The David and Elaine Spitz Prize is an award for a book in liberal and/or democratic theory. The Spitz Prize is awarded annually for the best book in the field published two years earlier. To be eligible, the book must be primarily theoretical rather than historical, and not a textbook or edited work. The prize is awarded by a panel of political scholars under the auspices of the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT), "an international, interdisciplinary organization of scholars and informed citizens interested in preserving and encouraging a broad, humanistic style of thinking about politics." Winners of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize: *1988 –

Joseph Raz Joseph Raz (; he, יוסף רז; born Zaltsman; 21 March 19392 May 2022) was an Israeli legal, moral and political philosopher. He was an advocate of legal positivism and is known for his conception of perfectionist liberalism. Raz spent mos ...

for ''The Morality of Freedom'' *1989 – Richard E. Flathman for ''The Philosophy and Politics of Freedom'' *1990 – ''no award given'' *1991 –

Robert A. Dahl Robert Alan Dahl (; December 17, 1915 – February 5, 2014) was an American political theorist and Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He established the pluralist theory of democracy—in which political outcomes are ...

for ''Democracy and Its Critics'' *1992 – Charles W. Anderson for ''Pragmatic Liberalism'' *1993 –

William Galston William Arthur Galston (; born January 17, 1946) holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; he joined the think tank on January 1, 2006. Formerly the Saul Stern Professor and Dean at t ...

for ''Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State'' *1994 –

George Kateb George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University. A staunch individualist, he has written scholarly works on Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Stuart Mill, and Hannah Arendt and on the ethical dimensions of ...

for ''The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic'' *1995 –

John Rawls John Bordley Rawls (; February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the liberal tradition. Rawls received both the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal in 1 ...

for ''Political Liberalism'' *1996 – William E. Scheuerman for ''Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law'' *1997 –

Mark Kingwell Mark Gerald Kingwell (born March 1, 1963) is a Canadian professor of philosophy and associate chair at the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy. Kingwell is a fellow of Trinity College. He specialises in theories of politics and cultu ...

for ''A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism '' *1998 –

John Dryzek John S. Dryzek (born 23 June 1953) is a Centenary Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra's Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis. Education Dryzek has a B.A. (Honours) in ...

for ''Democracy in Capitalist Times: Ideals, Limits, and Struggles '' *1999 – Richard Dagger for ''Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism'' *2000 – ''no award given'' *2001 – Thomas A. Spragens, Jr. for ''Civic Liberalism: Reflections on Our Democratic Ideals '' *2002 – ''no award given'' *2003 – Mark E. Warren for ''Democracy and Association'' *2004 –

Nadia Urbinati Nadia Urbinati is an Italian political theorist, the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. Personal life In 1989, she received her Ph.D. at European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She is also a natural ...

for ''Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government'' *2005 –

Ira Katznelson Ira I. Katznelson (born 1944) is an American political scientist and historian, noted for his research on the liberal state, inequality, social knowledge, and institutions, primarily focused on the United States. His work has been characterized ...

for ''Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust'' *2006 –

Sheldon S. Wolin Sheldon Sanford Wolin (; August 4, 1922 – October 21, 2015) was an American political theorist and writer on contemporary politics. A political theorist for fifty years, Wolin became Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, whe ...

for ''Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought'' *2007 – George Klosko for ''Political Obligations'' *2008 –

Martha Nussbaum Martha Craven Nussbaum (; born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosoph ...

for ''Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership'' *2009 – Richard Bellamy for ''Political Constitutionalism: a Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy'' *2010 – Sharon Krause for ''Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation'' *2011 –

Murray Milgate Murray Milgate (born 1950), is an Australian-born academic economist and Sometime Fellow and director of studies in economics at Queens' College in the University of Cambridge, where he is now a Life Fellow. He is the co-creator and co-editor of ...

and Shannon C. Stimson for ''After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy'' *2012 –

Paul Weithman Paul J. Weithman is an American philosopher and Glynn Family Honors Professor of Philosophy at University of Notre Dame. He is known for his works on political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study o ...

for ''Why Political Liberalism?: On John Rawls's Political Turn'' *2013 – John P. McCormick for ''Machiavellian Democracy'' *2014 –

Philip Pettit Philip Noel Pettit (born 1945) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philos ...

for ''On The People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy'' *2015 –

Hélène Landemore Hélène Landemore is Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She has a PhD from Harvard University. Her subfield is political theory and she is known for her works on democratic theory. Biography After a childhood spent in Normandy, ...

for ''Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many'' *2016 –

Melissa Schwartzberg Melissa Schwartzberg (born 1975) is an American political scientist. She is the Silver Professor of Politics at New York University, and is affiliated with its Department of Classics and School of Law. She studies democratic theory, constitutio ...

for ''Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule'' *2017 – Wendy Brown for ''Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution'' *2018 –

Tommie Shelby Tommie Shelby (born 1967) is an American philosopher. Since 2013, he has served as the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University, where he is the current chair of the Department of ...

for ''Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform'' *2019 – Cécile Laborde for ''Liberalism's Religion'' *2020 -

Jill Frank Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the name Jillian (Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian. People with the given name * Jill Astbury, Australian re ...

for ''Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato's "Republic"'' and Onur Ulas Ince for ''Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism'' * 2021 - Katrina Forrester for ''In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy'' and Massimiliano Tomba for ''Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity''

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