AJPS Best Article Award

A $1,000 award, sponsored by Wiley Blackwell Publishing, for the best article appearing in the volume of the American Journal of Political Science preceding the conference.

Winners: Torun Dewan, London School of Economics and Political Science, and David P. Myatt, University of Oxford
Title: "The Declining Talent Pool of Government" Volume 54, Issue 2, pp. 267-286, April 2010

Award Committee: Raymond Duch, Nuffield College, University of Oxford (Chair); Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Andy Whitford, University of Georgia

Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Award

A $250 award for the best paper, regardless of field or topic, authored by a scholar or scholars who have received their terminal degree(s) no sooner than six years prior to the year of the meeting at which the paper was delivered.

Winner: Elizabeth Albright, Loyola University Chicago
Title: "Policy Change and Policy Learning in a New Democracy: Response to Extreme Floods in Hungary"

Award Committee: Hal G. Rainey, University of Georgia (Chair); Peter C. John, University of Manchester; Michael MacKuen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Best Paper in International Relations

A $250 award for the best paper in international relations.

Winners: Daniel Corstange, University of Maryland, and Nikolay Marinov, Yale University
Title: "Partisan Polarization When Foreigners Intervene in Elections: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Lebanon"

Award Committee: Richard Herrmann, The Ohio State University (Chair); Terrence Chapman, University of Texas, Austin; Terry D. Clark, Creighton University

Best Poster Award

A $250 award for the best poster presentation.

Winners: Alexander C. Tan, University of Canterbury; Nehemia Geva, Texas A&M University; and Belinda Bragg, Texas A&M University
Title: "To Join or Not To Join: An Experimental Study of Small Parties in Coalition Formation"

Award Committee: Heather A. Larsen-Price, University of Memphis (Chair); Frank R. Baumgartner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Jeffrey S. Peake, Bowling Green State University

Best Undergraduate Poster Award

A $250 award for the best poster presented by an undergraduate.

Winner: Jonathan Backer, Columbia University
Title: "Clean Money and Quality Challengers: The Impact of State Legislative Public Financing on Incumbency Advantage"

Award Committee: Fred Slocum, Minnesota State University, Mankato (Chair); Ashley E. Jochim, University of Washington; Christopher Larimer, University of Northern Iowa

Kellogg/Notre Dame Award

A $250 award for the best paper in comparative politics.

Winner: Christian Houle, University of Rochester
Title: "Inequality, Economic Development, and Democratization"

Award Committee: Melanie Manion, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Chair); Leslie Anderson, University of Florida; Cynthia Horne, Western Washington University

Lucius Barker Award

A $250 award for the author or authors of the best paper on a topic investigating race or ethnicity and politics and honoring the spirit and work of Professor Barker.

Winners: Corrine M. McConnaughy, Ohio State University; Ismail K. White, Ohio State University; and Chryl Laird, Ohio State University
Title: "Racial Politics Complicated: The Work of Gendered Race Cues in American Politics"
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Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, University of Rhode Island
Title: "Beyond Democracy's Reach: Latino Segregation and Political Participation"

Award Committee: Mark Q. Sawyer, University of California, Los Angeles (Chair); David L. Leal, University of Texas at Austin; Naomi Murakawa, University of Washington

Patrick J. Fett Award

A $250 award for the best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency.

Winner: Brandon Rottinghaus, University of Houston
Title: "The Role of Active Opinion in Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion"

Award Committee: John Wilkerson, University of Washington (Chair); Richard Fleisher, Fordam University; Tim J. Groseclose, University of California, Los Angeles

Pi Sigma Alpha Award

A $250 award for the best paper delivered at the conference.

Winners: Jeffrey R. Lax, Columbia University, and Justin H. Phillips, Columbia University
Title: "Democratic Performance in the States"

Award Committee: Christopher Wlezien, Temple University (Chair); Matt A. Barreto, University of Washington; William G. Howell, University of Chicago

Review of Politics Award

A $250 award for the best paper in normative political theory.

Winner: William B. Parsons, Carroll College
Title: "Chapter 19 of The Prince: Crime, Christianity, and the Challenge of Moral Flexibility"

Award Committee: Lorraine Pangle, University of Texas, Austin (Chair); Robert Grafstein, University of Georgia; Mika LaVaque-Manty, University of Michigan

Robert H. Durr Award

A $250 award for the best paper applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem in political science.

Winners: Rachel V. Cobb, Suffolk University; D. James Greiner, Harvard Law School; and Kevin M. Quinn, University of California Berkeley School of Law
Title: "Can Voter ID Laws Be Administered in a Race-Neutral Manner? Evidence from the City of Boston in 2008"

Award Committee: Marco Robert Steenbergen, University of Bern (Chair); Patrick Brandt, University of Texas, Dallas; J. Kevin Corder, Western Michigan University

Sophonisba Breckinridge Award

A $250 award for the best paper delivered on the topic of women and politics.

Winner: Lana Obradovic, East Asia International College, Yonsei University
Title: "Being All She Can Be: Gender Integration in NATO Military Forces"

Award Committee: Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame (Chair); Amy G. Mazur, Washington State University; Kathryn L. Pearson, University of Minnesota

Westview Press Award

A $250 award for the best paper delivered by a graduate student.

Winner: John Hudak, Vanderbilt University
Title: "The Politics of Federal Grants: Presidential Influence Over the Distribution of Federal Funds"

Award Committee: Beth Leech, Rutgers University (Chair); Benjamin B. Smith, University of Florida; Ishmail White, The Ohio State University