Nominations for section awards are due to award committee members by April 15, 2022; self-nominations are welcome. Here are the award committee members:
Best Dissertation Defended in 2021
Graeme Blair (UCLA, chair) – graeme.blair@ucla.edu
Josh Kalla (Yale) – josh.kalla@yale.edu)
Tara Slough (NYU) – tara.slough@nyu.edu)
Best Paper Presented at APSA in 2021
Robert Blair (Brown, chair) – robert_blair@brown.edu
Mathias Poertner (LSE) – m.poertner@lse.ac.uk
Kris-Stella Trump (Memphis) – ktrump@memphis.edu
Best Book Published in 2021
Ana Bracic (Michigan State) – bracic@msu.edu
Yue Hou (Penn) – yuehou@sas.upenn.edu
Three awards for papers in the Journal of Experimental Political Science:
- Rebecca Morton Award for Best JEPS Article in 2021
- Best PAP-Based Paper in JEPS in 2021
- Best Replication in JEPS in 2021
Kevin (Vin) Arceneaux (Sciences Po-Paris, chair) – kevin.arceneaux@sciencespo.fr
Sarah Bush (Yale) – sarah.bush@yale.edu
Jaime Settle (William & Mary) – jsettle@wm.edu
Best Public Service in 2021
David Yokum (The Policy Lab, Brown) – david_yokum@brown.edu
Ana de la O (Yale) – ana.delao@yale.edu
Dan Rubenson (Ryerson) — rubenson@ryerson.ca
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- Rebecca Morton Award for Best JEPS Article (before 2020, “Best JEPS Article”)
- 2020- Florian Foos and Fabrizio Dilardi, “Does Exposure to Gender Role Models Increase Women’s Political Ambition? A Field Experiment with Politicians”
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2019 –Yue Hou, Kai Quek, – “Violence Exposure and Support for State Use of Force in a Non-Democracy”
- Rebecca Morton Award for Best JEPS Article (before 2020, “Best JEPS Article”)
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- Award for Best Article with a Pre-registration in JEPS
- 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 Article with a Pre-registration in JEPS
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- Award for Best Replication Article in JEPS
- 2020 – Costas Panagopoulos and Kendall Bailey – “‘Friends-and-Neighbors’ Mobilization: A Field Experimental Replication and Extension.”
- 2020 – Costas Panagopoulos and Kendall Bailey – “‘Friends-and-Neighbors’ Mobilization: A Field Experimental Replication and Extension.”
- Best Book Award
- 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 Replication Article in JEPS
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- 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)
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2019- Salma Mousa, – “Creating Coexistence: Intergroup Contact and Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq.”
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2018 – Pia Raffler, Daniel Posner, and Doug Parkerson – “The Weakness of Bottom-Up Accountability: Experimental Evidence from the Ugandan Health Sector”
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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”
- 2020-Robert A. Blair, Manuel Moscoso, Andres Vargas Castillo, Michael Weintraub – “After Rebel Governance: A Field
- Award for Best Paper Presented at Previous Year’s APSA Conference
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- 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 Dissertation
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- 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
- Award for Best Public Service