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2018     Conservative parties and the birth of democracy by Daniel Ziblatt
2017     Racial realignment : the transformation of American literature, 1932-1965 by Eric Schickler
2016     How solidarity works for welfare : subnationalism and social development in India by Prerna Singh
2015     Inequality and democratization : an elite-competition approach by Ben Ansell and David Samuels
2014     Fear itself : the New Deal and the origins of our time by Ira Katznelson; The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II by Denise Kiernan
2013     Affluence and influence : economic inequality and political power in America by Martin Gilens
2012     Why civil resistance works : the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan
2011     American grace : how religion divides and unites us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell
2010     Mobilizing for human rights : international law in domestic politics by Beth A. Simmons
2009     The legacies of law : long-run consequences of legal development in South Africa by Jens Meierhenrich
2008     Nuclear logics : contrasting paths in East Asia and the Middle East by Etel Solingen
2007     Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
2006     Expert political judgment : how good is it? how can we know? by Philip E. Tetlock
2005     How institutions evolve : the political economy of skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan by Kathleen Thelan; Votes and violence : electoral competition and ethnic riots in India by Steven I. Wilkinson
2004     The purpose of intervention : changing beliefs about the use of force by Martha Finnemore
2003     Nationalist mobilization and the collapse of the Soviet State by Mark Beissinger
2002     The race card : campaign strategy, implicit messages, and the norm of equality by Tali Mendelberg
2001     Democracy and development : political institutions and well-being in the world, 1950-1990 by Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub and Fernando Limongi
2000     Honor, symbols, and war by Barry O'Neill
1999     Faces of inequality : social diversity in American politics by Rodney Hero
1998     Making votes count : strategic coordination in the world's electoral systems by Gary W. Cox
1997     Education and democratic citizenship in America by Jane Junn, Norman Nie, and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry
1996     The radical right in Western Europe : a comparative analysis by Herbert Kitschelt
1995     Who adjusts? : domestic sources of foreign economic policy during the interwar years by Beth A. Simmons
1994     Black faces, black interests : the representation of African Americans in Congress by Carol M. Swain
1993     Protecting soldiers and mothers : the political origins of social policy in the United States by Theda Skocpol
1992     Reasoning and choice : explorations in political psychology by Paul M. Sniderman, Richard A. Brody, and Philip E. Tetlock
1991     Inquiry and change : the troubled attempt to understand and shape society by Charles E. Lindblom
1990     Democracy and its critics by Robert A. Dahl
1989     Presidential primaries and the dynamics of public choice by Larry Bartels
1988     The political economy of international relations by Robert Gilpin
1987     Political representation in France by Philip E. Converse and Roy Pierce; Governing the economy : the politics of state intervention in Britain and France by Peter Hall
1986     Small states in world markets : industrial policy in Europe by Peter Katzenstein
1985     The sources of military doctrine : France, Britain, and Germany between the world wars by Barry R. Posen
1984     Stillborn republic : social coalitions and party strategies in Greece, 1922-1936 by George Th. Mavrogordatos
1983     Contemporary democracies : participation, stability, and violence by G. Bingham Powell
1982     City limits by Paul E. Peterson
1981     Power and powerlessness : quiescence and rebellion in an Appalachian valley by John P. Gaventa
1980     The irony of Vietnam : the system worked by Leslie H. Gelb with Richard K. Betts
1979     Home style : House Members in their districts by Richard F. Fenno, Jr.
1978     Politics and markets : the world's political economic systems by Charles E. Lindblom
1977     The changing American voter by Norman H. Nie, Sidney Verba, and John R. Petrocik
1976     Health care politics : ideological and interest group barriers to reform by Robert A. Alford
1975     Modern social politics in Britain and Sweden : from relief to income maintenance by Hugh Heclo
1974     Communism in Korea by Robert A. Scalapino and Chong-sik Lee
1973     The foreign policy system of Israel; setting, images, process by Michael Brecher
1972     Choice and the politics of allocation : a developmental theory by David E. Apter
1971     Why men rebel by Ted Robert Gurr
1970     Political change in Britain : forces shaping electoral choice by David Butler and Donald E. Stokes (2d ed. of 1975)
1969     Democratic representation; reapportionment in law and politics by Robert G. Dixon, Jr.
1968     Parliament, parties, and society in France, 1946-1958 by Duncan MacRae, Jr.
1967     Social origins of dictatorship and democracy; lord and peasant in the making of the modern world by Barrington Moore, Jr.
1966     British politics in the collectivist age by Samuel H. Beer
1965     The rulers and the ruled; political power and impotence in American communites by Robert E. Agger, Daniel Goldrich, and Bert E. Swanson; Political parties; a behavioral analysis by Samuel J. Eldersveld
1964     American business and public policy; the politics of foreign trade by Raymond A. Bauer, Ithiel de Sola Pool, and Anthony Lewis Dexter
1963     Power and international relations by Inis L. Claude
1962     Who governs? Democracy and power in an American city by Robert A. Dahl
1961     Presidential power : the politics of leadership by Richard Neustadt
1960     Political theory; the foundations of twentieth-century political thought by Arnold Brecht
1959     The structure of freedom by Christian Bay; Nigeria : background to nationalism by James S. Coleman
1958     Nuclear weapons and foreign policy by Henry A. Kissinger; The democratic Roosevelt; a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt by Rexford G. Tugwell
1957     Roosevelt : the lion and the fox by James MacGregor Burns
1956     The liberal tradition in America; an interpretation of American political thought since the Revolution by Louis Hartz
1955     Prejudice, war, and the Constitution by Jacobus ten Broek, Edward N. Barnhart, and Floyd W. Matson
1954     The legislative struggle, a study in social combat by Bertram M. Gross
1953     Seedtime of the Republic; the origin of the American tradition of political liberty by Clinton Rossiter
1952     The future of American politics by Samuel Lubell (3d ed. of 1965)
1951     Political realism and political idealism. a study in theories and realities by John B. Herz
1950     Congress makes a law; the story behind the employment act of 1946 by Stephen K. Bailey
1949     Southern politics in State and Nation by V. O. Key
1948     The Federalists : a study in administrative history by Leonard D. White
1947     The web of government by Robert M. MacIver (Rev. ed. of 1966)