Organized Section 13: Best Paper Award

Urban Politics Section Award Recipients

Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper given at an Urban Politics Section panel at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

2017	Melody Crowder-Meyer, The University of the South “A Different Kind of Disadvantage: Candidate Race, Electoral Institutions, and Voter Choice.”
2017	Shana Kushner Gadarian, Syracuse University “A Different Kind of Disadvantage: Candidate Race, Electoral Institutions, and Voter Choice.”
2017	Jessica Trounstine, Unviersity of California, Merced “A Different Kind of Disadvantage: Candidate Race, Electoral Institutions, and Voter Choice.”
2017	Kau Vue, University of California, Merced “A Different Kind of Disadvantage: Candidate Race, Electoral Institutions, and Voter Choice.”
2016	Patricia Strach, University at Albany, State University of New York Trash: A Political History, 1880-1920.”
2016	Kathleen Sullivan, Ohio University Trash: A Political History, 1880-1920.”
2016	Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués, University at Albany, State University of New York Trash: A Political History, 1880-1920.”
2015	Katherine Einstein, Boston University “Cities, Inequality and Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey of Mayors.” APSA Conference 2014
2015	David Glick, Boston University “Cities, Inequality and Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey of Mayors.” APSA Conference 2014
2014	Veronica Herrera, University of Connecticut “From Participatory Promises to Partisan Capture: Local Democratic Transitions and Citizen Water Boards in Urban Mexico.”
2012	Todd Swanstrom “Divorcing Power and Responsibility: How National Policies Have Shaped Local Policy Responses to Foreclosures”
2011	Vladimir Kogan, University of California San Diego “Who Benefits from Jurisdictional Competition?”
2011	Scott Minkoff, Barnard College “The Proximate Polity: The Spatial Context of Local Develpmental Goods Provision”
2010	Jen Nelles, University of Toronto Cooperation and Capacity: Exploring the Sources and Limits of City-Region Governance Partnership
2009	Margaret Reid, University of Arkansas “When Does Politics Matter? A Reexamination of the Determinants of African American and Latino Municipal Employment Patterns”
2009	William Schreckhise, University of Arkansas “When Does Politics Matter? A Reexamination of the Determinants of African American and Latino Municipal Employment Patterns”
2007	Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University Electoral Representation of New Actors in Suburbia
2006	Dorothy Shipps, Teachers College, Columbia University “'Sticky' School Reform: A Path Dependent Argument about Corporate Influence and Union Weakness in 20th Century Chicago”
2005	Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University
2004	Megan Mullin, University of California, Berkeley “Specialization and Responsiveness in Local Policy Making: The Case of Water Districts”
2003	Jessica Trounstine, University of California, San Diego ” Why Turnout Does Matter: The Effects of a Skewed Electorate on Minority Representation in Local Politics”
2002	Loren King, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Democratic Hopes in the Polycentric City
2001	Vojislava Filipcevic, Columbia University “Reclaiming the Urban Trenches”