Awards

 

Stanley Hoffmann Best Article Award on French Politics

The award was first given in 2007 and recognizes the best English-language article on French Politics published in any peer-reviewed journal during the previous two years. Articles may be on any aspect of French Politics and the selection committee consults a full range of journals that publish scholarship on French Politics. Since 2021, award recipients have received a complimentary e-subscription to the journal French Politics.

For the database of abstracts of articles for the Hoffman Award, please visit the Stanley Hoffman Award Database.

  • 2025 Award: Articles Published in 2021-2022
    • Award Committee: Tommaso Pavone (Princeton University) and Lorenzo Stella-Barrault (CNRS)
    • Jean Beaman and Jennifer Fredette (2022). “The U.S./France Contrast Frame and Black Lives Matter in France,” Special Issue: Black Lives Matter. Perspectives on Politics. 20 (4) 1346-61.
    • David S. Siroky, Sean Mueller, André Fazi and Michael Hechter “Containing Nationalism: Culture, Economics and Indirect Rule in Corsica,” Comparative Political Studies. 54 (6) 1023-57.
  • 2023 Award: 390 Articles Published in 2019-2020 were considered.
  • Award: Articles published in 2017-18  were considered.
  • 2018 Award: Articles published in 2015 and 2016 were considered.
    • Award Committee: Vincent Tiberij (Sciences Po) and Filip Kostelka (University of Barcelona, Sciences Po).
    • Recipient: Inés Valdez (2016). “Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban.” American Political Science Review 110 (1): 18-30.
  • 2015 Award: 338 articles published in 2013 and 2014 were considered.
    • Award Committee: Eric Kerrouche (CNRS, Sciences Po Bordeaux), Christoph Hönnige (Leibniz University Hanover), and Jennifer Fredette (Ohio University).
    • Recipient: Vincent Tiberij, “Values and the Votes from Mitterrand to Hollande: The Rise of the Two-axis Politics” in Parliamentary Affairs 66 (2013), 69-86.
  • 2013 Award: 337 articles published in 2011 and 2012 were considered.
    • Award Committee: Bruno Palier (Centre d’Etudes Européennes, Sciences Po Paris), André Blais (Université de Montréal), and David Laitin (Stanford University).
    • Recipient: Peter H. Egger and Doina M. Radulescu were distinguished for the following article: “Family policy and the number of children: Evidence from a natural experiment,” European Journal of Political Economy, 28 (2012), 524-539.
  • 2011 Award: 301 articles published in 2009 and 2010 were considered in 143 different journals.
    • Award Committee: John Gaffney (Aston University); Jonah Levy (University California, Berkeley); Annie Laurent (CERAPS).
    • Recipient: Bruno Palier (Sciences P, CEE) and Kathleen Thelen (MIT). 2010. “Institutionalizing Dualism: Complementarities and Change in France and Germany”. Politics and Society. 38(1): 119-148.
  • 2009 Award: 181 articles published in 2007 and 2008 were considered in 139 journals.
    • Award Committee: Frank Baumgartner (Penn State University); Jocelyn Evans (University of Salford); Sophie Duschesne (CEVIPOF)
    • Recipient: Eliza Ferguson (University of New Mexico) “Domestic Violence by Another Name: Crimes of Passion in Fin-de-Siècle Paris” Journal of Women’s History. Volume 19, Number 4, Winter 2007.
  • 2007 Award: 223 articles published in 2005 through 2006 were considered from 112 refereed journals.
    • Award Committee: Chair (Harvard University), Gérard Grunberg (Sciences Po Paris), Pierre Hassner (Sciences Po Paris). The committee selected the following three winners, with the top prize going to James Shields.
    • Top Prize: James Shields (University of Warwick) for his January 2006 article in Parliamentary Affairs, “Political Representation in France: A Crisis of Democracy?”
    • Recipient: David Yost (US Naval Postgraduate School) for his June 2006 article in International Affairs, “France’s New Nuclear Doctrine”
    • Recipient: Elaine Thomas (Bard College) for her March 2006 article in Ethnic and Racial Studies, “Keeping Identity at A Distance: Explaining France’s New Legal Restrictions on the Islamic Headscarf”

Frank L. Wilson Best APSA Paper Award

Inaugurated in 2004, the award is given each year for papers presented on French politics at the previous year’s meeting. Papers may be comparative as long as a significant part focuses on France. Only papers that are uploaded to the APSA website are eligible. Award recipients received a complimentary e-subscription to the journal French Politics.

  • 2025: For Papers presented at the APSA 2023-24 Meetings
    • Double Roundtables APSA 2024: Threats to Academic Freedom: A Comparative Approach Organized by Delphine Allès (INALCO and AFSP) and Jérôme Heurtaux (Université Paris-Dauphine)
    • Participants:
      • Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po Paris and AFSP)
      • Amrita Basu  (Amherst College)
      • Stéphanie Balme  (CERI)
      • Pascale Laborier (Université Paris-Nanterre)
      • Stéphane Paquin (l’École nationale d’administration publique, Montréal)
      • Darrell M. West (Brookings Institute)
      • Simone Bohn (York University)
      • Steven Rathgeb Smith (APSA)
  • 2023: For Papers presented at the APSA 2022 Meetings
    • Award Committee: Caroline Le Pennec ( HEC Montréal) and Yu Sasaki ( Kanazawa University)
    • Recipient: Álvaro Canalejo-Molero (University of Lucerne)  and Morgan Le Corre Juratic (European University Institute), “Radical Party Entry”.
  • 2021: Due to COVID the award in 2021 was awarded for papers presented at the 2019 APSA meetings
    • Award Committee: Mathilde Emeriau (London School of Economics) and Emiliano Grossman ( Sciences Po Paris)
    • Recipient: Yu Sasaki “Ethnic Autonomy”.  (Kanazawa University)
  • 2018: Recipients: (tie) Michelle Weitzel (The New School). “Amplifying Frenchness.” Michael Becher (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse) and Sylvain Brouard (Sciences Po Paris). “Do Partisan Ends Justify the Procedural Means? How Voters Evaluate the Legislative Performance of Executives.”
  • 2017: Recipients: Pavlos Vasilopoulos (University of York), George E. Marcus (UC Irvine), Nicholas Valentino (University of Michigan), and Martial Foucault (Sciences Po Paris). “Fear, Anger and Voting for the Far right: Evidence from the November 13 Paris Terror Attacks.”
  • 2016: Recipients: Michael Becher (University of Konstanz), Sylvain Brouard (Sciences Po Paris, CEVIPOF), and Isabelle Guinaudeau (Sciences Po Grenoble). “Prime Ministers and the Electoral Cost of Using the Confidence Vote in Legislative Bargaining.”
  • 2015: Recipient: Andrea Nuesser, Richard Johnston, and Marc A. Bodet (all of the University of British Columbia). “The Dynamics of Polarization and Depolarization: Methodological Considerations and European Evidence.”
  • 2014: Rahsaan Maxwell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). “The Overlap Between Economic and Cultural Threat: Accepting Racial Minorities in the French National Community.”
  • 2013: Marcos Ancelovici (Université du Québec à Montréal). “The Origins and Dynamics of Organizational Resilience.”
  • 2012: Eléonore Lépinard (Université de Montréal). “From Parity to Intersectionality: A Difficult Passage.”
  • 2011: Adria Lawrence (Yale University). “Political Equality and Nationalist Opposition in the French Colonial Empire”.
  • 2010: Emily Olivia Matthews (University of California, San Diego). “Should We Go Steady? Patterns of Cooperative Lobbying Behavior among Forestry Advocacy Groups in France and Sweden.”
  • 2009: Simon Bornschier (University of Zurich, Switzerland). “Social Structure, Collective Identity, and Agency in the Formation of a New Cultural Divide: Why a Right-Wing Populist Party Emerged in France but not in Germany.”
  • 2008: For the fourth year of the prize, the award committee decided to recognize an entire panel: The 2007 French Presidential Election: A Case Study for Electoral Choice Models.” Featuring Vincent Tiberj (Sciences Po Paris / CEVIPOF), Eric Belanger (McGill University), Michael Lewis-Beck (University of Iowa), Jean Chiche (Sciences Po Paris /CNRS-CEVIPOF), Viviane Le Hay (Sciences Po Paris / CNRS-CEVIPOF), Bernard Dolez (University of Nantes, CERAPS), & Annie Laurent (CNRS-CERAPS).
  • 2007: Roxanne Euben. “Theorizing Past and Future: Between Tocqueville and Tahtawi”.
  • 2006: Anne Revillard (ENS, Cachan). “Is the French Republic Familialist or Feminist? The Dilemmas of French State Feminists.”
  • 2005: Jocelyn Evans (University of Salford) & Robert Andersen (McMaster University). “Never Mind the Blocs. Mapping Ideological Space in France, 1988-2002.”

Georges Lavau Dissertation Award

Since 1990, every 3-5 years, the French Politics Group (FPG) recognizes a prize for the best English-language dissertation on contemporary (twentieth and twenty-first century) French politics. Since 2021, Award recipients receive a complimentary e-subscription to the journal French Politics.

In 2021, two awards were given out of a pool of 6 dissertations. The committee included: Crystal Fleming ( SUNY Stonybrook); Khursheed Wadia (University of Warwick) and Anne Revillard  ( LIEPP-Sciences Po, Paris).

St. Denny, Emily. 2016. Explaining the Emergence And Gradual Transformation Of Policy Regimes:  The Case Of Contemporary French Prostitution Policy (1946-2016). Nottingham Trent University.

Perera, Isabel. 2018. States of Mind: A Comparative and Historical Study on the Political Economy of Mental Health. University of Pennsylvania.

Previous awardees include:

  • Crystal Fleming 2012 (PhD, Harvard University)
    Marcos Ancelovici 2008 (PhD, MIT)
  • Cindy Skach 2005 (PhD, Harvard University)
  • Virginie Guiraudon 1999 (PhD, Harvard University)
  • John Huber 1996 (PhD, University of Rochester)
  • Amy Mazur 1993 (PhD, New York University)
  • Alec Stone 1990 (Ph.D, University of Washington)