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Harold D. Lasswell Award

Nominations are now closed.

The Harold D. Lasswell Award honors the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public policy.

The award, co-supported by the Policy Studies Organization, is presented at the APSA Annual Meeting and carries a cash prize of $1,000.

Harold D. Lasswell Award Committee

Chair: Dr. Susan L. Moffitt
Brown University
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Dr. Isabelle Engeli
University of Exeter
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Professor George Hoberg
University of British Columbia
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2019 Award Recipient

bueno

Natália Bueno is an assistant professor at Emory University. Her research interests are comparative politics, public policy, political economy, and race and ethnicity. Natália studies the political logic of nonstate welfare provision, provision of public goods, the political effects of public policies as well as the causes of the underrepresentation of racial groups in electoral politics. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science and a M.A. in International Development Economics from Yale University. Natália has also worked at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning in São Paulo and at the Institute of Applied Economics.

Previous Awardees

Year	Author	Dissertation	Submitted by
2019	Natália S. Bueno	The Distributive Politics of Non-State Welfare Provision	Yale University
2018	Jonathan Mummolo	Modern Police Tactics, Police-Citizen Interactions, and the Prospects for Reform	Princeton University
2017	Alexander Hertel-Fernandez	Whose Bills? Corporate Interests and Conservative Mobilization Across the States	Harvard University
2016	Brian Palmer-Rubin	Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Organizations and Policymaking in Mexico	University of California, Berkeley
2015	Michael Hartney	Turning Out Teachers: The Causes and Consequences of Teacher Political Activism in the Postwar United States	University of Notre Dame
2014	Sarah Anzia	Election Timing and the Political Influence of the Organized	Stanford University
2013	Nicholas Carnes	By the Upper Class, For the Upper Class? Representational Inequality and Economic Policymaking in the United States	Princeton University
2012	Christopher G. Faricy	The Politics of Public Versus Private Social Welfare	University of North Carolina
2011	Jennifer Kavanagh	The Dynamics of Protracted Terror Campaigns: Domestic Politics, Terrorist Violence, and Counterterror Responses	University of Michigan
2010	Karen Long Jusko	The Political Representation of the Poor	University of Michigan
2009	Michael Schoon	Building Robustness to Disturbance: Governance in Southern African Peace Parks	Indiana University
2008	Christian Breuing	Institutions, Attention Shifts, and Changes within National Budgets	University of Washington
2007	Vanda Felbab-Brown	Shooting Up: The Impact of Illicit Economies on Military Conflict	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006	Jonathan Ari Laurence	Managing Transnational Religion: Muslims and the State in Western Europe (1974-2004)	Boston College
2005	Esther N. Mwangi	Institutional Change and Politics: The Transformation of Property Rights in Kenya's Maasailand	International Food Policy Research Institute
2005	Thad Williamson	Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship: A Philosophical and Empirical Inquiry	Harvard University
2004	Suzanne Christine Nielsen	Preparing for War: The Dynamics of Peacetime Military Reform	Harvard University
2003	Kristin Anne Goss	Disarmed: The Real American Gun Control Paradox	Harvard University