| 2017 |
Margaret Kohn, The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2016 |
| 2016
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Patrick Wolfe, past university affiliations include: University of Melbourne, Victoria University and La Trobe University
Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race. Verso 2015
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| 2015
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Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii at Mānoa
War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice. Polity Press, 2015.
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| 2015
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Joan Cocks, Mount Holyoke College
On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions. Bloomsbury, 2014
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| 2014
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Joseph Carens, University of Toronto
The Ethics of Immigration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013
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2014
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Honorable Mention
Philip Petit, Princeton University
On the People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2012
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| 2013 |
Tracy B Strong, UCSD Distinguished Professor emeritus / Professor. University of Southampton (UK)
Politics without Vision: ‘Thinking without a Banister’ in the Twentieth Century (Chicago)
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2012
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Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University
Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2011)
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2012
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Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Zone Books, 2010)
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2011
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Joseph Schwartz, Temple University
The Future of Democratic Equality: Rebuilding Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America
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2010
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George Shulman, New York University
American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture
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2009
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Carol Gould, George Mason University
Globalizing Democracy (Cambridge University Press)
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2007
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Quentin Skinner
Visions of Politics (Three Volumes), Cambridge University Press, 2002
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2006
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Henry Richardson, Georgetown University
Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy (Oxford University Press, 2003)
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2005
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Ira Katznelson, Columbia University
"Desolation and Enlightenment. Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism and the Holocaust" (Columbia University Press, 2003)
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2004
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Scott Althaus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
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2003
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Sheldon Wolin
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of Political and Theoretical Life. (Princeton University Press 2001)
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2002
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Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University
Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America
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2001
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Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
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2000
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Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University
Facing the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1999)
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1999
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David Laitin, Stanford University
Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell University Press, 1998)
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1998
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Robert Putnam, Harvard University
Making Democracy Work (Princeton University Press, 1993)
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1997
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Jürgen Habermas
Between Facts and Norms (MIT Press 1996)
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