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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 Taylor, Massachusetts 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