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Science, Technology & Environmental Politics Section Award Recipients

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Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award
Don K. Price Award
Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize
Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award
Elinor Ostrom Career Achivement Award
Emerging Young Scholar Award
Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award
The STEP APSA Inclusion Travel Award


The Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper published in a relevant journal in the last two years. Relevant journals include political science, public administration, public policy, interdisciplinary environmental science, and science and technology studies journals.

2023 Jorge Mangonnet, University of Oxford
“Playing Politics with Environmental Protection: The Political Economy of Designating Protected Areas.” Journal of Politics, 2022.
2023 Jacob Kopas, Independent Scholar
“Playing Politics with Environmental Protection: The Political Economy of Designating Protected Areas.” Journal of Politics, 2022.
2023 Johannes Urpelainen, Johns Hopkins University
“Playing Politics with Environmental Protection: The Political Economy of Designating Protected Areas.” Journal of Politics, 2022.
2021 Amanda Kennard, Stanford University
"The Enemy of My Enemy: When Firms Support Climate Change Regulation." International Organization. 2020, 74(2), 187-221.
2020 Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Non-Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National-Scale Field Experiment in China." American Journal of Political Science, 2019.
2020 Mark T. Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Non-Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National-Scale Field Experiment in China." American Journal of Political Science, 2019.
2020 Mengdi Liu, Nanjing University
"Non-Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National-Scale Field Experiment in China." American Journal of Political Science, 2019.
2020 Bing Zhang, Nanjing University
"Non-Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National-Scale Field Experiment in China." American Journal of Political Science, 2019.
2019 Aditya Das Gupta, University of California, Merced
“Technological Change and Political Turnover: The Democratizing Effects of the Green Revolution in India.” American Political Science Review 112 (4): 918–938.
2018 Jonas Nahm, Johns Hopkins University
“The Power of Process: State Capacity and Climate Policy.”
2018 Jonas Meckling, University of California, Berkeley
“The Power of Process: State Capacity and Climate Policy.”
2017 Erika S. Simmons, University of Wisconsin - Madison
"Market Reforms and Water Wars." World Politics. 68 (1):37-73. 
2016  Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan
Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development InterventionsAmerican Political Science Review 
2016  Ashwini Chhatre, Indian School of Business
Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development InterventionsAmerican Political Science Review 
2016  Elisabeth R. Gerber, University of Michigan
Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development InterventionsAmerican Political Science Review 
2015  Neil Carter, University of York
"Greening the Mainstream: Party Politics and the Environment" 
2009 Jonneke Koomen, University of Minnesota
"The Global Governance of Culture: Compaigns against Female Circumcision in East Africa"
1995 Jeanette Hofmann, Wissenchaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung
"Implicit Theories in Political Discourse: A Critique of Interpretations of Reality in Technology Policy"

Don K. Price Award

The Don K. Price Award recognizes the best book on science, technology, and politics published in the last year.

2023

Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University Chicago
Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments. Oxford University Press, 2022.

2022 Jonas Nahm, Johns Hopkins University
Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy, Oxford University Press, 2021.
2021 Leah Stokes, University of California, Santa Barbara
Short-Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States. Oxford University Press, 2021.
2019 Bentley Allan, Johns Hopkins University 
Scientific Cosmology and International Orders. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
2018 Alan S. Gerber, Yale University
Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine. Princeton University Press. 2018.
2018 Conor M. Dowling, University of Mississippi
Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine. Princeton University Press. 2018.
2018 Eric M. Patashnik, Brown University
Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine. Princeton University Press. 2018.
2017  Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara
Giving Aid Effectively: The Politics of Environmental Performance and Selectivity at Multilateral Development Banks, Oxford University Press, 2016. 
2017  Mark Zachary Taylor, Georgia Tech
The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology, Oxford University Press, 2016. 
2016  Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland
Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change.  
2015  David M. Konisky, Georgetown University
Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy and the Age of Global Warming. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2014
2015  Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University
Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy and the Age of Global Warming. MIT Press, 2014. 
2014 Ethan Kapstein, Arizona State University
AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2013
2014 Joshua Busby, University of Texas at Austin
AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2013
2013 Jacques Hymans, University of Southern California
Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians and Proliferation (Cambrige University Press 2012)
2012 Michael Berkman, Pennsylvania State University
Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
2012 Eric Plutzer, Pennsylvania State University
Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
2011 Ann Keller, University of California, Berkeley
Science in Environmental Policy
2010 Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, National University of Singapore
Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
2009 Steven Epstein, Northwestern University
Inclusion: The Politics of Differnce in Medical Research (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
2008 Dan Breznitz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland (Yale University Press, 2007)
2007 Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale University Press, 2006)
2006 Darrell West, Brown University
Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance (Princeton University Press, 2005)
2005 Thomas Bernauer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology (Princeton University Press, 2004).
2004 Bruce Bimber, University of California, Santa Barbara
Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2003 Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
The Gifts of Athena
2002 David Guston
Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research
1998 Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University
Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America (Harvard University Press, 1995)
1996 Richard Sclove, The Loka Institute
Democracy and Technology (Guilford, 1995)
1994

Scott Sagan, Stanford University
The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents and Nuclear Weapons (Princeton University Press, 1993)


Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize

The Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize is given for the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years.

2023 Chris Armstrong, University of South Hampton
A Blue New Deal: Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean. Yale University Press, 2022.
2022 Janina Grabs, ESADE Business School
Selling Sustainability Short?: The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
2021 Kimberly K. Smith, Carleton College
The Conservation Constitution, The conservation movement and constitutional change 1870-1930. University Press of Kansas, 2019.
2020 Eve Z. Bratman, Franklin & Marshall College
Governing the Rainforest: Sustainable Development Politics in the Brazilian Amazon. Oxford University Press (2019)
2019 David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley 
California Greenin’. Princeton University Press, 2018.
2018 Roger Karapin, CUNY Hunter College
Political Opportunities for Climate Policy: California, New York, and the Federal Government. Cambridge University Press. 2018.
2017  Leigh Raymond, Purdue University
Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading. MIT Press, 2016.
2016  Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland
Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge University, 2015 
2016  Graeme Auld, Carleton University
Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification. Yale University Press, 2014 
2015  Jessica F. Green, Case Western Reserve University
Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance. Princeton University Press, 2014. 
2014 David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley
The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States. Princeton University Press, 2012
2013 Judith Layzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Open for Business: Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 2012)
2012 Michael Kraft, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011)
2012 Mark Stephan, Washington State University, Vancouver
Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011)
2012 Troy Abel, Western Washington University
Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011)
2011 William Munro, Illinois Wesleyan University
Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology
2011 Rachel Schurman, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology
2010 Megan Mullin, Temple University
Governing the Tap: Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water
2009 Kathryn Hochstetler, University of New Mexico
Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke Univeristy Press, 2007)
2009 Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University
Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke University, 2007)
2008 Christopher McGrory Klyza, Middlebury College
David J. Sousa, University of Puget Sound
American Environmental Policy, 1990-2006: Beyond Gridlock, MIT Press.
2007 Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of California, Santa Cruz
Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way?
2006 Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University
Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (University Press of Kansas, 2005)
2006 Eric Montpetit, Université de Montréal
Misplaced Distrust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada (UBC Press, 2003)
2005 Barry Rabe, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Brookings, 2004)
2004 David Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law
The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law (MIT Press, 2003)
2003 Erika Weinthal
State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic and International Politics in Central Asia (MIT Press 2002)
2002 Kate O'Neill, University of California at Berkeley
Waste Trading Among Rich Nations: Building a New Theory of Environmental Regulation
2001 Elizabeth DeSombre, Colby College
Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy
1998 Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of Southern California
Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability (SUNY Press, 1997)
1998 George Gonzalez, University of Miami
1998 Robert Vos, University of Southern California
Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability (SUNY Press, 1997)
1996 Bruce Williams, University of Kentucky, Albert R. Matheny, University of Florida
Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Languages of Social Regulation (Yale University Press, 1995)

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award

The Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award, named in honor of a young scholar who tragically passed away, is given for the best dissertations in the field of science, technology and environmental politics.

2023 Noah Zucker, Princeton University
“Social Ties & Climate Politics.” Dissertation, Columbia University.
2022 Michael Lerner, London School of Economics and Political Science
"Green Catalysts? The Impact of Transnational Advocacy on Environmental Policy Leadership"
2021 Alexander Gard-Murray, University of Oxford
“Splitting the Check: A Political Economy of Climate Change Policy”
2020

Jared J. Finnegan, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University
Low Carbon for the Long Term: Essays on the Comparative Political Economy of Climate Change Policy. PhD. London School of Economics and Political Science, 2019

2019 Janina Grabs, Yale University
“The Effectiveness of Market-Driven Regulatory Sustainability Governance: Assessing the Design of Private Sustainability Standards and Their Impacts on Latin American Coffee Farmers' Production Practice." 
2018 Gregory Thaler, University of Georgia
“Forest Governance and Global Development: The Land Sparing Fallacy in Brazil and Indonesia.” Cornell University
2017  Yue (Iza) Ding, University of Pittsburgh
"Invisible Sky, Visible State: Environmental Governance and Political Support in China."
2016  Matto Mildenberger, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Fiddling While the World Burns: The Double Representation of Carbon Polluters in Comparative Climate Policymaking." Yale University, 2015 
2015  Stefan Renckens, University of Toronto
"Regulating Transnational Private Governance: Domestic Interests, Market Fragmentation, and Institutional Fit in the European Union." 
2014 Alexander Ovodenko, Princeton University
"Pathways of Cooperation: Integrated and Unintegrated International Environmental Governance." 2013
2013 Steven Samford, University of Notre Dame
"High Road Development in a Low-Tech Industry: Policymakers, Producer Networks, and the Co-Production of Innovation in the Mexican Ceramics Sector."
2012 Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland
Contesting Climate Change: Civil Society Networks and Collective Action in the European Union (Completed at Cornell University; advised by Sidney Tarrow)
2012 Kemi Fuentes-George, Middlebury College
Scientific Knowledge, Epistemic Communities and Environmental Policy in the Developing World (Completed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; advised by Peter Haas)
2011 Jessica Green, Case Western Reserve University
Private Actors, Public Goods: Private Authority in Global Environmental Politics
2010 Jennifer Bussell, University of Louisville
Resisting Reform: Technological Backwardness in Political Perspective
2009


2008
Ngeta Kabiri, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Global Environmental Governance and Community Based Conservation in Kenya and Tanzania"
Zak TaylorMassachusetts Institute of Technology
“The Political Economy of Technological Change: A Change in the Debate”
2006 Sangbum Shin, University of Oregon
"From Red to Green: Economic Globalization and Environmental Protection in China"
2005 Daniel Sherman, University of Puget Sound
Not Here, Not There: The Federal, State, and Local Politics of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal in the United States (Cornell, August 2004).
 

Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award

The Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award is given to an individual in recognition of their lifetime contribution to the study of science, technology, and environmental politics. Nominees must be at least 15 years from completing their PhD degree to be eligible.

2023 Michele Betsill, University of Copenhagen
2022 Edella Schlager, University of Arizona
2021 Peter May, University of Washington
2020 Aseem Prakash, University of Washington
2019 Thomas Bernauer, ETH Zurich 
2018 Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon
2017  David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley
2016  Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University 
2015 Helen Ingram, University of California, Irvine (Emeritus)

Emerging Young Scholar Award

The Emerging Young Scholar Award is given in recognition of a researcher, within ten years of their PhD degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of science, technology, and environmental politics.

2023 Elizabeth Koebele, University of Nevada, Reno
2022 Hontao Yi, Ohio State University
2021 Patrick Bayer, University of Strathclyde
2021 Gwen Arnold, University of California, Davis
2020 Mark T. Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara
2019 Jonas Meckling, University of California, Berkeley 
2018 Rachel Krause, University of Kansas
2017  Jessica Green, New York University
2016  Graeme Auld, Carleton University 
2015 David Konisky, Georgetown University

Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award

The Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award is given for the best paper on science, technology, and environmental politics presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

2023 Ishana Ratan, University of California, Berkeley
“When do Local Governments Improve Transparency? Bureaucratic Champions for Open Transit Data in California.”
2023 Alison E. Post, University of California, Berkeley
“When do Local Governments Improve Transparency? Bureaucratic Champions for Open Transit Data in California.”
2023 Tanu Kumar, Claremont Graduate University
“When do Local Governments Improve Transparency? Bureaucratic Champions for Open Transit Data in California.”
2023 Mridang Sheth, University of California, Berkeley
“When do Local Governments Improve Transparency? Bureaucratic Champions for Open Transit Data in California.”
2022 Alice Xu, Harvard University
“The Political Origins of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 2000-2012,” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of APSA, 2021.
2021 Saad Bulzar, Stanford University
“Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas.” Paper Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2021 Apoorva Lal, Stanford University
“Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas.” Paper Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2021 Benjamin Pasquale, Independent Researcher
“Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas.” Paper Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2020 Eric Merkley, University of Toronto
Are Experts (News)Worthy? Balance, Conflict and Mass Media Coverage of Expert Consensus. APSA 2019 Conference, Washington, D.C.
2019 Debra Javeline, University of Notre Dame
“Does It Matter if You “Believe” in Climate Change? The Example of Coastal Home Vulnerability.”  
2019 Tracy Kijewski-Correa, University of Notre Dame
“Does It Matter if You “Believe” in Climate Change? The Example of Coastal Home Vulnerability.”  
2019 Angela Chesler, University of Notre Dame
“Does It Matter if You “Believe” in Climate Change? The Example of Coastal Home Vulnerability.”  
2018 Nikita Sinha, University of California, Davis 
“Understanding Local Fracking Regulatory Stringency.”
2018 Michael Bybee, University of California, Davis
“Understanding Local Fracking Regulatory Stringency.”
2018 Madeline Gottlieb, University of California, Davis
“Understanding Local Fracking Regulatory Stringency.” 
2018 Le And Nguyen Long, University of California, Davis
“Understanding Local Fracking Regulatory Stringency.”
2018 Gwen Arnold, University of California, Davis
“Understanding Local Fracking Regulatory Stringency.”
2017  Shiran Shen, Stanford University
"The Inconvenient Truth of the Political Pollution Cycle: Theory and Evidence from Chinese Prefectures."
2016  Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015 
2016  Heather Hodges, Reed College
Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015 
2016  Matthew Wibbenmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015 
2016  Andrew J. Plantinga, University of California, Santa Barbara
Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015 
2015 Elizabeth A. Albright, Duke University
2015

Deserai A. Crow, University of Colorado, Boulder "Learning Processes, Public and Stakeholder Engagement: Analyzing Responses to Colorado's Extreme Flood Events of 2013."


The STEP APSA Inclusion Travel Award

The STEP APSA Inclusion Travel Award will be granted to graduate students from under-represented groups in the discipline who are accepted to present a paper at the annual APSA meeting.

2019 Juhi Huda, University of Colorado Boulder
2019 

Jongeun You, University of Colorado Denver