Awards

We congratulate all the winners of awards at the 2023 meeting of APSA’s Experimental Research Section! Please find the prize winners below, together with the award committees.

Best Dissertation Defended in 2022

Winner: Love Christensen (Arhus), “Uncertainty and Persuasion – Essays on Behavioral Political Economy.”

Award committee:

Natalia Garbiras-Diaz (EUI) – ngarbirasdiaz@hbs.edu

Anna Wilke (Wash U) – wanna@wustl.edu

Erin Rossiter (Notre Dame) – erossite@nd.edu

Best Paper Presented at APSA in 2022

Co-winners:

Chagai Weiss (Stanford), “Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Field Experiments in Israel Show that Education Programs That Broach Sensitive Topics Can Reduce Prejudice.”
Shira Ran (Hebrew U), “Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Field Experiments in Israel Show that Education Programs That Broach Sensitive Topics Can Reduce Prejudice.”
Eran Halperin (Hebrew U), “Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Field Experiments in Israel Show that Education Programs That Broach Sensitive Topics Can Reduce Prejudice.”
Rajeshwari Majumdar (NYU), “Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp.”
Jonathan Nagler (NYU), “Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp.”
Joshua Tucker (NYU), “Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp.”
Richard Bonneau (NYU), “Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp.”

Award committee:

Nicholas Haas (Arhus) – nick.haas@ps.au.dk

Emmy Lindstam (Madrid) – emmy.lindstam@ie.edu

Nicholas Sambanis (Penn) – sambanis@upenn.edu

Best Book Published in 2022

Co-winners:

Danny Choi (Brown), Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants.
Mathias Poertner (LSA), Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants.
Gwyneth McClendon (NYU), Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants.
Jamie Druckman (Northwestern), Experimental Thinking: A Primer on Social Science Experiments.

Award committee:

Jose Villalobos (UT El Paso) – jdvillalobos2@utep.edu

Cigdem Sirin (UT El Paso) – cigdemsirin@utep.edu

Marzia Oceno (Florida International) – moceno@fiu.edu

Three awards for papers in the Journal of Experimental Political Science (JEPS):

2022 Rebecca Morton Award (for best article published Journal of Experimental Political Science)

Winner: Benjamin A. Lyons, Christina Farhart, Michael Hall, John Kotcher, Matthew Levendusky, Joanne Miller, Brendan Nyhan, Kaitlin Raimi, Jason Reifler, Kyle Saunders, Rasmus Skytte, and Xiaoquan Zhao, “The Study of Self-Affirmation and Identity-Driven Behavior.”

Best Paper based on a Pre-Analysis Plan published in JEPS in 2022

Winner: Brendan Apfeld, Emanuel Coman, John Gerring, and Stephen Jessee, “Education and Social Capital.”

Best Replication in JEPS in 2022

Winner: Chris Dawes and James Zink, “Is ‘Constitutional Veneration’ An Obstable to Constitutional Amendment?”

Committee for the three JEPS awards:

Jenn Jerit (Dartmouth) – Jennifer.L.Jerit@dartmouth.edu

Scott Clifford (Houston) – scottaclifford@gmail.com

Bert Bakker (Arhus) – B.N.Bakker@uva.nl

Best Public Service in 2022 (prize given for promotion of research partnerships that foster experimental research)

Winner: Linda Stern (Director, Global Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning at NDI)

Committee:

Alex Hartman (University College London) – alexandra.hartman@ucl.ac.uk

Ana de la O (Yale) – ana.delao@yale.edu

Peter Van Der Windy (NYU Abu Dhabi) — petervanderwindt@nyu.edu

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Past winners include:

- Rebecca Morton Award for Best JEPS Article (before 2020, “Best JEPS Article”)
  - 2021 – Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner, and Nicholas Sambanis, “Linguistic Assimilation Does Not Reduce Discrimination Against Immigrants: Evidence from Germany”
  - 2020 – Florian Foos and Fabrizio Dilardi, “Does Exposure to Gender Role Models Increase Women’s Political Ambition? A Field Experiment with Politicians”
  - 2019 – Yue Hou, Kai Quek, “Violence Exposure and Support for State Use of Force in a Non-Democracy”

- Award for Best Article with a Pre-registration in JEPS
  - 2021 – James N. Druckman, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Matthew Levendusky, and John Barry Ryan, “How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans’ Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic”
  - 2020 – Daniel J. Hopkins, Cheryl R. Kaiser, Efrén O. Pérez, Sara Hagá, Corin Ramos, Michael Zárate, “Does Perceiving Discrimination Influence Partisanship among U.S. Immigrant Minorities? Evidence from Five Experiments”
- Award for Best Replication Article in JEPS
  - 2021 – Jared McDonald and James Igoe Walsh, “The Costs of Conflict and Support for the Use of Force: Accounting for Information Equivalence in Survey Experiments”
  - 2020 – Costas Panagopoulos and Kendall Bailey, “‘Friends-and-Neighbors’ Mobilization: A Field Experimental Replication and Extension.”
- Best Book Award
  - 2021 – James N. Druckman and Donald P. Green, Advances in Experimental Political Science
  - 2021 – Cigdem Sirin, Nicholas Valentino, and Jose Villalobos, Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy
  - 2020 – Ana Bracic, Breaking the Exclusion Cycle: How to Promote Cooperation between Majority and Minority Ethnic Groups
  - 2019 – Thad Dunning, Guy Grossmann, Macartan Humphreys, Susan D. Hyde, Craig McIntosh, Gareth Nellis , “Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I”
  - 2018 – Jaime Settle, Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America
  - 2017 – Vin Arceneaux and Ryan Vander Wielen, Taming Intuition: How Reflection Minimizes Partisan Reasoning and Promotes Democratic Accountability
  - 2017 – Ryan Enos, The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics
  - 2016 – Samara Klar and Yanna Krupnikov, Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Political Parties Leads to Political Inaction
  - 2015 – Adam Seth Levine, American Insecurity: Why our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction
  - 2014 – Daniel Butler, Representing the Advantaged: How Politicians Reinforce Inequality
  - 2014 – Christopher Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg, The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions
  - 2013 – Thad Dunning, Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences: A Design-Based Approach
  - 2013 – Alan Gerber and Don Green, Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation
  - 2012 – Jamie Druckman, Don Green, James Kuklinski, and Arthur Lupia, The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science
  - 2010 – Rebecca Morton and Kenneth Williams, From Nature to the Lab: The Methodology of Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality
- Award for Best Paper Presented at Previous Year’s APSA Conference
  - 2020-Robert A. Blair, Manuel Moscoso, Andres Vargas Castillo, Michael Weintraub, “After Rebel Governance: A Field
    Experiment in Security and Justice Provision in Rural Colombia”
  - 2020- Mathias Poertner, “Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico” (Honorable mention)
  - 2019- Salma Mousa, “Creating Coexistence: Intergroup Contact and Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq.”
  - 2018 – Pia Raffler, Daniel Posner, and Doug Parkerson, “The Weakness of Bottom-Up Accountability: Experimental Evidence from the Ugandan Health Sector”
  - 2017 – Guy Grossman and Kristin Michelitch, “Information Dissemination, Competitive Pressure, and Politician Performance Between Elections: A Field Experiment in Uganda”
  - 2016 – David Doherty, Conor Dowling, and Michael Miller, “The Effects of Candidate Race and Gender on Party Chairs’ Assessments of Electoral Viability”
  - 2015 – David Broockman and Daniel Butler, “The Causal Effects of Elite Position-Taking on Voter Attitudes: Field Experiments with Elite Communication”
  - 2014 – Thomas Leeper and Kevin Mullinex, “What If You Had Done Things Differently? Testing The Generalizability Of Framing Effects With Parallel Experiments”
  - 2012 – Jennifer Jerit, Jason Barabas, and Scott Clifford, “Comparing Treatment Effects in Parallel Experiments”
- Award for Best Dissertation
  - 2020 – Tara Slough, “Essays on the Distributive Politics of Bureaucracy”
  - 2019 – Kyle Peyton, “Experiments on Legitimacy and Intergroup Relations: Policing, Trust, and Prejudice in the United States”
  - 2018 – Adam Zelizer, Legislating While Learning: How Staff Briefings, Cue-Taking, and Deliberation Help Legislators Take Policy Positions
  - 2017 – Saad Gulzar, Essays on the Political Economy of Development in South Asia
  - 2017 – Pia Raffler, Information, Accountability, and Elite Political Behavior
  - 2016 – Alex Coppock, Positive, Small, Homogenous, and Durable: Political Persuasion in Response to Political Information
  - 2015 – Eun Bin Chung, Overcoming the History Problem – Group Affirmation in International Relations
  - 2014 – Meredith Sadin, A Wealth of Ambivalence: How Stereotypes About The Rich Matter For Political Attitudes and Candidate Choice
  - 2012 – Dan Myers, Information Use in Small Group Deliberation
- Award for Best Public Service
  - 2020 – David Yokum, The Policy Lab, Brown University
  - 2019 -Page Gardner, Voter Participation Center (VPC)
  - 2018 – Rebecca Wolfe, University of Chicago
  - 2017 – Matt Morison, Working America
  - 2016 – Kelly Bidwell, OES
  - 2015 – David Fleischer, Leadership Lab of the Los Angeles LGBT Center
  - 2014 – Warren Slocum, San Mateo County Board of Supervisors