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    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