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Organized Section 9: Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award

Presidents and Executive Politics Section Award Recipients 

Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award
The Richard E. Neustadt Award given for the best book on executive politics published during the year. One copy of each book should be sent directly to each member of the committee.


2014 Mariah Zeisberg, University of Michigan
War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority. Princeton University Press, 2013
2013 Jean Yarbrough, Bowdoin College
Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition (University Press of Kansas, 2012)
2012 Michael Korzi, Towson University
Presidential Term Limits in American History (Texas A&M University Press, 2011)
2011 Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University
Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age
2010 B. Dan Wood, Texas A&M University
The Myth of Presidential Representation
2009 David Lewis, Vanderbilt University
The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance (Princeton University Press, 2008)
2008 Martha Kumar, Towson University
Managing the President’s Message: The White House Communications Operation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
2008 William Howell, University of Chicago
While Dangers Gather (Princeton University Press, 2007)
2008 Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin, Madison
While Dangers Gather (Princeton University Press, 2007)
2007 Brandice Canes-Wrone, Princeton University
Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public (University of Chicago Press 2005)
2006 Louis Fisher, Library of Congress, Law Division
Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism (University Press of Kansas, 2005)
2006 Joel Aberbach, University of California, Los Angeles
The Executive Branch (Oxford University Press, 2005)
2006 Mark Peterson, University of California, Los Angeles
The Executive Branch (Oxford University Press, 2005)
2005 Kevin McMahon, Trinity College
Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown (University of Chicago Press).
2004 Janet Martin, Bowdoin College
The Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance and Illusion (Texas A&M University Press, 2003)
2003 Andrew Rudalevige, Dickenson College
Managing the Presidents Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formation (Princeton University Press, 2002)
2002 Kenneth Mayer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power (Princeton University Press, 2001)
2002 Patricia Conley, Texas A&M University
Presidential Mandates: How Elections Shape the National Agenda (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
2002 Honorable Mention
Larry Berman, University of California Washington Center
“No Peace, No Honor: Nixion, Kissenger, and Betrayal in Vietnam” (Free Press, 2001)
2001 Robert Shapiro, Columbia University
Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
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