Section 23 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

Political Communication Section Award Recipients

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Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award
David Swanson Career Achievement Award
Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award
Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award
Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award
Tom E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award
Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award

Timothy Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award

The Cook Award recognizes the best paper on political communication presented by a graduate student at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

2025	Rex Weiye Deng, Washington University “Screened Realities: How Entertainment Fosters Political Compliance in China.”
2025	Honorable Mention Andrew Trexler, Duke University “The Unequal Challenge of Learning from Under-Informative News.”
2024	Eddy S.F. Yeung, Emory University “The Logic of Provocative Propaganda in the Shadow of Democratic Uprisings.” APSA 2023 Annual Meeting.
2023	Rachel Smilan-Goldstein, University of Virginia “The Most Horrible Psycho-Sexual Fears”: Political Consequences of Racialized Sexual Violence Cues.”
2022	Nina Obermeier, Cornell University “Right-Wing Populism and the Rise of Internationalism in Europe,” APSA conference 2021.
2021	Erin Rossiter, Washington University “The Consequences of Interparty Conversation on Outparty Affect and Stereotypes.”
2020	Marc Trussler, Washington University in St. Louis “Look Up at That Mansion on the Hill: Does Mass Media Activate the Politics of Resentment?” APSA paper, 2019.
2020	Michael Shepherd, Vanderbilt University “Look Up at That Mansion on the Hill: Does Mass Media Activate the Politics of Resentment?” APSA paper, 2019.
2019	Taylor N. Carlson, University of California, San Diego “Through the Grapevine: Informational Consequences of Interpersonal Communication.”
2018	Marc Trussler, Vanderbilt University “The Effects of High Information Environments on Local Accountability in the US House of Representatives.”
2018	Kevin Munger, New York University “Experimentally Reducing Partisan Incivility on Twitter.”
2017	Fabian Neuner, University of Michigan “From a ‘Central Organizing Idea’ in a Frame to a ‘Central Organizing Idea’ in the Brain: The Psychology of Framing Effects Revisited.”
2016	Nick Anspach, Temple University “The Inadvertent Audience: How Online Peer Influence Mitigates Selective Exposure.”
2015	Matthew N. Tokeshi, Princeton University “Countering Implicit Appeals: Which Strategies Work?”
2014	Brian Weeks, Ohio State University “Feeling is Believing: The Influence of Emotions on Citizens’ False Political Beliefs”
2013	Brian Harrison, PhD Northwestern University “Bully Partisan or Partisan Bully? Partisanship, Elite Polarization, and U.S. Presidential Communication”
2012	Thomas Leeper, Northwestern University Learning More from Political Communication Experiments: The Importance of Pretreatment Effects
2012	James Druckman, Northwestern University Learning More from Political Communication Experiments: The Importance of Pretreatment Effects
2011	Sarah Esralew, Ohio State University “The Influence of Parodies on Mental Models: Exploring the Tina Fey-Sarah Palin Phenomenon”
2011	Dannagal Young, University of Delaware “The Influence of Parodies on Mental Models: Exploring the Tina Fey-Sarah Palin Phenomenon”
2010	Dino Christenson, Ohio State University Learning from Campaigns: Political Information and Context in Presidential Elections
2009	Blake Andrew, McGill University “Making Broadcast News Headlines: Heuristiv Signals in Television and Public Radio Campaign Coverage”
2008	Chris Weber “Exploring the Role of Discrete Emotions in Political Campaigns”
2007	Daniela Stockmann, Leiden University The New Chinese Media and Public Opinion: Adaptation of a Propaganda Machine or Instrument for Political Change?
2006	Michael Parkin, University of Minnesota “Engaging with Late Night Comedy’s Serious Message: How Late Night Candidate Apperances Affect Young People’s Political Decisions”

David Swanson Career Achievement Award

The David Swanson Career Achievement Award recognizes distinguished and sustained contributions to the field as planners, editors, and leaders and in roles that require time and energy, innovation, and personal dedication. The award honors David Swanson, one of the founders of Political Communication who gave exemplary service to the ICA Political Communication Division and the APSA Political Communication Section. In his memory, the ICA division presents the award every other year. The joint award committee includes representatives of the ICA division and APSA section. The ICA division chair appoints members with the advice of the APSA chair, and the committee receives nominations and generates additional candidates, deliberates on the pool of potential awardees, and makes a selection. The winner receives the award plaque at the annual business meeting of the ICA Political Communication Division. The award is given in even-numbered years.

2024	Rebekah Tromble, George Washington University
2022	Yariv Tsfati, University of Haifa
2018	Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam
2016	Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University
2014	Patricia Moy, University of Washington
2012	David Paletz, Duke University
2010	Doris Graber, University of Illinois at Chicago
2008	Wolfgang Donsbach, Technical University of Dresden
2006	Ann Crigler, University of Southern California

Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award

The Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award recognizes a lifetime contribution to the study of Political Communication. The award is now given only in odd-numbered years.

2025	Regina Lawrence, University of Oregon
2023	Robert Huckfeldt (Emeritus); University of California, Davis
2022	Yariv Tsfati, University of Haifa
2021	Pippa Norris, Harvard University
2019	Paolo Mancini, Università di Perugia
2019	Ann Crigler, University of Southern California
2017	Gadi Wolfsted, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2015	John Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles
2013	Denis McQuail, University of Amsterdam
2011	Diana Mutz, University of Pennsylvania
2009	Daniel Hallin, University of California, San Diego
2008	Michael X. Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania
2007	Marion Just, Wellsley College
2007	W. Neuman, University of Michigan
2006	Robert Entman, George Washington University
2005	Jay Blumler, University of Leeds
2005	Michael Gurevitch, University of Maryland
2004	Michael Schudson, Columbia University
2003	W. Bennett, University of Washington
2002	Thomas Patterson, Harvard University
2001	Steven Chaffee, University of California at Santa Barbara
2001	Jack McLeod, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2000	Roderick Hart, University of Texas
1999	Bernard Cohen, University of Wisconsin
1998	Shanto Iyengar, University of California, Los Angeles
1997	Ellen Mickiewicz, Duke University
1996	Maxwell McCombs, University of Texas-Austin
1996	Donald Shaw, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1995	Kathleen Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania
1994	Gladys Lang, University of Washington
1994	Kurt Lang, University of Washington
1993	Elihu Katz, Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research, Jerusalem, Israel
1992	Doris Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago

Doris Graber Award

The Doris Graber Award recognizes the best book published on political communication in the last ten years.

2025	Margaret Roberts, University of California, San Diego Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall. Princeton University Press, 2018.
2024	Jaime Settle, College of William & Mary Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
2023	Daniel J. Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
2022	Kevin (“Vin”) Arceneaux, Sciences Po, Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF) Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice, University of Chicago: 2013.
2022	Martin Johnson, Louisiana State University (Johnson passed away in 2020) Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice, University of Chicago: 2013.
2021	Bethany Albertson, University of Texas at Austin Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
2021	Shana Kushner Gadarian, Syracuse University Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
2020	Rodney Benson, New York University Shaping Immigration News. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
2020	Honorable Mention Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse University Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age. Oxford University Press, 2013.
2019	Matthew Hindman, George Washington University The Myth of Digital Democracy. Princeton University Press, 2009.
2018	Amber Boystun, University of California Davis Making the News: Politics, the Media & Agenda Setting. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
2017	Diana Mutz, University of Pennsylvania In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media. Princeton University Press, 2015.
2014	Rasmus Nielsen, Roskilde University Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2012)
2013	Susan Herbst, University of Connecticut Rude Democracy: Civility and Incivility in American Politics (Temple University Press 2010)
2012	Robert Huckfeldt, University of California, Davis Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
2012	Paul Johnson, University of California, Davis Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
2012	John Sprague, Washington University Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks (Cambridge University Press, 2004
2011	Robert Entman, George Washington University Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy
2010	Markus Prior Post-Broadcast Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
2009	Roderick Hart, University of Texas Campaign Talk: Why Elections are Good for Us (Princeton University Press)
2008	Kirsten A. Foot, University of Washington Web Campaigning
2008	Steven M. Schneider, SUNY Institute of Technology Web Campaigning
2007	Joseph Cappella, University of Pennsylvania The Press and the Public Good
2007	Kathleen Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania The Press and the Public Good
2006	Pippa Norris, Harvard University A Virtuous Circle (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
2003	Marion Just, Wellesly College Crosstalk : Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign
2003	Ann Crigler, University of Southern California Crosstalk : Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign
2003	Dean Alger Crosstalk : Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign
2003	Timothy Cook, Lousiana State University Crosstalk : Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign
2003	Darrell West, Brown University Crosstalk : Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign
2003	Montague Kern, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign
2002	Thomas Patterson, Harvard University Out Of Order
2001	John Zaller, University of California at Los Angeles The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
2000	William Gamson, Boston College Talking Politics

Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award

The Paul Lazarsfeld Award recognizes the best paper on political communication presented at the previous year’s APSA annual meeting.

2025	Jasmine English, Stanford University “Carceral Political Discussion.”
2024	Tiago Ventura, Georgetown University “Misinformation Exposure Beyond Traditional Feeds: Evidence from a WhatsApp Experiment in Brazil: Party Cues Change How Citizens Understand Policy.” APSA 2023 Annual Meeting Rajeshwari Majumdar, New York University “Misinformation Exposure Beyond Traditional Feeds: Evidence from a WhatsApp Experiment in Brazil: Party Cues Change How Citizens Understand Policy.” APSA 2023 Annual Meeting Jonathan Nagler, New York University “Misinformation Exposure Beyond Traditional Feeds: Evidence from a WhatsApp Experiment in Brazil: Party Cues Change How Citizens Understand Policy.” APSA 2023 Annual Meeting Joshua A. Tucker, New York University “Misinformation Exposure Beyond Traditional Feeds: Evidence from a WhatsApp Experiment in Brazil: Party Cues Change How Citizens Understand Policy.” APSA 2023 Annual Meeting
2023	Rune Slothuus, Aarhus University “Party Cues Change How Citizens Understand Policy” Rasmus Skytte, Aarhus University “Party Cues Change How Citizens Understand Policy”
2022	Andrew Chadwick, Loughborough University “Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom,” Social Media + Society, 2021.
2022	Johannes Kaiser, Loughborough University, UK “Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom,” Social Media + Society, 2021.
2022	Cristian Vaccari, Loughborough University, UK “Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom,” Social Media + Society, 2021.
2021	Sumitra Badrinathan, University of Pennsylvania and University of Oxford “Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India.”
2020	Eunji Kim, Vanderbilt University “Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility.” APSA paper, 2019.
2019	Christopher Bail, Duke University “Exposure to Opposing Views Can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media.”
2019	Lisa Argyle, Princeton University “Exposure to Opposing Views Can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media.”
2019	Taylor Brown, Duke University “Exposure to Opposing Views Can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media.”
2019	John Bumpus, Duke University “Exposure to Opposing Views Can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media.”
2019	Haohan Chen, Duke University “Exposure to Opposing Views Can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media.”
2019	M.B. Fallin Hunzaker, New York University “Exposure to Opposing Views Can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media.”
2019	Jaemin Lee, Duke University “Exposure to Opposing Views Can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media.”
2019	Marcus Mann, Duke University “Exposure to Opposing Views Can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media.”
2019	Friedolin Merhout, Duke University “Exposure to Opposing Views Can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media.”
2019	Alexander Volfovsky, Duke University “Exposure to Opposing Views Can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media.”
2018	Thomas J. Leeper, London School of Economics “Can Citizens Be Framed? How Information More than Emphasis Changes Political Opinions.”
2018	Rune Slothuus, Aarhus University “Can Citizens Be Framed? How Information More than Emphasis Changes Political Opinions.”
2017	Brendan J. Nyhan, Dartmouth University “Do People Actually Learn from Fact- Checking? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study during the 2014 Campaign.”
2017	Jason Reifler, University of Exeter “Do People Actually Learn from Fact- Checking? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study during the 2014 Campaign.”
2016	Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University “Citizen Engagement (and Disengagement) in Response to Social Ills.”
2016	Adam Seth Levine, Cornell University “Citizen Engagement (and Disengagement) in Response to Social Ills.”
2015	Joanne M. Miller, University of Minnesota “Conspiracy Endorsement as Motivated Reasoning: The Roles of Political Knowledge and Trust”
2015	Kyle L. Saunders, Colorado State University “Conspiracy Endorsement as Motivated Reasoning: The Roles of Political Knowledge and Trust”
2015	Christina Farhart, University of Minnesota “Conspiracy Endorsement as Motivated Reasoning: The Roles of Political Knowledge and Trust”
2014	Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University “Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction”
2014	Christopher Karpowitz, Brigham Young University “Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction”
2014	John Oliphant, Princeton University “Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction”
2013	James Druckman, Northwestern University “How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation”
2013	Erik Peterson, Oregon Institute of Technology “How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation”
2013	Rune Slothuus, Aarhus University “How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation”
2012	Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University “Do Women Deliberate with a Distinctive Voice? How Decision Rules and Group Gender Composition Affect the Content of Deliberation”
2012	Christopher Karpowitz, Brigham Young University “Do Women Deliberate with a Distinctive Voice? How Decision Rules and Group Gender Composition Affect the Content of Deliberation”
2011	Kevin Arceneaux, Temple University “Does Media Fragmentation Produce Mass Polarization? Selective Exposure and a New Era of Minimal Effects
2011	Martin Johnson, University of California, Riverside “Does Media Fragmentation Produce Mass Polarization? Selective Exposure and a New Era of Minimal Effects”
2010	Jamie Druckman, “Timeless Strategy Meets New Medium: Going Negative on Congressional Campaign Websites, 2002-2006.”
2010	Martin Kifer “Timeless Strategy Meets New Medium: Going Negative on Congressional Campaign Websites, 2002-2006.”
2010	Michael Parkin “Timeless Strategy Meets New Medium: Going Negative on Congressional Campaign Websites, 2002-2006.”
2009	Scott Althaus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Uplifting Manhood to Wonderful Heights: Newspaper Framing of Casualties from World War One to Gulf War Two”
2009	Christopher Tiwald, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Uplifting Manhood to Wonderful Heights: Newspaper Framing Casulties from World War One to Gulf War Two”
2009	Svitlana Chernykh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Uplifting Manhood to Wonderful Heights: Newspaper Framing Casulaties from World War One to Gulf War Two”
2009	David Hendry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Uplifting Manhood to Wonderful Heights: Newspaper Framing of Casualties from World War One to Gulf War Two”
2009	Sergio Wals, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Uplifting Manhood to Wonderful Heights: Newspaper Framing of Casualties from World War One to Gulf War Two”
2009	Nathaniel Swigger, Ohio State University “Uplifting Manhood to Wonderful Heights: Newpaper Framing of Casualties from World War One to Gulf War Two”
2008	Seth J. Hill “The Duration of Advertising Effects in Political Campaigns”
2008	James Lo “The Duration of Advertising Effects in Political Campaigns”
2008	Lynn Vavreck “The Duration of Advertising Effects in Political Campaigns”
2008	John Zaller “The Duration of Advertising Effects in Political Campaigns”
2007	T.K. Ahn, Florida State University Information Costs, Information Sources, and the Implications for Democratic Politics
2007	Robert Huckfeldt, University of California, Davis Information Costs, Information Sources, and the Implications for Democratic Politics
2007	John Ryan, University of California, Davis Information Costs, Information Sources, and the Implications for Democratic Politics
2006	Jennifer Jerit, Florida State University “Reform, Rescue, or Run Out of Money? Problem Definitions in the Social Security Reform Debate”
2004	Kenneth Goldstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison Co-Authored with Charles Franklin, Matt Hale, and Daniel Stevens, “Political Information Flows and their Effects in the 2002 Elections,” presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
2004	Charles Franklin, University of Wisconsin-Madison Co-Authored withKenneth Goldstein, Matt Hale, and Daniel Stevens, “Political Information Flows and their Effects in the 2002 Elections,” presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
2004	Matthew Hale, Seton Hall University Co-Authored with Kenneth Goldstein, Charles Franklin, and Daniel Stevens, “Political Information Flows and their Effects in the 2002 Elections,” presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
2004	Daniel Stevens, University of Miami Co-Authored with Charles Franklin, Matt Hale, and Kenneth Goldstein, “Political Information Flows and their Effects in the 2002 Elections,” presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
2003	Matthew Baum, University of California, Los Angeles “Making Politics Fun: What Happens When Presidential Candidates Hit the Talk Show Circuit”
2002	Roderick P. Hart “Reconstructing a Presidency: A Linguistic Map.”
2002	J. Kanan Sawyer “Reconstructing a Presidency: A Linguistic Map.”
2001	Scott Althaus, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign “Agenda Setting and the ‘New’ News”
2001	David Tewksbury, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign “Agenda Setting and the ‘New’ News”
2000	Milton Lodge Dr., Stony Brook University “The Political Consequences of Motivated Reasoning: Partisan Bias in Information Processing”
2000	Charles Tabor, Stonybrook University “The Political Consequences of Motivated Reasoning: Partisan Bias in Information Processing”
2000	Aron Galonsky, Stonybrook University “The Political Consequences of Motivated Reasoning: Partisan Bias in Information Processing”
1999	Nicholas Valentino, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Who Are We on Election Day? Crime News and the Priming of Group Identities during Candidate Evaluation”
1998	Marion Just, Wellesley College “Emotional Interactions With the Campaign: A Constructionalist Approach to Campaign Effects.”
1998	Ann Crigler, University of Southern California “Emotional Interactions With the Campaign: A Constructionalist Approach to Campaign Effects.”
1997	Larry Bartels, Princeton University “Politicians and the Press: Who Leads Who Follows?”
1996	Thomas Patterson, Syracuse University “News Decisions: Journalists as Partisan Actors”
1995	Timothy Cook, Williams College “The Fourth Branch and the Other Three: The Washington News Media and The Politics of Shared Power”
1994	Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia “The Dynamics of Referendum Preferences: Canada 1992”
1994	Elisabeth Gidengil, McGill University “The Dynamics of Referendum Preferences: Canada 1992”
1994	Neil Neveitte, Calgary University “The Dynamics of Referendum Preferences: Canada 1992”
1993	Ann Crigler, University of Southern California “Character, Issues, and Performance: The Discourses of Voters, Candidates, and Media in the 1992 Presidential Campaign”
1992	John Zaller, University of California at Los Angeles “Information and Incumbency Advantage in Congressional Elections”
1991	Diana Mutz, University of Wisconsin, Madison “Information and the Politicization of Personal Experience”

Tom E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award

The Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation completed in the field of political communication in the previous year.

2025	Tony Zirui Yang, University of Oxford “Essays on Censorship and Public Opinion in Authoritarian Regimes.” Washington University in St. Louis, 2024.
2024	Anirvan Chowdhury, Harvard University “Religiously Conservative Parties and Women’s Political Mobilization: Gender Norms, Party Activism, and Democratization in India.” University of California, Berkeley, 2023.
2024	Honorable Mention Will Schulz, Princeton University “Warped Words: How Online Speech Misrepresents Opinion.” Princeton University, 2024.
2023	Jianing Li, University of South Florida “False Beliefs and ‘Healthy’ Skepticism: Understanding the Multilevel and Enduring Challenges of Misinformation.”
2022	Ina Goovaerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven “Destructive or Deliberative? An Investigation of the Evolution, Determinants, and Effects of the Quality of Political Debate,” KU Leuven.
2022	Honorable Mention Erin Rossiter, Washington University St. Louis “Measuring agenda-setting in interpersonal communication”
2021	Yini Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo “A Network Approach to Understanding Public Attention, Public Opinion and Communication Flows In The Digital Media System.” University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2020.
2021	Honorable Mention Sarah Shugars, New York University “Reasoning Together: Network Methods for Political Talk and Normative Reasoning.”
2021	Honorable Mention Alyt Damstra, University of Amsterdam“Economic news. How it’s made and how it matters.”
2020	William L Allen, University of Oxford “Messaging Migration: Media Agenda-Setting, Immigration Attitudes, and the Effects of Evidence on Perceptions and Policy Preferences.” University of Oxford, 2019.
2019	Fabian Guy Neuner, University of Michigan “Elite Framing and the Legitimacy of Global Governance.” University of Michigan.
2018	Juan Larosa Fuentes, Temple University “Communication and the Body Politic: Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign in Philadelphia’s Latino Community.” Temple University, 2017.
2018	Katie McCabe, Princeton University “The Consequences of Imperfect Partisanship for Political Decisions.” Princeton University, 2017.
2017	Benjamin Toff, University of Wisconsin, Madison “The Blind Scorekeepers: Journalism, Polling and the Battle to Define Public Opinion in American Politics.”

Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award

The Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award recognizes the best article published in the field of political communication in the previous calendar year. Articles will be proposed by nomination or self-nomination.

2025	Alessandro Nai, University of Amsterdam Chiara Valli, University of Bern Jürgen Maier, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau Loes Aaldering, Free University “Gendered Backlash Depends on the Context: Reassessing Negative Campaigning Sanctions Against Female Candidates via Large-Scale Comparative Data.” Political Communication 42(3): 454-475. 2025.
2024	Eunji Kim, Columbia University “Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility.” American Journal of Political Science. 67(1): 39-54. 2023.
2023	Patricia Rossini, University of Glasgow “Beyond Incivility: Understanding Patterns of Uncivil and Intolerant Discourse in Online Political Talk.” Communication Research
2022	Constantine Boussalis, Trinity College Dublin “Gender, candidate emotional expression, and voter reactions during televised debates,” American Political Science Review, 2021.
2022	Travis, Coan, University of Exeter “Gender, candidate emotional expression, and voter reactions during televised debates,” American Political Science Review, 2021.
2022	Mirya Holman, Tulane University “Gender, candidate emotional expression, and voter reactions during televised debates,” American Political Science Review, 2021.
2022	Stefan Müller, University College Dublin “Gender, candidate emotional expression, and voter reactions during televised debates,” American Political Science Review, 2021.
2021	Jason C. Coronel, Ohio State University “Investigating the generation and spread of numerical misinformation: A combined eye movement monitoring and social transmission approach.” Human Communication Research, 2020.
2021	Shannon Poulsen, Ohio State University “Investigating the generation and spread of numerical misinformation: A combined eye movement monitoring and social transmission approach.” Human Communication Research, 2020.
2021	Matthew D. Sweitzer, Ohio State University “Investigating the generation and spread of numerical misinformation: A combined eye movement monitoring and social transmission approach.” Human Communication Research, 2020.
2021	Honorable Mention Andrew Guess, Princeton University “A Digital Media Literacy Intervention Increases Discernment Between Mainstream and False News In The United States And India.” PNAS, 117, 15536-15545.
2021	Michael Lerner, University of Michigan “A Digital Media Literacy Intervention Increases Discernment Between Mainstream and False News In The United States And India.” PNAS, 117, 15536-15545.
2021	Benjamin Lyons, University of Utah “A Digital Media Literacy Intervention Increases Discernment Between Mainstream and False News In The United States And India.” PNAS, 117, 15536-15545.
2021	Honorable Mention Jacob Montgomery, Washington University in St. Louis “A Digital Media Literacy Intervention Increases Discernment Between Mainstream and False News In The United States And India.” PNAS, 117, 15536-15545.
2021	Honorable Mention Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College “A Digital Media Literacy Intervention Increases Discernment Between Mainstream and False News In The United States And India.” PNAS, 117, 15536-15545.
2021	Honorable Mention Jason Reifler, University of Exeter “A Digital Media Literacy Intervention Increases Discernment Between Mainstream and False News In The United States And India.” PNAS, 117, 15536-15545.
2021	Honorable Mention Neelanjan Sircar, Ashoka University “A Digital Media Literacy Intervention Increases Discernment Between Mainstream and False News In The United States And India.” PNAS, 117, 15536-15545.
2020	Natalie Jomini Stroud, University of Texas at Austin “Social Media Engagement With Strategy- and Issue-Framed Political News.” Journal of Communication, 2019.
2020	Ashley Muddiman, Kansas University “Social Media Engagement With Strategy- and Issue-Framed Political News.” Journal of Communication, 2019.
2020	Alexis M. Lerner, University of Texas at Austin “The Co-optation of Dissent in Hybrid States: Post-Soviet Graffiti in Moscow.” Comparative Political Studies, 2019.
2019	Johanna Dunaway, Texas A&M; University “News Attention in a Mobile Era.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 23(2): 107–124.
2019	Kathleen Searles, Louisiana State University “News Attention in a Mobile Era.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 23(2): 107–124.
2019	Mingxiao Sui, Ferrum College “News Attention in a Mobile Era.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 23(2): 107–124.
2019	Newly Paul, Appalachian State University “News Attention in a Mobile Era.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 23(2): 107–124.
2018	Jessica T. Feezell, University of New Mexico “Agenda-Setting Through Social Media: The Importance of Incidental News Exposure and Social Filtering in the Digital Era.” Political Research Quarterly. 2017.
2017	Leticia Bode, Georgetown University “Political News in the News: Learning Politics from Social Media.” Mass Communication and Society 19(1): 24–48.
2016	Cristian Vaccari, University of Edinburgh Andrew Chadwick, Loughborough University Ben O’Loughlin, Royal Holloway, University of London “Dual Screening the Political: Media Events, Social Media, and Citizen Engagement.” Journal of Communication 65(6): 1041-1061. 2015.