2023

Erin R. Pineda, Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement

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2022

Hagar Kotef, The Colonizing Self: or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine

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2021

Katrina Forrester, In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy

Massimiliano Tomba, Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity

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2020

Jill Frank, Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato's "Republic"

Onur Ulas Ince, Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism

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2019

Cécile Laborde, Liberalism's Religion

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2018

Tommie Shelby, Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform

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2017

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

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2016
Melissa Schwartzberg, Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule

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2015
Hélène Landemore, Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many

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2014
Philip Pettit, On the People’s Terms

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2013
John P. McCormick, Machiavellian Democracy

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2012
Paul Weithman, Why Political Liberalism?

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2011
Murray Milgate & Shannon C. Stimson, After Adam Smith

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2010
Sharon Krause, Civil Passions

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2009
Richard Bellamy, Political Constitutionalism

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2008
Martha Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice

 

2007
George Klosko, Political Obligations

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2006
Sheldon S. Wolin, Politics and Vision

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2005
Ira Katznelson, Desolation and Enlightenment

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2004
Nadia Urbinati, Mill on Democracy

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2003
Mark Warren, Democracy and Association

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2001
Thomas Spragens, Civic Liberalism

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1999
Richard Dagger, Civic Virtues

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1998
John S. Dryzek, Democracy in Capitalist Times

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1997
Mark Kingwell, A Civil Tongue

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1996
William E. Scheuerman, Between the Norm and the Exception

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1995
John Rawls, Political Liberalism

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1994
George Kateb, The Inner Ocean

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1993
William Galston, Liberal Purposes

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1992
Charles Anderson, Pragmatic Liberalism

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1991
Robert Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics

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1989
Richard Flathman, The Philosophy and Politics of Freedom

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1988
Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom

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Note: No prizes were awarded in 1990, 2000, and 2002.