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Comparative Politics (Section 20)

The purpose of this section is to promote the comparative, especially cross-national, study of politics and to integrate work of comparativists, area studies specialists, and those interested in American politics.

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Section awards are presented during the APSA annual meeting awards ceremony. To learn more about any award listed, contact the award committee chair for the award.

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Luebbert Book Prize

There is a two-tier process of selection for the Luebbert book prize. Books with a copyright date of 2021 and 2022 are eligible.  Physical copies of nominated books should be sent to each member of the shortlisting committee by March 15. We will be in touch with authors whose books have been shortlisted. They will need to coordinate with their presses to make additional copies of their shortlisted books available to each of the three members of the selection committee.

 Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2023

Name Affiliation Email Address Address
Short Listing Committee     Please send nominated books to Stathis Kalyvas, Yanilda Gonzalez, and Julia Lynch
Stathis Kalyvas (Chair) University of Oxford Stathis.Kalyvas@politics.ox.ac.uk 8 Hughes Place 3E
New Haven, CT 06511
Yanilda Gonzalez Harvard University yanilda_gonzalez@hks.harvard.edu Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
124 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Julia Lynch University of Pennsylvania jflynch@sas.upenn.edu

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Final Selection Committee      
Daniel Ziblatt (Chair) Harvard University Dziblatt@g.harvard.edu  
Liz Nugent Princeton University enugent@princeton.edu  
 Mary Gallagher University of Michigan metg@umich.edu  

Luebbert Article Prize

Awarded annually for the best article published in the field of comparative politics during the previous two years. Nominations should be sent to the chair. Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2023

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email
Nicholas Sambanis (Chair) The University of Pennsylvania    Sambanis@sas.upenn.edu
Sebastian Mazzuca Johns Hopkins University  smazzuca@jhu.edu
Gerald Schneider University of Konstanz Gerald.Schneider@uni-konstanz.de

Sage Paper Prize

Awarded to the best paper in comparative politics presented at the 2022 meeting of the American Political Science Association. Nominations should be submitted directly to the chair. Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2023

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email
Macartan Humphreys (Chair) Columbia University & WZB Berlin Social Science Center Mh2245@columbia.edu
Donghyun Danny Choi Brown University Dannychoi@brown.edu
Martin Dimitriov Tulane University mdimitro@tulane.edu

Lijphart/Przeworksi/Verba Dataset Award

Awarded annually to a publicly-available dataset in the field of comparative politics. Nominations (including self-nominations) should be submitted directly to the chair. Please include a nomination letter, instructions on accessing the data set, and any publications or documents describing the data set. Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2023

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email
Simon Hix (Chair) European University Institute Simon.hix@eui.eu
Mathias Poertner London School of Economics and Political Science  m.poertner@lse.ac.uk
Hillel Soifer Temple University hsoifer@temple.edu

Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholars

Awarded to a scholar up to ten years post-PhD whose work has made impactful empirical, theoretical and/or methodological contributions to the study of comparative politics. Nominations should be sent to the chair and include a CV of the nominee and a letter commenting on the nominee's work and making the case why they should get the award. Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2023

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email
Anna Grzymala-Busse (Chair) Stanford University amgbusse@stanford.edu
Alisha Holland Harvard University aholland@fas.harvard.edu
Thomas Pepinsky Cornell University Pepinsky@cornell.edu

Bingham Powell Mentoring Award

This prize, introduced in 2012, will be awarded on a bi-annual basis to a political scientist who throughout his or her career has demonstrated a particularly outstanding commitment to the mentoring of graduate students in comparative politics. The prize was named in honor of G. Bingham Powell and was initiated by his students. Nomination letters for the G. Bingham Powell graduate mentoring award should include but go beyond the academic achievements of the nominee, and provide information about the role the nominee has played in advancing the intellectual development and research careers of their mentees. Testimonials from a few former mentees can be included in the nomination letter, which should not exceed five pages. Nomination letters should be sent to the three committee members. Deadline for nominations: TBD

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