

Call for
Nominations: 2008 Best Paper Award
State Politics and Policy Quarterly
and the State Politics and Policy organized section of the American
Political Science Association are pleased to co-sponsor the
SPPQ Best Paper Award.
Richard Niemi, president of the section, and the SPPQ
co-editors, Thad Kousser, David Lowery, Ronald Weber, and Richard
Winters call for nominations for this award of papers presented in
2008.
State Politics and Policy Quarterly
and the State Politics and Policy organized section will present the
SPPQ Best Paper Award to the best paper on the U.S.
states presented at any political science conference during the
calendar year.
The goal of the SPPQ
Best Paper Award is
to recognize and encourage high quality scholarship on U.S. state
politics and policy.
The author(s) of the winning paper will receive:
2008 selection committee:
The 2008 SPPQ
Best Paper Award selection
committee members are:
Barbara Norrander (chair), University of Arizona
(norrande@email.arizona.edu); Eric Plutzer, Pennsylvania State
University (exp12@psu.edu); and Thad Kousser, University of
California, San Diego (tkousser@ucsd.edu)
Chair, SPPQ
Best Paper Award selection
committee: