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 (2025 and 2026) are eligible. Self-nominations are welcomed.

 Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2027

Name	Affiliation	Email Address
Shortlisting Committee
Karrie Koesel	University of Notre Dame	kkoesel1@nd.edu
Tulia Falleti	University of Pennsylvania	falleti@sas.upenn.edu
Konstantin Sonin	University of Chicago	ksonin@uchicago.edu
Final Selection Committee
Jenny Guardado	Georgetown University	jgr45@georgetown.edu
Rory Truex	Princeton University	rtruex@princeton.edu
Seth Jolly	Syracuse University	skjolly@syr.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 2025 and 2026. Articles must be formally published in print—with an assigned journal volume and issue number—in 2025 or 2026. Articles available only as “online first” versions are not eligible. Self-nominations are welcomed.

Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Kolby Hanson	Wesleyan University	krhanson@wesleyan.edu
Zeynep Somer-Topcu	University of Texas at Austin	zsomer@utexas.edu
Jack Paine	Emory University	jackpaine@emory.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 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Self-nominations are welcomed.

Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Gabriel Leon-Ablan	King’s College London	gabriel.leon@kcl.ac.uk
Elise Pizzi	University of Iowa	elise-pizzi@uiowa.edu
Ora John Reuter	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	reutero@uwm.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 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Martha Wilfahrt	University of California, Berkeley	martha.wilfahrt@berkeley.edu
David Szakonyi	George Washington University	dszakonyi@gwu.edu
Pablo Querubin	New York University	pablo.querubin@gmail.com

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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: April 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Vicente Valentim	IE University	vicente.valentim@ie.edu
Guy Grossman	University of Pennsylvania	ggros@upenn.edu
Cesi Cruz	University of Michigan	cesi@umich.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: Not awarded in 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
TBA

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: April 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Noam Lupu	Vanderbilt University	noam.lupu@vanderbilt.edu
Alexandra Cirone	London School of Economics	a.e.cirone@lse.ac.uk
Marwa Shalaby	University of Wisconsin, Madison	marwa.shalaby@wisc.edu

Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology

The Margaret Levi Prize for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology is awarded to work published in the last two years that raises the standard of research in comparative politics. The award recognizes a work that advances contextually sensitive and theoretically significant scholarship that rigorously combines methods and approaches.  A dataset, article, book, multimedia presentation, or other form all qualify.

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 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Thad Dunning	University of California, Berkeley	thad.dunning@berkeley.edu
Yue Hou	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	yuehou@ust.hk
Emily Sellars	Yale University	emily.sellars@yale.edu