Harold D. Lasswell Award Winners

For the best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted during that year or the previous year in the field of policy studies. Supported by the Policy Studies Organization and the APSA Organized Section on Policy Studies.

Year	Author	Dissertation	Submitted by
1985	Bruce W. Jentleson	Pipeline Politics: The Alliance and Domestic Politics of American Economic Coercion Against the Soviet Union	Cornell University
1986	H. Jeffrey Leonard	Pollution, Industrial Development, and the Comparative Advantage	Princeton University
1987	James D. Savage	Balanced Budgets and American Politics	University of California, Berkeley
1988		No award given
1989	Carol Hager	Technological Democracy: Bureaucracy and Citizenry in the West German Energy Debate	University of California, San Diego
	John Mark Hansen	Creating a New Politics: The Evolution of an Agricultural Policy Network in Congress, 1919-1980	Yale University
1990	Daniel J. Wirls	Defense as Domestic Politics: National Security Policy and Political Power in the 1980s	Cornell University
1991	Christopher McGrory Klyza	Patterns in Public Lands Policy: The Consequences of Ideas and the State	University of Minnesota
1992	Yu-Shan Wu	Leninist States and Property Rights: Economic Reform in the PRC	University of California, Berkeley
1993	Scott Sigmund Gartner	Strategic Assessment in War: A Bounded Rationality Model of How Organizations Evaluate Policy Effectiveness	University of Michigan
	Mark C. Rom	The Thrift Tragedy: Are Politicians and Regulators to Blame?	University of Wisconsin, Madison
1994	Steven Kent Vogel	The Politics of Regulatory Reform in the Advanced Industrial Countries	University of California, Berkeley
1995	John M. Carey	Term Limits and Legislative Representation	University of California, San Diego
1996	Robert David English	Russia Views the West: The Intellectual and Political Origins of New Thinking	Princeton University
1997	Nancy B. Shulock	Interpretive Theory of Policy Analysis	University of California, Davis
1998	Daniel P. Carpenter	Corporate Identity and Administrative Capacity in Executive Departments	University of Chicago
1999	Adria Gallup-Black	Federalism, Policy Innovation, and Welfare Reform in the American States	Columbia University
2000	Michael Harrington	Trade and Social Insurance: The Development of National Unemployment Insurance in Advanced Industrial Democracies	Harvard University
2001	Jacob Hacker	Boundary Wars: The Political Struggle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States	Yale University
2002	David H. Bradley	The Political Economy of Employment Performance: Testing the Deregulation Thesis	University of North Carolina
2003	Kristin Anne Goss	Disarmed: The Real American Gun Control Paradox	Harvard University
2004	Suzanne Christine Nielsen	Preparing for War: The Dynamics of Peacetime Military Reform	Harvard University
2005	Thad Williamson	Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship: A Philosophical and Empirical Inquiry	Harvard University
2005	Esther N. Mwangi	Institutional Change and Politics: The Transformation of Property Rights in Kenya's Maasailand	International Food Policy Research Institute
2006	Jonathan Ari Laurence	Managing Transnational Religion: Muslims and the State in Western Europe (1974-2004)	Boston College