1995 Award Recipients
Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations
Martha Derthick Book Award
The Martha Derthick Book Award conferred for the best book on federalism and intergovernmental relations published at least 10 years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.
| Daniel Elazar, Temple University and Bar Ilan University American Federalism: A View from the States (Harpercollins, 1984) |
Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award
The Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award conferred for the best paper in the field of federalism and intergovernmental relations presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.
| Richard Deeg, Temple University “Germany's Lander and the Federalisation of the EC” |
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.
| David Walker, University of Connecticut |
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.
| Michael McCann, University of Washington, Seattle Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization (University of Chicago Press) |
Law and Courts Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award is an award for a lifetime of significant scholarship, teaching and service to the Law and Courts field.
| Walter Murphy, Princeton University Lifetime Achievement Award |
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.
| David Brady, Stanford University Co-Authored with Kara Z. Buckley, Stanford University and Douglas Rivers, Stanford University “The Roots of Careerism in the House of Representatives” | |
| Kara Buckley, Stanford University “The Roots of Careerism in the House of Representatives” | |
| Douglas Rivers, Stanford University “The Roots of Careerism in the House of Representatives” |
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.
| Bernard Grofman, University of California-Irvine Quiet Revolution in the South (Princeton Univ Press, 1994) | |
| Chandler Davidson, Rice University Quiet Revolution in the South (Princeton Univ Press, 1994) |
Political Organizations and Parties
Emerging Scholars Award
The Emerging Scholars Award is given to a scholar who has received his or her Ph.D. within the last five years and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.
| Philip Klinkner, Loyola Marymount University Emerging Scholars Award | |
| Scott Ainsworth, University of Georgia Emerging Scholars Award |
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.
| Gerald Pomper “From Confusion to Clarity: Issues and American Voters, 1956-1968” (American Political Science Review, 66 (2), 1972) |
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.
| James Burns, Williams College The Deadlock of Democracy (Prentice Hall, 1963) |
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.