Section 51 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

Recognizes the best paper on education politics and/or education policy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

2025	Mirya Holman, University of Houston Rebecca Johnson, Georgetown University Tyler Simko, Princeton University “Measuring Conflict in Local Politics.”
2024	Elizabeth K. Parker-Magyar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Workplace Networks and Civil Society in Autocracies: Evidence from Jordan.”
2023	Jared Clemons, Princeton University “Education as Human Capital.”
2023	Roland Kappe, University College London “The causal effect of foreign language learning on political attitudes.”
2022	James Druckman, Northwestern University “Legacies of Title IX: The Impact of Segregation on Policy Coalitions”
2022	Elizabeth Sharrow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Legacies of Title IX: The Impact of Segregation on Policy Coalitions”
2021	David Lopez, New York University “The Informational Foundations of Mass Education: State Formation, Legibility, and Centralization Since the 19th Century.” Paper presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.

Recognizes the best dissertation on education politics and/or education policy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

2025	Julia Smith Coyoli, Harvard University “How Unions Bring About Policy Implementation: Education Reform, Teachers’ Unions, and Subnational Politics in Mexico.”
2024	Zhamilya Mukasheva, London School of Economics “The Politics of Cost Sharing in Higher Education in OECD Countries.”
2023	Emily Dunlop, Cornell University “Education Access and Perceived Inequality After War: Continuity and Change in Post-War Burundi”
2022	Susanne Garritzmann, University of Konstanz “Education Systems and Political Inequality: How Educational Institutions Shape Turnout Gaps,” 2021.
2021	Matthew Nelsen, University of Chicago “Educating for Empowerment: Race, Socialization, and Reimagining Civic Education.” Ph.D. Dissertation submitted to Northwestern University in June 2020.

Recognizes the best book on education politics and/or education policy published in the previous two years.

2025	R. Shep Melnick, Boston College The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
2024	Michael Hartney, Boston College How Policies Make Interest Groups: Government, Unions, and American Education Policy. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
2022	Marius Busemeyer, University of Konstanz A Loud But Noisy Signal? Public Opinion and Education Reform in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
2022	Julian Garritzmann, Goeth University Frankfurt A Loud But Noisy Signal? Public Opinion and Education Reform in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
2022	Erik Neimanns, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies A Loud But Noisy Signal? Public Opinion and Education Reform in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
2021	Ursula Hackett, Royal Holloway, University of London America’s Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State. Cambridge University Press, 2020.