Organized Section 8: Leon Weaver Award
Representation and Electoral Systems Section Award Recipients
Leon Weaver Award
The Leon Weaver Award given for the best paper presented at the previous year’s annual meeting at a panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Division.
| 2018 | Jennifer L. Merolla, University of California “Does the Presence of Women in Elected Office Increase Female Empowerment? Using an Experimental Approach to look at the Effects of Descriptive Representation.” |
| 2018 | Abbylin H. Sellers, Azusa Pacific University “Does the Presence of Women in Elected Office Increase Female Empowerment? Using an Experimental Approach to look at the Effects of Descriptive Representation.” |
| 2018 | Danielle Casarez Lemi, Southern Methodist University “Does the Presence of Women in Elected Office Increase Female Empowerment? Using an Experimental Approach to look at the Effects of Descriptive Representation.” |
| 2017 | Jana Morgan, University of Tennessee “Women in Political Parties: Seen But Not Heard.” |
| 2017 | Magda Hinojosa, Arizona State University “Women in Political Parties: Seen But Not Heard.” |
| 2016 | Amy Catalinac, New York University “Positioning Under Alternative Electoral Systems: Evidence From 7,497 Japanese Candidate Election Manifestos.” |
| 2015 | Justin Kirkland, University of Houston “Ideological and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the U.S. Congress” |
| 2015 | Jonathan Slapin, University of Houston “Ideological and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the U.S. Congress” |
| 2014 | G. Bingham Powell Jr., , University of Rochester “Party System Polarization and the Ideological Congruence Mechanisms.” |
| 2012 | Russell Dalton, University of California, Irvine The Dynamics of Democratic Representation: How Democracy Works |
| 2012 | David Farrell, University College Dublin, Belfield The Dynamics of Democratic Representation: How Democracy Works |
| 2012 | Ian McAllister, Australian National University The Dynamics of Democratic Representation: How Democracy Works |
| 2011 | Wendy Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Migration and Party Switching in the American Electorate |
| 2011 | James Gimpel, University of Maryland, College Park Migration and Party Switching in the American Electorate |
| 2011 | Iris Hui, University of California, Los Angeles Migration and Party Switching in the American Electorate |
| 2011 | Ian McAllister, Australian National University The Personalization of Election Campaigning within a Compulsory Voting System |
| 2009 | Christian Jensen, University of Iowa The Institutional Effects of Compulsory Voting |
| 2009 | Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Iowa The Institutional Effects of Compulsory Voting |
| 2008 | James Adams, University of California, Davis Moderate Now, Win Votes Later: The Electoral Consequences of Parties’ Policy Shifts in Twenty-Five Postwar Democracies |
| 2008 | Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of California, Davis Moderate Now, Win Votes Later: The Electoral Consequences of Parties’ Policy Shifts in Twenty-Five Postwar Democracies |
| 2007 | Jean-Benoit Pilet, Free University Brussels Why Do Big Parties Oppose Majority Systems: Satisfaction and Electoral Reform in Belgium |
| 2006 | Martin Edwards, Seton Hall University “Personal Votes and Public Expenditure” |
| 2006 | Frank Thames, Texas Tech University “Personal Votes and Public Expenditure” |
| 2005 | Mona Lyne, University of South Carolina “Endogenous Institutions: Electoral Law and Internal Party Dynamics in Brazil” |
| 2004 | Josep Colomer, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas “It’s Parties that Choose Electoral Systems (or Duverger’s Laws Upside Down)” |
| 2003 | Ray Christensen, Brigham Young University “The Drawing of Electoral Lines in Japan” |
| 2002 | Aubrey Jewett, University of Central Florida “Does Voting Method Affect the Level of Ballot Position on Election Outcomes?” |
| 2001 | G. Bingham Powell Jr., University of Rochester “Election Laws and Representation: Beyond Votes and Seats” |
| 2000 | Stephen Ansolabehere, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “The Undemocratic Democracy, or Why the People of California Voted to Disenfranchise Themselves” |
| 2000 | James Snyder Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology “The Undemocratic Democracy, or Why the People of California Voted to Disenfranchise Themselves” |
| 2000 | Jonathan Woon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “The Undemocratic Democracy, or Why the People of California Voted to Disenfranchise Themselves” |
| 1999 | Matthew Shugart, University of California, San Diego “Efficiency and Reform: A Theory of Electoral System Change in the Context of Economic Liberalization” |
| 1998 | Micah Altman, Harvard University “Do Traditional Districting Principles Matter?” |
| 1997 | Anna Cielecka, University of Birmingham “The Polish Electoral System: An Unrepresentative Outlier?” |
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