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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