Organized Section 25: McGillivray Best Paper Award
Political Economy Section Award Recipients
McGillivray Best Paper Award
The McGillivray Best Paper Award is given for the best paper in Political Economy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
| 2016 | Francisco Garfias, Stanford University “Elite Competition and State Capacity Development: Theory and Evidence from Post-Revolutionary Mexico.” |
| 2015 | Eugene Gholz, University of Texas at Austin “Assessing the ‘Threat’ of International Tension to the U.S. Economy.” Presented at the 2014 APSA annual meeting |
| 2015 | Daniel de Kadt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Agents of the Regime? Traditional Leaders and Electoral Clientelism in South Africa.” Presented at the 2014 APSA annual meeting. |
| 2015 | Horacio A. Larreguy, Harvard University “Agents of the Regime? Traditional Leaders and Electoral Clientelism in South Africa.” Presented at the 2014 APSA annual meeting. |
| 2014 | Alexandra Guisinger, University of Notre Dame “Racial Diversity and Redistribution: Explaining (White) Americans Continued Support for Trade Protection” |
| 2014 | Edmund Malesky, Duke University “The Impact of Recentralization on Public Services: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Abolition of Elected Councils in Vietnam” |
| 2014 | Anh Tran, Indiana University, Bloomington “The Impact of Recentralization on Public Services: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Abolition of Elected Councils in Vietnam” |
| 2014 | Cuong Viet Nguyen, National Economics University of Vietnam “The Impact of Recentralization on Public Services: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Abolition of Elected Councils in Vietnam” |
| 2013 | Michael Findley, University of Texas, Austin “Causes of Non-Compliance with International Law: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Financial Transparency” |
| 2013 | Daniel Nielson, Brigham Young University “Causes of Non-Compliance with International Law: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Financial Transparency” |
| 2013 | Jason Sharman, Griffith University “Causes of Non-Compliance with International Law: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Financial Transparency” |
| 2012 | Benjamin Barber IV, Duke University The Behavioral Foundations of Social Politics: Evidence from Surveys and a Laboratory Democracy |
| 2012 | Pablo Beramendi, Duke University The Behavioral Foundations of Social Politics: Evidence from Surveys and a Laboratory Democracy |
| 2012 | Erik Wibbels, Duke University The Behavioral Foundations of Social Politics: Evidence from Surveys and a Laboratory Democracy |
| 2011 | Milan Svolik, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign “Learning to Love Democracy: A Theory of Democratic Consolidation and Breakdown” |
| 2010 | Torun Dewan, London School of Economics “On The Rhetorical Strategies of Leaders: Speaking Clearly, Standing Back, and Stepping Down” |
| 2010 | David Myatt, Oxford University “On The Rhetorical Strategies of Leaders: Speaking Clearly, Standing Back, and Stepping Down” |
| 2009 | Nathan Jensen, Washington University “Where Do U.S. Multinationals Pay Taxes?” |
| 2007 | Raymond Duch, University of Oxford The Global Economy, Competency, and the Economic Vote |
| 2007 | Randolph Stevenson, Rice University The Global Economy, Competency, and the Economic Vote |
| 2006 | Marcus Kurtz, Ohio State University “The Politics of Time Horizons: Strategic Dynamics of Capital Account and Trade Liberalization in Contemporary Latin America” |
| 2005 | William Bernhard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “When Markets Party: Stocks, Bonds and Cabinet Formations” |
