Organized Section 16: Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award presented for the best paper presented at the previous year’s annual meeting in the field of women and politics.
| 2017 | Dawn Teele, University of Pennsylvania “After the Vote: Programmatic Preferences and Women’s Loyalty” |
| 2017 | Mona Morgan-Collins, University of Pennsylvania “After the Vote: Programmatic Preferences and Women’s Loyalty” |
| 2016 | Sarah Bush, Temple University “How Gender Stereotypes Can Increase Engagement with Female Officeholders: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Tunisia” |
| 2016 | Lauren Prather, University of California, San Diego “How Gender Stereotypes Can Increase Engagement with Female Officeholders: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Tunisia” |
| 2016 | Honorable Mention Abigail S. Post, University of Virginia “A Woman in a Man’s World: A Gendered Understanding of Crisis Bargaining” |
| 2016 | Honorable Mention Paromita Sen, University of Virginia “A Woman in a Man’s World: A Gendered Understanding of Crisis Bargaining” |
| 2015 | Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University “Mapping Violence Against Women in Politics: Aggression, Harassment, and Discrimination Against Female Politicians” |
| 2015 | Juliana Sanin, Rutgers University “Mapping Violence Against Women in Politics: Aggression, Harassment, and Discrimination Against Female Politicians” |
| 2014 | Monica Schneider, Miami University; Mirya Holman, Florida Atlantic University; Amanda Diekman, Miami University; Thomas McAndrew, Miami University “Power, Conflict, and Community: How Gendered Views of Political Power Influence Women’s Political Ambition.” |
| 2014 | Karen Celis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Petra Meier, University of Antwerp; Eline Severs, Vrije Universiteit Brussel “Determining the Quality of Women’s Substantive Representation: A Study of Muslem Women’s Voice and Influence in the Belgian Headscarf Debate.” |
| 2013 | Beth Reingold, Emory University Representing Women’s Interests and Intersections of Gender, Race and Ethnicity in U.S. State Legislatures |
| 2013 | Kerry Haynie, Duke University “Representing Women’s Interests and Intersections of Gender, Race and Ethnicity in U.S. State Legislatures” |
| 2013 | Honorable Mention Rainbow Murray, Queen Mary, University of London Quotas for Men? Reframing Gender Quotas as a Means of Quality Control |
| 2012 | Eléonore Lépinard, University of Montreal Doing Intersectionality: Varieties of Feminist Practices in France and Canada |
| 2010 | Celia Valiente, Universidad Carlos II de Madrid, Spain “Political Regimes Matter in ‘Abeyance’ Times: Feminist Organizing in Franco’s Spain (1930-1975)” |
| 2007 | Mala Htun, New School for Social Research “When and Why Do Governments Promote Women’s Rights?: Toward a Comparative Politics of States and Sex Equality” |
| 2007 | S. Laurel Weldon, Purdue University “When and Why Do Governments Promote Women’s Rights?: Toward a Comparative Politics of States and Sex Equality” |
| 2006 | Laura Sjoberg, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University “Gendering the Power of Immunity: Empathetic War-Fighting and Jus in Bellow” |
| 2005 | S. Laurel Weldon, Purdue University Inclusion, Solidarity and Transnational Social Movements: The Global Movement Against Gender Violence |
| 2005 | Liesl Haas, California State University, Long Beach Intergovernmental relations and feminist policy makings: A case study of domestic violence in Chile |
| 2004 | Marie Brichner, University of Washington, Seattle “Paid Work, Family and the State: Congressional Proposals to Regulate the Relationship between Home and Work, 1945-1990” |
| 2004 | Ann Towns, University of Minnesota “Women Governing for Modernity: International Hierarchy and Legislature Sex Quotas” (Presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association) |
| 2003 | J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, University of Massachusetts, Boston “Grounded in the Reality of their Lives” |
| 2003 | Carol Hardy-Fanta, University of Massachusetts, Boston “Grounded in the Reality of their Lives” |
| 2002 | Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University “Political Citizenship and Democratization: The Gender Paradox.” |
| 2001 | Kimberly Morgan, Princeton University “Women and the Two-Tiered Politics of Social and Political Citizenship in Europe” |
| 2000 | Margaret Moore, University of Waterloo “The Ethics of Care and Justice,” in Women and Politics 20(2): 1-16 (April 1999) |
| 1999 | Leonie Huddy, University at Stony Brook “The Social Nature of Political Identity: Feminist Image and Feminist Identity” |
| 1998 | Gretchen Ritter, University of Texas, Austin “Regendering Citizenship after the Second World War.” |
| 1997 | Elisabeth Friedman, Stanford University “Paradoxes of Party Politics: The Impact of Gendered Institutions on Women’s Incorporation in Latin American Democratization” |
| 1996 | Anna Harvey, New York University “Women, Party and Policy: A Rational Choice Approach” |
| 1995 | Mary Dietz, University of Minnesota “Feminist Receptions of Hanna Arendt or how the Analytical Category of Gender Does Injustice to the Theory of Politics” |
| 1995 | Carole Kennedy, University of California, Riverside “Participation and Leadership in Committee Decision-Making: An Experimental Approach to Exploring Gender Differences” |
| 1995 | Lisa Young, University of Calgary “Social Movements and Political Parties: A Comparison of the Canadian and American Women’s Movements, 1970-1993” |
| 1994 | Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University “Abortion Rights Alchemy and the U.S. Supreme Court” |
| 1993 | Paul Burstein, University of Washington “Paid Work, Family and the State: Congressional Proposals to Regulate the Relationship Between Home and Work, 1945-1990” |
| 1993 | Rachel Einwohner, University of Washington Paid Work, Family and the State: Congressional Proposals to Regulate the Relationship Between Home and Work, 1945-1990 |
| 1993 | Aili Tripp, University of Wisconsin, Madison “Gender, Political Participation, and the Transformation of Associational Life in Uganda and Tanzania” |
| 1992 | Janet Boles, Marquette University “Local Elected Women and Policy Making: Movement Delegates or Feminist Trustees” |
| 1992 | Sonia Kruks, Oberlin College “Gender and Subjectivity: Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminism” |
| 1991 | Christine Di Stefano, University of Washington “Rethinking Autonomy” |
| 1990 | Susan Welch, University of Nebraska “Multimember Districts and the Representation of Women” |