The Dennis Judd Best Book Award recognizes the best book on urban politics published in the previous year.
Nomination instructions: Please include a nomination letter in the application. Applicants may self-nominate.
Deadline for 2020 Nominations: March 15, 2020
Award Committee (2020):
Dr. Peter Burns (Chair), Soka University of America
pburns@soka.edu
Dr. Domingo Morel, Rutgers University
domingo.morel@rutgers.edu
Dr. Margaret Kohn, University of Toronto
peggy.kohn@utoronto.ca
Recipients:
| 2019 |  Daniel T. O’Brien, Northeastern UniversityThe Urban Commons: How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities (Harvard University Press, 2018) |
| Honorable mentions: | |
 Clayton Nall, Stanford UniversityThe Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities (Cambridge University Press, 2018) |
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 Domingo Morel, Rutgers UniversityTakeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018) |
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| 2018 |
 Veronica Herrera, University of Connecticut |
| 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) |