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 2009

Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, "Where is Jack Bauer when you need him?” The uses of television drama in mediated political discourse," Political Communication, 26(4), 367-387.

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

2010 Doris Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago

2008 Wolfgang Donsbach, Dresden University of Technology

2006 Ann Crigler, University of Southern California