ABOUT THE AWARD
The Robert A. Dahl Award is awarded annually to an untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy. Nonladder faculty members and junior tenure-track faculty at universities and colleges are eligible for the Dahl Award, as are scholars at nonprofit organizations and think tanks, and independent scholars.
Scholarship eligible for the Dahl Award includes books, papers, and articles on the subject of democracy.
The inaugural winner is Lee Drutman, Senior Fellow, New America, for his book The Business of American is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate. Read the full citation in the Gazette in this issue.
ABOUT ROBERT DAHL
Robert Dahl was a giant in the discipline of political science. He wrote a series of landmark books, including A Preface to Democratic Theory and Who Governs? He served as president of APSA from 1966 through 1967, and participated in countless committees and activities of the Association throughout his long professional career.
Dahl was also especially interested in supporting younger scholars and new talent in the profession and mentored many doctoral students who have become leaders in political science themselves.
FOUNDER’S CIRCLE
James S. Fishkin
Jennifer L. Hochschild
Ira Katznelson
Catharine MacKinnon
Jane Mansbridge
David R. Mayhew
The Honorable David E. Price
Rosemary A. Putnam
Philippe C. Schmitter
Ian Shapiro
Rogers M. Smith
Sidney Tarrow
Jane Thery
Elisabeth Wood
