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Organized Section 20: Luebbert Best Article Award

Comparative Politics Section Award Recipients

Luebbert Best Article Award
The Luebbert Article Award is given for the best article in the field of comparative politics published in the previous two years.

2017  Robert Braun, Northwestern University
“Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands During the Holocaust.”
American Political Science Review, February 2016.
2016  Perna Singh, Brown University
Subnationalism and Social Development in India:  A Comparative Analysis of Indian States.” World Politics, June 2015. 
2015  Dominika Koter, Colgate University
“King Makers: Local Leaders and Ethnic Politics in West Africa,” World Politics Vol. 65 No. 2  
2014 Stanislav Markus, University of Chicago
“Secure Property as a Bottom-Up Process: Firms, Stakeholders, and Predators in Weak States.” (World Politics 64 (2) April 2012, 242-77)
2013 Robert Woodberry, National University of Singapore
The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy (American Political Science Review 106(2): 244-74)
2012 Philip Roessler, Duke University
The Enemy Within. Personal Rule, Coups, and Civil War in Africa (World Politics 63 (2))
2011 Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University
International System and Technologies of Rebellion: How the End of the Cold War Shaped Internal Conflict
2011 Laia Balcells, Institute for Economic Analysis, CSIC
International System and Technologies of Rebellion: How the End of the Cold War Shaped Internal Conflict
2010 Shawn Treier, University of Minnesota
“Democracy as a Latent Variable”
2010 Simon Jackman, Stanford University
“Democracy as a Latent Variable”
2009 Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University
“How Free is Free Riding in Civil Wars?”World Politics 59 (2) January 2007
2009 Matthew Kocher, Yale University
“How Free is Free Riding in Civil Wars?” World Politics 59 (2) January 2007
2009 Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University
“Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization?” World Politics 60 (4) July 2008
2008 Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan
The Great Divide, World Politics (October 2006)
2008 Honorable Mention
Keith Darden, Yale University
The Great Divide, World Politics (October 2006)
2007 Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University
Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War, American Political Science Review, Vol. 100, (August 2006)
2007 Torben Iversen, Harvard University
Electoral Institutions and the Policies of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Distribute More than Others, American Political Science Review, Vol. 100 (May 2006)
2007 David Soskice, Duke University
Electoral Institutions and the Policies of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Distribute More than Others, American Political Science Review, Vol. 100 (May 2006)
2006 Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania
“A Sequential Theory of Decentralization: Latin American Cases in Comparative Perspective,” American Political Science Review 99:3 (August 2005)
2005 Ernesto Calvo, University of Houston
“Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market.” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, October 2004. pp. 742-757.
2005 Maria Murillo, Columbia University
“Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market.” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, October 2004. pp. 742-757.
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