Organized Section 20: Luebbert Best Book Award
Comparative Politics Section Award Recipients
Luebbert Best Book Award
The Luebbert Book Award is given for the best book in the field of comparative politics published in the previous two years.
| 2017 | Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University Nations Under God. Princeton University, 2015. |
| 2016 | Michael Albertus, University of Chicago Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform. Cambridge University Press 2015 |
| 2016 | Catherine Boone, London School of Economics Property and Political Order in Africa: Land Rights and the Structure of Politics. Cambridge University Press 2014 |
| 2015 | Tariq Thachil, Yale University Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India. Cambridge University Press, 2014 |
| 2015 | Honorable Mention Melani Cammett, Harvard University Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon. Cornell University Press, 2014 |
| 2014 | Susan Stokes, Yale University Brokers, Voters and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013) |
| 2014 | Thad Dunning, University of California, Berkeley Brokers, Voters and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013) |
| 2014 | Marcelo Nazareno, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina Brokers, Voters and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013) |
| 2014 | Valeria Brusco, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina Brokers, Voters and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013) |
| 2014 | Honorable Mention Leonardo Arriola, University of California, Berkeley Multi-ethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns (Cambridge University Press, 2012) |
| 2014 | Honorable Mention Pablo Beramendi, Duke University The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution (Cambridge University Press, 2012) |
| 2013 | Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance Formation in Civil Wars (Cambridge University Press 2012) |
| 2012 | Jeffrey Winters, Northwestern University Oligarchy (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
| 2012 | Alan Jacobs, University of British Columbia Governing for the Long Terms: Democracy and the Politics of Investment (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
| 2011 | James Mahoney, Northwestern University Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective |
| 2010 | Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011) |
| 2010 | James Habyarimana, Georgetown University Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011). |
| 2010 | Daniel Posner, University of California, Los Angeles Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011). |
| 2010 | Jeremy Weinstein, Stanford University Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011). |
| 2009 | Raymond Duch, University of Oxford The Economic Vote (Cambridge University Press, 2008) |
| 2009 | Randolph Stevenson, Rice University The Economic Vote (Cambridge University Press, 2008). |
| 2008 | Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006) |
