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Michael Craw gives the Dennis Judd Best Book Award to Daniel O\u2019Brien at the 2019 APSA conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Dennis Judd Best Book Award<\/strong> recognizes the best book on urban politics (domestic or international) published in 2025.<\/p>\n

Nomination instructions:
\n<\/strong>To nominate, a nomination letter and hard copies of the book should be sent to each committee member.<\/p>\n

\n

Award Committee (2026):
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily Farris, Texas Christian University (e.farris@tcu.edu)<\/p>\n

Michael Javen Fortner, Claremont McKenna College (mfortner@cmc.edu)<\/p>\n

Veronica Herrera, UCLA (vherrera@luskin.ucla.edu)<\/p>\n

Deadline for Nominations:<\/strong> March 15, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Recipients:<\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2025<\/strong><\/td>\nVeronica Herrera, <\/strong>University of California Los Angeles:
\nSlow Harms and Citizen Action: Environmental Degradation and Policy Change in Latin American Cities<\/em>. Oxford University Press, 2024.
\nHonorable Mention<\/em>: Stephanie Ternullo, <\/strong>Harvard University
\nHow the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics<\/em>. Princeton University Press, 2024.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/strong><\/td>\nPatricia Strach<\/strong>, State University of New York at Albany
\nThe Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929<\/em>. Cornell University Press, 2023
\nKathleen Sullivan<\/strong>, Ohio University
\nThe Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929<\/em>. Cornell University Press, 2023
\nHonorable Mention: <\/em>Domingo Morel<\/strong>, New York University
\nDeveloping Scholars:\u00a0 Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education<\/em>. Oxford University Press, 2023.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/strong><\/td>\n\"\"Sally Nuamah (Northwestern),\u00a0Closed for Democracy: How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2023)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/strong><\/td>\n\"\"
\nCharley E. Willison (Cornell University), Ungoverned and Out of Sight<\/a> <\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2021)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/strong><\/td>\n\"\"Adam Auerbach (American University),\u00a0Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India\u2019s Urban Slums<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2020)Honorable mentions:\"\"Eleonora Pasotti (UC Santa Cruz),\u00a0Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2020)\"\"Xuefei Ren (Michigan State),\u00a0Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>(Princeton University Press, 2020)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/strong><\/td>\n\"Outside<\/a>Jeffrey R. Henig, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Sarah Reckhow
\nOutside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics<\/em><\/a>. (Harvard Education Press, 2019)Honorable Mention:\"\"Ashley E. Nickels
\nPower, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan: Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeovers<\/a><\/em>. (Temple University Press, 2019)\"Democracy<\/a>Jeffrey W. Paller
\nDemocracy in Ghana: everyday politics in urban Africa<\/em><\/a>. (Cambridge University Press, 2019)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/a>Daniel T. O\u2019Brien, Northeastern University
\nThe Urban Commons: How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities<\/em><\/a> (Harvard University Press, 2018)Honorable Mentions:\"Clayton<\/a>Clayton Nall, Stanford University
\nThe Road to Inequality:\u00a0How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities<\/em><\/a> (Cambridge University Press, 2018)\"Domingo<\/a><\/em>Domingo Morel, Rutgers University
\nTakeover:\u00a0Race, Education, and American Democracy <\/a><\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/strong><\/td>\n\n
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Veronica Herrera accepts the 2018 Dennis Judd Best Book Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Veronica\u00a0Herrera,\u00a0University of Connecticut
\nWater and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico<\/em> (University of Michigan Press)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2017<\/strong><\/td>\nMargaret (Peggy) Kohn, University of Toronto
\nThe Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth (University of Toronto Press, 2016)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/strong><\/td>\nLorrie Frasure-Yokely, University of California, Los Angeles
\nRacial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs (Cambridge University Press, 2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/strong><\/td>\nAmy Lerman and Vesla Weaver, Yale University
\nArresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control (University of Chicago Press, 2014)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/strong><\/td>\nTraci Burch, Northwestern University
\nTrading Democracy for Justice (University of Chicago Press)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/strong><\/td>\nClarissa Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis
\nHow Americans Make Race (Cambridge University Press)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/strong><\/td>\nJ. Eric Oliver, University of Chicago
\nLocal Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2012)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/strong><\/td>\nSteven Erie, Vladimir Kogan, Scott MacKenzie
\nParadise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego (Stanford University Press)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/strong><\/td>\nZoltan Hajnal, University of California San Diego
\nAmerica’s Uneven Democracy: Race, Turnout and Representation in City Politics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/strong><\/td>\nPeter Eisenstadt
\nRochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City’s Great Experiment Integrated Housing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/strong><\/td>\nNo award given.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/strong><\/td>\nJessica Trounstine, Princeton University
\nPolitical Monopolies in American Cities: The Rose and fall of Bosses and Reformers. (University of Chicago Press, 2008)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/strong><\/td>\nNo award given.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/strong><\/td>\nReuel Rogers, Northwestern University
\nAfro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception or Exit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/strong><\/td>\nRichardson Dilworth, Drexel University
\nThe Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy (Harvard University Press, 2005)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/strong><\/td>\nRomain Garbaye, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
\nGetting into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities (Blackwell Publishing, 2005)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/strong><\/td>\nJames DeFilippis, CUNY, Baruch College
\nUnmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/strong><\/td>\nAlan Altshuler with David Luberoff, Harvard University
\nMega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (Brookings Institution, 2003)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/strong><\/td>\nPaul Kantor, Fordham University, and Hank Savitch, University of Louisville
\nCities in the International Marketplace (Princeton University Press)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/strong><\/td>\nSusan Welch, Pennsylvania State University
\nRace and Place: Race Relations in an American City<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/strong><\/td>\nLee Sigelman, George Washington University, and\u00a0Timothy Bledsoe and Michael Combs, Wayne State University
\nRace and Place: Race Relations in an American City<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/strong><\/td>\nJeffrey Henig, Richard Hula, Desiree Pedescleaux, and Marion Orr, The George Washington University
\nThe Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/strong><\/td>\nBruce Wallin, Northeastern University
\nFrom Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/strong><\/td>\nAmy Bridges, University of California, San Diego
\nMorning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest (Princeton University Press, 1997)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/strong><\/td>\nRodger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles
\nStill the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York (Harvard University Press, 1996)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/strong><\/td>\nEric Monkkonen, University of California, Los Angeles
\nThe Local State: Public Money and American Cities (Stanford University Press)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/strong><\/td>\nNo award given.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/strong><\/td>\nJeffrey Berry, Kent Portney, and Kenneth Thomson, Tufts University
\nThe Rebirth of Urban Democracy (Brookings Institution, 1993)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/strong><\/td>\nRichard DeLeon, San Francisco State University
\nLeft Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/strong><\/td>\nStephen L. Elkin, University of Maryland
\nCity and Regime in the American Republic (University of Chicago Press)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/strong><\/td>\nJonathan Kozol
\nSavage Inequalities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/strong><\/td>\nMichael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College
\nCity of Quartz (Verso)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/strong><\/td>\nClarence Stone, University of Maryland, College Park
\nRegime Politics: Governing Atlanta 1946-1988 (University Press of Kansas)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/strong><\/td>\nSteven Erie, University of California, San Diego
\nRainbow’s End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics 1840-1985<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988<\/strong><\/td>\nMartin Shefter, Cornell University
\nPolitical Crisis, Fiscal Crisis: The Collapse and Revival of New York City (Basic Books, 1985)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988<\/strong><\/td>\nTodd Swanstrom, State University of New York at Albany
\nThe Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism (Temple University Press, 1985)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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