The David and Elaine Spitz Prize is an award for a book in liberal and/or

democratic theory Democracy (from , ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitiv ...

. 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."

List

Winners of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize: *1988 –

Joseph Raz Joseph Raz (; ; born Joseph 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 most of his ca ...

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 philosophy, political theorist and Sterling Professor, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He established the pluralism (political the ...

for ''

Democracy and Its Critics ''Democracy and Its Critics'' is a book in American political science, written by Robert Dahl. The book was published by Yale University Press in 1989. In the following years ''Democracy and Its Critics'' won the 1991 Elaine and David Spitz Book ...

'' *1992 – Charles W. Anderson for ''Pragmatic Liberalism'' *1993 – William Galston for ''Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State'' *1994 –

George Kateb George Anthony Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Life Kateb earned his A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. at Columbia University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University. He then taught at Amhe ...

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

John Rawls John Bordley Rawls (; February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American moral philosophy, moral, legal philosophy, legal and Political philosophy, political philosopher in the Modern liberalism in the United States, modern liberal tradit ...

for ''

Political Liberalism Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law. Liberals espouse various and often mut ...

'' *1996 – William E. Scheuerman for ''Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law'' *1997 – Mark Kingwell for ''A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism '' *1998 – John Dryzek 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 (born 26 January 1955) is an Italian political theorist. She is the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. Personal life In 1989, she received her Ph.D. at European University Institute in Flor ...

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

Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum (; Craven; 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 philos ...

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, Cambridge, where he is now a Life Fellow. He is the co-creator and co-editor of the celebrated ori ...

and Shannon C. Stimson for ''After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy'' *2012 – Paul Weithman 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 Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Aust ...

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 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 for ''Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform'' *2019 –

Cécile Laborde Cécile Laborde is a professor of political theory at the University of Oxford. Since 2017, she has held the Nuffield Chair of Political Theory and in 2013 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Her research focusses on republicanism, li ...

for ''Liberalism's Religion'' *2020 – Jill Frank 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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