Announcement | 15. September 2007
Gregory Wawro and Colleague Win Fenno Prize
Congratulations to Professor Gregory Wawro who, with Eric Schickler (UC Berkeley), received the American Political Science Association Legislative Studies Section's Richard J. Fenno Prize for the best book in legislative studies published in 2006. Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate (Princeton University Press, 2006) explains how the Senate managed to satisfy its lawmaking role during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, when it lacked seemingly essential formal rules for governing debate. In the tradition of Professor Fenno's work, this prize is designed to honor work that is both theoretically and empirically strong. The prize is dedicated to encouraging scholars to pursue new and different avenues of research in order to find answers to previously unexplored questions about the nature of politics.
