Awards

Nominations for section awards are due to committee members by May 1, 2021; self-nominations are welcome

Best Dissertation Defended in 2020

Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth) (committee chair) nyhan@dartmouth.edu
Tesalia Rizzo (UC Merced) trizzo@ucmerced.edu
Darin Christensen (UCLA) darinc@luskin.ucla.edu

Best Paper Presented at APSA in 2020

Alex Theodoridis (U. Mass Amherst) (committee chair) atheodoridis@umass.edu
Salma Mousa (Stanford/Yale) smousa@stanford.edu
Lucy Martin (UNC-Chapel Hill) lucy.martin@unc.edu

Best Book Published in 2020

Evan Lieberman (MIT) (committee chair) evanlieb@mit.edu
Samara Klar (University of Arizona) klar@arizona.edu
Gareth Nellis (UCSD) gnellis@ucsd.edu

Rebecca Morton Award for Best JEPS Article in 2020 
Best PAP-based Paper in JEPS in 2020

Best Replication in JEPS in 2020

Kevin Arceneaux (Sciences-Po, Paris) (committee chair) kevin.arceneaux@temple.edu
Bert Bakker (University of Amsterdam) B.N.Bakker@uva.nl
Cheryl Boudreau (UC Davis) clboudreau@ucdavis.edu

Best Public Service in 2020

Dan Hopkins (University of Pennsylvania) (committee chair) danhop@sas.upenn.edu
Page Gardner (Voter Participation Center) pagegardner@gmail.com
Guy Grossman (University of Pennsylvania) ggros@sas.upenn.edu

• • Best Paper
    • 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”
  • Best Dissertation
    • 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
  • Best Book
    • 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
  • Public Service
    • 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
  • Best JEPS Article
    • 2019 –Yue Hou, Kai Quek, – “Violence Exposure and Support for State Use of Force in a Non-Democracy”

  Past committee members include:

  1. 1. Best Paper: Pia Raffler (Chair), Harvard University; Thomas Leeper, Facebook/LSE; Dominik Duell, Essex University.
     2. Best Dissertation: Kristin Michelitch (Chair), Vanderbilt University; Alexander Coppock, Yale University; Saad Gulzar, Stanford University.
     3. Best Book: Jaime Settle (Chair), College of William & Mary; Kevin Esterling, UC Riverside; Laura Paler, University of Pittsburgh.
     4. Public Service: Rebecca Wolfe (Chair), University of Chicago; Morgan Holmes, USAID; Adam Levine, Cornell University.
     5. Best JEPS Article: Kevin Arceneaux (Chair), Temple University; Daniel Rubenson, Ryerson University; Liz Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University.