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Phd alum, nicholas kuipers, wins apsa dissertation award.

The department is happy to share that recent Ph.D. Nicholas Kuipers won the 2023 Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award from APSA’s Political Economy section. Please join us in congratulating Nicholas on this wonderful achievement.

You can see him and the other 2023 award winners here,  https://www.apsanet.org/STAFF/Staff-Page-dev/Membership-Workspace/Organized-Sections/Organized-Section-Awards/Organized-Section-Awards/Section-25#dissertation .

Double win at APSA Awards

Professor of Government Dustin Tingley and PhD alumni Harry Oppenheimer have both been named American Political Science Association (APSA) award winners for their fantastic respective work.

Dustin Tingley and his co-author Alexander F. Gazmararian – a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University – have been awarded the APSA STEP Section Don K. Price Award for their book “Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse (The Politics of Climate Change)” .

The book asks why the world is not moving fast enough to solve the climate crisis, and proposes solutions to make more credible promises that build support for the energy transition. It examines the perspectives of workers, communities, and companies, arguing that the climate impasse is best understood by viewing the problem from the ground up.

With 14 other remarkable books nominated, Dustin and Alex’s work stood out. The selection committee was impressed by the book’s strength in carefully triangulating a comprehensive analysis across a wide-range of diverse data to generate theoretical advancements and highlight actionable insights to overcome the political and social barriers impeding progress.

The selection committee feedback highlighted the authors’ diligence in “combining sound theory along with multiple data sources and sharp analyses [which] boosts our confidence in the proposed actionable steps. They are clear on what key stakeholders at the center of the climate debate should do going forward.” Moreover, the book was independently nominated by multiple scholars for its excellence. Per one nominee, the book “offers by far the most ambitious, theoretically rigorous, and empirically careful solution to the puzzle of political unwillingness to address climate change.”

Harry Oppenheimer , class of 2023, was awarded the APSA International Collaboration Section’s 2024 Best Dissertation Award for his work titled “Essays on Digital Interdependence and Globalization” .

His dissertation presents three papers on the interaction between international security and digital interdependence, intending to deepen our understanding of digital globalization, cybersecurity, weaponized interdependence, and the impact of international security on global networks.

The first paper theorizes that digital interdependence creates security externalities and tests whether international security influences how networks route data between borders. The second addresses how weaponized interdependence affects digital globalization and openness. Similar to economic openness, private actors shape digital openness by agreeing to send data directly to networks in other states. The final paper argues that digital interdependence creates incentives to cooperate through state-building with targeted developmental assistance. It examines how states develop cybersecurity strategies, either by delegating cyber responsibilities to political and security bureaucracies or by delegating security responsibilities to information technology bureaucracies.

The International Collaboration (IC) Section of APSA works to promote and disseminate research in and teaching of all facets of international collaboration and to encourage the interchange of ideas about international collaboration within the IC Section, and with our disciplines, practitioners, and interested persons. The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on international collaboration for a PhD awarded in the calendar year 2023 and was determined by a panel comprised of professors from Texas A&M University, Wellesley College, and Royal Holloway – University of London.

Harry is currently a postdoctoral fellow in technology and international security at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) based in Washington, D.C. He will however be starting as an assistant professor at the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy this year.

Goyal & Wang awarded Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award from APSA

Tanushree Goyal, an incoming faculty member in comparative politics who will start as an assistant professor this fall, received the Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in political economy.

Politics PhD alum Erik Wang, who is currently a lecturer (assistant professor equivalent) at Australian National University, also received the award for his dissertation "Leviathan's Paradox? State Capacity and the Fight Against Corruption in China."

Rikio Inouye receives the Best Paper for the Foreign Policy Section at APSA

Gary Bass's book on list for two prestigious book prizes

Chuck Cameron and John Kastellec's book won the Richard E. Neustadt Book Award

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Mccarthy receives best dissertation award from apsa.

Lauren McCarthy, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, has received the Edwin S. Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law.

Her dissertation, "Trafficking (In)justice: Law Enforcement's Response to Human Trafficking in Russia" looks at the implementation of laws against human trafficking in Russia by law enforcement officials. It finds that "Russian law enforcement agents are prosecuting human traffickers , but not human trafficking."

The award, given through the American Political Science Association and named in honor of former American Political Science Association President Edward S. Corwin, is awarded annually to the top dissertation in the field of public law, "broadly defined to include the judicial process, judicial behavior, judicial biography, courts, law, legal systems, the American constitutional system, civil liberties, or any other substantial area, or any work which deals in a significant fashion with a topic related to or having substantial impact on the American Constitution." 

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Hoover’s Michael Hartney Wins the American Political Science Association’s Award for Best Book on Education Politics and Policy

Michael Hartney, the Bruni Family Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the 2024 recipient of the American Political Science Association (APSA) prize for the best book on education politics, a prize awarded annually by APSA’s Education Politics and Policy Section.

Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) – Michael Hartney , the Bruni Family Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the 2024 recipient of the American Political Science Association (APSA) prize for the best book on education politics, a prize awarded annually by APSA’s Education Politics and Policy Section.

At APSA’s 120th Annual Conference , which took place September 5–8, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hartney was recognized for his first book, How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, and Education (University of Chicago Press), which critically assesses the power and influence of teachers’ unions in American politics and education. APSA’s Education Politics and Policy Section award committee unanimously and enthusiastically selected Hartney’s monograph for its top prize in a crowded field that included fifteen other books.

How Policies Make Interest Groups showcases how the decision to give collective bargaining rights to teachers fundamentally altered the balance of power in American public education, moving it in a decidedly pro-union direction. The consequences of this momentous decision, Hartney shows, have been enormous.

Since the early 1980s, a bipartisan group of reformers has sought to improve American education by pushing for greater school choice and accountability. However, since these proposals threaten the power of teachers’ unions (e.g., lost funding and jobs), Hartney shows, the unions have successfully used their government-granted power to resist reform.

The upshot is an education system that today is mired in mediocrity and lacking dynamism—a reality that became all too clear during the height of the COVID pandemic, when many unions used their influence to delay reopening schools, a decision shown to be partly responsible for widespread learning loss.

Hartney is an associate professor in the department of political science at Boston College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He is also a research affiliate at Harvard University’s Program on Education Policy and Governance and a previous W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at Hoover (2020–21). He earned his PhD from the University of Notre Dame and his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University.

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Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award

The Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on European politics and society completed in 2023.  Deadline for nominations : March 15, 2024

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Best book published on European politics in 2023.  Deadline for nominations:  March 15, 2024

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Best paper on European politics presented at APSA 2023.  Deadline for nominations: March 15, 2024

Best Article Award

The Best Article Award is given for the best article dealing with European politics and society published in 2023. Deadline for nominations : March 15, 2024

Peter Mair Travel Award

Awards up to two travel funds annually to enable young scholars to attend the APSA meeting. Named in memory of Professor Peter Mair, one of the foremost scholars of European politics, the award is meant explicitly to enable young scholars of European politics without alternative funding to present a paper in one of the panels organized by the EPS section. First-time APSA attendants who are graduate students or junior professors from underfunded European universities (notably in the East and South) are prioritized, but senior scholars from such institutions as well as junior scholars from underfunded non-European universities (including the US) are also considered. Applicants are expected to also apply to all other travel funds they are eligible for, including their department/university, national science foundations, and the APSA Travel Fund. The awards are set at a maximum of $1,000 each, but partial/matching funding is possible too. Deadline for nominations:  3 weeks after Annual Meeting acceptances go out

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