Given annually for the best book published on government, politics or international affairs.

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
1947	Robert M. MacIver	The Web of Government	Macmillan Company
1948	Leonard D. White	The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History	Macimllan Company
1949	V.O. Key	Southern Politics in State and Nation	Yale University Press
1950	Stephen K. Bailey	Congress Makes a Law	Columbia University Press
1951	John B. Herz	Political Realism and Political Idealism	University of Chicago Press
1952	Samuel Lubbell	The Future of American Politics	Harper & Row
1953	Clinton Rossiter	Seedtime of the Republic	Brace & Company
1954	Bertram M. Gross	The Legislative Struggle: A Study in Social Combat	McGraw-Hill Book Company
1955	Jacobus ten Broek, Edward N. Barnhart, and Floyd W. Matson	Prejudice, War, and the Constitution	University of California Press
1956	Louis Hartz	The Liberal Tradition in America	Harcourt, Brace and Company
1957	James MacGregor Burns	The Lion and the Fox	Harcourt, Brace and Company
1958	Henry A. Kissinger	Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy	Harper & Row
	Rexford G. Tugwell	The Democratic Roosevelt	Doubleday and Company
1959	Christian Bay	The Structure of Freedom	Stanford University Press
	James S. Coleman	Nigeria: Background to Nationalism	University of California
1960	Arnold Brecht	Political Theory	Princeton University Press
1961	Richard Neustadt	Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership	John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
1962	Robert A. Dahl	Who Governs?	Yale University Press
1963	Inis L. Claude	Power and International Relations	Random House
1964	Raymond A. Bauer, Ithiel de Sola Pool, and Anthony Lewis Dexter	American Business and Public Policy	Atherton Press
1965	Robert E. Agger, Daniel Goldrich, and Bert E. Swanson	The Rulers and the Ruled	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
	Samuel J. Eldersveld	Political Parties: A Behavioral Analysis	Rand McNally
1966	Samuel H. Beer	British Politics in the Collectivist Age	Alfred A. Knopf
1967	Barrington Moore, Jr.	Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy	Beacon Press
1968	Duncan MacRae, Jr.	Parliament, Parties, and Society in France, 1946-1958	St. Martin's Press
1969	Robert G. Dixon, Jr.	Democratic Representation	Oxford University Press
1970	David Butler and Donald E. Stokes	Political Change in Britain	St. Martin's Press
1971	Ted Robert Gurr	Why Men Rebel	Princeton University Press
1972	David E. Apter	Choice and the Politics of Allocation	Yale University Press
1973	Michael Brecher	The Foreign Policy System of Israel: Setting, Images, Processes	Yale University Press
1974	Robert A. Scalapino and Chong-sik Lee	Communism in Korea	University of California Press
1975	Hugh Heclo	Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden	Yale University Press
1976	Robert A. Alford	Health Care Politics	University of Chicago Press
1977	Norman H. Nie, Sidney Verba, and John R. Petrocik	The Changing American Voter	Harvard University Press
1978	Charles E. Lindblom	Politics and Markets	Basic Books
1979	Richard F. Fenno, Jr.	Home Style	Little Brown
1980	Leslie H. Gelb with Richard K. Betts	The Irony of Vietnam	Brookings Institution
1981	John P. Gaventa	Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley	University of Illinois Press
1982	Paul E. Peterson	City Limits	University of Chicago Press
1983	G. Bingham Powell	Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability, and Violence	Harvard University Press
1984	George Th. Mavrogordatos	Stillborn Republic: Social Coalitions and Party Strategies in Greece, 1922-1936	University of California Press
1985	Barry R. Posen	The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain and Germany between the World Wars	Cornell University Press
1986	Peter Katzenstein	Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe	Cornell University Press
1987	Philip E. Converse and Roy Pierce	Political Representation in France	Harvard University Press
	Peter Hall	Governing the Economy	Oxford University Press
1988	Robert Gilpin	The Political Economy of International Relations	Princeton University Press
1989	Larry Bartels	Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice	Princeton University Press
1990	Robert A. Dahl	Democracy and Its Critics	Yale University Press
1991	Charles E. Lindblom	Inquiry and Change	Yale University Press/Russell Sage Foundation
1992	Paul M. Sniderman, Richard A. Brody, and Philip E. Tetlock	Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology	Cambridge University Press
1993	Theda Skocpol	Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States	The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
1994	Carol M. Swain	Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress	Harvard University Press
1995	Beth A. Simmons	Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years	Princeton University Press
1996	Herbert Kitschelt	The Radical Right in Western Europe	University of Michigan Press
1997	Jane Junn, Norman Nie, and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry	Education and Democratic Citizenship in America	University of Chicago Press
1998	Gary W. Cox	Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems	Cambridge University Press
1999	Rodney E. Hero	Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics	Oxford University Press
2000	Barry O'Neill	Honor, Symbols, and War	University of Michigan Press
2001	Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi	Democracy and Development	Cambridge University Press
2002	Tali Mendelberg	The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality	Princeton University Press
2003	Mark Beissinger	Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State	Cambridge University Press
2004	Martha Finnemore	The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force	Cornell University Press
2005	Kathleen Thelan	How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan	Cambridge University Press
	Steven I. Wilkinson	Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India	Cambridge University Press
2006	Philip E. Tetlock	Expert Political Judgement: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?	Oxford University Press