Political Economy Section Award Recipients

Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award, named for Mancur Olson, is given for the best dissertation in political economy completed in the previous two years.

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2016	Charlotte Cavaillé, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse “Demand for redistribution in the age of inequality.”
2016	Rachel Augustine Potter, University of Virginia “Writing the Rules of the Game: The Strategic Logic of Agency Rule Making.”
2015	In Song Kim, Princeton University “International Political Economy with Product Differentiation: Firm Level Lobbying for Trade Liberalization”
2014	Jan Pierskalla, Ohio State University “Urban-Rural Bias and the Political Geography of Distributive Conflicts”
2013	Rachel Wellhausen, University of Texas “When Governments Break Contracts: Foreign Firms in Emerging Economies”
2012	Xiaobo Lu, Yale University “The Political Causes and Consequences of Inequality of Opportunity”
2011	Tiberiu Dragu, Stanford University “Essays on Executive Power”
2010	Stephen Kaplan, Princeton University “From Spendthrifts to Misers: Globalization and Latin American”
2009	John Ahlquist, University of Washington “Building and Using Strategic Capacity: Labor Union Federation and Economic Policy”
2009	Sonal Pandya, Harvard University “Trading Spaces: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation”
2007	Meredith Rolfe, University of Oxford “A Social Theory of Voter Turnout”
2006	Guillermo Trejo, Duke University “Indigenous Insurgency: Protest, Rebellion, and the Politicization of Ethnicity in 20th Century Mexico”
2005	Christopher Adolph, Harvard University “The Dilemma of Disretion: Career Ambitions and the Politics of Central Banking”
2004	Scott Gehlbach, University of California, Berkeley “Taxability and State Support of Economic Activity,” University of California, Berkeley, 2003
2003	Alex Segura-Ubiergo, Columbia University “Globalization, Domestic Politics and the Welfare State in the Developing World: Latin America in Comparative Perspective, 1973-1997”
2002	Rod Alence, Stanford University “World Markets and the Politics of African Open Economies: Domestic Policy Responses to External Volatility in Ghana”
2001	Catherine Hafer, University of Rochester “The Political Economy of Emerging Property Rights”
1999	Andrew Martin, Washington University “Strategic Decision Making and the Separation of Powers”
1998	Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Duke University “Political Responses to Regional Inequality: Taxation and Distribution in Mexico”
1997	William Bernhard, Duke University “Legislatures, Governments, and Bureaucratic Structure: Explaining Central Bank Independence”
1996	Clark Gibson, Indiana University “Politicians, Peasants and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Zambia, 1964-1991”
1995	Dean Lacy, Duke University “Nonseparable Preference in Politics: Implications for Social Choice, Elections and Public Opinion”