Representation and Electoral Systems Section Award Recipients
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George H. Hallett Award
Lawrence Longley Award
Leon Weaver Award
The George H. Hallett Award is presented annually to the author of a book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems.
| 2023 | David J. Samuels and Matthew S. Shugart, University of Minnesota and University of California, San Diego Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers: How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior, Cambridge University Press, 2010 |
| 2022 | Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Rice University Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America, Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| 2021 | Alan I. Abramowitz, Emory University The Disappearing Center.Yale University Press, 2010. |
| 2020 | Michael Saward, University of Warwick |
| 2019 | Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University Quotas for Women: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide. Oxford University Press 2009. |
| 2018 | Pippa Norris, Harvard University Political Recruitment: Gender, Race, and Class in the British Parliament. Cambridge University Press, 1995. |
| 2018 | Joni Lovenduski, Birkbeck, University of London Political Recruitment: Gender, Race, and Class in the British Parliament. Cambridge University Press, 1995. |
| 2017 | Anne Phillips, London School of Economics The Politics of Presence. Oxford University Press |
| 2016 | Susan Stokes, Yale Univesity Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America.Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| 2015 | G. Bingham Powell, University of Rochester Elections as Instruments of Democracy. Yale University Press, 2000. |
| 2014 | Matthew Shugart, University of California, Davis Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics. Cambridge University Press, 1992 |
| 2014 | John Carey, Dartmouth College Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics. Cambridge University Press, 1992 |
| 2013 | Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University Social Choice and Individual Values (Yale University Press 1951) |
| 2012 | William Riker, (Deaceased) Liberalism Against Populism: A Confrontation Between the Theory of Democracy and the Theory of Social Choice (W.H. Freeeman, 1982) |
| 2010 | Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) |
| 2009 | Sidney Verba, Harvard University Participation and Political Equality: A Seven Nation Comparison (New York: Cambridge University Press) |
| 2009 | Norman Nie, Stanford University Participation and Political Equality: A Seven Nation Comparison (New York: Cambridge University Press) |
| 2008 | H. Young, Johns Hopkins University Fair Representation: Meeting the Ideal of One-Man One-Vote (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982) |
| 2007 | Gary Cox, University of California, San Diego Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral System |
| 2006 | Seymour Lipset Party Systems and Voter Alignments (New York: Free Press, 1967) |
| 2006 | Stein Rokkan Party Systems and Voter Alignments (New York: Free Press, 1967) |
| 2005 | V. Key Jr., late of Harvard University “Southern Politics” |
| 2004 | Douglas Amy, Mount Holyoke College Real Choices/New Voices (Columbia University Press, 2002) |
| 2003 | Gary Cox, University of Calrifornia-San Diego The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parities in Victorian England (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987) |
| 2002 | David Butler, Oxford University Political Change in Britain (St. Martin's Press, 1971) |
| 2002 | Donald Stokes, Princeton University Political Change in Britain (St. Martin's Press, 1971) |
| 2001 | Bernard Grofman, University of California-Irvine Choosing an Electoral System (Praeger, 1984) and Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences (Agathon, 1986) |
| 2001 | Arend Lijphart, University of California-San Diego Choosing an Electoral System (Praeger, 1984) and Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences (Agathon, 1986) |
| 2000 | G. Bingham Powell Jr., University of Rochester Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability and Violence (Harvard University Press, 1982) |
| 1999 | Matthew Shugart, University of California, San Diego Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems (Yale University Press, 1989) |
| 1999 | Rein Taagepera, University of California-Irvine Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems (Yale University Press, 1989) |
| 1998 | Richard Katz, Johns Hopkins University A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980) |
| 1997 | Harold Gosnell Why Europe Votes? (University of Chicago, 1930) |
| 1996 | Roy Pierce, University of Michigan Political Representation in France (Belknap Press, 1986) |
| 1996 | Philip Converse, University of Michigan Political Representation in France Belknap Press, 1986) |
| 1995 | Arend Lijphart, University of California-San Diego Democracies (Yale University Press, 1984) |
| 1994 | W. Mackenzie Free Elections |
| 1993 | Enid Lakeman How Democracies Vote: A Study of Electoral Systems (London: Faber & Faber, 1974) |
| 1992 | Robert Dixon Demarhi Representation |
| 1991 | Hanna Pitkin, University of California-Berkeley The Concept of Representation (University of California Press, 1967) |
| 1990 | Maurice Duverger, Sorbonne-University of Paris Political Parties (John Wiley) – originally published as Les Partis Politiques (Armand Coplin) |
| 1989 | Douglas Rae, Yale University The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws (Yale University Press, 1967; 2nd revised edition, 1971) |
The Lawrence Longley Award is given for the best article published in the previous year.