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SECTION 23: POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Outstanding Article

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	TITLE
2008	Nathan Martin and David Brady		“Workers of the Less Developed World Unite? A Multi-Level Analysis of Unionization in Less Developed Countries”
2007	Andreas Wimmer and Brian Min		“From Empire to Nation-state. Explaining Wars in the Modern World, 1816-2001”
2006	Douglas Hartman and Joseph Gerteis	University of Minnesota	“Dealing with Diversity: Mapping Multiculturalism in Sociological Terms”
2006	Monica Prasad	Northwestern University	“Why is France so French? Culture, Institutions and Neoliberalism, 1974-1981”
2004	Not given
2003	Jack Goldstone Bert Useem	University of California-Davis University of New Mexico	“Forging Social Order and Its Breakdown: Riot and Reform in U.S. Prisons”
2002	Evan Schofer Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas	University of Minnesota Princeton University	“The Structural Contexts of Civic Engagement: National Polities and Individual Association Membership”
2001	Harvey Molotch William Freudenburg Krista E. Paulsen	University of California, Santa Barbara University of Wisconsin, Madison University of North Florida	“History Repeats Itself, But How? City Character, Urban Tradition, and the Accomplishment of Place”
2000	Not given
1999	David Jacobs Robert M. Brien	Ohio State University University of Oregon	“The Determinants of Deadly Force: A Structural Analysis of Police Violence”
1998	Not given
1997	Ed Collom	University of California-Riverside	“Race, Class and Gender: The Bases of Socialist Beliefs in America”
1997	Pamela J. Aronson	University of Minnesota	“Rethinking Political Generations: The Life Course, Personal History and Feminist Identities”
1994	Margaret Somers	University of Michigan	"Law, Community, & Political Culture in the Transition Democracy"

Graduate Student Award

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	OTHER/TITLE
2008	Djordje (George) Stefanovic		“The Path to Weimar Serbia? Explaining the Resurgence of the Serbian Far Right after the Fall of Milosevic"
2008	Liza Weinstein		“Mumbai’s Development Mafias: Globalization, Organized Crime and Land Development.”
2007	Hiro Saito	University of Michigan	“Reiterated Commemoration: Hiroshima as National Trauma”
2007	Eran Shor	Stony Brook University	"The Power of Human Rights in Times of Conflict: The Spiral Model for Norms of Socialization Revisited"
2006	Jon Agnone	University of Washington	“Amplifying Public Opinion: The Policy Impact of the U.S. Environmental Movement”
2004	Not given
2003	Vanessa Barker	New York University	“The Politics of Punishing: How the Routine Activities of Governance Impact State Reliance on Confinement”
2003	Hsiu-hua Shen	University of Kansas	"Mandating Chinese Identity: Taiwanese Business People Meet Chinese Nationalism"
2002	Genevieve Zeitlin	Univeristy of Chicago	“We, the Polish Nation: Ethnic and Civic of Nationhood in Post-Communist Constitutional Debates”
2001	Chris Bonastia	New York University	“Why Did Affirmative Action in Housing Fail During the Nixon Era? Exploring the Institutional Homes of Social Policies”
2000 (Undergraduate Student paper award given)	Christopher E. Paul	University of California, Los Angeles	“Moving Forward with State Autonomy and Capacity: Example from two Studies of the Pentagon during WWII”
1999	Bill Winders	Emory University	“The Roller Coaster of Class Conflict: Class Segments, Mass Mobilization, and Voter Turnout in the United States, 1840-1996”
1998	Mathew Krain	Indiana University	“State Sponsored Mass Murder: The Onset and Severity of Genocides and Politicides”
1997	Pam Aronson	University of Minnesota	“Rethinking Political Generations: the Life Course”
1997	Edward Collom	UC Riverside	“Race, Class and Gender: the Bases of Socialist Beliefs in America”
1995	Wei-Der Shu	Syracuse University	“The Emergence of Nationalism”
1994	Denise Scott	U Mass-Amherst	the Power of Connection in corporate Government Relations: a Gendered Perspective”
1993	Tang Nah Ng	Emory University	“The Democratic Transition Model: debt, Democracy and Welfare effect in Four Semi-Peripheral Nations, 1959-1986”
1992	Debra Street	Florida State University	"Maintaining the Status Quo: The Impact of Old Age Interest Groups on the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988"

Outstanding Contribution to Political Sociology

Book Odd Years, Article Even Years

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	OTHER/TITLE
2008	Javier Auyero		Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power
2007	Moon-Kie Jung	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
2006	Eiko Ikegami	New School for Social Research	Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture
2005	Not given
2004	Not given
2003	John Skrentny	University of California-San Diego	The Minority Rights Revolution
2002	Not given
2001	Lawrence Jacobs Robert Shapiro	University of Minnesota Columbia University	Politicians Don Pander
2001	Richard Lachmann	University of Albany	Capitalists In Spite of Themselves
2000	Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks	Northwestern University and Indiana University	Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions
1999	Not given
1998	Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks	Northwestern University Indiana University	“The Religious Factor in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1960-1992”
1997	Peter Evans	University of California-Berkeley	Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation
1995	Ronald Aminzade	University of Minnesota	Ballots and Barricades
	Craig Calhoun	University of North Carolina	Neither Gods Nor Emperors
	Kim Voss	UC-Berkeley	The Making of American Exceptionalism
	Frances Fox Piven Richard Cloward	CUNY	Regulating the Poor
1994	Margaret Somers	University of Michigan	“Law Community and Political Culture in the Transition to Democracy”
1993	Theda Skocpol	Harvard University	Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
1993	Deitrich Rueschemeyer Evelyn Stephens John Stephens	Brown University Northwestern University Northwestern University	Capitalist Development and Democracy