| 2006 |
Charles E. Lindblom, Yale University Institute |
Politics and Markets: The World's Political Economic Systems(Basic Books, 1977) |
| 2005 |
Gosta Epsing-Anderson, European University Institute |
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism(Princeton University Press, 1990) |
| 2004 |
James G. March Stanford University Johan P. Olsen ARENA, University of Oslo |
Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics(The Free Press, 1989) |
| 2003 |
Martha Derthick University of Virginia Paul J. Quirk University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
The Politics of Deregulation(Brookings Institution, 1985) |
| 2002 |
Deborah Stone Dartmouth College |
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision-Making(W.W. Norton, 1988) |
| 2001 |
Frank Baumgartner Penn State University Bryan D. Jones University of Washington |
Agendas and Instability in American Politcs(University of Chicago Press, 1993) |
| 2000 |
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University |
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action(Cambridge University Press, 1990) |
| 1999 |
Michael Lipsky Ford Foundation |
Street-Level Bureaucracy(Russell Sage, 1980) |
| 1998 |
Roger W. Cobb Brown University Charles D. Elder Wayne State University |
Participation in American Politics: The Dynamics of Agenda Building(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983) |
| 1997 |
Daniel Mazmanian University of Michigan Paul Sabatier University of California, Davis |
Implementation and Public Policy (University Press of America) |
| 1996 |
James Q. Wilson University of California Los Angeles |
The Politics of Regulation(Basic Books, 1980) |
| 1994 |
John W. Kingdon University of Michigan |
Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policy |
| 1989 |
David T. Ellwood Harvard University |
Poor Support(Basic Books) |