Awards and History

CUMULATIVE LISTING 0F SECTION OFFICERS

Section 23 Awards Archive

2012 Award Nominations Information

Please note that publishers cannot nominate books for the book award. Nominations must be received from authors or other scholars.

2011 Winners

Political Sociology Best Book Award Winner

James Mahoney, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective. (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Political Sociology Best Article or Chapter

Co-Recipient: Gregory Hook s and Brian McQueen , 2010 . “American Exceptionalism Revisited: The Military-Industrial Complex, Racial Tension, the Underdeveloped Welfare State.” American Sociological Review 75(2) 185–204.

Co-Recipient: Chris Rhomberg, 2010. “A Signal Juncture: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and Post-Accord Labor Relations in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 115 (6) 1853-9.

Political Sociology Graduate Student Paper Prize

Recipient: Nicholas Hoover Wilson, U.C.Berkeley, “From Reflection to Refraction: State Administration in British India, ca. 1770-1855.” The American Journal of Sociology 116(5): 1437-77.

Honorable Mention: Min Zhou, Harvard University, “Signaling Commitments, Making Concessions: Democratization and State Ratification of International Human Rights Treaties, 1966-2006.”