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1994

Book Award

Committee: Michael Allen, Margaret Levi, Aristide Zolberg

       Gregory M. Luebbert,  Liberalism, Fascism, or Social Democracy:  Social Classes and the Political Origins of Regimes in Interwar Europe (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1991).

       Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier, Shaping the Political Arena:  Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1991).


1995

Luebbert Book Award

Committee: Frances Rosenbluth (chair), Catherine Boone, Kaare Strom

       Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1993).


1996

Luebbert Book Award

Committee (book and article): James Alt (chair), Ruth Collier, Barry Weingast

    Crawford Young, The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1994).

Luebbert Article Award

    David Laitin, "The Tower of Babel as a Coordination Game:  Political Linguistics in Ghana," American Political Science Review 88, No. 3 (September 1994):  622-634.


1997

Luebbert Book Award

Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).

Runners-Up, Book Award

Barbara Geddes, Politician's Dilemma:  Building State Capacity in Latin America (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1994).

Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement:  Social Movements, Collective Action, and Politics (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Luebbert Article Award

 

George Tsebelis, "Decision Making in Political Systems:  Veto Players and Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multi-Cameralism, and Multipartism," British Journal of Political Science 25, No. 3 (July 1995):  289-325.

Runners-Up, Article Award

Jonas Pontusson, "Explaining the Decline of European Social Democracy:  The Role of Structural Change," World Politics 47, No. 4 (July 1995):  495-533.

Sylvia Maxfield, "Financial Incentives and Central Bank Authority in Industrializing Nations," World Politics 46,No. 4 (July 1994):  556-589.

Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle, "Neopatrimonial Regimes and Political Transitions in Africa," World Politics 46, No. 4 (July 1994):  453-489.


1998

Luebbert Book Award

Committee: Jeffry Frieden (chair), Michael Shafer, Samuel Popkin

    J. Mark Ramseyer and Frances M. Rosenbluth, The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1995).

  Runners-Up, Book Award

    Miriam Golden, Heroic Defeats:  The Politics of Job Loss (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1997).

    John Huber, Rationalizing Parliament:  Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1995).

    Stathis N. Kalyvas, The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1996).

Luebbert Article Award

Committee: Gary Cox (chair), Susan Whiting, Arun Agrawal

      James D. Fearon and David Laitin, "Explaining Interethnic Cooperation," American Political Science Review 90, No. 4 (December 1996):  715-735.

Runners-Up, Article Award

Geoffrey Garrett and Peter Lange, "Internationalization, Institutions and Political Change," International Organization 49, No. 4 (Autumn 1995):  627-55.

Kathryn Firmin-Sellers, "The Politics of Property Rights," American Political Science Review 89, No. 4 (1995): 867-881.

Arthur Lupia and Kaare Strom, "Coalition Termination and the Strategic Timing of Parliamentary Elections," American Political Science Review 89, No. 3 (September 1995):  648-668.

 

Sage Paper Award

Committee: Desmond King (chair), Peter Gourevitch, Allan Kornberg

       Isabela Mares, "Negotiated Risks:  Employers and the Development of Unemployment Insurance."

       Duane Swank, "Funding the Welfare State, Part I."


1999

Luebbert Book Award

Committee: Mark Beissinger (chair), Robert Jackman, Jennifer Widner

       Gary W. Cox, Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

Luebbert Article Award

Committee: Scott Mainwaring (chair), Timothy Frye, Thomas Callaghy

    Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi, "Modernization: Theories and Facts,"  World Politics 49, No. 2 (January 1997): 155-183.

  Runners-Up, Article Award

    Edward L. Gibson, "The Populist Road to Market Reform:  Policy and Electoral Coalitions in Mexico and Argentina." World Politics 49, No. 3 (April 1997):  339-370.

    Pradeep Chhibber and Mariano Torcal, "Elite Strategy, Social Cleavages, and Party Systems in a New Democracy:  Spain."  Comparative Political Studies 30, No. 1 (February 1997): 27-54.

    Stephen N. Ndegwa, "Citizenship and Ethnicity:  An Examination of Two Transition Moments in Kenyan Politics."  American Political Science Review 91, No. 3 (September 1997):  599-616.

Sage Paper Award

Committee: Barbara Geddes (chair), Michael Bratton, Kathleen Thelen

    Joel S. Hellman, "Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform."


2000

Luebbert Book Award

Committee: Nicolas Van de Walle (chair), Bernard N. Grofman, Paul Pierson

    David D. Laitin, Identity in Formation:  The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998).

  Runners-Up, Book Award

    Geoffrey Garrett, Partisan Politics in the Global Economy (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1998).

      Ronald Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization:  Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1997).

      James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State:  How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1998).

 

Luebbert Article Award

Committee: Steven Fish (chair), Evelyne Huber, John D. Huber

  Peter A. Hall and Robert J. Franzese, Jr., "Mixed Signals:  Central Bank Independence, Coordinated Wage-Bargaining, and European Monetary Union," International Organization 52, No. 3 (Summer 1998):  505-535.

  Runners-Up, Article Award

    H. E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, "A Theory of Sultanism," in H. E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, eds., Sultanistic Regimes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).

   Torsten Persson, Gerard Roland, and Guido Tabellini, "Separation of Powers and Political Accountability," Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, No. 4 (November 1997): 1163-1202.

    Kurt Weyland, "Swallowing the Bitter Pill: Sources of Popular Support for Neoliberal Reform in Latin America," Comparative Political Studies 31, No. 5 (October 1998): 539-568.

Sage Paper Award

Committee: Jean C. Oi (chair), Edward L. Gibson, Rui de Figueiredo

  Torben Iversen and Thomas R. Cusack, "The Causes of Welfare State Expansion: Deindustrialization or Globalization?"

Data Set Award

Committee: Jennifer Widner (chair), Barry Ames, Peter Lange

      Michael J. Coppedge, for Data Sets on Polyarchy and on Latin American Political Parties

      Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba, for the Civic Culture Data Set


2001

Luebbert Book Award

Committee: Geoffrey Garrett, Stephen Haggard, Jeff Herbst (chair)

      Alexander Hicks, Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism:  A Century of Income Security Policies (Cornell, 1999)

  Runners-up Book Award

        Torben Iversen, Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies (Cambridge, 1999).

        Daniel S. Treisman, After the Deluge:  Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia (Michigan, 1999).

Luebbert Article Award

Committee: Adam Przeworski (chair), Matthew Evangelista, Bjorn Erik Rasch

      Kalyvas, Stathis N. 1999. "Wanton and Senseless? The Logic of Massacres in Algeria." Rationality and Society,11(3): 243-285.      

Runners-up Article Award

        Dion, Douglas. 1998. "Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study." Comparative Politics 30:2 (January): 127-145.

        Tsebelis, George. 1999. "Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis." American Political Science Review, 93:3 (September 1999): 591-608.

Sage Paper Award

Committee: Peter Hall (chair), Wendy Hunter, Jim Robinson

  Barbara Geddes. “Authoritarian Breakdown: Empirical Test of a Game Theoretic Argument.”

Runners-up Paper Award

  Daniel Treisman. “Decentralization and Corruption: Why Are Federal States Perceived to Be More Corrupt?”

Data Set Award

Committee: Jennifer Widner (chair), Ian McAllister, Michael Coppedge

The collectivity of scholars who have gathered the data for the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.  Ashley Grosse, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Director of Studies. <http://www.umich.edu/~nes/cses/cses.htm>


2002

Luebbert Book Award; Co-Winners

Committee: Ben Schneider (chair), Roger Petersen, Pradeep Chhibber

    Stefano Bartolini. 2000. The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980: The Class Cleavage. Cambridge University Press.

    Jeffrey Herbst. 2000. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton University Press.

Luebbert Article Award

Committee: Torben Iversen (chair), Stathis Kalyvas, Elisabeth Wood

      Nicholas Sambanis, “Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature,” World Politics, 52 (4).        

  Runners-up,  Article Award

        Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini, “The Size and Scope of Government: Comparative Politics with Rational Politicians," European Economic Review, 43: 4-6 (April 1999): 699-735.

        David Rueda and Jonas Pontusson. 2000. "Wage Inequalities and the Varieties of Capitalism," World Politics, 52 (3) (April): 350-83.

       Michael Wallerstein.  1999.  “Wage-Setting Institutions and Pay Inequality in Advanced Industrial Societies.” American Journal of Political Science, 43 (3): 649-80.

Sage Paper Award

Committee: Barry Ames (chair), Carles Boix, Anthony Marx

    Alberto Dias-Cayeros, Beatriz Magaloni, and Barry R. Weingast. “Federalism and Democratization in Mexico.”

 

Data Set Award

Committee: Robert Franzese (chair), David Brown, Chris Anderson

    Ronald Inglehart, for the World Values Survey/Eurobarometers Data Set.


2003

Luebbert Book Award

Committee: Peter Gourevitch (chair), Victoria Murillo and Frances Rosenbluth.

Isabela Mares, The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Luebbert Article Award

Committee: Peter Swenson (chair), Stephen Hanson and Beatriz Magaloni.


Isabela Mares, “The Sources of Business Interest in Social Insurance: Sectoral versus National Sifferences”, World Politics, 55:2 (2002): 229-258.

Sage Paper Award

Committee: Michael Lewis-Beck (chair), Scott Mainwaring and Eva Bellin.


Daniel Posner, “The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi”

Data Set Award

Committee: G. Bingham Powell (chair), Pippa Norris and Chris Way.


Michael Bratton, E. Gyimah-Boadi and Robert Mattes for the Afrobarometer.



2004

Luebbert Book Award

Committee: Jeffrey Kopstein (chair), Ashutosh Varshney, Barry Ames


Elisabeth Wood, Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador. Cambridge University Press.

Runners-up:

Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman, The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States. Princeton University Press.

Kathleen Thelen, How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan. Cambridge University Press.

Luebbert Article Award


Committee: Edward Gibson (Chair), Pauline Jones Luong, George Tsebelis

Co-Winners

Ernesto Calvo and Maria Victoria Murillo, "Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market." American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, October 2004, pp. 742-757.

Scott J. Basinger and Mark Hallerberg, "Remodeling the Competition for Capital: How Domestic Politics Erases the Race to the Bottom." American Political Science Review, Vol. 98, No. 2, May 2004.

Sage Paper Award


Committee: J. Nicholas Ziegler (Chair), Daniel N. Posner, Carol A. Mershon

Co-Winners

Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy M. Weinstein, "Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War:  Determinants of the Strategies of Warring Factions."

Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li, "Popular Contention and its Impact in Rural China."

Data Set Award


Committee: Lane Kenworthy (Chair), Thomas Cusack, Nicholas Sambanis


Timothy Smeeding and Lee Rainwater for the Luxembourg Income Study


2005

 

Luebbert Book Award

Committee: James Mahoney (Chair), Liesbet Hooghe, Steven I. Wilkinson


Daniel Posner, Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Luebbert Article Award


Committee: Maria Victoria Murillo (Chair), Kanchan Chandra, Kevin J. O'Brien

Tulia Falleti, "A Sequential Theory of Decentralization: Latin American Cases in Comparative Perspective," American Political Science Review 99:3 (August 2005).

Sage Paper Award


Committee: David Laitin (Chair), Kenneth M. Roberts, Mark Hallerberg

Margarita Estevez-Abe, "Labor Markets, Public Policies and Gender Equality: The Varieties of Capitalism Perspective and Beyond."

Honorable Mention: James Gibson, "Land Inequality and Squatting in South Africa: Judging Historical Injustice."

Data Set Award


Committee: Philip A. Schrodt (Chair), Russell J. Dalton, Lyle A. Scruggs

David Cingranelli and David Richards, the CIRI Human Rights Dataset


2006

 

Luebbert Book Award

Committee: Karen Alter (chair), T.J. Pempel, Sunita Parikh


Jonathan Rodden, Hamilton's Paradox: The Promise and Perils of Fiscal Federalism (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Luebbert Article Award


Committee: Robert Rohrschneider (chair), Mitchell Seligson, Devra Moehler

Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein, "Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War," American Political Science Review  100, 3: 429-447.

and

Torben Iversen and David Soskice, "Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Distribute More than Others," American Political Science Review 100, 2: 154-181.

Sage Paper Award


Committee: Chris Anderson (chair), Yoshiko Herrera, David S. Brown

Lily L. Tsai, "Informal Institutions, Accountability, and Public Goods Provision in Rural China."

Data Set Award


Committee: Kaare Strom (chair), Johanna Birnir, Kenneth Scheve

Ronald A. Francisco, Events Dataset on European Protest and Coercion

 

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