The Society for Political Methodology Poster Awards are given for the best poster presented by a graduate student and/or the best poster presented by a faculty member or other researcher at the annual summer Methodology Meeting.
2024 (UCR meeting)
| Year | Recipient | Work |
| 2024 (Student, Methods) | Sooahn Shin (Harvard) | "Measuring Issue Specific Ideal Points from Roll Call Votes" |
| 2024 (Student, Applications) | Tomoya Sasaki (MIT) | "Policy Feedback among the Rich: Evidence from Agricultural Subsidy Programs in the United States" |
Past Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Work |
| 2023 (Student, Methods) | Guilherme Duarte (UPenn) | "A General Framework for Transportability" |
| 2023 (Student, Applications) | Guoer Liu (University of Michigan) | "When is Big Data Biased? A Case of Automated Environment Big Data in China" |
| 2023 (Faculty) | Aiden Miliff (FSU) | "Incidental Perceptions Shape Strategies for Responding to Violence" |
| 2023 (Faculty) | Tongtong Zhang (Stanford) | "Whose voice matters? Conformists, non-conformists and authoritarian responsiveness in China" |
| 2022 (Student, Applications) | Thomas Cao (Stanford) | "The Weaknesses of Selective Sanctions Against Authoritarian Regimes" |
| 2022 (Student, Methods) | Melody Huang (UCB) | "Variance-based Sensitivity Models for Weighting Estimators Result in More Informative Bounds" |
| 2022 (Virtual) | Elisa Wirsching (NYU) | "High Quality Social Science Embeddings for 157 Languages" |
| 2021 (Student, Methods) | Naijia Liu (Princeton) | "Latent Factor Approach to Missing not at Random" |
| 2021 (Student, Applications) | Bryant Moy (WashU) | "Responsiveness in a Fragmented Local Politics" |
| 2021 (Faculty) | Adeline Lo (Wisconsin) | "Peer Praise can Promote Empathetic Behavior" |
| 2020/1 (Student, Methods) | Melody Huang (UCLA) | "Leveraging Observational Outcomes To Improve the Generalization Of Experimental Results" |
| 2020/1 (Student, Methods) | Nuannuan Xiang (University of Michigan) | "A Gaussian Process Model for Causal Inference with TSCS Data" |
| 2020/1 (Student, Applications) | Erin Rossiter (Washington University in St. Louis) | "The Consequences of Interparty Conversation on Outparty Affect and Stereotypes" |
| 2020/1 (Student, Applications) | Luwei Ying (Washington University in St. Louis) | "Religiosity and Secularism: A Text-as-Data Approach to Recover Jihadist Groups’ Rhetorical Strategies" |
| 2020/1 (Faculty) | Jay Goodliffe (Brigham Young University) | "Using Latent Transition Analysis to Explain Donor Behavior" |
| 2020 (Student, Methods) | Shiyao Liu (MIT) | "Informing Complier Average Treatment Effects with Post-Treatment Variables" |
| 2020 (Student, Applications) | Luke Sanford (UC San Diego) | “Remote Sensing and Synthetic Controls: Measuring the Effects of Land Titling on Agricultural Productivity” |
| 2020 (Faculty) | David Puelz (University of Chicago) | "A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Causal Inference under Interference" |
| 2019 (Student, Methods) | Erin Rossiter (Washington University in St. Louis) | "Measuring Visual Messages: Political Violence and Computer Vision" |
| 2019 (Student, Applications) | Kelsey Shoub (UNC Chapel Hill) | “How Changing Frame Sets Alters Legislative Outcomes in Congress” |
| 2019 (Faculty) | Erin Hartman (UCLA) | "Equivalence Based Falsification Tests for Regression Discontinuity Designs" |
| 2018 (Student) | Michelle Torres (Washington University in St. Louis) | "Measuring Visual Messages: Political Violence and Computer Vision" |
| 2018 (Faculty) | John Jackson (University of Michigan) | "Correct Standard Errors with Clustered Data" |
| 2017 | Dana Higgins (Harvard) | "Disaggregating Data Using Multiple Imputation: Battle Related Deaths" |
| 2016 | Anton Strezhnev (Harvard) | "A New Method for Estimating Treatment Effects under 'Truncation-by-Death'" |
| 2016 | Yuki Shirito (Princeton) | "Topical N-Gram Citation Model" |
| 2015 | Dean Knox (MIT) | "Identifying Peer Effects under Homophily with an Instrumental Variable: Patronage and Promotion in the Chinese Bureaucracy" |
| 2015 | Dorothy Kronick (Stanford) | "Ecological Inference with Vote-Share Data" |
| 2014 | Felipe Nunes (UCLA) | "A Bayesian Two-part Latent Class Model for Longitudinal Government Expenditure Data: Assessing the Impact of Vertical Political Alliances and Vote Support.” |
| 2013 | Scott Abramson (Princeton) | "Production, Predation and the European State 1152-1789." |
| 2012 | Brenton Kenkel (University of Rochester) | "Logistic Regression Coefficients with Nonignorable Missing Outcomes." |
| 2010 | Fernando Daniel (Danny) Hidalgo (UC Berkeley) | "Digital Democracy: The Consequences of Electronic Voting Technology in Brazil." |
| 2009 | Benjamin Lauderdale (Princeton) | "Does Congress Represent Public Opinion As It Is, or As It Might Be?" |
| 2009 | Benjamin Goodrich (Harvard) | "Bringing Rank-Minimization Back In." |
| 2008 | Xun Pang (Washington University in St. Louis) | "Binary and Ordinal Time Series with AR(p) Errors: Bayesian Model Determination for Latent High-Order Markovian Processes." |
| 2007 | Daniel Hopkins (Harvard) | "Flooded Communities: Using the Post-Katrina Migration as a Quasi-Experiment." |
| 2007 | Aya Kachi (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) | "The Empirical Implications of a Theoretical Model on Coalition Bargaining and Governmental Survival." |
| 2006 | Jong Hee Park (Washington University in St. Louis) | "Modeling Structural Changes: Bayesian Estimation of Multiple Changepoint Models and State Space Models." |
| 2005 | Michael Kellermann (Harvard) | "Bayesian estimation of ideal points in the British House of Commons using Early Day Motions." |
| 2005 | Betsy Sinclair (Caltech) | "Is It Better to Be First or Last? The Ballot Order Effect." |
| 2004 | Marisa Abrajano (NYU) | "All Style and No Substance? Campaign Advertising for Anglos and Latinos in the U.S." |
| 2004 | Gabriel Lenz (Princeton) | "Testing for Priming in Two-wave Panels: A Reanalysis of Three Studies Finds Little Evidence of Issue Opinion Priming and Some Evidence of Issue Opinion Change." |
| 2003 | Hyeok Yong Kwon (Cornell) | "Has Economic Insecurity Produced Left-Wing Voters? A Markov Chain Approach." |
| 2003 | Sona Nadenichek Golder (NYU) | "Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation." |
| 2002 | Sunshine Hillygus (Stanford) | "The Dynamics of Voter Decision-making in Election 2000." |
| 2001 | Joshua D. Clinton (Stanford) | "Representation and the 106th Congress: Legislators’ Voting Behavior and their Geographic and Party Constituencies." |
| 2000 | Jake Bowers (UC Berkeley) | "Sample Design for Studying Congressional Elections." |
| 1999 | Kevin Clarke (University of Michigan) | "Testing Nonnested Models of the Democratic Peace." |
| 1998 | Adam Berinsky (University of Michigan) | "The Two Faces of Public Opinion." |
Past Selection Committees
| Year | Committee |
| 2021 | Michael Bailey, Sarah Bouchat, Patrick Brandt, Charles Crabtree, Thomas Gschwend, Erin Hartman, John Londregan, and Betsy Sinclair |
| 2020 | Dan Hopkins (chair, UPenn), Pablo Barbera (USC), Adam Glynn (Emory), Molly Roberts (UC San Diego), Kevin Quinn (University of Michigan), Ariel White (MIT) |
| 2019 (Student, Methods) | Justin Esarey (chair, Rice University), Ines Levin (University of California, Irvine), Chris Lucas (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| 2019 (Student, Applications) | Mark Pickup (Simon Fraser University), Alex Tahk (chair, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Michelle Torres (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| 2019 (Faculty) | Curt Signorino (chair, University of Rochester), Dan Hopkins (University of Pennsylvania), and Kim Twist (San Diego State University) |
| 2018 | John Londregan (Chair, Princeton), Adam Berinsky (MIT), Dan Hopkins (University of Pennsylvania), Erin Hartman (University of California, Los Angeles), Melissa Sands (Harvard), Benjamin Lauderdale (LSE) |
| 2017 | Neal Beck (NYU, chair), Jeff Gill (American), Ines Levin (UC Irvine) and Sara Mitchell (Iowa) |
| 2016 | Erin Hartman (Princeton/UCLA), Richard Nielsen (MIT), Shana Gadarian (Syracuse), Karen Jusko (Stanford), Maya Sen (Harvard) |
| 2015 | Arthur Spirling (Chair), Christina Boyd, Devin Caughey, Wendy Tam Cho, Neil Malhotra, Margaret Roberts, Teppei Yamamoto |
| 2014 | Andrew Martin (Chair), Alexandra Hennessy, Matt Lebo, Maya Sen, Jeff Harden, Rocio Titiunik, Craig Volden |
| 2013 | Fred Boemke (Chair), Megan Shannon, Jay Goodliffe, Dave Peterson, Michael J. Hanmer, Justin Esarey, James Monogan, Amanda Licht, Jake Bowers |
| 2012 | Walter Mebane (Chair), Drew Linzer, Robert Erikson, Patrick Brandt, Steve Haptonstahl |
| 2011 | Walter Mebane (Chair), Drew Linzer, Robert Erikson, Patrick Brandt, Steve Haptonstahl |
| 2010 | Walter Mebane (Chair), Curtis Signorino, Bill Clark, Drew Linzer, Robert Erikson, Patrick Brandt, Xun Pan, Steve Haptonstahl |
| 2009 | Suzanna Linn (Chair), Thomas Carsey, Curtis Signorino, Jana von Stein, Bill Clark, Dean Lacy, Drew Linzer, Robert Erikson, Karen Jusko |
| 2008 | Andrew Whitford (Chair), Cherie Maestas, Tobin Grant, Michael Bailey, Kathy Powers |
| 2007 | Andrew Whitford (Chair), Jake Bowers, Kris Kanthak, Luke Keele, David Kimball, Matthew Lebo |