Organized Section 17: David Easton Award
Foundations of Political Thought Section Award Recipients
David Easton Award
The David Easton Award is given for a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through any of a variety of approaches in the social sciences and humanities.
| 2017 | Margaret Kohn, The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016 |
| 2016 | Patrick Wolfe, past university affiliations include: University of Melbourne, Victoria University and La Trobe University Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race. Verso 2015 |
| 2015 | Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii at Mānoa War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice. Polity Press, 2015. |
| 2015 | Joan Cocks, Mount Holyoke College On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions. Bloomsbury, 2014 |
| 2014 | Joseph Carens, University of Toronto The Ethics of Immigration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013 |
| 2014 | Honorable Mention Philip Petit, Princeton University On the People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2012 |
| 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) |
| 2012 | Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2011) |
| 2012 | Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Zone Books, 2010) |
| 2011 | Joseph Schwartz, Temple University The Future of Democratic Equality: Rebuilding Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America |
| 2010 | George Shulman, New York University American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture |
| 2009 | Carol Gould, George Mason University Globalizing Democracy (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2007 | Quentin Skinner Visions of Politics (Three Volumes), Cambridge University Press, 2002 |
| 2006 | Henry Richardson, Georgetown University Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy (Oxford University Press, 2003) |
| 2005 | Ira Katznelson, Columbia University “Desolation and Enlightenment. Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism and the Holocaust” (Columbia University Press, 2003) |
| 2004 | Scott Althaus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People (Cambridge University Press, 2003) |
| 2003 | Sheldon Wolin Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of Political and Theoretical Life. (Princeton University Press 2001) |
| 2002 | Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America |
| 2001 | Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History |
| 2000 | Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University Facing the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1999) |
| 1999 | David Laitin, Stanford University Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell University Press, 1998) |
| 1998 | Robert Putnam, Harvard University Making Democracy Work (Princeton University Press, 1993) |