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The SCR awards the 2003 Mattei Dogan Award
(for best book published in the field of comparative research) to:
Mark R. Beissinger, Nationalist Mobilization and
Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge University Press,
2002).
Honorable Mention
Miguel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State
in Latin America (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002).
Jeff Goodwin, No Other
Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991
(Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and
Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge
University Press, 2001).
The SCR awards the 2003 Seymour Martin Lipset Award (for
best comparative Ph.D. dissertation) to:
Dylan Riley, Hegemony and Domination: Civil Society and
Regime Variation in Inter-War Europe (University of
California, Los Angeles, 2002).
Honorable Mention
Xavier Coller, Fragmented Identities and Political
Conflict: Failed Nationalism in a Multinational State, the Case of
Valencia in Spain (Yale University, 2002).
Details below
2003 Dogan Award:
Mark R. Beissinger
This outstanding book provides a penetrating and brilliantly
documented explanation of the collapse of the Soviet state, one of
the defining events of the late 20th Century. Beissinger's
explanation focuses on the politics of ethnic nationalism as the
core set of mechanisms that overwhelmed the Soviet state and
caused its collapse. The book makes us think about causal
processes in a new way by examining through event data the dynamic
process of state devolution and collapse. The book is exemplary in
building its causal account in a systematic manner, conceptually
and empirically demonstrating through multiple methods the
validity of its argument. Beissinger provides a masterful case
study building and extending modern political sociology as an
explanatory project grounded in careful and systematic assessment
of the known facts.
Honorable Mention:
Miguel Angel Centeno
Centeno’s comparative study of Latin American nation states makes
a bold structuralist claim: the key to Latin American societies is
the inability of their states to mobilize people and resources for
mass war. Written with verve, Centeno's bellicist vision that
marries political economy with cultural analysis is rich with
empirical implications and should orient future research on Latin
America and in political sociology.
Jeff Goodwin
Goodwin provides an exciting and conceptually innovative
comparative historical study building on the state-center paradigm
to explain the outbreak of revolutionary movements since World War
II. By examining both successful and failed revolutionary
movements, he demonstrates that revolutionary movements erupted in
societies in response to actions of authoritarian states that
forced political actors into violent and radical confrontations
with the state.
Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly
This impressive book expands and strengthens the theoretical
literature on social movements. By specifying and demonstrating
causal mechanisms that explaining social movement activity, the
book sets high standards for social science explanation in an
important interdisciplinary subfield.
Review committee for the Mattei Dogan
Award: Victor Nee (chair), Michele Lamont, and Akos Rona-Tas.
2003 Lipset Award:
Dylan Riley
This study compares the social foundations of fascism in Italy and
authoritarianism in Spain. It engages important literature in a
mature way. Riley makes the compelling argument that patterns of
associationalism in southern Europe influenced the development of
anti-democratic politics in the two countries. The comparative
case method provides a provocative picture of alternative paths to
right-wing dictatorship. The lucidity with which it is
written and the clarity of its argument ensure that it will be
widely read across the social sciences.
Honorable Mention:
Xavier Coller
This is a meticulously researched study that uses cultural and
historical arguments to explain why Valencia failed to develop a
significant sub-nationalist movement in post-Franco Spain. For a
literature that has focused largely positive cases, this detailed
explanation of sub-nationalism’s absence makes a welcome
contribution.
Review committee for the Seymour Martin Lipset
Award: Nancy Bermeo (chair), Gary Hamilton, and Bruce Western.
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