The James Madison Award recognizes an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science. The award is made triennially, and the recipient delivers a lecture at the APSA Annual Meeting.

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• 2020 James Madison Lecture: “Liberalism and Nationalism in Contemporary America”
  John J. Mearsheimer

• 2017 James Madison Lecture: “The Ethics of Counting”
  Deborah Stone

• 2014 James Madison Lecture: “The Global Politics of Climate Change: Challenge for Political Science”
  Robert O. Keohane
  
  
• 2011 James Madison Lecture: “On the Importance of Getting Things Done”
  Jane Mansbridge
  
  
• 2008 James Madison Lecture: “Bend Sinister: How the Constitution Saved the Republic and Lost Itself”
  Theodore J. Lowi
            
• 2005 James Madison Lecture: “Converting Threats into Opportunities”
  Elinor Ostrom
  
  
• 2002 James Madison Lecture: “Supermajority Rule in the US Senate”
  David R. Mayhew
  
  
• 1999 James Madison Lecture: “Globalization and Governance”
  Kenneth N. Waltz