Emerging Scholar Award: Given to a scholar early in their career who has not yet received tenure and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise. Sarah Anzia (chair), sanzia@berkeley.edu .David Miller, dmiller@american.edu .Zeynep Somer-Topcu, zsomer@utexas.edu.

Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award: Best article in the last two years .Boris Heersink (chair), bheersink@fordham.edu .Jesse Crosson, jcrosson@purdue.edu .Mattias Dilling, dillingm@tcd.ie .Maraam Dwidar, maraam.dwidar@georgetown.edu .Jae-Hee Jung, jjung26@central.uh.edu.

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Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award: Recognizes a book published in the last two calendar years making an outstanding contribution. Noam Lupu (chair), noam.lupu@vanderbilt.edu .Hans Noel, hcn4@georgetown.edu .Sarah Wiliarty, swiliarty@wesleyan.edu.

Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award: Recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field. Julia Azari (chair), julia.azari@marquette.edu .Robin Kolodny, robin.kolodny@temple.edu .Richard Johnston, richard.johnston@ubc.ca.

AWARD NOMINATIONS DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 28!! Please nominate yourself or others, and a very short nomination email would suffice. Here are the awards with February 28 deadlines for nominations and their committees:.

Applications are now open for the Virginia Gray Graduate Student Research Award: Graduate students presenting work at the @APSA Annual Meeting are eligible. Must be a @APSA_POP member -- join now, it's free: Apply by July 10.

@APSA_POP is delighted to co-sponsor a Research Group in @APSA_Tweets inaugural Research Conf!  Deadline is Oct. 19th & all you need to apply is a statement of interest!  Both senior & junior scholars welcomed!  Deadline midnight Oct. 19th & APPLY

And following those, the 2023 APSA POP panels are complete. Thank you to everyone who presented and to panel attendees. And special thanks to Hye Young You and Zim Nwokora for putting together a great POP program. -FIN-.

Please don't miss today's two POP panels: (1/2).

At 10:00am online is the panel Lobbying, Lobbyists, and Regulations. Papers address conflicts of interest among lobbyists; learning from lobbying; lobbying disclosures in comp. context; & lobbying the bur. vs. the legis. Zoom: (3/3).

Tomorrow, POP has 2 panels. At 8:00am in LACC 308A is a panel on citizen-party linkage. Papers address clientelistic dynamics in Chile; do parties' issue emphases lead citizens' priorities; & the cognitive number of parties (2/3).

POP has 3 panels today, mentioned in yesterday's thread:

At 4:00pm in LACC 409A is a panel on Primary Elections, Cand. Selections, & Voter Responses. Papers on measuring contentious primaries' impact using donor conversion; 2024 invisible primary lessons from GOP activists; does cand. sel. by primaries have an elect. advantage (5/5).

At 2:00pm is a virtual roundtable on Can Electoral Reform Break the 2-Party Hegemony in America? Panelists include J.McCoy, S.Mainwaring, P.Norris, J.Santucci, S.Schraufnagel, B.Tamas, D.A.Bateman. Zoom: (4/5).

Tomorrow (Sat) POP has 3 panels. At 12:00pm in LACC 507 is the panel New Quest. in Camp. Finance. Papers address who gives to trade assoc. PACs; carpetbag campaigning; the FEC's revolving door; & impact of camp. finance changes on party and group influence in US (3/5).

#APSA2023 features 4 POP panels today, mentioned in yesterday's thread: (2/5).

#APSA2023 - Please join us for the POP business meeting TODAY at 3:00pm Eastern/12:00pm Pacific: (1/5).

And don't forget the POP business meeting Friday at noon: (7/7).

Finally, at 4:00pm on Friday is the POP Poster Session in LACC West Hall A. Posters address the democracy-author. cleavage in Brazil/Hungary/Turkey/US; campaign finance restrictions & the power of wealthy interests; and ingroup homogeneity causing outgroup polarization (6/7).

At 2:00pm on Friday in LACC 303A is a panel on the US Party System. Papers focus on a bigger Republican tent; rhetoric in 19th cent. party platforms; the 1st pres. nomination process; IG-minor party connections in the US; and the rise of the Dem. Party in the Amer. West (5/7).