Section awards are presented during the APSA annual meeting awards ceremony. To learn more about any award listed, contact the award committee chair for the award.

All section 20. Comparative Politics awards to-date »

Luebbert Book Prize

The Luebbert Best Book Prize is awarded annually for the best book published in the field of comparative politics. Books published in the last two years (2024 and 2025) are eligible. Self-nominations are welcomed.

Please apply using this form: Luebbert Best Book Prize Nomination Form (2024-25)

 Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2026

Name	Affiliation	Email Address
Short Listing Committee
Erica Frantz (Chair)	Michigan State University	ericaemilyfrantz@yahoo.com
Volha Charnysh	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	charnysh@mit.edu
Kirk Hawkins	Brigham Young University	kirk_hawkins@byu.edu
Final Selection Committee
Yoshiko Herrera (Chair)	University of Wisconsin	yherrera@wisc.edu
Sebastian Mazzuca	Johns Hopkins University	smazzuca@jhu.edu
Soledad Artiz Prillaman	Stanford University	soledadp@stanford.edu

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Luebbert Article Prize

The Luebbert Best Article Prize is for the best article published in the field of comparative politics in 2024 and 2025. Articles must be formally published in print—with an assigned journal volume and issue number—in 2024 or 2025. Articles available only as “online first” versions are not eligible. Self-nominations are welcomed.

Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Rafaela Dancygier (Chair)	Princeton University	rdancygi@princeton.edu
Jan Pierskalla	The Ohio State University	pierskalla.4@osu.edu
Joan Ricart-Huguet	Loyola University Maryland	jricart-huguet@loyola.edu
Rachel Beatty Riedl	Cornell University	rbeattyriedl@cornell.edu
Anne Meng	University of Virginia	ameng@virginia.edu

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Sage Paper Prize

The Sage Best Paper Prize is awarded to the best paper in the field of comparative politics presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Self-nominations are welcomed.

Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Adam Auerbach (Chair)	Yale University	adam.auerbach@yale.edu
Anirvan Chowdhury	University of Louisville	anirvan.chowdhury@louisville.edu
Aala Abdelgadir	University of Pittsburgh	aaa436@pitt.edu

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Lijphart/Przeworksi/Verba Dataset Award

The Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Best Dataset Prize is awarded annually to a publicly available dataset in the field of comparative politics. Self-nominations are welcomed. 

Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Dan Treisman	University of California, Los Angeles	treisman@polisci.ucla.edu
Nick Carnes	Duke University	nicholas.carnes@duke.edu
Jessica Gottlieb	University of Houston	jagottlieb@uh.edu

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Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholars

The Theda Skocpol Emerging Scholar Award is given to a scholar up to ten years post-PhD whose work has made impactful empirical, theoretical, and/or methodological contributions to the study of comparative politics. Self-nominations are welcome.

Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
David Samuels	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	dsamuels@umn.edu
Vicky Murillo	Columbia University	mm2140@columbia.edu
Zach Elkins	University of Texas at Austin	zelkins@austin.utexas.edu

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Bingham Powell Mentoring Award

This prize, introduced in 2012, is awarded to a political scientist who, throughout their career, has demonstrated a particularly outstanding commitment to the mentoring of graduate students in the field of comparative politics. The prize was named in honor of G. Bingham Powell, and initiated by his students. Nomination letters for the G. Bingham Powell graduate mentoring award should include, but go beyond, the academic achievements of the nominee, and provide information about the role the nominee has played in advancing the intellectual development and research careers of their mentees. Testimonials from a few former mentees can be included in the nomination letter, which should not exceed five pages. 

 Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Amanda Robinson (Chair)	The Ohio State University	robinson.1012@osu.edu
Evan Lieberman	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	evanlieb@mit.edu
Erik Bleich	Middlebury College	ebleich@middlebury.edu

Barbara Geddes Lifetime Achievement in Research, Teaching, and Graduate Mentoring Award

The biennial Geddes Lifetime Achievement in Research, Teaching, and Graduate Mentoring Award recognizes senior scholars (30+ years post-PhD) who have undertaken innovative research while also showing dedication to teaching and/or mentoring. To receive this award, a scholar must stand out in research and teaching/mentoring.

 Deadline for nominations: Not awarded in 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email

Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology

The Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology recognizes work that enhances our ability to measure and describe complex, historically contingent political events, attitudes, behaviors, or institutions (formal or informal).  The contribution can be a quantitative or qualitative dataset or archive; visual, audio, or multimedia compendium; experimental protocol; computer program; or other novel, theoretically significant contribution to comparative methodology, generally incorporated into a journal article or book.  Self-nominations are welcome.

Past examples of the kind of scholarship to be awarded include: 

– measurement of “co-ethnicity” and network connections in Weinstein et al., 2009  

– “Legitimate authority” in Dickson et al., 2014

– censorship and censorship behavior in China, as in King et al., 2014

– measures of domestic terror in Sanchez-Cuenca, 2019

 Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Miriam Golden (Chair)	Stanford University	golden@ucla.edu
Eric Dickson	New York University	eric.dickson@nyu.edu
Natalia Garbiras-Diaz	Harvard University	ngarbirasdiaz@hbs.edu