Gladys M. Kammerer Award

Gladys M. Kammerer Award

Nominations are closed.

The Kammerer Award honors the best book published in the field of U.S. national policy.

The award is presented at the APSA Annual Meeting and carries a cash prize of $1,000.

Nomination Information

Eligibility: Nominees do not have to be members of APSA, affiliated with an institution in the United States, or an American citizen in order to be considered for an award. It is not compulsory that authors be political scientists.
Books must have been published in the previous calendar year to be eligible for the current awards cycle (books for the 2026 award must be published in 2025). Many books contain both a publication date and a copyright date, and these may differ. Eligibility is determined by the earlier of these dates that is printed with the publication information at the front of the book. Edited books are ineligible for nomination.
Individuals: Please contact the publisher and ask for either an eBook to submit via the online application portal or to have a physical copy of the nominated book mailed directly to each award committee member.
Self-nominations are accepted. If you nominate yourself for a book award, you assume responsibility for contacting your publisher and having copies of your book sent to the award committee either virtually or via mail.
Publishers: Please submit your nomination online through the APSA application portal. You have the option to either submit an eBook via the portal or mail a hard copy of the nominated book directly to each member of the award committee.

Award Committee

Chair

Martin Gilens, UCLA Department of Public Policy

Member

Sarah Binder, GWU / Brookings Institution

Member

Mark Peterson, University of California, Los Angeles

Listing of Awardees

Year	Recipient	Title	Publisher
2025	Anthony Grasso	Dual Justice: America’s Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime	University of Chicago Press
2024	Elizabeth Sharrow	Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports	Cambridge University Press
2024	James Druckman	Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports	Cambridge University Press
2023	R. Douglas Arnold	Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age	Princeton University Press
2022	Christopher Witko, Nathan J. Kelly and Peter K. Enns	Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence	Russell Sage Foundation
2021	James Curry and Frances Lee	The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era	University of Chicago Press
2020	Amy E. Lerman	Good Enough for Government Work: The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It	University of Chicago Press
2019	Alexander Hertel-Fernandez	Politics at Work: How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists	Oxford University Press
2018	Sarah Binder and Mark Spindel	The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve	Princeton University Press
2017	Gary J. Miller and Andrew B. Whitford	Above Politics: Bureaucratic Discretion and Credible Commitment	Cambridge University Press
2016	Helen V. Milner and Dustin Tingley	Sailing the Water’s Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy	Princeton University Press
2015	Craig Volden and Alan Wiseman	Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress	Cambridge University Press
2014	Nicholas Carnes	White-Collar Government	University of Chicago Press
2013	Betsy Sinclair	The Social Citizen: Peer Networks and Political Behavior	University of Chicago Press
2012	Sean D. Ehrlich	Access Points	Oxford University Press
2011	Sean Farhang	The Litigation State: Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the U.S.	Princeton University Press
2010	Margot Canaday	The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America	Princeton University Press
2010	Anthony S. Chen	The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972	Princeton University Press
2009	Larry Bartels	Unequal Democracy	Princeton University Press
2008	Dara Z. Stolovitch	Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class and Gender	University of Chicago Press
2008	Frank R. Baumgartner, Suzanna L. DeBoef, and Amber E. Boydstun	The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence	Cambridge University Press
2007	Benjamin I. Page and Marshall M. Bouton	The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders But Don’t Get	University of Chicago Press
2006	Jonas Pontusson	Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America	Cornell University Press
2006	Suzanne Mettler	Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation	Oxford University Press
2005	Charles T. Clotfelter	After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation	Princeton University Press
2005	Geoffrey R. Stone	Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism	W.W. Norton & Company
2004	Gerry Mackie	Democracy Defended	Cambridge University Press

Support for Scholarship

We are continually grateful for the contributions from APSA members and friends that make our work possible. Your donation helps continue the Kammerer Award for future scholars researching U.S. national policy. Thank you for your support of APSA and scholars across the discipline.