Politics and History Section Award Recipients

J. David Greenstone Book Prize
The J. David Greenstone Book Prize recognizes the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years.

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2016	Robert Mickey, University of Michigan Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America’s Deep South, 1944-1972. Princeton University Press, 2015.
2015	Erik Engstrom, University of California, Davis Party Ballots, Reform and the Transformation of America's Electoral System. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
2015	Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego Party Ballots, Reform and the Transformation of America's Electoral System. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
2015	Adria Lawrence, Yale University Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
2014	Michele Dauber, Stanford University The Sympathetic State (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
2014	Ira Katznelson, Columbia University Fear Itself (Liveright, 2013)
2012	Julian Go, Boston University Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to Present (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
2011	James Mahoney, Northwestern University Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
2010	Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University The Motherless State: Women’s Political Leadership and American Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
2010	Anthony Chen, Northwestern University The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972 (Princeton University Press, 2009)
2009	Karen Barkey, Columbia University Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
2008	Keith Whittington, Princeton University Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History (Princeton University Press, 2007)
2007	Istvan Hont, University of Cambridge Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation State in Historical Perpective (Harvard University Press, 2005)
2007	Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge University Press)
2006	Ken Kersch, Princeton University Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
2006	Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Oxford University Press, 2005)
2005	Richard Valelly, Swarthmore College The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement (University of Chicago Press 2004)
2005	Honorable Mention Kathleen Thelen, Northwestern University How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan(Cambridge University Press, 2004)
2004	Sonja Amadae, Eugene Lange College, The New School “Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism” (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
2004	Theda Skocpol, Harvard University “Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life” (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
2003	Mounira Charrad, University of Texas, Austin States and Women's Rights: The Making of Post-Colonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco (University of California Press, 2001)
2003	Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era (Chicago University Press, 2002)