Presidents and Executive Politics Section Award Recipients 

 

Founders Best Paper Award
The Founders Award honoring Bert Rourke is given for the best paper on executive politics authored by a PhD holding scholar presented at the previous year’s annual meeting. One copy of each essay should be sent directly to each committee member.

 

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2018	Aaron R. Kaufman, Harvard University “Interbranch Conflict, Unilateral Action, and the Presidency.”
2018	Jon C. Rogowski, Harvard University “Interbranch Conflict, Unilateral Action, and the Presidency.”
2017	Larry Rothenberg, University of Rochester “Analyzing Agency Choice with Text Analysis: The Case of the NLRB.”
2017	Matthew Sweeten, University of Rochester “Analyzing Agency Choice with Text Analysis: The Case of the NLRB.”
2016	Jasmine Farrier, University of Louisville “Judicial Restraint and the New War Powers.”
2015	Magna Ignacio, Universidade Federal de Minas “The Institutional Presidency in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis”
2015	Mariana Llanos, GIGA Institut fur Lateinamerika-Studien “The Institutional Presidency in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis”
2014	Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College “Bargaining with the Bureaucracy: Executive Orders and the Transaction Costs of Unilateral Action.”
2013	Stephen Weatherford, University of California, Santa Barbara “Obama and the Economy:The Financial Crisis, the Fed, and the Inequality Agenda”
2012	Presented in honor of Erwin Hargrove Brendan Doherty, United States Naval Academy The President as Party-Builder-in-Chief: Presidential Fund-raising, 1977-2011
2011	Presented in honor of Fred Greenstein Matthew Beckmann, University of California, Irvine “Opportunism in Polarization: Presidential Success in Senate Key Votes, 1953 – 2008
2011	Presented in honor of Fred Greenstein Vimal Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur “Opportunism in Polarization: Presidential Success in Senate Key Votes, 1953 – 2008
2010	Kevin McMahon, Trinity College “Richard Nixon, the Supreme Court, and the Politics of Desegregation in the Urban North”
2009	Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University The Congressional Roots of Presidental Approval
2008	B. Dan Wood, Texas A&M University “Presidential Saber Rattling and the Economy”
2007	Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University Change and Stability in the President's Legislative Policy Agenda, 1789-2002
2007	Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas Change and Stability in the President's Legislative Policy Agenda, 1789-2002
2006	Andrew Rudalevige, Dickinson College “Parsing the Politicized Presidency: Centralization and Politicization as Presidential Strategies for Bureaucratic Control”
2006	David Lewis, Princeton University “Parsing the Politicized Presidency: Centralization and Politicization as Presidential Strategies for Bureaucratic Control”
2005	Lawrence Jacobs, University of Minnesota “Lumpers and Splitters: The Public Opinion Information that Politicians Collect and Use”
2005	James Druckman, University of Minnesota “Lumpers and Splitters: The Public Opinion Information that Politicians Collect and Use”
2004	Martin Cohen, UCLA Co-Authored with Hans Noel, and John Zaller, “Constant Rules, Changing Game: A General Model of Presidential Primaries, 1972-2000”
2004	Hans Noel, UCLA Co-Authored with Marty Cohen and John Zaller, “Constant Rules, Changing Game: A General Model of Presidential Primaries, 1972-2000”
2004	John Zaller, UCLA “Constant Rules, Changing Game: A General Model of Presidential Primaries, 1972-2000”
2003	Andrew Rudalevige, Dickenson College “The Structure of Leadership: Information, Organization, and Presidential Decision Making”