Ideas, Knowledge and Politics Award Recipients
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Jeffrey Friedman Best Book on Ideas, Knowledge and Politics Award
The Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics (IKP) section announces its Best Book Award, for the best recent work on empirical or normative aspects of the role of ideas or knowledge in politics or government. The committee is authorized to go back several years, at its discretion, and to make its own nominations as well as accepting nominations from others, including book authors.
| 2025 | Paul David Beaumont, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs The Grammar of Status Competition: International Hierarchies and Domestic Politics. Oxford University Press, 2024. |
| 2023 | Adam Lerner, University of Massachusetts Lowell From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics, Oxford University Press, 2022. |
| 2022 | Jeffery Friedman, Harvard University Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy, Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| 2021 | Vivien Schmidt, Boston University Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy. Oxford University Press, 2020. |
| 2020 | Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh The Political Uses of Knowledge. Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
| 2019 | Robert E. Goodin, Australian National University An Epistemic Theory of Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2018. |
| 2019 | Kai Spiekermann, London School of Economics An Epistemic Theory of Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2018. |
| 2018 | Helene Landemore, Yale University Democratic Reason, Princeton University Press, 2013. |
Best Graduate Student Paper
This award will recognize the APSA conference paper by a graduate student or post-doc, presented at an IKP panel at the most recent annual meetings, that best explored the role of ideas or knowledge in politics or government. Nominations will be solicited from IKP panel chairs and discussants.
| 2021 | Anke Gruendel, New School for Social Research “The Politics of Wicked Problems” |
| 2020 | Matthew Benjamin Cole, Harvard University “Toward a Critical Theory of Technology: Power, Knowlege, and Elite Domination” |
| 2019 | Naomi Scheinerman, Yale University “When the Left and Right Make Strange Bedfellows: Vaccinations and Democracy” |
| 2018 | Kevin J. Elliott, Columbia University “The Division of Epistemic Labor and Democratic Performance” |