1991 Award Recipients
Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations
Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award
The Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award recognizes distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.
| Vincent Ostrom, Indiana University Special Achievement Award |
Law and Courts
C. Herman Pritchett Award
The C. Herman Pritchett award is given annually for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published the previous year.
| Susan Lawrence, Rutgers University The Poor in Court: The Legal Services Program and Supreme Court Decision Making (Princeton University Press) |
Legislative Studies
CQ Press Award
The CQ Press Award for the best paper on legislative studies presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.
| Gary Jacobson, University of California, San Diego “The Persistence of House Democratic Majorities: Structure or Politics?” |
Richard F. Fenno Prize
In the tradition of Professor Fenno's work, this prize is designed to honor work that is both theoretically and empirically strong. Moreover, this prize is dedicated to encouraging scholars to pursue new and different avenues of research in order to find answers to previously unexplored questions about the nature of politics.
| R. Arnold, Princeton University The Logic of Congressional Action (Yale Univ Press, 1992) |
Political Organizations and Parties
Jack Walker Award
The Jack Walker Award recognizes an article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.
| Michael Hayes, Colgate University “The Semi-Sovereign Pressure Groups: A Critique of Current Theory and an Alternative Typology” (Journal of Politics, 44, 1978) |
Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award
The Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award recognizes a book published in the last two calendar years that made an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.
| Gary Jacobson, University of California, San Diego Money in Congressional Elections (Yale University Press, 1980) |
Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award
The Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.
| William Crotty, Northwestern University Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Award |
Public Administration
Herbert Kaufman Award
The APSA Section on Public Administration is pleased to announce that nominations are being accepted for its annual Herbert Kaufman Best Paper award. The Herbert Kaufman Committee will select the best paper presented on a panel sponsored (or co-sponsored) by the Public Administration section at the 2013 APSA Annual Meeting in Chicago. The section will follow APSA’s guidance on what constitutes a ’presented paper’-papers that were uploaded to the APSA 2013 conference paper site, hosted by SSRN, or posted/presented in a virtual or alternative form (see PA Division Panels in the 2013 online program for links to such alternative presentations) are eligible for the Kaufman award.
| Herman Boschken, San Jose State University “Structuring the Analysis of Public Agency Performance: The Case of Urban Mass Transit” |
Conflict Processes
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement award is given every other year in recognition of scholarly contributions that have fundamentally improved the study of conflict processes.
| Ted Gurr, University of Maryland-College Park Lifetime Achievement Award | |
| J.David Singer, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Lifetime Achievement Award |
Representation and Electoral Systems
George H. Hallett Award
The George H. Hallett Award is presented annually to the author of a book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems.
| Hanna Pitkin, University of California-Berkeley The Concept of Representation (University of California Press, 1967) |
Presidents and Executive Politics
Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award
The Founders Award honoring Francis Rourke is given for the best paper on executive politics presented by a Graduate Student at either the preceding year’s APSA Annual Meeting or at any of the regional meetings in the two year’s preceding the APSA Annual Meeting. One copy of each essay should be sent directly to each member of the committee.
| Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas-Austin “Raising Taxes and Going into Debt: A Resource Dependence Model of U.S. Public Finance in the 1940s” |
Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award
The Richard E. Neustadt Award given for the best book on executive politics published during the year. One copy of each book should be sent directly to each member of the committee.