American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Members:
1962: Lucien Pye
1970: George Rathjens
1971: Eugene Skolnikoff (PhD 1965 & faculty)
1978: Suzanne Berger
1990: Russell Hardin (PhD 1971)
1992: Howard Rosenthal (PhD 1964)
2002: Joshua Cohen
2003: Henry Brady (PhD 1980)
2005: Richard Samuels (PhD 1980 & faculty)
2007: Stephen Ansolabehere, James Snyder
MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Fellow
1982: Charles Sabel
1984: Michael J. Piore
Simon J. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellows
1961: Myron Weiner
1974: Walter Dean Burnham
1979: Suzanne Berger
1984: Michael Lipsky
1985: Robert H. Bates (PhD 1969), Deborah A. Stone (PhD 1976 & faculty)
1996: Russell Hardin (PhD 1971)
2002: Howard Rosenthal (PhD 1964)
2008: Ashutosh Varshney (PhD 1990)
American Political Science Association
ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Gladys M. Kammerer Award, for the best political science publication in that year or the previous year in the field of U.S. national policy.
1981: Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services
1984: Ithiel de Sola Pool (posthumously), Technologies of Freedom
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, for the best book published on government, politics or international affairs.
1985: Barry R. Posen, The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain and Germany between the World Wars, Cornell University Press.
Eulau Award, for the best articles published in the American Political Science Review and Perspectives on Politics during the previous calendar year.
2003: Stephen D. Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder, and Alan Gerber (Yale University), “Equal Votes, Equal Money”
Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award, for the best paper presented at the previous year's annual meeting.
1999: Charles Stewart III, “Architect or Tactician? Henry Clay and the Institutional Development of the U.S. House of Representatives”
2004: David Woodruff, “Boom, Gloom, Doom: Balance Sheets, Monetary Fragmentation, and Financial Crisis in Argentina and Russia”
Gabriel A. Almond Award, for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of comparative politics.
1978: Peter H. Lemieux, “The Liberal Party and British Political Change, 1955-74”
1987: Frances Hagopian, “The Politics of Oligarchy: The Persistence of Traditional Elites in Contemporary Brazil”
1988: David Friedman, “The Misunderstood Miracle: Politics and the Development of a Hybrid Economy in Japan”
1995: Jonah Levy, “Tocqueville's Revenge: Dilemmas of Institutional Reform in Post-Dirigiste France”
Edward S. Corwin Award, for the best dissertation in the field of public law.
1979: Irving Frederick Lefberg, “Analyzing Judicial Change: The Uses of 'Systematic Biography' in Anticipating the Court and Shaping Its Future Policies”
Harold D. Lasswell Award, for the best dissertation in the field of public policy.
2007: Vanda Felbab-Brown, “Shooting Up: The Impact of Illicit Economies on Military Conflict”
Helen Dwight Reid Award, for the best dissertation in the field of international relations, law, and politics.
1973: Richard Smoke, “Toward the Control of Escalation: An Historical Analysis”
1978: Thomas J. Biersteker, “Multinational Investments in Underdeveloped Countries: An Evaluation of Contending Perspectives”
1980: James P. Bennett, “Perpetuating Failure: Security Practices and System Transformation of Southern Pacific Transnational Politics 1830-1905”
E. E. Schattschneider Award, for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government.
1974: Lawrence E. McCray, “The Politics of Regulation: Multi-firm Trade Associations in Telecommunications Policy Making”
1983: Thomas W. Wolf, “Congressional Sea Change: Conflict and Organizational Accommodation in the House of Representatives 1878-1921”
1989: Victoria Hattam, “Unions and Politics: The Courts and American Labor: 1806-1896”
Comparative Democratization section
Leubbert Best Book Award, for the best book in the field of comparative politics published in the previous two years.
2007: Jonathan Rodden, Hamilton’s Paradox: The Promise and Perils of Fiscal Federalism
Best Field Work Award
2005: Lily Tsai, "The Informal State: Governance, Accountability, and Public Goods Provision in Rural China"
Sage Best Paper Award, for the best paper in the field of comparative politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual meeting.
2007: Lily Tsai, “Informal Institutions, Accountability, and Public Goods Provision in Rural China”
Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section
Emerging Scholar Award, awarded to the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of her or his PhD.
2007: Adam Berinsky
International History and Politics section
Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award, for the best book on international history and politics published in the previous two years.
2004: Richard Samuels, Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan (Cornell University Press, 2003)
International Security and Arms Control section
Kenneth Waltz Award, for the best dissertation in the field of international security.
2007: Boaz Atzili, "Border Fixity: When Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors"
Legislative Studies section
Jewell-Lowenberg Paper Award, for the best article in Legislative Studies Quarterly.
2002: Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder, Jr., and Charles Stewart III, "The Effects of Party and Preferences on Congressional Roll Call Voting" (2001)
Political Parties and Organizations section
Emerging Scholars Award, for significant research by a scholar receiving his or her doctorate within the past five years.
2006: Andrea L. Campbell
Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award, honoring an article or published paper of unusual significance and importance to the field.
2002: Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder Jr., and Charles Stewart III, "The Effects of Party and Preferences on Congressional Roll-Call Voting" (Legislative Studies Quarterly, 36)
Politics and History section
Mary Parker Follett Prize, for the best article on politics and history published in the previous year.
1994: Charles Stewart III , "Stacking the Senate, Changing the Nation: Republican Rotten Boroughs, Statehood Politics, and American Political Development" (with Barry Weingast, Stanford University)
Representation and Electoral Systems section
Leon Weaver Award, given for the best paper presented at a APSA Annual Meeting panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Division.
2000: Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder, Jr., and Jonathan Woon, "The Undemocratic Democracy, or Why the People of California Voted to Disenfranchise Themselves"
Urban Politics organized section
Best Paper Award, for the best paper given at an Urban Politics Section panel at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting
2002: Loren King, "Democratic Hopes in Polycentric City"
Women's Caucus for Political Science
Mentor of Distinction Award
1993: Suzanne Berger
Midwest Political Science Association
Emerging Scholar Award
2006: Adam Berinsky
Kellogg/Notre Dame Award, award for the best paper in comparative politics.
2007: David Andrew Singer
American Association of Asian Studies
John Whitney Hall Book Award, award for the best book published on Japan or Korea
1996: Richard J. Samuels
Association of American University Presses
Hiromi Arisawa Prize
1996: Richard J. Samuels
Society for Italian Historical Studies
Marraro Prize
2004: Richard J. Samuels