Awards

We congratulate all the winners of awards at the 2025 meeting of APSA’s Experimental Research Section!  Please find the prize winners below, together with the award committees.

Best Dissertation Defended in 2024

Winner: Natán Skigin, Harvard University: “Challenging Stigma from Below: How Human Rights Movements Contest Repressive States and Shape Democratic Citizenship.”

Award committee: Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, Lotem Bassan-Nygate, Salma Mousa

Best Paper Presented at APSA in 2024

Winners: Priyadarshi Amar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sumitra Badrinathan, American University, Simon Chauchard, University Carlos III Madrid, Florian Sichart, Princeton University: “Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India.”

Award committee: Lauren Prather, Naoki Egami, David Romney

Best Book Published in 2024

Winner: William G. Nomikos, Local Peace, International Builders: How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace from the Bottom Up

Award committee: Jonathan Ladd, Adam Auerbach, Matt Graham

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

2025 Rebecca Morton Award (for best article published in the Journal of Experimental Political Science)

Winner: Frederico Batista Pereira, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Natália S. Bueno, Emory University, Felipe Nunes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Nara Pavão, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco: “Inoculation Reduces Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from Multidimensional Interventions in Brazil.”

Best JEPS Article with a Preregistration Award

Winner: D.G. Kim, Harvard University: “The Politicization of COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Racism in the United States: An Experimental Approach.”

Best New Replication Paper

Winner: Rafael Ahlskog, Uppsala University: “It Matters What and Where We Measure: Education and Ideology in a Swedish Twin Design.”

Committee for the three JEPS awards: Jenn Jerit, Scott Clifford, Bert Bakker

Best Public Service in 2024 (prize given for promotion of research partnerships that foster experimental research)

Winner:

Committee: Amy Lerman, Adam Levine, Eddy Malesky

• • Rebecca Morton Award for Best JEPS Article (before 2020, “Best JEPS Article”)
    • 2024 – Catie Snow Bailard, Matthew Graham, Kimberly Gross, Ethan Porter, Rebekah Tromble, “Combating Hateful Attitudes and Online Browsing Behavior: The Case of Antisemitism”
    • 2023 – 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.”
    • 2022 – Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner, and Nicholas Sambanis, “Linguistic Assimilation Does Not Reduce Discrimination Against Immigrants: Evidence from Germany”
    • 2021 – Florian Foos and Fabrizio Dilardi, “Does Exposure to Gender Role Models Increase Women’s Political Ambition? A Field Experiment with Politicians”

    • 2020 – 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
    • 2024 – Love Christensen, “Optimal Persuasion Under Confirmation Bias: Theory an Evidence From a Registered Report”
    • 2023 – Brendan Apfeld, Emanuel Coman, John Gerring, and Stephen Jessee, “Education and Social Capital.”
    • 2022 – 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”
    • 2021 – 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
    • 2024 – Bruno Silva, Fabian Neuner, and Christopher Wratil, “Populism and Candidate Support in the US: The Effects of ‘Thin’ and ‘Host’ Ideology”
    • 2022 – Chris Dawes and James Zink, “Is ‘Constitutional Veneration’ An Obstable to Constitutional Amendment?”
    • 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
    • 2023 – Adam Michael Auerbach, Tariq Thachil, Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness
    • 2023 – Grame Blair, Alex Coppock, Macartan Humphreys, Declare Design: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign
    • 2022 – Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner, Gwyneth McClendon, Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants
    • 2022 – Jamie Druckman, Experimental Thinking: A Primer on Social Science Experiments
    • 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
    • 2024 – Naoki Egami, Diana Dee In Lee, “Designing Multi-Site Studies for External Validity: Site Selection via Synthetic Purposive Sampling”
    • 2023 – Chagai Weiss, Shira Ran, Eran Halperin, “Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Field Experiments in Israel Show that Education Programs That Broach Sensitive Topics Can Reduce Prejudice.”
    • 2022 – Rajeshwari Majumdar, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua Tucker, Richard Bonneau, “Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp.”
    • 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
    • 2024 – Lotem Bassan-Nygate, “Who is Watching? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism”
    • 2023 – Love Christensen, “Uncertainty and Persuasion – Essays on Behavioral Political Economy.”
    • 2022 – Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, “Paving the way for the rise of outsiders: Candidate and voter behavior in an era of political disillusionment.”
    • 2022 – Erin Rossiter, “Three Papers on Interpersonal Communication.”
    • 2022 – Anna Wilke, “Essays on the Politics of Maintaining Order.”
    • 2021 – Tara Slough, “Essays on the Distributive Politics of Bureaucracy”
    • 2020 – Kyle Peyton, “Experiments on Legitimacy and Intergroup Relations: Policing, Trust, and Prejudice in the United States” 
    • 2019 – Adam Zelizer, Legislating While Learning: How Staff Briefings, Cue-Taking, and Deliberation Help Legislators Take Policy Positions
    • 2018 – Saad Gulzar, Essays on the Political Economy of Development in South Asia
    • 2018 – Pia Raffler, Information, Accountability, and Elite Political Behavior
    • 2017 – Alex Coppock, Positive, Small, Homogenous, and Durable: Political Persuasion in Response to Political Information 
    • 2016 – Eun Bin Chung, Overcoming the History Problem – Group Affirmation in International Relations
    • 2015 – 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