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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.
2021
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Amanda Kennard, Stanford University
"The Enemy of My Enemy: When Firms Support Climate Change Regulation." International Organization. 2020, 74(2), 187-221.
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2020
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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.
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2020
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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.
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2020
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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.
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2020
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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.
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2019
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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.
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2018
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Jonas Nahm, Johns Hopkins University
“The Power of Process: State Capacity and Climate Policy.”
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2018
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Jonas Meckling, University of California, Berkeley
“The Power of Process: State Capacity and Climate Policy.”
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2017
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Erika S. Simmons, University of Wisconsin - Madison
"Market Reforms and Water Wars." World Politics. 68 (1):37-73.
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2016
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Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan
Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development InterventionsAmerican Political Science Review
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2016
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Ashwini Chhatre, Indian School of Business
Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development InterventionsAmerican Political Science Review
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2016
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Elisabeth R. Gerber, University of Michigan
Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development InterventionsAmerican Political Science Review
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2015
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Neil Carter, University of York
"Greening the Mainstream: Party Politics and the Environment"
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2009
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Jonneke Koomen, University of Minnesota
"The Global Governance of Culture: Compaigns against Female Circumcision in East Africa"
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1995
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Jeanette Hofmann, Wissenchaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung
"Implicit Theories in Political Discourse: A Critique of Interpretations of Reality in Technology Policy"
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Don K. Price Award
The Don K. Price Award recognizes the best book on science, technology, and politics published in the last year.
2022
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Jonas Nahm, Johns Hopkins University
Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy, Oxford University Press, 2021.
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2021
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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.
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2019
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Bentley Allan, Johns Hopkins University
Scientific Cosmology and International Orders. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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2018
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Alan S. Gerber, Yale University
Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine. Princeton University Press. 2018.
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2018
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Conor M. Dowling, University of Mississippi
Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine. Princeton University Press. 2018.
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2018
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Eric M. Patashnik, Brown University
Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine. Princeton University Press. 2018.
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2017
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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.
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2017
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Mark Zachary Taylor, Georgia Tech
The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology, Oxford University Press, 2016.
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2016
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Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland
Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change.
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2015
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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
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2015
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Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University
Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy and the Age of Global Warming. MIT Press, 2014.
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2014
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Ethan Kapstein, Arizona State University
AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2013
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2014
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Joshua Busby, University of Texas at Austin
AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2013
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2013
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Jacques Hymans, University of Southern California
Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians and Proliferation (Cambrige University Press 2012)
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2012
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Michael Berkman, Pennsylvania State University
Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
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2012
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Eric Plutzer, Pennsylvania State University
Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
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2011
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Ann Keller, University of California, Berkeley
Science in Environmental Policy
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2010
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Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, National University of Singapore
Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
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2009
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Steven Epstein, Northwestern University
Inclusion: The Politics of Differnce in Medical Research (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
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2008
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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)
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2007
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Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale University Press, 2006)
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2006
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Darrell West, Brown University
Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance (Princeton University Press, 2005)
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2005
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Thomas Bernauer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology (Princeton University Press, 2004).
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2004
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Bruce Bimber, University of California, Santa Barbara
Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
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2003
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Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
The Gifts of Athena
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2002
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David Guston
Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research
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1998
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Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University
Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America (Harvard University Press, 1995)
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1996
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Richard Sclove, The Loka Institute
Democracy and Technology (Guilford, 1995)
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1994
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Scott Sagan, Stanford University
The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents and Nuclear Weapons (Princeton University Press, 1993)
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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.
2022
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Janina Grabs, ESADE Business School
Selling Sustainability Short?: The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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2021
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Kimberly K. Smith, Carleton College
The Conservation Constitution, The conservation movement and constitutional change 1870-1930. University Press of Kansas, 2019.
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2020
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Eve Z. Bratman, Franklin & Marshall College
Governing the Rainforest: Sustainable Development Politics in the Brazilian Amazon. Oxford University Press (2019)
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2019
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David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley
California Greenin’. Princeton University Press, 2018.
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2018
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Roger Karapin, CUNY Hunter College
Political Opportunities for Climate Policy: California, New York, and the Federal Government. Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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2017
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Leigh Raymond, Purdue University
Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading. MIT Press, 2016.
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2016
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Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland
Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge University, 2015
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2016
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Graeme Auld, Carleton University
Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification. Yale University Press, 2014
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2015
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Jessica F. Green, Case Western Reserve University
Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance. Princeton University Press, 2014.
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2014
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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
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2013
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Judith Layzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Open for Business: Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 2012)
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2012
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Michael Kraft, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011)
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2012
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Mark Stephan, Washington State University, Vancouver
Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011)
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2012
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Troy Abel, Western Washington University
Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011)
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2011
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William Munro, Illinois Wesleyan University
Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology
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2011
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Rachel Schurman, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology
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2010
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Megan Mullin, Temple University
Governing the Tap: Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water
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2009
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Kathryn Hochstetler, University of New Mexico
Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke Univeristy Press, 2007)
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2009
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Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University
Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke University, 2007)
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2007
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Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of California, Santa Cruz
Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way?
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2006
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Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University
Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (University Press of Kansas, 2005)
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2006
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Eric Montpetit, Université de Montréal
Misplaced Distrust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada (UBC Press, 2003)
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2005
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Barry Rabe, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Brookings, 2004)
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2004
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David Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law
The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law (MIT Press, 2003)
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2003
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Erika Weinthal
State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic and International Politics in Central Asia (MIT Press 2002)
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2002
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Kate O'Neill, University of California at Berkeley
Waste Trading Among Rich Nations: Building a New Theory of Environmental Regulation
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2001
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Elizabeth DeSombre, Colby College
Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy
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1998
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Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of Southern California
Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability (SUNY Press, 1997)
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1998
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George Gonzalez, University of Miami
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1998
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Robert Vos, University of Southern California
Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability (SUNY Press, 1997)
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1996
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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)
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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.
2022
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Michael Lerner, London School of Economics and Political Science
"Green Catalysts? The Impact of Transnational Advocacy on Environmental Policy Leadership"
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2021
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Alexander Gard-Murray, University of Oxford
“Splitting the Check: A Political Economy of Climate Change Policy”
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2020
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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
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2019
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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."
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2018
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Gregory Thaler, University of Georgia
“Forest Governance and Global Development: The Land Sparing Fallacy in Brazil and Indonesia.” Cornell University
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2017
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Yue (Iza) Ding, University of Pittsburgh
"Invisible Sky, Visible State: Environmental Governance and Political Support in China."
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2016
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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
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2015
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Stefan Renckens, University of Toronto
"Regulating Transnational Private Governance: Domestic Interests, Market Fragmentation, and Institutional Fit in the European Union."
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2014
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Alexander Ovodenko, Princeton University
"Pathways of Cooperation: Integrated and Unintegrated International Environmental Governance." 2013
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2013
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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."
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2012
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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)
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2012
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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)
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2011
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Jessica Green, Case Western Reserve University
Private Actors, Public Goods: Private Authority in Global Environmental Politics
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2010
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Jennifer Bussell, University of Louisville
Resisting Reform: Technological Backwardness in Political Perspective
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2009
2008
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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”
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2006
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Sangbum Shin, University of Oregon
"From Red to Green: Economic Globalization and Environmental Protection in China"
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2005
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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).
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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.
2022
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Edella Schlager, University of Arizona
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2021
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Peter May, University of Washington
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2020
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Aseem Prakash, University of Washington
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2019
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Thomas Bernauer, ETH Zurich
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2018
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Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon
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2017
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David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley
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2016
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Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University
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2015
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Helen Ingram, University of California, Irvine (Emeritus)
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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.
2022
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Hontao Yi, Ohio State University
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2021
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Patrick Bayer, University of Strathclyde
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2021
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Gwen Arnold, University of California, Davis
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2020
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Mark T. Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara
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2019
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Jonas Meckling, University of California, Berkeley
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2018
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Rachel Krause, University of Kansas
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2017
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Jessica Green, New York University
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2016
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Graeme Auld, Carleton University
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2015
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David Konisky, Georgetown University
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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.
2022
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Alice Xu, Harvard University
“The Political Origins of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 2000-2012,” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of APSA, 2021.
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2021
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Saad Bulzar, Stanford University
“Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas.” Paper Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
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2021
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Apoorva Lal, Stanford University
“Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas.” Paper Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
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2021
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Benjamin Pasquale, Independent Researcher
“Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas.” Paper Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
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2020
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Eric Merkley, University of Toronto
Are Experts (News)Worthy? Balance, Conflict and Mass Media Coverage of Expert Consensus. APSA 2019 Conference, Washington, D.C.
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2019
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Debra Javeline, University of Notre Dame
“Does It Matter if You “Believe” in Climate Change? The Example of Coastal Home Vulnerability.”
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2019
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Tracy Kijewski-Correa, University of Notre Dame
“Does It Matter if You “Believe” in Climate Change? The Example of Coastal Home Vulnerability.”
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2019
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Angela Chesler, University of Notre Dame
“Does It Matter if You “Believe” in Climate Change? The Example of Coastal Home Vulnerability.”
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2018
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Nikita Sinha, University of California, Davis
“Understanding Local Fracking Regulatory Stringency.”
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2018
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Michael Bybee, University of California, Davis
“Understanding Local Fracking Regulatory Stringency.”
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2018
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Madeline Gottlieb, University of California, Davis
“Understanding Local Fracking Regulatory Stringency.”
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2018
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Le And Nguyen Long, University of California, Davis
“Understanding Local Fracking Regulatory Stringency.”
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2018
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Gwen Arnold, University of California, Davis
“Understanding Local Fracking Regulatory Stringency.”
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2017
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Shiran Shen, Stanford University
"The Inconvenient Truth of the Political Pollution Cycle: Theory and Evidence from Chinese Prefectures."
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2016
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Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015
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2016
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Heather Hodges, Reed College
Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015
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2016
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Matthew Wibbenmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015
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2016
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Andrew J. Plantinga, University of California, Santa Barbara
Salience of Wildfire Risks and the Management of Public Lands.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2015
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2015
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Elizabeth A. Albright, Duke University
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2015
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Deserai A. Crow, University of Colorado, Boulder "Learning Processes, Public and Stakeholder Engagement: Analyzing Responses to Colorado's Extreme Flood Events of 2013."
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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
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Juhi Huda, University of Colorado Boulder
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2019
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Jongeun You, University of Colorado Denver
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