Professor Ben Ansell wins APSA 2015 William Riker Book Award

Congratulations to Ben Ansell, who has been given this year's William Riker Book Award by the American Political Science Association for his book 'Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach' (CUP 2014).  The same book has won the equally prestigious 2015 APSA Woodrow Wilson Award (see our recent department news item on this).

The Best Book Award, named for William H. Riker, is given for the best book on political economy published during the past three calendar years.  You can read more about the award and its previous winners by clicking here: http://www.apsanet.org/content.asp?contentid=515