Awards

Applications are welcome for a limited number of resident fellowships for established scholars, journalists, and policymakers interested in the relationship between press and politics.

Each fellowship is for one academic semester at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government

The $5,000 Goldsmith Book Prize is given annually to the author or authors of the best book that aims at improving the quality of government or politics through an examination of the press and government or the intersection of press and politics in the formation of public policy. Publication must have occurred within twelve months preceding the submission deadline. All submissions must be in English. Edited volumes will not be accepted. Submissions must include a completed application form, a current resume or curriculum vitae, and five copies of the book.

APSA Programs has information about Small Research Grants, Centennial Grants, the Ralph Bunch Institute, summer fellowships and and related opportunities.

The Doris Graber Book Award

Best Book in Political Communication published in the last ten years- Timothy Cook, Governing with the News: the news media as an institution, 2nd Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

The Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award

No Lazarsfeld Award was presented at the 2005 Annual APSA Meeting.

The Murray Edelman Career Achievement Award

Jay Blumler and Michael Gurevitch

The Murray Edelman Career Achievement Award

2004- Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego
2003- W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington
2002- Tom Patterson, Harvard University
2001- Steven Chaffee, J. McLeod, University of California, Santa Barbara
2000- Roderick P. Hart, University of Texas at Austin
1999- Bernard Cohen, University of Wisconsin- Madison
1998- Shanto Iyengar, University of California, Los Angeles
1997- Ellen Mickiewicz, Duke University
1996- Maxwell McCombs, University of Texas-Austin, and Donald Shaw, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1995- Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania
1994- Kurt and Gladys Lang, University of Washington
1993- Elihu Katz, Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research
1992- Doris Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago.

The Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award

2004- Charles H. Franklin and Kenneth Goldstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Political Information Flows and Their Effects in the 2002 Elections."

2003- Matthew A. Baum, University of California, Los Angeles, "Making Politics Fun: What Happens When Presidents Hit the Talkshow Circuit."

2002- Roderick P. Hart and J. Kanan Sawyer, Univesity of Texas at Austin, "Reconstructing a Presidency: A Linguistic Map".

2001- Scott Althaus and David Tewksbury, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, "Agenda Setting and the "New" News"

2000- Milton Lodge, Charles Tabor, Aron Chase Galonsky, SUNY Stony Brook, "The Political Consequences of Motivated Reasoning: Partisan Bias in Information Processing"

1999- Nicholas Valentino, University of Michigan, "Who Are We On Election Day? Crime News and the Priming of Group Identities During Candidate Evaluation"

1998- Marion R. Just, Wellesley College, and Ann Crigler, University of Southern California, for "Emotional Interactions With the Campaign: A Constructionist Approach to Campaign Effects"

1997- Larry Bartels, Princeton University, for "Politicians and the Press: Who Leads Who Follows?"

1996- Thomas E. Patterson, Syracuse University, for "News Decisions: Journalists as Partisan Actors."

1995- Timothy Cook, Williams College, for "The Fourth Branch and the Other Three: The Washington News Media and The Politics of Shared Power"

The Doris Graber Book Award

2004- Timothy Cook, Governing With the News: The News as a Political Institution (University of Chicago 1998)

2003- Marion Just, Ann Crigler, Dean Alger, Timothy Cook, Montague Kern, and Darrell West, CrossTalk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign (University of Chicago 1996)

2002-Tom Patterson, Out of Order (Alfred Knopf 1993)

2001- Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki, The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America (University of Chicago 2001)

2000- William Gamson, Talking Politics (Cambridge 1991)

Ithiel de Sola Pool Best Paper Award
(Prior to 1995 the Doris Graber Award was known as the "Ithiel de Sola Pool Award.)

1994- Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia, Elisabeth Gidengil, McGill University, and Neil Nevitte, Calgary University for "The Dynamics of Referendum Preferences: Canada 1992"
1993- Ann Crigler, University of Southern California, Timothy E. Cook, Williams College and Marion Just, Wellesley College for "Character, Issues, and Performance: The Discourses of Voters, Candidates, and Media in the 1992 Presidential Campaign"
1992- John Zaller, University of California at Los Angeles for "Information and Incumbency Advantage in Congressional Elections."
1991- Diana C. Mutz, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for "Information and the Politicization of Personal experience."