Organized Section 13: Best Book Awards
Urban Politics Section Award Recipients
Best Book Award
The Best Book Award recognizes the best book on urban politics published in the previous year.
| 2017 | Veronica Herrera, University of Connecticut Water and Politics:Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico. University of Michigan Press. |
| 2016 | Lorrie Frasure-Yokely, University of California, Los Angeles Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs. Cambridge University Press 2015 |
| 2015 | Amy Lerman, University of California, Berkeley Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control. Chicago University Press, 2014 |
| 2015 | Vesla Weaver, Yale University Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control. Chicago University Press, 2014 |
| 2014 | Traci Burch, Northwestern University Trading Democracy for Justice. University of Chicago Press |
| 2014 | Clarissa Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis How Americans Make Race. Cambridge Press |
| 2013 | J. Eric Oliver, University of Chicago Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy. (Princeton University Press, 2012) |
| 2011 | Zoltan Hajnal, University of California San Diego America’s Uneven Democracy: Race, Turnout and Representation in City Politics |
| 2011 | Peter Eisenstadt Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City’s Great Experiment Integrated Housing |
| 2007 | Reuel Rogers, Northwestern University Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception or Exit |
| 2006 | Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy (Harvard University Press, 2005) |
| 2006 | Romain Garbaye, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) Getting into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities (Blackwell Publishing, 2005) |
| 2005 | James DeFilippis, CUNY, Baruch College Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital |
| 2004 | Alan Altshuler, Harvard University Co-Authored with David Luberoff, Harvard University, Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (Brookings Institution, 2003) |
| 2004 | David Luberoff, Harvard University Co-Authored with Alan Altshuler, Harvard University, Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (Brookings Institution, 2003) |
| 2003 | Hank Savitch, University of Louisville Cities in the International Marketplace (Princeton) |
| 2003 | Paul Kantor, Fordham University Cities in the International Marketplace (Princeton) |
| 2002 | Susan Welch, Pennsylvania State University Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City |
| 2002 | Lee Sigelman, George Washington University Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City |
| 2002 | Timothy Bledsoe, Waye State University Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City |
| 2002 | Michael Combs, University of Nebraska Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City |
| 2000 | Jeffrey Henig, The George Washington University The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education |
| 2000 | Richard Hula, Michigan State University The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education |
| 2000 | Desiree Pedescleaux, Spelman College The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education |
| 2000 | Marion Orr, Brown University The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education |
| 1999 | Bruce Wallin, Northeastern University From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities |
| 1998 | Amy Bridges, University of California, San Diego Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest (Princeton University Press, 1997) |
| 1997 | Rodger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York (Harvard University Press, 1996) |
| 1996 | Eric Monkkonen, University of California, Los Angeles The Local State: Public Money and American Cities (Stanford University Press) |
| 1994 | Jeffrey Berry, Tufts University The Rebirth of Urban Democracy (Brookings Institution, 1993) |
| 1994 | Kent Portney, Tufts University The Rebirth of Urban Democracy (Brookings Institution, 1993) |
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