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2011 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 2011 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.

Frank R. Baumgartner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award
This award honors a book published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

David R. Mayhew, Yale University
Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don't Kill the U.S. Constitutional System. (Princeton University Press, 2011).

Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award
This award honors an article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

Guillermo Trejo, Duke University
"Religious Competition and Ethnic Mobilization in Latin America: Why the Catholic Church Promotes Indigenous Movements in Mexico," American Political Science Review, (2009) 103 (3), 323-42.

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

Christine Mahoney, University of Virginia

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

Lee Drutman, The Progressive Policy Institute, and Daniel Hopkins, Georgetown University
"The Inside View: Using the Enron EMail Archive to Understand Business Lobbying," presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2010