{"id":207,"date":"2019-02-05T16:51:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s3\/?page_id=207"},"modified":"2025-02-18T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:59:07","slug":"carl-albert-dissertation-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s3\/carl-albert-dissertation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Albert Dissertation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pane-title\">The Carl Albert Dissertation Award is given annually for the best dissertation in legislative studies. Topics may be national or subnational in focus &#8212; on Congress, parliaments, state legislatures, or other representative bodies.\u00a0The prize is funded by the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma.\u00a0 In addition to the cash prize associated with the award, winners are typically invited to guest lecture on the OU campus with travel expenses paid by the Carl Albert Center.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<article id=\"node-8816\" class=\"node node-page clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-page-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u00a0Dissertations must have a copyright date of one or two years previous to the year in which the award is presented. Terms for submitting dissertation: (1) one copy sent to each member of the committee; (2) no more than one submission per Ph.D.-granting department; (3) letter from the department indicating the selection; and (4) a letter from the dissertation chair, or other appropriate committee member, describing the significance of the work. The deadline for submission is March 30, 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<p><strong>2025 Selection Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 59.2617%\">Eric Michael Manning (Chair) , Princeton University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 40.7383%\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"mailto:ericmm@princeton.edu\">ericmm@princeton.edu<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 59.2617%\">Geoffrey M. Lorenz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 40.7383%\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" title=\"mailto:gmlorenz@unl.edu\" href=\"mailto:gmlorenz@unl.edu\" data-outlook-id=\"ba78e038-8a96-4c50-a3f2-bccd857f099b\">gmlorenz@unl.edu<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 59.2617%\">Pamela Clouser McCann, USC<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 40.7383%\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"mailto:pmccann@usc.edu\">pmccann@usc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>2024 Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Michael Manning, Princeton University.<\/strong> &#8220;Essays on Modern Campaign Financing in the United States&#8221; (Princeton University, 2023)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024 Selection Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 64.4966%\">Lucia Motolinia Carballo (Chair), Washington University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.5034%\">luciam@wustl.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 64.4966%\">Stephen Bates, University of Birmingham<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.5034%\">s.r.bates@bham.ac.uk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 64.4966%\">Paruh Shah, Rutgers University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.5034%\">paru.shah@rutgers.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>2023 Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucia Motolinia Carballo , Washington University in St. Louis<\/strong>. \u201cTrading Pork for Unity: How Parties Respond to Electoral Reforms in Party-Centered Systems\u201d (New York University, 2022).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-page-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<p><strong>2023 Selection Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">Logan Dancey (Chair), Wesleyan University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">ldancey@wesleyan.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">LaShonda Brenson, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">lashonda@jointcenter.org<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">Matthew Platt, Morehouse College<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">matthew.platt@morehouse.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<p><strong>2022 Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Kistner , University of Houston<\/strong>. &#8220;Fundraising for the Caucus: Money, Party Politics, and Policymaking in American Legislatures&#8221; (Princeton University, 2021).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022 Selection Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">Erinn Lauterbach (Chair), University of Virginia<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">el2db@virginia.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">Geoff Lorenz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">gmlorenz@unl.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">Darrian Stacy, United States Naval Academy<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\">stacy@usna.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>2021 Winner<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Erinn Lauterbach, University of Virginia, for &#8220;<i>Punishments, Incentives, and Oversight: How Legislators Turn Preference Into Policy<\/i>.&#8221; (University of California, Riverside, 2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2021 Selection Committee<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 96.8234%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 58.3227%\">Lior Sheffer (Chair), Tel Aviv University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 38.3736%\">liorsheffer@tauex.tau.ac.il<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 58.3227%\">Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 38.3736%\">sharece.d.thrower@vanderbilt.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 58.3227%\">Danielle M. Thomsen, University of California Irvine<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 38.3736%\">dthomsen@uci.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>2020 Winner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Lior Sheffer, Tel Aviv University, for &#8220;Behavioural Foundations of Elite Politics: How Individual-Level Characteristics Shape the Decision Making of Elected Politicians&#8221; (University of Toronto 2019)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>2020 Selection Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Nara Park (Chair), Jeju National University<\/td>\n<td>npark@jejunu.ac.kr<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Daniel Magleby, Binghamton University<\/td>\n<td>dmagleby@binghamton.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>La Gina Gause, University of California San Diego<\/td>\n<td>lgause@ucsd.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong>2019 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Nara Park, The University of Chicago, for &#8220;<em>The Nature of Japanese Governance: Seikai-Tensin (\u653f\u754c\u8ee2\u8eab)\u2019s Political Success in Postwar Japan, 1947-2014.&#8221; <\/em>(The University of Chicago 2017).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Alison W. Craig, University of Texas at Austin<br \/>\nMelinda Ritchie, University of California, Riverside<br \/>\nWendy J. Schiller, Brown University<\/p>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<h3><strong>2018 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Alison W. Craig, University of Texas at Austin,\u00a0 for &#8220;<em>Crafting a Broad Appeal: Congressional Audiences and Policy Collaboration in the Modern Legislature<\/em>.&#8221; (Ohio State University, 2017).<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Michelle Whyman, Duke University<br \/>\nAnthony Madonna, University of Georgia<br \/>\nJason Casellas, University of Houston<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2017 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Michelle Whyman of Duke University for, \u201cThe Roots of Legislative Durability: How Information, Deliberation, and Compromise Create Laws that Last\u201d (University of Texas, 2016).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Molly Reynolds, Brookings Institution<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Tiffany Barnes, University of Kentucky<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jonathan Winburn, University of Mississippi.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3><strong>2016 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Molly E. Reynolds of the Brookings Institution for <em>Exceptions to the Rule: Majoritarian Procedures and Majority Party Power in the U.S. Senate <\/em>(University of Michigan, 2015). <em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nMichael Barber, Brigham Young University<br \/>\nJennifer Clark, University of Houston<br \/>\nJason Windett, Saint Louis University<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2015 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Buying Representation: The Incentives, Ideology, and Influence of Campaign Contributions in American Politics<\/em>, by Michael Barber, Princeton University, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nEitan Tzelgov, University of Gothenburg<br \/>\nYusaku Horiuchi, Dartmouth College<br \/>\nLeah Murray, Weber State University<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2014 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Words as Weapons: Opposition Rhetoric and Partisan Strategy<\/em>, by Eitan Tzelgov, Pennsylvania State University, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Honorable Mention:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Party, Preferences &amp; Pragmatic Fidelity: Explaining Voting Unity in European Legislatures,<\/em> by David Willumsen, European Univesity Institute \u2013 Florence, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nNicholas Carnes, Duke University<br \/>\nFrank Thames, Texas Tech<br \/>\nGisela Sin, University of Illinois<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2013 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>By the Upper Class, For the Upper Class? Representational Inequality and Economic Policymaking in the United States<\/em>, by Nicholas Carnes, Princeton University, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee<\/strong>:<br \/>\nGeorg Vanberg (chair), University of North Carolina<br \/>\nKathleen Bratton, Louisiana State University<br \/>\nJames Curry, University of Utah<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2012 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Information Control: Leadership Power in the U.S. House of Representatives<\/em>, by James Curry, University of Maryland, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nChris Den Hartog (chair), California Polytechnic State University<br \/>\nKathryn C. Lavelle, Case Western Reserve University<br \/>\nAmber Wichowsky, Marquette University<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2011 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>The Competitive Cure: The Consequences of Competitive Congressional Elections<\/em>, by Amber Wichowsky, University of Wisconsin \u2013 Madison, 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nAlan Wiseman (chair), Vanderbilt University<br \/>\nPatrick Egan, New York University<br \/>\nElizabeth Oldmixon, University of North Texas<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2010 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Issue Ownership and Representation in American Politics<\/em>, by Patrick Egan, University of California, Berkeley, 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nRobin Kolodny (chair), Temple University<br \/>\nTom Clark, Emory University<br \/>\nAndrew Taylor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2009 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>The Politics of Judicial Independence: Court Curbing and the Separation of Powers<\/em>, by Tom Clark, Princeton University, 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nChristine Degregorio (chair), American University<br \/>\nRob Salmond, University of Michigan<br \/>\nSean Theriault, University of Texas, Austin<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2008 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Parliamentary Question Times: How Legislative Accountability Mechanisms Affect Citizens and Politics<\/em>, by Rob Salmon, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nKathryn Pearson (chair), University of Minnesota<br \/>\nElizabeth Oldmixon, University of North Texas<br \/>\nKim Quaile Hill, Texas A&amp;M University<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2007 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">No award given<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2006 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Party Discipline in the Contemporary Congress: Rewarding Loyalty in Theory and Practice<\/em>, by Kathryn Pearson, University of California, Berkeley, 2005.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nGail McElroy (chair), Trinity College, Dublin<br \/>\nRobert Van Houweling, University of California, Berkeley<br \/>\nScott Adler, Unviersity of Colorado, Boulder<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2005 Winners<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>In Pursuit of Party Discipline: Committees and Cohesion in the European Parliament<\/em>, by Gail McElroy, University of Rochester, 2004.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">and<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Legislators&#8217; Personal Policy Preferences and Partisan Legislative Organization<\/em>, by Robert Van Houweling, Harvard University, 2003<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nChristian Grose (chair), Lawrence University<br \/>\nNoelle Norton, University of San Diego<br \/>\nJohn R. Wright, Ohio State University<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2004 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Beyond the Vote: A Theory of Black Representation in Congress, by Christian Robert Grose, University of Rochester, 2003.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nBruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University<br \/>\nBrian R. Sala, University of California, Davis<br \/>\nChristine DeGregorio<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2003 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">No Award Given<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2002 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>When Candidates Attack: The Effects of Negative Campaigning on Voter Turnout in Senate Elections<\/em>, by Deborah Jordan Brooks, Yale University, 2001.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn B. Gilmour, College of William and Mary<br \/>\nDiana Evans, Trinity College<br \/>\nThomas F. Remington, Emory University<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2001 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>From the Year of the Woman to the Republican Ascendancy: Evaluating the Policy Impact of Women in Congress<\/em>, by Michele Lynn Swers, Harvard University, 2000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nJon Bond (chair), Texas A&amp;M, College Station<br \/>\nSusan Hammond, American University<br \/>\nGerald Gamm, Rochester University<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2000 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Explaining Institutional Change: The Rise and Impact of Omnibus Legislating<\/em>, by Glen Krutz, Texas A &amp; M University, 1999.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nLinda Fowler (chair), Dartmouth University<br \/>\nFrances Lee, Case Western Reserve University<br \/>\nPaul Gronke, Duke University<\/p>\n<h3><strong>1999 Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Shaping Perceptions of Congress through Franked Mass Mailings: An Examination of the Communication Strategies Used by members of the United States House of Representatives in the 1990s<\/em>, by Daniel William Lipinski, Duke University, 1998.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Selection Committee:<\/strong><br \/>\nMichael Mezey (chair), DePaul University<br \/>\nDavid Canon, University of Wisconsin at Madison<br \/>\nGary Moncrief, Boise State University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carl Albert Dissertation Award is given annually for the best dissertation in legislative studies. 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