American Political Science Association 2000 Frank J. Goodnow Award

Scholar, institution leader, responsible citizen of the profession. Long-regarded as the preeminent student of the U.S. Congress, your books and articles have shaped the study of legislative politics. Your work is an immense and unequaled body of scholarship based on extraordinary field work. Your book Home Style garnered the APSA’s Woodrow Wilson Prize and the D.B. Hardeman Prize from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. Your intellectual influence has been recognized by the the Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha best paper award and your election to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association acknowledges your contribution to the study of legislative politics by annually awarding the Richard F. Fenno Prize for the best book in the field. Through your sensitivity to the ethical issues implicit in your field work and respect for those you study, you have set the standard for students and colleagues to follow. You have nurtured the field and today your students constitute a cadre of respected investigators of American national institutions.

Your contribution to the substantive development of political science is matched by your dedication to institutions, especially your service on college and university committees, on the political science advisory panels at both the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and on the boards of the Social Science Research Council and the National Election Studies.

You held many significant offices with APSA, serving as book review editor of the American Political Science Review, chair of the advisory committee of the Congressional Fellowship Program, chair of th Organized Sections Task Force, on numerous award committees, the endowments and constitutional review committees, and as vice president and president. A hallmark of your presidency was the effort made to increase the number of African American entering the profession. You were a driving force behind the development of the APSA’s Ralph Bunche Summer Institute and have continued your support of the program’s goals through the Centennial Campaign Prestage-Fenno Endowment Fund. It is with deep appreciation for your contribution to the scholarly and professional life of political science that you are presented with the Frank J. Goodnow Award for Distinguished Service.

 

American Political Science Association 200 Frank J. Goodnow Award

 

Catherine E. Rudder                                                                            Robert O. Keohane

Executive Director                                                                                 President