Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award
Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award
Nominations for the 2024 APSA Awards have closed.
The Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award honors the best paper presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
The award, supported by Pi Sigma Alpha, is presented at the APSA Annual Meeting and carries a cash prize of $750.
Nomination Information
- Eligibility: Self-nominations are accepted. Nominees do not have to be members of APSA, affiliated with an institution in the United States, or an American citizen in order to be considered for an award.
Annual Meeting program division chairs are invited to nominate one paper from their panel.
Papers must have been presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting (eligible papers for the 2024 award were presented in 2023 meeting).
Listing of Awardees
| Year | Recipient | Title | Affiliation |
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2024 |
Collateral Censorship: Theory and Evidence from Venezuela |
Brown University |
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2024 |
Collateral Censorship: Theory and Evidence from Venezuela |
Columbia University |
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2023 |
Addressing Risk by Doing Good: Business Responses to Policy Initiatives |
University of Texas at Austin |
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2022 |
Machine Gun Politics: Why Politicians Cooperate with Criminal Groups |
Harvard University |
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2021 |
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Technological and Political Change in the Great Plains |
University of California, Riverside |
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| 2020 | Kristin Kao and Mara Redlich Revkin | Retribution and Reconciliation: Attitudes Toward Rebel Collaborators in Iraq | University of Gothenburg (Kao); Georgetown University Law Center (Revkin) |
| 2019 | Nikhar Gaikwad and Pavithra Suryanarayan | Economic and Ethnic Determinants of Trade Preferences: Evidence from India | Columbia University (Gaikwad); Johns Hopkins University (Suryanarayan) |
| 2018 | Ana Catalano Weeks | Why Are Gender Quota Laws Adopted by Men? The Role of Inter- and Intra-Party Competition | University of Bath |
| 2017 | Kenneth Greene | Why Vote Buying Fails: Campaign Effects and the Elusive Swing Voter | University of Texas at Austin |
| 2016 | Pablo Barbera | How Social Media Reduces Mass Political Polarization: Evidence from Germany, Spain, and the U.S. | New York University |
| 2016 | John Voorheis, Nolan McCarty, Boris Shor | Unequal Incomes, Ideology and Gridlock: How Rising Inequality Increases Political Polarization | University of Oregon, Princeton University, Georgetown University |
| 2015 | Alexander Kuo, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, Neil Malhotra | Why Do Asian Americans Identify as Democrats? Testing Theories of Social Exclusion and Intergroup Solidarity | Cornell University, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Vanderbilt University |
| 2014 | Chad P. Kiewiet de Jonge | Political Learning and Democratic Commitment in New Democracies | Center for Economic Research and Teaching |
| 2013 | Toby Bolsen, James Druckman, Fay Lomax Cook | When and How Partisan Identification Works | Georgia State University, Northwestern University |
| 2012 | No award given | ||
| 2011 | Dennis Chong and James N. Druckman | Dynamic Public Opinion: Communication Effects Over Time | Northwestern University |
| 2010 | Thomas B. Pepinsky, R. William Liddle, and Saiful Mujani | Testing Islam’s Political Advantage: Evidence from Indonesia | Cornell University, Ohio State University, and Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University |
| 2010 | Ben B. Hansen and Jake Bowers | Attributing Effects to a Cluster Randomized Get-Out-The-Vote Campaign | University of Michigan and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 2009 | No award given | ||
| 2008 | Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | Political Survival and Institutional Change | New York University and New York University/Stanford University |
| 2007 | Dennis Chong and James Druckman | Democratic Competition and Public Opinion | Northwestern University |
| 2006 | Dawn Brancati | Decentralization: Fueling the Fire or Dampening the Flames of Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism | Harvard University |
| 2005 | William T. Bernhard and David Leblang | When Markets Party: Stocks, Bonds, and Cabinet Formations | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 2004 | David Woodruff | Boom, Gloom, Doom: Balance Sheets, Monetary Fragmentation, and Financial Crisis in Argentina and Russia | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2004 | Larry W. Chappell and Bernard L. Bray | Civic Theatre for Civic Education | Mississippi Valley State University and Talladega College |
| 2003 | Larry M. Bartels | Economic Inequality and Political Representation | Princeton University |
| 2002 | No award given | ||
| 2001 | No award given | ||
| 2000 | Herbert Kitschelt | Accounting for Outcomes of Post-Communist Regime Change: Casual Depth or Shallowness in Rival Explanations | Duke University |
| 1999 | Charles Stewart III | Architect or Tactician? Henry Clay and the Institutional Development of the U.S. House of Representatives | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1998 | Karen Orren | Machine Constitutionalism: The Court, the Republican Party and the Eleventh Amendment in the Gilded Age | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1997 | Richard A. Brisbin | The U.S. Supreme Court and the Rationality of Labor Violence: The Impact of the Mackay Radio Doctrine and ‘Violence’ during the Coal Strike of 1989-90 | West Virginia University |
| 1996 | Jeffrey A. Segal | Marxist (and Neo-Marxist) Models of Supreme Court Decision Making: Separation-of-Powers in the Positive Theory of Law and Courts | SUNY Stony Brook |
| 1995 | Kenneth Schultz and Barry Weingast | The Democratic Advantage: The Institutional Sources of State Power in International Competition | Stanford University |
| 1994 | Paul Sniderman, Edward Carmines, Philip Tetlock, and Anthony Tyler | The Asymmetry of Race as a Political Issue: Prejudice, Political Ideology, and the Structure of Conflict of American Politics | Stanford University, Indiana University, and University of California, Berkeley |
| 1993 | George Tsebelis | The Power of the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda-Setter | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1992 | Edgar Kiser | Markets and Hierarchies in Early Modern Fiscal Systems: A Principal-Agent Analysis of the Choice Between Tax Farming and State Bureaucracy | University of Washington |
| 1991 | Bartholomew H. Sparrow | Raising Taxes and Going into Debt: A Resource Dependence Model of U.S. Public Finance in the 1940s | University of Texas at Austin |
| 1990 | Byron E. Shafer | The Notion of an Electoral Order: The Structure of Electoral Politics at the Accession of George Bush | Nuffield College |
| 1989 | George Rabinowitz, Stuart Elaine Macdonald, and Ola Listhaug | New Players in an Old Game | University of North Carolina |
| 1988 | Ronald Rogowski | Changing Exposure to Trade and the Development of Political Cleavages | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1987 | James L. Gibson | The Policy Consequences of Political Tolerance | University of Houston |
| 1986 | Robert Axelrod | Modeling the Evolution of Norms | University of Michigan |
| 1985 | Jack L. Walker | Three Modes of Political Mobilization | |
| 1985 | Michael Wallerstein | The Micro-Foundations of Corporatism: Formal Theory and Comparative Analysis | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1984 | Gary Miller and Terry Moe | The Positive Theory of Hierarchies | Michigan State University and Stanford University |
| 1983 | Jennifer Hochschild | Incrementalism, Pluralism and the Failure of School Desegregation | Princeton University |
| 1983 | Kaare Strom | Minority Government and Majority Rule | Stanford University |
| 1982 | Sylvia Snowiss | From Fundamental Law to the Supreme Law of the Land: A Reinterpretation of the Origin of Judicial Law Review in the U.S. | California State University, Northridge |
| 1981 | Trudi C. Miller | Toward a Normative Dynamic Model of Educational Equity | National Science Foundation |
| 1980 | Bert A. Rockman | Constants, Cycles, Trends and Persons in Presidential Governance: Carter’s Troubles Reviewed | University of Pittsburgh |
| 1979 | Mancur Olson | Pluralism and National Decline | University of Maryland |
| 1978 | Raymond E. Wolfinger and Steven J. Rosenstone | Who Votes? | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1977 | Mary Cornelia Porter | Rodriguez, the “Poor” and the Burger Court: A Prudent Prognosis | Barat College |
| 1976 | Richard F. Fenno | Congressmen in Their Constituencies: An Exploration | University of Rochester |
| 1975 | Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph | Authority and Power in Bureaucratic and Patrimonial Administration | University of Chicago |
| 1974 | William Zimmerman | National-International Linkages in Yugoslavia: The Political Consequences of Openness | University of Michigan |
| 1973 | No award given | ||
| 1972 | Alexander George | Multiple Advocacy in Making Foreign Policy | Stanford University |
| 1971 | Daniel Ellsberg | Escalating in a Quagmire | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1970 | Brian Fry and Richard Winters | The Politics of Redistribution | Stanford University and Dartmouth College |
| 1969 | Gerald H. Kramer | Short-Term Fluctuations in U.S. Voting Behavior, 1896-1964 | Yale University |
| 1968 | Sidney Tarrow | Catch-all Political Parties in a Polarized Political System: An Empirical Analysis and Theoretical Critique | Yale University |
| 1967 | Frederick Frey | Socialization to National Identification: Turkish Peasants | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1967 | Robert C. Tucker | The Deradicalization of Marxist Movements | Princeton University |
| 1966 | Samuel Huntington | Political Modernization: America vs. Europe | Harvard University |
| 1965 | James B. Christoph | British Political Ideology Today: Consensus and Cleavage | Ohio State University |
| 1964 | James G. March | An Individualistic Theory of Political Process | University of California, Irvine |