Our congratulations to the award recipients and our thanks to the faculty selection committees.

Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Award
Honoring a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.

2007 Paul Allen Beck, Ohio State University
2006 Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University
2005 James Q. Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles
2004 David R. Mayhew, Yale University 
2003 Kay Lawson, San Francisco State University 
2002 Walter Dean Burnham, University of Texas, Austin 
2001 John Bibby, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 
2000 Kenneth Janda, Northwestern University 
1999 Malcom Jewell, University of Kentucky 
1998 Nelson Polsby, University of California, Berkeley 
1997 Robert Salisbury, Washington University, St. Louis 
1996 Herbert E. Alexander, University of Southern California 
1995 Gerald Pomper, Rutgers University 
1994 James Sundquist, The Brookings Institution 
1993 Joseph Schlesinger, Michigan State University 
1992 Leon Epstein, University of Wisconsin 
1991 William J. Crotty, Northwestern University 
1990 Frank J. Sorauf, University of Minnesota 
1989 Allan Kornberg, Duke University 

Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award
honoring a book of outstanding and lasting significance in the field.

2007 Henry E. Hale, Georgetown University, (co-winner)
Why not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

2007 Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University, (co-winner)
Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demine in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

2006 Gary Cox, UCSD and Mathew McCubbins, UCSD,
Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

2005 Pradeep Chhibber, UC Berkeley and Ken Kollman, University of Michigan,
The Formation of National Party Systems (Princeton University Press, 2004).

2004 Jeffrey M. Berry, written with David F. Arons, formerly Co-Director of Charity,
Lobbying in the Public Interest  A Voice for Nonporifts (Brookings Institution Press, 2003)

2003 Jo Freeman,
A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics (Rowan and Littlefield, 2000).

2002 Scott C. James, University of California, Los Angeles,
Presidents, Parties, and the Regulatory State (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

2001 Mark Smith, University of Washington,
American Business and Political Power (University of Chicago Press, 2000).

2001 Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame,
The Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change (Princeton University Press, 2000).

1999 James Q. Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles,
Political Organization [Princeton Studies in American Politics] (Princeton University Press, 1973).

1998 Giovanni Sartori, Columbia University,
Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1976).

1997 David B. Truman,
The Governmental Process: Political Interests and Public Opinion (New York: Knopf, 1951).

1996 E.E. Schattschneider,
The Semi-Sovereign People (Holt, Rinehard, and Winston 1975).

1995 James MacGregor Burns, Williams College,
The Deadlock of Democracy (Prentice Hall, 1963).

1994 Mancur Olson, University of Maryland,
The Logic of Collective Action (Harvard University Press, 1965).

1993 Maurice Duverger,
Les Parties Politiques (Paris: Colin, 1951).

1992 Walter Dean Burnham, University of Texas-Austin,
Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics (W.W. Norton, 1970).

1991 Gary C. Jacobson, University of California, San Diego,
Money in Congressional Elections (Yale University Press, 1980).

1990 Seymour Martin Lipset, Stanford University, and Stein Rokkan, University of Bergen,
Party Systems and Voter Alignments (Free Press, 1967).

1989 Anthony Downs, Brookings Institute,
An Economic Theory of Deomocracy (Harper & Row, 1957).

Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award
Honoring an article or published paper of unusual significance and importance to the field.

2007 Richard L. Hall (University of Michigan) and Alan V. Deardorff (University of Michigan),
"Lobbying as Legislative Subsidy," American Political Science Review, (2006) 100: 69-84

2006 Michael Laver (New York University),
"Policy and the Dynamics of Political Competition," American Political Science Review, 99/2 (2005)

2005 Alan J. Ziobrowski (Georgia State University), Ping Cheng (Florida Atlantic University), James W. Boyd (Kent State University), and Brigitte J. Ziobrowski (Augusta State University),
"Abnormal Returns from the Common Stock Investments of the United States Senate," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 39/4 (2004):661-676.

2004 Gary J. Miller and Norman Schofield, (Washington University, St. Louis)
"Activists and Partisan Realignment in the United States," American Political Science Review 97/2 (2003).

2003 Richard A. Harris, (Rutgers University, Camden) and Daniel J. Tichenor, (Rutgers University, New Brunswick),
"Organized Interests and American Political Development," Political Science Quarterly, 117, (Winter 2002).

2002 Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder Jr., and Charles Stewart III
"The Effects of Party and Preferences on Congressional Roll-Call Voting," Legislative Studies Quarterly 36.

2001 Arthur H. Miller, Gwyn Erb, William M. Reisinger, and Vicki Hesli (University of Iowa),
"Emerging Party Systems in Post-Soviet Societies," Journal of Politics 62.

2000 Pradeep Chhibber, (University of California-Berkeley), and Ken Kollman, (University of Michigan),
"Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India and the United States," American Political Science Review, 92(2).

1999 Peter Bachrach and Morton S. Baratz
"Two Faces of Power," American Political Science Review, 57(3)" and "Decisions and Non-decisions: An Analytical Framework," American Political Science Review 56(4).

1998 Robert Salisbury (Washington University),
"Interest Representation: The Dominance of Institutions," American Political Science Review, (March 1984)/

1997 James Lengle (Georgetown University), and Byron E. Shafer (Nuffield College, Oxford University),
"Primary Rules, Political Power, and Social Change," (American Political Science Review, March 1976)

1996 V.O. Key, Jr.
"Primary Rules, Political Power, and Social Change," American Political Science Review, (March 1976).

1995 Gerald Pomper (Rutgers University),
"From Confusion to Clarity"

1994 Theodore Lowi (Cornell University),
"Arenas of Power"

1993 Herbert McCloskyPaul Hoffman and Rosemary O'Hara
"Issue Conflict and Consensus among Party Leaders and Followers" (American Political Science Review, 1964)

1992 James A. Wilson, University of California-Los Angeles "Incentive Systems: A Theory of Organizations" (Administrative Science Quarterly, 1961)

1991 Michael T. Hayes, Colgate University
"The Semi-Sovereign Pressure Groups: A Critique of Current Theory and an Alternative Typology" (Journal of Politics 44, 1978)

1990 Jack Dennis, University of Wisconsin
"An Exchange Theory of Interest Groups" (American Political Science Review, September 1966) and "Trends in Support for the American Party System" (British Journal of Political Science, 1976)

1989 Robert Salisbury, Washington University-St. Louis
"Support for the Party System by the Mass Public," Midwest Journal of Political Science, (February 1989)/

Emerging Scholars Award
For significant research by a scholar receiving his or her doctorate within the past five years.

2007 Susan Webb Yackeee, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2006 Andrea Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005 Barry Burden, Harvard University, and Beth Leech, Rutgers University
2004 David C. Kimball, University of Missouri, St. Louis, and Eric Schickler, Harvard University
2003 Daniel J. Tichenor, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
2002 Jacob S. Hacker, Harvard Society of Fellows
2001 Paul Frymer, University of California at San Diego
2000 Kevin Hula, Loyola University
1998 Kenneth Kollman, University of Michigan, and Lonna Atkeson, University of New Mexico  Honorable metion: David Farrell, University of Manchester; and John Gerring, Boston University.
1997 John J. Coleman, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
1996 Anthony Corrado, Colby College 
1995 Philip Klinkner, Loyola Marymount University 
1994 Scott H. Ainsworth, University of Georgia 
1993 Sean J. Savage, St. Mary's College 

POP Paper Award
Honoring the best paper presented on a POP panel at the preceding APSA Annual Meeting.

2007 Georgia Kernell, Columbia University,
"Candidate Selection and Political Participation"

2006 Hans Noel, Princeton,
"Ideology, Party, and the Creation of the Anti-Slavery Coalition"

2005 Michael T. Heaney, University of Florida,
"Reputation and Leadership Inside Interest Group Coalitions"

2004 Eric S. Heberlig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Marc J. Hetherington, Bowdoin College, and Bruce A. Larson, Farleigh Dickenson University,
"The Redistribution of Campaign Funds and Institutional Advancement in the U.S. House"

2003 Richard G.C. Johnston, University of British Columbia, and Byron E. Shafer, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
"Economic Development, Legal Desegregation, and Partisan Change in the Post War South"