Department of Government

Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos, and Marshall Ganz have been selected co-winners of the 2007 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for their book WHAT A MIGHTY POWER WE CAN BE: AFRICAN AMERICAN FRATERNAL GROUPS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY (Princeton U Press (2006), presented by the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association.

"Whose Deaths Matter?" by co-authors Daniel P. Carpenter, Harvard University, Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Princeton University, and Marie E. Hojnacki, Pennsylvania State University received the 2007 Elliot Freidson award which is given by the medical sociology section of ASA.

At the upcoming meeting of APSA, September 1 through 3, 2007, Professor Robert Putnam will receive the biennial Charles E. Merriam Award, given to "a person whose published work and career represents a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research."

Torben Iversen and David Soskice are the co-winners of the Luebbert Award for their article "Electoral Systems and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Redistribute More Than Others" (APSR, May 2006). The prize is awarded by the Comparative Politics Section of APSA for the best article in the field of comparative politics published in 2005 or 2006.

Maria Popova (PhD June 2006) will be awarded the APSA's 2007 Edward S. Corwin award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law for her dissertation "Judicial Independence and Political Competition: Electoral and Defamation Disputes in Russia and Ukraine."

Professor James Robinson received:
2007 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for his book Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, awarded by the American Political Science Association for “the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics or international affairs.” 
2007 William Riker Prize for Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, awarded by the American Political Science Association for the best book in political economy published in 2006.
2007 Heinz I. Eulau Award awarded by the American Political Science Association to “Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective” for the best article published in the American Political Science Review in 2006.
2007 Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University to “selected faculty members in recognition of their achievements and scholarship in the fields of “literature, history or art."

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