| 2023 |
Didac Queralt, Yale University
Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance. Princeton University Press, 2022. |
| 2023 |
Calla Hummel, University of Miami
When Informal Workers Organize. Oxford University Press, 2021. |
| 2022 |
Andreas Wiedemann, Princeton University
Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies, Cambridge University Press, 2021. |
| 2022 |
Honorable Mention
Bryn Rosenfeld, Cornell University
The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2020.
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| 2021 |
Anne Meng, University of Virginia
Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes. Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| 2021 |
Honorable Mention
Guillermo Trejo, University of Notre Dame
Votes, Drugs and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico. Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| 2021 |
Honorable Mention
Sandra Ley, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
Votes, Drugs and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico. Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| 2020 |
Isabela Mares, Yale University
Conditionality and Coercion: Electoral Clientelism in Eastern Europe. Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| 2020 |
Lauren Young, University of California, Davis
Conditionality and Coercion: Electoral Clientelism in Eastern Europe. Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| 2019 |
Avidit Acharya, Stanford University
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics. Princeton University Press, 2018. |
| 2019 |
Matthew Blackwell, Harvard University
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics. Princeton University Press, 2018. |
| 2019 |
Maya Sen, Harvard University
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics. Princeton University Press, 2018. |
| 2018 |
Mark Dincecco, University of Michigan
From Warfare to Wealth: The Military Origins of Urban Prosperity in Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
| 2018 |
Massimiliano Onorato, Catholic University, Milan
From Warfare to Wealth: The Military Origins of Urban Prosperity in Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
| 2017 |
Gary W. Cox, Stanford University
Marketing Sovereign Promosies: Monopoly Brokerage and the Growth of the English State. Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| 2017 |
Honorable Mention
Kate Baldwin, Yale University
The Paradox of traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
| 2016 |
David Skarbek, King's College London
The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System. Oxford University Press, 2014 |
| 2016 |
Honorable Mention
Megumi Naoi, University of California, San Diego
Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia: Globalization as Legislation, Cambridge University Press 2015 |
| 2016 |
Honorable Mention
David A. Steinberg, Johns Hopkins University
Demanding Devaluation: Exchange Rate Politics in the Developing World, Cornell University Press, 2015. |
| 2015 |
Ben Ansell, University of Oxford
Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach. Cambridge 2014 |
| 2015 |
David Samuels, University of Minnesota
Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach. Cambridge 2014 |
| 2015 |
Honorable Mention
Jonathan Caverley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Democratic Militarism: Voting, Wealth, and War. Cambridge 2014 |
| 2015 |
Honorable Mention
James Vreeland, Georgetown University
The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council: Money and Influence. Cambridge, 2014 |
| 2015 |
Honorable Mention
Axel Dreher, Heidelberg University
The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council: Money and Influence. Cambridge, 2014 |
| 2014 |
William Howell, University of Chicago
The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat (University of Chicago Press, 2013) |
| 2014 |
Saul Jackman, Stanford University
The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat (University of Chicago Press, 2013) |
| 2014 |
Jon Rogowski, Washington University in St. Louis
The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat (University of Chicago Press, 2013) |
| 2014 |
Honorable Mention
Daniel Gingerich, University of Virginia
"Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America: Stealing for the Team." |
| 2013 |
Sean Gailmard, University of California, Berkeley
Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch (University of Chicago Press, 2012) |
| 2013 |
John Patty, Washington University
Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch (University of Chicago Press, 2012) |
| 2012 |
Tom Clark, Emory University
The Limits of Judicial Independence (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
| 2012 |
Honorable Mention
Jonathan Bendor, Stanford University
A Behavioral Theory of Elections (Princeton University Press) |
| 2012 |
Honorable Mention
Daniel Diermeier, Northwestern University
A Behavioral Theory of Elections (Princeton University Press) |
| 2012 |
Honorable Mention
David Siegel, Florida State University
A Behavioral Theory of Elections (Princeton University Press) |
| 2012 |
Honorable Mention
Michael Ting, Columbia University
A Behavioral Theory of Elections (Princeton University Press) |
| 2012 |
Honorable Mention
David Stasavage, New York University
States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities (Princeton University Press, 2011) |
| 2011 |
Ben Ansell, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
"From The Ballot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive Political Economy of Education" |
| 2010 |
Orit Kedar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Voting for Policy, Not Parties: How Voters Compensate for Power Sharing |
| 2009 |
Bonnie Meguid, University of Rochester
Party Competition Between Unequals (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2008 |
Jeremy Weinstein, Stanford University
Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2007) |
| 2007 |
James Robinson, Harvard University
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy |
| 2007 |
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy |
| 2006 |
Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Bloomington
Understanding Institutional Diversity (Princeton University Press, 2005) |
| 2005 |
Fiona McGillivray, New York University
Privileging Industry: The Comparative Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy (Princeton University Press, 2004) |
| 2004 |
Carles Boix, University of Chicago
Democracy and Redistribution (Cambridge University Press, 2003) |
| 2003 |
Michael Hiscox, Harvard University
International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions and Mobility (Princeton: Princeton University Press) |
| 2003 |
John Huber, Columbia University
Deliberate Discretion?: The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy |
| 2003 |
Charles Shipan, University of Iowa
Deliberate Discretion?: The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2002) |
| 2002 |
Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State |
| 2002 |
John Stephens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State |
| 2002 |
Gene Grossman
Special Interest Politics (MIT Press, 2001) |
| 2002 |
Elhanan Helpman
Special Interest Politics (MIT Press, 2001) |
| 2001 |
Charles Cameron, Columbia University
Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power (Cambridge University Press, 2000) |
| 2000 |
Robert Powell, University of California at Berkley
In the Shadow of Power (Princeton University Press, 1999) |
| 1999 |
Carles Boix, Ohio State University
Political Parties, Growth, and Equality: Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1998) |
| 1998 |
Gary Cox, University of California, San Diego
Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems (Cambridge University Press, 1997) |
| 1997 |
Kenneth Shepsle, Harvard University
Making and Breaking Governments (Cambridge University Press, 1996) |
| 1997 |
Michael Laver, Trinity College, Dublin
Making and Breaking Governments (Cambridge University Press, 1996) |
| 1996 |
Donald Wittman, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient (University of Chicago Press, 1996) |
| 1995 |
Beth Simmons, Duke University
Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years (Princeton University Press, 1993) |
| 1994 |
Sven Steinmo, University of Colorado
Taxation and Democracy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993) |
| 1993 |
Dennis Chong, Northwestern University
Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991) |
| 1992 |
Alice Amsden, New School for Social Research
Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization (Oxford University Press, 1992) |
| 1992 |
Robert Wade, University of Sussex
Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization (Princeton University Press, 1990) |
| 1991 |
Ronald Rogowski, University of California at Los Angeles
Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments (Princeton University Press, 1990) |