2020
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Adom Getachew, University of Chicago
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Chicago 2019.
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2020
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Honorable Mention
Jairus Grove, University of Hawaii
Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World. Duke 2019.
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2019
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Yves Winter, McGill University
Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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2018
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Sina Jo Kramer, Loyola Marymount University
Excluded Within: The (Un)Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors. Oxford University Press. 2017.
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2018
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Siavash Saffari, Seoul National University
Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought. Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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2018
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Honorable Mention
Angelica Bernal, Universityof Massachusetts, Amherst
Beyond Origins: Rethinking Founding in a Time of Constitutional Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2017.
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2017
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Joseph J. Fischel
Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent
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2016
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Neil Roberts, Williams College
Freedom as Marronage. University of Chicago Press
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2016
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Shalini Satkunanandan, University of California, Davis
Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus. Cambridge University Press
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2015
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Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research
Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2014.
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2014
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Christopher Lebron, Yale University
The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time (Oxford University Press)
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2013
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Jeffrey Church
Infinite Autonomy: The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche
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2012
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Stephen Marshall, University of Texas, Austin
The City on the Hill from Below: The Crisis of Prophetic Black Politics (Temple University Press, 2011)
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2010
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Jeffrey Green, University of Pennsylvania
The Eyes of the People: Democracy in a Age of Spectatorship
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2010
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Honorable Mention
Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney
The Sins of the Nation an dthe Ritual of Apologies (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
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2010
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Honorable Mention
Mark B. Brown, California State University, Sacramento
Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation (MIT Press, 2009)
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2009
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Samantha Frost, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Lessons from a Materialist Thinker (Stanford University Press)
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2007
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Bryan Garsten, Yale Univesrity
Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2006)
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2006
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Elisabeth Ellis, Texas A&M University
Kant's Politics: Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World (Yale University Press, 2005)
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2006
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Jennifer Pitts, Princeton University
A Turn to Empire: Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton University Press, 2005)
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2005
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Corey Robin, CUNY Brooklyn
Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press, 2004).
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2004
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Alan Keenan, Bryn Mawr College
Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure (Stanford University Press, 2003)
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2004
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Patchen Markell, University of Chicago
Bound by Recognition (Princeton University Press, 2003)
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2003
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Laura Janara, University of British Columbia
Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America (SUNY Press)
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2002
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Ayelet Shachar, University of Toronto
Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights
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2002
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Honorable Mention
Dan Engster, University of Texas, San Antonio
Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
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2001
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Sara Monoson, Northwestern University
Plato's Democratic Entanglements
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2000
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Alan Patten, McGill University
Hegel's Idea of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1999)
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1999
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C. Thompson, Ashland University
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty (University of Kansas Press, 1998)
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1999
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Melissa Williams, University of Toronto
Voice, Trust, and Memory (Princeton University Press, 1998)
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1998
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James Bailey, Princeton University
Utilitarianism, Institutions, and Justice (Oxford University Press, 1997)
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1997
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Simone Chambers, University of Toronto
Reasonable Democracy (Cornell University Press, 1996)
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1994
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Bonnie Honig, Harvard University
Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell University Press, 1993)
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1993
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Richard Sinopoli, University of California, Davis
The Foundations of American Citizenship and Civic Virtue (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
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1992
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Alan Houston, University of California, San Diego
Algernon Sydney and the Republican Heritage in England and America (Princeton University Press, 1991)
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1991
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Stephen Leonard, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Political Theory in Political Practice (Princeton University Press, 1990)
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1990
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William Corlett, Bates College
Community Without Unity: A Politics of Deridian Extravagance (Duke University Press)
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