Organized Section for a New Political Science
Section Awards

Awards for 2006

Christian Bay Award
For the best paper presented at a New Political Science panel at the 2004 annual meeting.

Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College (CUNY), for " Temporary Labor Migration and the Labor Movement: Globalization and Worker Resistance to Restructing Information Technology"  Award being presented by Darien Warren

Michael Harrington Award
For an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world

Award presentation by Terrell Carver and Alethia Jones

Odd Arene Westad for The Global Cold War:Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times.

A powerful account of the way in which the third world moved to the center of international politics in the closing decades of the 20th century. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War created the foundations for most of today's key international conflicts, including the "war on terror."

One reviewer stated that this book is “the most important account to date of the Cold War in the Third World.”

Award: Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award
For a progressive political scientist who has had a long successful career as a writer, teacher, and activist

Award presentation by Victor Wallis and Alethia Jones

Carl E. Boggs, National University (Los Angeles)

 Author of numerous books in the fields of contemporary social and political theory, European politics, and popular movements. His recent books include The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere (1999), Masters of War (2003), Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War (2005).

Award: Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award
For an activist group, in the region of the annual meeting, that puts the ideals of the New Political Science Section, "to make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world," into practice.

Women's Community Revitalization Project
http://www.wcrpphila.com

WCRP values low-income women and their families and their power to make decisions that improve their lives; is committed to social and economic justice; develops housing and neighborhood facilities; provides supportive services; advocates for policy change; and honors leadership, dignity, and equity in our communities.

The chairs of the Awards committees were as listed below.