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:

  • Cherie Maestas, Department of Political Science, 531 Bellamy Bldg., Florida State Unviersity, Tallahassee, FL 32306.  Email: Cherie.Maestas@fsu.edu.  Phone: 850-644-5727.
  • Neil Malhotra, Department of Political Science, 518 Memorial Way, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.  Email: neilm@stanford.edu.   Phone: 408-772-7969.
  • Jamie L. Carson, Department of Political Science, 104 Baldwin Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-1615.  Email: carson@uga.edu.  Phone: 706-542-2889.

 

 

Previous Winners of the Jewell-Loewenberg Award

 

  


2009 Winner

“Disentangling the Relationship between Legislative Professionalism and Government Spending,” by Neil Malhotra, Stanford University (LSQ 33: 387-414).

 

Selection Committee:

Michiko Ueda (chair), California Institute of Technology

Marian Currinder, Georgetown University

Keith Hamm, Rice University


 

2008 Winner

“Do Multimember Districts Lead to Free Riding?” by James Snyder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michiko Ueda, California Institute of Technology (LSQ 32: 649-679)

 

Selection Committee:
John Griffin (chair), University of Notre Dame

Sarah Binder, Brookings Institution

William Mishler, University of Arizona


 

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 (chair), Rice University

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 (chair), George Washington University

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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