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AWARDS Professor Valeria Sinclair-Chapman receives the 2007 Ralph Bunche Award for her book Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism (coauthored with Fredrick Harris and Brian McKenzie). The award, presented by the American Political Science Association, is given to the best book published each year on the subject of "ethnic and cultural pluralism." Professor Richard Niemi was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He will be inducted into the Academy in October 2007. Other department members of the Academy are Professors Richard Fenno and G. Bingham Powell. Professor James Johnson receives the 2007 Alexander George Award for his article, "Consequences of Positivism: A Pragmatist Assessment," which was published in 2006 in Comparative Political Studies. The award, presented by the Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association, is given to the best article or book chapter published in 2006 that develops or applies qualitative methods in political science. Professor Gerald Gamm (with coauthor Thad Kousser) receives the 2007 award for the best paper presented on state politics and policy at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. The award, for the paper titled "Localism and Factionalism in American State Legislatures," is presented by the State Politics and Policy Section of the Association. Professor Mark Kayser (with coauthor Chris Wlezien) receives the 2007 award for the best paper presented on European politics and society at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. The award, for the paper titled "Performance Pressure: Patterns of Partisanship and the Economic Vote," is presented by the European Politics and Society Section of the Association. Arthur Spirling receives the 2007 John Williams Award, presented by the Society for Political Methodology for the best dissertation prospectus in the field. Matthew Platt received the Sammy Younge best paper award at the 2007 meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, given for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the previous year's conference. Matthew won the award for his paper entitled "Participation for What? The Relationship between Black Participation and Agenda Setting." David Carter received the 2006 Stuart A. Bremer Award for the best graduate student paper, "Strategic Consolidation of Disputed Territory," given at the 2006 Peace Science Society meeting. Professor Valeria Sinclair-Chapman (with Fredrick Harris and Brian McKenzie) received the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Outstanding Book Award. The award, for their book Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994, is given by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Professor John Duggan received the 2006 Social Choice and Welfare Prize. This prize is made in alternate years by the Society for Choice and Welfare "to a scholar, who is not more than 40 years of age, for outstanding research" in the field. Professor Duggan will receive the award and deliver a lecture at the annual meeting of the society in Istanbul in July 2006.
Professor Richard G. Niemi, with Harold W. Stanley, has published Vital Statistics on American Politics (CQ Press, 2007; Online edition, 2008).
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).
Professor Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, with Fredrick Harris and Brian McKenzie, has published Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994 (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Professor Gretchen Helmke has published Courts Under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina (Cambridge University Press, 2004). |
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