APSA Awards

2008/2009 Awards

- Tim Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award:  Blake Andrew for "Making Broadcast News Headlines: Heuristic Signals in Campaign Coverage."

- Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award: Scott Althaus, Nathaniel Swigger, Christopher Tiwald, Svitlana Chernykh, David Hendry, and Sergio Wals for "Uplifting Manhood to Wonderful Heights?"

- Doris A. Graber Best Book Award:  Roderick Hart for Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us

- Murray Edelman Lifetime Distinguished Service Award: Dan Hallin

2007/2008 Awards

- Tim Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award:  Chris Weber for “Exploring the role of discrete emotions in political campaigns”

- Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award: Seth J. Hill, James Lo, Lynn Vavreck, & John Zaller for “The duration of advertising effects in political campaigns”

- Doris A. Graber Best Book Award:  Kirsten A. Foot & Steven M. Schneider for Web Campaigning

- Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award:  Michael X. Delli Carpini

ICA Best Article Awards

Best Article of 2008

Frank Esser, "Dimensions of political news cultures: Sound bite and image bite news in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States," Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 13(4), 401-428 .

Best Article of 2007

Adam Simon and Jennifer Jerit, "Toward a theory relating political discourse, media, and public opinion," Journal of Communication, 57, 254-71.

Best Article of 2006

Scott L. Althaus and Young Mie Kim.  "Priming effects in complex information environments: Reassessing the impact of news discourse on presidential approval."  Journal of Politics, 68(4), 960-976.

Best Article of 2005

Dhavan V. Shah, Jaeho Cho, William P. Eveland, Jr., and Nojin Kwak, "Information and expression in a digital age: Modeling Internet effects on civic participation," Communication Research, 32(5), 531-565.

John Medearis.  "Social movements and deliberative democratic theory," British Journal of Political Science, 35(1), 53-75.

Best Article of 2004

Jochen Peter, "Our long return to the concept of powerful mass media," International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 16(2), 144-168.

Best Article of 2003

Kees Aarts and Holli Semetko, "The divided electorate: Media use and political involvement," Journal of Politics, 65(3), 759-784.

APSA / ICA David Swanson Award for Service to Political Communication Scholarship

2008 Wolfgang Donsbach, Dresden University of Technology

2006 Ann Crigler, University of Southern California