{"id":9,"date":"2015-08-10T16:44:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T16:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/fpg\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:50:41","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/fpg\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Stanley Hoffmann Best Article Award on French Politics<\/h1>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/gp\/journal\/41253\"><em>French Politics<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the database of abstracts of articles for the Hoffman Award, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/fpg\/database-on-articles-on-french-politics\/\">Stanley Hoffman Award Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2025 Award: Articles Published in 2021-2022<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Award Committee: Tommaso Pavone\u00a0<\/em>(Princeton University) and Lorenzo Stella-Barrault (CNRS)<\/li>\n<li>Jean Beaman and Jennifer Fredette (2022). &#8220;The U.S.\/France Contrast Frame and Black Lives Matter in France,&#8221;<u> Special Issue: Black Lives Matter<\/u>. <em>Perspectives on Politics. <\/em>20 (4) 1346-61.<\/li>\n<li>David S. Siroky, Sean Mueller, Andr\u00e9 Fazi and Michael Hechter &#8220;Containing Nationalism: Culture, Economics and Indirect Rule in Corsica,&#8221; <em>Comparative Political Studies. <\/em>54 (6) 1023-57.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2023 Award: 390 Articles Published in 2019-2020 were considered.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>Award Committee: <\/em><\/em>Kimberly Morgan (George Washington University) and Carole Bachelot (CERAPS\/Universit\u00e9 de Lille)<\/li>\n<li>Tommaso Pavone (2020)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1057\/s41253-020-00136-4\">\u201cLawyers, judges, and the obstinate state: The French case and an agenda for comparative politics\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<em>French Politics\u00a0<\/em>18 (4). 426-32.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Award: Articles published in 2017-18\u00a0 were considered. <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Award Committee<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">: In\u00e8s Valdez (Ohio State University) and Cal Le Gall (University of Vienna)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipient:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Kimberly Morgan ( 2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01402382.2017.1287446?journalCode=fwep20\">&#8220;Gender, right-wing populism, and immigrant integration policies in France, 1989\u20132012&#8221;\u00a0<\/a> Western European Politics.\u00a0 2017. 40 (4). 887- 906.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2018 Award: Articles published in 2015 and 2016 were considered. <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Award Committee:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Vincent Tiberij (Sciences Po) and Filip Kostelka (University of Barcelona, Sciences Po). <\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipient:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> In\u00e9s Valdez (2016). &#8220;Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">American Political Science Review 110\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">(1): 18-30.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015 Award: 338 articles published in 2013 and 2014 were considered.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Award Committee:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Eric Kerrouche (CNRS, Sciences Po Bordeaux), Christoph H\u00f6nnige (Leibniz University Hanover), and Jennifer Fredette (Ohio University).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipient:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Vincent Tiberij, &#8220;Values and the Votes from Mitterrand to Hollande: The Rise of the Two-axis Politics&#8221; in\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Parliamentary Affairs 66<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> (2013), 69-86.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013 Award: 337 articles published in 2011 and 2012 were considered.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Award Committee:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Bruno Palier (Centre d\u2019Etudes Europ\u00e9ennes, Sciences Po Paris), Andr\u00e9 Blais (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al), and David Laitin (Stanford University).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipient:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Peter H. Egger and Doina M. Radulescu were distinguished for the following article: \u201cFamily policy and the number of children: Evidence from a natural experiment,\u201d <\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">European Journal of Political Economy<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">, 28 (2012), 524-539.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011 Award: 301 articles published in 2009 and 2010 were considered in 143 different journals.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Award Committee: <\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">John Gaffney (Aston University); Jonah Levy (University California, Berkeley); Annie Laurent (CERAPS).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipient:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Bruno Palier (Sciences P, CEE) and Kathleen Thelen (MIT). 2010. &#8220;Institutionalizing Dualism: Complementarities and Change in France and Germany&#8221;. <\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Politics and Society<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">. 38(1): 119-148.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009 Award: 181 articles published in 2007 and 2008 were considered in 139 journals.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Award Committee:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Frank Baumgartner (Penn State University); Jocelyn Evans (University of Salford); Sophie Duschesne (CEVIPOF)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipient:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Eliza Ferguson (University of New Mexico) &#8220;Domestic Violence by Another Name: Crimes of Passion in Fin-de-Si\u00e8cle Paris&#8221; <\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Journal of Women&#8217;s History<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">. Volume 19, Number 4, Winter 2007.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007 Award: 223 articles published in 2005 through 2006 were considered from 112 refereed journals.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Award Committee:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Chair (Harvard University), G\u00e9rard Grunberg (Sciences Po Paris), Pierre Hassner (Sciences Po Paris). The committee selected the following three winners, with the top prize going to James Shields.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Top Prize:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> James Shields (University of Warwick) for his January 2006 article in <\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Parliamentary Affairs<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">, &#8220;Political Representation in France: A Crisis of Democracy?&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipient:\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">David Yost (US Naval Postgraduate School) for his June 2006 article in <\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">International Affairs<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">, &#8220;France&#8217;s New Nuclear Doctrine&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipient:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Elaine Thomas (Bard College) for her March 2006 article in <\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">, &#8220;Keeping Identity at A Distance: Explaining France&#8217;s New Legal Restrictions on the Islamic Headscarf&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Frank L. Wilson Best APSA Paper Award<\/h1>\n<p>Inaugurated in 2004, the award is given each year for papers presented on French politics at the previous year\u2019s 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 <em>French Politics.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2025: For Papers presented at the APSA 2023-24 Meetings\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Double Roundtables APSA 2024: Threats to Academic Freedom: A Comparative Approach <\/strong><strong>Organized by <\/strong>Delphine All\u00e8s (INALCO and AFSP) and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Heurtaux (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Dauphine)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Participants: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po Paris and AFSP)<\/li>\n<li>Amrita Basu\u00a0 (Amherst College)<\/li>\n<li>St\u00e9phanie Balme\u00a0 (CERI)<\/li>\n<li>Pascale Laborier (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Nanterre)<\/li>\n<li>St\u00e9phane Paquin (l\u2019\u00c9cole nationale d\u2019administration publique, Montr\u00e9al)<\/li>\n<li>Darrell M. West (Brookings Institute)<\/li>\n<li>Simone Bohn (York University)<\/li>\n<li>Steven Rathgeb Smith (APSA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2023: For Papers presented at the APSA 2022 Meetings<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Award Committee:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Caroline Le Pennec ( HEC Montr\u00e9al) and Yu Sasaki ( Kanazawa University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipient:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> \u00c1lvaro Canalejo-Molero (University of Lucerne) \u00a0and Morgan Le Corre Juratic (European University Institute), &#8220;Radical Party Entry&#8221;.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2021: Due to COVID the award in 2021 was awarded for papers presented at the 2019 APSA meetings<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Award Committee:<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Mathilde Emeriau (London School of Economics) and Emiliano Grossman ( Sciences Po Paris)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipient: <\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Yu Sasaki &#8220;Ethnic Autonomy&#8221;.\u00a0 (Kanazawa University)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018: <\/strong><em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipients: <\/em><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">(tie)<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Michelle Weitzel (The New School). &#8220;Amplifying Frenchness.&#8221; Michael Becher (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse) and Sylvain Brouard (Sciences Po Paris). &#8220;Do Partisan Ends Justify the Procedural Means? How Voters Evaluate the Legislative Performance of Executives.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>2017:<\/strong> <em>Recipients: <\/em>Pavlos Vasilopoulos (University of York), George E. Marcus (UC Irvine), Nicholas Valentino (University of Michigan), and Martial Foucault (Sciences Po Paris). \u201cFear, Anger and Voting for the Far right: Evidence from the November 13 Paris Terror Attacks.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>2016:<\/strong> <em>Recipients: <\/em>Michael Becher (University of Konstanz), Sylvain Brouard (Sciences Po Paris, CEVIPOF), and Isabelle Guinaudeau (Sciences Po Grenoble). \u201cPrime Ministers and the Electoral Cost of Using the Confidence Vote in Legislative Bargaining.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2015:<\/strong> <em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Recipient: <\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Andrea Nuesser, Richard Johnston, and Marc A. Bodet (all of the University of British Columbia). \u201cThe Dynamics of Polarization and Depolarization: Methodological Considerations and European Evidence.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2014:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Rahsaan Maxwell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). &#8220;The Overlap Between Economic and Cultural Threat: Accepting Racial Minorities in the French National Community.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2013:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Marcos Ancelovici (Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al). \u201cThe Origins and Dynamics of Organizational Resilience.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2012:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> El\u00e9onore L\u00e9pinard (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al). &#8220;From Parity to Intersectionality: A Difficult Passage.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2011:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Adria Lawrence (Yale University). \u201cPolitical Equality and Nationalist Opposition in the French Colonial Empire\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2010:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Emily Olivia Matthews (University of California, San Diego). &#8220;Should We Go Steady? Patterns of Cooperative Lobbying Behavior among Forestry Advocacy Groups in France and Sweden.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2009:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Simon Bornschier\u00a0(University of Zurich, Switzerland).\u00a0&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2008:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> For the fourth year of the prize, the award committee decided to recognize an entire panel:\u00a0The 2007 French Presidential Election: A Case Study for Electoral Choice Models.&#8221; Featuring Vincent Tiberj (Sciences Po Paris \/ CEVIPOF),\u00a0Eric Belanger (McGill University),\u00a0Michael Lewis-Beck (University of Iowa),\u00a0Jean Chiche (Sciences Po Paris \/CNRS-CEVIPOF),\u00a0Viviane Le Hay (Sciences Po Paris \/ CNRS-CEVIPOF),\u00a0Bernard Dolez (University of Nantes, CERAPS), &amp;\u00a0Annie Laurent (CNRS-CERAPS).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2007:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Roxanne Euben. \u201cTheorizing Past and Future: Between Tocqueville and Tahtawi\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2006:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\"> Anne\u00a0Revillard (ENS, Cachan). &#8220;Is the French Republic Familialist or Feminist? The Dilemmas of French State Feminists.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">2005:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Jocelyn Evans\u00a0(University of Salford) &amp;\u00a0Robert Andersen (McMaster University).\u00a0\u201cNever Mind the Blocs. Mapping Ideological Space in France, 1988-2002.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Georges Lavau Dissertation Award<\/h1>\n<p>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 <em>French Politics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0 ( LIEPP-Sciences Po, Paris).<\/p>\n<p>St. Denny, Emily. 2016. <em>Explaining the Emergence And Gradual Transformation Of Policy Regimes:\u00a0 The Case Of Contemporary French Prostitution Policy (1946-2016)<\/em><strong>. <\/strong>Nottingham Trent University.<\/p>\n<p>Perera, Isabel. 2018. <em>States <\/em><em>of Mind: A Comparative and Historical Study on the Political <\/em><em>Economy of Mental Health<\/em>. University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Previous awardees include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crystal Fleming 2012 (PhD, Harvard University)<br \/>\nMarcos Ancelovici 2008 (PhD, MIT)<\/li>\n<li>Cindy Skach 2005 (PhD, Harvard University)<\/li>\n<li>Virginie Guiraudon 1999 (PhD, Harvard University)<\/li>\n<li>John Huber 1996 (PhD, University of Rochester)<\/li>\n<li>Amy Mazur 1993 (PhD, New York University)<\/li>\n<li>Alec Stone 1990 (Ph.D, University of Washington)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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