News: James Robinson Receives Multiple Honors
by Sebastian Stockman, IQSS August 31, 2007
It was a good year for James Robinson.
The Harvard Professor of Government and Institute for Quantitative Social Science faculty associate has racked up four major awards over the last several months.
Along with his co-author, Daron Acemoglu of MIT, Robinson won the 2007 William H. Riker Book Award from the American Political Science Association - given to the best book on political economy published the previous year - for their Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, published by Cambridge University Press.
The book also garnered the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, given to the best book published in the previous year on government, politics or international affairs.
As if that weren't enough, Robinson also won the Heinz Eulau Award, for the best paper published in the American Political Science Review in 2006.
Robinson topped off the year with a Harvard Cabot Fellowship. Robinson was honored for his work on - and the success of - Economic Origins. The fellowships are awarded annually to select faculty members in recognition of their achievements and scholarship in the fields of "literature, history or art, as such terms may be liberally interpreted."