MPSA Award Recipients - 2013
The MPSA sponsors many awards for outstanding research presented at the MPSA Conference and one award for the best article published in each volume of the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). Nominations are made by conference chairs, discussants, and section heads after the conference. Award committees select the winning papers. Awards are announced at the MPSA business meeting during the conference the following year.
The following awards were presented at the 2013 conference for research presented at the 2012 conference:
AJPS Best Article Award.
A $1,000 award, sponsored by
Wiley Blackwell Publishing, for the best article appearing in the volume of the
American Journal of Political Science preceding the conference.
Winners: John S. Ahlquist, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, and Erik Wibbels, Duke University
Title: "Riding the Wave: World Trade and
Factor-Based Models of Democratization" Volume 56, Issue 2, pp. 447-464
Award Committee: Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre
Dame (Chair): Kelly Kadera, University of Iowa; Irfan Nooruddin, The Ohio State
University
Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Award.
A $250 award for
the best paper, regardless of field or topic, authored by a scholar or scholars
who have received their terminal degree(s) within six years of the year of the
meeting at which the paper was delivered.
Winner: Matt Grossmann, Michigan State University
Title: “How Much Do Agendas Matter? Issue Attention and
Policy Change"
Award Committee: Stephen Nicholson, University of
California, Merced (Chair); Brady Baybeck, Wayne State University; Jennifer
Wolak, University of Colorado
Best Paper in Comparative Policy Award.
A $500 award
sponsored by the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
(JCPA) and International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum for the best paper
in comparative policy. The winner(s) may submit their paper to JCPA for an
expedited triple blind-fold review process.
Winner: Carla M. Flink, Texas A&M University
Title: “Strength of Fiscal Bureaucracy and Budget
Changes”
Award Committee: Charles H. Blake, James Madison
University (Chair); Christoffer Green-Pedersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark;
Meghna Sabharwal, University of Texas at Dallas
Best Paper in International Relations.
A $250 award for
the best paper in international relations.
Winners: Emily Hencken Ritter, University of Alabama, and
Courtenay R. Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Title: “International Human Rights Treaties and Mobilized
Challenges against the State”
Award Committee: Caroline Hartzell, Gettysburg College
(Chair); David Clark, SUNY, Binghamton; Daniel Reiter, Emory University
Best Paper Presented in a Poster Format.
A $250 award for
the best paper presented in a poster format.
Winner: Andrea Stephanie Aldrich, University of
Pittsburgh
Title: “Strategic Parties in the European Parliament:
Competition, Bias, and Voting in Empirical Assessments of Party Strength”
Award Committee: Brigid Harrison, Montclair State
University (Chair); Lisa Hilbink, University of Minnesota; Isaac Unah,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Best Undergraduate Paper Presented in a Poster Format.
A
$250 award for the best undergraduate paper presented in a poster format.
Winner: Tyler Petersen, University of St. Thomas
Title: “Bringing Home the Bacon: How Does Slicing the
Pork Affect the Electability and Fundraising of Congressional Candidates?”
Award Committee: Tyson King-Meadows, University of
Maryland, Baltimore County (Chair); Sherri Wallace, University of Louisville
Herbert A. Simon Award.
A $500 award for a scholar who has made a significant contribution to the scientific study of bureaucracy. Submissions are handled by the Midwest Caucus on Policy Administration.
Winner: Lael R. Keiser
Award Committee: Midwest Caucus for Public Administration
Kellogg/Notre Dame Award.
A $250 award for the best paper
in comparative politics.
Winners: Benjamin Helge Neudorfer, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, and Natascha Simone Neudorfer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
Title: “Decentralization and Political Corruption:
Disaggregating Regional Authority”
Award Committee: Sona Golder, Pennsylvania State
University (Chair); Jennifer Seely, Earlham College; Alex Pacek, Texas A&M
University
Lucius Barker Award.
A $250 award for the author or
authors of the best paper on a topic investigating race or ethnicity and
politics and honoring the spirit and work of Professor Barker.
Winners: Lonna Atkeson, University of New Mexico, Shannon
Sanchez-Youngman, University of New Mexico, and Alex N. Adams, University of
New Mexico
Title: “Latino Descriptive Voting: Evidence in the 2010
Gubernatorial Race in New Mexico”
Award Committee: David Leal, University of Texas, Austin
(Chair); Gabriel Sanchez, University of New Mexico; Jamila Michener, University
of Michigan
Patrick J. Fett Award.
A $250 award for the best paper on
the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency.
Winner: Charles Stewart III, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Title: “The Value of Committee Assignments in Congress
since 1994”
Award Committee: E. Scott Adler, University of Colorado
(Chair); Frances E. Lee, University of Maryland; Andrew Rudalevige, Dickinson
College
Pi Sigma Alpha Award.
A $250 award for the best paper
delivered at the conference.
Winners: Jason Lyall, Yale University, Graeme Blair,
Princeton University, and Kosuke Imai, Princeton University
Title: “Explaining Support for Combatants during Wartime:
A Survey Experiment in Afghanistan”
Award Committee: Jane Junn, University of Southern
California (Chair); Cara Wong, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jason
Wittenberg, University of California, Berkeley
Review of Politics Award.
A $250 award for the best paper
in normative political theory.
Winner: Brandon P. Turner, Clemson University
Title: “Privates Vices, Public Benefits: Mandragola and
Antagonism in Machiavelli’s Political Thought”
Award Committee: Michael Neblo, The Ohio State University
(Chair); Marek Steedman, University of Southern Mississippi; Michaele Ferguson,
University of Colorado
Robert H. Durr Award.
A $250 award for the best paper
applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem in political science.
Winner: Yanna Krupnikov, Northwestern University
Title: “Who Participates?: Reconsidering the Relationship
between Attitudes and Actions”
Award Committee: James Granato, University of Houston
(Chair); Corrine McConnaughy, The Ohio State University; Jake Bowers,
University of Illinois
Sophonisba Breckinridge Award.
A $250 award for the best
paper delivered on the topic of women and politics.
Winner: Sarah Poggione, Ohio University
Title: “Gender Differences in Policymaking Activities”
Award Committee: Lisa Baldez, Dartmouth College (Chair);
Heather Ondercin, University of Mississippi; Nicholas Winter, University of
Virginia
Westview Press Award.
A $250 award for the best paper
delivered by a graduate student.
Winner: Rory Truex, Yale University
Title: “Co-optation or Specialization? Politics and
Policy in China's Highest Congress”
Award Committee: Patrick Egan, New York University
(Chair); Zoe Oxley, Union College; Duane Swank, Marquette University