CPS Director Ken Kollman will receive the 2024 Eldersveld Career Achievement Award
Ken Kollman, Director of the Center for Political Studies (CPS) at the Institute for Social Research, will receive the 2024 Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of the APSA at the Annual Meeting this week in Philadelphia. The Eldersveld award recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.
Kollman, who is a professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, will also receive the 2024 Martha Derthick Award for the best enduring book on federalism and intergovernmental relations, for The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States (Cambridge, 2004), his 2004 book with Pradeep Chhibber.
Kollman conducts research on political parties, elections, lobbying, federal systems, formal modeling and complexity theory. With Yuri Zhukov, he is currently the principal investigator of the Subnational Geospatial Data Archive (SUNGEO) project, which offers publicly available tools to improve social research that integrates data at various sub-national scales. Kollman also leads the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) project at CPS.
Kollman has published work on partisanship; lobbying in the United States; comparative politics; political parties in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and India, and on computational models of politics. At U-M he has also served as director of the European Union Center and Center for European Studies and director of the Center for International and Comparative Studies.
CPS Faculty Awards
Charlotte Cavaillé, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, will receive the Best Book Award from the European Politics and Society Section for Fair Enough?: Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality (Cambridge, 2023). The book also won the Best Book Award from APSA’s Class and Inequality Section, and honorable mention for the Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award, given by the Comparative Politics Section.
Megan Stewart, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School, will receive the 2024 Conflict Processes Section best book award, for her book, Governing for Revolution: Social Transformation in Civil War (Cambridge, 2021). The award is given every other year, for books published in the previous two years, so the 2024 award honors books published 2021-2023.
Other Awards and Political Science Reception
Hilary Izatt (PhD, 2023) will receive the 2024 Best Dissertation Award from the APSA Political Psychology Section for her dissertation, The Political Psychology of Electoral Suppression: Institutional Manipulation, Emotion, and Mobilization. Nicholas Valentino and Allen Hicken, both affiliates of CPS, served as dissertation chairs.
Jesse Crosson, Lisa Koch, Rachel Potter, Sarah Rozenblum, David Temin, and Charley Ellen Wilson– affiliates of University of Michigan’s Department of Political Science– will also take home awards from APSA this year. All the awards and recipients will be celebrated during the department’s APSA reception, Thursday at 7:30 in the Pennsylvania Convention Center (Room 104B).
The late Samuel J. Eldersveld was a legendary professor of political science at the University of Michigan, and a former mayor of Ann Arbor.