Section 35 of the American Political Science Association
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.
The Comparative Democratization Section will present five awards for scholarly work at the 2010 APSA annual meeting in Washington, D.C.: 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 (2008 or 2009 for the 2010 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 12, 2010
Committee Chair:
Catherine Boone
University of Texas, Austin
Dept. of Government
1 University Station A1800
Austin, TX 78712
Telephone: 512-232-7249
Email: cboone@mail.la.utexas.edu
Committee members:
Gerardo Luis Munck
Professor of International Relations
University of Southern California
3518 Trousdale Parkway, VKC 330
Los Angeles, CA. 90089-0043
Telephone: 213-821-2720
E-mail: munck@email.usc.edu
Daniel Ziblatt
Center for European Studies
Harvard University
27 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: 617-495-4303
E-mail: dziblatt@fas.harvard.edu
Best Book Award:
Given for the best book in the field of comparative democratization published in 2009 (authored, co-authored or edited). Copies of the nominated book should be sent to each committee member in time to arrive by February 12, 2010. Books received after this deadline cannot be considered.
Deadline: February 12, 2010
Committee Chair:
Anna Grzymala-Busse
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Telephone: 734-763-4699
E-mail: abusse@umich.edu
Committee members:
Jacques Bertrand
Asian Institute, University of Toronto
Munk Centre for International Studies
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, ON
M5S 3K7
Telephone: 416-946-8982
E-mail: bertrand@chass.utoronto.ca
Thad Dunning
Political Science
Yale University
115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall, Room 420
P.O. Box 208301
New Haven, CT 06520-8301
Telephone: 203-432-6063
E-mail: thad.dunning@yale.edu
Best Article:
Single-authored or co-authored articles focusing directly on the subject of democratization and published in 2009 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 12, 2010
Committee Chair:
Evan S. Lieberman
Department of Politics
Princeton University
239 Corwin Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Telephone: 609-258-6833
E-mail: esl@princeton.edu
Committee members:
Eva Bellin
Department of Political Science
Hunter College
1705 HW
695 Park Ave
NY, NY 10065
Telephone: 212-772-5666
E-mail:ebellin@hunter.cuny.edu
Steven Levitsky
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: 617-495-9997
E-mail: levitsky@wcfia.harvard.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 complete their dissertations in 2009 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 12, 2010
Committee Chair:
Melani Cammett
Department of Political Science
Brown University
Box 1844
36 Prospect Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: 401-863-1570
E-mail: Melani_Cammett@Brown.EDU
Committee members:
Fotini Christia
Department of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E53-425
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Telephone: 617-324-5595
E-mail: cfotini@mit.edu
Alexandra Scacco
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
E-mail: als2110@columbia.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 12, 2010
Committee Chair:
Scott Mainwaring
Department of Political Science
University of Notre Dame
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Telephone: 574-631-8530
E-mail: Scott.P.Mainwaring.1@nd.edu
Committee members:
Henry Hale
The Elliot School of International Affairs
The George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW Suite 412
Washington, D.C. 20052
Phone: (202) 994-4810
E-mail: hhale@gwu.edu
Dan Slater
Department of Political Science
University of Chicago
5828 S. University Ave., Pick 401
Chicago, IL 60637
Telephone: 773-702-2941
E-mail: slater@uchicago.edu