Section Prizes

1. The Best Book Award will be given to the best book on European Politics and Society published in 2011. Books to be considered for this award must be nominated by the publisher (self-nominations will not be accepted). Please send a letter of nomination and one copy of the book to each committee member by March 1, 2012.

   Book Award committee:
   Chair:

   • Giovanni Cappoccia
     Professor of Comparative Politics
     University of Oxford
     giovanni.capoccia@politics.ox.ac.uk

     PLEASE SEND BOOKS AND NOMINATIONS TO:
     c/o M. Bernhard
     Department of Political Science
     University of Florida
     PO Box 117325 Anderson Hall
     Gainesville, FL 32611

   Members:
   • Rafaela Dancygier
     Assistant Professor of Politics
     Princeton University
     Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
     434 Robertson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544
     rdancygi@Princeton.edu
   • Nicholas Jabko
     Associate Professor of Political Science
     Johns Hopkins University
     3400 N. Charles Street
     Baltimore, MD 21218
     nicolas.jabko@jhu.edu

2. The Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award
   This award will be given to the best dissertation on European Politics and Society filed in 2011 To be considered for this award, a dissertation must be nominated by the chair of the department in which it was defended (self-nominations will not be accepted). Letters of nomination and a copy of the dissertation must be sent to each member of the award committee by March 1, 2012.

   Dissertation Award committee:
   Chair:

   • David Art
     Department of Political Science
     Packard Hall, 4 The Green
     Tufts University
     Medford MA, 02155
     david.art@tufts.edu
   Members:
   • Deborah Boucoyannis
     Assistant Professor of Politics
     University of Virginia
     1540 Jefferson Park Ave (JPA)
     S187 Gibson Hall
     P.O. Box 400787
     Charlottesville, VA 22904
     dab5fw@virginia.edu
   • Monika Nalepa
     Visiting Associate Research Scholar
     Princeton University
     Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
     308A Robertson Hall
     Princeton, NJ 08544
     nalepa@Princeton.EDU

3. The Best Paper Award
   This award will be given to the best paper on European politics and society presented at the 2011 APSA meeting. To be considered for this award papers must be nominated by members of the section in good standing or chairs/discussants on section-sponsored or co-sponsored panels. A brief note of nomination as well as a copy of the paper itself should be sent to each of the committee members (self-nominations will not be accepted), either electronically or in hard copy, and must be received by March 1, 2012.

   Paper Award Committee:
   Chair:

   • Donna Bahry
     Professor of Political Science
     Pond Laboratory
     Penn State University
     University Park, PA 16802
     dbahry@la.psu.edu
   Members:
   • Willem Maas
     Jean Monnet Chair and Associate Professor
     Political Science / Public & International Affairs
     Glendon College, York University
     2275 Bayview Avenue
     Toronto, ON M4N 3M6 Canada
     maas@yorku.ca
   • Ben Ansell
     Assistant Professor of Political Science
     University of Minnesota
     1414 Social Sciences Building
     267 19th Avenue South
     Minneapolis, MN 55455
     benansell@gmail.com

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   Past Winners

   Best Paper Award	Best Book Award	Best Disssertation Award
   2010: No Prize Awarded University "title" paper online	2010: Grigore Pop-Eleches Princeton University From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe Princeton University Press, YEAR More Information (from Amazon)	2010: Mareike Kleine Freie Universität Berlin “All Roads Lead Away from Rome: A Liberal Theory of International Regimes”
   2009: Peter Hall1, Lucy Barnes1 and Rosemary Taylor2 1Harvard University, 2 Tufts University “The Social Sources of the Gradient: A Cross-National Analysis of the Pathways Linking Social Class to Population Health” paper online	2009: Bonnie Meguid University of Rochester Party Competition Between Unequals Cambridge University Press, 2008 More Information (from Amazon)	2009: Joerg Timo Weishaupt University of Wisconsin-Madison “The Emergence of a New Labor Market Policy Paradigm? Analyzing Continuity and Change in an Integrating Europe”
   2008: Aida Paskeviciute and Christopher Anderson University of Essex and Cornell University "Immigrants, Citizenship and Political Action: A Study of 21 European Democracies" paper online	2008: Rachel Cichowski University of Washington The European Court and Civil Society: Litiation, Mobilization, and Governance Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2007 More Information (from Amazon)	2008: Silja Haeusermann University of Zurich "Modernization in Hard Times: Post-industrial Pension Politics in Germany, France and Switzerland"
   2007: Mark Andreas Kayser and Christopher Wlezien University of Rodchester and Temple University "Performance Pressure: Patterns of Partisanship and the Economic Vote" paper online	2007: Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children Cambridge University Press, 2006 More Information (from Amazon) 2007: Daniel Ziblatt Harvard University Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism Princeton University Press, 2006 More Information (from Amazon)	2007: No prize awarded
   2006: Milada Anna Vachudov UNC, Chapel Hill "Democratization and the Leverage of International Actors: Illiberal Regimes and the European Union"	2006:Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 More Information (from Amazon) 2006:Torben Iverson Harvard University Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare Cambridge University Press, 2005 More Information (from Amazon)	2006: Deborah Boucoyannis Harvard University "Land, Courts and Parliaments: The Hidden Sinews of Power in the Emergence of Constitutionalism"
   2005: No prize awarded	2005:V.P. Gagnon, Jr. Ithaca College The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s. Cornell University Press More Information (from Amazon)	2005: Uwe Puetter Queens University Belfast "The Eurogroup as a Forum for Informal Deliberation Among Ministers"
   2004: Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Yale University "Party Competition and the Pace of State Reform" paper online	2004: Marc Morje Howard Georgetown University The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe Cambridge University Press More Information (from Amazon)	2004: Conor O'Dwyer University of California, Berkeley "Runaway State Building: How Parties Shape States in Post Communist Europe"
   2003: Bo Rothstein, Goteborg University and Dietlind Stolle, McGill University "How Political Institutions Create and Destroy Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust". paper online	2003: Mark Beissinger University of Wisconsin-Madison Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State Cambridge University Press More information (from Amazon)	2003: Daniel Ziblatt University of California, Berkeley "Constructing a Federal State: Political Development, Path Dependence, and the Origins of Federalism in Modern Europe, 1815-1871"
   2002: Michael Bernhard The Pennsylvania State University "Democratization in Germany: A Reappraisal"	2002: Stefano Bartolini European University Institute The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980: The Class Cleavage Cambridge University Press More information (from Amazon)
   2001: Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse European University Institute "When Europe Hits Home: Europeanization and Domestic Change" (Presented in 2000.)