Professor Thad Dunning received the 2013 APSA Best Book award for his book, Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, October 2012). This award recognizes the best book published in 2012 that either uses or is about experimental research methods in the study of politics.
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Sean Gailmard received the 2013 William H. Riker book award for his book, Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch (University of Chicago Press, 2012). The Best Book Award, named for William H. Riker, is given for the best book on political economy published during the past three calendar years.
Aila Matanock received the Helen Dwight Reid Award which recognizes the best doctoral dissertation in the field of international relations, law, and politics. Professor Matanock's "International Insurance: Why Militant Groups and Governments Compete with Ballots Instead of Bullets," (at Stanford University) asks an interesting and timely question: What are the conditions under which militant groups will participate in post-conflict elections, forming political parties instead of...
PhD candidate Lindsay Mayka wins the 2013 LASA/Oxfam America MARTIN DISKIN dissertation award. Read more about it here: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/awards/diskin_dissertation.asp
Congratulations to Professor Shannon Stimson who won the David and Elaine Spitz award for the best book published in democratic and liberal theory in 2011.
With pride and enthusiasm, The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science welcomes four new faculty members to our program. Jennifer Bussell studies comparative politics with an emphasis on the political economy of development and governance, principally in South Asia and Africa. Her research considers the effects of formal and informal institutions – such as corruption, coalition politics, and federalism – on policy outcomes...
Professor Wendy Brown receives the David Easton Award through the APSA Foundations of Political Thought Organized Section for her book, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty.
Professor Sean Gailmard is the recipient of APSA's William H. Riker Book Award for 2013. This award is presented to the author of the best book on political economy published during the past three calendar years. We congratulate Professor Gailmard on his work on Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
David Vogel's recent book, The Politics of Precaution received the 2012 Best Book award from the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management.