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Politics and History Section Award Recipients

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J. David Greenstone Book Prize
Mary Parker Follett Prize
Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award
Best Paper Award

J. David Greenstone Book Prize

The J. David Greenstone Book Prize recognizes the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years.

2022	Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation 1790-1870. Harvard University Press, 2021
2022	Honorable Mention Peter Swenson, Yale University Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction and Money in American Medicine. Yale University Press, 2021
2021	Henrik Spruyt, Northwestern University The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
2021	Boris Heersink, Fordham University and Jeff Jenkins, University of Southern California Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
2021	Jeff Jenkins, University of Southern California Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
2019	Jessica Trounstine, University of California, Merced Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
2019	David Alexander Bateman, Cornell University Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
2019	Honorable Mention Thomas Ogorzalek, Northwestern University The Cities on the Hill: How Urban Institutions Transformed National Politics. Oxford University Press, 2018.
2018	Paul Frymer, Princeton University Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion. Princeton University Press, 2017.
2017	Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965. Princeton University Press, 2016.
2017	Sarah Staszak, Princeton University No Day in Court: Access to Justice and the Politics of Judicial Retrenchment. Oxford University Press, 2015.
2017	Honorable Mention Sheena Chestnut Greitens, University of Missouri Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
2016	Robert Mickey, University of Michigan Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America’s Deep South, 1944-1972. Princeton University Press, 2015
2015	Erik Engstrom, University of California, Davis Party Ballots, Reform and the Transformation of America’s Electoral System. Cambridge University Press, 2014
2015	Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego Party Ballots, Reform and the Transformation of America’s Electoral System. Cambridge University Press, 2014
2015	Adria Lawrence, Yale University Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2013
2014	Michele Dauber, Stanford University The Sympathetic State (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
2014	Ira Katznelson, Columbia University Fear Itself (Liveright, 2013)
2012	Julian Go, Boston University Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to Present (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
2011	James Mahoney, Northwestern University Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
2010	Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University The Motherless State: Women’s Political Leadership and American Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
2010	Anthony Chen, Northwestern University The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972 (Princeton University Press, 2009)
2009	Karen Barkey, Columbia University Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
2008	Keith Whittington, Princeton University Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History (Princeton University Press, 2007)
2007	Istvan Hont, University of Cambridge Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation State in Historical Perpective (Harvard University Press, 2005)
2007	Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge University Press)
2006	Ken Kersch, Princeton University Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
2006	Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Oxford University Press, 2005)
2005	Richard Valelly, Swarthmore College The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement (University of Chicago Press 2004)
2005	Honorable Mention Kathleen Thelen, Northwestern University How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan(Cambridge University Press, 2004)
2004	Sonja Amadae, Eugene Lange College, The New School "Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism" (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
2004	Theda Skocpol, Harvard University "Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life" (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
2003	Mounira Charrad, University of Texas, Austin States and Women's Rights: The Making of Post-Colonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco (University of California Press, 2001)
2003	Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era (Chicago University Press, 2002)
2002	Richard Bensel, Cornell University Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
2001	Uday Mehta, University of Pennsylvania Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
2000	Elizabeth Sanders, Cornell University Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State 1877-1917 (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
1999	Peter Trubowitz, University of Texas Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
1998	Rogers Smith, Yale University Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Yale University Press, 1997)
1998	Mabel Berezin, University of California, Los Angeles Making the Fascist Self: The Political Culture of Interwar History (Cornell University Press, 1997)
1997	Stathis Kalyvas, New York University The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996)
1996	Hendrik Spruyt, Columbia University The Sovereign State and Its Competitors (Princeton University Press, 1994)
1995	Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza (Cornell University Press, 1993)
1995	Gerald Berk, University of Oregon Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of the American Industrial Order 1854-1917, (Johns Hopkins University Press)
1994	Stephen Skowronek, Yale University The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush (Harvard University Press, 1993)
1993	Theda Skocpol, Harvard University Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992)
1993	Karen Orren, University of California, Los Angeles Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

Mary Parker Follett Prize

The Mary Parker Follett Prize recognizes the best article on Politics and History published in the previous year.

2022	Matthew Denney, Yale University “'To Wage a War'”: Crime, Race, and State Making in the Age of FDR.” Studies in American Political Development, 35, no. 1 (2021): 16-56
2022	Edgar Franco-Vivanco, University of Michigan “Justice as Checks and Balances: Indigenous Claims in the Courts of Colonial Mexico.” World Politics 73, no. 4 (2021): 712-773
2021	Agustina S. Paglayan, University of California, San Diego “The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years.” American Political Science Review, 115(1), February 2021,179 – 198.
2020	Daniel J. Galvin, Northwestern University “From Labor Law to Employment Law: The Changing Politics of Workers’ Rights.” Studies in American Political Development, 33 (April 2019), 50-86.
2020	Honorable Mention Alexandra Cirone, Cornell University “Bridging the Gap: Lottery-Based Procedures in Early Parliamentarization.” World Politics, 71 (April 2019), 197-235.
2020	Honorable Mention Brenda Van Coppenolle, University of Essex “Bridging the Gap: Lottery-Based Procedures in Early Parliamentarization.” World Politics, 71 (April 2019), 197-235.
2019	Peter Swenson, Yale University “Misrepresented Interests: Business, Medicare and the Making of the American Health Care State.” Studies in American Political Development 32(1): 1-23.
2022	Shivaji Mukherjee of the University of Toronto “Colonial Origins of Maoist Insurgency in India: Historical Institutions and Civil War.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 62:10 November 2018.
2018	Jennifer M. Dixon, Villanova University “Rhetorical Adaptation and Resistance to International Norms.” Perspectives on Politics. 15(1)
2017	Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University “Weapons of the Meek: How Churches Influence Public Policy.” World Politics 68 (1): 1–36.
2016	Prerna Singh, Brown University “Subnationalism and Social Development: A Comparative Analysis of Indian States.” World Politics, Vol. 67, No. 3(2015), pp. 506-562
2015	Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University "When Canvassers Become Activists: Antislavery Petitioning and the Political Mobilization of American Women” APSR 2014
2015	Colin D. Moore, University of Hawaii, Manoa "When Canvassers Become Activists: Antislavery Petitioning and the Political Mobilization of American Women” APSR 2014
2014	Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University "The Feudal Revolution and Europe's Rise: Political Divergence of the Christian West and the Muslim World Before 1500 CE." (American Political Science Review, 107(1), February 2013)
2014	Eric Chaney, Harvard University "The Feudal Revolution and Europe's Rise: Political Divergence of the Christian West and the Muslim World Before 1500 CE." (American Political Science Review, 107(1), February 2013)
2012	Diana Dumitru, Moldova State Pedagogical University Constructing Interethnic Conflict and Cooperation: Why Some People Harmed Jews and Others Helped Them During the Holocaust in Romania (World Politics 63:1)
2012	Carter Johnson, American Councils, Moscow Constructing Interethnic Conflict and Cooperation: Why Some People Harmed Jews and Others Helped Them During the Holocaust in Romania (World Politics 63:1)
2011	Giovanni Capoccia, Oxford Universitiy "The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: A New Research Agenda for Europe and Beyond," (Comparative Political Studies 43: 8-9)
2011	Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University "The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: A New Research Agenda for Europe and Beyond," (Comparative Political Studies 43: 8-9)
2010	Stephen Skowronek, Yale University "The Conservative Insurgency and Presidential Power: A Developmental Perspective on the Unitary Executive," (Harvard Law Review 122: 8)
2009	Alan Jacobs, University of British Columbia The Politics of When: Redistribution, Investment and Policy Making for the Long Term in the British (Journal of Political Science, 38:2)
2008	Justin Crowe, Williams College The Forging of Judicial Autonomy: Political Entrepreneurship and the Reforms of William Howard Taft (Journal of Politics, 69:1)
2007	Fredrick Harris, Columbia University "It Takes a Tragedy to Arouse Them: Collective Memory and Collective Action During the Civil Rights Movement," (Social Movement Studies 5 May 2006)
2007	Cora Goldstein, California State University, Long Beach "Before the CIA: American Actions in the German Fine Arts (1946-1949)," (Diplomatic History 29, November 2005)
2006	David Robertson, University of Missouri, St. Louis "Madison's Opponents and Constitutional Design," American Political Science Review, vol. 99, no. 2 (May 2005)
2005	Peter Swenson, Yale University "Varieties of Capitalist Interests: Power, Institutions, and the Regulatory Welfare State in the United States and Sweden," (Studies in American Political Development 18, Spring 2004)
2004	Paul Frymer, Princeton University "Acting When Elected Officials Won't: Federal Courts and Civil Rights Enforcement in U.S. Labor Unions, 1935-85," (American Political Science Review August 2003)
2003	Daniel Tichenor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick "Organized Interests and American Political Development" (Political Science Quarterly 117:4)
2003	Richard Harris, Rutgers University, Camden "Organized Interests and American Political Development" (Political Science Quarterly 117:4)
2002	Evan Lieberman, Princeton University "Causal Inference in Historical Institutional Analysis: A Specification of Periodization Strategies" (Comparative Political Studies 34:9)
2001	Jeffery Jenkins, Michigan State University "Examining the Robustness of Ideological Voting: Evidence from the Confederate House of Representatives" (American Journal of Political Science 44:8)
2000	Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University Race, Class, and Gender in the Progressive Era: Restructing State and Society," Progressivism and the New Democracy (University of Massachusetts Press, 1999)
2000	Frank Dobbin, Harvard University "Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies" (American Journal of Sociology 105(2): 455-492)
2000	Erin Kelly, Princeton University "Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies" (American Journal of Sociology 105(2): 455-492)
1999	Barry Weingast, Stanford University "Political Stability and Civil War: Institutions, Commitment, and Democracy," Analytic Narratives (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)
1998	Sarah Hanley, University of Iowa "Social Sites of Political Practice in France: Lawsuits, Civil Rights, and the Separation of Powers in Domestic and State Government, 1500-1800" (American Historical Review 102:1)
1997	Hugh Heclo, George Mason University "The Sixties' False Dawn: Awakenings, Movements, and Postmodern Policy-making, (Journal of Policy History 8:1)
1996	Daniel Deudney "The Philadelphia System; Sovereignty, Arms Control, and Balance of Power in the American States-Union, 1787-1861," (International Organization, Spring 1995)
1995	David Laitin, University of Chicago "Language and the Construction of States: the Case of Catalonia in Spain" (Politics and Society, March 1994)
1995	Carlotta Sole, Universitat Automoma of Barcelona and Stathis N. Kalyvas "Language and the Construction of States: the Case of Catalonia in Spain" (Politics and Society, March 1994)
1995	Stathis Kalyvas, Ohio State University "Language and the Construction of States: the Case of Catalonia in Spain" (Politics and Society, March 1994)
1994	Richard Valelly, Swarthmore College "Party, Coercion, and Inclusion: Party, Coercion, and Inclusion: The Two Reconstructions of the South's Electoral Politics, (Politics and Society 21:1)
1994	Charles Stewart III, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Stacking the Senate, Changing the Nation: Republican Rotten Boroughs, Statehood Politics, and American Political Development" (American Political Development 6:2)
1994	Barry Weingast, Stanford University "Stacking the Senate, Changing the Nation: Republican Rotten Boroughs, Statehood Politics, and American Political Development" (American Political Development 6:2)

Walter Dean Burnham Disseration Award

The Walter Dean Burnham Award is given for the best dissertation in the field of Politics and History.

2022	Paul Jeffrey Baumgardner, Augustana College “Retrenchment Rivals: Critical Legal Studies, Law-and-Economics, and the Legal Academy of the Long 1980s." Princeton University.
2021	Brendan McElroy, University of Michigan “Peasants and Parliaments: Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth Century Europe.” Harvard University Press?.
2020	Matthew Berkman, University of Pennsylvania “Coercive Consensus: Jewish Federations, Ethnic Representation, and the Roots of American Pro-Israel Politics”
2019	Matthias Dilling, Oxford University “Organizational Choices and Organizational Adaptability in Political Parties: The Case of Western European Christian Democracy.”
2018	Jeffrey Javed, Harvard University “Land and Retribution: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in China’s Land Reform Campaign (1950–1952).”
2017	Daniel Koss, Academia Sinica, Taiwan “Where the Party Rules: Party-Based Authoritarianism and the Reach of the State.”
2017	Robert Braun, Northwestern University “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide”
2016	Sarah Johnson, University of Chicago “The Ages We Live By: Historical Periodization in Social and Political Thought”
2015	Jonathan Obert, University of Chicago "Six Guns and State Formation: The Co-Evolution of Public and Private Violence in American Political Development.” University of Chicago, 2014
2015	Honorable Mention Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer, City University of New York "Politics as a Sphere of Wealth Accumulation: Cases of Gilded Age New York, 1855-1888.” City University of New York, 2014
2014	Devin Caughey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Congress, Public Opinion, and Representation in the One Party South, 1930s-1960s" (UC Berkeley)
2014	Sheena Greitens, Harvard University "Coercive Institutions and State Violence under Authoritarianism" (Harvard University)
2013	Deondra Rose, Cornell University/University of Notre Dame "The Development of U.S. Higher Education Policy and Its Impact on the Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship" (Cornell University 2012)
2013	Honorable Mention Jennifer Dixon, Villanova University
2012	Gwendoline Alphonso, Fairfield University "Hearth and Soul: Political Parties, Family Ideologies, and the Development of Social Policy in the 20th Century" (Cornell University 2011)
2011	Emily Zackin, CUNY Hunter College "Positive Constitutional Rights in the United States" (Princeton University 2010)
2010	Colin Moore, Harvard University "Institutions of Empire: Information, Delegation, and the Political Control of American Imperialism, 1890-1913" (Harvard University, 2009)
2009	Iza Hussin, University of Washington "The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of Islamic Law" (University of Washington, 2008)
2008	Tomas Larsson, Cornell University "Capitalizing Thailand: Colonialism, Communism, and the Political Economy of Rural Land Rights" (Cornell University, 2007)

Brian Dave Robertson Conference Paper Award
An award for the best paper in Politics and History presented at the previous annual meeting.

2022	Heather McCambly, University of Pittsburgh "The Rise of (E)quality Politics: The Political Development of Higher Education Policy at FIPSE, 1969-1999." Presented at the APSA 2021 Annual Meeting.
2022	Quinn Mulroy, Northwestern University "The Rise of (E)quality Politics: The Political Development of Higher Education Policy at FIPSE, 1969-1999." Presented at the APSA 2021 Annual Meeting.
2021	Matthew Denney, Yale University “‘To Wage a War’: Crime, Race, and State-Making in the Age of FDR.”
2020	Isabela Mares, Yale University “From Religious violence to political compromise: the historical origins of institutional trust.”
2020	Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, Columbia University “From Religious violence to political compromise: the historical origins of institutional trust.”