Organized Section 37: Alexander L. George Article Award

Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section Award Recipients 

Alexander L. George Article Award
Honors Alexander George’s contributions to the comparative case-study method, including his work linking that method to a systematic concern with research design, and his contribution of developing the idea and the practice of process tracing. This award may be granted to a journal article or to a chapter in an edited volume that stands on its own as an article. The award will be given to an article or book chapter published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented, with the date of publication being established by the journal issue for articles and the copyright date of the book for chapters. 

2016	Thomas Rixen, University of Bamberg "Putting path dependence in its place: toward a Taxonomy of institutional change." Journal of Theoretical Politics 27(2) (April 2015): 301-323
2016	Lora Anne Viola, Free University of Berlin "Putting path dependence in its place: toward a Taxonomy of institutional change." Journal of Theoretical Politics 27(2) (April 2015): 301-323
2015	Noam Lupu, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Brand Dilution and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America." World Politics 66(4) (October 2014): 561-602.
2014	Jonathan Mercer, University of Washington "Emotion and Strategy in the Korean War." April 2013 International Organization, 67 (2): 221-252
2013	Hillel Soifer, Temple University "The Causal Logic of Critical Junctures (Comparative Political Studies 45:12 December 2012)
2012	Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Time Will Tell: Temporality and the Analysis of Causal Mechanisms and Processes
2011	Melani Cammett, Brown University Bricks and Mortar Clientelism: Sectarianism and the Logics of Welfare Allocation in Lebanon
2011	Sukriti Issar, Brown University Bricks and Mortar Clientelism: Sectarianism and the Logics of Welfare Allocation in Lebanon
2009	James Mahoney, Northwestern University Toward a Unified Theory of Causality, Comparative Political Studies 41:412-36 (April/May 2008)
2006	George Thomas, Williams College "What Dataset: The Qualitative Foundations of Law and Courts Scholarship," Law and Courts 16 (1): 5-12
2005	Gary Goertz, University of Arizona "The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research." American Political Science Review 98, no. 4 (November 2004): 653-669
2005	Henry Hale, Indiana University "Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethnofederal State Survival and Collapse." World Politics 56, no. 2 (January 2004): 165-193.
2005	James Mahoney, Northwestern University "The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research." American Political Science Review 98, no. 4 (November 2004): 653-669
2004	Peter Hall, Harvard University "Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Comparative Research" in James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2003)