ISPS Faculty Fellows Hersh, Baldwin Win MPSA Awards

Two ISPS Faculty Fellows have been selected to receive prestigious awards by the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA): Eitan Hersh and Kate Baldwin.

Eitan Hersh received the Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Award, and was co-winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper presented at the MPSA Annual National Conference, for his paper, “The Primacy of Race in the Geography of Income-Based Voting: New Evidence from Public Voting Records” (with Clayton M. Nall, Stanford University; under review).

Kate Baldwin received the AJPS Best Article Award, for her paper “Why Vote with the Chief? Political Connections and the Performance of Representatives in Zambia.”

The awards were announced at the MPSA conference in April, 2014.