Heinz I. Eulau Award
Heinz I. Eulau Award
The Eulau Award honors the best articles published during the previous calendar year in American Political Science Review and Perspectives on Politics.
Dr. Eulau served as the president of APSA from 1971 to 1972, and this award was established to honor his contributions to the discipline. The award is presented at the APSA Annual Meeting and carries a cash prize of $750. The award for the best article published in Perspectives on Politics is supported by Cambridge University Press.
Nomination Information
Nominations are not accepted for the Eulau Award; all articles published within the past year are automatically eligible.
Award Committee
Listing of Awardees
| Year | Recipient | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Hannah S. Chapman, Margaret C. Hanson, Valery Dzutsati, and Paul DeBell | Under the Veil of Democracy: What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy (Perspectives on Politics) Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation (American Political Science Review) |
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2024 |
Blurring the Boundaries of War: PTSD in American Foreign Policy Discourse (Perspectives on Politics) Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior (American Political Science Review) | |
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2023 |
Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems in an Era of State-Building (American Political Science Review) | |
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2023 |
From the Margins to the Center: A Bottom-Up Approach to Welfare State Scholarship(Perspectives on Politics) | |
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2022 |
Slavery, Reconstruction, and Bureaucratic Capacity in the American South (American Political Science Review) | |
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2022 |
Enforcers beyond Borders: Transnational NGOs and the Enforcement of International Law(Perspectives on Politics) | |
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2021 |
Killing in the Slums: Social Order, Criminal Governance and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro(American Political Science Review) | |
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2021 |
Expressive Voting in Autocracies: A Theory of Non-Economic Participation with Evidence from Cameroon (Perspectives on Politics) | |
| 2020 | Katherine Levine Einstein, David M. Glick, and Maxwell Palmer |
Who Participates in Local Government? Evidence from Meeting Minutes (Perspectives on Politics) |
| 2020 | George Kwaku Ofosu |
Do Fairer Elections Increase the Responsiveness of Politicians? (American Political Science Review) |
| 2019 | Mark E. Button |
Bounded Rationality without Bounded Democracy: Nudges, Democratic Citizenship, and Pathways for Building Civic Capacity |
| 2019 | Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thacil |
How Clients Select Brokers: Competition and Choice in India’s Slums |
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2018 |
Matthew T. Pietryka and Donald A. DeBats |
It’s Not Just What You Have, but Whom You Know: Networks, Social Proximity to Elites, and Voting in State and Local Elections |
| 2018 |
Katherine J. Cramer and Benjamin Toff |
The Fact of Experience: Rethinking Political Knowledge and Civic Competence |
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2017 |
Matthew Kocher and Nuno Monteiro |
Lines of Demarcation: Causation, Design-Based Inference, and Historical Research |
| 2017 | Alisha Holland |
Forbearance |
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2016 |
Ariel White, Noah Nathan, Julie Faller |
What Do I Need to Vote? Bureaucratic Discretion and Discrimination by Local Election Officials |
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2016 |
Rebecca Thorpe |
Perverse Politics: The Persistence of Mass Imprisonment in the Twenty-first Century |
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2015 |
Zoltan Hajnal, Jeremy D. Horowitz |
Racial Winners and Losers in American Party Politics |
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2015 |
Carles Boix, Frances Rosenbluth |
Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality |
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2014 |
Jacob S. Hacker, Phillip Rehm, Mark Schlesinger |
The Insecure American: Economic Experiences, Financial Worries, and Policy Attitudes |
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2014 |
Dara Kay Cohen |
Explaining Rape during Civil War: Cross-National Evidence (1980-2009) |
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2013 |
Kathleen Bawn, Martin Cohen, David Karol, Seth Masket, Hans Noel, John Zaller |
A Theory of Political Parties: Groups, Policy Demands and Nominations in American Politics |
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2013 |
Regina Bateson |
Crime Victimization and Political Participation |
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2012 |
Robert O. Keohane and David G. Victor |
The Regime Complex for Climate Change |
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2012 |
Lars-Erik Cederman, Nils B. Weidmann, and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch |
Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison |
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2011 |
Michael A. Neblo, Kevin M. Esterling, Ryan P. Kennedy, David M.J. Lazer, and Anand E. Sokhey |
Who Wants to Deliberate–And Why? |
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2011 |
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Leila Mohsen Ibrahim, and Katherine D. Rubin |
The Dark Side of American Liberalism and Felony Disenfranchisement |
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2010 |
Elizabeth Levy Paluck and Donald P. Green |
Deference, Dissent, and Dispute Resolution: An Experimental Intervention Using Mass Media to Change Norms and Behavior in Rwanda |
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2010 |
Marijke Breuning and John Ishiyama |
The Politics of Intercountry Adoption: Explaining Variation in the Legal Requirements of Sub-Saharan African Countries |
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2009 |
Roger Myerson |
The Autocrat’s Credibility Problem and Foundations of the Constitutional State |
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2009 |
Michael L. Ross |
Oil, Islam, and Women |
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2009 |
Elizabeth J. Perry |
Chinese Concepts of Rights: From Mencius to Mao – and Now |
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2008 |
Jack Citrin, Amy Lerman, Michael Murakami, and Kathryn Pearson |
Testing Huntington: Is Hispanic Immigration a Threat to American Identity? |
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2008 |
James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner, Jeremy Weinstein |
Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? |
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2007 |
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson |
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective |
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2007 |
Jonas Pontusson |
The American Welfare State in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on Alberto Alesina and Edward L. |
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2006 |
Jennifer Hochschild |
Perspectives Editor’s Notes |
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2006 |
Susan Stokes |
Perverse Accountability: A Formal Model of Machine Politics with Evidence from Argentina |
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2005 |
Jonathan Bendor and Adam H. Meirowitz |
Spatial Models of Delegation |
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2005 |
Mala N. Htun |
Is Gender Like Ethnicity? The Political Representation of Identity Groups |
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2004 |
Mary Hawkesworth |
Congressional Enactments of Race-Gender: Toward a Theory of Raced-Gendered Institutions |
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2003 |
Stephen D. Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder, and Alan Gerber |
Equal Votes, Equal Money |
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2002 |
Lars-Erik Cederman |
Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Macrohistorical Learning Process |
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2001 |
Beth Simmons |
International Law and State Behavior: Commitment and Compliance in International Monetary Affairs |
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2001 |
Paul Pierson |
Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics |
|
2000 |
Carles Boix |
Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies |
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1999 |
John Mark Hansen and Christine Guillory |
Individuals, Institutions, and Public Preferences over Public Finance |
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1998 |
Christopher Anderson and Christine Guillory |
Political Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy |
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1998 |
Piotr Swistak and Jonathan Bendor |
The Evolutionary Stability of Cooperation |
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1997 |
James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin |
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation |
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1996 |
Robert S. Erikson, James A. Stimson, and Michael B. MacKuen |
Dynamic Representation |
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1995 |
Andrew Gelman and Gary King |
Enhancing Democracy Through Legislative Redistricting |
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1994 |
Elisabeth R. Gerber and John E. Jackson |
Endogenous Preferences and the Study of Institutions |
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1993 |
John D. Huber |
Restrictive Legislative Procedures in France and the United States |
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1992 |
Stuart Elaine MacDonald, George Rabinowitz, and Ola Listhaug |
Issues of Party Support in Multiparty Systems |
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1991 |
Kenneth N. Waltz |
Nuclear Myths and Political Realities |
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1990 |
John H. Aldrich, Eugene Borgida, and John L.Sullivan |
Foreign Affairs and Issue Voting: Do Presidential Candidates ‘Waltz before a Blind Audience?’ |
|
1989 |
James L. Gibson |
Political Intolerance and Political Repression during the McCarthy Red Scare |
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1988 |
Kenneth Shepsle and Barry Weingast |
The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power |
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