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2009 Award Winners:

The APSA Section on Political Organizations and Parties selects annual awards for lifetime achievement in the field, outstanding book and article awards, an emerging scholar awards, and a best paper at the POP panels award. We are proud to announce the 2009 award winners, with our thanks to the faculty selection committees (the list of past awards).

The list of current award committees.

Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Award
Honoring a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.

Jeff Berry, Tufts University

Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award
Honoring a book of outstanding and lasting significance in the field.

Larry Bartels, Princeton University
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. (Princeton University Press, 2008).

Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award
Honoring an article or published paper of unusual significance and importance to the field.

Michael Tomz and Robert Van Houweling, "Candidate Positioning and Voter Choice," American Political Science Review, (2008) 102:3, 303-18.

Emerging Scholars Award
For significant research by a scholar receiving his or her doctorate within the past five years.

Hans Noel,, Georgetown University

POP Paper Award
Honoring the best paper presented on a POP panel at the preceding APSA Annual Meeting.

Richard M. Skinner, Bowdoin College, Seth E. Masket, University of Denver, and David A. Dulio, Oakland University,
"527 Committees and the Political Party Network".