American Political Science Association Grants Book Award

Posted on January 29, 1998

The American Political Science Association (APSA) recently presented the 1997 Woodrow Wilson Foundation award to Norman Nie, Jane Junn and Ken Stehlik-Barry, co-authors of Education and Democratic Citizenship in America. The book, which examines the role education plays in democratic societies, is published by University of Chicago Press. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation award is presented annually to the best book published on government, politics and international affairs in the preceding year. The award was presented to Nie, Junn, and Stehlik-Barry at the associations annual meeting in August 1997.

Nie, chairman of SPSS Inc. and professor of political science at the University of Chicago, is only the third person to win the award twice since its inception in 1947. Nie won the award in 1976 for The Changing American Voter, a book he co-authored with Sidney Verba and John Petrocik. Junn is an assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University and Stehlik-Barry is senior research director at SPSS Inc.

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation award is selected by a committee of three appointed judges that reviews all book entrants from the previous year. Education and Democratic Citizenship in America was selected based in part on its creative research design, superior theoretical analysis and relevant subject matter.