Politics and History Section Award Recipients
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J. David Greenstone Book Prize
Mary Parker Follett Prize
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Best Paper Award
J. David Greenstone Book Prize
The J. David Greenstone Book Prize recognizes the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years.
| 2023 | Tomila V. Lankina, London School of Economics The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class. Cambridge University Press 2022. |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention H. Zeynep Bulutgil, University College London The Origins of Secular Institutions: Ideas, Timing and Organization. Oxford University Press, 2022. |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention Shivaji Mukherjee, University of Toronto Colonial Institutions and Civil War: Indirect Rule and Maoist Insurgency in India. Cambridge University Press, 2021. |
| 2022 | Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation 1790-1870. Harvard University Press, 2021 |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention Peter Swenson, Yale University Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction and Money in American Medicine. Yale University Press, 2021 |
| 2021 | Henrik Spruyt, Northwestern University The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies. Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| 2021 | Boris Heersink, Fordham University and Jeff Jenkins, University of Southern California Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968. Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| 2021 | Jeff Jenkins, University of Southern California Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968. Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| 2019 | Jessica Trounstine, University of California, Merced |
| 2019 | David Alexander Bateman, Cornell University |
| 2019 | Honorable Mention |
| 2018 | Paul Frymer, Princeton University Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion. Princeton University Press, 2017. |
| 2017 | Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965. Princeton University Press, 2016. |
| 2017 | Sarah Staszak, Princeton University No Day in Court: Access to Justice and the Politics of Judicial Retrenchment. Oxford University Press, 2015. |
| 2017 | Honorable Mention Sheena Chestnut Greitens, University of Missouri Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence. Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| 2016 | Robert Mickey, University of Michigan Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America’s Deep South, 1944-1972. Princeton University Press, 2015 |
| 2015 | Erik Engstrom, University of California, Davis Party Ballots, Reform and the Transformation of America’s Electoral System. Cambridge University Press, 2014 |
| 2015 | Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego Party Ballots, Reform and the Transformation of America’s Electoral System. Cambridge University Press, 2014 |
| 2015 | Adria Lawrence, Yale University Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2013 |
| 2014 | Michele Dauber, Stanford University The Sympathetic State (University of Chicago Press, 2013) |
| 2014 | Ira Katznelson, Columbia University Fear Itself (Liveright, 2013) |
| 2012 | Julian Go, Boston University Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to Present (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
| 2011 | James Mahoney, Northwestern University Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010) |
| 2010 | Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University The Motherless State: Women’s Political Leadership and American Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2009) |
| 2010 | Anthony Chen, Northwestern University The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972 (Princeton University Press, 2009) |
| 2009 | Karen Barkey, Columbia University Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2008) |
| 2008 | Keith Whittington, Princeton University Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History (Princeton University Press, 2007) |
| 2007 | Istvan Hont, University of Cambridge Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation State in Historical Perpective (Harvard University Press, 2005) |
| 2007 | Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2006 | Ken Kersch, Princeton University Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law (Cambridge University Press, 2004) |
| 2006 | Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Oxford University Press, 2005) |
| 2005 | Richard Valelly, Swarthmore College The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement (University of Chicago Press 2004) |
| 2005 | Honorable Mention Kathleen Thelen, Northwestern University How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan(Cambridge University Press, 2004) |
| 2004 | Sonja Amadae, Eugene Lange College, The New School “Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism” (University of Chicago Press, 2003) |
| 2004 | Theda Skocpol, Harvard University “Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life” (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003) |
| 2003 | Mounira Charrad, University of Texas, Austin States and Women's Rights: The Making of Post-Colonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco (University of California Press, 2001) |
| 2003 | Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era (Chicago University Press, 2002) |
| 2002 | Richard Bensel, Cornell University Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2000) |
| 2001 | Uday Mehta, University of Pennsylvania Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought (University of Chicago Press, 1999) |
| 2000 | Elizabeth Sanders, Cornell University Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State 1877-1917 (University of Chicago Press, 1999) |
| 1999 | Peter Trubowitz, University of Texas Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy (University of Chicago Press, 1998) |
| 1998 | Rogers Smith, Yale University Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Yale University Press, 1997) |
| 1998 | Mabel Berezin, University of California, Los Angeles Making the Fascist Self: The Political Culture of Interwar History (Cornell University Press, 1997) |
| 1997 | Stathis Kalyvas, New York University The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996) |
| 1996 | Hendrik Spruyt, Columbia University The Sovereign State and Its Competitors (Princeton University Press, 1994) |
| 1995 | Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza (Cornell University Press, 1993) |
| 1995 | Gerald Berk, University of Oregon Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of the American Industrial Order 1854-1917, (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 1994 | Stephen Skowronek, Yale University The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush (Harvard University Press, 1993) |
| 1993 | Theda Skocpol, Harvard University Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992) |
| 1993 | Karen Orren, University of California, Los Angeles |
The Mary Parker Follett Prize recognizes the best article on Politics and History published in the previous year.
| 2023 | Kerry Goettlich, University of Reading “The Colonial Origins of Modern Territoriality: Property Surveying in the Thirteen Colonies.” American Political Science Review. |
| 2022 | Matthew Denney, Yale University “'To Wage a War'”: Crime, Race, and State Making in the Age of FDR.” Studies in American Political Development, 35, no. 1 (2021): 16-56 |
| 2022 | Edgar Franco-Vivanco, University of Michigan “Justice as Checks and Balances: Indigenous Claims in the Courts of Colonial Mexico.” World Politics 73, no. 4 (2021): 712-773 |
| 2021 | Agustina S. Paglayan, University of California, San Diego “The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years.” American Political Science Review, 115(1), February 2021,179 – 198. |
| 2020 | Daniel J. Galvin, Northwestern University “From Labor Law to Employment Law: The Changing Politics of Workers’ Rights.” Studies in American Political Development, 33 (April 2019), 50-86. |
| 2020 | Honorable Mention Alexandra Cirone, Cornell University “Bridging the Gap: Lottery-Based Procedures in Early Parliamentarization.” World Politics, 71 (April 2019), 197-235. |
| 2020 | Honorable Mention Brenda Van Coppenolle, University of Essex |
| 2019 | Peter Swenson, Yale University |
| 2022 | Shivaji Mukherjee of the University of Toronto |
| 2018 |