The Jewell-Loewenberg Award

Sponsored by the Dirksen Congressional Center, this award is given to the author of the best article in the Legislative Studies Quarterly in the previous year.

The committee for this year:

  • John Griffin (chair), Department of Political Science, 217 O’Shaughnessy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556.   Email: John.Griffin@nd.edu.  Phone: 574-631-7659.  Cell: 574-339-4548
  • Sarah Binder, Brookings Institution, 1775 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036.  Email: binder@gwu.edu.  Phone: 202-797-6079 or 202-994-2167.
  • William Mishler, Department of Political Science, 315 Social Sciences Building, P.O. Box 210027, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.  Email: mishler@email.arizona.edu.  Phone: 520-621-1093.

 Previous Winners of the Jewell-Loewenberg Award

  



2007 Winner

“Senate Apportionment as a Source of Political Inequality,” by John Griffin, University of Notre Dame  (LSQ 31:405-432)

 

Selection Committee:
Lanny Martin, Rice University (chair)

Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego

Wendy Schiller, Brown University

 


2006 Winner

“Influence Without Confidence: Upper Chambers and Government Formation,” by James N. Druckman, Northwestern University; Lanny W. Martin, Rice University; and Michael F. Thies, University of California, Los Angeles (LSQ 30:529-48)

 

Selection Committee:
Forrest Maltzman, George Washington University (chair)

Scott Mainwaring, University of Notre Dame

Kathryn Pearson, University of Minnesota


2005 Winner

"The Limits of Senatorial Courtesy," by Sarah Binder and Forrest Maltzman, George Washington University (LSQ 29:5-22).

Selection Committee:
Charles Stewart III (chair), MIT
Michele Swers, Georgetown University
Garrison Nelson, University of Vermont


 

2004 Winner

"The Inefficient Secret Revisited: The Legislative Input and Output of Brazilian Deputies," by Octavio Amorim Neto, Brazilian Institute of Economics Getulio Vargas Foundation, and Fabiano Santos, Rio de Janeiro Graduate Research Institute (LSQ 28:449-79)

Selection Committee:
Patricia A. Hurley (chair), Texas A&M University
Charles Shipan, University of Iowa
Christopher J. Deering, George Washington University


 

2003 Winner
"Seats that May Not Matter: Testing for Racial Polarization in U.S. City Councils" by Rory Allan Austin, George Washington University (LSQ 27:481-508)

Selection Committee:

Janet Box-Steffensmeier (chair), Ohio State University
John D. Huber, Columbia University
Gerald C. Wright, Indiana University


 

2002 Winner
"The Effects of Party and Preferences on Congressional Roll Call Voting" by Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder Jr., and Charles Stewart III, all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (LSQ 26:533-72)

 

Selection Committee:
Ben Bishin (chair), University of Miami
David Samuels, University of Minnesota
Sarah M. Morehouse, University of Connecticut


 

2001 Winner
 “Constituency Influence in Congress:  Does Subconstituency Matter” by Benjamin Bishin, University of California at Los Angeles  (LSQ 25:389-415)

Selection Committee:
Janet Box-Steffensmeier (chair),Ohio State University
William Mishler, University of Arizona, Tucson
Michael Moore, University of Texas-Arlington

 

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