James Madison Award

This award will not be awarded in 2024.

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The Madison Award honors an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.

The triennial award is presented at the APSA Annual Meeting and carries a cash prize of $2,000. The recipient delivers the Madison Lecture at the Annual Meeting.

James Madison Award Committee

Listing of Awardees

Year	Recipient	Affiliation
2023	Theda Skocpol	Harvard University
2020	John J. Mearsheimer	University of Chicago
2017	Deborah Stone	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2014	Robert Keohane	Princeton University
2011	Jane Mansbridge	Harvard University
2008	Theodore Lowi	Cornell University
2005	Elinor Ostrom	Indiana University
2002	David Mayhew	Yale University
1999	Kenneth N. Waltz	Columbia University
1996	Philip Converse	University of Michigan and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science
1993	Sidney Verba	Harvard University
1990	James Q. Wilson	University of California, Los Angeles
1987	E. Pendleton Herring	Social Science Research Council
1984	Herbert Simon	Carnegie-Mellon University
1981	Gabriel A. Almond	Stanford University
1978	Robert A. Dahl	Yale University

Lecture Transcripts

The award lecture is published in PS: Political Science & Politics. These articles may be used for personal, non-commercial, or limited classroom use. For permissions for all other uses of this article please contact Cambridge University Press at permissions@cup.org.

• 2017 James Madison Lecture: "The Ethics of Counting"
  Deborah Stone

• 2014 James Madison Lecture: "The Global Politics of Climate Change: Challenge for Political Science"
  Robert O. Keohane
  
  
• 2011 James Madison Lecture: “On the Importance of Getting Things Done”
  Jane Mansbridge
  
  
• 2008 James Madison Lecture: “Bend Sinister: How the Constitution Saved the Republic and Lost Itself”
  Theodore J. Lowi
  
• 2005 James Madison Lecture: “Converting Threats into Opportunities”
  Elinor Ostrom
  
  
• 2002 James Madison Lecture: “Supermajority Rule in the US Senate”
  David R. Mayhew
  
  
• 1999 James Madison Lecture: “Globalization and Governance”
  Kenneth N. Waltz

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