Science, Technology & Environmental Politics Section Award Recipients
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Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award
Don K. Price Award
Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize
Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award
Elinor Ostrom Career Achivement Award
Emerging Young Scholar Award
Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award
The STEP APSA Inclusion Travel Award
The Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper published in a relevant journal in the last two years. Relevant journals include political science, public administration, public policy, interdisciplinary environmental science, and science and technology studies journals.
| 2023 | Jorge Mangonnet, University of Oxford “Playing Politics with Environmental Protection: The Political Economy of Designating Protected Areas.” Journal of Politics, 2022. |
| 2023 | Jacob Kopas, Independent Scholar “Playing Politics with Environmental Protection: The Political Economy of Designating Protected Areas.” Journal of Politics, 2022. |
| 2023 | Johannes Urpelainen, Johns Hopkins University “Playing Politics with Environmental Protection: The Political Economy of Designating Protected Areas.” Journal of Politics, 2022. |
| 2021 | Amanda Kennard, Stanford University “The Enemy of My Enemy: When Firms Support Climate Change Regulation.” International Organization. 2020, 74(2), 187-221. |
| 2020 | Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara “Non-Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National-Scale Field Experiment in China.” American Journal of Political Science, 2019. |
| 2020 | Mark T. Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara “Non-Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National-Scale Field Experiment in China.” American Journal of Political Science, 2019. |
| 2020 | Mengdi Liu, Nanjing University “Non-Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National-Scale Field Experiment in China.” American Journal of Political Science, 2019. |
| 2020 | Bing Zhang, Nanjing University “Non-Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National-Scale Field Experiment in China.” American Journal of Political Science, 2019. |
| 2019 | Aditya Das Gupta, University of California, Merced “Technological Change and Political Turnover: The Democratizing Effects of the Green Revolution in India.” American Political Science Review 112 (4): 918–938. |
| 2018 | Jonas Nahm, Johns Hopkins University “The Power of Process: State Capacity and Climate Policy.” |
| 2018 | Jonas Meckling, University of California, Berkeley “The Power of Process: State Capacity and Climate Policy.” |
| 2017 | Erika S. Simmons, University of Wisconsin – Madison “Market Reforms and Water Wars.” World Politics. 68 (1):37-73. |
| 2016 | Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development InterventionsAmerican Political Science Review |
| 2016 | Ashwini Chhatre, Indian School of Business Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development InterventionsAmerican Political Science Review |
| 2016 | Elisabeth R. Gerber, University of Michigan Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development InterventionsAmerican Political Science Review |
| 2015 | Neil Carter, University of York “Greening the Mainstream: Party Politics and the Environment” |
| 2009 | Jonneke Koomen, University of Minnesota “The Global Governance of Culture: Compaigns against Female Circumcision in East Africa” |
| 1995 | Jeanette Hofmann, Wissenchaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung “Implicit Theories in Political Discourse: A Critique of Interpretations of Reality in Technology Policy” |
The Don K. Price Award recognizes the best book on science, technology, and politics published in the last year.
| 2023 | Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University Chicago |
| 2022 | Jonas Nahm, Johns Hopkins University Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy, Oxford University Press, 2021. |
| 2021 | Leah Stokes, University of California, Santa Barbara Short-Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States. Oxford University Press, 2021. |
| 2019 | Bentley Allan, Johns Hopkins University Scientific Cosmology and International Orders. Cambridge University Press, 2018. |
| 2018 | Alan S. Gerber, Yale University Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine. Princeton University Press. 2018. |
| 2018 | Conor M. Dowling, University of Mississippi Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine. Princeton University Press. 2018. |
| 2018 | Eric M. Patashnik, Brown University Unhealthy Politics: The Battle Over Evidence-Based Medicine. Princeton University Press. 2018. |
| 2017 | Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara Giving Aid Effectively: The Politics of Environmental Performance and Selectivity at Multilateral Development Banks, Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| 2017 | Mark Zachary Taylor, Georgia Tech The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology, Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| 2016 | Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change. |
| 2015 | David M. Konisky, Georgetown University Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy and the Age of Global Warming. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2014 |
| 2015 | Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy and the Age of Global Warming. MIT Press, 2014. |
| 2014 | Ethan Kapstein, Arizona State University AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2013 |
| 2014 | Joshua Busby, University of Texas at Austin AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2013 |
| 2013 | Jacques Hymans, University of Southern California Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians and Proliferation (Cambrige University Press 2012) |
| 2012 | Michael Berkman, Pennsylvania State University Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America’s Classrooms (Cambridge University Press, 2010) |
| 2012 | Eric Plutzer, Pennsylvania State University Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America’s Classrooms (Cambridge University Press, 2010) |
| 2011 | Ann Keller, University of California, Berkeley Science in Environmental Policy |
| 2010 | Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, National University of Singapore Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age |
| 2009 | Steven Epstein, Northwestern University Inclusion: The Politics of Differnce in Medical Research (University of Chicago Press, 2007) |
| 2008 | Dan Breznitz, Georgia Institute of Technology Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland (Yale University Press, 2007) |
| 2007 | Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale University Press, 2006) |
| 2006 | Darrell West, Brown University Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance (Princeton University Press, 2005) |
| 2005 | Thomas Bernauer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology (Princeton University Press, 2004). |
| 2004 | Bruce Bimber, University of California, Santa Barbara Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power (Cambridge University Press, 2003) |
| 2003 | Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University The Gifts of Athena |
| 2002 | David Guston Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research |
| 1998 | Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America (Harvard University Press, 1995) |
| 1996 | Richard Sclove, The Loka Institute Democracy and Technology (Guilford, 1995) |
| 1994 | Scott Sagan, Stanford University |
The Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize is given for the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years.
| 2023 | Chris Armstrong, University of South Hampton A Blue New Deal: Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean. Yale University Press, 2022. |
| 2022 | Janina Grabs, ESADE Business School Selling Sustainability Short?: The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector, Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| 2021 | Kimberly K. Smith, Carleton College The Conservation Constitution, The conservation movement and constitutional change 1870-1930. University Press of Kansas, 2019. |
| 2020 | Eve Z. Bratman, Franklin & Marshall College Governing the Rainforest: Sustainable Development Politics in the Brazilian Amazon. Oxford University Press (2019) |
| 2019 | David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley California Greenin’. Princeton University Press, 2018. |
| 2018 | Roger Karapin, CUNY Hunter College Political Opportunities for Climate Policy: California, New York, and the Federal Government. Cambridge University Press. 2018. |
| 2017 | Leigh Raymond, Purdue University Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading. MIT Press, 2016. |
| 2016 | Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge University, 2015 |
| 2016 | Graeme Auld, Carleton University Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification. Yale University Press, 2014 |
| 2015 | Jessica F. Green, Case Western Reserve University Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance. Princeton University Press, 2014. |
| 2014 | David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States. Princeton University Press, 2012 |
| 2013 | Judith Layzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open for Business: Conservatives’ Opposition to Environmental Regulation (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 2012) |
| 2012 | Michael Kraft, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011) |
| 2012 | Mark Stephan, Washington State University, Vancouver Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011) |
| 2012 | Troy Abel, Western Washington University Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press, 2011) |