Awards
- Gary Hollibaugh, a Rochester PhD student, receives the 2011 MPSA Latino Caucus Award for "Neutral Competence or Incompetent Yes-Men? Beyond the Loyalty-Competence Tradeoff." The award is for the best paper presented by a Latino or Latina student at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
- Christian Houle, a faculty member at Trinity College, Dublin, and Rochester PhD student, wins the 2011 Kellogg/Notre Dame award for "Inequality, Economic Development, and Democratization." The award recognizes the best paper in comparative politics delivered at the 2010 conference of the Midwest Political Science Association.
- Professor Richard Niemi receives the University of Rochester's 2010 William H. Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.
- Professor Bonnie Meguid wins the 2010 James B. Christoph Prize for the Best Conference Paper on British Politics presented by a junior faculty member. The prize is for her paper "Institutional Change as Strategy: The Role of Decentralization in Party Competition." It is awarded by the British Politics Group, a related group of the American Political Science Association.
- Professor Bonnie Meguid wins the 2010 Best Book Award of the Council for European Studies for Party Competition between Unequals. The award honors emerging scholars for the best first book on any subject in European studies.
- Professor Gretchen Helmke (with Alex Debs) receives the 2010 Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for the Best Paper in Comparative Politics presented at the 2009 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
- Nicole Asmussen, a Rochester PhD student, receives the 2010 Patrick J. Fett Award for the Best Paper on the Scientific Study of Congress and the Presidency presented at the 2009 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. The award (named in memory of Patrick Fett, who received his PhD from Rochester in 1989) is given to the best paper presented by anyone, faculty member or graduate student, in the field.
- Professor Curtis Signorino, with Rochester PhD alums Muhammet Ali Bas and Robert Walker, wins the 2009 Warren Miller Prize, honoring the best article appearing in Political Analysis. The article is titled “Statistical Backwards Induction: A Simple Method for Estimating Recursive Strategic Models.”
- Professor G. Bingham Powell, Jr., receives the University of Rochester's 2009 Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching.
- Professor Bonnie Meguid wins the 2009 William H. Riker Award, recognizing the best book published in the field of political economy, for her book titled Party Competition between Unequals.
- Professor Bonnie Meguid wins the 2009 Best Book Award presented by the European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association for Party Competition between Unequals.
- Daniel Gillion receives the 2009 Sammy Younge Award for his paper "Knocking on the President's Door." The award, presented by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, recognizes the best paper delivered by a graduate student at the 2008 annual meeting.
- Professor David Primo receives the 2008 Alan Rosenthal Prize for his book Rules and Restraint: Government Spending and the Design of Institutions. The award, presented by the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association, honors the best publication by a young scholar in 2007 that is of importance to legislators and legislative staff and of merit in strengthening the practice of representative democracy.
- Professor Gerald Gamm (with coauthor Thad Kousser) receives the 2008 award for the best paper presented on state politics at any conference in 2007. The award, for the paper titled "Diversity and the Breakdown of Deference: Evidence from District Bills in State Legislatures," is presented by the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.
New Books
- Professor Hein Goemans , with Giacomo Chiozza, has published Leaders and International Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- Professor James Johnson , with Jack Knight, has published The Priority of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2011).
- Professor Randall Stone has published Controlling Institutions: International Organizations and the Global Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- Professor Gretchen Helmke, with Julio Rios-Figueroa, has published a co-edited volume, Courts in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- Professor Richard G. Niemi, with Herbert F. Weisberg and David Kimball, has published Controversies in Voting Behavior, 5th ed. (CQ Press, 2010).
- Professor Bonnie M. Meguid has published Party Competition between Unequals (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
- Professor Richard G. Niemi, with Paul S. Herrnson, Michael J. Hanmer, Benjamin B. Bederson, Frederick C. Conrad, and Michael W. Traugott, has published Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot (Brookings, 2008).
- Professor Richard G. Niemi, with Harold W. Stanley, has published Vital Statistics on American Politics (CQ Press, 2007).
- Professor David Primo has published Rules and Restraint: Government Spending and the Design of Institutions (University of Chicago Press, 2007).
- Professor Richard Fenno, Jr., has published Congressional Travels: Places, Connections, and Authenticity (Longman, 2007).
- Professor William Bluhm, with Robert Heineman, has published Ethics and Public Policy: Method and Cases (Prentice Hall, 2007).