APSA Awards Presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting

Gazette APSA Awards Presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting

ecognizing excellence in the profes- Of his roles at Perspectives, the support- Association (APSA) confers the 2017 John sion is one of the most important ers highlight in particular his careful and Gaus Award on Distinguished Professor Rroles of the American Political Sci- responsible management of the editorial Emeritus James L. Perry for a “lifetime of ence Association. Through the service of process, his commitment to transparency exemplary scholarship in the joint tradi- member committees who review nomina- and clarity, and his dedication to fostering tion of political science and public admin- tions, APSA makes awards for the best dis- a diverse political science public sphere. His istration.” sertations, papers and articles, and books carefully crafted introductory essays to each Perry has held a variety of leadership posi- in the various subfields of the discipline as issue of Perspectives provide evidence of these tions during his three decades at Indiana well as for career achievement in research, characteristics. In his roles at Perspectives University and his decade at the University teaching and service to the discipline. and more generally in the profession and of California, Irvine. He has been the editor- The 2017 APSA Awards were presented at at Indiana University, Isaac is recognized as in-chief of Public Administration Review since the Annual Meeting in San Francisco on a valued mentor by many junior and even 2011, and this top journal has seen a large August 31. senior colleagues. The nomination package increase in its impact factor under his leader- also notes that he has served in a “remark- ship. He was also the founding editor of the Frank J. Goodnow Award able array of leadership positions” includ- Journal of Public Affairs Education (JPAE). The Frank Johnson Goodnow Award was ing department chair and service on several Perry is best known for his role in further- established by the APSA Council in 1996 to editorial boards. ing the study of public service motivation honor service to the community of teachers, A number of phrases and words appear (PSM). His articles “The Motivational Bases researchers, and public servants who work in in many of the supporting statements with of Public Service” (with Lois Wise), “Public the many fields of politics. Frank J. Goodnow, respect to why Isaac is superbly deserving of Service Motivation: An Assessment of Con- the first president of the American Political the Goodnow award—energy and passion, struct Reliability and Validity,” and “Anteced- Science Association, a pioneer in the develop- innovative and creative, open-minded and ents of Public Service Motivation” have been ment of judicial politics, and former president insightful, rigorous, dedicated, positive and cited over 4,000 times. His efforts to encour- of Johns Hopkins University, is an exemplar congenial, and constructive. age scholars to examine PSM, improve its of the public service and volunteerism that Additionally, all the nominators and sup- measurement, and test its validity in a vari- this award represents. porters commend Isaac’s scholarship and the ety of settings have helped inspire scholarly Award Committee: Priscilla Regan, Chair, important contributions of his research to research in over a dozen countries. PSM and George Mason University; Kyle Beardsley, the discipline, as well as his voice on a range the role of altruism in public administration Duke University; Jeff Frieden, Harvard Uni- of issues of importance to the profession. He have become prominent foci of panels at versity is a prolific scholar, publishing four books, the APSA Annual Meeting and the Public editing two anthologies, and writing over Management Research Conference, as well Recipient: Jeff Isaac, Indiana University 75 articles and essays. as the frequent subject of articles in public Citiation: Jeff Isaac’s nomination was The 2017 Goodnow Committee is honored administration journals. submitted by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein and pleased to make this award to Jeff Isaac. Perry has also accomplished pioneer- and Robert Keohane with a conomination ing work on public labor-management from Jane Mansbridge, and further support relations, administrative reform, public from 43 faculty, including 13 former APSA leadership, public-private differences and presidents, who joined in the nomination. Career Awards performance-related pay. His five most cited Supporting statements were submitted by 18 non-PSM articles (“An Empirical Commit- cosigners, many of who served with him on John Gaus Award ment of Organizational Commitment and the APSA Council and/or on Persepectives’ The John Gaus Award and Lectureship honors Organizational Effectiveness,” “Collabo- editorial board. The nomination package the recipient’s lifetime of exemplary scholar- ration Processes: Inside the Black Box,” was impressive, detailed, and enthusiastic ship in the joint tradition of political science “The Public-Private Distinction in Orga- in its endorsement of Isaac. The supporters and public administration and, more gener- nization Theory,” “Strategic Management took particular note of Isaac’s long and untir- ally, recognizes and encourages scholarship in Public and Private Organizations,” and ing contributions to one of the profession’s in public administration. “Organizational Commitment: Individual most important and widely read journals, Award Committee: Greg Lewis, Chair, and Organizational Influences”) have been Perspectives on Politics, for which he served Georgia State University; Ann Bowman, cited 5,000 times. as book review editor for four years and then Texas A&M University; Jocelyn Johnston, He has won numerous prior awards, as editor-in-chief for eight years. His term American University including the Dwight Waldo Award from as editor-in-chief ends this year making it the American Society for Public Adminis- a very fitting time to honor him with the Recipient: James L. Perry, Indiana University tration (ASPA), the Distinguished Research Goodnow Award. Citiation: The American Political Science Award from ASPA and NASPAA, the Paul P.

Van Riper Award for Excellence and Ser- Refugee Council, which is seeking to develop science at two- and four-year institutions. The vice from ASPA, and election as a Fellow innovative proposals to strengthen interna- contribution may span several years or an of the National Academy of Public Admin- tional cooperation in dealing with the global entire career, or it may be a single project of istration. He has won numerous awards for refugee crisis. exceptional impact. individual papers, and his coauthored book Lloyd Axworthy has made enormous con- Award Committee: Nancy Kassop, Chair, Civic Service: What Difference Does It Make? tributions both to the world of public policy SUNY New Paltz; Welling Hall, Earlham won the best book award from the Public in Canada and in the global community, and College; Ethan Hollander, Wabash College and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of as an academic leader. For these extraordi- Management. nary accomplishments and leadership, he is Recipient: Michael Genovese, Loyola Perry is also known as a generous mentor an outstanding recipient of the Hubert H. Marymount University to doctoral students and junior scholars and Humphrey Award. Citiation: It is with great pleasure that we as a supportive and welcoming colleague. announce the selection of Michael Geno- Benjamin E. Lippincott Award vese of Loyola Marymount University as Hubert H. Humphrey Award The Benjamin E. Lippincott Award recognizes the recipient of the APSA Distinguished The Hubert H. Humphrey Award is awarded a work of exceptional quality by a living politi- Teaching Award for 2017. There were many annually in recognition of notable public ser- cal theorist that is still considered significant worthy candidates for this award, but the vice by a political scientist. after a time span of at least 15 years since the committee members reached a unanimous Award Committee: Mary Katzenstein, original date of publication. decision that Genovese’s record of teaching Chair, Cornell University; Michael Lipsky, Award Committee: Sarah Song, Chair, and research was singular and striking in its Demos; Kent Weaver, Georgetown Univer- University of California, Berkeley; Corey level of excellence. We are not alone in recog- sity/Brookings Institution Brettschneider, Brown University; Cecile nizing Genovese’s extraordinary talents: he Laborde, University College London has won no fewer than 16 separate teaching Recipient: Lloyd Axworthy, University of awards from his university. Recognition by Winnipeg Recipient: Bernard Boxill, University of North APSA at the “distinguished” level is a fitting Citation: Lloyd Axworthy, a native of Carolina, Chapel Hill cap to all of the awards that came before. North Battleford, Saskatchewan, graduat- Citiation: Bernard Boxill’s Blacks and Genovese holds the Loyola Chair of ed from United College (now the University Social Justice (Rowman & Littlefield, 1984) Leadership, is the director of the Institute of Winnipeg), in 1961, and completed his is an exceptional work of deep and careful for Leadership Studies, and is president of PhD in political science at Princeton Uni- reflection. Written at a time when there was the Global Policy Institute at Loyola Mary- versity in 1973. little direct discussion of race within political mount University. His excellence as a teach- After graduate school, Axworthy returned theory and philosophy, Boxill’s book demon- er and scholar of the American presidency to the University of Winnipeg to teach and strates the crucial importance of addressing and leadership studies permeates beyond direct a new Institute of Urban Affairs. He questions of racial justice within mainstream the classroom walls. He has expanded edu- spent 27 years in political life beginning in political theory. It does so through extensive cational opportunities for his students by 1973, serving six years in the Manitoba Leg- critical engagement with canonical authors creating new academic programs, establish- islative Assembly and 21 in the federal House in Western political thought as well as key ing student scholarships, creating two study of Commons. He held several cabinet posi- figures in African American political thought, abroad programs, and publishing two teach- tions at the federal level, notably as Minister from Martin Delany and W.E.B. DuBois to ing workbooks. Thus, “teaching” for Geno- of Employment and Immigration, Minister Martin Luther King, Jr. and Harold Cruse. vese encompasses not only masterful and of Transport, Minister of Human Resources Compelling us to broaden the range of texts memorable classroom instruction, delivered Development, and Minister of Foreign Affairs we treat as rich sources of political theory, he with professional expertise, humor, humil- from 1996 to 2000. As Minister of Foreign productively puts historical and contempo- ity, and a healthy dose of life’s lessons, but Affairs, he reoriented Canadian foreign policy rary authors into conversation to address a is an enterprise that is always ripe for new toward a focus on human security. He played range of pressing questions about discrimi- ways to engage with students. The commit- a leading role in developing and winning nation in the market, busing, affirmative tee was impressed with the enormous range ratification of the Ottawa Treaty banning action, and the role of self-respect and civil of Genovese’s contributions to his students, anti-personnel land mines, as well as estab- disobedience in the pursuit of racial equal- his university, and his discipline. The nomi- lishing the International Criminal Court and ity. In discussing these authors and themes, nating letter from his department colleagues the protocol on child soldiers. Boxill develops and defends his own dis- described him as a “master teacher.” That is After leaving public office, Axworthy tinctive liberal theory of racial justice. The exactly what this award is intended to cel- served as director of the Liu Institute for book remains an indispensable source on ebrate: we agree completely with Genovese’s Global Issues at the University of British the major racial issues of our time and an colleagues that his hefty record of exemplary Colombia. He then returned to the University enduring model for how to combine rigorous and inspired teaching, in all of its manifesta- of Winnipeg, where he served as president theoretical argument with clear-eyed analy- tions, merits prime APSA recognition. for 10 years before stepping down in 2014. sis of real-world controversies. While heading the university, he devoted James Madison award particular attention to making university Distinguished Teaching Award James Madison Award recognizes an Ameri- education more accessible to low-income, The APSA Distinguished Teaching Award can political scientist who has made a dis- Aboriginal, immigrant, and refugee students. honors the outstanding contribution to under- tinguished scholarly contribution to political He currently serves as chair of the World graduate and graduate teaching of political science.

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Award Committee: Susan Stokes, Chair, Recipient: Jake Tapper, CNN Charles E. Merriam Award Yale University; Helen Ingram, University Citiation: Elite partisan politics in the The Charles E. Merriam Award is presented of Arizona; Frank Thomspon, Rutgers Uni- United States is increasingly contentious, biennially to recognize a person whose pub- versity highlighting the importance of critical jour- lished work and career represent a significant nalism as well as the challenges that seri- contribution to the art of government through Recipient: Deborah Stone, Brandeis Uni- ous, dedicated journalists face. CNN chief the application of social science research. versity Washington correspondent and anchor Award Committee: Lisa Anderson, Chair, Citiation: Deborah Stone is a public intel- Jake Tapper has worked as a journalist in American University of Cairo; Donald lectual as well as academic scholar. She has the Washington, DC area for more than Kinder, University of Michigan; Paul Quirk, taught political science and public policy at 15 years. He joined CNN in 2013, and cur- University of British Columbia MIT, Brandeis University, and Duke Uni- rently hosts The Lead with Jake Tapper, and versity. She is the author of many books CNN’s Sunday show, State of the Union. Recipient: Bernard Grofman, University of and articles, including influential works Before joining CNN, Tapper was senior California, Irvine such as The Samaritan’s Dilemma: Should White house correspondent for ABC News. Citiation: The Charles E. Merriam Award Government Help Your Neighbor? and The During his nearly 10-year stint at ABC, Tap- for 2017 goes to Bernard Grofman, the Jack W. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision- per was central to ABC’s award-winning Peltason Chair of Democracy Studies at the Making. In these and other studies, she national and international political cover- University of California, Irvine, who richly demonstrates that problem definition is a age. Before ABC he worked as Washing- deserved this recognition. strategic representation of a situation in ton and national correspondent for Salon. Grofman is an Americanist, a rational which symbols and hidden stories play a com. His reporting has also appeared in choice scholar—a past president of the Public large part. Stone delves deeply into the con- prestigious outlets such as The New Yorker, Choice Society—a prolific author of innova- cept of policy goals, revealing that behind The New York Times Magazine, The Wash- tive research, and, most importantly for our every policy issue lurks a contest over con- ington Post, The LA Times, and The Weekly purposes, a specialist on electoral redistrict- flicting though equally plausible conceptions Standard. ing whose work has been cited in nearly a of such abstract goals as equity, efficiency, Tapper is widely respected for the work he dozen US Supreme Court cases. Grofman is security, and liberty. And, she has argued has done in Washington over the last 15 years, author or coauthor of dozens of books and that political reasoning is reasoning by but most recently he attracted praise for his hundreds of scholarly articles. His scholar- political metaphor and analogy. Through- reporting during the 2016 presidential elec- ship has been influential not only among out her work, her focus is on politics as it tion. Tapper’s political expertise was central his colleagues, however, but also, and for is practiced—whether in the United States to CNN’s 2016 election coverage throughout decades, in the broader public interest. His or in her more recent work in Nepal. As she the campaign season as well as on election work has been cited by the US Supreme demonstrates, policymaking is a struggle night, and he moderated two Presidential Court, as in the 1986 case, Thornburg v. over criteria for classification, the boundar- Primary debates. His work during the 2016 Gingles, which noted his research on racial ies of categories, and the definition of ideals election earned several journalism awards, voting patterns, and deployed in several fed- that guide the way people behave. including a 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for eral court amici briefs on partisan bias in In her public writings as well as books Excellence in Television Political Journal- post-2000 census redistricting. In 2015, he and articles, she has proven herself to be an ism, The Los Angeles Press Club’s Presidents was appointed a special master to redraw insightful social historian, recounting the Award for Impact on Media, the Canadian Virginia’s congressional districts after the ways in which the altruistic instincts have Journalism Foundation’s Tribute to Exem- previous districts were deemed unconstitu- been eroded over the last 80 years. She has led plary Journalism, and the White House Cor- tionally gerrymandered. He has testified on the way to restoring emotion as an important respondents’ Association’s Merriman Smite behalf of states and private parties, including part of politics and political analysis. While Award for Presidential Coverage, which he the NAACP, and in favor of both Democratic many emphasized self-interest, she stressed won on three separate occasions. and Republican plans. cooperation. When only a few thought that During the first several months of the Grofman has consistently applied his “care-giving” was an appropriate political sci- Trump administration, Tapper has contin- scholarlship not only to improving the meth- ence topic, she redefined care as a political ued to rigorously cover national and presi- ods and findings of his research fields but issue and civic obligation. Her work reveals dential politics through tough and revealing to ensuring the institutional integrity and that politics and policymaking have a moral interviews with top White House officials procedural fairness of American democracy. dimension, and that citizenship and the pub- and other political elites. As he as recently put it, his work is “intended lic sphere prosper when ordinary virtues like In his commitment to tough but objec- to provide clear and judicially manageable kindness and empathy are practiced. tive reporting on national politics, Tapper’s statistical underpinnings for . . . specifying work continues to make an enormous con- necessary and sufficient conditions for a Carey McWilliams Award tribution to the public’s understanding of plan to be an unconstitutional partisan The Carey McWilliams Award is given annu- presidential politics. His accomplishments gerrymander. . . . Stopping egregious ger- ally to honor a major journalistic contribution are especially worthy of attention in a digital rymandering is not a partisan issue. . . . to our understanding of politics. era characterized by partisan media, active Regardless of which political party gains, Award Committee: Johanna Dunaway, audiences with ample outlets from which the loser is US democracy.” Chair, Texas A&M University; Matt Baum, to choose, and politicians’ tendencies to Charles Merriam was noted both for Harvard Kennedy School; Claes De Vreese, demonize the press in response to unfa- his commitment to innovative political University of Amsterdam vorable coverage. and social science scholarship and for his

© American Political Science Association, 2017 PS • October 2017 1139 Gazette devotion to American democracy. As one Award Committee: Keith Banting, Chair, and John A. Williams—the book will encour- who applies his rigorous scholarship for Queens University; Andrew Douglas, More- age a rethinking of the scope and eviden- public benefit, Bernard Grofman is a most house College; Victoria Hattam, The New tiary bases of the study of race and politics. fitting recipient of the Merriam Award. School Gladys M. Kammerer Award Hanes Walton Award Recipient: Vaughn Rasberry, Stanford Uni- The Gladys M. Kammerer Award is given The Hanes Walton Award recognizes a politi- versity annually for the best book published during cal scientist whose lifetime of distinguished Citiation: Vaughn Rasberry’s Race and the the previous calendar year in the field of US scholarship has made significant contribu- Totalitarian Century is an ambitious, broadly national policy. tions to our understanding of racial and eth- interdisciplinary, and boldly original book Award Committee: Janet Martin, Chair, nic politics and illuminates the conditions that will change how many scholars think Bowdoin College; Stephen Amberg, Uni- under which diversity and intergroup toler- about race and global politics in the twen- versity of Texas, San Antonio; Traci Burch, ance thrive in democratic societies. tieth century. The book sets out to expose Northwestern University and foreground a rich body of midcentury Recipient: Michael Dawson, University of black internationalist critique and to chal- Recipients: Gary J. Miller, Washington Uni- Chicago lenge conventional genealogies of totalitar- versity in St. Louis, and Andrew B. Whitford, Citation: Michael C. Dawson is the John D. ian practice and ideology. Working explic- University of Georgia MacArthur Professor of Political Science at itly from the vantage of colonial modernity, Citiation: In an era when partisan the University of Chicago. Dawson received from primary accounts of desegregation and polarization and policy gridlock are his doctorate degree from Harvard. He has decolonization struggles, Rasberry makes a either a dependent or independent vari- directed numerous public opinion studies that compelling case that the color line, rather able across a wide range of studies, the focus on race and public opinion. His research than liberal democracy, provides the condi- authors advance our understanding of interests include black political behavior and tions for a proper critique of totalitarianism. the making of public policy in looking public opinion, political economy, and black The book is not merely an exposition and “above politics” in their book Above Poli- political ideology. More recently, he has com- celebration of black critique. Rasberry also tics: Bureaucratic Discretion and Credible bined his quantitative work with work in polit- shows how considerable pressure was bought Commitment. While the bureaucracy is the ical theory. His first two books,Behind the to bear on black intellectuals to curtail their focus of their study, the context needed to Mule: Race and Class in African-American Poli- criticisms of US and Western foreign policy understand that bureaucracy and national tics and Black Visions: The Roots of Contempo- and to, in the US context, corral their politi- policy making takes their scholarship on rary African-American Political Ideologies, won cal work within the domain of domestic civil a journey through time, looking at fun- multiple awards. Recent books include Not in rights struggles. Also compelling is the way damental political institutions, especially Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics and in which Rasberry’s research and argument since the Progressive era. Blacks In and Out of the Left. Recently, Daw- move beyond familiar categories of domestic With a powerful conceptual framework, son launched a nationwide, multi-university and foreign. Rasberry thinks not just trans- and in writing accessible to a broad audience, project to study the intersection of race and nationally, as we might invoke that term, but the authors identify the bureaucracy as capitalism. Recent work from Dawson related globally. Focusing on a wide range of his- “an understudied and misunderstood player” to this project includes the 2016 articles in torical events—from the Italian invasion of (p. ix ) in the “operation of modern states Public Culture (with Francis) and Critical His- Ethiopia in 1935 to the Suez Crisis and Hun- and markets” (p. ix). While executives, legis- torical Studies. He is the founding director of garian Revolt of 1956 to the Arab-Israeli War latures, and courts are the “primary institu- the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and of 1967—Rasberry shows how international tions of modern advanced industrial democ- Culture at the University of Chicago. Dawson alliances established around the color line racies,” (p. viii) it is the professionals, with was elected to the American Academy of Arts allowed for, or generated, capacities for anti- their expertise and an ethos of profession- and Sciences in 2006. totalitarian struggle and imaginative visions alism, that contribute to governments tak- Ultimately, the selection committee of a nonaligned postwar order. ing on increasingly complex problems of selected Michael for the range and lasting Race and the Totalitarian Century will governance, especially when policy can’t impact of his contributions. Indeed, the com- speak quite directly to several subfields be resolved through the intended system mittee was unanimous in declaring that it within the discipline. The book will be of of a separation of powers and checks and is virtually impossible to do research in the interest to political theorists who have been balances. field of race, ethnicity, and politics without engaging black politics directly for some Miller and Whitford embrace the work of engaging Michael Dawson’s scholarly legacy. time, though rarely in the historical and a number of scholars in the fields and sub- conceptual analysis of totalitarianism. fields of public administration, game theory, Americanists and scholars of international international security, and economics. They relations will also find Rasberry’s reframing also turn to the familiar writings of James Book Awards of the domestic and foreign both challeng- Madison in The Federalist Papers. Their case ing and invigorating. And in its emphasis on studies and illustrations are diverse and far Ralph J. Bunche Award black cultural production and the political reaching in looking at national policy, includ- The Ralph Bunche Award is given annually contributions of black writers—figures such ing military base closings, nuclear deter- for the best scholarly work in political science as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, Richard rence, the National Labor Relations Board, that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and Wright, Frantz Fanon, Shirley Graham, the Securities and Exchange Commission, cultural pluralism. William Gardner Smith, Ollie Harrington, and Dodd-Frank.

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Their argument can be subtle at times, Citation: Did the granting of suffrage to from women voters in Illinois. Differences in but in essence it is that political leaders need women in the United States impact US poli- voter restrictions from North to South and the bureaucracy for all the decisions a Con- tics? The answers to this question have been in the dominant party in a given state mat- gress and president can’t or won’t make. wide-ranging—from claims that women’s ter more for women’s voting behavior than Elected officials let the bureaucracy act votes made no difference because they voted their sex. Moreover, at several turns, Corder independently by building certain features just like men, to claims that early women and Wolbrecht find that surges or declines into regulatory institutions (e.g., fixed terms, voters tipped the scales toward one party or in voter turn-out that had been previously bipartisanship, and autonomy). But the key another in the immediate post-suffrage era. attributed to women’s entry (or lack thereof ) element to intended bureaucratic discretion But with no sex-segregated voting results into the voting pool, should instead be attrib- or delegation is a “credible commitment” to and no sophisticated exit polls, claims about uted to men’s voting behavior—a reminder professionalism. Elected officials also are in the effect on politics of the entry of women that that the “male standard” is not always need of “a stability that comes from exper- into the US voting population have been a stable measure. We also learn a great deal tise itself” (p. 236). just that, only claims. Until now. Counting in this book about the politics of the four While their study does much in address- Women’s Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage elections following suffrage. ing the problems of partisan gridlock of the through the New Deal by J. Kevin Corder and More broadly, this work should encourage past few decades, perhaps their study is most Christina Wolbrecht utilizes new quantita- other researchers to reassess old arguments prescient in analyzing the role of bureaucracy tive methods to question old assumptions. and conclusions. As new social scientific as an antidote to the vagaries of a unilateral The book is path-breaking in its use of novel methods emerge, and as our understand- presidency in a time of unified government. methods to develop an empirical basis to ings of the world become more complex, Miller and Whitford provide a measured and re-examine a period in US history that is more social scientists should feel inspired tempered analysis of elected officials in a much talked about, but for which we have by Counting Women’s Ballots to tackle old policy process envisioned over two hundred little concrete evidence. The findings are questions with new methods, and shed light years ago, and of the professionals who have crucial, as well, in that the authors provide not just by addressing data limitations but been delegated credible responsibility for a nuanced picture of the behavior of early also by challenging conclusions that may policy due to their norms of professionalism; women voters that defies easy conclusions. be tainted by the social biases of the era in they are a key set of actors in determining Like much of the best works in the women which they were conceived. and monitoring national policy. and politics literature, we learn that there The main focus of the authors is in look- are no essentialist answers. Theodore J. Lowi Award ing “above politics” at the contributions of Perhaps the biggest contribution of this The Theodore J. Lowi Award recognizes the bureaucracies to economic stability and book is the major hole it fills in our knowl- best first book in any field of political sci- development, especially given problems edge of the political behavior of early US ence, showing promise of having a substan- inherent in a separation of powers system. women voters. Using aggregate voter returns tive impact on the overall discipline, regard- Their cogent analysis of the economic col- and census data as their empirical base, the less of method, specific focus of inquiry or lapse of 2008, with its roots in policy decisions authors employ a Bayesian approach to eco- approach to subject. of administrations and Congresses under logical inference to estimate women’s voter Award Committee: Graham Wilson, Chair, control of both Democrats and Republicans, turn out and vote choice in 10 US states. This Boston University; Shirin Rai, University of and the pitfalls that can arise in a delega- novel methodological approach to overcome Warwick; Mauro Calise, Federica Weblearning tion of responsibility to professionals, clearly data deficits allows insights that we have not answers a question posed by the authors in previously had. In Counting Women’s Ballots, Recipient: Dara Kay Cohen, Harvard Ken- the conclusion: yes, the disciplines of politi- for the first time, we have a clearer picture of nedy School cal science and public administration can the effects of women’s suffrage on US politics Citiation: In her book Rape During Civil offer expertise, insight, and new research grounded in empirical data. War, Dara Kay Cohen addresses a difficult, questions and designs which will enhance The findings are fascinating and complex. challenging, and important topic with exem- an understanding of regulatory mechanisms Contradicting the “women’s suffrage as fail- plary academic skills and care. While wars in economic research and perhaps facilitate ure” conventional wisdom (which emerged between states have fortunately become rarer, the work of policy practitioners, both elected near the time of granting suffrage, and most civil wars have multiplied. Large-scale rape and unelected. certainly was also tainted by the sexist biases often becomes a weapon of war. Cohen uses of the time), Corder and Wolbrecht demon- a range of approaches and methodologies to Victoria Schuck Award strate the important impacts early women’s understand why mass rape does and does The Victoria Schuck Award is given annu- voting behavior had on US politics. How- not occur during civil wars. She uses both ally for the best book published on women ever, they provide no sweeping general- quantitative analysis and qualitative evi- and politics. izations. Women’s turn-out rates and vote dence. Given the traumatic nature of rape, Award Committee: Christina Ewig, Uni- choice varied substantially depending on it is deeply impressive that she has been able versity of Minnesota; Amy Alexander, Uni- context. In many instances, they find that to obtain so many and such revealing inter- versity of Gothenberg; Zoe Oxley, Union the starkest contrasts are not how wom- views with victims and perpetrators, show- College en’s voting behavior compares to men in a ing an ethic of research that is sensitive to single state, but rather how women’s vot- the needs of her respondents. Recipients: J. Kevin Corder, Western Mich- ing behavior compares to that of women in Cohen’s work is also exemplary in defin- igan University, and Christina Wolbrecht, other states—for example how women voting and exploring a clear thesis. She shows University of Notre Dame ers in Virginia behaved radically differently that rape in civil war is to be understood

© American Political Science Association, 2017 PS • October 2017 1141 Gazette not as the result of simple lust or of a clear archival data to demonstrate convincingly for the best dissertation in the field of com- strategy for terrorizing a population but as that the mid-1960s civil rights transition was parative politics. His dissertation was “The means by which loyalty and cohesion can the product of changes starting in the mid- Politics of Proximity: Local Redistribution in be built up in military units composed of 1930s. It was then that a new constituency Developed Democracies.” Ferwerda begins soldiers of disparate backgrounds who have base—urban blacks as a key voting block for with the observation that European local been forcefully recruited. Participation in northern liberals—and the Congress of Indus- governments’ discretion over redistributive the horror of a gang rape forges that bond trial Organizations (CIO) started pressuring policy has grown over the past 30 years. Fer- between soldiers that has long been regarded Democrats to understand that racial divisions werda discovers that surprisingly decentral- as essential for a fighting force to have ade- undermined class consciousness. In short, one ized discretion over policy has not led to a quate cohesion. Cohen therefore proposes cannot understand the civil rights realign- “race to the bottom” in social spending as it and defends a novel and convincing explana- ment in the 1960s without understanding is commonly argued. Instead, newly empow- tion for the occurrence of a heinous practice. its historical roots in federalism, local urban ered local governments exert greater redis- In doing so, Cohen presents a model of how politics, and the decentralized election of tributive effort, often raising their own rev- to conduct research that is multimethod and House members, all of which were essential enue to do so. committed yet rigorous on a deeply troubling to the eventual, gradual incorporation of civil Ferwerda develops an important argu- subject. By bringing together a bold theo- rights into the national Democrat Party. Put ment to make sense of this new finding: local retical vision and a challenging topic with differently, Schickler helps us to understand and national redistributive politics differ relevant political implications, Cohen’s work the potential power of more localized social because of voters’ proximity to politicians is an excellent tribute to Theodore J. Lowi’s movements as key to major political and policy and each other. He identifies two channels legacy for political science. change in US politics. through which the “politics of proximity” Just as important as the challenge to the affects redistributive spending. First, voters Woodrow Wilson Foundation conventional wisdom of elite-driven change, feel local negative externalities associated Award Racial Realignment reminds social science with poverty more keenly than national ones. The Woodrow Wilson Award is given annu- scholars once again that there is much to be Second, because local electorates are rela- ally for the best book on government, politics, gained by placing a “premium on a meth- tively small, politicians can swing elections or international affairs. The award, formerly ods approach that integrates historical and by using redistributive policy to mobilize vot- supported by the Woodrow Wilson Founda- behavioral evidence and draws on diverse ers, particularly poor ones. Ferwerda provides tion, is sponsored by Princeton University. data sources for evidence,” and conducting impressive and original evidence for his the- Award Committee: Edward Weber, Chair, analyses across institutions and levels of ory using carefully constructed subnational Oregon State University; Benjamin Smith, government. This is because, as Schickler tests with data from Switzerland, Denmark, University of Florida; Mariah Zeisberg, Uni- demonstrates, major political change like the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, France, versity of Michigan this happens at the “intersection of multiple United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, and Sweden. institutions and political processes,” not just Some of the core findings of Ferwerda’s Recipient: Eric Schickler, University of Cali- a single institution or at the behest of a few important dissertation include evidence fornia, Berkeley powerful political interests within a short that support for redistribution, especially Citiation: Political scientists have long time frame. The evidence in Racial Realign- amongst the wealthy, is greater in smaller been fascinated with explanations for par- ment also alerts us that we should be wary municipalities. He also shows that local gov- tisan realignment within US politics. A par- of using actual policy decisions/outcomes ernments increase redistributive spending ticular episode of realignment involves the as the main basis for understanding when in response to visible disorder and if they emergence and adoption of major civil rights change occurs because the reality is likely to raise their own revenue. Additionally, he legislation, which most accounts render as be that decades of behind the scenes action finds that local politicians who spend on having occurred in the 1960s as a belated are critical to understanding change. social services and transfers perform better addition to the Democratic Party’s agenda. at the ballot box. Finally, he demonstrates This political transformation, typically pre- that local redistributive spending mobilizes sented as elite-driven, shattered the Dem- Dissertation Awards poor voters, as turnout is higher in local elec- ocratic Party coalition between southern tions than national ones in poor municipali- conservatives and their more liberal north- Gabriel Almond Award ties with discretion over social spending. In eastern colleagues, eventually bolstering the The Gabriel A. Almond Award is given annu- sum, while the Almond Award Committee conservative ranks of the GOP as southern ally for the best dissertation in the field of had to choose among some very impressive Democrats migrated over to the GOP. comparative politics. dissertations, we have selected Ferwerda’s This year’s Woodrow Wilson Prize winner, Award Committee: Kimuli Kasara, Chair, dissertation for its richly theorized and novel Eric Schickler, however, provides a compelling Columbia University; Daniel Ziblatt, Har- empirical findings on a substantively impor- and richly detailed case in Racial Realignment: vard University; Michael Ross, University tant topic, conducted in a highly empirically The Transformation of American Liberalism, of California, Los Angeles rigorous manner, which all together repre- 1932–1965 that “[l]ong before Goldwater and sent a significant contribution to the field LBJ made their own distinctive policy state- Recipient: Jeremy Ferwerda, Massachusetts of comparative politics and beyond. ments in the 1960s, their parties had been Institute of Technology remade underneath them,” and not by party Citiation: Jeremy Ferwerda (PhD, Masse- William Anderson Award elites. Schickler employs multiple meth- chusetts Institute of Technology) is the win- The William Anderson Award is given annu- ods, including historical analysis, and rich ner of this year’s Gabriel A. Almond Prize ally for the best dissertation in the general field

1142 PS • October 2017 © American Political Science Association, 2017 Gazette of federalism or intergovernmental relations of Judicial Characteristics and Judicial Selec- Citation: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez is and state and local politics. tion Methods in the US.” Harris tackles the recipient of the 2017 Harold D. Lasswell Award Committee: Nicole Bolleyer, Chair, questions at the heart of work on the con- best dissertation prize in the field of public University of Exeter; Michael Hall, Morehead nections between democratic representation policy co-sponsored by APSA and the Policy State University; Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, and the rule of law, especially as those con- Studies Organization. Hertel-Fernandez University of Rhode Island cerns manifest in the political system of the developed a theoretically and empirically United States. Refreshingly, she does so by rich paradigm by which we can understand Recipient: Bai Linh Hoang, University of considering salient issues across all levels of many puzzling policy outcomes in the Ameri- Michigan the American judiciary. At the federal level, can States. In his dissertation, “Whose Bills? Citation: In “Democratic Listening? Race Harris asks what kinds of Article III nomi- Corporate Interests and Conservative Mobi- and Representation in Local Politics,” the nees are targeted for opposition by interest lization Across the US States, 1973–2013,” he author makes a novel contribution to the groups. She finds that qualifications matter presented an illuminating way emphasizing study of local government, representation, for ideologically moderate judges but that for the role that states’ weak policy capacities inequality, and racial discrimination. The ideologically extreme judges, qualifications allow businesses to advance their interests. author investigates an important and highly do not play a role. At the state level, Harris His work sheds light on the quintessential salient question: How much do local elected asks whether retention elections fully insu- and multifaceted interaction between politics officials actually listen to members of their late judges from democratic accountability. and policy, which is a welcome contribution community when constituents take the If not, how much control over the judiciary in today’s highly polarized political context. extraordinary step of coming and testify- can voters exert in such systems? In a study ing before the city council and what role of judicial retention voting in Iowa following Merze Tate Award does race play in this process? Democratic the Iowa Supreme Court’s Varnum v. Brien The Merze Tate Award (formerly the Helen institutions are built on the idea that elected decision, Harris finds that the Court’s deci- Dwight Reid Award) is given annually for the officials will consider the viewpoints of their sion was a powerful cause of the defeat of best dissertation successfully defended during constituents when making their decisions, yet sitting justices. Turning to the local level, the previous two years in the field of interna- very few studies investigate if constituents Harris considers how the racial composition tional relations, law, and politics. receive equal respect across subgroups in the of courts influences sentencing. In a study Award Committee: Jessica Chen Weiss, literal sense. The author of this dissertation of criminal sentencing on the Circuit Court Chair, Cornell University; Terry Chapman, uses a novel and highly convincing qualita- of Cook County, Illinois, Harris finds that University of Texas, Austin; Victoria Tin-bor tive methods approach that is well suited to increases in the number of judges who are Hui, University of Notre Dame studying this important theme. The author not white decreases the likelihood of incar- video-recorded local officials at public meet- ceration for defendants in felony cases. Recipient: Rochelle Terman, University of ings and coded if they were actively engaged Each of these questions presents chal- California, Berkeley or distracted during each given piece of lenging questions of inference. Harris pres- Citiation: Rochelle Terman’s dissertation— testimony, complemented by follow up inter- ents a combination of rigorous and recently “Backlash: Defiance, Human Rights and views. The findings have important implica- developed designs for causal inference and the Politics of Shame”—investigates why tions for the study of democratic governance more traditional methods of analysis. The and when human rights “naming and sham- and political participation: The author finds result is a flexible yet highly credible empiri- ing” produces backlash rather than improve- that white legislators are more likely to be cal record, whose claims are presented and ment. It develops an innovative theory of distracted when black constituents speak defended carefully. The care Harris takes with international defiance, rooted in the domes- than when white constituents do. This dis- interpreting her findings clarifies a number of tic political incentives of elites to provoke sertation offers important and novel findings open questions for further analysis. By tack- and manipulate shaming for strategic pur- regarding the persistence of racial discrimi- ling these questions across all levels of the poses. Empirically, it disaggregates pressure nation in the democratic process. American judiciary, and in the way that she from the international community in three does, Harris reminds us of that the combina- important ways. First, it investigates the role Edward S. Corwin Award tion of flexibility and rigor offers scholars an of social ties between the shamer and the The Edward S. Corwin Award is given annu- efficient way to powerfully address general target of human rights criticism; second, ally for the best dissertation in the field of and related theoretical questions central to it examines the credibility of international public law. the study of law and politics. human rights reporting and identifies dis- Award Committee: Jeff Staton, Chair, Emory proportionate US news coverage of discrimi- University; Lori Johnson, Mercer University; Harold D. Lasswell Award nation against women in Muslim-majority Jeff Lax, Columbia University The Harold D. Lasswell Award is given annu- and Middle Eastern countries; and third, it ally for the best dissertation in the field of draws out the counterproductive effects of Recipient: Allison Harris, University of public policy. stigmatizing pressure, which censures the Chicago Award Committee: Jeronimo Cortina, actor rather than a particular behavior. The Citiation: Allison Harris of the University Chair, University of Houston; Christine thesis draws upon quantitative and compu- of Michigan, now at Princeton University, Rothmayr Allison, University of Montreal; tational text analysis as well as an in-depth offers three essays on the political processes Lisa Miller, Rutgers University case study of the 2010–2011 global shaming of judicial appointments as well as the campaign against Iran over the sentencing of consequences of who sits on the bench in Recipient: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Har- a woman to stoning for adultery. It advances “Who’s on the Bench?: Political Implications vard University our understanding of how context as well as

© American Political Science Association, 2017 PS • October 2017 1143 Gazette content matters for transnational advocacy innovative and surprising—and, best of all, Recipient: Alan Zarychta, University of Colo- and the spread of international norms con- convincing. rado at Boulder cerning women’s rights. Citation: We are delighted to present Leo Strauss Award the 2017 Leonard D. White Award to Alan E.E. Schattschneider Award The Leo Strauss Award is given annually for Zarychta for his dissertation, “It Takes More The E.E. Schattschneider Award is given the best dissertation in the field of political Than a Village: Governance and Public Ser- annually for the best doctoral dissertation philosophy. vices in Developing Countries.” In his dis- completed and accepted during that year or Award Committee: Judith Grant, Chair, sertation, Zarychta analyzes data from two the previous year in the field of American Ohio University; Arash Abizadeh, McGill developing nations—Honduras and India—to government. University; Deborah Baumgold, University understand the causes and consequences of Award Committee: Gisela Sin, Chair, Uni- of Oregon public policy decentralization. Focusing on versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; health centers and maternity care, the manu- Julia Azari, Marquette University; Matthew Recipient: Kevin Duong, Cornell University script asks why developing nations decentral- Beckmann, University of California, Irvine Citation: Kevin Duong has written an ize public policy, why such moves succeed or important work about how French writ- fail, and how decentralization might impact Recipient: Mallory SoRelle, Cornell Uni- ers and intellectuals in several key periods citizens’ civic behavior. In answering these versity of state building represented violence as a questions, Zarychta creates a valuable piece Citation: We selected the dissertation moment of reconstitution of the social bond: of interdisciplinary, multimethod research: titled “Democracy Declined: The Failed Poli- “Democratic Terror: Redemptive Violence the literature review knits together impor- tics of Consumer Credit” as the winner of the and the Formation of Nineteenth Century tant scholarship from political science, pub- Schattschneider award for various reasons. France.” Duong closely examines four his- lic administration, and policy studies; the First, this dissertation identifies a politically torical cases in which social disintegration fieldwork and data collection are impres- relevant puzzle that is familiar yet rarely con- threatened the nation: the regicide of Louis sive; and the analytic framework is robust sidered in political terms. We were impressed XVI, early French colonization of Algeria, and well executed. In sum, the dissertation because the author not only asks very inter- the Paris Commune, and the pre-World War I makes important theoretical contributions esting questions, theorizes about them, and years. In his compelling and highly read- about the relationship between politics, pol- links those questions to specific decisions, able work, Duong shows how, in each case, icy, and administration as well as nuanced institutions and political behaviors, but also rather than turning to law or democratic the- policy recommendations for administrators because he/she conducted an extraordinary ory, polemicists instead made claims about and policymakers in developing nations. The data collection to test the hypotheses. how violence by the people could restore the dissertation was written while Zarychta was Why have policymakers consistently pur- cohesion of the French social body. Duong’s a graduate student at the University of Colo- sued disclosure requirements as the main scholarship investigates what was gained rado at Boulder; his dissertation commit- form of consumer credit protection, even in the move away from democratic theory, tee was chaired by Krister Andersson. We when indicators suggest they do not work? and how this concept of regenerative vio- congratulate Zarychta on a job well done. Why are consumers inactive when it comes to lence could be used to take aim at repairing policies that affect them so deeply? Why have the moral foundations of “the social.” In an consumer interest groups struggled to mobi- innovative twist, Duong argues that French lize borrowers toward political action? Why thinkers “did not repudiate violence as anti- Paper and Article did Congress choose to distribute rulemak- social or pre-political, but instead, “reached ing and enforcement authority across agen- for it in the form of democratic terror.” It was, Awards cies that were created to safeguard financial he argues, in effect, the creation of a “wea- institutions instead of agencies that focus on ponized image of violence”—an image that individual consumers? How has the central- was introduced to great effect in the political Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma ization of regulatory authority in the CFPB, culture of nineteenth century France. The Alpha Award an agency designed to protect consumers, work is a path-breaking reinterpretation of The Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha reshaped these dynamics? several key moments in French history and Award is given annually for the best paper pre- The author argues that throughout his- causes us to rethink long held assumptions sented at the previous year’s annual meeting. tory, policymakers have faced a series of trad- about the historical uses of democratic theory The award is supported by Pi Sigma Alpha. eoffs in their treatment of consumer credit. and law as well as casting the historical uses Award Committee: Jennifer Wolak, Chair, In every instance policymakers adopted mea- of violence in a very new and different light. University of Colorado, Boulder; Carsten sures that prioritize access to credit over Jensen, Aarhus University; John Wilkerson, consumer protection, and the financial secu- Leonard D. White Award University of Washington rity of lending institutions over the financial The Leonard D. White prize is awarded annu- security of individuals. The author provides ally for the best dissertation successfully Recipient: Kenneth F. Greene, University of ample historical and contemporary evidence defended during the previous two years in Texas at Austin from a variety of sources like archives (e.g., the field of public administration. Citiation: We are pleased to announce presidential archives, consumer movements Award Committee: Zachary Oberfield, “Why Vote Buying Fails: Campaign Effects archives), legislative analyses, congressional Chair, Haverford College; Mary Feeney, and the Elusive Swing Voter” by Kenneth F. hearings, and public opinion data. Across Arizona State University; Holly Goerdel, Greene of the University of Texas at Austin the board, we found this dissertation both University of Kansas as our selection as this year’s winner.

In the paper, Greene challenges the con- The work was truly exceptional in that regard. scientists seriously concerned with the valid- ventional wisdom about the power of vote The demonstration is rich and complex but ity and plausibility of their research. buying and clientelism in Latin American nevertheless presented in a clear and elegant politics, arguing that modern campaigns manner. The demonstration draws primar- Robert A. Dahl Award undercut the utility of vote-buying. When ily from Latin American qualitative research, The Robert A. Dahl Award recognizes an candidates run legitimate democratic cam- but its applicability goes far beyond the area untenured scholar who has produced schol- paigns, it makes voters less predictable to she focuses on, across all the subfields of arship of the highest quality on the subject vote-buyers, and increases the risks that vote political science. The article offers a signif- of democracy, including books, papers, and buying will be ineffective. Greene explores icant contribution to the political science articles. whether campaign issues or vote-selling literature by demonstrating the crucial role Award Committee: Claire Adida, Chair, dominates among those who change their of comparative analysis supported by thor- University of California, San Diego; Staffan mind over the course of the campaign, and ough conceptual work and a detailed con- Lindberg, Gothenberg University; Thad finds that vote-buying is far less effective textual analysis. Williamson, University of Richmond than previously thought. This is good news for democracy. Heinz Eulau Award: Recipient: Candelaria Garay, Harvard Ken- The committee was impressed by the Perspectives on Politics nedy School paper’s methodological sophistication and The Heinz Eulau Award is given annually for Citiation: In Social Policy Expansion in how the author uses survey experiments to the best article published in Perspectives on Latin America, Candelaria Garay sets out to deliver new insights about a topic of endur- Politics in the past calendar year. The award explain a fundamental puzzle that has char- ing interest among those who study elections is supported by Cambridge University Press. acterized Latin American politics since the in emerging democracies. The paper is well Award Committee: Florence Faucher, 1980s: Why is it that, in the midst of politi- argued and the methods are well deployed. Chair, Sciences Po; Ed Mansfield, Univer- cal democratization and economic liberal- We believe this paper is well deserving of the sity of Pennsylvania; Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, ism, some Latin American countries have distinction of being this year’s winner of the Rice University pursued expansionary and inclusive social Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award. policy programs while others chose a restric- Recipient: Matthew A. Kocher and Nuno P. tive approach instead? The question is an Heinz Eulau Award: American Monteiro, Yale University important one for a region characterized by Political Science Review Citiation: In “Lines of Demarcation: significant economic inequality and clien- The Heinz Eulau Award is given annually Causation, Design-Based Inference, and telistic politics: Why would political lead- for the best article published in the American Historical Research” (vol. 14, issue 4), ers ever choose to bring outsiders back in, Political Science Review in the past calendar the authors, Matthew A. Kocher and Nuno undermining their own sources of clientelis- year. The award is supported by Cambridge P. Monteiro, make a strong argument for tic support? University Press. methodological pluralism in political sci- Garay’s thorough analysis looks not only Award Committee: Florence Faucher, ence through a tightly argued demonstra- to explain the political dynamics that deter- Chair, Sciences Po; Johannes Lindvall, Lund tion of the dependence of an design-based mine whether or not a particular administra- University; Elizabeth Markovits, Mount inference approaches on the qualitative, tion embarks on inclusive and expansionary Holyoke College idiographic historical work that necessar- social policy reform, but also the dynamics ily underpins construction of its data as and processes that characterize each social Recipient: Alisha C. Holland, Harvard Uni- well as validates the hypothesis and the policy model. Garay challenges the conven- versity selection of its cases. The article is deeply tional wisdom, namely that of the left turn Citiation: Alisha C. Holland makes a sub- original in that it builds from the episte- in Latin America during that time period, to stantial contribution to comparative politics mological debates on degrees of scientific- explain top-down social expansion as a result in her rigorous conceptual article, “Forbear- ity to elaborate a precise, meticulous, and of electoral competition and bottom-up social ance.” She describes forbearance as the vol- rigorous argument using re-analysis of a expansion as driven by the threat of social untary and revocable non-enforcement of natural experiment on the effect of devolv- mobilization. Finally, Garay explains the legislation, which is often quickly associated ing powers to local elites on resistance to characteristics of social policy expansion— with state weakness (and the incapacity of foreign occupation. The authors use quali- their scope, benefits level, and method of the state to enforce the law). This hides a tative and quantitative historical evidence implementation—as a function of the policy diversity of situations, but she argues that it to show that the causal inference alleged negotiation process. is important to identify the intent of politi- by the original study is invalidated when Empirically, Garay relies on an analysis cians and the implications of their decision one considers that the “causes that produce of 21 administrations in Argentina, Brazil, not to enforce in order to assess when such a the data operates trans-locally, associations Mexico, and Chile from the 1980s to 2010. choice amounts to a covert distributive policy. on political, economic, or social variables Garay combines qualitative and quantita- This especially applies to contexts where that are measurable on the disaggregated tive data analysis, drawing on extensive weak welfare provisions bear heavy conse- units may entirely miss the truly underlying interviews, archival research, and new quences on the poor, contributing to their causes of the outcome under study.” Whilst datasets measuring social outsiders, social resorting to violating the law. The article is the object of enquiry is methodological and program characteristics, and electoral dynam- original in that it brings together a theoretical epistemological, the article speaks to all sec- ics. She performs both cross-country and argument with a solid empirical demonstra- tions of the discipline and its conclusions within-country analyses, paying particular tion, based on extensive primary research. of the article are significant for all political attention to the policy formation process.

She presents a wealth of evidence to provide a compelling story about politics and policy making in Latin America. Garay’s is a significant contribution to our understanding of social and political inequality, policy design and analysis, and the political foundations of exclusion and inclusion. The study’s scope is as deep as it is broad, and it sheds light on some of the most fundamental questions in our discipline. For these reasons, the committee awards Candelaria Garay the 2017 APSA Robert A. Dahl Award. ■