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.
2008 Award Committees The Comparative Democratization Section will present five awards for scholarly work at the 2008 APSA annual meeting in Boston: 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 past two calendar years prior to the APSA Annual Meeting where the award will be presented (2006 or 2007 for the 2008 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 the dissertation chair or a member of the dissertation committee, should be sent to each member of the selection committee. For inquiries, contact the Award Committee Chair. Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2008 Chair Gwendolyn Sasse Department of Politics and International Relations Nuffield College Oxford University OX1 1NF Oxford, United Kingdom Tel: 0044-1865-288689 E-mail: gwendolyn.sasse@politics.ox.ac.uk Member Aníbal Pérez-Lińán Department of Political Science University of Pittsburgh 4L01 Wesley W. Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Tel: 412-648-7291 E-mail: asp27@pitt.edu Member Juliet Johnson Department of Political Science McGill University 855 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7 Canada Tel: 514-398-6120 E-mail: juliet.johnson@mcgill.ca Best Book Award: Given for the best book in the field of comparative democratization published in 2007 (authored, co-authored or edited). Copies of the nominated book should be sent to each committee member in time to arrive by February 15, 2008. For inquiries, contact Award Committee Chair. Deadline for Submission: February 15, 2008 Chair James L. Gibson Department of Political Science Washington University Campus Box 1063 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 Tel: 314-935-5897 E-mail: jgibson@artsci.wustl.edu Member Sheri Berman Department of Political Science Barnard College Columbia University 411 Lehman Hall 3009 Broadway New York, NY 10027-6598 Tel: 212-854-2158 E-mail: sberman@barnard.edu Member Goldie Shabad Department of Political Science The Ohio State University 153 North Oval Mall Columbus, Ohio 43210 Tel: 614-292-1047 E-mail: shabad.1@osu.edu Best Article: Single-authored or co-authored articles focusing directly on the subject of democratization and published in 2007 are eligible. Nominations and self-nominations are encouraged. Copies of the article should be sent by postal mail to each committee member. Deadline for Submission: February 15, 2008 Chair Richard Snyder Political Science Brown University Box 1844 36 Prospect Street Providence, RI 02912 Tel: 401-863-1578 E-mail: Richard_Snyder@brown.edu Member For articles mailed through December 10, 2007: Robert Fishman Kellogg Institute University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 E-mail: fishman.2@nd.edu For articles mailed after December 10, 2007: Robert M. Fishman Departament de CPIS Universitat Pompeu Fabra Ramon Trias Fargas, 25 - 27 08005 Barcelona SPAIN E-mail: fishman.2@nd.edu Member José Antonio Cheibub Department of Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 379 Lincoln Hall 702 South Wright Street, MC-446 Urbana, IL 61801 Tel: 217-333-3273 E-mail: cheibub@uiuc.edu Best Field Work: This prize rewards dissertation students who conduct especially innovative and difficult fieldwork. Scholars who are currently writing their dissertations or who have completed their dissertations in 2007 are eligible. Candidates must submit three 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 for Submission: April 2, 2008 Chair Kathryn Stoner-Weiss Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Stanford University Encina Hall C152 Stanford, CA 94305-6055 Tel: 650-736-1820 E-mail: ksweiss@stanford.edu Member Michael Mitchell Department of Political Science Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona 85297-2001 Tel: 480-965-1318 E-mail: michael.mitchell@asu.edu Member Devra C. Moehler Department of Government Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Tel: 607-255-8270 E-mail: dcm37@cornell.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. Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2008 Chair Kurt Weyland Department of Government The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station A1800 Austin, TX 78712-0119 Tel: 512-232-7253 E-mail: kweyland@mail.la.utexas.edu Member Kathleen Collins Department of Political Science University of Minnesota 1414 Social Sciences Building 267 19th Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55455 Tel: 612-624-4144 (Department) E-mail: colli433@umn.edu Member Marsha Posusney Department of History and Social Sciences Bryant University 1150 Douglas Pike Smithfield, RI 02917 Tel: 401-232-6419 E-mail: marsha2p@leonardo.bryant.edu
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