Canadian Politics Section Award Recipients
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Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award
Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award
Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award
The Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes scholarship and leadership in bringing the study of Canadian Politics to the international political science community.
| 2025 | Robert Vipond, University of Toronto |
| 2024 | William Cross, Carleton University |
| 2023 | Andrew Sancton, University of Western Ontario |
| 2022 | Donald Savoie, Université de Moncton |
| 2022 | Graham White, University of Toronto |
| 2021 | Elisabeth Gidengil, McGill University |
| 2020 | Alain-G. Gagnon, Université du Québec à Montréal |
| 2019 | Grace Skogstad, University of Toronto |
| 2018 | André Blais, Université de Montréal |
| 2017 | Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia |
| 2016 | Keith Banting, Queen’s University |
| 2015 | Lawrence LeDuc, University of Toronto |
| 2014 | Sylvia Bashevkin, University of Toronto |
| 2014 | Charles Doran Sr., Johns Hopkins University |
| 2013 | R. Kenneth Carty, University of British Columbia |
| 2012 | Peter Russell, University of Toronto |
| 2011 | Allan Kornberg, Duke University |
| 2011 | John Courtney, University of Saskatchewan |
| 2010 | Jill Vickers, Carleton University |
Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award
The Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award is given to honor a significant contemporary contribution to the scholarship on Canadian politics, or Canada in a comparative perspective, or a comparative analysis of Canada with other countries, particularly the United States.
| 2025 | Kim Pernell, University of Texas at Austin Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation. Princeton University Press, 2024. |
| 2024 | Jack Lucas, University of Calgary Ideology in Canadian Municipal Politics. University of Toronto Press, 2024. |
| 2023 | Allison Smith, University of Toronto Multiple Barriers: The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2022. |
| 2022 | Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870. Harvard University Press, 2021. |
| 2022 | Jennifer Elrick, McGill University (Honorable Mention) Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2021. |
| 2021 | Jean-François Godbout, Université de Montréal Lost on Division: Party Unity in the Canadian Parliament. University of Toronto Press, 2020. |
| 2021 | Douglas Macdonald, University of Toronto Carbon Province, Hydro Province: The Challenge of Canadian Energy and Climate Federalism. University of Toronto Press, 2020 |
| 2020 | Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, University of Toronto Remaking Policy: Scale, Pace, and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform. University of Toronto Press, 2018. |
| 2020 | Honorable Mention Megan Gaucher, Carleton University A Family Matter: Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy. UBC Press, 2018. |
| 2020 | Honorable Mention |
| 2019 | Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia |
| 2019 | Paul Saurette, University of Ottawa |
| 2018 | Debra Thompson, University of Oregon The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census. Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| 2017 | Christopher Alcantara, University of Western Ontario Negotiating the Deal: Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2013. |
| 2015 | Patrick Fournier, Universite de Montreal When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizens Assemblies on Electoral Reform. Oxford University Press 2011 |
| 2015 | Henk van der Kolk, University of Twente When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizens Assemblies on Electoral Reform. Oxford University Press 2011 |
| 2015 | R. Kenneth Carty, University of British Columbia When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizens Assemblies on Electoral Reform. Oxford University Press 2011 |
| 2015 | Andre Blais, Universite de Montreal When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizens Assemblies on Electoral Reform. Oxford University Press 2011 |
| 2015 | Jonathan Rose, Queen’s University When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizens Assemblies on Electoral Reform. Oxford University Press 2011 |
| 2014 | Royce Koop Koop, University of Manitoba “Grassroots Liberals: Organizing for Local and National Politics.” UBC Press |
| 2013 | Stuart Soroka, McGill University Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2010) |
| 2013 | Christopher Wlezien, University of Texas, Austin Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2010) |
| 2012 | Janet Ajzenstat, McMaster University The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007) |
| 2012 | Stephen Clarkson, University of Toronto Does North America Exist? Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11 (University of Toronto Press, 2008) |
| 2011 | Mildred A. Schwartz, University of Illinois at Chicago Party Movements in the United States and Canada (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006) |