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George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award
Undergraduate Paper Award
Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Founders Best Paper Award
Presidential Research Group Career Service Award
Presidential Research Group Reference Book Award
Richard E. Neustadt Award
Emerging Scholar Award
The Legacy Award

George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award

The George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award is given annually for the best dissertation in presidency research completed and accepted during the calendar year prior to the Annual Meeting. The recipient will receive a $250 award.

2025	Julian Michel, University of California, Los Angeles “The Subnational Roots of Democratic Stability.”
2024	Benjamin Noble, University of California, San Diego  “Three Essays on Presidential Power, Persuasion, and Interbranch Conflict.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington University.
2023	Robert E. Thompson, Wayne State University “Emotional Intelligence and the Intensification of Impeachment Threats to US Presidents, 1789-2021.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Wayne State University.
2022	Nathan Gibson, Princeton University “Presidential Use of Centralization and Politicization.”
2021	David R. Miller, East Tennessee State University “All the President’s Organized Interests.” Dissertation, Washington University in St. Louis, 2020.
2020	Christina M. Kinane, Yale University “Control Without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments.”
2020	John A. Dearborn, Yale University “The Representative Presidency: The Ideational Foundations of Institutional Development and Durability.”
2019	Matthew Zarit, University of Pittsburgh “Lost in Translation: How Bureaucratic Hierarchies Limit Presidential Control Over Distributive Policymaking in U.S. Federal Agencies. ”
2017	Elizabeth Mann, University of Michigan “Presidential Policymaking at the State Level: Revision Through Waivers?”
2016	Rachel Augustine Potter, University of Michigan “Writing the Rules of the Game: The Strategic Logic of Agency Rulemaking”
2015	Ian Ostrander, Texas Tech University “Winning the Waiting Game: Senatorial Delay in Executive Nominations.” Washington University in St. Louis 2013
2013	John Hudak, University of Vanderbilt “The Politics of Federal Grants: Presidential Influence Over the Distribution of Federal Funds”
2012	William Resh, Indiana University, Bloomington Rethinking the Administrative Presidency: Trust, Intellectual Capital, and Appointee-Careerist Relations (completed at American University; advised by Robert F. Durant)
2011	Amnon Cavari, University of Wisconsin, Madison “The Party Politics of Presidential Rhetoric”
2010	Lyn Ragsdale, Rice University Vital Statistics on the Presidency
2009	Jose Villalobos, Texas A & M University Presidential Bureaucratic Management an dPolicy Making Success in Congress

Best Undergraduate Paper Award

The Best Undergraduate Paper Award on executive politics recognizes the best undergraduate paper completed in the previous two academic years. One copy of each essay should be sent directly to each committee member of the committee.

2014	Aaron Goodman, Dartmouth College “Presidential Delegation of Foreign Policy Powers.”
2013	Lisa McAlister, University of North Texas “Roles of the White House Chief of Staff”
2012	Andrew Keene, United States Naval Academy Exploration of Ticket Splitting: The Battleground State Effect
2011	Alexander Gibbons, University of Maryland College Park “Keeping Time for Skowronek: A Quantification of Secular and Political Time”
2009	Adam Aliano, United States Naval Academy From the New Frontier to Change You Can Believe In: The Issues of Person and the Cmpaigns of 1960 and 2008
2008	Brett Amelkin, Princeton University “Fit to Print: Trends in New York Times Election Coverage, 1960-2006”
2007	Carrie Roush, Dickinson College Best Undergraduate Paper Award for ” ‘Great Writ,’ Great Power: Habeas Corpus and Prerogative in the Lincoln and Bush II Presidencies”
2006	Andrew Kaufman, Carleton College “Historical Continuities in the 2004 Presidential Debates”
2005	Rebecca Stark, Carleton College “The Influence of Foreign Affairs in Presidential Elections: 1992-2004”

Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award

The Founders Award honoring James Sterling Young is given for the best paper on executive politics presented by a Graduate Student at either the preceding year’s APSA Annual Meeting or at any of the regional meetings in the two year’s preceding the APSA Annual Meeting. One copy of each essay should be sent directly to each member of the committee.

2025	Benjamin Goehring, University of Michigan “Partisan Departures from the Administrative States.”
2024	Nicholas R. Bednar, University of Minnesota “Administrative Policymaking Amid Vacancies and Actings.” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Christopher Piper, Vanderbilt University  “Administrative Policymaking Amid Vacancies and Actings.” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference.
2023	Benjamin S. Noble, Washington University in St. Louis “How Presidents Persuade: Facts, Feelings, and the Language of Presidential Power.” Presented at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting.
2022	Christopher W. Blair, University of Pennsylvania “The Gendered Peace Premium.” Presented at 2021 APSA Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.
2022	Joshua A. Schwartz, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Kennedy School  “The Gendered Peace Premium.” Presented at 2021 APSA Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.
2021	Nicholas G. Napolio, University of Southern California “Executive Coalition Building.” Paper presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2020	Justin Pottle, Harvard University “Party Teamsmanship and Presidential Polarization.”
2019	Christina M. Kinane, University of Michigan “Control Without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments or Administration Without Confirmation: The Value of Absent and Interim Appointees.”
2018	John A. Dearborn, Yale University “The ‘Proper Organs’ for Presidential Representation: A Fresh Look at the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921.” Honorable Mention Christina M. Kinane, University of Michigan “The Politics of Vacancies and Interim Appointments in Bureaucracy.”
2017	Elizabeth Mann, University of Michigan “Presidential Policymaking at the State Level: Revision Through Waivers?”
2016	Kenneth Lowande, University of Virginia “Delegation or Unilateral Action?”
2015	Christopher A. Martinez, Loyola University Chicago “Surviving the Presidency in South America: Rethinking the Role of Democracy”
2014	Janna Rezaee, University of California, Berkeley “OIRA: The Other Edge of the Sword.”
2013	Rachel Potter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Strategic Transparency in Agency Rulemaking”
2011	Presented in honor of Martha Joynt Kumar John Hudak, Vanderbilt University The Politics of Federal Grants: Presidential Influence Over the Distribution of Federal Funds
2010	Presented in honor of Stephen Wayne Amnon Cavari, University of Wisconsin, Madison “The Presidential Rhetoric and the Economic Policy Image of the Parties,”
2009	Cari Hennessy, Northwestern University The Effect of Public Opinion on Policy Outcomes in Sequential Veto Bargaining
2008	Curtis Nichols, University of Texas, Austin “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Exploiting the Opportunity for Reconstructive Leadership”
2008	Adam Myers, University of Texas, Austin “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Exploiting the Opportunity for Reconstructive Leadership”
2007	Kevin Parsneau, University of Minnesota Politicizing Priority Departments: Presidential Policy Priorities and Subcabinet Nominations
2006	Michael Cutrone, Princeton University “Parties, Pivots, and the Patients’ Bill of Rights”
2003	Elvin Lim, Nuffield College University of Oxford “The Lion and The Lamb: De-Mythologizing Franklin Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats”
2002	Casey Dominguez, University of California at Berkeley “Is it a Honeymoon? An Empirical Investigation of the President’s First Hundred Days.”
2001	Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, Texas A&M University “Anticipating Agendas: Dynamics of Presidential Policy”
2000	Kevin Price, University of Wisconsin-Madison “The Partisan Legacies of Preemptive Leadership: Assessing the Eisenhower Cohorts in the U.S. House”
1999	David Lewis, Stanford University “The Presidential Advantage in the Design of Bureaucratic Agencies”
1997	Richard Powell, Northwestern University “Taking the Show on the Road: The Politics of Presidential Travel in the Modern Era”
1996	David Cohen, University of South Carolina “President Bush’s Chiefs of Staff: Sununu and Skinner in the White House”
1991	Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas-Austin “Raising Taxes and Going into Debt: A Resource Dependence Model of U.S. Public Finance in the 1940s”

Founders Best Paper Award

The Founders Award honoring Peri Arnold is given for the best paper on executive politics authored by a PhD holding scholar presented at the previous year’s annual meeting. One copy of each essay should be sent directly to each committee member.

2025	Anna Callis, CIPR & Tulane University Christopher Carter, University of Virginia “Balancing Bossism: Education Expansion in the Face of Elite Capture.”
2025	John Dearborn, Vanderbilt University “Contesting the Reach of the Rights Revolution: The Reagan Administration and the Unitary Executive.”
2023	Joshua B. Kennedy, Georgia Southern University “Executive Orders and the Administrative State: Formulation, Implementation, and Regulation.” Presented at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting
2023	Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College “Executive Orders and the Administrative State: Formulation, Implementation, and Regulation.” Presented at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting
2022	Kyuwon Lee, New York University “Bureaucratic Revolving Doors and Interest Group Participation in Policymaking.” Presented at the 2021 APSA  Annual Meeting.
2022	Hye Young You, New York University “Bureaucratic Revolving Doors and Interest Group Participation in Policymaking.” Presented at the 2021 APSA  Annual Meeting.
2021	Kevin M. Baron, Austin Peay State University “Informal and Private: Veto Threats Over the Freedom of Information Act.” Paper presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2020	Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan  “Where is Presidential Power? Measuring Discretion With Experts and Laypersons.”
2020	Charles R. Shipan, University of Michigan “Where is Presidential Power? Measuring Discretion With Experts and Laypersons.”
2020	George A. Krause, University of Georgia “Confirmation Dynamics: Distinguishing Between Informational Versus Procedural Delay in the Appointment of U.S. Federal Agency Leaders, 1981-2008.”
2020	Jason S. Byers, University of North Georgia “Confirmation Dynamics: Distinguishing Between Informational Versus Procedural Delay in the Appointment of U.S. Federal Agency Leaders, 1981-2008.”
2019	Julia Azari, Marquette University “The Party Decides (Who the Vice President Will Be).”
2019	William D. Adler, Northeastern Illinois University “The Party Decides (Who the Vice President Will Be).”
2018	Aaron R. Kaufman, Harvard University “Interbranch Conflict, Unilateral Action, and the Presidency.”
2018	Jon C. Rogowski, Harvard University “Interbranch Conflict, Unilateral Action, and the Presidency.”
2017	Larry Rothenberg, University of Rochester “Analyzing Agency Choice with Text Analysis: The Case of the NLRB.”
2017	Matthew Sweeten, University of Rochester “Analyzing Agency Choice with Text Analysis: The Case of the NLRB.”
2016	Jasmine Farrier, University of Louisville “Judicial Restraint and the New War Powers”
2015	Magna Ignacio, Universidade Federal de Minas “The Institutional Presidency in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis
2015	Mariana Llanos, GIGA Institut fur Latinamerika-Studien “The Institutional Presidency in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis
2014	Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College “Bargaining with the Bureaucracy: Executive Orders and the Transaction Costs of Unilateral Action.”
2013	Stephen Weatherford, University of California, Santa Barbara “Obama and the Economy:The Financial Crisis, the Fed, and the Inequality Agenda”
2012	Presented in honor of Erwin Hargrove Brendan Doherty, United States Naval Academy The President as Party-Builder-in-Chief: Presidential Fund-raising, 1977-2011
2011	Presented in honor of Fred Greenstein Matthew Beckmann, University of California, Irvine “Opportunism in Polarization: Presidential Success in Senate Key Votes, 1953 – 2008
2011	Presented in honor of Fred Greenstein Vimal Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur “Opportunism in Polarization: Presidential Success in Senate Key Votes, 1953 – 2008
2010	Kevin McMahon, Trinity College “Richard Nixon, the Supreme Court, and the Politics of Desegregation in the Urban North”
2009	Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University The Congressional Roots of Presidental Approval
2008	B. Dan Wood, Texas A&M University “Presidential Saber Rattling and the Economy”
2007	Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University Change and Stability in the President’s Legislative Policy Agenda, 1789-2002
2007	Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas Change and Stability in the President’s Legislative Policy Agenda, 1789-2002
2006	Andrew Rudalevige, Dickinson College “Parsing the Politicized Presidency: Centralization and Politicization as Presidential Strategies for Bureaucratic Control”
2006	David Lewis, Princeton University “Parsing the Politicized Presidency: Centralization and Politicization as Presidential Strategies for Bureaucratic Control”
2005	Lawrence Jacobs, University of Minnesota “Lumpers and Splitters: The Public Opinion Information that Politicians Collect and Use”
2005	James Druckman, University of Minnesota “Lumpers and Splitters: The Public Opinion Information that Politicians Collect and Use”
2004	Martin Cohen, UCLA Co-Authored with Hans Noel, and John Zaller, “Constant Rules, Changing Game: A General Model of Presidential Primaries, 1972-2000”
2004	Hans Noel, UCLA Co-Authored with Marty Cohen and John Zaller, “Constant Rules, Changing Game: A General Model of Presidential Primaries, 1972-2000”
2004	John Zaller, UCLA “Constant Rules, Changing Game: A General Model of Presidential Primaries, 1972-2000”
2003	Andrew Rudalevige, Dickenson College “The Structure of Leadership: Information, Organization, and Presidential Decision Making”
2002	B. Dan Wood, University of California-Los Angeles “The Politics of Administrative Design”
2002	John Bohte, Oakland University “The Politics of Administrative Design”
2001	Matthew Baum, University of California, Los Angeles “Who Rallies? The Constituent Foundations of the Rally-Round-the-Flag Phenomena”
2000	Keith Whittington, Princeton University “Institutional Development in a System Separation of Powers”
2000	Daniel Carpenter, University of Michigan “Institutional Development in a System Separation of Powers”
1999	John Frendreis, Loyola University of Chicago “Predicting Legislative Output in the First ‘100 Days,’ 1897-1995”
1999	Raymond Tatalovich, Loyola University of Chicago
1999	Jon Schaff, Loyola University of Chicago “Predicting Legislative Output in the First ‘100 Days,’ 1897-1995”
1998	Bruce Buchanan, University of Texas, Austin “Presidential Campaign Quality: What the Variance Implies”
1996	Robert Spitzer, SUNY-Cortland “‘It’s My Constitution and I’ll Cry if I Want to: Veto Dispute”
1995	Richard Forshee, University of Michigan “Presidential Activism and Obstruction in Committee and on the Floor”

PEP Career Service Award

Every four years during a presidential election year, the division shall form a committee to give an award to recognize career service to the study of the presidency.  The committee shall be chaired by the division’s Vice President, and the criteria for the award shall be determined by the Steering Committee or its designees.

2024	Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego
2021	Martha Joynt Kumar, Towson University
2021	Tom Cronin, Colorado College
2017	Louis Fisher, The Constitution Project
2012	Karen Hult, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2008	George Edwards III, Texas A&M University, College Station
2004	Fred Greenstein, Princeton University
2003	Richard E. Neustadt, Harvard University

Presidential Research Group Reference Book Award

The Presidential Research Group Reference Book Award is given once every three years for the best reference book on the US presidency published during the past three years.

2017	John T. Woolley, University of California, Santa Barbara The American Presidency Project
2017	Gerhard Peters, Citrus College The American Presidency Project
2010	Lyn Ragsdale, Rice University Vital Statistics on the Presidency, Third Edition (Washington, DC: CQ Press 2009)
2010	George Edwards III, Texas A&M University The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency
2010	William Howell, University of Chicago The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency

Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award

The Richard E. Neustadt Award given for the best book on executive politics published during the year. One copy of each book should be sent directly to each member of the committee.

2025	Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
2024	Charles M. Cameron, Princeton University Making the Supreme Court, the Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020. Oxford University Press, 2023. Jonathan P. Kastellec, Princeton University  Making the Supreme Court, the Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020. Oxford University Press, 2023.
2023	Alexander D. Bolton, Emory University Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power. Princeton University Press, 2022.
2023	Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power. Princeton University Press, 2022.
2022	John Dearborn, Vanderbilt University Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation. University of Chicago Press, 2021.
2022	Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power. Princeton University Press, 2021.
2021	Paul M. Collins, Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst The President and the Supreme Court. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
2021	Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas The President and the Supreme Court. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
2020	Rachel Augustine Potter, University of Virginia Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy.
2019	Lynn Vavreck, University of California, Los Angeles Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America. Princeton University Press, 2018.
2019	Michael Tesler, University of California, Irvine Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America. Princeton University Press, 2018.
2019	John Sides, George Washington University Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America. Princeton University Press, 2018.
2018	Trygve Throntveit, University of Minnesota Power Without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment. University of Chicago, 2017.
2018	Amnon Cavari, IDC Herzliya The Party Politics of Presidential Rhetoric. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
2017	Douglas L. Kriner, Boston University Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power. Princeton University Press, 2016.
2017	Eric Shickler, University of California, Berkeley Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power. Princeton University Press, 2016.
2016	Douglas L. Kriner, Boston University The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality, Cambridge University Press, 2015
2016	Andrew Reeves, Washington University in St. Louis The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality, Cambridge University Press, 2015
2015	Rebecca Thorpe, University of Washington The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending. University of Chicago Press, 2014.
2015	Michael Nelson, Rhodes College Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government. Kansas University Press, 2014
2014	Mariah Zeisberg, University of Michigan War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority. Princeton University Press, 2013
2013	Jean Yarbrough, Bowdoin College Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition (University Press of Kansas, 2012)
2012	Michael Korzi, Towson University Presidential Term Limits in American History (Texas A&M University Press, 2011)
2011	Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age
2010	B. Dan Wood, Texas A&M University The Myth of Presidential Representation
2009	David Lewis, Vanderbilt University The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance (Princeton University Press, 2008)
2008	Martha Kumar, Towson University Managing the President’s Message: The White House Communications Operation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
2008	William Howell, University of Chicago While Dangers Gather (Princeton University Press, 2007)
2008	Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin, Madison While Dangers Gather (Princeton University Press, 2007)
2007	Brandice Canes-Wrone, Princeton University Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public (University of Chicago Press 2005)
2006	Louis Fisher, Library of Congress, Law Division Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism (University Press of Kansas, 2005)
2006	Joel Aberbach, University of California, Los Angeles The Executive Branch (Oxford University Press, 2005)
2006	Mark Peterson, University of California, Los Angeles The Executive Branch (Oxford University Press, 2005)
2005	Kevin McMahon, Trinity College Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown (University of Chicago Press).
2004	Janet Martin, Bowdoin College The Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance and Illusion (Texas A&M University Press, 2003)
2003	Andrew Rudalevige, Dickenson College Managing the Presidents Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formation (Princeton University Press, 2002)
2002	Kenneth Mayer, University of Wisconsin-Madison With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power (Princeton University Press, 2001)
2002	Patricia Conley, Northwestern University Presidential Mandates: How Elections Shape the National Agenda (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
2002	Honorable Mention Larry Berman, University of California Washington Center “No Peace, No Honor: Nixion, Kissenger, and Betrayal in Vietnam” (Free Press, 2001)
2001	Robert Shapiro, Columbia University Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
2001	Lawrence Jacobs, University of Minnesota Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
2000	David Yalof, University of Connecticut Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
1999	Keith Krehbiel, Stanford University Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
1998	Jeffrey Cohen, University of Kansas Presidential Responsiveness and Public Policy-Making: The Public and the Policies That Presidents Choose (University of Michigan Press, 1997)
1997	Stanley Renshon, CUNY-Graduate Center High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition (New York University Press, 1996)
1996	Karen Hult, Virginia Tech University Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ (University of Kansas, 1995)
1996	Charles Walcott, Virginia Tech University Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ (University of Kansas, 1995)
1995	Charles Jones, University of Wisconsin The Presidency in a Separated System (Brookings Institution, 1994)
1994	Stephen Skowronek, Yale University The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush (Harvard University Press, 1993)
1992	David Mayhew, Yale University Divided We Govern (Yale Univ Press, Reprint Edition:1993)
1991	Harold Koh, Yale University The National Security Constitution (Yale Univ Press, 1990)
1990	John Burke, University of Vermont How Presidents Test Reality (Russell Sage Foundation, 1989)
1990	Fred Greenstein, Princeton University How Presidents Test Reality (Russell Sage Foundation, 1989)
1990	Larry Berman, University of California-Davis FOR COLLABORATION ON: How Presidents Test Reality (Russell Sage Foundation, 1989)
1989	Erwin Hargrove, Vanderbilt University Jimmy Carter as President (Louisiana State University Press, 1988)

Emerging Scholar Award

Emerging Scholar Award will be given to an early career scholar (10 years from date of award of PhD) that has made a significant contribution to the intellectual development of the fields of presidency and executive politics. 

2025	Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan
2023	John A. Dearborn, Vanderbilt University

The Legacy Award

The Legacy Award will be given to a living author for a book, essay, or article, published at least 10 years prior to the award year that has made a continuing contribution to the intellectual development of the fields of presidency and executive politics. Letters of nominations should provide a rationale for the work receiving the award.

2024	David E. Lewis, Vanderbilt University  The Politics of Presidential Appointments. Princeton University Press, 2008.
2022	Mary E. Stuckey, Pennsylvania State University Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity. University Press of Kansas, 2004.
2022	George Edwards III, Texas A&M University Emeritus On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit. Yale University Press, 2006.
2021	James P. Pfiffner, George Mason University The Strategic Presidency: Hitting the Ground Running, 2d. ed. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996.
2020	Terry M. Moe, Stanford University “The Politicized Presidency.”
2019	Shirley Anne Warshaw, Gettysburg College Powersharing: White House-Cabinet Relations in the Modern Presidency. SUNY Press, 1996.
2018	Jeffrey Tulis, University of Texas at Austin The Rhetorical Presidency. Princeton University, 1987.

Lyn Ragsdale Mentorship Award

The Lyn Ragsdale Mentorship Award recognizes outstanding mentorship in the field of presidency and executive politics. Nominations should include a letter outlining the ways in which the nominee has mentored individuals in the Presidency and Executive Politics section. 

2025	Nancy Kassop, SUNY New Paltz