Press authors take home 26 APSA awards

The American Political Science Association (APSA) has recognized 24 Press titles for awards at its 2019 Annual Meeting.

Highlights include Poor Representation: Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the United States by Kristina C. Miller, selected for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, given annually for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy by Daniel Ziblatt was also selected for this award in 2018.

Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France by David A. Bateman and Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities by Jessica Trounstine were also both selected as co-winners of the J. David Greenstone Book Award, Politics and History Section. Segregation by Design was also selected as the Ethnicity and Politics Section Best Book in Race, Ethnicity, and Urban Politics.

Other winners from the Press include:

Don K. Price Award, Science, Technology and Environmental Section

Scientific Cosmology and International Orders

Law and Courts Lasting Contribution Award

The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law Politics and Economic Development in Egypt

Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section and Best Book Award, Political Networks (Honorable Mention)

Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America

C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section

Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race

The DNA of Constitutional Justice in Latin America: Politics, Governance, and Judicial Design

Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award

Spending to Win: Political Institutions, Economic Geography, and Government Subsidies

Best Book Award, European Politics and Society Section

Close to Home: Local Ties and Voting Radical Right in Europe

Best Book Award, Comparative Democratization

Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America

Alan Rosenthal Prize, Legislative Studies Section

Party Institutionalization and Women’s Representation in Democratic Brazil

Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section

The Political Value of Time: Citizenship, Duration, and Democratic Justice

Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section

Honorable Mention: Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change

First Book Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section

Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence

Lee Ann Fujii Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence

Resilient Communities: Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War

Charles Taylor Book Award

The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11

Best Book Award, Political Networks Section

The Islamic State in Britain: Radicalization and Resilience in an Activist Network

Dennis Judd Best Book Award APSA Urban and Local Politics Section

Honorable Mention: The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities

Virginia Gray Best Book Award, APSA State Politics and Policy Section

Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics

Diplomatic Studies Section Book Award

America's Middlemen: Power at the Edge of Empire

Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations Martha Derthick Book Award

The Robust Federation: Principles of Design

Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section Giovanni Sartori Book Award

Votes for Survival: Relational Clientelism in Latin America

Ethnicity and Politics Section Best Book in Race, Ethnicity, and Political Behavior

The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America

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