| 2018 | Wallace Oats, University of Maryland
Fiscal Federalism. Harcourt Brace, 1972. |
| 2017 | Barry G. Rabe, University of Michigan
Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy. Brookings Institution Press, 2004. |
| 2016 | Joseph F. Zimmerman, University at Albany, SUNY
Interstate Relations: The Neglected Dimension of Federalism. Praeger, 1996. |
| 2015 | Nancy Burns, University of Michigan
The Formation of American Local Governments: Private Values in Public Institutions. Oxford University Press, 1994. |
| 2014 | Robert Agranoff, Indiana University, Bloomington
Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Government. Georgetown University Press, 2004 |
| 2014 | Michael McGuire, Indiana University
Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Government. Georgetown University Press, 2004 |
| 2013 | Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University
Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy (Cornell University Press, 1998) |
| 2012 | Donald Haider, Northwestern University
When Governments Come to Washington: Governors, Mayors, and Intergovernmental Lobbying (Free Press, 1974) |
| 2011 | Alice Rivlin, Brookings Institution
Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States, and the Federal Government |
| 2010 | Paul Peterson, Harvard University
The Price of Federalism |
| 2009 | Ronald Watts, Queen's University
Comparing Federal Systems (McGill-Queen's University Press 1997) |
| 2006 | Martha Derthick, University of Virginia
New Towns, In Town: Why a Federal Program Failed (Urban Institute, 1972) |
| 2005 | Richard Simeon, University of Toronto
Federal-Provincial Diplomacy (University of Toronto Press, 1972) |
| 2004 | William Riker, University of Rochester
Federalism: Origin, Operation, Significance (Little, Brown & Co., 1964) |
| 2003 | Thomas Anton, Brown University
American Federalism and Public Policy: How the System Works (1989) |
| 2002 | Samuel Beer, Harvard University
To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of Federalism (Belnap Press of Harvard University, 1993) |
| 2001 | Ivo Duchacek, City College of New York
Comparative Federalism: The Territorial Dimension of Politics (Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1970) |
| 2000 | David Walker, University of Connecticut
Toward a Functioning Federalism (Winthrop Publishers, 1981) |
| 1999 | Vincent Ostrom, Indiana University
The Political Theory of the Compound Republic (Public Choice, 1971) |
| 1998 | Timothy Conlan, George Mason University
New Federalism: Intergovernmental Reform and Political Change from Nixon to Reagan (Brookings Institution, 1988) |
| 1997 | Deil Wright, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Understanding Intergovernmental Relations (Harcourt, 1988) |
| 1996 | Morton Grodzins, University of Chicago
The American System |
| 1995 | Daniel Elazar, Temple University and Bar Ilan University
American Federalism: A View from the States (Harpercollins, 1984) |