WPSA AWARDS: 2006 ANNUAL MEETING

PI SIGMA ALPHA: ($250)

To:  Henry E. Brady, University of California, Berkeley
      and John E. McNulty,
       University of California, Berkeley
       Department of Political Science            
       210 Barrows Hall                                      
       Berkeley, CA 94720
       hbrady@csm.berkeley.edu
                                    and
       John E. McNulty         
       Assistant Professor of Political Science
       Binghamton University, SUNY
       P.O. Box 6000
       Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
       mcnulty@binghamton.edu

For their paper: “The Costs of Voting: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.”

Award Committee Chair:   Professor Ted Jelen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

To:  Dr. Gregg Daniel Miller     
532 14th Avenue E,
Apt. 107
Seattle, WA 98112                                                     
ggmiller@gis.net                                                          

For his Dissertation: “Mimesis in Communicative Action:  Habermas and the Affective Bond of Understanding.”
 
Completed at: University of Washington

Award Committee Chair: Liesl Haas, California State University, Long Beach

To:       Timothy Kaufman Osborn
                        Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership
                        Department of Politics
                        Maxey Hall, 345 Boyer Avenue
                        Whitman College
                        Walla Walla, WA 99362
                       
For his paper:  “Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib”
Award Committee Chair:  Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers University

To:   Niambi M. Carter  (graduate student)
         Duke University

For her paper:  “Three’s Company?  Or Three’s a Crowd?  Tripartite Race Relations in a Southern City.
                                   
Award Committee Chair:  Mark Sawyer, UCLA

LATINA/LATINO POLITICS: ($250)

To:       Professor Adrian D. Pantoja                                        
             Department of Political Science                        
             Arizona State University           
             PO Box 873902
             Tempe, AZ 85287-3902   
      
For his paper: “At Home Abroad? The Dominican Diaspora in New York City as a Transnational Political Actor”

Award Committee Chair: Melissa Michelson

CHARLES REDD AWARD FOR BEST PAPER ON THE POLITICS OF THE AMERICAN WEST ($250)

To:       R.Christopher Burnett
             cburnett@csulb.edu
             Assistant Professor
             Department of Journalism
             California State University, Long Beach
             SSPA 002
             1250 Bellflower Blvd
              Long Beach, CA 90840
                       
For his paper: “Wildlife Policy in California and Colorado: A Punctuated Equilibrium  Model Explanation”

Award Committee Chair:  Andrea Gerlak, University of Arizona           

POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY BEST ARTICLE AWARD ($1000)

(Co-recipients this year)
To:       Professor David Darmofal
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of South Carolina
350 Gambrell Hall
Columbia, SC 29208
darmofal@gwm.sc.edu            

For his September 2005 PRQ Article: “Elite Cues and Citizen Disagreement with Expert Opinion.”

And To:
            Professor Edward T. Lascher                                    
            Department of Public Policy and Administration
            California State University, Sacramento
            Sacramento, CA 95819-6081
            tedl@csus.edu
                                               
For his June 2005 PRQ Article: “Constituency Size and Incumbent Safety: A Reexamination.”

Award Committee Chair: Barbara Norrander, University of Arizona