APSA Comparative Democratization Section

	Comparative Democratization Section 35 of the American Political Science Association
	Officers Section Bylaws Awards Newsletter Syllabi APSA Panels Links Home How to Join	Awards The Comparative Democratization section made the first of what will be annual awards for the best book and best article published in the preceding year at the 2003 APSA meeting. (As the 2003 awards were our section's first awards, they included publications from 2001 and 2002. All future awards will recognize works published in a single year.) Please visit our archive to view past award winners.
2009 Award Committees The Comparative Democratization Section will present five awards for scholarly work at the 2009 APSA annual meeting in Toronto: the Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation, and Best Book, Best Article, Best Field Work, and Best Paper prizes. Members are strongly encouraged to submit nominations (including for several awards self-nominations) to the appropriate committees listed below. Please also forward this information to colleagues and graduate students. We ask you to note the eligibility criteria, deadlines for submissions, and materials that must accompany nominations. Please direct any queries to the committee chairs. Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy: Given for the best dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy completed and accepted in the two calendar years immediately prior to the APSA Annual Meeting where the award will be presented (2007 or 2008 for the 2009 Annual Meeting). The prize can be awarded to analyses of individual country cases as long as they are clearly cast in a comparative perspective. A hard copy of the dissertation, accompanied by a letter of support from a member of the dissertation committee should be sent to each member of the prize selection committee. Deadline: February 13, 2009 Committee Chair: Mary Gallagher Political Science University of Michigan 7634 Haven Hall Phone: 734-615-9154 Email: metg@umich.edu Committee members: Ben Ross Schneider Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room E53-470 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 Telephone: 617-253-5262 Fax: 617-258-6164 E-mail: brs@northwestern.edu David Waldner University of Virginia Department of Politics P.O. Box 400787 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904-4787 Phone: 434-924-6391 Email: daw4h@virginia.edu Best Book Award: Given for the best book in the field of comparative democratization published in 2008 (authored, co-authored or edited). Copies of the nominated book should be sent to each committee member in time to arrive by February 13, 2009. Books received after this deadline cannot be considered. Deadline: February 13, 2009 Committee Chair: Ellen Mickiewicz 205 Tadley Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Email: ellen.mickiewicz@duke.edu Committee Members: Michael Bernhard 211 Pond Lab University Park, PA 16802-6200 Email: mhb5@psu.edu Dietrich Rueschemeyer Department of Sociology Box 1916 Maxcy Hall 112 George Street Providence, RI 02912 Email: Dietrich_Rueschemeyer@Brown.EDU Best Article: Single-authored or co-authored articles focusing directly on the subject of democratization and published in 2008 are eligible. Nominations and self-nominations are encouraged. Copies of the article should be sent by postal mail to each of the committee members. Deadline: February 13, 2009 Chair: Jason Brownlee The University of Texas at Austin Department of Government 1 University Station A1800 Austin, TX 78712-0119 Phone: 512-232-7304 Email: brownlee@austin.utexas.edu Committee Members: Leslie Elliott Armijo 3927 Tempest Drive Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035 Email: leslie.armijo@cal.berkeley.edu Oisin Tansey University of Reading School of Politics and International Relations Whiteknights PO Box 218 Reading Berkshire, RG6 6AA Email: o.tansey@reading.ac.uk Best Field Work: This prize rewards dissertation students who conduct especially innovative and difficult fieldwork. Scholars who are currently writing their dissertations or who complete their dissertations in 2008 are eligible. Candidates must submit two chapters of their dissertation and a letter of nomination from the chair of their dissertation committee describing the field work. The material submitted must describe the field work in detail and should provide one or two key insights from the evidence collected in the field. The chapters may be sent electronically or in hard copy directly to each committee member. Deadline: February 13, 2009 Chair: Jonathan Fox University of California, Santa Cruz Latin American and Latino Studies Department Merrill College Merrill Academic Building, Room 32 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Phone: 831 459 4284 Email: jafox@ucsc.edu Committee Members: Melanie Manion University of Wisconsin – Madison Observatory Hill Office Building 1225 Observatory Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Phone: 608 263 9060 Email: Manion@Lafollette.wisc.edu Andrew Roberts Northwestern University Department of Political Science Evanston, IL 60208 Phone: 847-491-2636 Email: aroberts@northwestern.edu Best Paper Award: Given to the best paper presented on a panel organized or co-organized by the Comparative Democratization Section at the previous year’s APSA Convention. Papers must be nominated by panel chairs or discussants. No self nominations are permitted. Nominated papers must be sent by e-mail to each committee member listed below. Deadline: February 13, 2009 Chair: Jan Teorell Department of Political Science University of Lund Box 52, SE-22100 Lund Phone: +46 046- 2228093 Fax: +46 046- 2224006 Email: Jan.Teorell@svet.lu.se Committee Members: Adrienne LeBas Nuffield College Oxford University Oxford OX1 1NF England Phone: +44 1865 278628 Email: adrienne.lebas@nuffield.ox.ac.uk Joshua Tucker Wilf Family Department of Politics New York University 19th West 4th Street, Room 430 New York, N.Y. 10012 Phone: 212-998-7598 Email: joshua.tucker@nyu.edu
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