The SCR awards the 1999 Mattei Dogan Award (for best book published in the field of comparative research) to:

Winner:
David Laitin, Identity in Formation. The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell University Press, 1998).

Honorable mention:
Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan. Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

The SCR awards the 1999 Seymour Martin Lipset Award (for best comparativist Ph.D. dissertation) to:

Winner:
Gil Eyal, "The Break-up of Czechoslovakia: A Sociological Explanation".

Honorable mention:
Stewart Martin Wood, "Capitalist Constitutions: Supply-Side Reform in Britain and West Germany, 1960-1990".