Organized Section 35: Best Article Award
Comparative Democratization Section Award Recipients
Best Article Award
Single-authored or co-authored articles focusing directly on the subject of democratization and published in 2013 are eligible. Nominations and self-nominations are encouraged. Copies of the article should be sent by email to each of the committee members.
| 2016 | Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles “Income, Democracy, and Leader Turnover.” American Journal of Political Science Volume 59, Issue 4, pages 927–942, October 2015 |
| 2015 | Jordan Gans-Morse, Northwestern University “Varieties of Clientelism: Machine Politics During Elections” American Journal of Political Science 58, 2 (2014): 415-432 |
| 2015 | Sebastian Mazzuca, Universidad Nacional de San Martín and CIAS “Varieties of Clientelism: Machine Politics During Elections” American Journal of Political Science 58, 2 (2014): 415-432 |
| 2015 | Simeon Nichter, University of California, San Diego “Varieties of Clientelism: Machine Politics During Elections” American Journal of Political Science 58, 2 (2014): 415-432 |
| 2014 | Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University “The Feudal Revolution and Europe’s Rise: Political Divergence of the Christian West and the Muslim World before 1500 CE.” American Political Science Review, February 2013 |
| 2014 | Eric Chaney, Harvard University “The Feudal Revolution and Europe’s Rise: Political Divergence of the Christian West and the Muslim World before 1500 CE.” American Political Science Review, February 2013 |
| 2013 | Robert Woodberry, National University of Singapore The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy (American Political Science Review 106, 2) |
| 2012 | Carles Boix, Princeton University Democracy, Development and the International System (November 2011 American Political Science Review) |
| 2012 | Honorable Mention Susan Hyde, Yale University Catch Us If You Can: Election Monitoring and International Norm Diffusion (April 2011 American Journal of Political Science) |
| 2011 | Ben Ansell, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Inequality and Democratization: A Contractarian Approach |
| 2011 | David Samuels, University of Minnesota Inequality and Democratization: A Contractarian Approach |
| 2010 | Dan Slater, University of Chicago Revolutions, Crackdowns, and Quiescence: Communal Elites and Democratic Mobilization in Southeast Asia |
| 2010 | Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Germany |
| 2009 | Dan Slater, University of Chicago “Can Leviathan Be Democratic?:Competitive Electins, Robust Mass Politics, and State Infrastructural Power,” Studies in Comparative International Development (December 2008) |
| 2009 | Honorable Mention Ellis Goldberg, University of Washington, Seattle “Lessons from Strange Cases: Democracy, Development, and the Resource Curse in the U.S. States”, Comparative Political Studies (2008) |
| 2009 | Honorable Mention Erik Wibbels, Duke University “Lessons from Strange Cases: Democracy, Development, and the Resource Curse in the U.S. States”, Comparative Political Studies (2008) |
| 2009 | Honorable Mention Eric Mvukiyehe, Columbia University “Lessons from Strange Cases: Democracy, Development, and the Resource Curse in the U.S. States”, Comparative Political Studies (2008) |
| 2007 | Richard Snyder, Brown University Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder? |
| 2007 | Honorable Mention Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame |
| 2007 | Honorable Mention Daniel Brinks, University of Texas, Austin |
| 2006 | Lucan Way, University of Toronto “Authoritarian Statebuilding and the Sources of Regime Competitiveness in the Fourth Wave World Politics,” Worl |