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2006 Award for Conceptual Innovation
in Democratic Studies
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James L Gibson Wins 2006 C&M Award
The Committee on Concepts and Methods (C&M) of the International Political
Science Association (IPSA) and the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE)
in Mexico City are happy to announce that the II Award for Conceptual Innovation
in Democratic Studies will be granted to James L Gibson, Sidney W. Souers Professor
of Government at Washington University in St. Louis, for his book Overcoming Apartheid.
Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004).
Our warm congratulations to the author!
The C&M-CIDE award, set at 1.500 USD, will be given at the upcoming IPSA World Congress
in Fukuoka, Japan.
The book by Professor Gibson was chosen from an exceptionally strong set of
top-quality submissions. The Committee on Concepts and Methods thanks all
authors and publishers who submitted their work to the award.
The 2006 jury was composed by Gerardo L. Munck (University of Southern California,
Los Angeles), chairperson and co-winner of the previous award, Robert E. Goodin
(Australian National University, Canberra), and Cindy Skach (Harvard University).
As the Jury states in its justification, it “unanimously selected James L. Gibson’s
Overcoming Apartheid. Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? (New York: Russell
Sage Foundation, 2004) as the recipient of the 2006 Award for Conceptual Innovation
in Democratic Studies. Gibson’s bold study applies a standard method—survey
research—outside of the rich and established democracies where it has traditionally
been employed, and uses it in inventive, rigorous and subtle ways to address an
important and complex question in democratic studies, How do societies that have
recently moved beyond authoritarian rule attain a democratic political culture
and how is this goal affected by exercises in collective memory? This work is
exemplary in terms of how it measures the concept of reconciliation, and the care
it shows in designing a survey that is sensitive to the diversity of the South African
population. More broadly, Gibson shows how survey research can contribute to efforts
to measure democracy and closely related concepts, and raises the standard for survey-based
contributions to the field of democratic studies.”
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The Committee on Concepts and Methods
International Political Science Association (IPSA)
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