APSA Political Organizations and Parties (POP) / Party Politics Award

honoring the best paper presented at a POP-sponsored panel at
annual meetings of the American Political Science Association

Members of the American Political Science Association with special interest in studying political parties and other political organizations have formed an official section of the APSA,"Political Organizations and Parties," known as POP.

POP's official journal, Party Politics, sponsors an annual prize for the best paper delivered at panels that POP organizes for the APSA's annual meetings. POP names the committee of scholars that determines the award winner. Here are the past winners:

Year of Award	APSA Meeting	Titles, authors, and institutional affliations
2011	2010	"The Inside View: Using the Enron EMail Archive to Understand Business Lobbying" Lee Drutman and Daniel Hopkins, The Professive Policy Institute, Georgetown University
2010	2009	"Networking the Parties: A Comparison of Democratic and Republican National Convention Delegates in 2008" Seth Masket, Michael Heaney, Joanne Miller, and Dara Strolovitch, University of Denver; University of Michigan; University of Minnesota; and University of Minnesota
2009	2008	"527 Committees and the Political Party Network" Richard M. Skinner, Seth E. Masket, and David A. Dulio, Bowdoin College, University of Denver, and Oakland University,
2008	2007	"State Party Platforms and Civil Rights Policy, 1920-1968" Brian Feinstein and Eric Schickler, Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley
2007	2006	"Candidate Selection and Political Participation" Georgia Kernell, Columbia University
2006	2005	"Ideology, Party and the Creation of the Anti-Slavery Coalition" Hans Noel Princeton University
2005	2004	"Reputation and Leadership Inside Interest Group Coalitions," Michael T. Heaney Yale University
2004	2003	"The Redistribution of Campaign Funds and Institutional Advancement in the U.S. House," Eric S. Heberlig, Marc H. Hetherington, and Bruce A. Larson University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Bowdoin College; and Farleigh Dickenson University
2003	2002	"Economic Development, Legal Desegregation, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South." Byron E. Shafer & Richard G.C. Johnston University of Wisconsin & University of British Columbia
2002	2001	Insufficient nominations; no award made
2001	2000	"The Transformation of Southern Politics Revisited: The House of Representatives as a Window" Byron E. Shafer & Richard G.C. Johnston University of Wisconsin & University of British Columbia