AAASS Ed A. Hewett Book Prize
The AAASS Ed A. Hewett Book Prize, sponsored by the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), is awarded annually for an outstanding publication on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe and their transitional successors.
Ed A. Hewett was a distinguished scholar, a fine colleague, and an internationally respected member of the field. The Hewett Prize was established in 1994 in his honor to recognize and encourage the high standard of scholarship that he so admirably advanced in the area of his interests.
2008 Ed A. Hewett Book Prize Committee
The winner of the 2008 Hewett Book Prize will be chosen by the AAASS Ed A. Hewett Book Prize Committee:
- Peter Murrell, U of Maryland, College Park; Chair, 2007-2009; murrell@econ.umd.edu;
mailing address:
Department of Economics,
University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742 - Gerard Roland, UC, Berkeley; 2007-2009;
mailing address:
University of California,
Economics Department,
627 Evans Hall #3880,
Berkeley, CA 94720 - Stephen Wegren, Southern Methodist University; 2008-2010;
mailing address:
Department of Political Science,
3300 University Boulevard,
Collins Hall, Room 207,
Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, TX 75275-0117
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the Hewett book prize competition are as follows:
- The copyright date inside the book must list 2007 as the date of publication
- Only works originally published in English in the form of monographs, chapters in books, and substantial articles are eligible
- Works must be on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe and/or their transitional successors
- Textbooks, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible
To nominate a publication send one copy of eligible monograph to the AAASS main office (address below in the footnote of the page) AND to each Committee member listed above.
Nominations must be received no later than May 2, 2008.
Submissions should be clearly marked “Ed A Hewett Book Prize.” If you would like to receive an acknowledgment that your nomination was received please enclose a letter with an e-mail address with the copy mailed to the AAASS main office.
The Hewett Book Prize carries a cash award. The 2008 award will be presented in November at the AAASS National Convention in Philadelphia.
Past winners of the AAASS Ed A. Hewett Book Prize
The following scholars received the AAASS Hewett Book Prize in the past.
(Please click on the winner's name to read the citation for the award; please click on the title to connect to the publisher's web page about the book)
- 2007 - János Kornai received the award for By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey (MIT Press)
- 2006 - David Ost received the award for The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Post Communist Europe (Cornell University Press)
- 2005 - Elizabeth C. Dunn, Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor (Cornell University Press)
- 2004 - Paul R. Gregory, The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives (Cambridge University Press)
- 2003 - Randall W. Stone, Lending Credibility: The International Monetary Fund and Post-Communist Transition (Princeton University Press)
- 2002 - Mieke Meurs, The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions: A Comparative Study of Post-Socialist Hungary and Bulgaria (University of Michigan Press); Federico Varese, The Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy (Oxford University Press)
- 2001 - Timothy Frye, Brokers and Bureaucrats: Market Institutions in Russia (University of Michigan Press)
- 2000 - Katharina Mueller, The Political Economy of Pension Reform in Central-Eastern Europe (Edward Elgar Publishing)
- 1999 - Stephen K. Wegren, Agriculture and the State in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- 1998 - David L. Bartlett, The Political Economy of Dual Transformations: Market Reform and Democratization in Hungary (University of Michigan Press)
- 1997 - Clifford G. Gaddy, The Price of the Past: Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy (Brookings Institution Press)
- 1996 - Susan Woodward, Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945-1990 (Princeton University Press)
- 1995 - Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, and Natalia Tsukanova, "Competition Policy in Russia during and after Privatization" (Brookings Papers on Economic Activity)
- 1994 - Stephen Whitefield, Industrial Power an the Soviet State (The Clarendon Press) and Barry W. Ickes and Randi Ryterman, "Roadblock to Economic Reform: Inter Enterprise Debt and the Transition to Markets" (Post Soviet Affairs)
