European Politics and Society Section Award Recipients

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Best Article Award
Best Book Award
Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award
Best Paper Award
Peter Mair Award

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Best Article Award

This award is given for the best article dealing with European Politics & Society published in the last year.

2022	Florian Foos, London School of Economics  "Tabloid media campaigns and public opinion: Quasi-experimental evidence on Euroscepticism in England ," American Political Science Review, 2022.
2022	Daniel Bischof, Aarhus University "Tabloid media campaigns and public opinion: Quasi-experimental evidence on Euroscepticism in England ," American Political Science Review, 2022.
2022	Honorable Mention Lukas Haffert, University of Zurich "The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism, and the Alternative für Deutschland,"   American Political Science Review, 2022.
2021	Nan Zhang, Max Planck Institute of Collective Goods “Literacy and State–Society Interactions in Nineteenth-Century France.” American Journal of Political Science, 64(6) 1001–1016.
2021	Melissa Lee, Princeton University “Literacy and State–Society Interactions in Nineteenth-Century France.” American Journal of Political Science, 64(6) 1001–1016.
2021	Honorable Mention Francesc Amat, University of Barcelona, IPERG-UB “From Political Mobilization to Electoral Participation: Turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s.” Journal of Politics 82(4).
2021	Honorable Mention Carles Boix, Princeton University, IPERG-UB “From Political Mobilization to Electoral Participation: Turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s.” Journal of Politics 82(4).
2021	Honorable Mention Jordi Muñoz, University of Barcelona, IPERG-UB “From Political Mobilization to Electoral Participation: Turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s.” Journal of Politics 82(4).
2021	Honorable Mention Toni Rodon, Universitat Pompeu Fabra “From Political Mobilization to Electoral Participation: Turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s.” Journal of Politics 82(4).
2020	Rahsaan Maxwell, University of North Carolina Cosmopolitan Immigration Attitudes in Large European Cities: Contextual or Compositional Effects. American Review of Political Science.
2019	Melissa Carlson, University of California, Berkeley “Rumors and Refugees: How Government-Created Information Vacuums Undermine Effective Crisis Management.” International Studies Quarterly 62(3): 671-685.
2019	Laura Jakli, University of California, Berkeley “Rumors and Refugees: How Government-Created Information Vacuums Undermine Effective Crisis Management.” International Studies Quarterly 62(3): 671-685.
2019	Katerina Linos, University of California, Berkeley “Rumors and Refugees: How Government-Created Information Vacuums Undermine Effective Crisis Management.” International Studies Quarterly 62(3): 671-685.
2019	Honorable Mention Paul Castañeda Dower, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2019	Honorable Mention Evgeny Finkel, Johns Hopkins University “Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia’s Great Reforms.” American Political Science Review 112(1): 125-147.
2019	Honorable Mention Scott Gehlbach, University of Chicago “Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia’s Great Reforms.” American Political Science Review 112(1): 125-147.
2019	Honorable Mention Steven Nafziger, Williams College “Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia’s Great Reforms.” American Political Science Review 112(1): 125-147.
2018	Christopher Wratil, Harvard University “Government Responsiveness in the European Union: Evidence from Council Voting.” Comparative Political Studies 50(6): 850–876.
2018	Sara B. Hobolt, London School of Economics “Government Responsiveness in the European Union: Evidence from Council Voting.” Comparative Political Studies 50(6): 850–876.
2018	Sara Hagemann, London School of Economics “Government Responsiveness in the European Union: Evidence from Council Voting.” Comparative Political Studies 50(6): 850–876.
2017	Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University "The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development in Medieval Europe." International Organization 70(3).
2017	Christopher Paik, NYU Abu Dhabi "The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development in Medieval Europe." International Organization 70(3).
2017	Robert Braun, Northwestern University "Religious Minorities and Resistacne to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust" American Political Science Review 110(1).
2016	Evgeny Finkel, George Washington University "Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence from Russia’s Emancipation of the Serfs," Comparative Political Studies, 2015, Vol. 48 (8), 984–1019.
2016	Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence from Russia’s Emancipation of the Serfs," Comparative Political Studies, 2015, Vol. 48 (8), 984–1019.
2016	Tricia D. Olsen, University of Denver "Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence from Russia’s Emancipation of the Serfs," Comparative Political Studies, 2015, Vol. 48 (8), 984–1019.
2015	Lenka Bustikova, Arizona State University “Revenge of the Radical Right” Comparative Political Studies 47:12 October 2014 pp.1738-1765
2014	Rafaela Dancygier, Princeton University Sectorial Economics, Economics Contexts, and Attitudes Toward Immigration (The Journal of Politics 75(1), January 2013, pp.17-35)
2014	Michael Donnelly, European University Institute Sectorial Economics, Economics Contexts, and Attitudes Toward Immigration (The Journal of Politics 75(1), January 2013, pp.17-35)
2013	Sara Goodman, University of California, Irvine Fortifying Citizenship: Policy Strategies for Civic Integration in Western Europe (World Politics, 64(4), 2012, pp. 659-698)

 

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Best Book Award

The Best Book Award is given for the best book on European Politics and society published in the previous year

2022	David Fortunato, University of California, San Diego The Cycle of Coalition: How Parties and Voters Interact under Coalition Governance, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
2022	Honorable Mention Deborah Boucoyannis, George Washington University Kings as Judges: Power, Justice and the Origins of Parliaments, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
2021	Isabela Mares, Yale University Conditionality and Coercion: Electoral Clientelism in Eastern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
2021	Lauren Young, University of California, Davis Conditionality and Coercion: Electoral Clientelism in Eastern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
2021	Honorable Mention Stefanie Walter, University of Zurich The Politics of Bad Options: Why the Eurozone's Problems Have Been So Hard to Resolve. Oxford University Press, 2020.
2021	Honorable Mention Ari Ray, European University Institute The Politics of Bad Options: Why the Eurozone's Problems Have Been So Hard to Resolve. Oxford University Press, 2020.
2021	Honorable Mention Nils Redeker, University of Zurich The Politics of Bad Options: Why the Eurozone's Problems Have Been So Hard to Resolve. Oxford University Press, 2020.
2020	Co-Winner Robert Braun, University of California, Berkeley Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press
2020	Co-Winner Jelena Subotic, Georgia State University Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism. Cornell University Press.
2019	Jennifer Fitzgerald, University of Colorado Boulder Close to Home: Local Ties and Voting Radical Right in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
2019	Honorable Mention Zsofia Barta, The State University of New York at Albany In the Red: The Politics of Public Debt Accumulation in Developed Countries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.
2018	Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University “Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.” Cambridge University Press, 2017.
2017	Zeynep Bulutgil, Tufts University The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
2016	Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy. Princeton University Press, 2015
2015	Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity. Cambridge University Press, 2014
2015	Sara Goodman, University of California, Irvine Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2014
2014	Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice (Cambridge University Press)
2013	Pablo Beramendi, Duke University The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
2012	David Stasavage, New York University States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Politics (Princeton University Press, 2011)
2010	Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe
2010	Mareike Kleine, London School of Economics All Roads Lead Away From Rome. A Liberal Theory of International Regimes
2009	Raymond Duch, University of Oxford The Economic Vote (Cambridge University Press 2008)
2007	Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children
2007	Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism
2006	Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
2006	Torben Iversen, Harvard University Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
2005	Chip Gagnon, Ithaca College The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s. (Cornell University Press, 2004).
2004	Marc Howard, Georgetown University The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2004	Honorable Mention Isabela Mares, Stanford University "The Politics of Social Risk" (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2004	Honorable Mention Margaret Kohn, University of Florida, Gainesville "Radical Space" (Cornell University Press, 2003)
2003	Mark Beissinger, University of Wisconsin-Madison Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of Soviet State (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
2001	Stefano Bartolini The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980: The Class Cleavage (Cambridge University Press 2000)

 

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Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award

The Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on European Politics and Society filed during the previous year.

2022	Sivaram Cheruvu, University of Texas at Dallas "Courts, Constraints, and Public Opinion in Europe," Emory University, 2021.
2021	Laura Jakli, University of California, Berkeley “Estimating Extremism: New Measures of Extreme Party Preferences and Issue Positions?"
2021	Honorable Mention Diane Bolet, London School of Economics “’All Politics is Local’: How Local Context Explains Radical Right Voting.”
2021	Honorable Mention Jan P. Vogler, University of Virginia “The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy: The Emergence of Modern Administrative Organizations.”
2020	Maayan Mor, University of Wisconsin "Rethinking the Origins of Electoral Cleavages: How States Create Cleavages Through Policies?"
2020	Honorable Mention Tommaso Pavone, Princeton University "The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics Behind the Judicial Construction of Europe"
2019	Andreas Wiedemann, Princeton University "Indebted Societies: Modern Labor Markets, Social Policy, and Everyday Borrowing." PhD diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2019	Honorable Mention Martijn Mos, University of Leiden "Normative Ties That Bind? Contesting National and Sexual Minority Rights in a Post-Enlargement Europe."
2019	Honorable Mention Elsa Massoc, Goethe University Frankfurt "Banking on States? The Divergent Trajectories of European Finance after the Crisis." PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley.
2018	Volha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Migration, Diversity and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland.”
2018	Honorable Mention Marie De Somer, European Policy Center T“Autonomy from Precedent: A Longitudinal Analysis of the EU Court of Justice’s Case Law on Family Reunification Immigration.”
2017	Robert Braun, Northwestern University "Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: Christian Protection of Jews In The Low Countries During The Holocaust" Cornell University, 2016.
2017	Honorable Mention Osman Balkan, Swarthmore College Death on The Move: Burial, Repatriation, and The Politics of Belonging Among Muslims in Germany" University of Pennsylvania, 2016.
2016	Dawn Langan Teele, University of Pennsylvania  "The logic of women's enfranchisement: A comparative study of the United States, France, and the United Kingdom" Yale University, 2015
2015	Scott F. Abramson, Princeton University “The Economic Origins of the Territorial State.”
2014	Amanda Garrett, Harvard University "When Cities Fight Back"
2013	MaryBeth Altier, Pennsylvania State University "Voting for Violence"
2012	Jordan Gans-Morse, Northwestern University Building Property Rights: Capitalists and the Demand for Law in Post-Soviet Russia (Completed at the University of California, Berkeley; advised by John Zysman)
2011	Quinton Mayne, Princeton University "The Satisfied Citizen: Participation, Influence, and Public Perception of Democratic Performance"
2009	Timo Weishaupt, University of Wisconsin, Madison "The Emergence of a New Labor Market Policy Paradigm? Analyzing Continuity and Change in an Integrating Europe"
2006	Deborah Boucoyannis, Harvard University "Land, Courts, and Parliaments: The Hidden Sinews of Power in the Emergence of Constitutionalism"
2005	Uwe Puetter, Central European University "The Eurogroup as a Forum for Informal Deliberation Among Ministers," defended at Queens University, Belfast
2004	Conor O'Dwyer, University of California, Berkeley "Runaway State-Building: How Parties Shape States in Post-Communist Eastern Europe," 2003
2004	Honorable Mention Riccardo Pelizzo, Johns Hopkins University "Cartel Parties and Cartel Party Systems"
2004	Honorable Mention Gail McElroy, University of Rochester "In Pursuit of Party Discipline: Committees and Cohesion in the European Parliament"
2003	Daniel Ziblatt, University of California, Berkeley "Constructing a Federal State: Poitical Development, Path Dependence, and the Origins of Federalism in Modern Europe, 1815-1871"

 

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Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented at a panel sponsored by the section at the most recent meeting

2022	Anil Menon, University of Michigan "The Political Legacy of Forced Migration: Evidence from Post-WWII Germany,"  APSA, 2021
2022	Alexander Wuttke, University of Mannheim   "Making the Case for Democracy," APSA, 2021
2022	Florian Foos, London School of Economics "Making the Case for Democracy," APSA, 2021
2021	Donghyun Danny Choi, University of Pittsburgh “The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants.” Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2021	Mathias Poertner, University of Texas A&M “The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants.” Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2021	Nicholas Sambanis, University of Pennsylvania “The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants.” Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2021	Gemma Dipoppa, University of Pennsylvania “How Criminal Organizations Expand to Strong States: Migrant Exploitation and Political Brokerage in Northern Italy.” Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2020	Isabela Mares, Yale University "From Religious Violence to Political Compromise: The Historical Origins of Institutional Trust"
2020	Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, Columbia University "From Religious Violence to Political Compromise: The Historical Origins of Institutional Trust"
2020	Honorable Mention Albana Shehaj, Harvard University "Backsliding in a Landslide: How EU’s Fiscal Distributions Empower Corrupt Governments"
2019	Jane Gingrich, University of Oxford “Integrative Institutions and Mainstream Party Collapse: The Regional Context.”
2019	Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania “Integrative Institutions and Mainstream Party Collapse: The Regional Context.”
2018	Mark Blyth, Brown University “When Is It Rational to Learn the Wrong Lessons? Technocratic Authority, Social Learning, and Euro Fragility.” Perspectives on Politics 16(1): 110–126.
2018	Matthias Matthijs, Johns Hopkins University  “When Is It Rational to Learn the Wrong Lessons? Technocratic Authority, Social Learning, and Euro Fragility.” Perspectives on Politics 16(1): 110–126.
2017	Alexander Reisenbichler, George Washington University "The Politics of Entrenchment: Growth Models and Housing Finance in the United States and Germany."
2016	Stanislav Markus, University of Chicago “Big Business and the Politics of Wealth Defense: The Case of Ukrainian Oligarchs”
2016	Volha Charnysh, Harvard University “Big Business and the Politics of Wealth Defense: The Case of Ukrainian Oligarchs”
2016	Daphne Halikiopoulou, University of Reading “Risks, Costs and Labour Markets: Explaining Cross-National Patterns of Far Right Party Success in European Parliament Elections.”
2016	Tim Vlandas, University of Reading “Risks, Costs and Labour Markets: Explaining Cross-National Patterns of Far Right Party Success in European Parliament Elections.”
2015	Mary Beth Altier, New York University "Voting for Violence: Explaining Support for Paramilitary Parties at the Polls"
2012	Christilla Roederer-Rynning, Syddansk Universitet Bringing Co-Decision to Agriculture: A Hard Case of Parliamentarization
2012	Frank Schimmelfennig, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Bringing Co-Decision to Agriculture: A Hard Case of Parliamentarization
2009	Peter Hall, Harvard University "The Social Sources of the gradient: A Cross-National Analysis of the Pathways Linking Social Class to Population Health"
2009	Lucy Barnes, Harvard University "The Social Sources of the Gradient: A Cross-National Analysis of the Pathways Linking Social Class to Population Health"
2009	Laura Langer, University of Arizona "To Join or Not to Join the Chief Justice: Associate Justices and Separate Opinion Behavior"
2009	Gabriel Sanchez, University of New Mexico "To Join or Not to Join the Chief Justice: Associate Justices and Separate Opinion Behavior"
2007	Mark Kayser, University of Rochester Performance Pressure: Patterns of Partisanship and the Economic Vote
2007	Christopher Wlezien, Temple University Performance Pressure: Patterns of Partisanship and the Economic Vote
2006	Milada Vachudova, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Democratization and the Leverage of International Actors: Illiberal Regimes and the European Union"
2004	Anna Grzymala-Busse, Yale University "Party Competition and the Pace of State Reform"
2004	Honorable Mention Bonnie Meguid, University of Rochester "The Critical Role of Non-Proximal Parties in Electoral Competition: Evidence from France"
2003	Bo Rothstein, Goteborg University " How Political Institutions Create and Destroy Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust"
2003	Dietlind Stolle, McGill University " How Political Institutions Create and Destroy Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust"
2002	Michael Bernhard, Pennsylvania State University "Democratization in Germany: A Reappraisal"
2001	Tanja Boerzel, European University Institute, Florence "When Europe Hits Home: Europeanization and Domestic Change"
2001	Thomas Risse, European University Institute, Florence "When Europe Hits Home: Europeanization and Domestic Change"

 

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Peter Mair Award

The Peter Mair Memorial Award will fund the travel of two young scholars to attend the APSA meeting. Named in memory of Professor Peter Mair, one of the foremost scholars of European politics, the award is meant explicitly to enable young scholars of European politics without adequate funding to present a paper in one of the panels organized by the EPS section. 

2019	Adrián del Río, European University Institute “Office Insecurity and Elite Defections in Electoral Autocracies.”
2019	Yvonni Markaki, University of Oxford “Fiscal Impacts of Immigration in the EU: Does Reality Shape Perception?”
2018	Dragana Svraka, University of Florida “Effects of Collective Ethnic Rights in Europe: Accommodation vs. Confrontation.”