The Caucus for a New Political Science organizes the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association

As a section of the APSA, New Political Science organizes a group of panels at each annnual meeting, often in cooperation with other organized sections of the APSA. Members of the Section and other interested persons are urged to attend these sessions at each year's meetings as the number of panels that we are allowed to sponsor by the APSA is dependent on attendance.

Members of the APSA may join the Section and thus the Caucus when they pay their annual association dues.  Paid-up members of the section receive New Political Science as part of their membership. Section dues are $20.

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Christian Bay Award - $500

For the best paper presented at the 2009 annual meeting

 

Winners

Brooke A. Ackerly, Vanderbilt University brooke.ackerly@vanderbilt.edu  
and   José Miguel Cruz, Vanderbilt University jose.m.cruz@vanderbilt.edu

For the Paper:   “Hearing the Voice of the People: Human Rights as if People Mattered”

Committee Chair:  

Dr. Daniel O’Connor, Professor, Department of Liberal Studies, California State University at Long Beach , oconnor@csulb.edu

 

Committee Members:

Dr. Stefan Heumann,  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Northern Colorado , Stefan.Heumann@unco.edu 

 

Dr. Jocelyn Boryczka, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Fairfield University

jboryczka@aol.com, Jboryczka@mail.fairfield.edu

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Michael Harrington Award - $500
For an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.Marshall Ganz, Harvard University , Marshall_Ganz@ksg.harvard.edu

Why David Sometimes Wins:

Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement, Oxford University Press (2009)

Committee statement about book:
"Marshall Ganz's book is a theoretically and historically rich work. In the spirit of Michael Harrington, furthermore, it is as much addressed to citizens as to policy makers.  It is also immensely practical. His theory of “strategic capacity” offers very good guidelines and hope for any small, resource-poor organizational “Davids” out there."

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Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award
For a progressive political scientist who has had a long successful career as a writer, teacher, and activist.
John Berg, Professor of Political Science Suffolk University, jberg@suffolk.edu

Committee Chair:

Dr. Laura Katz Olson, Professor, Department of Political Science, Lehigh University lko1@lehigh.edu  

Committee Members:

Dr. John Ehrenberg, Professor, Department of Political Science, Long Island University , john.ehrenberg@liu.edu

 

Dr. Alethia Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration & Policy and Department of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York, ajones@uamail.albany.edu

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Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award - $2000
For an activist group, in the region of the annual meeting, that puts the ideals of the New Political Science Section "to make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world," into practice.

ACORN, Bertha Lewis, the proud CEO of ACORN, will be accepting the Cloward and Piven Award at the Caucus Plenary session.

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THIS YEAR A SPECIAL POSTHOMUS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IS TO BE PRESENTED TO HOWARD ZINN

 

 

 

Below are Some Photos of Past Meetings and Events:

 

Members Celebrate 40 Years  of New Political Science, Chicago, 2007

 

The photo is of the 1969 meeting (Were you there?)