Professor Ed Schatz has been given the Giovanni Sartori Book Award

September 4, 2010

The Giovanni Sartori Book Award honors Giovanni Sartori’s work on qualitative methods and concept formation, and especially his contribution to helping scholars think about problems of context as they refine concepts and apply them to new spatial and temporal settings. The award is intended to encompass two types of contributions: new research on methodology per se, i.e., studies that introduce specific methodological innovations or that synthesize and integrate methodological ideas in a way that is in itself a methodological contribution; and substantive work that is an exemplar for the application of qualitative methods. The award is given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented.

Professor Schatz won the award for innovative research on social science concepts.