2022 APSA Democracy and Autocracy Section Award Winners
The Democracy and Autocracy Section of the American Political Science Association is proud to announce the 2021 winners of our section’s five annual awards: the Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation, and the Best Book, Best Article, Best Field Work, and Best Paper awards. Congratulations to the winners!
1. Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy (Prize Citation)
- Winner: Sasha de Vogel, Protest, Mobilization, Concessions, and Policy Change in Autocracies
- Honorable Mention: Killian Clarke, Overthrowing Revolution: The Emergence and Success of Counterrevolution, 1900-2015
Committee members: Chair: Jane Esberg, University of Pennsylvania (jesberg@sas.upenn.edu), Irfan Nooruddin, Georgetown University (in62@georgetown.edu), David Art, Tufts University (david.art@tufts.edu)
2. Best Article Award (Prize Citation)
- Winner: Agustina S. Paglayan for “The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years,” American Political Science Review, 115:1, 2021
- Honorable Mention 1: Pavithra Suryanarayan and Steven White, “Slavery, Reconstruction, and Bureaucratic Capacity in the American South,” American Political Science Review, 115:2, 2021
- Honorable Mention 2: Amy Catalinac and Lucia Motolinia, “Geographically Targeted Spending in Mixed-Member Majoritarian Electoral Systems,” World Politics, 73:4, 2021.
Committee members: Chair: Sharan Grewal, William and Mary (ssgrewal@wm.edu), Matt Graham, George Washington (mattgraham@gwu.edu), Vilde Lunnan Djuve, University of Oslo (v.l.djuve@stv.uio.no)
3. Best Book Award (Prize Citation)
- Winner: Bryn Rosenfeld, The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy (Princeton University Press)
- Honorable Mention: Michael Albertus, Property Without Rights: Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap (Cambridge University Press)
Committee members: Daniel Mattingly, Yale University (daniel.mattingly@yale.edu), Sandra Ley, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) (sandra.ley@cide.edu), Guillermo Trejo, University of Notre Dame (gtrejo@nd.edu)
4. Best Field Work Award (Prize Citation)
- Winner: Kaustav Chakrabarti “Underground Governance: Rules-Based Order by Armed Groups in Northeast India.”
- Honorable Mention 1: Eitan Paul
- Honorable Mention 2: Carolyn Barnett
Committee members: Mashail Malik, Harvard University (mashailmalik@fas.harvard.edu), Alexis Lerner, US Naval Academy (ALerner@usna.edu), Michelle Weitzel, Graduate Institute of Geneva (m.weitzel@unibas.ch)
5. Best Paper Award (Prize Citation)
- Winner: Roya Talibova, for “Repression, Military Service, and Insurrection.”
- Honorable Mention: Dan Mattingly, for “How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign-Domestic Threat Dilemma in China.”
Committee members: Chair: Erin Lin, Ohio State (lin.2657@osu.edu), Nikhar Gaikwad, Columbia University (nikhar.gaikwad@columbia.edu), Noah Zucker, Princeton University (noahzucker@princeton.edu)
To view award winners from past years, please visit our archive.