--Carl Albert Dissertation Award

Carl Albert Dissertation Award

Award for best doctoral dissertation in the area of legislative studies.

Topics may be national or subnational in focus -- on Congress, parliaments, state legislatures, or other representative bodies. Dissertation must have a 2008 or 2009 copyright date.

The deadline for submission is March 1, 2010.

Terms for submitting a dissertation:

1. One copy sent to each member of the committee;

2. No more than one submission per Ph.D. granting department;

3. A letter from the department chair indicating the selection;

4. A letter from the dissertation chair, or other appropriate committee member, describing the significance of the work.

The committee for this year:

Robin Kolodny (chair), Department of Political Science, 437 Gladfelter Hall, 1114 West Berks St., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090. Email: rkolodny@temple.edu. Phone: 215-204-7709.
Tom Clark, Department of Political Science,Department of Political Science, 111A Tarbutton Hall, 1555 Dickey Drive, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. Email: tom.clark@emory.edu. Phone: 404-727-6615.

Andrew Taylor, Department of Political Science, School of Public and International Affairs, Box 8102, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8102. Email: andrew_taylor@ncsu.edu. Phone: 919-515-8618.

Previous Winners of the Carl Albert Dissertation Prize

2009

Tom Clark

2008

Rob Salmond

2007

No award given

2006

Kathryn Pearson

2005

Gail McElroy
Robert Van Houweling

2004

Christian Grose

2003

No award given

2002

Deborah Jordan Brooks

2001

Michele Swers

2000

Glen Krutz

1999

Daniel William Lipinski

2009 Winner

The Politics of Judicial Independence: Court Curbing and the Separation of Powers, by Tom Clark, Princeton University.

Selection Committee:

Christine Degregorio (chair), American University

Rob Salmond, University of Michigan

Sean Theriault, University of Texas, Austin

2008 Winner
Parliamentary Question Times: How Legislative Accountability Mechanisms Affect Citizens and Politics, by Rob Salmon, University of California, Los Angeles.

Selection Committee:

Kathryn Pearson (chair), University of Minnesota

Elizabeth Oldmixon, University of North Texas

Kim Quaile Hill, Texas A&M University

2007 – No award given

2006 Winner
Party Discipline in the Contemporary Congress: Rewarding Loyalty in Theory and Practice, by Kathryn Pearson, University of California, Berkeley.

Selection Committee:

Gail McElroy (chair), Trinity College, Dublin

Robert Van Houweling, University of California, Berkeley

Scott Adler, Unviersity of Colorado, Boulder

2005 Winners
In Pursuit of Party Discipline: Committees and Cohesion in the European Parliament, by Gail McElroy, University of Rochester, 2004;
and
Legislators' Personal Policy Preferences and Partisan Legislative Organization, by Robert Van Houweling, Harvard University, 2003.

Selection Committee:
Christian Grose (chair), Lawrence University
Noelle Norton, University of San Diego
John R. Wright, Ohio State University

2004 Winner
Beyond the Vote: A Theory of Black Representation in Congress, by Christian Robert Grose, University of Rochester.

Selection Committee:
Bruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University
Brian R. Sala, University of California, Davis
Christine DeGregorio

2003 - No Award Given

2002 Winner
When Candidates Attack: The Effects of Negative Campaigning on Voter Turnout in Senate Elections, by Deborah Jordan Brooks, Yale University.

Selection Committee:
John B. Gilmour, College of William and Mary
Diana Evans, Trinity College
Thomas F. Remington, Emory University

2001 Winner
From the Year of the Woman to the Republican Ascendancy: Evaluating the Policy Impact of Women in Congress, by Michele Lynn Swers, Harvard University.

Selection Committee:
Jon Bond (chair), Texas A&M, College Station
Susan Hammond, American University
Gerald Gamm, Rochester University

2000 Winner
Explaining Institutional Change: The Rise and Impact of Omnibus Legislating, by Glen Krutz, Texas A & M University

Selection Committee:
Linda Fowler (chair), Dartmouth University
Frances Lee, Case Western Reserve University
Paul Gronke, Duke University

1999 Winner
Shaping Perceptions of Congress through Franked Mass Mailings: An Examination of the Communication Strategies Used by members of the United States House of Representatives in the 1990s, by Daniel William Lipinski, Duke University

Selection Committee:
Michael Mezey (chair), DePaul University
David Canon, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Gary Moncrief, Boise State University