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Congressional Quarterly Prize
Award given to the author of
the best paper on legislative studies that was presented at the 2007 annual
meeting of APSA. Nominations should be submitted by January 1, 2008.
The committee for this year:
- Bruce Oppenheimer (chair), Department of
Political Science, Box 8, Station B, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
TN 37236. Email: bruce.i.oppenheimer@vanderbilt.edu. Phone: 615-322-6232.
- Jennifer Lawless, Department of Political
Science, Box 1844, Brown University, 36 Prospect St., Providence, RI
02912. Email: Jennifer_Lawless@brown.edu. Phone: 401-863-2825.
- Josh Clinton, Department of Politics, Corwin
Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1012. Email: Clinton@princeton.edu. Phone: 609-258-0481.

Previous
Winners of the CQ Prize

2007 Award Winner
“Hail to the Chief? Two Mechanisms of Congressional
Influence Over Presidential War-Making,” by Douglas Kriner, Boston University
Selection Committee Members:
Linda L. Fowler
(chair), Dartmouth
College
Jason M.
Roberts, University
of Minnesota
Lynda W. Powell, University
of Rochester.
2006 Award Winner
“Declining Fortunes: Institutional Change and the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1947-2002,” by Linda L. Fowler, Dartmouth
College, and Richard Brian Law, University
of California, Los Angeles
Selection Committee Members:
Tracy Sulkin (chair), University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Nolan M.
McCarty, Princeton
University
Bruce I.
Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt
University
2005 Award Winner
"Legislative Responsiveness to Campaign
Challenges," by Tracy Sulkin, University of
Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Selection Committee Members:
Samuel Kernell (chair), University of California, San Diego
Lynda Powell, University of Rochester
Sean Theriault, University of Texas, Austin
2004 Award Winner
"To Stay, To Quit, or To Move Up:
Explaining the Growth of Careerism in the House of Representatives,
1878-1940," by Samuel Kernell, University of California - San
Diego
Selection Committee Members:
Michael L. Mezey (chair), DePaul University
Barbara Sinclair, University of California, Los Angeles
Gregory Wawro, Columbia University
2003 Award Winner
"Where's the
Pivot? Obstruction and Lawmaking in the Pre-cloture Senate," by
Greg Wawro, Columbia University and
Eric Schickler, University of California -
Berkeley
Selection Committee
Members:
Charles Stewart III (chair), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Timothy Groseclose, UCLA
Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University
2002
Award Winner
"Legislating in
Women's Interests? Congresswomen in the 106th Congress" by
Kathryn L. Pearson, University
of California - Berkeley
Selection Committee Members:
C. Lawrence Evans (chair), College
of William and Mary
John M. Carey, Washington University
Patricia Hurley, Texas A&M
University
2001
Award Winner
"Message Politics” by C. Lawrence Evans, College of William
and Mary
Selection Committee Members:
David Brady (chair), Stanford University
Laura Arnold, Southern Illinois University
Gerhard Loewenberg, University of Iowa
2000 Award Winner
"The Strong Parties Hypothesis Revisited: Evidence from
the Turn of the Century," by David Brady, Kara
Buckley, and Douglas Rivers, all from Stanford University
Selection Committee Members:
Sarah Binder (chair), George
Washington University
Samuel (Pat) Patterson
Steve Ansolabehere, M.I.T.
1999 Award Winner
"Dynamics of Legislative Gridlock," by Sarah
Binder, George
Washington University
Selection Committee Members:
Eric Lawrence (chair), University of California
- Riverside
James D. King, University of Wyoming
Valarie Sulfaro , James Madison University
1998 Award Winner
“‘The Publication of Hinds' Precedents in
1899 and the Institutionalization of the House of
Representatives” by Eric D. Lawrence, University of California
- Riverside
Selection Committee Members:
Gary Cox (chair), University of California - San Diego
Evelyn Fink, University of Nebraska
Paul Herrnson, University of Maryland
1997 Award Winner
"Baker v. Carr and Incumbency in Postwar U.S. House
Elections" by Gary W. Cox, University of California - San
Diego; and Jonathan N. Katz, California Institute of Technology.
Selection Committee Members:
David Rohde (chair), Michigan State University
Valerie Heitshusen, University
of Missouri
Gary Moncrief , Boise State
University
1996
Award Winner
"Theories of the Party in the
Legislature and the Transition to Republican Rule in Congress" by
David Rohde and John Aldridge
Selection Committee Members:
Evelyn Fink
David W. Brady
Steven S. Smith
1995 Award
Winner
"The Roots of Careerism in the House of
Representatives" by David Brady, Kara Buckley, and Douglas
Rivers, all from Stanford University
Selection Committee Members:
John Hibbing
Eileen Burgin
Matthew McCubbins
1994 Award
Winner
"Public Enemy: People's Perceptions of
Congress" by Elizabeth Theiss-Morse and John Hibbing, University of Nebraska
– Lincoln
Selection Committee Members:
Elizabeth
Gerber
David Breaux
Richard A.
Smith
1993 Award
Winner
"Preference Aggregation and the Effects of
Institutions: Comparing Legislative and Direct Ballot Outcomes" by
Elisabeth R. Gerber, California Institute of Technology
Selection Committee Members:
Barbara Sinclair
Jon R. Bond
Paul R. Brace
1992 Award
Winner
"The Emergence of Strong Leadership in the 1980s
House of Representatives" by Barbara Sinclair, University of California
– Riverside
Selection Committee Members:
Gary Jacobson
(chair)
Richard L.
Hall
Elaine K.Swift
1991 Award Winner
"The Persistence of House Democratic Majorities:
Structure of Politics" by Gary Jacobson, University
of California - San Diego
1990 Award Winner
"Interpretation, Pressure, and the Stability of
Interest Group Pressure in the U.S.
Congress" by Richard A. Smith, Carnegie-Mellon University
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