Organized Section 5: Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award
Political Organizations and Parties Section Award Recipients
Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award
The Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award recognizes a book published in the last two calendar years that made an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.
| 2018 | Matt Grossman, Boston College Asymemetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats. Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| 2018 | David Hopkins, Boston College Asymemetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats. Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| 2017 | Rory Treux, Princeton University Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China. Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| 2016 | Fabio Rojas, Indiana University Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11. Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
| 2016 | Michael T. Heaney, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11. Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
| 2016 | Jonathan B. Slapin, University of Essex The Politics of Parliamentary Debate: Parties, Rebels and Representation. Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
| 2016 | Sven-Oliver Proksch, McGill University The Politics of Parliamentary Debate: Parties, Rebels and Representation. Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
| 2015 | Tariq Thachil, Yale University Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India. Cambridge University Press, Studies in Comparative Politics series, 2014 |
| 2014 | Hans Noel, Georgetown University Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America. Cambridge University Press, 2013 |
| 2013 | Vineeta Yadav, Pennsylvania State University Political Parties, Business Groups and Corruption in Developing Countries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) |
| 2012 | Monika Nalepa, Princeton University Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2010) |
| 2012 | Daniel Klinghard, College of Holy Cross The Nationalization of American Political Parties, 1880-1896 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) |
| 2011 | David Mayhew, Yale University Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don’t Kill the U.S. Constitutioal System |
| 2010 | Frank Baumgartner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why |
| 2010 | David Kimball, University of Missouri, St Louis Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why |
| 2010 | Marie Hojnacki, Pennsylvania State University Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why |
| 2010 | Beth Leech, Rutgers University Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why |
| 2010 | Jeffrey Berry, Tufts University Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why |
| 2009 | Larry Bartels, Vanderbilt University Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. (Princeton University Press, 2008) |
| 2008 | Dara Strolovitch, University of Minnesota Affirmative Advocacy. Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics (Chicago University Press, 2007) |
| 2007 | Henry Hale, George Washington University Why not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism, and the State |
| 2007 | Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and Its Demise in Mexico |
| 2006 | Gary Cox, University of California, San Diego Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives (Cambridge University Press, 2005) |
| 2006 | Mathew McCubbins, University of California, San Diego Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives (Cambridge University Press, 2005) |
| 2005 | Pradeep Chhibber, University of California, Berkeley The Formation of National Party Systems |
| 2005 | Kenneth Kollman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The Formation of National Party Systems |
| 2004 | Jeffrey Berry, Tufts University Written with David F. Arons, formerly Co-Director of Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest: A Voice for Nonprofits (Brookings Institution Press, 2003) |
| 2003 | Jo Freeman A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics (Rowan and Littlefield, 2002) |
| 2002 | Scott James, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presidents, Parties, and the Regulatory State (Cambridge University Press, 2000) |
| 2001 | Mark Smith, University of Washington American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2000) |
| 2001 | Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame The Politics of Women’s Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change (Princeton Univ Press, 2000) |
| 2000 | Kenneth Kollman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India and the United States” (American Political Science Review, 92(2)) |
| 1999 | James Wilson, University of California-Los Angeles Political Organization [Princeton Studies in American Politics] (Princeton University Press, 1973) |
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