The summer edition of the newsletter is in preparation. If you have published an article or book that you would like to publicize to section members, please send your news to Benjamin Lind at lind.benjamin@gmail.com

We have an impressive line-up of political sociology panels and roundtables at this year’s ASA meetings in Chicago. Look for our section events on SATURDAY, August 24.

The section reception is organized jointly with Economic Sociology section, and will be held in the Hilton on MONDAY, August 24. Note that the incorrect date was listed in the preliminary online program and in Footnotes. The correct time and place will be listed in the conference program.

2014 was a great year in political sociology.

The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (Book) Award will be awarded jointly to two books:

David Scott Fitzgerald and David Cook-Martín, Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014) and Mara Loveman, National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)

The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (article) Award will be awarded to Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol, for “Economists, Capitalists, and the Making of Globalization: North American Free Trade in Comparative-Historical Perspective,” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 119, no. 5, with an honorable mention to Delia Baldassarri and Amir Goldberg for their article “Neither Ideologues nor Agnostics: Alternative Voters’ Belief System in an Age of Partisan Politics,” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 120, no. 1.

Please welcome Rhys Williams, our new chair-elect; Cedric de Leon, our new secretary/treasurer; and Elizabeth Popp Berman and Dana Fisher, our new council members!