The 2020 APSA Awards

2020 ANNUAL MEETING

ecognizing excellence in the profession is one of the Professor Jennings has been a leader in the fields of politi- most important roles of APSA. Through the service of cal socialization, political psychology, and women and politics. member committees who review nominations, APSA His books and numerous articles in leading journals in political confers awards for the best dissertations, papers and science opened the field to the study of the early sources of politi- articles, and books in the various subfields of the disci- cal attitudes and behavior and the changes in those attitudes and Rpline as well as for career achievement in research, teaching, and behavior over time. The significance of his scholarship has been service to the discipline. The 2020 APSA Awards were presented recognized by his election to the American Academy of Arts and at the virtual meeting on Wednesday, September 9. Sciences and prestigious fellowships at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and the Netherlands Institute FRANK J. GOODNOW AWARD for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Frank Johnson Goodnow Award was established by the APSA Generations of doctoral students have benefited from Council in 1996 to honor service to the community of teachers, Jennings’s mentorship, especially a large number of female schol- researchers, and public servants who work in the many fields of ars. When there were few women in the field and when they faced politics. Frank J. Goodnow, the first president of the American Polit- significant obstacles to professional success, Jennings fostered ical Science Association, a pioneer in the development of judicial their careers, bringing them in as research assistants and coau- politics, and former president of Johns Hopkins University, is an thors. In doing so, he supported the first generation of gender and exemplar of the public service and volunteerism that this award politics scholars, helping to create a new subfield in the profes- represents. Award Committee: Arlene W. Saxonhouse, chair, sion. For this, he was named “mentor of distinction” twice by the University of Michigan; James P. Pfiffner, George Mason Univer- Women’s Caucus for Political Science. sity; Michele L. Swers, Georgetown University. Recipient: M. In recognition of his years of service to the profession, for Kent Jennings, University of California, Santa Barbara. his path-breaking scholarship, and his mentorship of scores of Citation: Professor Jennings has had a distinguished career younger scholars, Professor Jennings is a worthy recipient of the of service to the political science community, he has been an intel- Frank J. Goodnow Award. lectual leader in the field, and he has mentored many of today’s leading scholars. BARBARA SINCLAIR AWARD Jennings was president of APSA (1997–98) and served APSA This award commemorates the life and scholarship of renowned on a variety of committees including, among others, the Program scholar of legislative politics Barbara Sinclair. Each year a Committee and the Committee on the Status of Women. He has speaker will be selected to deliver the lecture, held at American been a member of multiple editorial boards including the Ameri- University. The inaugural Barbara Sinclair Lecture took place in can Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Public fall 2018. Speaker selection recognizes achievement in promot- Opinion Quarterly, and Women and Politics. He was also presi- ing understanding of the US Congress and legislative politics. The dent of the International Society of Political Psychology and vice lecture and speaker honorarium are cosponsored by the Center president of the Midwest Political Science Association. Jennings for Congressional and Presidential Studies, School of Public cofounded the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Affairs, American University. Award Committee: David C. Research (ICPSR) and was its associate director for 20 years. He Barker, co-chair, American University; Meghan McConaughey, was also a founding member of the International Society for Politi- co-chair, American Political Science Association; Lauren Cohen cal Psychology (ISPP) and shares the credit for creating an interna- Bell, Randolph-Macon College; Jason P. Casellas, University of tional infrastructure that brings together political psychologists from Houston; Michelle Chin, The Archer Center. Recipient: Richard multiple disciplines and provides a journal, annual meetings and Hall, University of Michigan. annual training workshops. For these efforts, Jennings received Citation: Professor Rick Hall is an esteemed scholar studying the Warren E. Miller Prize for Outstanding Career of Intellectual the wide range of issues involved in making sense of Congress. His Accomplishment and Service to work exemplifies the criteria for this award, promoting an under- the Profession from APSA’s orga- standing of the US Congress and legislative politics. In select- nized section on Elections, Public ing this year’s Barbara Sinclair Lecturer, the selection committee Opinion and Voting Behavior, particularly noted that Rick’s Participation in Congress, which the Miller Award for Meritorious won the American Political Science Association’s 1997 Richard Service to the Social Sciences Fenno Prize, provides the foundation upon which a successive from the ICPSR, and the Nevitt generation of legislative scholars has built its own research. Partic- Sanford Award for Distinguished ipation in Congress remains an essential part of the legislative Contribution to Political Psychol- studies canon, alongside and in the spirit of Barbara Sinclair’s ogy from the ISPP. Unorthodox Lawmaking, helping us to understand the impact of

22 © AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 2021 FEBRUARY 2021 institutional structures and rules teacher who has worked with multiple programs and depart- on policy outcomes and on the ments at Cascadia College. Professor Richards collaborated political behavior of members of with colleagues from other departments to create the Bachelor Congress. of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices, an interdisciplinary Rick earned his bache- degree focused on teaching students how to help organizations lor’s degree from the Univer- utilize sustainability strategies. She created the courses related sity of Iowa, and his masters to environmental policy and politics and teaches them as part of and doctorate degrees from the the program. University of North Carolina, Professor Richards is truly a mentor to her colleagues and is Chapel Hill. Upon completing his responsible for bringing dozens of community college faculty PhD, he took a faculty position at the University of Michigan, Ann to the APSA. She has supported Arbor, where he has continued his work since. Rick’s scholarship faculty in joining committees, is cited frequently, and in addition to winning the Fenno Prize, has presenting at conferences, been recognized with the American Political Science Association’s and advocating for community Jack L. Walker Award, and the Midwest Political Science Asso- colleges within the association ciation’s Pi Sigma Alpha Award. In 1987–88, Rick served as an and the discipline at large. She APSA Congressional Fellow in the office of Senator Tom Daschle, is a fixture at the annual meet- and over the course of his career, his scholarship has reflected the ing and Teaching and Learning deep insider understanding of the ways in which Congress works Conference (TLC) and actively that was fostered during his time as a congressional fellow. As reaches out to new faculty, his nominator wrote, “On each topic he works on, his research is welcomes them to the organiza- one of the authoritative pieces. When scholars ask why individual tion, and finds ways to get them legislators are (not) working on certain policies or why interest engaged. groups wield power in Congress, we turn to Rick’s research as Professor Richards’s nomination was supported by numer- the foundational arguments that help provide our answers. With- ous faculty, including a nomination letter signed by nine faculty out his insights, our basic understanding of Congress on multiple from different institutions. They wrote, “Erin Richards exemplifies issues would be wanting.” a community college faculty who talks-the-talk and walks-the- walk. Her advocacy on behalf of community college faculty in teaching and in the discipline serves as an example to her students who see in her a stellar example of someone who makes real the Career Awards spirit of the discipline.” Aside from her work within her own institution, the committee APSA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY AWARD also cited Professor Richards’s service to the discipline. In 2017, The APSA Community College Faculty Award is awarded for Professor Richards was the first community college faculty to be excellence in teaching, mentoring, community engagement, elected to the APSA Council and last year she was a key mover governance, and/or research by a community college faculty getting the Community College Caucus organized. She currently member in the profession. Award Committee: Rachel Bzos- sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Political Science Educa- tek Walker, chair, Collin College; Eric C. Schwartz, Hagerstown tion and serves on the policy committee of the APSA Political Community College; Christina Sciabarra, Bellevue College. Science Education and Audit Committee. Recipient: Erin Richards, Cascadia College. Professor Richards has also been active professionally in the Citation: Erin Richards is simply an outstanding example of a Pacific Northwest region, serving on the executive committee of dedicated community college professor and engaged member of Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, including terms APSA. She is a tireless advocate for community college faculty, an as secretary and president. empathetic mentor, an inspired teacher, and a skilled networker who has assisted countless colleagues in their professional devel- APSA DISTINGUISHED AWARD FOR CIVIC AND opment. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT After receiving a BA in political science from Mount Holyoke The APSA Distinguished Award for Civic and Community Engage- College, Professor Richards continued graduate studies at Wash- ment is given for significant civic or community engagement activ- ington State University. Since 2007, she has been on the faculty ity by a political scientist which merges knowledge and practice at Cascadia College in Bothell, WA, where she currently serves and has an impact outside of the profession or the academy. as the division coordinator of social sciences. In addition to her Award Committee: Amy Cabrera Rasmussen, chair, California duties as division coordinator at the college, Richards serves on State University, Long Beach; Elizabeth Beaumont, University of the college’s Program Assessment Committee and the Human California, Santa Cruz; Ethan Frey, Ford Foundation; Christopher Participants Research Review Board. She also serves as a political F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University; Veronica Reyna, Hous- science liaison with local high schools and college coordinator ton Community College. Recipient: Marc Howard, George- for the political science discipline. town University. Professor Richards is an innovative and collaborative Citation: While we were lucky to have many outstanding

© AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 2021 23 2020 ANNUAL MEETING nominees representing a diverse and impactful array of civic and advocacy through PJI have illuminated the larger racial injustices community engagement efforts in this first year of award selection, of incarceration and provided support for prison reform, all the the committee felt that Professor Howard’s work uniquely mani- while linking educational opportunity and access to these efforts. fested into a set of overlapping and interrelated impacts—local As such, the committee found a particular strength of Professor and national, individual and institutional—driven by a unified Howard’s work to be the evidence supplied of the project’s contri- mission focused on addressing systemic injustices and promoting bution to matters of diversity, inclusion, and equity. greater social equity. We applaud Professor Howard’s work on the Georgetown The Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative, which Professor Prison Justice Initiative and look forward to his future work in this Howard founded in 2016 and presently leads, was created “in area. As the awardee, in addition to a $1,000 honorarium, APSA order to respond to the dual crisis of incarceration and recidivism. and the Task Force on New Partnerships will also provide funds It brings together leading scholars, practitioners, and students to for Professor Howard to organize an activity to advance civic tackle the problem of mass incarceration—one of the most crucial and community engagement within the discipline at the 2021 moral and political issues of our time.” The initiative has several Annual Meeting. prongs, including a course taught in the District of Columbia jail that brings together students from Georgetown and those incar- APSA DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD cerated. It also offers a lecture series and credit-bearing study The APSA Distinguished Teaching Award honors the outstanding group that provides a pathway to a bachelor’s degree at the DC contribution to undergraduate and graduate teaching of political jail known as the Prison Scholars Program. Also included is the science at two- and four-year institutions. The contribution may Georgetown Pivot Program, which incorporates compensated job span several years or an entire career, or it may be a single proj- training, academic courses, and ect of exceptional impact. Award Committee: Rachel Paine internships for newly released Caufield, chair, Drake University; Meredith Rolfe, University of prisoners. Professor Howard Massachusetts, Amherst; Jose D. Villalobos, University of Texas at and PJI also played a key role El Paso. Recipient: Peter Lindsay, Georgia State University. in working with the DC Mayor’s Citation: Dr. Lindsay’s record is distinguished by three promi- Office on Returning and Citizen nent and exceptional qualities. First, his dedication to teaching and Affairs and its partners to create learning is exhibited across multiple academic audiences through- a groundbreaking Paralegal out the community. Based on two years of independent teaching in Fellowship Program that trains, jails and prisons, Dr. Lindsay cofounded the Georgia State Prison certifies and employs previously Education Project in 2016, where he teaches in state and federal incarcerated men and women penitentiaries and halfway houses and creates opportunities for for paralegal positions in local high-profile law firms. Letters of interaction between current or former inmates and Georgia State support also showcase Howard’s personal involvement and advo- University students. He has also taught in high schools and nursing cacy for many of those wrongfully convicted, going on to serve as homes. Nominators praise the sincere curiosity that he brings to a mentor for these individuals, something to which they personally the exploration of thorny moral and policy questions within these attest. The committee also commends the strength of his related various settings, and applaud his authenticity, candor, directness, teaching and research, and highlights the fact that his impactful expertise, and compassion. As a teacher and scholar, Dr. Lind- applied work is informed by and informs his research, including say bridges the academic world and the practical concerns that his 2017 book Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment and the Real animate philosophical principles. American Exceptionalism. Second, Dr. Lindsay has produced original scholarship on Those nominating and supporting the consideration of Profes- the practice of teaching, and has done so in addition to a vibrant sor Howard’s efforts persuasively affirmed his indispensable role record of scholarly publication within the subfield of political in these endeavors’ implementation and impact. As one support- philosophy. His 2018 book, The Craft of University Teaching ing letter noted, “Marc used his unique skill to bring together differ- (University of Toronto Press), is evidence of a thoughtful approach ent sectors (academic, government, business, and non-profit) for to innovation based on experiences with diverse audiences, and some of the most innovative and deeply impactful programs in the nominators comment that his scholarship of teaching and learn- country,” noting that Professor Howard has a “vision and ability to ing demonstrates a deep and sustained attention to what effec- use academics to lead many disparate stakeholders to the same tive teaching can achieve. He has been a lifelong student and goal.” Playing a pivotal role in facilitating these types of unique respected resource on peda- collaborations is a clear example of the kind of productive part- gogical approaches, generously nerships that the Distinguished Award for Civic and Community sharing his perspectives with Engagement seeks to recognize. colleagues and peers across the Professor Howard and his students have also researched and country and around the world. provided public exposure (and in many cases exoneration and Finally, Dr. Lindsay’s record release) for many wrongfully incarcerated individuals, a large of teaching excellence has been share of whom are people of color. His efforts are asserted to sustained over a long period of have contributed to the greater integration of the Georgetown time. Dr. Lindsay has received campus with the DC community. Additionally, his scholarship and numerous accolades throughout

24 © AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 2021 FEBRUARY 2021 his career, including the Georgia Board of Regents Hall of Fame opportunity for meaningful participation can result in the most teaching award, which spans all 37 campuses of the University impactful outcomes. From the award winning five-edition book System of Georgia. As one nominator writes, “He has instilled Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, to the habit of critical thought and philosophical inquiry in a gener- the award winning Leadership for the Common Good, coau- ation of students—many of whom happened into his classroom thored with Barbara Crosby, to the most downloaded paper in on the strength of his reputation as a teacher and left with a deep the International Public Management Journal since its 2009 publi- appreciation of the practical importance of what classical political cation, “Understanding Strategic Planning and the Formulation theory in the daily practice of politics.” and Implementation of Strategic Plans as a Way of Knowing: The For these reasons, Dr. Peter Lindsay exemplifies excellent Contributions of Actor-Network Theory,” Professor Bryson’s work teaching, and he is richly deserving of this additional honor, the continuously advances theory with a clarity of context and circum- 2020 APSA Distinguished Teaching Award. stances, embedded in the iterative effort to manifest public value, that is informed by years of applying his work to the governing JOHN GAUS AWARD challenges in Minnesota, North America, and across the globe. The John Gaus Award and Lectureship honors the recipient’s life- Books and journal articles abound, each with a quality of purpose time of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political and insight that is widely recognized through nearly 22,000 cita- science and public administration and, more generally, recog- tions and awards too numerous to list. nizes and encourages scholarship in public administration. Receipt of the John Gaus Award follows a number of additional Award Committee: Anne Khademian, chair, Virginia Tech; distinguished awards in the fields of public administration and Claudia N. Avellaneda, Indiana University; Anthony Bertelli, political science, including the 2019 Keith Provan Award (jointly Pennsylvania State University/Bocconi University. Recipient: with Barbara C. Crosby) from the Academy of Management, the John Bryson, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University 2018 H. George Frederickson Award from the Public Manage- of Minnesota. ment Research Association, the 2011 Dwight Waldo Award from Citation: Professor Bryson’s “lifetime of exemplary scholar- the American Society for Public Administration, and the 2008 ship in the joint tradition of political science and public adminis- Charles H. Levine Memorial Award given jointly by the Network tration” has not only made innovative, impressive and indelible of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration and the scholarly contributions to the study and practice of political American Society for Public Administration, among others. science and public administration, and stimulated and advanced In a year of pandemic and protest, of deep divisions and scholarship in public administration, but has inspired practice in distrust, where technology connects us but a shared vision eludes impactful and meaningful ways. us, Professor Bryson’s work provides the framework and the tools Professor Bryson’s scholarly contributions bridge and inte- for doing the hard work of tackling our problems one step at a grate our aspirations for democratic inclusion and representation time, building consensus around thoughtful solutions, and seeing with organizational capacity building, sustainability, and flexi- the value of difficult collaboration as the fabric of our democracy. bility to translate aspirations into The John Gaus Award and Lectureship Committee is delighted to action. In her nomination letter recognize a scholar for our times and all times, Professor John for Professor Bryson, supported M. Bryson. by the leadership and management faculty of the Humphrey HUBERT H. HUMPHREY AWARD School, Dean Laura Bloomberg The Hubert H. Humphrey Award is awarded annually in recogni- highlights the five major areas of tion of notable public service by a political scientist. The award is scholarship that Professor Bryson intended to honor former Vice President Humphrey’s distinguished has significantly shaped and career and life of public service. Award Committee: Susan impacted over his career: “Stra- Herbst, chair, University of Connecticut; Bruce W. Jentleson, Duke tegic planning and management University; Philippe Lagasse, University of Ottawa. Recipient: of public and nonprofit organizations; leadership and policy Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania. change, especially in shared-power, multi-sector, no-one-whol- Citation: Tom Wolf is the 47th Governor of the Common- ly-in-charge situations; collaboration, and especially cross-sector wealth of Pennsylvania, a position he has held since 2015. Wolf collaboration; stakeholder identification, analysis, and manage- is an extraordinary example of a successful private sector exec- ment; and public value and public values.” Motivated to under- utive who was able to make the stand, “How… people in government and nonprofit settings figure difficult leap to high public office. out what they think they ought to want and how to get it,” and how His excellence in public service to “help” them do so, Professor Bryson’s work demonstrates that underscores the importance of it is not enough to lead strategically, across boundaries, sectors bringing experienced business and jurisdictions, and to take action collaboratively with multiple leaders into government, since stakeholders, but that service in the public and nonprofit sectors, they are often highly effective in in particular, requires continuous questioning and grappling with boosting economic growth for the creation of public value—what is being created, why, how citizens of their states. and toward what end?—in highly contested spaces where the Dr. Wolf has a wonderfully

© AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 2021 25 2020 ANNUAL MEETING diverse background. After growing up in York County, he attended IR scholars in the discipline, but college at Dartmouth but took a break to join the Peace Corps, his works are read well beyond serving as an agricultural worker in India. After his work in the the academy as well. As Stephen corps he returned to Dartmouth, finished his studies, and went M. Walt noted in his nomination on to earn a Master’s degree at the University of London. He letter, John J. Mearsheimer “casts then enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a very long shadow indeed.” he earned a doctorate in political science. His award-winning dissertation is entitled “Congressional Sea Change: Conflict and Organizational Accommodation in the House of Representatives, CAREY MCWILLIAMS 1878–1921.” AWARD Instead of pursuing an academic position, Dr. Wolf decided The Carey McWilliams Award is given annually to honor a major instead to return to his small hometown and join the family lumber journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics. The winner distribution business. There, he had to start low in the organiza- should have a distinguished public service career in media and tion and work his way to higher positions. He once quipped, “I political science and should illumine certain key elements identi- was the only PhD forklift operator in York County at the time, I’m fied with McWilliams, which include intellectual forthrightness and pretty sure.” political independence. Award Committee: Holli A. Semetko, Over the years, he rose in the company and eventually bought chair, Emory University; Markus Prior, Princeton University; Tracy the business in 1985. He sold the business to serve as Secretary of Sulkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recipients: Revenue under Governor Rendell in 2005. After three years, he Judy Woodroff and Gwen Ifill (posthumously), PBS again bought the Wolf Organization and led it back to success NewsHour. from difficult times, diversifying production and improving condi- Citation: In 2013, Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill, an tions for the large workforce. award-winning Black journalist who passed away in 2016 shortly Dr. Wolf has been a successful governor, restoring funds to after the election, were the first women to coanchor a network education, supporting small businesses, and expanding Medic- broadcast. According to Katie Rogers writing in The New York aid to cover hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians who were Times, the PBS program is distinctive for a number of reasons without health insurance. He has made the fight against opioid beyond being the first to be coanchored by two talented women: addiction a high priority, working with the medical community on “Aside from its slower-paced broadcast, ‘NewsHour’ is distinct imaginative ways to reduce dependence and save lives. for another reason: its newsroom is majority female. Fifty-nine Like all governors in the United States today, Dr. Wolf has been journalists are women, and 55 are men. The anchor and the faced with the most extraordinary health and financial challenges executive producer are women. Many of the program’s regu- since the Great Depression. Pennsylvania has been a steady, lar contributors—Marcia Coyle, Tamara Keith and Amy Walter rational leader in managing the epidemic. Wolf has responded among them—are women. Several ‘NewsHour’ journalists say to the pandemic with powerful, clear, science-based guidance this has created a more diverse report.” for the citizens of his state. Gwen Ifill was an award-winning national political journal- We feel as though Dr. Wolf brings together a strong strategic ist who cohosted and managed sensibility, tremendous empathy, and thoughtfulness in his leader- the PBS NewsHour from 2013 ship. He is a stellar Humphrey awardee for our times, exemplify- until illness prevented her from ing how well a doctorate in political science can lead to a proud continuing. In commenting on her life in public service. extraordinary life and accom- plishments in a PBS NewsHour JAMES MADISON AWARD report, President Obama praised The James Madison Award is presented triennially to an American her for her work as a journalist political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contri- and as a role model and said that bution to political science. Award Committee: Ayse Zarakol, she has done her country a great chair, University of Cambridge; Steven S. Smith, Washington service. University in St. Louis; Susan Welch, Pennsylvania State Univer- After graduating from Simmons University, Ifill’s early career in sity. Recipient: John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago. the press included working with the Washington Post and later The Citation: After some consideration of all worthy nominees, the New York Times, where she covered the White House. She moved committee is delighted to select John J. Mearsheimer for the 2020 to NBC in 1994, and in 1999 she became the first Black woman James Madison Award. Mearsheimer is currently the R. Wendell to host a national talk show as moderator of the PBS program Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at “Washington Week in Review.” She moderated the 2004 and the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He is 2008 vice presidential debates. Ifill’s book, The Breakthrough: widely recognized as one of the leading International Relations Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, was published on Janu- scholars in the world and also a prominent public intellectual. ary 20, 2009, the day President Obama was inaugurated. She Mearsheimer has written six books (including the very influen- has received numerous awards for her work in journalism and was tial The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001)) and dozens of also the recipient of more than 20 honorary doctorates. This year, scholarly articles in leading journals. He is one of the most cited she was also honored on a US postage stamp.

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Judy Woodruff is the current anchor and managing editor of in the Bureaucracy, explores how unelected bureaucrats lever- PBS NewsHour. Working as a broadcast journalist since her grad- age procedures in order to exercise influence in the policymak- uation from Duke University in 1968, where she was a political ing process of the Congress, the science major, Woodruff has reported on every US presiden- president and the courts. She tial election since 1976. After working in local television news represents a very innovative in Atlanta, Woodruff reported argument about bureaucratic on Jimmy Carter’s presidential discretion. The empirical findings campaign for NBC in 1976. She of this book draw from multiple became White House correspon- methodologies and accumu- dent for NBC shortly after Presi- lated cross-field research. The dent Carter’s inauguration and book illuminates in an excellent moved to Washington, DC. Her way our understanding of how book, This is Judy Woodruff at the government policy decisions are White House, published in 1983, made by public agencies. describes her work as a reporter. She moved to PBS in 1983 where RALPH J. BUNCHE AWARD she reported on national politics and hosted “Frontline with Judy The Ralph J. Bunche Award is given annually for the best scholarly Woodruff,” and moderated the 1988 vice presidential debate. In work(s) in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic 1993, Woodruff moved to CNN where she reported on national and cultural pluralism. Award Committee: Tatishe Nteta, chair, and international politics and served as coanchor for special University of Massachusetts Amherst; Emily Farris, Texas Chris- coverage on events such as 9/11, the War in Afghanistan and tian University; Debra Thompson, McGill University. Recipient: the Iraq War. Davin Phoenix, University of California, Irvine After leaving CNN in 2005, and semesters conducting Citation: For decades, scholars of political participation research at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public have argued that the low levels of African American political Policy, and teaching at the Sanford School of Public Policy at participation in a wide variety of domains (e.g., turnout, contact- Duke, she hosted a monthly news program on Bloomberg Tele- ing officials, donating, volunteering, and attending meetings) vision called “Conversations with Judy Woodruff.” Woodruff reflects the relative dearth of African American civic skills and returned to PBS in 2006 to work on what was then called the socioeconomic resources when compared to white Americans. “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” as a senior correspondent and was In The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics, Davin a rotating anchor of the program until 2013, when she became Phoenix investigates the role that emotions, most notably anger, coanchor of the NewsHour with Gwen Ifill. Woodruff is the recip- play in accounting for the racial divide in political participation ient of numerous awards, including honorary degrees from Duke in the United States. Drawing on insights from African American University and the University of Pennsylvania. She is also an political thought, history, political communication, psychology, elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and political science and employing a multi-method approach, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Phoenix argues that the racial divide in participation is a reflection of the gap between African Americans and whites in the mobilizing emotion of anger. Phoenix deftly shows how the stereotype of the “angry black man/woman” has and continues to preclude Book Awards African Americans from accessing, expressing, and employing the emotion of anger—an emotion that has been used successfully as APSA-IPSA THEODORE J. LOWI FIRST BOOK a tool by white Americans to mobilize political support among AWARD elected officials to effect beneficial political change. According to The APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award is for the best Phoenix, the result of this “anger gap” in public opinion is contin- first book in any field of political science, showing promise of ued racial inequality in the US and the lack of receptivity to African having substantive impact on the overall discipline. Award American political demands by elected officials. Committee: Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, chair, Leuphana The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics is a Universität; Ana De La O Torres, Yale University; Gary Herrigel, nuanced, encompassing, and thorough analysis of African Amer- University of Chicago. Recipient: Rachel Augustine Potter, ican public opinion, thought, and University of Virginia political behavior in the 21st Citation: Dr. Potter’s publications have appeared in the Jour- century. Phoenix’s argument nal of Politics, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Inter- concerning the mobilizing and national Studies Quarterly, and Journal of Public Policy. She transformative effect of anger on holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of US politics is not only timely, but Southern California, and Boston College, among others. In the prescient, as evidenced by the 2018–19 academic year, she was a visiting scholar at the Center emergence, spread, and influ- for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. ence of the #BlackLivesMatter Dr. Potter’s first book, Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking movement in the US. The commit-

© AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 2021 27 2020 ANNUAL MEETING tee unanimously agreed that in line with the tenets of the Ralph the government’s reputation can shape citizens’ perceptions on J. Bunche Award, Davin Phoenix’s The Anger Gap: How Race public policy and governmental services. The book is an engag- Shapes Emotion in Politics not only breaks new ground in the ing read that is well-argued, cleverly developed, and flawlessly empirical and scholarly study of African American public opin- executed. It deftly integrates a framework that has long been ion, but assists the public in better understanding the nature and applied to understanding how origins of a contemporary African American-led social movement businesses craft their reputations that seeks to establish the social justice, equality, and protections among consumers and uses it to promised in nation’s founding documents and most cherished explain why much of the public is values. so reluctant to turn to the federal government to solve its problems. ROBERT A. DAHL AWARD Using an impressive combination The Robert A. Dahl Award recognizes an untenured scholar(s) of longitudinal survey data and who produced scholarship of the highest quality on the subject experiments, Lerman convinc- of democracy, including books, papers, and articles. Award ingly demonstrates that the Committee: Rachel Beatty Riedl, chair, Cornell University; government’s poor reputation Agustina Giraudy, American University; Imke Harbers, Univer- doesn’t merely manifest in poor evaluations from citizens, but sity of Amsterdam; Eva Sørensen, Roskilde Universitet. Recipient: that it also has practical consequences by leading Americans to Ashley Nickels, Kent State University. opt-out of government run programs altogether. It is an impressive Citation: Ashley Nickels’s Power, Participation and Protest work which engenders rethinking regarding the interplay between in Flint, Michigan: Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal public attitudes and policy outcomes. The insights are particularly Takeovers exemplifies the model of Dahl’s inquiry into local poli- apt for understanding the current COVID-19 crisis, both in terms tics to illuminate how democracy does or does not function to of how the public takes a skeptical view of what government can serve its citizens. Nickels dives into the emergency takeover and actually do to help, but also for how the crisis may further damage water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to demonstrate how technical and the government’s reputation in the future. managerial arms of the government use moments of emergency to avoid accountability and diminish democracy. This book speaks VICTORIA SCHUCK AWARD powerfully to contemporary global politics of emergency health The Victoria Schuck Award is given annually for the best book management and the broader published on women and politics. Established to honor Victoria role of autocratic technical solu- Schuck's life-long commitment to women and politics, this prize tions in place of democratic recognizes and encourages research and publication in this field. responsiveness. It could not be Schuck earned her PhD in 1937 from Stanford University and more salient and timely, as we played a leading role in opening doors for women in the profes- face national and international sion. She was not only an outstanding mentor for women, but her questions about the role of the service in senior administrative roles at Mount Holyoke College administrative and coercive and Mount Vernon College opened doors for future generations state and their relation to citizens’ of women leaders. Award Committee: Caroline Beer, chair, safety, security, and well-being. University of Vermont; Nandini Deo, Lehigh University. Recipi- This deeply empirical account ent: Melody Valdini, Portland State University. of municipal takeover in Flint, Michigan demonstrates how mana- Citation: Melody Valdini’s The Inclusion Calculation: Why gerial governance can be used to advance elite interests. But Men Appropriate Women’s Representation changes the way we Nickels also points to the role of community activists, and the think about gender and politics. This book shifts the focus from the role that participation and protest can play in demanding quality institutional, structural, and cultural factors that impact women’s governance and reform. In identifying the space between public representation to the interests and incentives of male gatekeep- administration and politics, Nickels shows the importance of moni- ers. She asks, “Why and under what circumstances do members toring administration in the name of democracy and speaking to of the ‘in’ group allow and even encourage members of the ‘out’ power to fulfill its promise. group to be in the government?” While Valdini acknowledges that there may be some ‘angels’ who work for gender equality even if GLADYS M. KAMMERER AWARD it is not in their own interests, most The Gladys M. Kammerer Award is given annually for the best politicians are rational opportun- book published during the previous calendar year in the field of ists who do not explicitly oppose US national policy. Award Committee: Diane J. Heith, chair, women in politics, but also do not St. Johns University; Daniel Gillion, University of Pennsylvania; actively work towards inclusion. Bryan Schaffner, Tufts University. Recipient: Amy E. Lerman, She argues that women’s repre- University of California, Berkeley. sentation is the result of a calcu- Citation: In Good Enough for Government Work: The Public lation of the costs and benefits Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It), to male gatekeepers of including Lerman offers one of the most riveting books to date on how women. The theoretical sections

28 © AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 2021 FEBRUARY 2021 of the book clearly outline the factors that affect this calculation. quasi-natural experiments comparing Princeton Township and The costs of inclusion include the displacement of incumbents, Princeton Borough, as well as different size dwellings in Chicago, threat to the power and resources of the current male elite, and to study people’s actual experiences with publicly versus privately the potentially negative electoral impact of women candidates, provided waste management services. The committee came away because of the perceived incongruity of stereotypical female char- from reading Lerman’s book feeling like we had acquired a nugget acteristics with governance. Responsiveness to social movement of truth about how the world works. demands and international pressure may create costs or bene- This masterful book provides valuable insights for scholars and fits for including women. The inclusion calculation can change for policymakers. Lerman achieves the gold standard for rigorous dramatically if there is a crisis of legitimacy. When parties lose research using cutting edge methods while presenting the work in legitimacy because of corruption scandals or the undermining of a way that makes it accessible and compelling. democratic practices, stereotypical female characteristics become more valuable, and the costs associated with including women decline. In such a context, stereotypical female characteristics become an asset rather than a liability in the inclusion calculation. Dissertation Awards Valdini’s framing helps to provide a unified theoretical explanation for many of the empirical findings of existing research into repre- GABRIEL A. ALMOND AWARD sentation, stereotypes, political parties, and corruption. The Gabriel A. Almond Award is given annually for the best disser- The empirical chapters provide brief case studies and statistical tation in the field of comparative politics. The award was created analyses to illustrate the effect of corruption scandals and declin- in recognition of Gabriel Almond's contributions to the discipline, ing democratic rights on the inclusion calculation. The book is profession, and association. Almond's scholarly work contributed clearly written and accessible to a wide range of readers, includ- directly to the development of theory in comparative politics and ing undergraduate students. The committee believes that one brought together work on the developing areas and Western asset of this book is the likelihood that it will launch important new Europe that prevented splintering into an array of disparate area scholarship. We hope that Valdini’s framework will be extended studies. Award Committee: Dominika Koter, chair, Colgate to develop intersectional analyses of representation. The compo- University; Diana Fu, University of Toronto; Mariela Szwarcberg nents of the inclusion calculation are clearly and persuasively Daby, Reed College. Recipient: Rachel A. Schwartz, Univer- articulated. They can easily be adapted to a wide range of circum- sity of Wisconsin-Madison. stances and tested in many different ways. We believe this book Citation: This theoretically innovative dissertation asks an will usher in an important new research program for the study of important ‘how’ question: How does civil war shape state devel- women’s representation. opment in the long run? Schwartz argues that civil war introduces predatory rules of the game that undermine core state functions. WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION AWARD Civil wars thus undermine state institutions not by destroying them The Woodrow Wilson Award is given annually for the best book on but by introducing alternative institutional arrangements that government, politics, or international affairs. The award, formerly undermine existing rules. The mechanism that Schwartz carefully supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, is sponsored by outlines with the cases of three different administrative domains Princeton University. Award Committee: Dan Posner, chair, in Guatemala and Nicaragua is that in the context of escalating University of California, Los Angeles; Laurel Harbridge-Yong, insurgent threat, counterinsurgent elites gain discretionary power, Northwestern University; Elizabeth Rigby, The George Washing- creating new institutions which serve their narrow interest. The ton University. Recipient: Amy E. Lerman, University of Cali- committee was impressed with fornia, Berkeley (pictured under the Kammerer award citation). the substantive contribution the Citation: The committee unanimously selected Amy E. thesis made to the literature on Lerman’s book Good Enough for Government Work as the winner civil wars by focusing on institu- of the 2020 APSA Woodrow Wilson Award. In this beautifully tional building. The thesis offers written, carefully composed book, Amy Lerman explores how the an original and substantive reputation of government is itself an impediment to the govern- argument about the relation- ment’s ability to achieve the common good. When people have ship between civil war and state persistently negative views about government, and these views weakness. are resistant to change, people may opt out of public goods, thus Schwartz conducted impres- reducing their quality and resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy sive research, collecting both of negative views of government programs. Drawing on social fine-grained data from wartime state and private archives and psychology, public opinion research, and crisis management in conducting over 80 elite interviews. Schwartz adopts a compar- the business world, Lerman analyzes these questions in a creative ative institutional approach across sectors and countries and relies and compelling way. The book combines evidence from survey on extended fieldwork to provide readers with a thick description experiments that isolate the key treatments of interest; field exper- of the cases and use of interviews combined with process trac- iments that leverage a partnership with HealthSherpa.com (to ing, comparative case study, and historical research to advance compare sign up rates with healthcare.gov) to test how framing the a persuasive argument. The thoughtful research design, the multi- policy as publicly or privately provided affects policy uptake; and method empirical strategy, and the careful analysis of evidence

© AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 2021 29 2020 ANNUAL MEETING represent the highest quality work in our field. The committee EDWARD S. CORWIN AWARD particularly noted the extensive fieldwork over 20 months in The Edward S. Corwin Award is given annually for the best disser- Guatemala and Nicaragua. This research yielded an empiri- tation in the field of public law. The Corwin award is for the best cally rich dissertation theorizing wartime institutional change. It doctoral dissertation completed and accepted during that year was refreshing to see such a careful study centered on Central or the previous year in the field of public law, broadly defined to America, a region underrepresented in current studies in the field, include the judicial process, judicial behavior, judicial biography, with findings that extend beyond Latin America. courts, law, legal systems, the American constitutional system, civil liberties, or any other substantial area, or any work which deals WILLIAM ANDERSON AWARD in a significant fashion with a topic related to or having substan- The William Anderson Award is given annually for the best disser- tial impact on the American Constitution. Award Committee: tation in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental rela- Daniel Naurin, chair, Oslo University; Pamela C. Corley, South- tions and state and local politics. The award was set up in honor ern Methodist University; Michael J. Nelson, Pennsylvania State of William Anderson, former APSA president, who was a lead- University. Recipient: Tommaso Pavone, Princeton University ing American authority in the areas of local government, public Citation: This dissertation convincingly argues that the main administration, intergovernmental relations and the history of polit- theories of European legal integration got it wrong at the micro ical science. He did much to shape teaching and research in these level: the engines of integration were not ambitious national fields not only at his own university, but throughout the country. judges, eager to challenge their own governments and judi- Award Committee: Megan Mullin, chair, Duke University; Tim cial superiors by invoking European law and referring questions Conlan, George Mason University; Tracy Osborn, University of to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Instead, Pavone Iowa. Recipient: James Strickland, University of Michigan. shows, national judges more often try to avoid the European Citation: A feature of interest group politics across democratic route, due to excessive workload, insufficient understanding of political systems, multi-client lobbying has received little research European law and constraints stemming from their role in the attention. “Multi-Client Lobbying in the American States” tackles national judiciary. Indeed, the drivers of integration through the topic by bringing theoretical innovation and ambitious data law were often the “Euro-law- collection from the US states to understand why groups seek to hire yers”; a relatively small group of lobbyists who advocate for multiple clients and the implications for activist lawyers, who sought out interest representation. The dissertation first develops a measure of suitable clients willing to break multi-client lobbying and then examines how legislative institutions national laws and who cajoled and lobbying laws contribute to this type of advocacy activity. reluctant local judges into acti- Strickland finds that these contextual conditions matter less than vating the EU court. Pavone also group-specific factors. In particular, public interest groups seeking commendably nuances his own collective benefits (e.g., environmental protection, government story, demonstrating the shifting ethics, criminal justice reform) are more likely to hire single-client roles of lawyers over time and the advocates in order to maintain ongoing lobby presence in the uneven geographic integration legislature and internal credibility with members or other stake- of EU law, depending on local economic circumstances. holders. Finally, the dissertation This is a remarkable dissertation, both in terms of theory devel- turns back to institutional condi- opment, research design, scope, and style. Besides rewriting the tions by examining the revolving history of European legal integration, “The Ghostwriters” also door, showing that the value of makes important contributions to theories of legal mobilization hiring a former legislator to lobby and political lawyering beyond the European Union. Pavone lessens where member turnover is builds his narrative on a set of carefully selected case studies and high, demonstrating an important on a wide variety of data and methods, including archival studies, caveat to our knowledge about geospatial analysis and more than 350 interviews in Italy, France, the revolving door that has been and Germany. His way of communicating qualitative field work is based mostly on evidence from unprecedented. Stories are told by long excerpts of conversations, the US Congress. by pictures and by descriptions of court rooms and crowded office The dissertation presents an ideal case of comparative state spaces that carry a literary quality. The narrative is so persuasive analysis. It treats states as intrinsically important venues for policy because the judges and lawyers can speak directly to the reader. making activity that affects group interests while leveraging institu- It is a dissertation of the highest quality. tional and legal variation in theoretically informed ways that can transport to other levels and systems of government. The committee HAROLD D. LASSWELL AWARD congratulates Strickland on making a sophisticated contribution to The Harold D. Lasswell Award is given annually for the best disser- interest group theory while addressing an aspect of practical poli- tation in the field of public policy.Award Committee: Susan tics that has implications for all areas of state-level public policy. L. Moffitt, chair, Brown University; Isabelle Engeli, University of Exeter; George Hoberg, University of British Columbia. Recipi- ent: Shiran Victoria Shen, Stanford University. Citation: This outstanding dissertation provides a model of

30 © AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 2021 FEBRUARY 2021 impactful public policy scholarship grounded in political science. and 1970s, however, the idea of the representative president lost This work exemplifies the ideals of the Lasswell Award in several its purchase on Capitol Hill, and legislators, not coincidentally, respects. By providing a compelling, novel explanation for vari- became less deferential to executive autonomy. ation in air quality over time, this “The Representative Presidency: The Ideational Foundations dissertation tackles an import- of Institutional Development and Durability” is much more than ant, timely policy puzzle: air an accounting of legislative debate, however. It is a tribute to pollution constitutes the largest, the power of ideas in Ameri- current environmental problem can politics and the ongoing facing the global community with and contested efforts of succes- impacts that reverberate across sive generations of politicians jurisdictions and across policy to grapple with constitutional domains. To address its import- legacies. Responding to previ- ant policy puzzle, this disserta- ous scholarship that often treated tion marshals a truly impressive presidential-congressional rela- original dataset and deploys a novel empirical strategy. This work tions as a mere product of parti- both offers a new approach to measuring air quality over time and san alliances and ideological seriously integrates its archival material and interviews into the commitments, Dearborn convinc- analysis. In doing so, the dissertation truly embodies high qual- ingly shows that ideas about representation and form matter in our ity mixed methods research and demonstrates the explanatory politics, and that these ideas have lasting consequences for the power that mixed methods research can yield. This dissertation design of our nation’s most powerful political office. also provides a model of how to present cutting edge method- ological work in broadly accessible terms. The author’s work is KENNETH SHERRILL PRIZE AWARD both unfailingly rigorous and beautifully written, which together Through APSA's Centennial Center for Political Science and Public augment the dissertation’s impact. This dissertation also stands as Affairs, the Kenneth Sherrill Prize Award recognizes the best a model for how to use political science theory to help explain doctoral dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, policy problems. By considering and combining multiple policy gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science. The goals with frontlines implementers’ career incentives, the author purpose of this prize is to encourage and enable empirical work expands on the conventional principal-agent approach to imple- on LGBT topics by graduate students, and to broaden the recog- mentation in novel and useful ways. This work holds real promise nition of this work within political science. Award Committee: of having broad impact well beyond environmental policy and Gary Mucciaroni, chair, Temple University; Kelly Kollman, Univer- in many geographic contexts outside of the dissertation’s main sity of Glasgow; Douglas Page, Gettysburg College. Recipient: focus on China. Kristopher Velasco, University of Texas at Austin. Citation: We are excited to award Kristopher Velasco with the Kenneth Sherrill Prize because of his dissertation project’s substan- E.E. SCHATTSCHNEIDER AWARD tial contributions to the social scientific study of LGBT+ movements. The E.E. Schattschneider Award is given annually for the best Moving beyond ‘progress narratives’ concerning the development doctoral dissertation completed and accepted during that year or of rights, Velasco examines the collision between LGBT+ and anti- the previous year in the field of American government. This award LGBT+ movements, which produces a variety of policy outcomes was set up in honor of Elmer Eric Schattschneider, a former APSA with tremendous impacts on marginalized people’s day-to-day president, and widely published and respected political scientist. lives. He argues that LGBT+ transnational advocacy networks Award Committee: David A. Hopkins, chair, Boston College; precipitated homophobic advocacy networks. Networks focused Pearl K. Dowe, Oxford College, Emory University; William G. on ‘family’, ‘anti-imperialism’, and ‘children’ (FAIC networks) Howell, University of Chicago. Recipient: John Dearborn, mobilized in order to frame LGBT+ rights as threats to national- Yale University. ism and family values. LGBT+ advocacy networks in part fueled Citation: In this exhaustive and illuminating dissertation, John homophobic animus and provided conservative/nationalistic Dearborn investigates how a singular idea—namely, that presi- actors with legitimacy for their homophobic policies and bases dents uniquely represent national interests—has shaped not only to organize FAIC networks. Velasco provides a novel theoreti- our understanding of the American presidency, but the efforts of cal framework that allows us to legislators to remake it. This notion of presidential representa- better understand how compet- tion, as Dearborn calls it, became powerful enough to convince ing networks produce varying members of Congress to grant the president broad agenda setting policy outcomes. In particular, authority over the budget, trade, the federal bureaucracy, and the framework points out how the domestic economy. His thorough research and sharp analysis LGBT+ and FAIC networks both helps solve the historical puzzle of why bipartisan congressional can be embedded in a society, majorities became willing to cede wide policy-making capacity creating contestation and intense to an increasingly powerful executive branch during the first half competition regarding sexuality of the 20th century. After the presidential scandals of the 1960s norms and public policy. Exam-

© AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 2021 31 2020 ANNUAL MEETING ples of these societies include Italy, South Africa, and the United Co-recipient: Tejas Parasher, University of Chicago States. Velasco plans to unpack the contestation in these societ- Citation: “Self-Rule and the State in Indian Political Thought, ies using a variety of data sources across multiple time periods, 1880–1950” is an insightful and illuminating contribution to including content analysis of media sources as well as compara- comparative political theory and the history of political thought. tive policy analyses. We expect that these analyses will produce Through adroit historical analysis, Tejas Parasher reconstructs the both compelling quantitative analyses and case study analyses. discourse of self-rule in British India between 1880 and 1950, showing how, in a challenge to notions of parliamentary suprem- LEO STRAUSS AWARD acy inherited from the French Revolution and held by Jawaharlal The Leo Strauss Award is given annually for the best dissertation in Nehru, Vallabhai Patel, and other leaders of the Indian National the field of political philosophy. The fund was developed by former Congress, a diverse group of political thinkers, including Dada- students of Strauss' who sought to recognize his extraordinary bhai Naoroji, M.K. Gandhi, and B.R. Ambedkar, advocated for influence on generations of students and his contributions to the new forms of political representation and economic control— field of political philosophy. He was a major figure in the depart- beyond European conceptions of the unitary nation-state—based ment of political science at the University of Chicago, where he on the distribution of law-making powers among central, local, taught from 1949 to 1967. Award Committee: Jill Frank, chair, and imperial legislative bodies. Cornell University; Jeffrey Church, University of Houston; Clau- Against longstanding analyses of the demand for self-rule dia Leeb, Washington State University. Co-recipient: Elena in British India as a demand for centralized state-based sover- Gambino, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. eignty independent of imperial control, “Self-Rule and the State” Citation: “‘Presence in Our Own Land:’ Second Wave Femi- valuably brings to light the important content and political and nism and the Lesbian Body Politic” is a deftly argued and excit- economic stakes of the argu- ing intervention in and contribution to contemporary political ment among Indian political theory and the history of feminist thought. Persuasively challeng- thinkers between divided versus ing dominant narratives of progress, according to which second unitary forms of popular sover- wave feminists engaged in exclusionary politics of identity that eignty. Drawing on an impres- were corrected by subsequent generations of feminist thinkers, sive archive, including assembly Elena Gambino shows how lesbian feminists, beginning in the debates between 1946 and late 1970s, theorized and practiced a deeply intersectional poli- 1950 leading up to the drafting tics, one that rested not on essentializing identity categories but of India’s post-colonial constitu- on structures, relationships, and institutions capable of promoting tion, Parasher demonstrates that coalition-building as a form of publicity. even though the Indian founding To recover the diverse views and writers shaping second wave represented a triumph of unified governance, critiques of unitary lesbian feminism, “Presence in Our Own Land” turns to the pages sovereignty, along with their visions of socialist politics as alter- of Sinister Wisdom, 1976 to the present, a lesbian feminist maga- natives to both Western European welfare states as well as the zine of poems, stories, essays, visual art, as well as reflection and Soviet model of planning, were central to anti-colonial think- self-assessment. Providing important historical context, this rich ing on self-rule. By recovering federalist and socialist visions of archive brings to light ongoing debates about racism, separatism, anti-colonialism marked by discontinuities with a European past, aesthetics, and political strategy, debates that reveal how contes- “Self-Rule and the State in Indian Political Thought, 1880–1950” tation, specifically between Black and white lesbian feminists, provides crucial intellectual resources for studies of decoloniza- fundamentally informed the contours and substance of the move- tion in political and legal theory, global history, and international ment. Offering illuminating and compelling accounts of the ways law, while paving the way for new configurations of post-colonial in which Audre Lorde, Bernice sovereignty and popular rule. Johnson Reagon, Adrienne Rich, Barbara Smith, Monique MERZE TATE AWARD Wittig, among others, altered The Merze Tate Award (formerly the Helen Dwight Reid Award) contemporary understand- is given annually for the best dissertation successfully defended ings of injustice, authority, and during the previous two years in the field of international relations, political voice, Gambino theo- law, and politics. Award Committee: David G. Victor, chair, rizes a practice of coalition poli- University of California, San Diego and The Brookings Institu- tics premised not on harmony, tion; Jennifer Hunt, Australian National University; Kathy Powers, exemplarity, and inclusion, but University of New Mexico. Recipient: Erik Lin-Greenberg, on confrontation with persistent Columbia University. issues of inequality and broken trust, accountability, and repair. Citation: Lin-Greenberg’s dissertation is an impressive look “‘Presence in Our Own Land:’ Second Wave Feminism and the at the age-old question of how changes in technology affect the Lesbian Body Politic” contributes critical conceptual resources to risks and conduct of war. Lin-Greenberg’s focus is on the inno- the field of political theory, while offering exceptionally timely vation of drones, and whether that technology makes it more strategies for any politics committed to solidarity across difference. or less likely for tensions to escalate into war. Theory points in many different directions. Many scholars and policy makers have

32 © AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 2021 FEBRUARY 2021 thought that technologies that make war easier will also lubricate research question that each chapter set out to investigate and the process of crisis escalation. Lin-Greenberg takes a fresh look at the data used in the analyses, and by the clear writing style used this issue—building new theory and testing those theoretical ideas throughout. with diverse methods. On the substance, the dissertation stands out for novelty. Lin-Greenberg argues that easier war-making does indeed escalate the use of force. But, the lack of humans on the platforms means that when shots are fired the need for reprisals Paper and Article is greater. Warfighting goes up and down, but it is also easier for militaries to keep things in check. Notably, this dissertation offers Awards a model that can be replicated by scholars looking at other technologies and with other empirical tools. That is a gold standard FRANKLIN L. BURDETTE/PI SIGMA ALPHA for political science scholarship—new directions in theory, clever AWARD combinations of methods well The Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award is given annually aligned to testing theory, and for the best paper presented at the previous year’s annual meeting. transparent writing so that others The award is supported by Pi Sigma Alpha. Award Committee: can learn and build upon. Daniel Pemstein, chair, North Dakota State University; Ray Block, This dissertation was selected Jr., Pennsylvania State University; Olga V. Shvetsova, SUNY, for the award on its own merits Binghamton University. Recipients: Kristen Kao, Göteborg of relevance, importance, and University and Mara Redlich Revkin, Georgetown University. quality. The Award Committee Citation: “Retribution and Reconciliation: Attitudes Toward also notes that the topic reflects Rebel Collaborators in Iraq” addresses critically important, Merze Tate’s interest in the role but difficult to study, questions about what determines citizens’ of weapons and peace—topics post-conflict attitudes about the punishment of—and leniency she wrote about in the late 1940s as the world grappled with the toward—people who collabo- need to cap the volcano of armaments and the impacts of new rated with rebel groups during weapons on the risks of war. periods of civil violence. Lever- aging a survey experiment that LEONARD D. WHITE AWARD they conducted in Mosul, Iraq The Leonard D. White prize is awarded annually for the best after a three-year occupation dissertation successfully defended during the previous two years in by the Islamic State, the authors the field of public administration.Award Committee: Jacque- find that respondents prioritize line M. Chattopadhyay, chair, University of North Carolina, Char- collaborators’ roles, rather than lotte; Daniel P. Hawes, Kent State University; Jessica N. Terman, their identity characteristics, George Mason University. Recipient: Angela Young-Shin when weighing punishment and Park, University of Kansas. forgiveness. Surprisingly, they Citation: Dr. Park’s dissertation examines the role that insti- also find that preferences for tutional arrangements play in supporting the successful imple- retribution are largely invariant mentation of sustainability programs by local governments. As to personal exposure to violence. the dissertation explains, sustainability initiatives aim to simulta- This work combines pressing neously advance economic, environmental, and equity goals. policy relevance for peacebuild- The importance of sustainability efforts—and the risk that they ing in Iraq with strong research may fail due to the challenging, cross-department collabora- design and a novel theoretical tion that they typically require—make it important to study which frame that has general appli- factors correlate to successful sustainability policy implementation. cations to work on transitional Dr. Park’s dissertation studies this question through three papers, justice. By emphasizing the preferences of the everyday victims which respectively focus on the policy implementation stage, the of rebel violence, rather than national politics, they focus our policy evaluation stage, and the use of performance information attention on a poorly understood, but crucial, constituency in the in sustainability management. process of post-conflict peacebuilding. They also conceptualize The dissertation makes contri- collaboration broadly, eschewing a common tendency to study butions to research on public only the most violent forms of collaboration. We expect this work management and collaborative to resonate widely with both scholars and practitioners interested governance, and the findings in post-conflict justice and peacebuilding. also have the potential to inform the practice of public adminis- HEINZ EULAU AWARD: APSR tration in local government. The The Heinz Eulau Award is given annually for the best article committee was also impressed published in the American Political Science Review in the past by the close fit between the calendar year. The award is supported by Cambridge University

Press. Award Committee: Vera Eva Troeger, chair, University Citation: Einstein et al. of Hamburg; Samara Klar, University of Arizona; Yonatan Lupu, address an existing debate George Washington University. Recipients: George Kwaku about how institutions, by facili- Ofosu, London Schools of Economics and Political Science. tating community participation, Citation: In “Do Fairer Elections Increase the Responsiveness can mitigate political inequali- of Politicians?” George Kwaku Ofosu combines careful theoret- ties in “Who Participates in Local ical argumentation with novel experimental designs to examine Government? Evidence from whether high-quality elections increase political responsiveness. Meeting Minutes.” They explore Within the context of Ghana, he shows that when elections are new aspects of this question by monitored and thus become compiling a unique dataset fairer, politicians cannot win which registers thousands of elections through outright manip- instances of citizens speaking ulation. This, in turn, incentivizes at planning and zoning board candidates to invest resources meetings concerning housing into meeting the needs and gain- development and match these ing the support of their constit- individuals to voter files. On this uents. Ofosu analyses 2,160 basis, they show that partic- months of Constituency Develop- ipation is unrepresentative, ment Fund spending of Ghana- and that those who self-select ian legislators by randomly into engaging in these debates assigning election-day monitoring during Ghana’s 2012 elec- are more prone to oppose new tions. The sophisticated experiment-in-the-field design enables housing construction. Einstein et him to draw causal conclusions for Ghanaian politicians. He al. conclude that these partici- carefully discusses external validity and generalizability of his patory inequalities may contrib- findings. The selection committee deemed this a very impressive ute to rising housing costs, and and worthy article that combines careful theoretical work with a that this has generally been sophisticated research design that allows causal inference and overlooked by those who see extensive data collection. The article generates important and this kind of community partici- interesting academic results that are at the core of political science pation as buffer against political but also have real world implications and offer relevant policy inequality. The selection commit- recommendations. tee found this a very impressive article, which codes new data, interrogates it carefully, and HEINZ EULAU AWARD: PERSPECTIVES ON arrives at interesting findings, with important real-world impli- POLITICS cations. It clearly presents a huge amount of work, and it has The Heinz Eulau Award is given annually for the best article solicited a lot of interest already, whether measured by down- published in Perspectives on Politics in the past calendar year. loads, altmetrics or citations. This is the kind of work Perspectives The award is supported by Cambridge University Press. Award on Politics was created to showcase: strong on an important Committee: Vera Eva Troeger, chair, University of Hamburg; question, which advances knowledge in a way of interest to Kathleen Bawn, University of California, Los Angeles; Jorgen specialists but written in a way that is transparent and broadly Moller, Aarhus University. Recipients: Katherine Levine accessible. ■ Einstein, David M. Glick, and Maxwell Palmer, (all Boston University).