1990 Award Recipients
Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations
Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award
The Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award recognizes distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.
| Daniel Elazar, Temple University Distinguished Achievement Award |
Law and Courts
Law and Courts Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Formerly the CQ Press Award, the Best Graduate Student Paper Award is given annually for the best paper in the field of law and courts written by a graduate student. To be eligible, the nominated paper must have been written by a full-time graduate student. Both single- and co-authored papers are eligible. In the case of co-authored papers, each author must have been a full-time graduate student at the time the paper was written. Submitted papers may have been written for any purpose (including papers written for seminar, scholarly meetings, and for potential publication in academic journals). This is NOT, however, a dissertation or thesis prize.
| Andrew Koppelman, Yale University “Forced Labor: A Thirteenth Amendment Defense of Abortion” |
Legislative Studies
CQ Press Award
The CQ Press Award for the best paper on legislative studies presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.
| Richard Smith, Carnegie-Mellon University “Interpretation, Pressure and the Stability of Interest Group Influence in the U.S. Congress” |
Richard F. Fenno Prize
In the tradition of Professor Fenno's work, this prize is designed to honor work that is both theoretically and empirically strong. Moreover, this prize is dedicated to encouraging scholars to pursue new and different avenues of research in order to find answers to previously unexplored questions about the nature of politics.
| Barbara Sinclair, University of California-Riverside The Transformation of the U.S. Senate (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990) |
Political Organizations and Parties
Jack Walker Award
The Jack Walker Award recognizes an article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.
| Jack Dennis, University of Wisconsin “Support for the Party System by the Mass Public” (Midwest Journal of Political Science, February 1989) and “Trends in Support for the American Party System” (British Journal of Political Science, 1976) |
Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award
The Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award recognizes a book published in the last two calendar years that made an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.
| Seymour Lipset, Stanford University Party Systems and Voter Alignments (Free Press, 1967) | |
| Stein Rokkan, University of Bergen Party Systems and Voter Alignments (Free Press, 1967) |
Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award
The Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.
| Frank Sorauf, University of Minnesota Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Award |
Public Administration
Herbert Kaufman Award
The APSA Section on Public Administration is pleased to announce that nominations are being accepted for its annual Herbert Kaufman Best Paper award. The Herbert Kaufman Committee will select the best paper presented on a panel sponsored (or co-sponsored) by the Public Administration section at the 2013 APSA Annual Meeting in Chicago. The section will follow APSA’s guidance on what constitutes a ’presented paper’-papers that were uploaded to the APSA 2013 conference paper site, hosted by SSRN, or posted/presented in a virtual or alternative form (see PA Division Panels in the 2013 online program for links to such alternative presentations) are eligible for the Kaufman award.
| Alan Abramson, Urban Institute “Budgeting for Entitlement Programs in Periods of Expansion and Consolidation” |
Representation and Electoral Systems
George H. Hallett Award
The George H. Hallett Award is presented annually to the author of a book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems.
| Maurice Duverger, Sorbonne-University of Paris Political Parties (John Wiley) – originally published as Les Partis Politiques (Armand Coplin) |
Presidents and Executive Politics
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.
| John Burke, University of Vermont How Presidents Test Reality (Russell Sage Foundation, 1989) | |
| Fred Greenstein, Princeton University How Presidents Test Reality (Russell Sage Foundation, 1989) | |
| Larry Berman, University of California-Davis FOR COLLABORATION ON: How Presidents Test Reality (Russell Sage Foundation, 1989) |
Urban Politics
Best Book Award
The Best Book Award recognizes the best book on urban politics published in the previous year.