William Anderson Award Recipients

Year	Author	Dissertation	Submitted by
2019	Jacob Grumbach	Polarized Federalism: Activists, Voters, and the Resurgence of State Policy in the U.S.	University of California, Berkeley
2018	Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer	“States Divided: History, Conflict, and State Formation in Mexico and Colombia”	Cornell University
2017	Bai Linh Hoang	Democratic Listening? Race and Representation in Local Politics	University of Michigan
2016	Philip Rocco	Reorganizing the Activist State: Conservatives, Commissions, and the Politics of Federalism, 1947-1996	University of California, Berkeley
2015	Alexis Walker	Solidarity’s Wedge: How America’s Federalized Labor Law Divides and Diminishes Organized Labor in the United States	Cornell University
2014	Steven Rogers	Accountability in a Federal System	Princeton University
2013	Clayton Nall	The Road to Conflict: How the American Highway System Divides Communities and Polarizes Politics	Harvard University
2012	Paul Nolette	Advancing National Policy I the Courts: The Use of Multistate Litigation by State Attorneys General	Boston College
2011	Michael Callaghan Pisapia	Public Education and the Role of Women in American Political Development, 1852-1979	University of Wisconsin, Madison
2010	Zachary Callen	The Seams of the State: Infrastructure and Intergovernmental Relations in American State Building	University of Chicago
2009	Alison Post	Liquid Assets and Fluid Contracts: Explaining the Uneven Effects of Water and Sanitation Privatization	Harvard University
2008	Traci Renee Burch	Punishment and Participation	Harvard University
2007	Ronald S. Smith	Discerning Differences in Social Capital: The Significance of Interpersonal Network and Neighborhood Association Structure on Citizen Participation	University of California, Davis
2006	Joon Suk Kim	Making States Federatively: Alternative Routes of State Formation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe	University of Chicago
2005	Michael C. Craw	Bringing the City Back In: Municipal Governments in U.S. Redistributive Policy	Michigan State University
2004	Christopher Berry	Imperfect Union: Fiscal Externalities in Multi-Level Governments	University of Chicago
2003	Thad Kousser	How Term Limits and Professionalization Reshape America’s State Legislatures	University of California, Berkeley
2002	David Stuligross	A Piece of Land to Call One’s Own	University of California, Berkeley
2001	Pieter J. van Houten	Regional Assertiveness in Western Europe: Political Constraints and the Role of Party Competition	University of Chicago
2000	Pamela W. Winston	The Devil in Devolution: Welfare, the Nation, and the States	Johns Hopkins University
1999	David Buchholz	Competition and Corporate Incentives: Dilemmas in Economic Development	Duke University
1999	Greg M. Shaw	Public Opinion and Welfare in the United States	Columbia University
1998	Kirk Emerson	The Emergence of State Property Rights Legislation: A Comparative State Policy Analysis	Indiana University
1997	Dale Mason	Interest Group Federalism: Indian Gaming and the Status of Indian Tribe in the American Political System	University of Oklahoma
1996	Thomas M. Carsey	Election Dynamics: Candidate Strategy and Electoral Cleavages in United States Gubernatorial Elections	Indiana University
1995	David A. Pizza	Structure and Cooperation in Party Politics: The Development of Urban Party Organizations in the United States, 1896-1930	University of Chicago
1994	Dewitt John	States at the Center of Environmental Politics	University of Chicago
1993	Grant D. Reeher	Narratives of Justice: Legislators’ Beliefs About Distributive Justice	Yale University
1992	Nancy Elizabeth Burns	Making Politics Permanent: The Formation of American Local Governments	Harvard University
1991	Michael B. Berkman	The State Roots of National Politics: Regional Economic Disparities and the Congressional Tax Agenda, 1978-1986	Indiana University
1990	Jeffrey J. Anderson	Territorial Networks of Interest in Britain and Germany: Regions and the Politics of Economic Decline	Yale University
1989	John C. Drew	Child Labor and Child Welfare: The Origins and Uneven Development of the American Welfare State	Cornell University
1988	No award given
1987	Barry Rabe	Functional Federalism and the Management of Federal Programs in Health Care and Education	University of Chicago
1986	Gregory R. Weiher	Theory of Urban Political Boundaries	Washington University
1985	No award given
1984	Stephen C. Godek	Determinants of Public Interest Cable Communication Policies	University of Illinois at Chicago
1983	No award given
1982	Andrew B. Dunham	Health and Politics: Cost Control and State Certificate of Need Regulation	University of Chicago
1981	No award given
1980	Bruce Jacobs	The Political Economy of Organizational Change	Harvard University
1979	Donald Kettl	Managing Community Development in the New Federalism	Yale University
1978	No award given
1977	Alfred R. Light	Intergovernmental Relations and Program Innovation: The Institutionalized Perspectives of State Administrator	University of North Carolina