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Alumnus Nirvikar Jassal won the Sage Best Paper Prize from the Comparative Politics Section of APSA. His dissertation committee includes Professor Pradeep Chhibber (Co-Chair), Professor Alison Post (Co-Chair), Professor Cecilia Mo, Professor Joel Middleton, Professor Supreet Anand (Economics), and Professor Janaki Bakhle (History). The Sage Paper Award is awarded to the best paper in comparative politics presented at the previous APSA annual meeting.

Alumnus Christopher Carter has won the 2020 Best Fieldwork Prize from the Democracy and Autocracy Section of APSA. His dissertation committee includes Professor Thad Dunning (Chair), Professor Ruth Collier, Professor Alison Post, and Professor Noam Yuchtman (Business). This award is given to the best dissertation on democratization and/or the development and dynamics of democracy and authoritarianism.

Jennifer Bussell has received the Giovanni Sartori Book Award 2020 from APSA's Qualitative and Mixed Methods Section for her wonderful book, Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies (Oxford University Press). This award honors Giovanni Sartori's work on qualitative methods and concept formation, and especially his contribution to helping scholars think about problems of context as they refine concepts and apply them to new...

This year the UC Berkeley Department of Political Science was unable to hold our spring commencement ceremony. Our commencement events honor the hardwork and dedication our gradautes put into to completing their degrees. Unsure when we will be able to hold our next commencement, the Deparmtne decided to put create a 2020 Virtual Yearbook to celebrate our undergraduate class of 2020. We're excited to share...

Our alumna, Jody LaPorte, who is currently at the University of Oxford, has won the Alexander George Award for the best article developing or applying qualitative methods published in 2019 from APSA's Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section. Her article (co-authored with Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos) “Process Tracing and the Problem of Missing Data" was selected.

Professor Amy Lerman's book Good Enough for Government Work: The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It) (University of Chicago Press) has won not one, but two best book awards--the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for best book on government, politics and international affairs and the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for best book un US national policy from the American...

Guadalupe Tuñón, who received her Ph.D. in 2019 from the political science department at Berkeley, has won the Mancur Olson prize for best dissertation from the Political Economy section of the American Political Science Association 2020. Tuñón’s dissertation studies the causes and consequences of progressive religion, especially how alliances between progressive leaders in the Catholic Church and left parties have shaped national politics in Latin...

Professor Thad Dunning and Professor Susan Hyde's (and Grossman, Humphreys, Hyde, McIntosh, and Nellis') book titled Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I , has been selected as the winner of the 2019 Best Book in Experimental Research by the Experimental Research Section of APSA. The book is a landmark contribution in the methodology of experimental research and provides a new template for...