2008 NPSA Conference
Best Paper Awards
Best Graduate Paper Award: Alison Staudinger, University of Maryland
Paper: "Thinking About Trees and Forests at the Same Time: A Critique of Popular Constitutionalism."
Best Faculty Paper Award: Dr. Daniel Klinghard: College of the Holy Cross,
Paper: "Plunkitt of Tammany Hall and Party Nationalization in the Late Nineteenth Century."
McWilliams Award (Theory Section only): Mathew Patrick Coakley: New York University
Paper: "The Value of Political Legitimacy.”
Women's Caucus Best Paper Award: Farida Jalalzai, University of Missouri St. Louis, and Mona Lena Krook, Washington University St. Louis.
Paper:“Beyond Hillary and Benazir: Women’s Political Leadership Worldwide.”
Award for Best Paper By Female Political Scientist On Any Topic: Vanessa Julie Ruget, Salem State College.
Paper: “How Much is Citizenship Worth? The Case of Kyrgyzstani Migrants in Kazakhstan and Russia.”
Every year, NPSA gives a series of best Paper Awards, including the Best Faculty Paper and the Best Graduate Student Paper presented at the previous conference. The Theory Section has a separate McWilliams Award which goes to the best paper in the subfield of Political Theory, and the Women's Caucus has two additional Award categories.
The Process: At every NPSA conference, Panel Chairs are asked to nominate a paper for consideration for an Award and to submit the nominated paper to a committees of faculty members which evaluate all contending papers and designate the winner in each category.
The Criteria: The Award Committees look for a winning paper that is well written, addresses new theoretical grounds or makes an important theoretical contribution to the discipline and is relevant to the political process.
The Best Graduate Student Paper Award is graciously funded by Lanahan Publishing.
The winners of the year are announced on this page.
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