Organized Section 1: Martha Derthick Book Award

Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations Organized Section Award Recipients

Martha Derthick Book Award
The Martha Derthick Book Award conferred for the best book on federalism and intergovernmental relations published at least 10 years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.

2018	Wallace Oats, University of Maryland Fiscal Federalism. Harcourt Brace, 1972.
2017	Barry G. Rabe, University of Michigan Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy. Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
2016	Joseph F. Zimmerman, University at Albany, SUNY Interstate Relations: The Neglected Dimension of Federalism. Praeger, 1996.
2015	Nancy Burns, University of Michigan The Formation of American Local Governments: Private Values in Public Institutions. Oxford University Press, 1994.
2014	Robert Agranoff, Indiana University, Bloomington Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Government. Georgetown University Press, 2004
2014	Michael McGuire, Indiana University Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Government. Georgetown University Press, 2004
2013	Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy (Cornell University Press, 1998)
2012	Donald Haider, Northwestern University When Governments Come to Washington: Governors, Mayors, and Intergovernmental Lobbying (Free Press, 1974)
2011	Alice Rivlin, Brookings Institution Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States, and the Federal Government
2010	Paul Peterson, Harvard University The Price of Federalism
2009	Ronald Watts, Queen's University Comparing Federal Systems (McGill-Queen's University Press 1997)
2006	Martha Derthick, University of Virginia New Towns, In Town: Why a Federal Program Failed (Urban Institute, 1972)
2005	Richard Simeon, University of Toronto Federal-Provincial Diplomacy (University of Toronto Press, 1972)
2004	William Riker, University of Rochester Federalism: Origin, Operation, Significance (Little, Brown & Co., 1964)
2003	Thomas Anton, Brown University American Federalism and Public Policy: How the System Works (1989)
2002	Samuel Beer, Harvard University To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of Federalism (Belnap Press of Harvard University, 1993)
2001	Ivo Duchacek, City College of New York Comparative Federalism: The Territorial Dimension of Politics (Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1970)
2000	David Walker, University of Connecticut Toward a Functioning Federalism (Winthrop Publishers, 1981)
1999	Vincent Ostrom, Indiana University The Political Theory of the Compound Republic (Public Choice, 1971)
1998	Timothy Conlan, George Mason University New Federalism: Intergovernmental Reform and Political Change from Nixon to Reagan (Brookings Institution, 1988)
1997	Deil Wright, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Understanding Intergovernmental Relations (Harcourt, 1988)
1996	Morton Grodzins, University of Chicago The American System
1995	Daniel Elazar, Temple University and Bar Ilan University American Federalism: A View from the States (Harpercollins, 1984)