Dennis Judd Best Book Award

The Dennis Judd Best Book Award recognizes the best book on urban politics (domestic or international) published in the previous year.

Nomination instructions: The submission must include a nomination letter and book copies for each committee member; these should be sent directly to committee members at the addresses below.

Deadline for Nominations: March 15, 2022

Award Committee (2022):

Richardson Dilworth, Chair (Drexel), rd43@drexel.edu
Joel Rast (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), jrast@uwm.edu
Sharon Austin (University of Florida), polssdw@ufl.edu

Richardson Dilworth
Department of Politics, Drexel University
Macalister Hall, room 3025
3250-60 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Sharon Austin
4363 Song Sparrow Drive
Middleburg FL 32068

Joel Rast
4442 N. Sheffield Avenue
Shorewood, WI 53211

Recipients:

2021	Adam Auerbach (American University), Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums. (Cambridge University Press, 2020.) Honorable mentions: Eleonora Pasotti (UC Santa Cruz), Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities. (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Xuefei Ren (Michigan State), Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution. (Princeton University Press, 2020)
2020	Jeffrey R. Henig, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Sarah Reckhow Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics. (Harvard Education Press, 2019)
Honorable mentions:
Ashley E. Nickels Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan: Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeovers. (Temple University Press, 2019)
Jeffrey W. Paller Democracy in Ghana: everyday politics in urban Africa. (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
2019	Daniel T. O’Brien, Northeastern University The Urban Commons: How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities (Harvard University Press, 2018)
Honorable mentions:
Clayton Nall, Stanford University The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Domingo Morel, Rutgers University Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018)
2018	Veronica Herrera accepts the 2018 Dennis Judd Best Book Award. Veronica Herrera, University of Connecticut Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press)
2017	Margaret (Peggy) Kohn, University of Toronto The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth (University of Toronto Press, 2016)
2016	Lorrie Frasure-Yokely, University of California, Los Angeles Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
2015	Amy Lerman and Vesla Weaver, Yale University Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
2014	Traci Burch, Northwestern University Trading Democracy for Justice (University of Chicago Press)
2014	Clarissa Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis How Americans Make Race (Cambridge University Press)
2013	J. Eric Oliver, University of Chicago Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2012)
2012	Steven Erie, Vladimir Kogan, Scott MacKenzie Paradise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego (Stanford University Press)
2011	Zoltan Hajnal, University of California San Diego America’s Uneven Democracy: Race, Turnout and Representation in City Politics
2011	Peter Eisenstadt Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City’s Great Experiment Integrated Housing
2010	No award given.
2009	Jessica Trounstine, Princeton University Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rose and fall of Bosses and Reformers. (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
2008	No award given.
2007	Reuel Rogers, Northwestern University Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception or Exit
2006	Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy (Harvard University Press, 2005)
2006	Romain Garbaye, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) Getting into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities (Blackwell Publishing, 2005)
2005	James DeFilippis, CUNY, Baruch College Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital
2004	Alan Altshuler with David Luberoff, Harvard University Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (Brookings Institution, 2003)
2003	Paul Kantor, Fordham University, and Hank Savitch, University of Louisville Cities in the International Marketplace (Princeton University Press)
2002	Susan Welch, Pennsylvania State University Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City
2002	Lee Sigelman, George Washington University, and Timothy Bledsoe and Michael Combs, Wayne State University Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City
2000	Jeffrey Henig, Richard Hula, Desiree Pedescleaux, and Marion Orr, The George Washington University The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education
1999	Bruce Wallin, Northeastern University From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities
1998	Amy Bridges, University of California, San Diego Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest (Princeton University Press, 1997)
1997	Rodger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York (Harvard University Press, 1996)
1996	Eric Monkkonen, University of California, Los Angeles The Local State: Public Money and American Cities (Stanford University Press)
1995	No award given.
1994	Jeffrey Berry, Kent Portney, and Kenneth Thomson, Tufts University The Rebirth of Urban Democracy (Brookings Institution, 1993)
1993	Richard DeLeon, San Francisco State University Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992)
1993	Stephen L. Elkin, University of Maryland City and Regime in the American Republic (University of Chicago Press)
1992	Jonathan Kozol Savage Inequalities
1991	Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College City of Quartz (Verso)
1990	Clarence Stone, University of Maryland, College Park Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta 1946-1988 (University Press of Kansas)
1989	Steven Erie, University of California, San Diego Rainbow’s End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics 1840-1985
1988	Martin Shefter, Cornell University Political Crisis, Fiscal Crisis: The Collapse and Revival of New York City (Basic Books, 1985)
1988	Todd Swanstrom, State University of New York at Albany The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism (Temple University Press, 1985)

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