Gladys M. Kammerer Award

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2018     The myth of independence : how Congress governs the Federal Reserve by Sarah Binder and Mark Spindel
2017     Above politics : bureaucratic discretion and credible commitment by Gary J. Miller and Andrew B. Whitford
2016     Sailing the water's edge : the domestic politics of American foreign policy by Helen V. Milner and Dustin Tingley
2015     Legislative effectiveness in the United States Congress : the lawmakers by Alan Wiseman and Craig Volden
2014     White-collar government : the hidden role of class in economic policy making by Nicholas Carnes
2013     The social citizen : peer networks and political behavior by Betsy Sinclair
2012     Access points : an institutional theory of policy bias and complexity by Sean Ehrlich
2011     The litigation state : public regulation and private lawsuits in the U. S. by Sean Farhang
2010
     The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America by Margot Canaday; The fifth freedom : jobs, politics, and civil rights in the United States, 1941-1972 by Anthony S. Chen
2009     Unequal democracy: the political economy of the new gilded age by Larry Bartels
2008
     Affirmative advocacy : race, class and gender by Dara Z. Stolovitch; The decline of the death penalty and the discovery of innocence by Frank R. Baumgartner, Suzanna L. DeBoef, and Amber E. Boydstun
2007
     The foreign policy disconnect : what Americans want from our leaders but don’t get by Benjamin I. Page and Marshall M. Bouton
2006
     Soldiers to citizens : the G. I. Bill and the making of the greatest generation by Suzanne Metler; Inequality and prosperity : social Europe vs. liberal America by Jonas Pontusson
2005
     After Brown : the rise and retreat of school desegregation by Charles T. Clotfelter; Perilous times : free speech in wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the war on terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone
2004
     Democracy defended by Gerry Mackie; Corporate warriors : the rise of the privatized military industry by Peter W. Singer
2003     Dividing lines : the politics of immigration control in America by Daniel J. Tichenor
2002     The forging of bureaucratic autonomy : reputations, networks, and policy innovation in executive agencies, 1862-1928 by Daniel Carpenter
2001     Presidents, parties, and the state : a party system perspective on Democratic regulatory choice, 1884-1936 by Scott C. James
2000     No equal justice : race and class in the American criminal justice system by David Cole
1999     Dividing citizens : gender and federalism in New Deal public policy by Suzanne Mettler
1998     Reaching beyond race by Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines
1997     Down from bureaucracy : the ambiguity of privatization and empowerment by Joel F. Handler
1996     Why parties? : the origin and transformation of political parties in America by John H. Aldrich
1995
     Dismantling the welfare state? : Reagan, Thatcher, and the politics of retrenchment by Paul Pierson
1994     The rebirth of urban democracy by Jeffrey M. Berry, Kent E. Portney, and Ken Thomson
1993
     The administrative Presidency revisited : public lands, the BLM and the Reagan Revolution by Robert F. Durant
1992     The logic of delegation : congressional parties and the appropriations process by D. Roderick Kiewiet and Mathew D. McCubbins
1991     The democratic wish : popular participation and the limits of American government by James A. Morone (Rev. ed. (1998) here)
1990     The new politics of pornography by Donald A. Downs; Issue evolution : race and the transformation of American politics by Edward G. Carmines and James A. Stimson
1989     American federalism and public policy : how the system works by Thomas J. Anton
1988     Political ethics and public office by Dennis F. Thompson
1987     American trade politics : system under stress by I.M. Destler; Why we lost the ERA by Jane J. Mansbridge
1986     Economic statecraft by David A. Baldwin
1985
     Protest is not enough : the struggle of blacks and Hispanics for equality in urban politics by Rufus P. Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David H. Tabb
1984     Technologies of freedom by Ithiel de Sola Pool
1983     Dilemmas of pluralist democracy : autonomy vs. control by Robert A. Dahl; The rise and decline of nations : economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities by Mancur Olson
1982     The regulation of natural gas : policy and politics, 1938-1978 by M. Elizabeth Sanders
1981     Money in congressional elections by Gary C. Jacobson; Street-level bureaucracy : dilemmas of the individual in public services by Michael Lipsky
1980     Policymaking for social security by Martha Derthick
1979     Political control of the economy by Edward R. Tufte
1978     Ecology and the politics of scarcity : prologue to a political theory of the steady state by William Ophuls
1977
     School politics, Chicago style by Paul E. Peterson

1971
     What price vigilance? The burdens of national defense by Bruce M. Russett
1976     Comparative public policy : the politics of social choice in Europe and America by Arnold J. Heidenheimer, Hugh Heclo, and Carolyn Teich Adams
1975     No award given
1974
     America and the world political economy : Atlantic dreams and national realities by David P. Calleo and Benjamin M. Rowland
1973
     Participation in America : political democracy and social equality by Norman H. Nie and Sidney Verba
1972
     Systematic thinking for social action by Alice M. Rivlin