Policy Sciences Awards
2012 Prize Announcement
The Society of Policy Scientists sponsors prize competitions for the best policy sciences books, published articles, chapters in books, and student papers. For published works, the Society awards two prizes, each of which includes a $500.00 cash award. These awards are named for Harold D. Lasswell and Myres S. McDougal, the founders of the policy sciences. The Society also bestows prizes for unpublished student papers, one for graduate/professional students and one for undergraduates. These prizes include a $250.00 cash award. Like the Lasswell and McDougal Prizes, the Society Student Paper Prizes are for exemplary policy sciences work. All four prizes will be awarded at the Annual Policy Sciences Institute, and awardees are encouraged to discuss their prize winning entry at the Institute.
In addition to students, untenured professors and others who have completed their formal education within the past seven years are eligible to apply. For the 2012 competition, the Society will permit nominations of works with senior faculty as co-authors as long as the lead author is eligible for the prizes. Works published in 2010 and 2011 are eligible for consideration, as are student papers written in these years.
In addition to the cash prizes, the registration fee for the Annual Institute will be waived for prize winners, and awardees who are members of the Society of Policy Scientists will have their Society dues waived for the following year. (Though awardees who are members of the Society will have their dues waived, they will still receive a one-year subscription to the journal, Policy Sciences.)
Publications, nominations, and general inquiries also can be sent to the following address: andrew-willard@uiowa.edu. Paper submissions are welcome at: Andrew R. Willard, President; Policy Sciences Center, Inc.; 431 South Summit Street; Iowa City, IA 52240. Telephone inquiries are welcomed as well at 319.335.8333. I look forward to hearing from you.
Harold D. Lasswell Prize
2011: Michael Horowitz. The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics, Princeton University Press (2010).
2010: Carolina Ester Roman. "Characterising Climate Change Vulnerability and Implications for Adaptation Strategies: A Case Study of the Tourism Sector at Alpine Shire, Victoria, Australia" Dissertation (2010).
2009: Catherine Weaver. Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform, Princeton University Press (2008).
2008: Elizabeth Lowham and Jason Vogel, “Building Consensus for Constructive Action: A Study of Perspectives on Natural Resource Management,” Journal of Forestry (January/February, 2007) 20-27.
2007: Not awarded.
2006: Lindy Coe-Juell, "The 15-Mile Reach: Let the Fish Tell Us," and Christine M. Edwards, "Grassbanks: Diffusion and Adaptation from the Radical Center," both in Adaptive Governance: Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making (2005).
2005: Aaron X. Fellmeth, “Secrecy, Monopoly, and Access to Pharmaceuticals in International Trade Law: Protection of Marketing Approval Data Under the TRIPS Agreement,” volume 45, number 2 Harvard International Law Journal, 2004.
2004: Richard L. Wallace, "Social Influences on Conservation: Lessons from U.S. Recovery Programs for Marine Mammals," Conservation Biology, 17, 104-115, 2003.
2003: Toddi A. Steelman, for "Community-based Involvement in Biodiversity Protection in the United States," in Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities: Ptotecting Beyond the Protected. Edited by Tim O'Riordan & Susanne Stoll-Kleemon. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
2002: Christine H. Colburn, for "Forest Policy and the Quincy Library Group"; Christina M. Cromley, for "Bison Management in Greater Yellowstone"; Roberta A. Klein, for "Wolf Recovery in the Northern Rockies"; and Elizabeth A. Olson, for "Water Management and the Upper Clark Fork Steering Committee," in Ronald D. Brunner, Christine H. Colburn, Christina M. Cromley, Roberta A. Klein, and Elizabeth A. Olson, Finding Common Ground: Governance and Natural Resources in the American West. New Haven: Yale Univeristy Press, 2002.
2001: Peter R. Wilshusen, for "Local Participation in Conservation and Development Projects: Ends, Means, and Power Dynamics," in Tim W. Clark, Andrew R. Willard, and Christina M. Cromley, eds., Foundations of Natural Resources Policy and Management (pp. 288 326). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Myres S. McDougal Prize
2011: Not Awarded
2010: David N. Cherney (co-authored with Susan G. Clark), “The American West’s Longest Large Mammal Migration: Clarifying and Securing the Common Interest.” Policy Sciences, 2009, 42(2), 95-111.
2009: Julien Cantegreil "Legal Formalism Meets Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence: A More European Approach to Frame the War on Terror," 60:1 Maine Law Review 98 (2008).
2008: Ian Hurd, After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council, 2007.
2007: Not awarded.
2006: Dan Sarooshi, International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers, 2005.
2005: Peter R. Wilshusen, “Exploring the Political Contours of Conservation: A Conceptual view of Power in Practice,” and “Territory, Nature, and Culture: Negotiating the Boundaries of Biodiversity Conservation in Columbia’s Pacific Coastal Region,” in Contested Nature: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century, 2003.
2004: Charles H. Norchi, 2003, "Toward the Rule of Law in Afghanistan: The Constitutive Process," in Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Lessons from Development Experience (edited by John D. Montgomery and Dennis A. Rondinelli).
2003: Jorge Rivera, for "Assessing a Voluntary Environmental Initiative in the Developing World: The Costa Rican Certification for Sustainable Tourism," Policy Sciences, 2002, 35, 333-360.
2002: Toddi A. Steelman and Richard L. Wallace, for "Property Rights and Property Wrongs: Why Context Matters in Fisheries Management," Policy Sciences, 2001, 34, 357-379.
2001: Matthew R. Auer, for "Who Participates in Global Environmental Governance? Partial Answers from International Relations Theory," Policy Sciences, 2000, 33, 155 180.
Graduate Student Prize
2011: Not awarded.
2010: Not awarded.
2009: Not awarded.
2008: Elizabeth C. McNie, "Reconciling the Supply of Scientific Information with User Demands: An Analysis of the Problem and Review of the Literature,” volume 10 Environmental Science & Policy (2007) 17-38.
2007: Not awarded.
2006: Melissa DuMond, "The Effects of the Healthy Forests Initiative, Corresponding Administrative Reforms, and the Healthy Forests Restoration Act on the U.S. Forest Service's Implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act: Does It Serve the Common Intersest?"
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Jason Vogel, "Tunnel Vision: The Regulation of Endocrine Disruptors,” volume 37, numbers 3-4 Policy Sciences (2004) 277-303.
2005: Michael F. Blevins, “Restorative Justice, Slavery, and the American Soul: A Policy-Oriented Intercultural Human Rights Approach to the Question of Reparations.”
Undergraduate Student Prize
2011: Carly Graber. "Los Retos de la Formacion de un Proyecto Comunitario de Ecoturismo: Un Caso de Estudio de Puerto Cayo, Ecuador" Undergraduate Thesis. (2011)
2010: Caitrin O'Brien. "Environmental Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing: The Need to Revisit Regulation" Undergraduate Thesis. (2010).
2007: Kathryn Semmens, “Oversight to Insight: The Marine Mammal Commission as a Prototype of Government Evaluation,” and Elizabeth Thomas, “Obstacles to Effective Policymaking for Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States: Problems in the Generation & Dissemination of Environmental Knowledge.”
2004: Jennifer A. Mueller, October 2003, Broadband For All, Policy Sciences Annual Institute, Yale Law School, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
