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 m ...

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 Charles W. Anderson (born George Pforr from March 15, 1844 – February 25, 1916) was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for valor during the American Civil War. Biography Anderson was born George Pforr on March 15, 1844 in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 Richard Dagger is an American political philosopher who is E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts, Emeritus and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law (PPEL) at the University of Richmond. ...

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 characterize ...

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 philoso ...

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 Sharon R. Krause is an American political philosopher and William R. Kenan Jr. University Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is a winner of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for her book ''Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and D ...

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 Shannon C. Stimson (born October 8, 1951) is an American political theorist and historian of ideas, whose more recent work and teaching spans the economic and political thought of the early modern period through the nineteenth century. She is t ...

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 of ...

for ''Why Political Liberalism?: On John Rawls's Political Turn'' *2013 –

John P. McCormick John Patrick McCormick (born March 5, 1950), known professionally as John P. McCormick, is a former correspondent for ''Newsweek'' and the current editorial page editor for the ''Chicago Tribune''. Before joining the ''Tribune'', he was ''Newsweek' ...

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 for ''Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule'' *2017 –

Wendy Brown Wendy L. Brown (born November 28, 1955) is an American political theorist. She is the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Previously, she was Class of 1936 First Professo ...

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 o ...

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 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 res ...

for ''Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato's "Republic"'' and Onur Ulas Ince for ''Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism'' * 2021 -

Katrina Forrester Katrina Max Forrester (born 1986) is a British political theorist and historian, and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. Her research interests are in the history of liberalism and the left in the po ...

for ''In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy'' and

Massimiliano Tomba Massimiliano is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: *Massimiliano Alajmo (born 1974), Italian chef *Massimiliano Allegri (born 1967), Italian footballer and manager *Massimiliano Ammendola (born 1990), Italian foo ...

for ''Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity''

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