Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award Recipients
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Kristina Miler | Poor Representation: Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the United States | Cambridge University Press |
| 2018 | Daniel Ziblatt | Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy | Harvard University Press |
| 2017 | Eric Schickler | Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965 | Princeton University Press |
| 2016 | Prerna Singh | How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India | Cambridge University Press |
| 2015 | Ben Ansell and David Samuels | Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time | Cambridge University Press |
| 2014 | Ira Katznelson | Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time | W.W. Norton & Company |
| 2014 | Denise Kiernan | The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II | Touchstone/Simon & Schuster |
| 2013 | Martin Gilens | Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America | Princeton University Press/Russell Sage Foundation |
| 2012 | Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan | Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict | Columbia University Press |
| 2011 | Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell | American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us | Simon and Schuster |
| 2010 | Beth A. Simmons | Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics | Cambridge University Press |
| 2009 | Jens Meierhenrich | The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa | Cambridge University Press |
| 2008 | Etel Solingen | Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia | Princeton University Press |
| 2007 | Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy | Cambridge University Press |
| 2007 | Stathis Kalyvas | The Logic of Violence in Civil War | Cambridge University Press |
| 2006 | Philip E. Tetlock | Expert Political Judgement: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? | Princeton University Press |
| 2005 | Kathleen Thelen | How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan | Cambridge University Press |
| 2005 | Steve I. Wilkinson | Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India | Cambridge University Press |
| 2004 | Martha Finnemore | The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force | Cornell University Press |
| 2003 | Mark Beissinger | Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State | Cambridge University Press |
| 2002 | Tali Mendelberg | The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality | Princeton University Press |
| 2001 | Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarex, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Fernado Limongi | Democracy and Development | Cambridge University Press |
| 2000 | Barry O’Neill | Honor, Symbols, and War | University of Michigan Press |
| 1999 | Rodney E. Hero | Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics | Oxford University Press |
| 1998 | Gary W. Cox | Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems | Cambridge University Press |
| 1997 | Jane Junn, Norman Nie and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry | Education and Democratic Citizenship in America | University of Chicago Press |
| 1996 | Herbert Kitschelt | The Radical Right in Western Europe | University of Michigan Press |
| 1995 | Beth A. Simmons | Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years | Princeton University Press |
| 1994 | Carol M. Swain | Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress | Harvard University Press |
| 1993 | Theda Skocpol | Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States | The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |
| 1992 | Paul M. Sniderman, Richard A. Brody, and Philip E. Tetlock | Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology | Cambridge University Press |
| 1991 | Charles E. Lindblom | Inquiry and Change | Yale University Press/Russell Sage Foundation |
| 1990 | Robert A. Dahl | Democracy and Its Critics | Yale University Press |
| 1989 | Larry Bartels | Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice | Princeton University Press |
| 1988 | Robert Gilpin | The Political Economy of International Relations | Princeton University Press |
| 1987 | Peter Hall | Governing the Economy | Oxford University Press |
| 1987 | Philip E. Converse and Roy Pierce | Political Representation in France | Harvard University Press |
| 1986 | Peter Katzenstein | Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe | Cornell University Press |
| 1985 | Barry R. Posen | The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain and Germany between the World Wars | Cornell University Press |
| 1984 | George Th. Mavrogordatos | Stillborn Republic: Social Coalitions and Party Strategies in Greece, 1922-1936 | University of California Press |
| 1983 | G. Bingham Powell | Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability, and Violence | Harvard University Press |
| 1982 | Paul E. Peterson | City Limits | University of Chicago Press |
| 1981 | John P. Gaventa | Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley | University of Illinois Press |
| 1980 | Leslie H. Gelb with Richard K. Betts | The Irony of Vietnam | Brookings Institution |
| 1979 | Richard F. Fenno, Jr. | Home Style | Little Brown |
| 1978 | Charles E. Lindblom | Politics and Markets | Basic Books |
| 1977 | Norman H. Nie, Sidney Verba, and John R. Petrocik | The Changing American Voter | Harvard University Press |
| 1976 | Robert A. Alford | Health Care Politics | University of Chicago Press |
| 1975 | Hugh Heclo | Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden | Yale University Press |
| 1974 | Robert A. Scalapino and Chong-sik Lee | Communism in Korea | University of California Press |
| 1973 | Michael Brecher | The Foreign Policy System of Israel: Setting, Images, Processes | Yale University Press |
| 1972 | David E. Apter | Choice and the Politics of Allocation | Yale University Press |
| 1971 | Ted Robert Gurr | Why Men Rebel | Princeton University Press |
| 1970 | David Butler and Donald E. Stokes | Political Change in Britain | St. Martin’s Press |
| 1969 | Robert G. Dixon, Jr. | Democratic Representation | Oxford University Press |
| 1968 | Duncan MacRae, Jr. | Parliament, Parties, and Society in France, 1946-1958 | St. Martin’s Press |
| 1967 | Barrington Moore, Jr. | Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy | Beacon Press |
| 1966 | Samuel H. Beer | British Politics in the Collectivist Age | Alfred A. Knopf |
| 1965 | Robert E. Agger, Daniel Goldrich, and Bert E. Swanson | The Rulers and the Ruled | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
| 1965 | Samuel J. Eldersveld | Political Parties: A Behavioral Analysis | Rand McNally |
| 1964 | Raymond A. Bauer, Ithiel de Sola Pool, and Anthony Lewis Dexter | American Business and Public Policy | Atherton Press |
| 1963 | Inis L. Claude | Power and International Relations | Random House |
| 1962 | Robert A. Dahl | Who Governs? | Yale University Press |
| 1961 | Richard Neustadt | Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership | John Wiley and Sons, Inc. |
| 1960 | Arnold Brecht | Political Theory | Princeton University Press |
| 1959 | Christian Bay | The Structure of Freedom | Stanford University Press |
| 1959 | James S. Coleman | Nigeria: Background to Nationalism | University of California |
| 1958 | Henry A. Kissinger | Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy | Harper & Row |
| 1958 | Rexford G. Tugwell | The Democratic Roosevelt | Doubleday and Company |
| 1957 | James MacGregor Burns | The Lion and the Fox | Harcourt, Brace and Company |
| 1956 | Louis Hartz | The Liberal Tradition in America | Harcourt, Brace and Company |
| 1955 | Jacobus ten Broek, Edward N. Barnhart, and Floyd W. Matson | Prejudice, War, and the Constitution | University of California Press |
| 1954 | Bertram M. Gross | The Legislative Struggle: A Study in Social Combat | McGraw-Hill Book Company |
| 1953 | Clinton Rossiter | Seedtime of the Republic | Brace & Company |
| 1952 | Samuel Lubbell | The Future of American Politics | Harper & Row |
| 1951 | John B. Herz | Political Realism and Political Idealism | University of Chicago Press |
| 1950 | Stephen K. Bailey | Congress Makes a Law | Columbia University Press |
| 1949 | V.O. Key | Southern Politics in State and Nation | Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. |
| 1948 | Leonard D. White | The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History | Macmillan Company |
| 1947 | Robert M. MacIver | The Web of Government | Macmillan Company |
