Organized Section 21: Best Book Award

European Politics Section Award Recipients

Best Book Award
The Best Book Award is given for the best book on European Politics and society published in the previous year

2017	Zeynep Bulutgil, Tufts University The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
2016	Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy. Princeton University Press, 2015
2015	Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity. Cambridge University Press, 2014
2015	Sara Goodman, University of California, Irvine Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2014
2014	Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice (Cambridge University Press)
2013	Pablo Beramendi, Duke University The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
2012	David Stasavage, New York University States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Politics (Princeton University Press, 2011)
2010	Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe
2010	Mareike Kleine, London School of Economics All Roads Lead Away From Rome. A Liberal Theory of International Regimes
2009	Raymond Duch, University of Oxford The Economic Vote (Cambridge University Press 2008)
2007	Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children
2007	Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism
2006	Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
2006	Torben Iversen, Harvard University Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
2005	Chip Gagnon, Ithaca College The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s. (Cornell University Press, 2004).
2004	Marc Howard, Georgetown University The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2004	Honorable Mention Isabela Mares, Stanford University "The Politics of Social Risk" (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2004	Honorable Mention Margaret Kohn, University of Florida, Gainesville "Radical Space" (Cornell University Press, 2003)
2003	Mark Beissinger, University of Wisconsin-Madison Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of Soviet State (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
2001	Stefano Bartolini The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980: The Class Cleavage (Cambridge University Press 2000)