African Politics Conference Group Section Award Recipients
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Best Article Award
Best Book Award
Lynne Rienner Award for Best Disseration
Best Graduate Student Paper
Distinguished Africanist Award
Best Article Award
| 2024 | Justin Davis, University of Michigan Martha Wilfarht, University of California, Berkeley “Enumerator Experiences in Violent Research Environments.” Comparative Political Studies, 2023. |
| 2022 | Eliabeth Wellman, University of the Witwatersrand “Emigrant Inclusion in Home Country Elections: Theory and Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa,” American Political Science Review , Volume 115 , Issue 1 , February 2021 , pp. 82 – 96. |
| 2021 | Anne Meng, University of Virginia “Winning the Game of Thrones: Leadership Succession in Modern Autocracies.” Journal of Conflict Resolution. |
| 2020 | Amanda Lea Robinson “How to close the gender gap in politicalparticipation: Lessons from matrilineal societies in Africa.” Journal of Modern African Studies 52(4): 571-595. |
| 2020 | Jessica Gottlieb “How to close the gender gap in politicalparticipation: Lessons from matrilineal societies in Africa.” Journal of Modern African Studies 52(4): 571-595. |
| 2019 | Tom O’Mealia “Networks of Violence and Becoming: Youth and the Politics of Patronage in Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Delta.” Journal of Modern African Studies 52(4): 571-595. |
| 2019 | Mai Hassan “Networks of Violence and Becoming: Youth and the Politics of Patronage in Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Delta.” Journal of Modern African Studies 52(4): 571-595. |
| 2018 | Claire Adida “Reducing or Reinforcing In-Group Preferences? An Experiment on Information and Ethnic Voting.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 12: 437-477. |
| 2018 | Jessica Gottlieb “Reducing or Reinforcing In-Group Preferences? An Experiment on Information and Ethnic Voting.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 12: 437-477. |
| 2018 | Eric Kramon “Reducing or Reinforcing In-Group Preferences? An Experiment on Information and Ethnic Voting.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 12: 437-477. |
| 2018 | Gwyneth McClendon “Reducing or Reinforcing In-Group Preferences? An Experiment on Information and Ethnic Voting.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 12: 437-477. |
| 2014 | Akin Iwilade “Networks of Violence and Becoming: Youth and the Politics of Patronage in Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Delta.” Journal of Modern African Studies 52(4): 571-595. |
| 2013 | Dominika Koter, Colgate University “Kingmakers: Local Leaders and Ethnic Politics in Africa” World Politics 65 (2): 187-232). |
| 2012 | Severine Autesserre, Barnard College, Columbia University “Dangerous Tales: Dominant Narratives on the Congo and their Unintended Consequences” African Affairs 111, 413 (April 2012) |
| 2011 | Claire Adida “Too Close for Comfort? Immigrant Exclusion in Africa.” Comparative Political Studies 44 (2011): 1370–1396. |
| 2010 | Mireille Razafindrakoto “Are International Databases on Corruption Reliable? A Comparison of Expert Opinion Surveys and Household Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development, 38 (8): 1057–1069. |
| 2010 | François Roubaud “Are International Databases on Corruption Reliable? A Comparison of Expert Opinion Surveys and Household Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development, 38 (8): 1057–1069. |
| 2009 | Leonardo R. Arriola “Patronage and Political Stability in Africa,” Comparative Political Studies 42 (10). |
| 2008 | Susanne D. Mueller “The Political Economy of Kenya’s Crisis,” Journal of Eastern African Studies 2 (2): 185–210. |
| 2007 | Lahra Smith “Voting for an Ethnic Identity: Procedural and Institutional Responses to Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia,” Journal of Modern African Studies 45, no. 4: 565–594. |
| 2006 | Jeremy Weinstein “Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War,” American Political Science Review 100 (3): 429–448. |
| 2006 | Macartan Humphreys “Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War,” American Political Science Review 100 (3): 429–448. |
| 2004 | Eghosa E. Osaghae “Political Transitions and Ethnic Conflict in Africa.” Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. XXI, No. 1 (2004), pp. 221-240.e |
Best Book Award
Books analyze an issue related to political science or international relations with special reference to Africa. The book should employ methodological techniques regarded as appropriate by any subgroup of contemporary political scientists. Edited volumes are not eligible.
| 2024 | David Mwambari, Leuven University Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Postgenocide Rwanda. Oxford University, 2023. |
| 2024 | Noah Nathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland. Cambridge University Press, 2023. |
| 2021 | Janet Lewis, George Washington University |
| 2020 | Ken Ochieng’ Opalo Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies. Cambridge University Press. |
| 2020 | Nicholas Smith Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Oxford University Press. |
| 2019 | Eric Kramon Money for Votes: The Causes and Consequences of Electoral Clientelism in Africa. Cambridge University Press. |
| 2018 | Timothy Longman Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Cambridge University Press. |
| 2015 | Catherine Boone Property and Political Order in Africa: Land Rights and Structure of Politics. Cambridge University Press. |
| 2013 | Rachel Beatty Riedl Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa Cambridge University Press |
| 2012 | Leonardo Arriola, University of California, Berkeley Multiethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns New York: Cambridge University Press |
| 2012 | M. Anne Pitcher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa’s Democracies New York: Cambridge University Press |
| 2011 | Adrienne LeBas From Protest to Parties. Party-Building and Democratization in Africa. Oxford University Press |
| 2010 | Charles Piot Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War. University of Chicago Press |
| 2009 | Pierre Englebert Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow. Lynne Rienner Publishers |
| 2008 | Susan D. Wing Constructing Democracy in Transitioning Societies of Africa: Constitutionalism and Deliberation in Mali. Palgrave-MacMillan. |
| 2007 | Elizabeth Schmidt Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958. Ohio University Press |
| 2006 | Joshua B. Rubongoya Regime Hegemony in Museveni’s Uganda. Palgrave-Macmillan |
| 2005 | Dan Posner Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa. Cambridge University Press |
| 2004 | Dennis Galvan The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal. University of California Press. |
Lynne Rienner Award for Best Disseration
The award carries a prize and is intended to recognize outstanding scholarship in African politics.
| 2024 | Nikolaos Frantzeskakis, Michigan State University “Speaking of Home: Local Representation and Re-Election in Africa.” |
| 2022 | Delanyo Kpo, Princeton University “Returns on Repatriation: The Effects of Return Migration on Democratic Politics,” Princeton University, Politics Department, submitted 2021. |
| 2021 | David Ngendo-Tshimba, Makerere University “Transgressing Buyira: An historical inquiry into violence astride a Congo-Uganda border |
| 2020 | Amanda Edgell, University of Florida “Crowing Hens or Party Pawns? The Causes and Consequences of Gender Quotas in Authoritarian Regimes” |
| 2020 | Beth Wellman, Yale Univeristy “Citizenship Beyond Borders: The Politics of Emigrant Enfranchisement in Africa” |
| 2018 | Modupe Oshikoya, UMass Boston “Exploring the Impact of Insurgencies on Gender-Based Violence and the Nigerian Armed Forces: The Boko Haram Case” |
| 2017 | Sobukwe Odinga, CUNY “Looking For Leverage: Hard Bargaining and US-Africa Security Partnerships” |
| 2015 | Jeffery Paller, University of Wisconsin “African Slums: Constructing Democracy in Unlikely Places” |
| 2014 | Matthew Mitchell, Queen’s University |
| 2013 | Matthew I. Mitchell, Queen’s University, Ph.D. Dissertation: Rethinking the Migration-Conflict Nexus: Insights from the Cocoa Regions in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana” |
| 2012 | Janet Lewis, Harvard University “How Rebellion Begins: Insurgent Group Formation and Viability in Uganda” |
| 2011 | Jaimie Bleck, Cornell University “Schooling Citizens: Education, Citizenship, and Democracy in Mali” |
| 2010 | Jenifer Brass, University of California, Berkeley “Surrogates for Government? NGOs and the State in Kenya” |
Best Graduate Student Paper
The award carries a cash prize and is intended to recognize outstanding scholarship in African politics.
| 2024 | Lindsey Pruett, Cornell University “Resisting the Blood Tax: Capacity, Railroads and Draft Evasion in Colonial West Africa.” |
| 2021 | Anna Wilke, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2020 | Nicolai Schulz, LondonSchool of Economics and Political Science “The Politics of Export Restrictions: A panel data analysis of African commodity processing industries” |
| 2018 | Justine M. Davis “Wartime Experiences of Civil Leaders: Legacies of Civil War in Cote D’Ivoire” |
| 2017 | Sarah Brierley “Unprincipled Principals: Co-opted Bureaucrats and Corruption in Local Governments in Ghana.” |
| 2015 | Martha Wilfahrt, Cornell University |
| 2013 | Milli Lake, Ph.D. (2014), University of Washington “Organized Hypocrisy: External Actors and Building the Rule of Law in Fragile States.” |
| 2013 | Amanda Robinson, Stanford University “Nationalism and Inter-Ethnic Trust: Evidence from an African Border Region” |
| 2013 | Honorable Mention Manuela Travaglianti, New York University “Violent Out-Bidding: Violence against Co-Ethnics in Burundi’s 2010 Elections” |
| 2012 | Amanda Robinson “Nationalism and Inter-Ethnic Trust: Evidence from an African Border Region” |
| 2011 | Robin Harding “One for the Road: Voting for Public Goods in Ghana” |
| 2010 | Peace Medie “Theorizing Policy Implementation: Enforcing Gender-Based Violence Laws in Post-Conflict Liberia.” |
| 2009 | Kim Yi Dionne |
Distinguished Africanist Award
| 2024 | Catherine Boone, London School of Economics |